Operation Panther with the commandos waiting to retreat
In the "1. 7" battle, the reserve team of the five companies totaled seventeen people, and the main task was to support the commando battle at any time according to the progress of the battle, and rescue the martyrs and the wounded. Perform other combat tasks assigned by superiors.
On January 7, after the battle began, at 8:10 a.m. Because the casualties of the combat service team were too large, few people could run, and our superiors ordered us to join the battle and rescue the martyrs and wounded. At that time, the artillery fire of the Vietnamese army was very fierce, and it was basically an air explosion. The grass on the open ground of the 156-167 positions was blown up, there was no place to hide, and it was indeed dangerous to rush out to save people. But at that time, my mind was blank, I didn't think about anything, and Niu Yongjun and Wang Zehua, who were in our group, rushed out. The first to come back was Shi Yongjun, who had already died. The second strike was about ten o'clock, and the original group was also out of order. Three people at the mouth of the cave went out, and since the smoke from the position was so thick that it was impossible to see clearly, it was necessary to rely on the observation post to command through the radio, "There is a wounded man in the direction of XX, and there is a martyr in the XX area." "We had to run up to save people."
The second time I took up the position was me, He Jianhua, and a Xi'an soldier. According to the instructions of the radio, we went to the vicinity of Hole 167 to save people. As soon as we got out of the hole, the three of us ran desperately, and when we passed a crater in the open field, I saw one of our people in the pit and moved, "There are people here, still alive", I shouted to both of them, but the footsteps did not stop for a second. Until there was a small stone crack in front of it, a wave of hands, and all three people squeezed in. At this point, I observed the situation around the crater. Presumably the Vietnamese army had two machine guns blocking it, and a shuttle of bullets hit the slag on both sides. We discussed a bit and decided to follow the rear triangle formation, I was on the left, Xi'an bing was on the right, He Jianhua grabbed his legs, and tried everything possible to rescue people. Taking advantage of the fact that the artillery fire was a little scarcer, the three people "rushed" out like crazy and rolled into the crater. Lifting the wounded according to the plan, we rushed out of the crater and ran for eight or ninety meters in one breath until the enemy machine guns could not hit the dead end, and then we stopped and rested for one or two seconds.
As soon as I saw that the wounded man was very badly injured, his left pneumothorax, and as he breathed, blood bubbles kept coming out of the wound. There were also injuries on the legs, the man had been in a coma, we did not dare to delay, simply bandaged up and then lifted up to continue running to the rear position. The Vietnamese air blast could not be avoided. There is a pit more than two meters deep at the mouth of the Tunbing Cave, and you can only enter it if you go down and come up again. Our hands were covered in blood, and we were so slippery that our arms couldn't be grasped. I squatted at the edge of the pit, leaned down, put my hand under the armpit of the wounded man, and propped it up. After such a toss, the wounded woke up and asked me which company I belonged to and what its name was. I said, "You don't care who I am, we're all on a mission." As long as you can live. Unfortunately, because of his injuries, he was sent to the bow of the ship and died while asking for an armored ambulance from the division hospital.
In this way, I went to the position six times to save six comrades-in-arms, and only two survived.
My profile: Gao Hongwei, the leader of the sixth squad of the fifth company, the leader of the second group of the reserve team. Born in February 1964, he joined the army in November 1983 and joined the Party in March 1985, a native of Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province. Since 1985, he has successively served as the leader of the fifth cooking class, the sixth class leader, and the second class meritorious service.