In the early 1950s, a battle comparable to the scale of a world war broke out in Korea, and the volunteer army faced the United Nations army led by the United States, fought to the death in the harsh weather environment and well-equipped enemy army, resisting the aggression of US imperialism with strong and indomitable faith and with its own flesh and blood. After five battles in the Korean War, the Volunteers finally brought the Americans to the armistice negotiating table. In the fierce War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, countless combat heroes emerged from the volunteer army. For example, Qiu Shaoyun, who lurked in front of the enemy and was engulfed in flames in order not to affect the plans of the troops; and Huang Jiguang, who used his chest to block the muzzle of the gun in order to protect his comrades-in-arms. However, there is such a hero, he is very low-key, neither asking for credit nor receiving rewards. He single-handedly dealt with a company of the British ace elite battalion Gloucester and captured 63 British soldiers. This thing is real, I believe that everyone has never heard of such a heroic deed, so who is he, and how did he achieve such a miracle?
Battle of Shermari
In the Korean theater of the 1950s,
The so-called United Nations forces led by the United States completely disregard the fact that the two sides are discussing armistice negotiations,
Resolutely and resolutely crossed the 38th line, vainly landing from the rear flank, and cooperating with the frontal frontal attack,
Attempts were made to push the front north near Pyongyang and the Wonsan area in order to gain the military initiative and gain more benefits in the armistice negotiations.
The great victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
At that time, the United Nations army, led by the United States, had as many as 17 divisions, 3 brigades and one regiment, with a total strength of 340,000 people. On the other hand, on the side of the volunteer army, the second batch of the 19th Corps and the 3rd Corps entering the Korean battlefield, as well as the 9th Corps that were resting, arrived at the front line battlefield.
The combat strength of our army has been multiplied.
According to the situation that the US military took the opportunity to send troops in the process of negotiating an armistice, the commander of the headquarters of the Volunteer Army decided that
In order to eliminate the idea of the UN army landing on the flank, avoid the two fronts of the volunteer army, and regain the initiative in the Korean battlefield, 11 legions of up to 540,000 troops were dispatched to carry out a comprehensive counterattack against the UN army, and the fifth battle broke out completely.
Subsequently, the 187th Division of the 63rd Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army successfully broke through at the Linjin River, and quickly captured the Cyan Yue Mountain.
And the use of rear flank roundabout interspersed with frontal attack tactics,
The British 29th Brigade was under attack, including the elite ace troops
"Gloucester Camp"
。
The Volunteers surrounded the British ace forces
In this battle, the 561st Regiment, which was mainly responsible for the frontal attack, sent the first battalion to the left flank to detour and intercept the enemy's retreat, and the main force of the 561st Regiment launched an onslaught from the front.
Captured the high ground north of Shermis and enclosed nearly a thousand Gloucester battalions in a narrow circle.
British Army
It is worth mentioning that this Gloucester battalion surrounded by volunteers is not small, she is the card face of the British troops, and it is a well-known elite unit.
The Gloucester Battalion was a force with a history of more than 150 years, an elite force that had single-handedly turned the situation around in 1810 when the British went out to Egypt and helped the British army turn defeat into victory.
Gloucester Camp relied on its outstanding merits, was highly praised and praised by the Queen of England, and was once also praised
Seen as the elite unit of the British army and the soul of expeditionary combat.
Therefore, when this elite British force was surrounded by volunteers, panic immediately appeared within the United Nations army, especially the British troops, whose arrogant character was absolutely intolerant of the elimination of the ace troops by the volunteers.
As panic grew within the coalition forces, Commander-in-Chief Ridgway, who had just arrived from the United States for a dozen days, arrived at the front and personally drew up plans to rescue Gloucester Battalion.
Unintendent Ridgway also said he would pay all the costs to rescue the force.
The fierceness of the volunteer positions
Ridgway then dispatched a battalion in the Philippines, the 65th Regiment of the United States Army, and the 12th Regiment of the South Korean Army to rescue the Gloucester Battalion, with the support of warplanes, artillery and tanks.
The soldiers attacked Shemari in three separate ways in an attempt to rescue the besieged Gloucester.
The Volunteer 187th Division resisted to the death, blocking Ridgway's reinforcements to the death. The 1st Battalion of the 561st Regiment of the 187th Division quickly penetrated the gap in the rear of the local constriction to block the enemy reinforcements, and the 1st Battalion of the 561st Regiment appeared on the local flank, which made Ridgway and the besieged Gloucester Battalion very frightened. The reinforcements of the Gloucester Battalion immediately switched artillery and warplanes and indiscriminately bombarded a battalion of soldiers interspersed with troops, in a vain attempt to prevent the Volunteers from capturing Hill 295.4, and then held their positions to block the support troops.
The war situation at that time was,
By capturing Hill 295.4, riddle Ridgway's rescue plan and place Gloucester Battalion completely in the hands of the Volunteers.
The Un Army encountered a frantic counterattack by the volunteer army's peripheral blocking troops, and not only did not rescue the Gloucester Battalion, but also suffered heavy losses.
Volunteer soldiers charged
The main attack unit of the 561st Regiment of the Volunteer Army was also preparing to launch a fierce attack on the Gloucester Battalion at this time, and although the British soldiers were well trained and well-armed, they were still unable to resist the heroic volunteer army and were soon defeated and fled.
Unfortunately, due to the relatively steep terrain in the Shermari area, the Gloucester Battalion, which had been defeated by the Volunteers, fled from the gap in the encirclement, and the plan to encircle and annihilate the British army did not achieve the desired effect.
The situation on the battlefield was ever-changing, and the 561st Regiment of the Volunteer Army decided to divide its troops to pursue the fleeing British army, which was bound to eliminate this so-called elite British force.
Surrounded by a company alone
After the order is conveyed,
Liu Guangzi, a volunteer soldier, and two other recruits who had just joined the team formed a small detachment.
Search deep into the Snow Mali for traces of the soldiers of the Gloucester Battalion.
Liu Guangzi, born in 1921, his family lives in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Hangjin Houqi Zhaomiao Tuanjie Village, the family conditions have been very difficult since childhood, he went out early to work for the landlord to earn money to support the family. Liu Guangzi then joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and by the time he entered North Korea, he had become a squad leader in the 561st Regiment.
When Liu Guangzi and the two recruits rushed to a small highland in the mountain forest
Unexpectedly, he found himself below an artillery company of Gloucester Battalion, presumably nearly a hundred men, who were now fleeing around like headless flies.
The enemy was using artillery to attack the positions
What makes people tangled is that Liu Guangzi has a lot of distance from the troops at this time, and if he went back to move the rescue soldiers now, these British soldiers would have run out long ago.
Thinking that there were only three people on his side, and two of them were recruits who had just joined the army, Liu Guangzi was also very difficult at this time and did not know what to do.
If Liu Guangzi and the two recruits forcibly charged hard and faced more than a hundred enemy guns with the three guns in their hands, it would undoubtedly hit the stone with an egg. Although the volunteers were brave and fearless, they could not make fearless sacrifices, but the opportunity was in front of them, so Liu Guangzi thought of a way.
Liu Guangzi outwitted a company
Liu Guangzi let the two recruits in the team hide behind and shoot, and then he rushed down alone, picking up the submachine gun and firing a strafing.
The submachine gun used by Liu Guangzi was officially made by the Soviet Union PPS-43 submachine gun, which began to arm the Soviet army in 1943, and in the Battle of the Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Red Army took this submachine gun and fought bloodily with the German army, won the victory, and also played the prestige of this submachine gun.
The advantages of this PPS-43 submachine gun are that it is very light in weight, quick in bullet strafing, and very fierce in close combat.
This submachine gun is the most popular weapon of the volunteer scouts, and in the attack with the enemy, the volunteer soldiers immediately gather together when they encounter their comrades.
If you can't touch it, you will be a "lone hero", blow up the machine gun fort when you see it, strafe when you encounter the enemy, and the damage will increase.
Volunteer soldiers hid behind stones and prepared to ambush the enemy
And in the eyes of the United Nations military,
The volunteer soldiers took the PPS-43 submachine gun, which was a proper "ceiling of combat strength" that could be regarded as "the gods under the gods".
When Liu Guangzi took the PPS-43 submachine gun and directly attacked the enemy, these so-called British ace soldiers had long been frightened and directly stayed where they were.
When Liu Guangzi rushed to a very close distance to the enemy, he directly threw the "flying thunder" close to the middle of the enemy troops and directly blew up a large piece of the enemy.
During the Korean War, the U.S. military's mechanical forces were too stronger than China's, and tanks were heavily used. In order to deal with the American tanks, the volunteer soldiers invented a home-made weapon "flying thunder". When the enemy was surrounded, the UN army often built a circle of fortifications in the outer circle of the tank, and then hid inside to block the volunteer army. Because the volunteer soldiers did not have anti-tank weapons, and even used their flesh and blood to die with the tanks, fortunately, later there were "flying mines", which were very powerful, and a few could paralyze the tank nests of the United Nations army.
Liu Guangzi threw this home-made weapon into the middle of the British ace troops, taking advantage of the thick smoke generated after the explosion, and rushed forward, while holding a submachine gun to shoot, while shouting:
"One battalion attacks from the left, the second battalion attacks from the right, surround them for me."
But in fact, there is no one battalion or two battalions at all.
The reason why Liu Guangzi wanted to shout like this was because he wanted to use the tactics of suspicious soldiers to mislead the enemy into thinking that there were many volunteer troops and to confuse the British soldiers.
Liu Guangzi ordered the two recruits on the stone to also shout, shouting while strafing in the direction of the British army, and the British army was also momentarily panicked.
The "elite" of the Gloucester battalion were beaten by Liu Guangzi and two recruits, and they could not tell how many volunteers there were under the strafing of guns and bullets.
Taking advantage of their panic, Liu Guangzi shouted loudly in the English he usually learned in the army: "Abandon the gun and don't kill." ”
Panicked British soldiers
Unexpectedly, after hearing Liu Guangzi's words in English, these elite British fighters threw down their guns like a demon, raised their hands and shouted surrender. But in this case, Liu Guangzi did not know how to do it,
Faced with more than a dozen times more British soldiers than the three volunteer soldiers, it was impossible not to be nervous.
But Liu Guangzi, who had experienced many battles large and small, quickly stabilized his nervousness, raised his submachine gun, shot a shuttle into the sky, shocked the British soldiers, and then shouted: "Line up, all stand well." ”
The British soldiers had long been frightened, and under the intimidation of Liu Guangzi, they stood in line in panic.
However, when these British soldiers lined up, they found that there was only one volunteer who had beaten their elite troops to panic.
Britain's elite troops will certainly not stop there, and being captured by a single person will become a laughing stock at any time. As a result, several British soldiers tried to pick up the guns on the ground to counterattack, Liu Guangzi saw the situation and immediately took the submachine gun to shoot over, those who tried to resist were killed in an instant, and the remaining British soldiers did not dare to have such a thought.
Then Liu Guangzi escorted the British soldiers back, a company of British prisoners walked in a long line in front, Liu Guangzi held a submachine gun and stared at the back.
Captured British soldiers
The volunteer army captured one company of the enemy alone, and the other side was still a well-known Ying Wangpai unit, and each soldier had the strength of one enemy and two enemies, but he was captured by Liu Guangzi alone.
To tell the truth, this situation has never happened in the history of world wars, but this miracle happened in the volunteer army, which is really too strong.
Of course, a person is escorting so many British soldiers will also happen, on the way to the troops, there are several British soldiers who want to take the opportunity to escape, Liu Guangzi directly took out a grenade and threw it out, those fleeing British troops were killed instantly. Subsequently, Liu Guangzi said to these British soldiers in a fierce tone:
"No one wants to run, and I shoot at anyone who runs."
Although the British soldiers could not understand what Liu Guangzi shouted, the British soldiers watched Liu Guangzi pointing a submachine gun at himself and pulled out the grenade, and he could probably guess what he said, and for a while he was also frightened by the ferocity of the volunteer army.
Then the two recruits who had hidden behind the small highland stones also ran down to meet Liu Guangzi, and after these British soldiers saw the reinforcements coming, they had no intention of resisting, and honestly raised their hands and were escorted back to the team by Liu Guangzi and the two recruits.
In the Battle of Shermari, the 561st Regiment of the Volunteer Army finally won the victory after a day of fierce fighting.
In total, the volunteer soldiers killed more than 580 soldiers of the British ace Gloucester Battalion, took nearly 100 prisoners, and captured countless weapons and artillery. The soul of this unit, known as the British ace, was completely wiped out by the volunteers.
The thing is whisked away, and the merit and name are hidden deeply
After the Battle of Shemari, the 561st Regiment began to clean up the battlefield and collect supplies.
However, when the troops counted the prisoners, they found that 63 prisoners could not find Liu Guangzi, who had captured them.
The British captives were taken back to the Volunteer army
This matter is very serious and important, the so-called military orders are like mountains, and in the army, the awarding of military merits by soldiers is also an important matter. For example, during the Qin Dynasty, soldiers in combat would cut off the heads of their enemies and hang them around their waists during battle, and those who recorded battle merits would verify their merits according to the number of heads and the size of their official positions, and give equal rewards. The troops are not allowed to lie about their military exploits, but they will not chill the hearts of the truly meritorious soldiers.
In order to find out who exactly escorted the 63 British prisoners back to the team, the leaders of the Volunteer Army began to investigate.
We will also be curious that these 63 British prisoners were captured by Liu Guangzi alone, but why didn't he ask for credit and admit it?
What deserves our respect is that although Liu Guangzi is very brave in battle and his mind is also very flexible, in ordinary times,
Liu Guangzi is a very honest and shy warrior, and he also has the simplicity and reality that is unique to our Chinese.
When Liu Guangzi escorted 63 British prisoners to the army, he left alone after docking with the soldiers. And Liu Guangzi did not think that he had done a big thing that "shocked the world and wept ghosts and gods", but only thought that this time it was his own task and did his duty to complete it.
Therefore, after Liu Guangzi returned to the unit, he did not report to the leaders, let alone ask for credit, and even when the troops looked for him with great fanfare, he did not admit that he had done it.
Later, the two recruits could not hold their breath, quietly ran to the volunteer corps headquarters, and reported to the leader: "These 63 British prisoners were captured by our group leader Liu Guangzi. The leader of the volunteer army must not believe it when he listened, and also asked with doubts:
"Can Liu Guangzi alone capture 63 British devils?" And this is still the elite british army! ”
It is no wonder that the leaders of the volunteer army do not believe that this kind of miracle will find it impossible for anyone to put on them. However, under the investigation and verification of various leaders, it was also confirmed that 63 British prisoners were captured by Liu Guangzi alone.
Panicked British soldiers
Before the Battle of Shemari began, the volunteers had never clashed with the elite foreign troops, and had no idea the details of the British ace troops. Therefore, before the war began, in order to boost the morale of everyone, the 561st Regiment of the Volunteer Army declared,
Take a prisoner and make a contribution.
However, Liu Guangzi alone captured 63 soldiers of the British ace unit, and the 561st Regiment of the Volunteer Army reported to the headquarters the story of Liu Guangzi's one-man capture of 63 British soldiers. Subsequently, the headquarters of the Volunteer Army decided,
Liu Guangzi was awarded the title of "Lone Hero",
And remember the first class. And the title of "Lonely Hero" is indeed worthy of Liu Guangzi's feat of capturing a company by himself.
When our friendly Korean People's Army learned about it, we were also very surprised, thinking that it was incredible that such a thing could be done alone.
The DPRK side also gave Liu Guangzi the highest honor, the "Tenth Grade Soldier Medal", praising Liu Guangzi for his major contributions in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Liu Guangzi's heroic deeds in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were gradually known to the leaders of China, North Korea, and the Soviet Union.
Interestingly, after the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Liu Guangzi was invited to the Soviet Union to study and participate in the party, and he was also officially received by the Soviet leaders. At the meeting, the Soviet leader asked Liu Guangzi with a hint of curiosity: "Comrade Liu Guangzi, how did you manage to capture so many British soldiers at once?" Liu Guangzi said very calmly:
"I didn't have time to think about it so much, but I just went out."
When the Soviet leaders heard Liu Guangzi's words, they also laughed and gave a thumbs up to the volunteer combat hero.
Liu Guangzi's words are not only about himself, but also about all the soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army who are fearless, which not only inspires the volunteer soldiers, but also shows the heroism of our Chinese army to the whole world.
Carry expectations and forge ahead
After the end of the Korean War, Liu Guangzi returned to the country with his troops. He then left the army where he had been for 12 years and returned to his hometown to build and serve the people.
Liu Guangzi returned to his hometown to work, and he never prided himself on the idea that he was a combat hero.
On the contrary, he is conscientious in his work, hard-working and hard-working, and whenever the people encounter problems, Liu Guangzi bears the brunt of it, and he also truly puts the purpose of "serving the people" in his heart and does it in his hands.
At the same time, Liu Guangzi is also very strict with his children, and has always taught his children to be diligent and simple, and he also leads by example. A large porcelain bowl that Liu Guangzi used during the Korean War has not been replaced until his death.
And Liu Guangzi has always maintained a low-key and down-to-earth state, he will not take the initiative to show off his miracle of capturing a company in the Korean battlefield, he has always felt that this is an insignificant thing, thinking that he should do it.
Here, I also want to tell an interesting story.
Volunteer soldiers ambushed the enemy
As everyone knows, the volunteer army has been adhering to it from beginning to end
"Preferential treatment of captives, equal treatment"
The British soldiers who were captured at the Battle of Shermari were eventually repatriated after the end. But of the 63 British captives captured by Liu Guangzi, one of them returned to China and became a parliamentarian. while
When the British parliamentarian came to visit China, he met the officer who had commanded the Battle of Shermari, and he told the commander that he wanted to see with his own eyes the hero of the volunteer army who had captured one of their companies, and the British parliamentarian wondered how a battalion of his ace unit was captured by a man.
He wanted to personally ask Liu Guangzi how a person had caught them in the past? Unfortunately, Liu Guangzi was already seriously ill at that time, and his speech was already unfavorable, and the British parliamentarian could not get a personal reply from Liu Guangzi.
In 1997, Liu Guangzi died as a combat hero, ending his legendary life. Liu Guangzi's heroic deeds have also been made into a Korean War documentary, and the PPS-43 submachine gun he used in capturing British soldiers has also been stored in the National Military Museum, so that generations will see and understand his deeds.
But the question asked by the British parliamentarian at that time, I don't think liu Guangzi hero said, we can all answer.
The reason is,
When national sovereignty is damaged and the people's security is threatened, thousands of compatriots of the outstanding Chinese nation will defend their homeland without hesitation and fight with all their might; in the eyes of the Chinese, no enemy is unmatched, whether it is an ace unit or an advanced weapon, the Chinese will certainly cut through thorns and thorns and march forward all the way.
Whether new China has just begun to develop, or now the great powers are united against China, we are not afraid of this, Chinese fearless fighting spirit will crush all this!
In order to fulfill the mission entrusted by the motherland and the people, every Chinese soldier will leave his life and death behind, and even use his flesh and blood to build a Great Wall to protect the country and the people, and it is this belief and spirit that the soldiers of the volunteer army will bravely move forward and be invincible, and only then will Liu Guangzi the hero capture a company of enemy troops and win the victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
We must also remember history, take national rejuvenation as our own responsibility, do not forget the contributions of our predecessors, and carry forward with expectations!
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