On June 29, 2021, the Great Hall of the People appeared to be bustling, with countless media reporters waiting anxiously outside. At the same time, a party of 21 motorcycles escorted 5 state guest cars to the Great Hall of the People.
We all know that the State Guest Escort is the highest treatment in our country, and this spectacular scene makes countless pedestrians look sideways, what is the identity of the people in these State Guest Limousines? Why do they receive the highest courtesy in our country?
Subsequently, the courtesy car came to the door of the Great Hall of the People, the people around them applauded and welcomed, and the children looked at the courtesy car with smiles on their faces, and the red flag in their hands fluttered in the wind. At this time, the state guest car got down from an elderly man in a wheelchair, and due to the physical reasons of the elderly, 3 staff members slowly lifted the elderly into the Great Hall of the People.
The old man can be carried into the Great Hall of the People, it can be seen that his identity is very unusual, when the staff lifted the old man, the old man looked up at the solemn Great Hall of the People, the eyes were deep, the expression was serious, the brow was slightly tightened, perhaps recalling some past events.
The appearance of this old man also attracted everyone's attention, and everyone was very curious about him. Who is this old man? Why does the Party Central Committee attach so much importance to this old man? What untold stories have happened to him?
It turned out that the 92-year-old man who was carried into the Great Hall of the People by the staff was named Wang Zhanshan, who was the recipient of the July 1st Medal, and we all know that the July 1st Medal is the highest honor in the party.
Wang Zhanshan was born in 1929 in a poor family in Hebei Province, whose parents were farmers and struggled to make ends meet on a few thin fields. In that war-torn era, the people's lives were very difficult, every family lived in the depths of the water, and some families would even be separated from their wives and families.
Wang Zhanshan has seen many people's livelihood problems since he was a child, which gave him the idea of joining the army to defend the country, because he was still young, so he joined the children's group. He and other members of the Children's Regiment often scouted the enemy situation for the Eighth Route Army, stood guard, and sentry. Later, as he grew older, he joined the local militia and continued to make his own contribution to the revolution.
He was clever and brave in battle, and soon became the captain of the militia regiment. Yes
Once the Kuomintang security forces captured Wang Zhanshan, and just as they were about to kill Wang Zhanshan, the Eighth Route Army saved him. Since then, Wang Zhanshan has sworn in his heart that he will definitely use his life to repay the party's kindness. At the age of 18, he enlisted in the army and officially became a member of the People's Liberation Army.
He continued to fight with the troops, and under the baptism of the smoke of war, he continued to grow, and later he became a communist because he was brave in battle, dared to fight and dared to fight. Wang Zhanshan himself always said that the party gave him a second life, and without the party's rescue, he would have died at the hands of the Kuomintang. The party is its own savior.
After Wang Zhanshan joined the army, after participating in a period of recruit training, he quickly threw himself into battle and made great achievements.
Among them, the capture of Jintang Bridge was his battle for fame. In 1949, his unit received the task of capturing the Jintang Bridge, which at that time seemed inconspicuous, and was indeed the necessary place for our army to conquer Tianjin, when the Kuomintang army sent heavy troops near the Jintang Bridge and set up many obstacles to block our army's attack. Overall, the task of capturing the Jintang Bridge was arduous.
At the beginning of the battle, Wang Zhanshan followed his troops to take the lead and took the lead in clearing the enemy's fire points, creating conditions for the follow-up general attack. However, when the general attack was launched, the enemy's originally weakened area suddenly added a lot of hidden fire points.
Wang Zhanshan watched his comrades-in-arms around him fall one by one, and his heart was very sad and indignant, he turned his grief into motivation, picked up the explosive package, went straight to the enemy's hidden fire point, and successfully destroyed the enemy's hidden fire point. With the explosion of the fire point, our soldiers quickly took the Jintang Bridge.
At the end of the battle, Wang Zhanshan's unit changed from more than 100 people to 24 people. Because of Wang Zhanshan's outstanding performance in battle, he was soon promoted to squad leader.
In 1950, the Korean War broke out, and the United States formed a United Nations army to fight the Korean Civil War. Under the circumstances at that time, the mainland leaders made a great call to resist US aggression and aid Korea to defend their homes and defend the country. Wang Zhanshan followed his unit day and night, and rushed to the Korean battlefield at the first time.
The weather in North Korea at that time was very cold, and according to veterans, it could reach minus 40 degrees at night, and our soldiers were wearing thin winter coats.
Even if the conditions are so difficult, the soldiers of our army have never been afraid. They fought numerous fierce battles with the Un Army, which lasted until 1953, when the Korean War had entered its most difficult moment, and the UN Army attempted to push the front line north of the 38th Parallel in order to establish a dominant position in the negotiations.
At this time began the last battle before the signing of the armistice, the Battle of Jincheng. In this battle, Wang Zhanshan's troops were sent to garrison the two highlands on the left side of 408 and 418.
The Battle of Jincheng began, the United Nations army fired a fierce attack on our army's position, countless shells fell on our army's position, this battle was very tragic, many soldiers were sacrificed, company commanders and deputy company commanders were seriously injured, and were urgently sent to the field hospital in the rear for rescue.
At that time, the company commander fell, the platoon leader was on top, and continued to command the battle. Whenever a warrior falls, another warrior will take his place and continue fighting. The enemy's aircraft and artillery bombarded our positions again and again, trying to attack the positions, but they were all resisted by our soldiers. They fought the enemy with their weapons in their hands and resisted their attacks.
At this moment, a cannonball landed right next to Wang Zhanshan, and the next second, he was thrown away by the impact of the shell. Just when he was dizzy, he heard someone calling his name, and he stood up in severe pain, and he remembered what the instructor had said to him before he sacrificed: "Zhanshan, the next step is up to you, and you must hold your position when you die." ”
The enemy's shells continued to shoot at our army's positions, and only a small number of comrades-in-arms could still hold their positions, and Wang Zhanshan looked at these comrades-in-arms, immediately woke up, and continued to fight with the soldiers, who repelled countless enemy attacks.
The enemy, seeing that the position could not be conquered for a long time, blocked the logistical supplies of our army. The warriors, who had no supplies, could only eat wild vegetables to fill their hunger, and later, wild vegetables were gone. Wang Zhanshan then led the warriors down at night to look for ammunition and food, and really found some.
They relied on it, found some ammunition and food, held their positions for 4 days and 4 nights, repelled a total of 38 fierce attacks of the enemy, annihilated more than 400 enemy troops, and Wang Zhanshan's body was covered with 38 bullet holes, which had to be how much perseverance it took to kill more than 400 enemies with the remaining comrades-in-arms without supplies, and the whole body was full of bullet holes.
This battle broke the backbone of our Chinese and brought the US military back to the negotiating table. After the war, everyone found Wang Zhanshan when cleaning up the battlefield, when he was injured, and no reaction from his comrades-in-arms shouting at him, everyone thought he was sacrificed. It was not until he was ready to carry him to the burial that he found that he still had a very weak breath, so he rushed to the field hospital for rescue.
After several days of sleepless rescue by the doctor, Wang Zhanshan was finally rescued. The first thing Wang Zhanshan said when he woke up was that the position was held? The people present at that time were all moved to tears. After the war, Wang Zhanshan's company was awarded the collective first class merit once, and Wang Zhanshan was awarded the individual first class merit and won the honorary title of "second-class combat hero" of the volunteer army.
Since joining the army, Wang Zhanshan has participated in more than 40 battles of all sizes and made great achievements, and until now, there is a shrapnel on the back of his head. In 1958, Wang Zhanshan, who returned from victory in the Korean battlefield, was cordially received by the chairman as a representative of the volunteer army.
After returning to China, Wang Zhanshan continued to stay in the army and dedicate his part to the country's military construction. He has served as a company commander, a battalion commander, and a deputy division commander. In 1979, he was assigned to the Anyang Military Region as deputy commander. He never put up a shelf or engage in special treatment; he ate and lived with the soldiers of the troops, and devoted himself to providing suggestions and suggestions for the building of the grass-roots troops.
After leaving retirement, Wang Zhanshan did not idle, he was worried about the future of the motherland, has served as an external counselor in dozens of schools, telling children about the past battles, so that children understand that the current happiness is not easy to come by, in addition, he also used his pension to help many poor children go to school, has been insisting on decades.
In normal times, his wife would let him go out to buy vegetables, he would often buy overnight dishes that were not so fresh, in the face of his wife's inquiry, he just said: "I am used to it in the war years, these dishes are not bad, compared to before, it is already very good." "Even after retiring from the battlefield, he still retains the quality of thrift and thrift.
In 2021, on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Wang Zhanshan was awarded the party's highest honor, the July 1st Medal. "This is where the opening scene appears, 21 motorcycles form a national guard to escort the old man to the Great Hall of the People. At this time, Wang Zhanshan was 92 years old and had inconvenient legs and feet, so three staff members carried him into the Great Hall of the People. After the old man was awarded the July 1st Medal, he could not hide his excitement and could not suppress his excitement: "Thank you, thank you." ”
In his later years, the old man would often say: "Everyone must cherish the happiness of the present, he is the countless warriors who have exchanged their lives for it." "Tribute to veterans, tributes to all heroes who have dedicated their lives to the country."