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In the Korean War, the Chinese Volunteer Army, which was extremely poorly equipped and had "exploded" combat effectiveness, created many seemingly impossible miracles.
The more than 2.9 million volunteer soldiers who went to the DPRK to participate in the war, with the courage of "swallowing the heavens and the earth and strengthening the mountains and rivers", the heroes and figures emerged like stars.
During the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, a total of more than 300,000 soldiers and soldiers were credited for their meritorious service, of whom only more than 410 were heroes and models, and 231 were special meritorious heroes.
The only special heroes are Yang Gensi and Huang Jiguang.
And rated
"Hero of the First Class"
Titles, only
"Heroes of Fire"
Qiu Shaoyun,
"Ascending Hero"
Yang Liandi,
"Blast hero"
Wu Xianhua, legendary pilot Wang Hai and other 51 people.
Among these "first-class heroes" who are terrifying, there is one person who is very special, so special that it is unbelievable, because he is a recruit.
He only joined the army in June 1951, and then fought with the 12th Army of the Volunteer Army, but the first time he went to the battlefield, he created an incredible record.
In the Battle of Shangganling, he was alone responsible for holding position No. 3 on The 597.9 Heights, and after a day of fierce fighting, he repelled 41 enemy attacks and annihilated 283 enemy troops, creating a miracle in the history of war, and this person was Hu Xiudao, who was known as the "lone hero".
Throughout the Battle of Shangganling, four people gained it
"Hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea"
Titles (Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, Sun Zhanyuan and Hu Xiudao), and of these four, the only one who returned alive was Hu Xiudao.
How did a newly enlisted recruit achieve such a "remarkable history" battle achievement, which had to start from the battle of 597.9 highlands on the "flesh and blood millstone" that shocked the world 69 years ago.
Hu Xiudao
In October 1931, a boy was born
A poor peasant family in Jintang County, Sichuan Province, is Hu Xiudao.
His situation as a teenager was very tragic, when his father died of illness when he was 6 years old, Hu Xiudao has been following his mother for his life.
The family had no pillars and pillars, not even enough to eat, let alone to receive education, and the young Hu Xiudao had to go to the landlord's house to herd cattle in order to eat a full meal.
In 1946, Chiang Kai-shek, with the help of the Americans, provoked an all-out civil war. The Americans wanted to build military airfields in the Jintang and Guanghan areas of the Sichuan Plain, and without workers, they took local farmers as laborers.
Hu Xiudao, who was only 15 years old, had not yet figured out what was going on, and unfortunately he was arrested and sent to work as a hard worker, although he did a lot of manual labor every day, very tired, but the Americans did not let them eat enough, and the place where they lived was like a kennel, and life was even more difficult.
During his days as a hard worker, Hu Xiudao saw the Americans destroy a large area of farmland for ordinary people, and also witnessed the cruel scene of two Chinese laborers being beaten to death by the Americans with flat shoulders. Hu Xiudao
Hate is so bad that all teeth are broken,
The seeds of hatred are buried deep in the heart,
He swore:
Don't take revenge, swear not to be a man!
After the founding of New China, Liu Deng's army swept through the southwest, and Hu Xiudao, like the people of the whole country, also turned over and became the master, and he was full of infinite yearning for his future life. While he was struggling for his future life, the US imperialist aggressors burned the flames of war to the Yalu River, posing a serious threat to China's border security.
Hu Xiudao, who was also a hateful American, who vowed to avenge his co-workers, finally waited for the opportunity, although he was already the pillar of the family, but with the support of his mother, he resolutely put down the hoe in his hand, signed up to join the army, and took up a steel gun to defend the family and defend the country.
In June 1951, Hu Xiudao joined the Chinese Volunteer Army and became a soldier in the 5th Company of the 91st Regiment of the 31st Division of the 12th Army.
The 12th Army was a heroic unit, owned by Liu and Deng Dajun (Erye).
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During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the predecessor of the 91st Regiment of the 31st Division was the 769th Regiment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and the burning of the Yangmingbao Japanese airfield was their classic.
During the Liberation War, it was reorganized from the 7th Brigade of the Nakano 3rd Column, and was established in the "Liberation War"
In advancing into Dabie Mountain, the Battle of Huaihai, and the Battle of Crossing the River, the performance was very eye-catching, and Chen Xilian, Wang Jinshan, Li Desheng and other famous generals all served as regimental commanders in this regiment, which was a team
Troops who can fight hard battles
。
As soon as Hu Xiudao joined the army, he was incorporated into such a heroic force, and the joy and sense of honor in his heart can be imagined.
When he first arrived at the Korean battlefield, Hu Xiudao looked forward to going to the front line to teach those foreign devils a lesson as soon as possible, but what disappointed him was that in order to ensure the logistics supply line of the volunteer army, he and his comrades-in-arms were sent to the rear to build mountains and roads, and he was really envious of watching the brother troops drive to the front line one by one.
Not long after, a combat hero made a report from the front line to Hu Xiudao's troops, listened to the heroic deeds of repelling dozens of enemy attacks, and aroused Hu Xiudao's endless enthusiasm for fighting, he thought to himself: "This combat hero is not taller than me, but he has defeated dozens of times the enemy on the battlefield.
I want to be like him, I want to be a hero
！”
To this end, while he opened the mountains and built roads, he also practiced his skills to kill the enemy.
If you want to gain a foothold in such a unit, you really can't do it without some skills under your hands!
When Hu Xiudao first entered the army, some veterans saw that he was very small and thin, thinking that he had no strength, and some comrades-in-arms deliberately provoked him to compete with him. However, what these veterans did not expect was that after several competitions, Hu Xiudao's strength work was the best in the platoon.
Hu Xiudao thought to himself:
"Don't look at me as thin, full of muscles. Let the cattle go, do farm work, and repair the nest for the devils! ”
After a while, Hu Xiudao no longer had to envy others, because their regiment was drawn to the front line to fight, and neither he nor his comrades would have thought.
This battlefield was so cruel, and it was so famous in later generations, that is, "Shangganling", which was known as the "flesh and blood millstone".
Upper Ganling
On October 14, 1952, neither the Chinese Army nor the U.S. Army will ever forget this day.
Clark, commander of the "United Nations Army", and Van Vleet, commander of the US Eighth Army, gathered heavy troops and attacked the 597.9 and 537.7 heights of Ganling on the Five Holy Mountains defended by the Volunteer Army.
320 large-caliber artillery and 27 tanks simultaneously bombarded the heights that could accommodate only two companies, an average of six shells fell on the volunteer positions every second, more than a hundred bombers in the sky bombed in turn, and heavy bombs and napalm bombs cut the hills of Shangganling down by two meters in one day...
This is hell, a hell full of flames. The reporters watching the war were shocked by such a war scene!
The volunteer soldiers in the tunnel had never encountered such heavy artillery fire, and almost all the fighters were shocked and bloodied. Van Vliet laughed and said, "It's time for a 'showdown' with the Chinese army!" ”
After the shelling, the "Un Army" infantry rushed upwards, and in their view, no one could survive such a fierce artillery attack.
When they rushed to the heights of about 50 meters, the soldiers of the 15th Army defending the highlands came out of the tunnel like messengers of hell, and the submachine guns and grenades attacked violently, killing the enemy troops with heavy losses, and the enemy organized more than ten consecutive attacks, all of which were killed by the volunteers.
Then the enemy again called for artillery attack, charged again, was beaten, retreated, organized the charge again...
Qin Gengwu, deputy instructor of the 9th Company of the 135th Regiment of the 45th Division of the 15th Army, who was defending the No. 9 position of the 597.9 Highland, had very rich combat experience, and he was well aware of the fierceness of the enemy's artillery fire.
So after each enemy shelling, he only sent three soldiers to the position, and one casualty was released, always maintaining uninterrupted firepower.
The enemy seems to have seen God, how can the Chinese soldiers never die?
The brutal battle had been going on all day, and Qin Gengwu couldn't remember how many enemy attacks he had repelled.
In this day's battle, the "United Nations Army" invested a total of 7 infantry battalions, 18 artillery battalions and more than 200 sorties of aircraft, against two companies and platoons of the Chinese army, shells alone bombed more than 300,000 rounds, more than 500 aerial bombs dropped, more than 1,900 casualties, but did not take two high ground.
VanVleet
VanVleet was blindfolded, and he once again organized an air and ground attack with an unconventional amount of ammunition.
The next day, the third day... On the sixth day, I saw the ghost, what kind of monster was the 45th Division of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army opposite, relying only on infantry, it blocked the attack of tens of thousands of people of the "United Nations Army".
Qin Jiwei, commander of the 15th Army, and Cui Jiangong, commander of the 45th Division, commanded the volunteer soldiers and turned the complex terrain of the 597.9 Heights into a sea of blood, and the "United Nations Army" suffered more than 7,000 casualties.
Van Vliet was beaten to death, and his face seemed to be the slap mark of the volunteers!
The enemy suffered heavy casualties, the 45th Division of the Volunteer Army also tried its last drop of blood, and on these two small hills of only 3.7 square kilometers, the 45th Division suffered more than 4,000 casualties, basically crippled!
Do you want to keep fighting?
Wang Jinshan, commander of the Third Corps of the Volunteer Army, gritted his teeth and said to Qin Jiwei:
"Fight, as long as you hold Shangganling, what you want is given."
Not only did the three corps support the 15th Army, but the entire Volunteer Army Headquarters was fully supporting the 15th Army.
In the battle on October 30, the 15th Army fired more than 300,000 rounds of ammunition and 21,000 shells, and threw more than 30,000 grenades and grenades, which was the highest record for Japanese ammunition consumption by the Chinese army in the Battle of Shangganling.
When the battle is fought like this, neither side is willing to lose face on the small mountain bag that the world pays attention to, and the fight is not strategic and tactical, but courage, determination and military prestige.
On this day, in addition to the American and Rok armies, which suffered heavy casualties, the Ethiopian battalion, which had traveled thousands of miles from Africa to participate in the attack, after seven hours of fighting, counted all that could breathe, and could only be organized into a company.
Well, miles to send people's heads, courtesy is light.
As a direct consequence, Ethiopia has a thorough understanding of what kind of person the Chinese soldier really is.
Since then, they have become China's "little fans" and are still known for being pro-China.
On November 5, a spectacle occurred on the battlefield, a US F-51 strike aircraft collided with a high-ballistic howitzer of the Chinese artillery, and extremely dazzling fire and metal fragments rushed into the US attacking crowd, and the US army was shocked by this terrible battlefield spectacle, and the rolling belt climbed down!
On this night, the 45th Division of the 15th Army began to withdraw from the 597.9 heights and return to the rear for repairs.
Our hero Hu Xiudao, with the 12th Army took over the position of "Shangganling".
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The 12th Army sent deputy commander Li Desheng to lead the team, directly transferred to the unified command of the 15th Army, and the 12th Army fought extremely well in the subsequent battles.
However, Acting Commander Xiao Yongyin took into account the overall situation and only made the move of not participating in the command of the troops, which almost buried the merits of the 12th Army.
Public opinion only publicized that the 15th Army fought well in Shangganling, and many people still did not know that the 15th Army played the first half and the 12th Army played the second half.
On November 11, 1952, Van Vleet, unwilling to lose, launched the fiercest attack in the Battle of Shangganling, pouring a record of more than 10,000 shells in an hour, targeting the 597.9 heights defended by Hu Xiudao's company.
Relying on the two mountain beams in the northeast and northwest, the 91st Regiment laid out a total of 12 positions on the high ground, the forefront was the No. 3 and No. 9 positions, one left and one right echoed the trend, the fledgling Hu Xiudao under the leadership of the squad leader Li Feng, and Teng Tusheng, who was also a new recruit, was responsible for holding the No. 3 position.
After the battle began, the US army adopted a roundabout tactic, attacking positions No. 3, 9, and 10 all the way, and attacking positions 0 and 4 all the way, in an attempt to divide troops and surround our army positions. With excellent individual combat skills and small group tactics, the volunteer soldiers repelled 6 multi-echelon, uninterrupted attacks of the enemy.
At this time, Li Feng, the leader of the 2nd squad of the 5th Company, led Hu Xiudao and Teng Shisheng to take over the No. 3 ground position instead of their comrades-in-arms, and the artillery fire of the US army had completely destroyed the fortifications of the No. 3 position.
This was Hu Xiudao's first time in battle, he had just turned 20 years old, he saw the enemy rushing towards the position, his hands were nervously oozing sweat, but his eyes were staring directly at the approaching enemy.
With the order of the squad leader, Hu Xiudao's often trained combat skills instantly took control of the nerves, he subconsciously threw grenades and grenades into the enemy group, and had no time to take care of the battle situation, only listening to the gunshots and explosions down the hillside and the enemy's wailing, and he did not know how many people were killed, until he was grabbed by the wrist of the squad leader, Hu Xiudao did not know that he had repelled the enemy.
Before Hu Xiudao could sum up the experience of the first battle, the enemy attacked again, and Hu Xiudao immediately prepared to face the enemy's second attack.
Volunteer soldiers defend their positions
This time, under the command of the squad leader, they adopted the method of wrapping dumplings, first concentrating their firepower on both sides of the scattered enemy groups, picking up the US troops in the middle, and then hitting the front of the position for a while, so that the US troops in front could not get up, and the rear troops hugged forward, and when the US troops crowded together, they suddenly threw grenades at the enemy group.
This method is more effective with half the effort, directly hitting the enemy to lose his armor and flee for his life. The enemy was like opening his mouth wide, ready to swallow the 597.9 highland in one gulp, who ever thought that Hu Xiudao was like a thorn, perfectly stuck in the enemy's throat, unable to swallow, unable to spit out, in a dilemma.
Under the squad leader's method of "one look, two strikes, and three belts", Hu Xiudao quickly adapted to various situations on the battlefield, and in the next three hours, Hu Xiudao became more and more courageous in the war, repelling more than ten enemy attacks.
At this time, the No. 9 position, which echoed from afar, was violently attacked, and the company commander ordered Li Feng to go forward to support, and only Hu Xiudao and Teng Shisheng were left in the No. 3 position.
Before leaving, Li Feng pressed his fist on Hu Xiudao's chest and said with great seriousness: "People are in the position, resolutely hold the position, and do not fall into the honor of the 2nd class battle." ”
Hu Xiudao understood that the squad leader was gone, and it was more difficult to hold the position, even if he was left alone, he had to hold the position. He replied loudly:
"People are in the position, and they will never lose people to the 2nd class!"
After the squad leader left, Hu Xiudao and Teng Shisheng, who had already shown their might and courage, did not panic at all, one set up a machine gun and one threw a grenade, and the two cooperated tacitly to bring out the power of the weapon to the fullest.
The enemy was furious and desperately shot upwards, only to see grenades explode at the enemy's feet, bullet after bullet to the center of the enemy, and finally could only scatter the birds and beasts, all turning around and running back. In this way, the two repelled more than a dozen crazy attacks of the enemy.
The two men just wanted to stop and catch their breath between battles, when the company command post sent an order: Immediately go forward to defend position 10. It turned out that the comrades in Position 10 had all died.
The enemy seemed to have noticed this gap, determined to tear apart our army's defenses, and sent a large number of men and horses to pounce on it. If position 10 is lost, it will endanger positions 3 and 9, and the 597.9 heights will be difficult to protect.
Hu Xiudao and Teng Shisheng broke through the enemy fire blockade, rolled from one crater to another, and then climbed forward from another, "rolling belt climbing" upwards.
At this time, platoon leader Guo Sandan also came from position 9 to support them, but at the moment of entering the cave, a shell exploded beside him, the platoon leader was sacrificed, and Teng Tusheng was also blown up and sent down the line of fire.
At this time, there was only hu Xiudao on the No. 10 position, he looked at the position full of scorched earth, and he could catch rubble, shell casings or human bones at any hand.
Hu Xiudao did not have time to grieve and fear, because the enemy tanks climbed up one by one, hundreds of artillery pieces were fired at the same time, the planes were also bombing indiscriminately, and the hordes of enemy troops continued to surge upwards.
Hu Xiudao (center) and his comrades-in-arms
Hu Xiudao was not afraid, the front of the No. 10 position was the place where the "special hero" Huang Jiguang blocked the gun hole and sacrificed, and after 18 years, he was a good man, and I also wanted to be a hero. Hu Xiudao's hot blood instantly surged into his heart, desperately throwing the grenade in his hand at the enemy.
He tossed between positions 3 and 10, constantly changing positions, putting together all the weapons and equipment available to him, and placing a bunch of hats left by the wounded to confuse the enemy.
He sometimes used heavy machine guns to strafe the enemy, sometimes used grenades, grenades and grenades to kill and injure the enemy... The swarming enemy forces couldn't even figure out how many people were holding the position.
The battle began at dawn and ended at dusk, Hu Xiudao miraculously repelled dozens of enemy attacks, killing more than 280 enemy people, and at the critical moment when almost ran out of ammunition, reinforcements arrived in time, and Hu Xiudao and his comrades-in-arms persisted until the end of the battle.
Seeing that Hu Xiudao was so brave, his comrades-in-arms asked him if he was afraid of fighting for the first time?
Hu Xiudao said: "I have confidence, I want to be a good Chinese, I want to win glory for Chinese, I just don't obey, you beat me up, I will hold your legs when I turn over, I will fall down, absolutely disobey."
What Van Vliet never dreamed of was that on this hill, which was expected to take only 5 days and 200 casualties, he spent a full 43 days to fill in 27,000 people, and finally lost to the volunteers, which was also the last battle of his military career.
As a new soldier, Hu Xiudao was able to fight so brilliantly on the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and it has to be said that the combat effectiveness of the volunteer army is unmatched in the world, and Hu Xiudao has created a miracle.
Throughout the history of world wars, no recruit has ever achieved such an amazing result!
The famous writer Yang Shuo once wrote in the book: "This 19-year-old young man vividly explains why the enemy is bleeding in North Korea. The enemy cannot attack Shangganling, let alone Korea, because on Shangganling, on every front, we have countless figures like Hu Xiudao everywhere. ”
Volunteer soldiers celebrate victory
On June 25, 1953, Hu Xiudao was selected as a representative of the Volunteer Army to participate in the Commendation Conference for Combat Heroes in Korea, and was awarded the title of "Hero of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea", the Gold Star Medal, and the National Flag Medal of the First Class.
Hu Xiudao later gave an interview
Emotionally
Said:
"The party and the people have given very high honors, and I think these honors should be attributed to the soldiers of the Shangganling Campaign, who sacrificed their precious lives for the motherland and for peace, and they are the real heroes."
Chairman Mao said: "Chinese are not afraid of war,
Punch a punch, lest a hundred punches come."
The Korean War was the founding battle of New China, and since then, China's weak image of being bullied since the Opium War has swept away the military humiliation of repeated defeats in the West in modern times, not only creating a powerful country standing tall in the east of the world, losing face to arrogant Americans, but also making the Japanese people who have always been unconvinced bow their heads.
After the victory in the Korean War, Hu Xiudao returned to China to continue to contribute to the construction of national defense in the army.
In 1969, he was in office
Li Desheng, secretary of the Anhui Provincial CPC Committee, transferred Hu Xiudao, who had been promoted to deputy regimental commander, from the army to Zhongshan, Anhui, to serve as the secretary of the Liangshan County CPC Committee. Hu Xiudao began his five-year reign in Zhongshan and made significant contributions to the water conservancy construction of Zhongshan County.
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After all the work in Yanshan County was on the right track, Hu Xiudao returned to the army and served as deputy chief of staff of a certain army of the Nanjing Military Region. In 1988, after Hu Xiudao left his post as deputy chief of staff, he often went deep into grass-roots companies to make reports for officers and men.
He was hired by Xuzhou City as the director of the Working Committee for Caring for the Next Generation, and also served as the honorary principal of many middle and primary schools, where he taught children to have a correct outlook on life and values, to study well, and to contribute to the motherland.
Hu Xiudao TV interview footage
On March 13, 2002, Hu Xiudao completed his glorious life. Although the official position is not much, he practices the glorious image of being a hero in front of life and death, and a model in front of honor.
Today, on a pine-and-cypress hill in Longquan Mountain, Chengdu, a red flag with four medals is erected on it, which belong to the Hu Shu Dao that erected the Qishiqigong on shangganling!
With this article, I would like to extend my highest respect to Hu Xiudao and all the officers and men of the heroic Chinese People's Volunteer Army!
Where there are some years of quiet, but some people carry the weight for us, without them, there would be no birth of a new China!!!