With the successive hot screenings of red blockbusters such as "Chosin Lake" and "My Father and Me" in theaters during the National Day, the image of Chinese soldiers has also penetrated the hearts of the people. At a time when the motherland is in crisis, it is they who carry the future and development of the motherland with their flesh and blood, and when the citizens of the mainland are killed abroad, it is the olive green that they hold up a touch of hope for their compatriots.
In the period of the Liberation War, such a soldier king emerged, who was born and fought to the death with the spirit of daring to fight and fight on the battlefield
Repeated feats.
The Battle of Shangdang, the Battle of Lüliang, the Battle of Huaihai, and the Battle of Crossing the River
And so on, he was all present. Of the more than four million PLA soldiers, he was the only one
Won nine special merits.
Bing Wang, whose real name was Zhang Yingcai, was born in December 1924 to a peasant family in Rong County, Zigong City, Sichuan Province. Zhang Yingcai's mother unfortunately contracted a vicious disease during the long-term farm work, because she had no money for medical treatment and had to let it develop, and eventually completely lost her ability to work, and could only be sick and bedridden every day. All of a sudden, the burden of life was all on my father alone.
In order to support the family's children, Zhang Yingcai's father had to sign a deed of sale with a local landlord and work hard in the landlord's home every day. The landlord's temper was extremely strange, and if he was slightly upset, he would beat and scold the next person. Zhang Yingcai's father was cautious and cautious in the landlord's house every day, but despite this, his body was still full of whip marks.
When Zhang Yingcai was 8 years old, his father accidentally twisted his waist while ploughing the land for the landlord, and the landlord thought that his waist injury would delay the construction period and affect his harvest, so he drove him out without mercy and deducted all his wages on this ground.
For a time, Zhang Yingcai's family fell into an unprecedented embarrassment, the father and mother were lying in bed due to injury and illness, unable to work, and the younger brothers and sisters were still young, and it was the time to wait for feeding. At this moment, Zhang Yingcai realized the difficulty and pain of his father alone carrying the burden of the family.
Zhang Yingcai went to the landlord's house like his father and pleaded with the landlord to accept him. The landlord looked at the eight-year-old boy, who was not yet tall, with a faint look of displeasure on his face, but out of uneasiness in his conscience, he accepted him.
Zhang Yingcai rushed to the landlord's house every day before dawn, carried a bamboo basket up the mountain to cut pigs and grass to feed the livestock, collected dry firewood, and split firewood to boil water. It wasn't until the night was completely dark that he returned to his home to rest. At the end of the day, Zhang Yingcai felt that his bones were going to fall apart.
Working in a landlord's home is not only physical exertion, but also mental torture. The landlord's children, who were the size of him, often laughed at him when they saw him, and the other senior workers of the landlord's family often took pleasure in him because of his young age. Although Zhang Yingcai's heart is very angry, he has to laugh for the livelihood of his family, and then swallow these grievances and unwillingness into his stomach.
Early one morning, Zhang Yingcai, as always, went out with a whip and went to the back mountain to herd sheep. As the saying goes, "On the day of April, the face of a child changes when you say it changes", when you go out, the sky is still clear, and suddenly there is a strong wind, and after a deafening thunder, a torrential rain follows.
The frightened sheep fled in all directions, and no matter how Zhang Yingcai shouted, it was useless. Zhang Yingcai looked at the few sheep left and was stunned, he didn't know how he would make a difference after he went back.
Zhang Yingcai, who had lacked sleep for a long time, fainted under the extreme nervousness of his eyes and blackened, and fell straight into the mud pit. When Zhang Yingcai woke up again, he found himself in a broken temple, with soft cushions under him. He immediately stood up as soon as he rolled over, and said tremblingly to the strong man in green clothes in front of him:
"The sheep really can't be found, please don't let me go."
This strong man dressed in green was first stunned by this sudden plea for forgiveness, and after reacting to the original fate of the matter, he smiled and rubbed Zhang Yingcai's head and said:
"Rest assured, we are the Eighth Route Army, not landlords." Zhang Yingcai asked doubtfully, "What is the Eighth Route Army?" ”
"The Eighth Route Army is the one who helps the people fight the landlords together." "Then can I be the Eighth Route Army?" "Yes, but you are too young now, will you fight with us against the landlord when you grow up?" "Good! ”
In the back-to-back conversation with the soldier of the Eighth Route Army in front of him, Zhang Yingcai felt the warmth and peace of mind from others for the first time.
Zhang Yingcai had heard some of the deeds of this unit among the local elderly, but he did not expect to meet them in this way. The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army arranged for Zhang Yingcai to study and read at the Eighth Route Army Cultural Tuition School, and agreed with him that he would be allowed to join the Ranks of the Eighth Route Army when he grew up.
In 1939, under the constant soft and hard bubble of Zhang Yingcai, the chief agreed to his application to join the army, and the 14-year-old Zhang Yingcai joined the ranks of the Eighth Route Army as he wished. Considering that he was still young and his height and physique were very different from other soldiers, the chief first arranged him to the student corps of the 115th Division, and then sent him to the Propaganda Team of the Eighth Route Army as a propagandist.
When working as a propagandist, Zhang Yingcai compiled the achievements of the soldiers on the front line into a popular slip of the tongue, which greatly improved the morale of the soldiers. When publicizing to the people in the future, Zhang Yingcai told the local people about his true experience and told the actions of the Eighth Route Army in the most simple and easy-to-understand sentences.
With the continuous efforts of Zhang Yingcai, the people have wholeheartedly supported and supported this army serving the people.
After a little older, Zhang Yingcai was transferred to the communication company as a correspondent, and the importance of communication work is self-evident, in the rapidly changing battlefield, only by keeping abreast of the intelligence of various places can we hit the enemy's sore spots in a targeted manner. Zhang Yingcai, as a correspondent, had to withstand the enemy's gunfire and bullets to send messages from one company to another.
In the Buddha Temple Ridge War, the Japanese troops launched a fierce attack on our army with heavy weapons such as aircraft and tanks, and at that time, our army only had light rifles in its hands. In order to avoid further losses, the command immediately ordered that direct combat be avoided and that the second line of defense be temporarily withdrawn to standby.
All Zhang Yingcai had to do was quickly deliver this message to the combat troops on the front line. In order to cut off our army's logistical supplies and information communications, the Japanese specially sent two bombers to hover between the first and second lines of defense.
Zhang Yingcai looked at the plane in the sky, simply lay down, and began to creep forward, the bomb of the plane constantly exploded beside him, rolling up layers of smoke. I don't know how long it took for Zhang Yingcai to finally reach the location where the combat troops were located, and his legs were also cut and bloodied by the fragments of the crash.
After the brigade commander of the same combat unit quickly reported the information, Zhang Yingcai prepared to return to the communications company to resume his life. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, a bomb fell straight down, and Zhang Yingcai pounced on the brigade commander and protected the brigade commander deadly.
Zhang Yingcai's military uniform was shattered by the shock wave generated by the explosion, and the ammunition fragments were deeply embedded in his skin, and the blood continued to penetrate outwards, quickly soaking the ground beneath him.
When Zhang Yingcai woke up again, he was already admitted to a field hospital. In recognition of his heroic deeds, the organization specially promoted him to the company commander of the 57th Regiment of the Taiyue Military Region.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to achieve the goal of dictatorship and autocracy, insisted on provoking a civil war and once again involved the people of the whole country in the whirlpool of war. In order to crush Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorial plot, our army waged a fierce struggle against the Kuomintang army.
In August 1945, Yan Xishan, commander of the Second Theater of the Kuomintang Army, launched an attack on the Shangdang area, and in order to ensure that the people in the Shangdang Liberated Area could live in peace, he organized the dispatch of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region to the Shangdang area to participate in the war.
Zhang Yingcai, as a company instructor of the fourth column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region, followed the team to Shanxi to fight. Shanxi's terrain is undulating, and many counties are surrounded by lofty mountains, creating a trend that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Through careful analysis and study of the topography of Shanxi, Zhang Yingcai decided to encircle the Changzhi area, trapping the Kuomintang army in the mountains and creating a situation of catching turtles in urns.
The next night, Zhang Yingcai led his men and horses to advance towards the Beiguan area, and in order not to alarm the enemy's soldiers, the brave and fearless warriors braved the heavy rain to advance from the northwest side of Beiguan to the main gate.
Just as they were about to break into the pass, a soldier accidentally made a noise while removing the door panel of the checkpoint.
The enemy was awakened by the news, and carried a steel gun to the closing gate and shouted loudly:
"Who? What for? password? ”
The young general of the People's Liberation Army, who knew that he was in trouble, replied in a panicked manner:
"National Revolutionary Army."
As soon as the words fell silent, the Kuomintang troops in Guannei immediately carried heavy machine guns and fired a frenzied strafing at the PLA soldiers.
Zhang Yingcai heard the turmoil and immediately rushed to the pass to inspect the situation, calmly and calmly commanding his soldiers to return fire. Soon, the PLA fighters regained the advantage of the war and gained the upper hand, with less than ten minutes from the beginning to the end of the battle.
After breaking through the enemy troops at the pass, Zhang Yingcai immediately sent a signal to the rear troops, asking the rear troops to quickly follow. However, the fact is that the troops in the rear are stationed in different positions, and it is difficult to carry out the final liquidation of the enemy in place for a time.
After much deliberation, Zhang Yingcai decided to select elite soldiers from the two platoons under his command to form a reinforcement squad to fight the enemy head-on, and the rest of the personnel were divided into two platoons to encircle the enemy from the east and west directions. The soldiers dug several camouflage bunkers in Guannei overnight, and then hid in formations in buildings near Beiguan to wait for orders.
At dawn the next day, the Kuomintang troops occupying the high ground immediately launched a counterattack against the PLA troops, and then the terrain advantage, the Kuomintang army used heavy machine guns to beat the bunkers at the front of the PLA positions to pieces, and when they saw that no PLA soldiers showed their heads, they thought they had all been annihilated.
However, what they did not expect was that Zhang Yingcai had given them a move to empty the city. When this group of blindly arrogant Kuomintang troops confidently and boldly rushed into Guannei. At Zhang Yingcai's order, the eastern and western sides and the frontal troops fired at the Kuomintang troops together, and this raid directly defeated the Kuomintang troops.
When Yan Xishan learned that Guannei had suffered a defeat, he was furious and ordered that this position must be defended. To this end, the Kuomintang army, which had rested for a while, immediately launched the next round of attacks on the PLA fighters.
Although the soldiers of our army were inferior in terms of the number of fighters and the allocation of weapons, the tenacious soldiers of the People's Liberation Army repelled more than 22 attacks of the Kuomintang army with perseverance and courage, and until the end of the war, a total of more than 300 enemy troops were killed.
In order to commend Zhang Yingcai's outstanding military achievements, the organization specially reported the deeds of the Ninth Company in the whole company and awarded him "
Nine Company of Iron
" title. In the subsequent Battles of Huaihai, the Battle of Crossing the River, and the Battle of Nanchang, Zhang Yingcai relied on this iron will to lead his soldiers to repeatedly create miracles of winning more with less, and Zhang Yingcai himself was awarded the honorary title of "Special Meritorious Service" by the organization for many times.
On National Day in 1950, Zhang Yingcai stood out from the four million People's Liberation Army members and was invited to the Great Hall of the People with his outstanding merits of winning the special merits nine times
Hero Recognition Conference.
At the scene of the conference, Zhang Yingcai was cordially greeted and saluted by Mao Zedong, who personally praised him as "King of Soldiers." After the meeting, Mao Zedong specially invited Zhang Yingcai, the soldier king, to go to his home to share dinner.
On July 3, 2018, Zhang Yingcai died of illness in the General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region.
He died on December 31, 2012 at the age of 9
。 Although a generation of soldier kings has passed away, the spirit of tenacious resistance of the soldier kings has forever remained in the hearts of our contemporaries.
The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, represented by Zhang Yingcai, the soldier king, carried the future of China with their flesh and blood, and exchanged peace and stability for our contemporaries. What reason do we contemporaries have not to work hard and contribute our strength to the rejuvenation of the country?