One day in April 1944, 14-year-old Ding Wanfang wiped out a squad of ghosts with his troops. The regimental commander and the political commissar said, "Take away the clothes and shoes of the Japanese." Ding Wanfang didn't know what the use of these things was, and he and his comrades-in-arms took away the devil's hats, clothes, and shoes.
Ding Wanfang, a native of Weishi County, Henan, was killed by the Japanese who "swept up", and his mother fled the wilderness with him and his sister to ask for food. After being separated from his mother, Ding Wanfang joined the army in 1943 and served as a soldier in 3 squads of 1 battalion, 2 companies, 12 regiments in North China.
When he first went, the troops only gave him four grenades made in the border area, and later there was one more gun in the company, and the company commander asked the platoon leader to give the gun to Ding Wanfang. The platoon leader said, "Xiao Ding will give you a big gun and a hundred more rounds of ammunition." He was overjoyed to have a gun, but who knew that when he put the bullet bag in his hand, it fluttered lightly, and there was a "whoosh" sound. After he tore it open and found that it was filled with sorghum stalks, he shouted loudly: "You net pit people, can this sorghum stick be fired?" The platoon leader said, "Command, don't make a sound." The troops all obeyed the order, but Ding Wanfang stopped talking, and the platoon leader pulled him aside and said, "This is a military secret, and we are not allowed to say it."
Ding Wanfang couldn't understand what was going on, so the platoon leader called Old Liu over and said, "Old Liu, you tear yours apart and let Xiao Ding take a look." Old Liu tore open, and Ding Wanfang looked the same as his. He still couldn't understand what was going on, and at night when he stood guard with Lao Liu, he asked, "Can this kind of gun be fired?" Lao Liu said: "This is to scare the enemy, let the enemy look at our bullets full, in fact, this rifle only has a few bullets." ”
In April 1944, Ding Wanfang and the whole regiment were stationed in Luo'an Village, and more than 60 devils came with a regiment of puppet troops to "sweep up", and in order to avoid injuring the people, the troops withdrew from the town with a few shots with rifles and withdrew to the cypress tomb more than two miles away from the village. When the Japanese saw that they had lost, they all rushed over. The troops spread out on both flanks, and the regimental commander commanded on the grave and said, "Don't fight, but fight again when you get closer." The Japanese soldiers and puppet troops were not far away from them, and the regimental commander ordered, "Fire." The machine guns and rifles of the whole regiment opened fire at the same time, and the puppet army saw that the fire was dense, knew that it had encountered the old eighth road, and turned its head and ran. As soon as the puppet army ran away, there was only a Japanese squad left, and the regimental commander gave the order: "Fight to the death." The whole regiment started fighting from three to the Japanese devil squad, Ding Wanguang ran out of 3 bullets, and he felt that he had hit a devil. Without bullets, he and his comrades rushed up to fight for bayonets, and 3 people surrounded a ghost and directly killed a Japanese squad.
The regimental commander and political commissar said, "Take away the clothes, shoes, guns, and bullets of the Japanese." Ding Wanfang didn't know what the use of clothes that were still stained with blood was, and he and his comrades took away the Hats, clothes, and shoes of the Japanese. After the troops withdrew from Luo'an Village, a Japanese squadron returned to retaliate, and when the Eighth Route Army could not be found, they burned down all the houses in the village.
The troops received information that in the town of Qishan, a group of bandits had surrendered to the Japanese. The Japanese made the leader of the bandits, Geng Deaf, the head of the regiment, more than 300 people. Ding Wanfang and the 12th Regiment followed the regimental commander to fight Qishan Town, and they washed the clothes, hats and shoes of the Japanese last time and put them on, disguised as Japanese people to go to Qishan Town. After arriving in Qishan Town, he said to Geng Deafzi, "We have come to give you military uniforms, and we want to issue you new guns, and now we must take back all your guns, and the car is in the back." Geng Deaf gathered everyone into the big playground and stacked the guns together. The bandits were overjoyed, and went back to their dormitories to wait for new guns and new clothes, leaving four or five of them with their regimental commander and deputy regimental commander and guards. Ding Wanfang and the regimental commander's guards shot and killed them all. When the bandits heard that the regimental commander had been killed, they pulled out their legs and ran. As soon as the troops heard the gunshots, they immediately rushed over and put away their guns, and some of the timid people in the dormitory who did not run away were all caught, and the Geng Deaf Pseudo-Legion was wiped out. Later, at the meeting, the political commissar made a speech saying: "Comrades have fought this battle beautifully, and they must use tactics to fight the war. Disguised as Japanese, we won a battle, did not sacrifice, did not hang the lottery, and eliminated Geng Deaf. ”
When Ding Wanfang and his troops fought huangkou, the place where the Japanese lived had trenches, walls, and artillery towers outside, and the Eighth Route Army was not easy to attack. There were two guards standing guard on the enemy gun tower, and the platoon leader asked Ding Wanfang how he was doing. Ding Wanfang said, "Medium." The platoon leader said, "You can't stop these two Japanese standing guard on the turret?" Ding Wanfang said, "Platoon leader, look at me." "He pushed the bullet up and aimed it on the wall, about 300 meters. His eyes were bright, aiming at a Japanese man, and a "snap" shot knocked him to the ground, and another Japanese man hurried to drill down. Ding Wanfang and the troops fought twice in Feng County, Huangkou twice, and Yanshan once. Later, the Japanese did not dare to take the initiative to fight the Eighth Route Army, so they went to the Japanese to fight.
After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Ding Wanfang went to the northeast with the cadres of the 12th Regiment to protect the Yan'an Anti-Japanese University School, and their regiment recruited more than 3,000 troops, and the battalion headquarters became the regimental headquarters and the regimental headquarters became the brigade headquarters. This year, Ding Wanfang was 15 years old and became the squad leader of the top soldiers. During the battle of Changchun Da Nantun with the troops, he blew up the enemy's main bunker, was seriously wounded, and was awarded the first class merit.
After the founding of New China, Ding Wanfang participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, was promoted to deputy platoon commander of the engineering battalion, and returned to the motherland to recuperate after being wounded by an incendiary bomb.
Ding Wanfang returned to Dingjia Village in Eighteen Mile Town and met his mother, who had been separated for 10 years. Seeing that his mother was blind, he decided to stay at home and wait. In December 1953, Ding Wanfang was demobilized and returned to his hometown, married and had a daughter. In recent years, he has been awarded medals for the 60th and 70th anniversaries of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. He said that when he joined the army, he asked for food, cabbage lumps and rotten radishes, and now he didn't even like meat, and the meat brought to him by his daughter and female marriage was kept in the refrigerator and could not be eaten. The elderly Ding Wanfang is now 92 years old and lives peacefully in Kaifeng.
