Whenever they recall the tragic Battle of Chosin Lake, the volunteer soldiers who returned from the Korean battlefield had a little solemnity and sadness on their faces, because countless of their comrades were buried under the ice field.
But this battle inspired countless volunteer soldiers and laid the soul of our army, and what was more dramatic was launched
"Reverse Charge"
The American ace division was frightened to surrender on his knees in the end, what is going on?
Reverse Charge: Alternative positions held
In October 1950, the mainland volunteer troops officially rushed to the Korean Peninsula to fight, thus opening the prelude to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
We all know that in the first three battles, our army has won major victories, but in the case of backward equipment, supplies, and so on, our army actually paid a huge price in order to win victories in these three battles.
And what we want to talk about today is the second battle, a branch of the Battle of Chosin Lake, the Battle of Kokalyeong.
At that time, the Continental Volunteers wanted to encircle and suppress the US 7th Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Division, and this task was not easy, because the equipment of these two units was particularly advanced, especially the latter, and it was the ace unit of the United States that had never been defeated in many battlefields.
In view of the encirclement and suppression of such troops, we must make careful preparations, otherwise we are very likely to encounter a counter-offensive and suffer heavy losses.
After some careful deduction, our army finally installed ambush troops on each route of the retreat of these two units, although it was limited in strength and there were not many troops ambushing on each ambush position, but it was enough to curb the retreat of the American army.
It was also under these circumstances that Yang Gensi, then the company commander, received the order to garrison.
"Yang Gensi, if you take a platoon to guard the Little Gaoling Heights, can you complete the task?"
"Yes!"
Although it was freezing cold and the PLA troops were short of food and clothing, our tenacious volunteer army still had the absolute upper hand in the war against the United States, and the encirclement and suppression operation was a great success.
The US 7th Division was the first to be annihilated by the continental volunteer troops, but some of the cunning First Divisions of the Army used the cover of the Seventh Division's artillery fire to leave the battlefield and launched a partial escape in a vain attempt to evade our army's pursuit.
But the First Division of the U.S. Army never imagined that the way of life in their eyes would eventually become their death.
On November 29, 1950, Yang Gensi and others, who were struggling to hold on the Little High Ridge Heights, finally waited for the remnants of the 1st Division of the U.S. Army to flee here.
Remembering his mission, Yang Gensi launched an attack at the first moment of seeing the US army invading the highlands, and launched a fierce competition with the US army.
But as the saying goes
"Sleepy Beast Fighting"
At that time, the US First Division, under the circumstance that it was likely to be encircled and suppressed by our army at any time, fought particularly fiercely, not only frantically pouring artillery fire on the defensive offensive of our army in the highland buildings, but even repeatedly trying to seize the highlands with hand-to-hand combat.
"Kill!"
The first wave of the U.S. offensive was repelled by the soldiers led by Yang Gensi with intensive firepower, but soon they used tanks as a cover to continue to advance to the heights of our army, and after the tank raid failed, they even sent aircraft to bomb from the air.
In a very short period of time, the US army launched a total of 8 charges on the heights of our army, so that the soldiers finally ran out of their own bullets...
After the bullets were fired, the comrades had almost all fallen, seeing that the enemy was about to charge again, and there were only two wounded soldiers left on his side.
Yang Gensi gritted his teeth, took the last packet of gunpowder on the ground into his arms, lit it, and then rushed towards the American troops down the slope, at that time, the American troops were still immersed in the joy of imminent victory, but they did not expect that there was a god of war who was rushing towards them with the soaring fire!
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the explosives killed more than forty American troops standing in the front row, and there was no longer a figure of Yang Gensi in the sky-high flames, but the American troops who originally wanted to go up the slope also stopped and showed a look of cringe on their faces.
After the rest of our army arrived here to support, the American aces, who had completely lost their fighting spirit, even mostly surrendered on their knees, and even saw a little shock in their numb looks.
When the battle was over, Yang Gensi finally defended his position with his own life and fulfilled the task entrusted to him by our party to block the enemy.
This was the first special combat hero in the Mainland Volunteer Army, and at that time, he was shocked by this spirit not only by the US army, but also by the soldiers of our army, and when they learned of Yang Gensi's choice, everyone was silent
In the case that 8 waves of US offensives have been blocked, Yang Gensi can completely choose to pretend to be dead or even surrender, waiting for our army to come to the rescue, but he has written the last note for this blood-colored movement with his own life.
In fact, as early as the past combat experience, Yang Gensi had already answered this question.
A Lifetime of Legends: Heroes never end
In fact, Yang Gensi was not originally surnamed Yang, but surnamed
"Sheep"
Born in Taixing, Jiangsu Province, he has tasted the suffering of society since he was a child.
When he was 8 years old, he saw his father forced by the landlord to die of exhaustion next to the wheat stack in the barn, and his mother, who was already weak, quickly went away with her father due to excessive sadness, and Yang Gensi, who was only 8 years old, experienced the destruction of his family.
Life is hard, but we still have to live.
The young Yang Gensi thus embarked on the same path as his father, working for the landlord day and night every day in exchange for a portion of the grain that barely allowed him to survive.
When he grew up a little, he was not willing to accept the status quo and came to Shanghai to find his brother, but the brothers could only do hard work and endure the increasingly cruel exploitation of the upper class.
"When is it a head?"
Countless nights, Yang Gensi, who was lying on the bed, asked himself this question, and he gradually became numb when he could not get an answer.
Until his brother was completely exhausted because of his long-term work, and died in poverty and illness, the long-term oppression finally allowed Yang Gensi to see the essence of the cannibalistic society at that time.
"If I have the opportunity, I must resist, I will no longer be oppressed and enslaved by people, even if it is death, I will change my destiny." 」
The cry of blood and tears freed Yang Gensi from ignorance, and with this spirit of resistance, he officially joined the New Fourth Army in 1943, because when he signed up, the staff accidentally wrote his name wrong, which made him
"Yang Gensi"
One has survived to this day.
Yang Gensi, who had grasped the fate with both hands, desperately followed the troops to start the southern conquest of the northern war, holding a spear in his hand, he dared to hand over the enemy's gun, holding an explosive package in his hand, he dared to capture a platoon of the Kuomintang army, these are real cases, and through these cases, I think everyone can also feel his courage to not fear death in battle.
From the first-class people's heroes in East China, to the regimental-level combat models, the demolition kings, and then to the first-class combat heroes in East China, this process seems simple, but behind a short sentence, it is Yang Gensi's three years of bloody fighting and killing, sacrificing his life and forgetting death.
Yang Gensi, who had won the War of Liberation and put down explosives, once again threw this spirit into construction, and because of his long-term excellent performance, Chairman Mao and Marshal Zhu De at that time even personally received him and invited him to stand on Tiananmen Square to witness the celebration of the first anniversary of the founding of New China.
Standing on the tower of Tiananmen Square and watching the five-star red flag rising, Yang Gensi burst into tears, from changing his own destiny to changing the fate of the compatriots throughout the country, Yang Gensi gradually completed the sublimation of his thinking and achieved an amazing transformation.
It is precisely because of this spirit that in the Korean War, he will uphold the heroic spirit of "I coexist and die with the position", because he knows what he is fighting for and for whom he is fighting.
As long as there is an unswerving goal in the heart and willing to give everything for it, then the hero will be born and will never end.
Yang Gensi's life disappeared, but his spirit of sacrificing for the country spread on a large scale among the soldiers of the volunteer army, and in the Linqingjiang counterattack, 38 Yang Gensi-like heroes emerged in our army; and by the time of the Battle of Shangganling, our army had 68
。
Among these many heroes, the most famous is Huang Jiguang, who inherited the yang gensi spiritual torch and passed down the spirit of courageous sacrifice for the country and the people for a long time.
On May 9, 1952, the leading body of the Mainland Volunteer Army gave martyr Yang Gensi the special merit and awarded him the honor
"Grand Combat Hero"
This is also the first special combat hero medal issued by our army on the Korean battlefield.
In addition, the North Korean side awarded Yang Gensi
"Democracy in Korea, Hero of the People's Republic"
This title,
"Order of the National Flag First Class", "Order of venus"
and so on.
Although the hero has left, these medals have little significance to him, but the medal itself represents not only glory, but also the deep remembrance of the martyrs by the people of China and North Korea.
Until 2009, the mainland still rated it as a
"One of the 100 founding Chinese"
In 2019, he was rated again
"The most beautiful strivers"
Through these things, we can also clearly understand one thing: the country and the people will never forget the heroes of the past.