In February 1947, the famous Battle of Laiwu was fought. The Ninth Division of the Third Column of the East China Field Army was ordered to launch an attack on the Eighth Army of the enemy Li Xianzhou's army stationed on the eastern hill of Laiwu.
Under the onslaught of our army, the enemy could not resist at all, and soon collapsed into an army.
At that time, the Ninth Division had a reconnaissance company directly under it, and the company commander Qi Litong led the whole company to participate in this battle. Feng Guangda, the leader of the second squad of the first platoon, was ordered by Qi Litong to lead the whole class to raid the depths of the enemy.
The soldiers of the second squad were all experienced scouts, who took advantage of the enemy's lack of preparation, gave full play to the advantages of mobility and flexibility, and unknowingly touched the rear positions of the enemy Eighth Army.
At this time, the enemy's rear positions had become a pot of porridge, some officers were angrily asking for reinforcements, some officers took the lead and began to find a way to escape, and many soldiers were even more in a chaotic state of not being able to find an officer and no one to command, and also began to find opportunities to slip away.
Feng Guangda mixed into the enemy group with the second class of fighters, bent on finding the headquarters of the enemy's Eighth Army, and preparing to "capture the thief first and capture the king."
However, the enemy's position was so chaotic that it was impossible to figure out for a while where the enemy's headquarters were. In order to find out its exact location, Feng Guangda decided to send someone to grab a prisoner first to ask for directions.
The warriors Gao Yigong and Liang Changzhu accepted the task, and they took a quick and covert action to approach one of the enemy's fortifications.
Coincidentally, as soon as they touched the side of the fortification, they saw an enemy soldier coming out.
I saw that the man was tall and thin, carrying a light machine gun on his shoulder. Although many of the enemy soldiers in the entire position looked panicked, this man looked at ease and did not look panicked.
Gao Yigong and Liang Changzhu looked at it, and there were no other enemy soldiers in front of them, left and right, and immediately rushed to the side of this light machine gunner, raised their guns and pointed them at him and whispered: "Stop, raise your hands, and don't kill them!" ”
To the great surprise of Gao and Liang, this enemy soldier was not only frightened by the muzzle of the black hole hole in front of him, but also did not have any action to prepare to resist, but instead showed a smile on his face, which was completely a look of relief, as if he had seen an old friend.
Then he smiled and said, "Good, good... I'll hand over my gun..."
Gao Yigong and Liang Changzhu looked at each other, and they all secretly felt strange in their hearts, but at this time, they were in the enemy position, and they would be discovered by other enemies at any time, so they could only quickly get off the captive machine guns and escort him to the hiding place of Feng Guangda and the others.
Feng Guang was very happy to see that the prisoners had been captured, and immediately interrogated him, wanting to find out the location of the enemy's headquarters.
The captive was very cooperative, asking what to answer, and throughout the interrogation was a calm and unquenched look.
He expressed his willingness to surrender, and happily told Feng Guangda the exact location of the headquarters of the Eighth Army, but it also showed that as soon as the gunshots rang out in the front, their commander had already fled.
When Feng Guangda led the soldiers to the place where the enemy headquarters was located, sure enough, as the prisoner said, there were no commanders inside, only a few staff officers were packing up their things and preparing to slip away.
By this time, the vanguard regiment of the Ninth Division had already taken Dongshan, and Feng Guangda informed the commander of the regiment that the enemy commander had fled, and escorted the light machine gunner and several enemy staff officers back to his company.
Later, everyone learned that the tall light machine gunner who was captured was actually a well-known sharpshooter in the enemy's Eighth Army, his name was Zhao Sanhuai, and he was a Soldier from Sichuan.
So, why did Zhao Sanhuai, the sharpshooter, not only not resist but also smile when he was captured by PLA soldiers on the battlefield?
It turned out that Zhao Sanhuai had long been tired of the civil war provoked by lao Jiang, and was very disgusted with Chinese fight Chinese, but he knew that the People's Liberation Army was a division of benevolence and righteousness, so he was willing to be a prisoner.
Feng Guangda asked, "Since you are a sharpshooter, how many PLA have you killed before?" ”
Zhao Sanhuai patted his chest and said, "The number of devils I killed is uncountable, anyway, as long as you aim, there is no false hair." But after the Japanese surrendered, I never killed a PLA. ”
Feng Guangda didn't believe it and said, "When you go to the battlefield, how can you not shoot?" How is it possible not to kill people? ”
Zhao Sanhuai replied, "I told the chief that my eyes were broken, my marksmanship was not good, and I was almost shot by the commander several times." ”
According to PLA policy, prisoners had to turn their guns and hit the enemy. However, after Zhao Sanhuai changed into the uniform of the People's Liberation Army, he was still unwilling to do so.
Not long after, Zhao Sanhuai's company was ordered to the town of Tusikou to participate in the battle to pursue the enemy. One of the enemies was extremely stubborn, not only refusing to surrender, but also using the excuse to kill several local civilians.
When Zhao Sanhuai saw this scene, he was indignant and took the initiative to ask the company commander to eliminate them.
After receiving the approval of the company commander, Zhao Sanhuai raised the gun in his hand, pulled a single shot, and the gun fell down, one shot at a time, and it was really a bullet.
This group of enemies was annoyed and launched a crazy attack in the direction where Zhao Sanhuai was located. Zhao Sanhuai was still not in a hurry, and the end of the gun fired a series of shots, only to see the enemy fall down one by one, and finally was completely destroyed.
This battle allowed the commanders and fighters of the whole company to fully appreciate the style of Zhao Sanhuai, the sharpshooter, and the crowd did not fail to admire him.
However, after the battle, Zhao Sanhuai still insisted on not shooting any more guns, hoping to transfer to the logistics team.
The company commander had no choice but to let his superiors reflect the situation. Zhao Sanhuai saw that he had not replied for a long time, so he went to the division commander himself and said that he would rather die than shoot.
The commanders had no choice but to agree to his request to be a porter in the divisional logistics team.
Although the soldiers all said that being a porter buried Zhao Sanhuai's good marksmanship, Zhao Sanhuai did not think so, but worked very vigorously.
After the liberation war, with the approval of his superiors, Zhao Sanhuai left the army and returned to his hometown to become a farmer.