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In 1997, a young woman approached the 47th Army and asked to see the head of the army. When she said what she meant, the chiefs present were shocked.
It turned out that the special combat hero who disappeared from the 47th Army under Lin Biao's command was actually alive and well, the "lone hero" They had been looking for for more than 40 years.
The woman was Zhang Guofu's youngest daughter, and she said to the chiefs: "I came without my father, he joined the army in the 47th Army, I came here without a way to help, my father had cancer, because the family was too poor to have money for treatment, ask the army to save him, he is only more than 60 years old..."
The troops immediately reported the incident to the General Political Department and informed the 420 regiment of the 47th Army
Li Yuan, former regimental commander and current deputy director of the Infrastructure Engineering Corps, and Mu Jianhua, former director of the political department of the regiment and deputy secretary of the party committee of the National Nuclear Power Design Institute.
The two were very excited when they saw Zhang Guofu, and immediately arranged for him to be treated in the 301 Hospital, and helped him implement the treatment of deputy division leaders.
The superior commander instructed: We must do our best to save Zhang Guofu's life, at all costs!
Who is Zhang Guofu, why are the chiefs shocked when they hear his name, and what thrilling heroic stories have happened to him?
Zhang Guofu
In 1931, a boy was born in a poor peasant family in Xinli Town, Yushu County, Jilin Province, and this boy was Zhang Guofu.
In that year, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the entire three eastern provinces, they carried out crazy high-pressure rule in the northeast, plundered resources, oppressed the people, the people of the three eastern provinces suffered humiliation, and Zhang Guofu, who lived under the shadow, had the ambition to resist Japan and save the country from a young age.
On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered in defeat. In order to monopolize the northeast, the Kuomintang army quickly transported 500,000 troops to the northeast with the help of the United States, and at the same time, the Communist Party also sent 120,000 cadres and officers and soldiers to the northeast with Lin Biao as the commander.
Zhang Guofu saw that the officers and men of the Kuomintang did nothing evil in the northeast and bullied the common people even more fiercely than the Japanese army, while the Communist army was different, not only being close to the common people, but also often helping the people, and since then the Communist Party has taken root in Zhang Guofu's heart.
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At the end of 1946, the Independent 1st Division of the North Manchuria Military Region of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army recruited troops in Dunhua County, and Zhang Guofu, who was only 15 years old, enthusiastically signed up to join the army. Just half a year after joining the army, the 1st Division fought fiercely with the Nationalist army at Jiangmi Peak north of Jilin Province.
At this critical moment, Zhang Guofu rushed into the headquarters of the Kuomintang army alone, holding a cluster grenade in one hand and pulling the lead in the other, shouting:
"If you want to live, put down your gun."
Looking at Zhang Guofu, who was still childish and full of fierceness, the enemies in the command headquarters were all frightened and stupid, and one by one they raised their hands, and the enemy lieutenant general Zhao Bozhao was among them. The headquarters suddenly failed, the Nationalist army was in disarray, and the 1st Division took the opportunity to defeat the Nationalist army.
After the battle, Zhang Guofu became a celebrity of the 1st Division, and the division commander Liang Xingchu personally gave Zhang Guofu a great meritorious deed, and the military reported it
"The Raptor" to
"16-year-old cattle herding baby Zhang Guofu captures Kuomintang lieutenant general Zhao Bozhao alive"
For the title, this battle story is reported.
In 1948, Zhang Guofu, who performed well, joined the party in the 47th Army (the 1st Division was first reorganized into the 10th Column, and then reorganized into the 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army) and joined the party, successively serving as squad leader, platoon leader, deputy company commander and other positions.
The time came to 1948
The Northeast Field Army led by Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan has grown from 120,000 people when it first entered the northeast to more than 700,000 regular troops and more than 400,000 militiamen. In accordance with Chairman Mao's orders, the Northeast Field Army launched the Liaoshen Campaign on September 12, vowing to annihilate the Kuomintang army in the northeast region.
Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan
In this great armageddon concerning the fate of the Communist Party, Zhang Guofu once again created a miracle, and he once again appeared in the Kuomintang headquarters with a fierce face.
This time, the newly formed Sixth Army, one of the "five ace armies" of the Kuomintang, was hit.
Launched in the 47th Army "
During the battle, the newly organized Sixth Army, with the super firepower of the united States armament, made the 47th Army lose dozens of charges, and the comrades were beaten back again and again, suffering heavy casualties.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Guofu was annoyed, and he braved the fierce artillery fire of the enemy to put it
Life and death are put aside, and rush in with a blaster
The headquarters of the New Sixth Army shouted:
"If you don't want to die, surrender quickly, or everyone will die together!"
Last year's scene was staged again, those who wore shoes were afraid of barefoot, and those who were horizontal were afraid of not dying, and in the face of this fierce, lifeless petty officer, the senior officers of the Kuomintang all bowed their heads and raised their hands like defeated roosters. Zhang Guofu's charge directly destroyed Liao Yaoxiang's headquarters,
Liao Yaoxiang and more than a dozen of his officers were captured alive, leaving the New Sixth Army leaderless and the entire army destroyed.
Lin Biao once praised Zhang Guofu in this way: The victory of the "Hu family shack" battle accelerated the progress of the Liaoshen Campaign.
Zhang Guofu was therefore rated by the Shino Command
"Grand Combat Hero", "Lone Hero"
He also became the most famous combat hero in the military history of the 47th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
In 1950, the Central Military Commission held the first national conference of combat heroes, and only 307 combat heroes were selected from the 4 million PLA soldiers to participate in the meeting.
Zhang Guofu and 77 other combat heroes were elected as "special combat heroes" and were cordially received by Chairman Mao, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, Premier Zhou, and other leaders.
Zhang Guofu also had another honor, Chairman Mao personally set up a banquet at his home in Zhongnanhai, a 19-year-old combat hero, and cordially encouraged him to "study hard, work hard, and make new contributions."
Such an honor
It's an envy of others.
Chairman Mao received the special combat heroes
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War broke out, the northeast industrial base was facing a great threat, Chairman Mao decisively decided to send troops to Korea, zhang Guofu and the 47th Army participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
At this time, the "United Nations Army" launched a large-scale "autumn offensive" and attacked our army along the Linjin River. In order to increase the bargaining chips with the volunteers, the US military launched the largest "tank wedge battle" since the Korean War position defense war, using more than 500 tanks to participate in the battle, and the air force and artillery also carried out the "VanVleet ammunition volume" saturation bombing.
Zhang Guofu's company defense
On the 345.6 heights of the Linjin River, he and the soldiers of the whole company withstood the high-intensity bombardment of the US army, fought for 7 days and 8 nights continuously, and finally more than 200 people of the whole company were killed, and only Zhang Guofu was seriously injured and survived.
The enemy was never allowed to take the high ground. Zhang Guofu
When he saw the division commander before he was unconscious, he said only one sentence, which made the commanders and fighters present burst into tears:
"Commander, all the people in the company have been sacrificed, but our position is held!"
Due to poor medical conditions on the North Korean front, Zhang Guofu, who was seriously injured, was transferred back to Changchun Hospital in China for treatment. The head of the unit was very concerned about Zhang Guofu's growth, and after half a year of recuperation and discharge, Zhang Guofu was arranged by the army to study at the Hengyang Military Academy in Hunan Province.
For the average officer, this is an opportunity to step through the ranks. As long as he graduated from a military academy, he would have a promising future no matter how he looked at Zhang Guofu's meritorious deeds of one special merit, two major meritorious deeds, five minor meritorious deeds, two PLA hero medals, a commemorative medal of the National Congress of Combat Heroes, a Mao Zedong medal, and a Korean People's Republic independence medal.
Zhang Guofu stuck to the 345.6 heights (film and television photos)
However, Zhang Guofu's choice surprised his comrades-in-arms, and he actually chose to change careers before the end of his further studies.
Although many female college students across the country wrote letters to Zhang Guofu, wanting to make friends with him and express their love for him, he still decided to return to his hometown, find his former green plum bamboo horse, get married and have children, and prepare to spend an ordinary life.
The leaders of the military academy and the head of the unit all tried their best to keep Zhang Guofu, but Zhang Guofu felt that New China had been established, and the Korean War had also participated, and he was accustomed to seeing life and death, and he saw too many comrades-in-arms leaving him.
In this way, Zhang Guofu, a former combat hero, returned to his hometown
Yushu County. The secretary of the county party committee in Yushu County tried his best to arrange a job for Zhang Guofu, but Zhang Guofu refused, and he also made a request to the secretary of the county party committee that people could not imagine.
He asked the county party secretary to open a letter of introduction for him and change his name to "Zhang Guofu" (张国福).
The secretary of the county party committee was extremely surprised, and finally according to the hero's request, he opened a letter of introduction to his career called "Zhang Guofu", just like that,
"Special Combat Hero" Zhang Guofu has since disappeared from the sight of the 47th Army.
In its place was An ordinary demobilized soldier, Zhang Guofu.
The secretary of the county party committee did not understand that in Zhang Guofu's heart, he was not a hero at all, and those comrades-in-arms who fell on the road of siege and uprooting the city, fell under enemy artillery fire, fell beside him, and sacrificed for the cause of Chinese people's liberation were the real heroes, and he would rather return to the field and return home to become an ordinary peasant.
After returning to his hometown, Zhang Guofu hid his military merit badges, and he found his girlfriend who was a young plum bamboo horse
Ren Baolian
He married her back home, farmed and had children, and lived the life of a commoner.
However, Zhang Guofu joined the revolution as a teenager, and although his fighting skills were superb, he was a bit clumsy to do farm work, and he and his wife worked hard day and night, still living a hard life.
In 1952, Zhang Guofu suddenly saw in the Jilin Daily that the Hegang Mineral Bureau was recruiting firefighters, and Zhang Guofu consulted with his wife and left his hometown to work as a firefighter in Hegang.
Zhang Guofu and his comrades-in-arms took a group photo
In this way, Zhang Guofu took his newlywed wife from his hometown to his second hometown of Hegang and became a firefighter. In the days of being a firefighter, Zhang Guofu had 5 children who came to the world, but
For a long time, Zhang Guofu's family of seven lived in a bungalow of only a dozen square meters, and their lives were very poor.
Even if it was difficult, Zhang Guofu did not reveal his identity as a combat hero to his wife and children, let alone ask the local government for relief. In order to make a living, Zhang Guofu
Save the food sent by the unit and take it home to the child to eat, also
He often took his eldest son around to collect coal nuggets to subsidize the family. However, this is only a drop in the bucket, and life is still abnormally poor.
Later, Zhang Guofu found a job as a gunpowder escort, which was very dangerous, dealing with gunpowder all day, and the slightest carelessness would destroy people. For the sake of his family's livelihood, Zhang Guofu carried forward the spirit of not being afraid of death, not being afraid of suffering, and not being afraid of tiredness, and working hard and complaining.
Although colleagues knew that he was a veteran, they felt that this veteran was different from other soldiers, which was a bit strange. Colleagues sometimes talk about his strange phenomena at the bottom. For example, when the Family is reunited in the New Year, people often see Zhang Guofu coming out of the house, holding only a bottle of liquor, running to no one's place, and returning drunk.
Whenever a movie on television such as "Shangganling" to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is broadcast, Zhang Guofu always hides far away, and others see it with tears in their eyes, but Zhang Guofu cries tearfully in the distance, extremely sad!
The family let Zhang Guofu eat dumplings, he always ate very little, but he would put a large bowl full of dumplings on the offering table, put three cigarettes, the family asked him who he was worshipping, and he said that he was a comrade-in-arms with a heavy heart.
There are some things that Zhang Guofu always hides in the deepest part of his heart and does not say it to anyone. Comrades-in-arms all said that Zhang Guofu did not want to die when he started a battle, and he was a famous "fierce man" in Siye! His cruelty to the enemy, but his feelings for his comrades-in-arms are very hot.
That year in the Korean battlefield coincided with the festival, when the materials were extremely scarce, the comrades-in-arms dug up some wild vegetables, concentrated the rations of the whole company and wrapped a meal of vegetarian dumplings, the dumplings just came out of the pot, the hateful enemy air raid came, in order to protect the pot of uncooked dumplings, two comrades-in-arms died.
From then on, as long as he ate dumplings, Zhang Guofu would provide a large bowl full of clothes to his comrades-in-arms to send mourning.
Linjin Lake Battlefield
In the days of dry gunpowder escort workers, Zhang Guofu's every trip was to deal with the god of death, and no one knew which day he would not be able to come back!
In those special days of that decade, the Red Guards stormed the warehouses of the gunpowder factory, and it was he who lit the torches and frightened those who rebelled fearlessly, and it was he who protected the leaders and technical backbones of the factory who were affected.
In the future, if someone wants to storm the gunpowder factory, the leaders of the rebel P will helplessly say: "There is a strange man who is not afraid of death, you still don't want to lose your eyes!" Since then, the gunpowder factory warehouse has become a pure land and protected many people.
During his work, Zhang Guofu encountered many dangers, which were calmly resolved by him. He worked in this position for twenty or thirty years, he did not compete for fame, did not seek profit, and by the time he retired, his salary did not rise much, and his rank was still a "fourth-level worker".
By chance, the identity of Zhang Guo's Ford-level combat hero was discovered by his younger daughter.
That time the youngest daughter went to Lanzhou on a business trip, and after Zhang Guofu knew about it, he asked his daughter to go to the 47th Army, the old unit that had fought, for him.
The little daughter arrived at the 47th Army, followed the army narrator to the honor room to see the glorious history of the 47th Army, on a meritorious wall, the little daughter found that the photo of Zhang Guofu and her father looked exactly the same as when he was young, and after careful inquiry, she learned that the army and this Zhang Guofu had lost contact for more than 40 years, and the chief and military history compilers of that year had been inquiring about the whereabouts of Zhang Guofu.
The little daughter buried this shocking news in her heart, and on the train back, the little daughter kept thinking, why did the father hide his identity?
After thinking about it for a long time, the little daughter finally understood what was the reason for her father's strange behavior for so many years!
When she got home, the youngest daughter called her family together and asked her father about those glorious years in the army. Zhang Guofu was silent for a long time, pulled out a wooden box from under the bed, and took out a small bag in the wooden box, which contained the certificates of honor and medals he had received that year.
Zhang Guofu told his wives and children that he missed his comrades-in-arms all the time, and that the company comrades who fought with him in those years had all sacrificed for the country, leaving him alone, and he had also won the honors that belonged to his comrades-in-arms.
Zhang Guofu felt that he was very happy to be able to survive, and he had no reason to lie on the merit book of his comrades-in-arms for a lifetime, so he decided to hide his name and live the life of an ordinary person.
Hero Medal
The wives and children were deeply touched when they heard what Zhang Guofu said, and they did not expect that this ordinary old man had so many heroic stories happening to him. After the war, he hid deep in his name and lived such an ordinary and hard life.
Zhang Guofu also warned them:
The state has given him a lot of honor, and he is not allowed to trouble the army and the government with anything, nor is he allowed to say anything about himself.
In 1997, Zhang Guofu's health was getting worse and worse, and his children wanted him to go to the hospital for examination, but Zhang Guofu always said that people were old and had some small problems, so they prevaricated.
By August 1997, Zhang Guofu was really unable to stand up, and his physical condition took a sharp turn for the worse, and he began to have difficulty breathing, and even began to cough up blood.
The children were frightened, hurriedly sent Zhang Guofu to the hospital, came out of the hospital laboratory, the children were silent, the doctor told them that his father's chest was full of water, from the biopsy, it should be lung cancer, need to be treated as soon as possible.
None of the children are willing to let their 60-year-old father die like this, even if they smash pots and sell iron, they must save their father. However, the economic conditions of Zhang Guofu's family are too poor to afford to treat cancer.
In desperation, several brothers and sisters held a small meeting with their fathers, and the young daughter who had been to the 47th Army garrison went to the head of the unit for help, while several others took care of their sick father at home.
In this way, the younger daughter came to the 47th Army station again, but this time she took one of her father's medals and asked to see the head of the army by name.
The chief was holding Zhang Guofu's special hero medal, and his hands were shaking all the time, and they couldn't believe that Zhang Guofu, the "lonely hero" that the troops had been looking for for more than 40 years, was still in the human world, and this hero whom Chairman Mao personally received and feasted on did not even have the money to treat his illness.
The head of the military region hastened to report to the headquarters and the former commander of the 47th Army and the former director of the Political Department that Zhang Guofu had reappeared in the human world due to cancer, which made the chiefs of the 47th Army both happy and sad, happy that they had finally found Zhang Guofu, and sad that Zhang Guofu, who had disappeared, had suffered so much and suffered so many crimes, but he had not complained to the troops and did not come to the troops to find trouble.
When the 301 Hospital knew that the reception was a legendary hero, it immediately set up an expert group to design a feasible treatment plan, but when the expert opened Zhang Guofu's chest cavity, it was found that Zhang Guofu's lungs had long been damaged due to years of working in the gunpowder factory, coupled with the large amount of smoke and dust inhaled in the battle for many years.
It is extremely regrettable that Zhang Guofu has done the most bitter, tired and dangerous work in recent decades, and the harsh working environment has made Zhang Guofu's physical injury reach its limit, and the hospital is no matter how high the medical skills, there is no way to return to heaven.
Heroic salute
Before his death, the head of the army went to the hospital many times to comfort Zhang Guofu and asked him what he wanted, he said:
There are no requirements, only hope that the party and the country are getting better and better!
The letter from the head of the army to the local government asking for help to resettle his children also allowed the old man to secretly hide without adding any burden to the government.
Before Zhang Guofu died, the troops consulted him, and the PLA headquarters prepared to place his ashes in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, but Zhang Guofu said:
"I've been working in Hegang all my life, so let me go back to Hegang!"
On July 11, 1998, Zhang Guofu, who had just enjoyed the treatment of deputy division, died in the 310 Hospital at the age of 67.
That's it
The troops will, in order to respect the opinions of the heroes
Zhang Guofu's ashes are forever laid
Hegang Funeral Home Martyrs' Mausoleum.
After Zhang Guofu died, the people who had dealt with him were shocked to find that this old man who worked hard and complained was amiable.
It turned out to be "Lone hero Zhang Guofu" in the primary school textbook, known as the living Huang Jiguang.
Zhang Guofu has the most simple essence of Chinese, he is a special combat hero in the war years, and an ordinary veteran in the peace era! He dedicated his life to the motherland and the people, but forgot to take care of himself!
Veterans do not die, but gradually wither, but their spirit lives forever in our hearts!!!
Salute to the old hero of Zhang Guofu, salute to all the veterans! Without them, we wouldn't have the wonderful life we have now!!!