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In June 1944, after occupying Changsha, the Japanese army targeted Hengyang. Defending Hengyang became a major task for the Chinese army at that time, and how to retake the Yumushan position occupied by the Japanese army was the key to this battle. In this situation, the people sent to retake the Position of Yumu Mountain must be carefully selected, and it is best to have rich combat experience and strong combat quality. No one expected that the person who led the team to retake the Yumu Mountain position was Wang Yufu, a prisoner who had been sentenced to death before the battle began.
Before the battle began, Wang Yufu was a company commander in the newly formed 19th Division of the 46th Army of the 16th Group Army. After the Battle of Hengyang began, the unit was ordered to rush to support, and Wang Yufu was among them. However, on the eve of the army's withdrawal, Wang Yufu was sentenced to death.
It turned out that the gendarmes in the wind and discipline inspection regiment sent by the Chongqing side were arrogant. Once, Wang Yufu clashed with a gendarme in the street, and the two wrestled together. Although it was the gendarme who moved first, the Wind and Discipline Inspection Corps held on to the matter and demanded that Wang Yufu be severely punished. Wang Yufu's superior, Bai Chongxi, could only sentence Wang Yufu to death in accordance with military law and execute him at a later date.
But just a day before the execution, Bai Chongxi released Wang Yufu again. His reason was that the great war was imminent, and it was a pity to kill such an experienced grenade thrower, so it was better to let him wear the guilt and make meritorious deeds, and give him a chance to repay the country for his sins in the defense of Hengyang.
Bai Chongxi's suggestion was accepted. As a result, Wang Yufu was able to go to war as a condemned prisoner. He was escorted all the way to the front of the Hengyang Front. The division commander told him that if he could not take the position of Yumu Mountain, he would be executed.
The reward for exemption from the death penalty corresponded to a great challenge: he had to lead a company of soldiers as a forward to lay down the Yumu Mountain, which was occupied by the Japanese. So he selected more than 100 soldiers from a regiment as commandos to fight alongside him. In order to play to his best, he also chose 4 soldiers to follow him, and specially carried him full of grenades. After they had enough explosive weapons, they took cover of each other in squads, leaped in a trapezoidal shape, and began to climb the mountain.
As soon as the attack began, their party was quickly spotted by the enemy. Under the pressure of the Japanese army's 3 mountain guns, Wang Yufu relied on his rich combat experience to lead the team members to approach the stronghold on the mountain little by little in the sand that was blown up and on the grass where the fire was spreading.
Approaching a Japanese outpost, Wang Yufu killed six or seven people by throwing grenades, buying precious time for his team.
The Japanese outposts were quickly taken, and they advanced halfway up the mountain. In order to stop them, the Japanese opened the crossfire network of the bunker. The firepower of the bunker was so powerful that they could only crawl to the ground, and the follow-up troops were also isolated behind and could not cover them. When the Japanese army saw this, they sent a group of infantry to try to kill them.
At this critical juncture, Wang Yufu did not flinch in the slightest. He rushed to the front of the line and led the team to launch an onslaught.
However, there was an unexpected storm in the sky, and the platoon leader Zhong Yongjian was unfortunately shot and killed. Zhong Yongjian was Wang Yufu's best comrade-in-arms, he graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy and had a high quality in combat. On the way to Hengyang Dai's crime, Wang Yufu was also accompanied by Wang Yufu and gave him spiritual encouragement.
Zhong Yongjian's sacrifice greatly stimulated Wang Yufu and other soldiers, but there was no time for grief on the battlefield. Wang Yufu could only turn grief into strength and fight more courageously to avenge his comrades-in-arms.
As he approached the Japanese bunker, Wang Yufu threw out more than 30 grenades in one fell swoop. As you can imagine, it was enough to make his two arms sore. The Japanese troops hiding in the bunkers were blown up by grenades falling from the sky, and they cried wolf and died.
After the Japanese troops in the bunker were severely damaged, they began to search the bunker for the Japanese soldiers who were not dead. More than 100 ghosts in the stronghold on the top of the hill were all annihilated, and corpses were piled up everywhere. The team led by Wang Yufu thought that the battle was over, so they raised their own flags to announce the occupation of the Yumu Mountain position.
Suddenly, more than 200 more Japanese soldiers rushed out. It turned out that this was a reserve team that had been hiding in a hidden cave in the back mountain, and Wang Yufu did not know it in advance. In the battle just now, the team led by Wang Yufu had already sacrificed a lot of people, and at this moment, the support troops had not yet arrived. The enemy was outnumbered, the war situation suddenly took a sharp turn, and they also changed from attackers to defenders.
The battle was even more fierce this time. The soldiers led by Wang Yufu fell one by one, and the Japanese army never gave up the attack. The stones on the mountain were covered with bullet marks, and the corpses were lying on the ground and bleeding. Seeing that this battle would lead to failure, Wang Yufu immediately issued an order to retreat, but soon after the order was issued, the Japanese army broke through the position. The two servicemen desperately dragged Wang Yufu, who was still insisting on fighting, out of the Japanese army's attack range. Only 10 people remained in the original 150-man team, and the others were heroically sacrificed.
Although the Yumushan position was gained and lost, the main responsibility was not Wang Yufu, but because the reinforcements were not timely, Wang Yufu was commended after the end of the war. His superiors not only exempted him from the death penalty, but also promoted him to battalion commander of the second battalion.
Wang Yufu refused. He said that he had made meritorious deeds and was exempted from the death penalty, and that the Yumu Mountain position had not been defeated, and that he should not have been promoted to battalion commander. Later, he resigned as a company commander and returned to his hometown to work as a farmer until his old age.
Wang Yufu was originally a death row prisoner, but because he was good at throwing grenades, he went to the battlefield and made great contributions to the battle. Such people deserve our memory, and they motivate us to work hard. Although it is not a war era, only by improving our own ability can we better contribute to the nation and the country.
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