One day in 1997, a hunched, faltering old man came to the hospital with the help of his son. After examination, it was found that it was advanced lung cancer, his family was already unable to make ends meet, and in the face of this high medical expense, his son was helpless, and the old farmer seemed to know the family's difficulties.
He asked the doctor
"I'm a veteran, can you see if you can make the hospital fee cheaper?" The old man coughed as he spoke, and the aggravation of his condition seemed to make him want to cough up the bile as well
At that time, medical insurance was not yet widespread, and hospitals also needed to operate, and doctors thought about it for a while and refused.
Zhang Guofu
In the face of his son's tearful face all night, the old man could not bear his son's continued sadness and told him that he had been a soldier in the army and let him go
47th Army
Look for your own information for that year to see if you can let the troops pay first. His son and neighbors knew only that he was a veteran, much less what merits the old man had, and the old man never mentioned it to anyone after he was discharged, including his children.
When the son found the head of the unit and said the old man's name, the chief looked at the person next to him in disbelief.
"Your father's name is Zhang Guofu?"
The son looked at the chief's reaction after answering the affirmative and felt that something was wrong! After further verifying the identity of the old man, the chief immediately asked the guards to prepare the car and take the old man to the best hospital.
Military Merit Badge
After arriving at the hospital, the chief rushed into the ward, completely ignoring the nurse's reminder not to run, and after arriving at the ward, the chief excitedly held the old man's hands.
"Old hero, you can make me easy to find!" Why didn't you give us a shout when you first left! You, a special meritorious hero, suddenly lost his voice, causing us to look for you for a long time! ”
The son who came later was also shocked to hear that his father was actually a special meritorious man.
The back row is on the right side of the national wealth
My dad is a combat hero? How come he never mentioned it? Subsequently, the old man was sent to Beijing 301 Hospital for the best treatment. When the son asked his father about the specific events, the buried history for many years was revealed, why did he hide his identity? What did he do? As the old man slowly narrated, the story slowly surfaced.
In 1931, a peasant family in Xinli Town, Yushu County, Jilin Province, accompanied by a cry, ushered in a new life for the Zhang family.
Zhang Guofu
Shortly after his birth, China entered the stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the three northeastern provinces bore the brunt of it, invading China and invading the Wokou, plundering and burning, corpses strewn across the wilderness, and blood staining the Yangtze River.
Japanese army
The young Zhang Guofu saw the cruelty of war in this chaotic world, and his childhood can be said to have slept in the sound of shells and woke up to the sound of shells, and the seeds of joining the army to serve the country and expelling the Wokou were planted. Yet in
Japan surrendered in 1945,
The war was over, and this may be what the young Zhang Guofu had in mind, that he could finally go to school and get a good night's sleep.
The Eighth Route Army fought at the Great Wall
However the good times did not last long, in
In 1946 Chiang Kai-shek, with the support of US imperialism, blatantly tore up the armistice
, blatantly attacking the Liberated Areas. The young Zhang Guofu was very puzzled in his heart, why didn't he cherish the hard-won peace? Why do you have to beat your own people? In the same year, at the age of 15, Zhang Guofu joined the 47th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Begin his legendary journey.
As a young man, he did not have the innocence of his peers, and his precocious maturity consistently made his teammates think that he was already an adult, but only a little short. In the eyes of teammates, how can a child withstand such an intensity of training! Only half a year later, his first appearance on the battlefield made him famous.
Eight-way
In May 1947, in accordance with the strategic deployment of the central authorities, the 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army gradually approached the Kuomintang in the northeast and launched a summer offensive to carry out strategic counter-offensive operations against the Kuomintang on both sides of the railway line. Zhang Guofu's independent 3rd Division and 9th Regiment were placed at Jiangmi Peak in the north of Jilin City.
national party
The Kuomintang occupied favorable terrain and was blessed with equipment. The People's Liberation Army could not attack for a long time, the two sides fought fiercely until more than three o'clock in the afternoon, the teammates around them fell one by one, and the situation that could not be attacked for a long time made every comrade-in-arms present very anxious, and the comrades-in-arms one by one desperately picked up the explosive package and wanted to rush to the enemy's high ground, but they all fell down in the middle of the body.
Zhang Guofu had red eyes, picked up the grenade, suddenly jumped out of the fortifications, and miraculously rushed to the enemy command post with his petite posture and the cover of the artillery of his comrades. The Kuomintang in the trenches looked at the teenager in front of him and the grenade in his hand and was stunned.
"Surrender all!" Otherwise, it will all be over! ”
Liao Yaoxiang
A shout pulled them out of the illusion, and one of the enemies, dressed in a different uniform from the soldiers, was the first to throw away his weapon while shouting not to shoot. And the enemy army that had lost its main heart was also like a scattered sand, and the battle that lasted for a day made the warriors feel incredible by the sudden victory.
Zhang Guofu was also credited with a great merit and became a celebrity in the whole army. In order to boost the morale of the whole country and defeat the morale of the Kuomintang, the 16-year-old boy reported the battle to the whole country with the headline "16-year-old cattle herding baby Zhang Guofu Captured Kuomintang Lieutenant General Zhao Bozhao Alive" with the headline "16-year-old cattle herding baby Zhang Guofu Captured Kuomintang Lieutenant General Zhao Bozhao Alive!"
Nationalist prisoners of war
Zhang Guofu, who has received such glory, is not proud, he has changed the pride of his peers, he has seen his strengths in this battle, and he is even more invincible with direction. In order to completely liberate the northeast region, under the leadership of the Central Committee, on September 12, 1948, the People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen Campaign, and Chairman Mao even issued an order that "this decisive battle cannot let Chiang Kai-shek's army leave the northeast!" ”
The Northeast Field Army led by Luo Rongheng marched forward and conquered many places in succession, and Chiang Kai-shek saw that the situation was not good, so he appointed Liao Yaoxiang to lead five armies and twelve divisions totaling 100,000 people to come to support, but in the area of Montenegro and Dahu Mountain, they encountered the resistance of our army.
The fierceness of this battle is far from the past, the roar of artillery fire on the battlefield, the teammates who were still talking yesterday fell in the blink of an eye, we still don't know how Zhang Guofu, who was still a teenager at the time, survived! And the enemy headquarters happened to be in the area of Zhang Guofu's troops!
Chiang Kai-shek
In order to take the headquarters as soon as possible, our army changed from blocking to attacking, but the process made no progress; under the attack of dozens of artillery fires of the Kuomintang, our army suffered heavy casualties, but the Kuomintang did not advance in the slightest, in order to reduce casualties Zhang Guofu came up with a way, after our army once again charged fruitlessly, Zhang Guofu was "knocked down".
He fell with a blaster in his hand next to the bodies of his comrades. When the troops began to charge again, along with the sound of the charge horn, Zhang Guofu also miraculously came to life, he threw a grenade violently, with the explosion of the short smoke hidden, the results of his training appeared, before the enemy could react, the same script was staged, the enemy commander looked at the sudden teenager, and the ears were still echoing
"Lay down your arms or you will die"
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Ben still wanted to resist, but the army behind the teenager still arrived, and seeing that the Kuomintang army had gone, he gave up resistance. This battle is of great significance to the entire Liaoshen battlefield! The Kuomintang's 100,000-strong army was wiped out before it arrived, which greatly accelerated the progress of the entire battlefield! Zhang Guofu was also awarded the title of Special Meritorious Service, and at this moment, he had just joined the army for two years!
At the 1950 Hero Congress, Zhang Guofu attended the meeting as a special combat hero, and the 19-year-old was not tall enough to stand behind and completely invisible! When Chairman Mao found out, he deliberately pulled him out of the crowd and let him stand side by side with Premier Zhou. This made the 19-year-old nervous and happy!
Second from the left, Zhang Guofu
After liberation, with his previous achievements, he could have regained the regrets of his previous childhood in his 20-year-old youth, but he did not choose to "eat the old book", in 1951, he entered the Korean war with the 47th Army, and on the battlefield of Korea, he once again used his life to explain what is "people in the position".
On the positions bombed by US tanks and planes in turn, after the slopes were flattened, and the teammates on the positions were all heroically sacrificed, Zhang Guofu looked at the only one left on the position, and in the face of the enemy's attack, he did not take a step back! One man held his position for seven days and eight nights! When the reinforcements arrived, Zhang Guofu, who had lasted for several days, fell, and the position was not lost! Seriously injured, he was transferred to China for treatment.
Korean
After his recovery, Zhang Guofu was sent to a military academy for further study, and before the training was over, he withdrew from demobilization and returned to his hometown, and when the local government knew that the special meritorious man was going to return to his hometown, he attached great importance to it, and actively arranged for him to enter the county organ to lead the work, which made Zhang Guofu feel very annoyed, he said that I only wanted to go home to farm, not to be an official.
The county leaders thought that he had been seriously injured and could not easily do heavy work, so they insisted on inviting. In his hometown, Zhang Guofu felt that he could not realize his small wishes, so he secretly changed his name from the original
"Zhang Guofu" changed to "Zhang Guofu"
He ran to Hegang, where he needed workers, and when he left, in order to avoid this kind of thing happening again, he did not bring anything and became an ordinary laborer at the bottom!
factory
He just arrived in Hegang with the physical fitness of a soldier, joined the fire brigade of the Mining Bureau, but unfortunately the good times were not long, the fire brigade was disbanded, the leader saw him doing things steadily and let him stay in the gunpowder factory as a gunpowder worker, and this also laid the bad consequences for his illness, in the most difficult time of these 20 years, their family of seven squeezed in a twelve-square-meter house, he let the children self-employed, and he took his teenage son out to pick up coal gangles when the sky was slightly bright.
fight
He didn't bother the country even during the most difficult of times, and the colleagues he had worked with for twenty years knew only that he was just a veteran. In 1998, his condition deteriorated to the extreme, the hospital in Hegang was powerless, and the medical expenses of multiple medical visits also made the family unable to make ends meet.
Then there was the opening scene, when the leaders of the army arranged him to the 301 Hospital, they also repeatedly asked Zhang Guofu to have any requirements, although he mentioned, "I hope our party and country are good" This is Zhang Guofu's answer every time, in the hospital, he enjoys the treatment of the deputy division level, but he has not enjoyed this treatment for long, so he died on July 11, 1998.
Founding Ceremony
The will of the PLA headquarters was originally to release the old man's ashes to Babaoshan, but the old man's last wish was to return to Hegang. Today, in the martyrs' cemetery in Hegang, the old man Zhang Guofu lay there quietly, looking at the land he was guarding!
The Liberation War carried a gun, and the Southern Expedition and the Northern War crossed the river. He was wounded by a rain of bullets and bullets, and died nine times.