There is a political commissar Zhao Gang in the classic anti-war TV series "Bright Sword", and Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong, the leader of the independent regiment, once said that they have the potential to become a sniper.
In front of Li Yunlong, he once killed the enemy's mortar bearer with a shot more than 500 meters away, which made Li Yunlong, who had been in the battlefield for a long time, feel very shocked.
It can be seen how mysterious and lethal the sniper is.
At the beginning of 2021, with the popularity of the TV series "Crossing the Yalu River", a volunteer veteran named Zou Xixiang became a popular figure for everyone to discuss.
In the TV series, Zou Xixiang was introduced in this way, and the general of the "United Nations Army" specifically mentioned him, saying that Zou Xixiang was a sharpshooter in the volunteer army, and the aircraft cannons were used, but there was no way to take Zou Xixiang.
According to Zou Xixiang's personal archives, he killed 203 enemy soldiers with 206 bullets on the Korean battlefield. Although Zhang Taofang set a record for killing 214 enemies with a cold gun, he used 436 rounds of ammunition. Zou Xixiang, on the other hand, only used 206 rounds of ammunition and killed 203 people, which was even more accurate than Zhang Taofang.
Zou Xixiang
In April 1922, Zou Xixiang was born in Liyuan Village, Nigao Town, Wuchuan Autonomous County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, to a family of Peasants of the Gelao ethnic group.
"Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to draft water." Because the land in Liyuan Village is poor and the living environment is relatively harsh, it has bred the excellent qualities of roughness, toughness, pragmatism and diligence of the Mulam people.
Liyuan Village has a well-known Liyuan grassland, the average altitude is as high as 1340 meters, the entire grassland is shrouded in fog and rain for more than 200 days a year, the road is impassable, the local people of Liyuan Village rely on hunting to supplement the source of meat for their families.
In such a difficult environment, seven-year-old Zou Xixiang followed his father to learn to use gunpowder guns, load, lurk, aim and shoot.
As played in the famous TV series "My Brother is Shunshun", if you want to become a good sniper, you must have three conditions, talent, nurturing, plus a little luck.
Zou Xixiang has unique conditions of his own, and most of his ancestors are gun masters. Because of the needs of the growing environment, Zou Xixiang has dealt with muskets since he was a child, and he has tried to hunt those beasts that move quickly.
Over time, Zou Xixiang has cultivated a good skill. Like Zhang Taofang, another volunteer sharpshooter, he was born with farsightedness.
Coupled with the experience accumulated over the years of hunting, as long as any prey appears in front of Zou Xixiang, even if it is a trace of wind and grass, he can accurately observe the location of the living creatures in front of him, and quickly think of the sniper location and the timing of the shooting in his mind.
Even in the middle of the night, Zou Xixiang can accurately hit live animals such as hares, wild boars, pheasants, and goats with a pair of naked eyes. It can be said that the harsh natural environment of Liyuan Village and Zou Xixiang's innate talent are the basis for him to become an excellent sniper.
In 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army won three major battles, and the cloud-shrouded Village of Liyuan broke into a group of uninvited guests. It turned out that the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated to the southwest region and began to frantically arrest Zhuangding, and 27-year-old Zou Xixiang was forcibly recruited into the army.
On November 15, the 51st Division of the 57th Army of the 5th Corps of the 2nd Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army liberated Dushan. Zou Xixiang's unit decided to revolt, and from then on, Zou Xixiang became a glorious soldier of the People's Liberation Army in the Fifty-first Division.
In July 1951, Zou Xixiang was incorporated into the 135th Regiment and 1st Battalion and Company of the 45th Division of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army and went to fight in Korea.
By April 1952, Zou Xixiang had successively served as deputy platoon commander and platoon commander of a machine gun platoon of one battalion and one company of the 135th Regiment with excellent marksmanship and calm combat style.
In the spring of 1952, after five battles, the Volunteer Army and the "United Nations Army" led by the United States confronted each other near the "38th Line" of Wusheng Mountain in central Korea.
The main peak of Wusheng Mountain is 1061.7 meters above sea level, located in the middle of the narrow territory of North Korea, it is like a sharp nail, directly inserted into the US position, so that the enemy army can not take care of each other, is the most critical defensive area in the entire central Korea.
Qin Jiwei, commander of the 15th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army, took over the task of defending the area around the Five Holy Mountains in late April 1952, and issued a death order to the soldiers of the whole army to "hold the Five Holy Mountains", and Zou Xixiang participated in the defense of the Five Holy Mountains with a large army.
During this period, the volunteer army launched the "cold gun cold gun" campaign. Zou Xixiang killed and wounded 39 American soldiers with 78 rounds of ammunition between April and July 1952.
The Battle of Shangganling broke out in October 1952. Shangganling is a highland of less than 3.7 square kilometers, but it has suddenly become the focus of the world's attention. During the 43-day campaign, the U.S. military poured more than 1.9 million shells and more than 5,000 bombs into Shangganling. The entire head of Shangganling Mountain was cut down two meters, and the thick rock was blown into tens of centimeters of rubble.
Zou Xixiang's 135th Regiment and a company were guarding the 537.3 heights north of the Five Holy Mountains, and according to the memories of volunteer veterans, the distance between the 537.3 highlands and the US positions was only about 60 meters, and the volunteers could often hear the sound of whining and whining from the opposite position. (English)
Due to the slightly higher terrain of the US positions, and the weapons configuration is more advanced and sufficient than that of the volunteer army. Regardless of day and night, the US army relied on strong firepower to suppress and launched a bombing campaign towards the volunteer position of The North Hill. The trenches and communication trenches dug by the volunteers at night were all destroyed by the enemy during the day.
Many American soldiers openly provoked the volunteers, and they feasted on the ground on the southern positions, smoked and drank, and peed and teased the volunteer positions.
In the face of the rampant enemy, the volunteer soldiers were filled with indignation, suffering from the lack of a good way to kill the enemy, and could only swallow their anger. All this was seen by Zou Xixiang, who did not say anything on his lips, in fact, he had already planned how to teach this group of "American devils" who did not know the height of the sky.
On weekdays, Zou Xixiang took advantage of the gap between the stop firing of US artillery fire, holding a rifle in his hand, silently monitoring the every move of the US army in the forward position, looking for cover.
When the time was ripe, Zou Xixiang took advantage of the fact that the US troops were moving in and out and moving freely, raised his rifle from the hidden place, and gently pulled the trigger. With a "bang", an American soldier fell to the ground in response.
Then, according to the original plan, Zou Xixiang quickly moved to the next bunker and continued to harvest the heads of the people on the other side, scaring the US troops from daring to take the lead in the southern highlands.
Zou Xixiang was waiting for the right moment
Suddenly, Zou Xixiang's great name resounded throughout the Beishan position, and he gave a bad breath to the soldiers of the whole company. The other fighters began to organize and observe the live-fire shooting process of Zou Xixiang, who, as a cold gun instructor, introduced his experience in killing the enemy to everyone without reservation.
Under the circumstance that there was a huge disparity in military firepower between the enemy and us, Zou Xixiang and others implemented Chairman Mao Zedong's tactical method of "knocking on the candy with zero knocks, which made the Americans tremble with fear.
According to records, Zou Xixiang and his comrades-in-arms annihilated a total of 3,558 enemy troops at the 537.7 Beishan position of Shangganling garrisoned by the 135th Company. The military history of the "Fifteenth Army" records that Zou Xixiang alone killed and wounded 39 enemy soldiers with 78 bullets, led a company of cold gun teams, and annihilated more than 300 enemy troops in two months.
Zou Xixiang's personal file clearly records that Zou Xixiang participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and made the battle achievement of killing 203 enemy soldiers with cold guns.
Like Zhang Taofang, the sniper rifle in Zou Xixiang's hand was just an ordinary Mosin Nagant. This gun is not a sniper rifle in the true sense of the word, adapted from a rifle without any scope. It was with such rudimentary weapons and equipment that Zou Xixiang beat the US army like a rat.
The Military History of the Fifteenth Army, including Zou Xixiang's personal file, clearly records the actual number of enemies he killed.
After the battle of Shangganling, Zou Xixiang was awarded the title of "Hero of cold guns" by the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army, the honorary title of "First Class Meritorious Hero" by the Political Department of the 39155 Unit of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, and the second class meritorious service certificate issued by the Standing Committee of the People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Chinese.
In May 1954, Zou Xixiang returned to China with the 15th Army in triumph, and in April 1956, he returned to his hometown. After returning to Liyuan Village, Zou Xixiang did not talk to anyone about his past, and his family only knew that Zou Xixiang was a veteran who had participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and had a good marksmanship.
Zou Xixiang was imparting experience to his comrades-in-arms
In order to let the villagers live a better life, Zou Xixiang, who changed jobs, deliberately went to the northeast to bring back rice seeds, reclaimed terraces on the alpine mountain grassland, and planted rice. The Wuchuan County CPC Committee also successively arranged for Zou Xixiang to serve as the commander of the local militia company and the head of the armed forces.
In 1962, Zou Xixiang voluntarily resigned, introduced sugarcane planting technology, and undertook a variety of factories to produce candy and shochu, making a modest contribution to the development of his hometown.
In March 1993, Zou Xixiang died of illness at the age of 71. At the end of 2020, with the popularity of the TV series "Crossing the Yalu River", Zou Xixiang's deeds spread throughout the old district of Zunyi.
The Zunyi Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature and the Propaganda Department of the Wuchuan County CPC Committee finally determined Zou Xixiang's heroic deeds through a month's time and repeatedly comparing historical materials with 100,000 words.
The elderly people in the village said bluntly: "Zou Xixiang was originally a first-class hero of the volunteer army, why did he not introduce him all the time?" ”
Zou Xixiang's grandson Zou Jun recalled: "Grandpa did not tell us in detail about his experience in the war, and occasionally he only said a little 'Shoot?' I'm very accurate! Until today, Zou Jun suddenly realized that what grandpa said was true.
In fact, the two armies are fighting each other, and the competition is the double competition of courage and wisdom, and marksmanship is not the only key point to victory, but also the blood of killing the enemy and repaying the country.
The U.S. military has no one in sight, and it does not understand what justice is. Although their weapons and equipment are more advanced than those of the volunteer army, such combat heroes as Zou Xixiang, Zhang Taofang, Qiu Shaoyun, Yang Gensi, and Huang Jiguang have a firm will and determination to defend their homeland, which is the basis for defeating the enemy and winning victory.
Zou Xixiang (late years)
With only one man and one shot, Zou Xixiang annihilated more than 200 enemy troops armed to the teeth. He took away not only the lives of the enemy, but also destroyed the spiritual will of the "United Nations Army" and promoted the prestige of our volunteer army.
"Veterans don't die, they just slowly wither." The volunteers are all national heroes and good sons and daughters of the Chinese people. Where there are good years, but someone carries the weight for us.
Salute to the old hero Zou Xixiang! I hope that more people can understand Zou Xixiang's glorious deeds and the history of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in those years, and his spirit will certainly be passed down forever and inspire future generations.