"On military orders, take leave to return to your hometown, pass through dangerous mountains, rape girls, and attack granaries without changing your banditry."
This is a whistle-blowing letter written by a lao Xiucai surnamed Zhao in 1966.
The target of the whistleblower is the former bandit Jin Zhenbiao, who is now serving as a military instructor at the Guilin Infantry School.
After receiving this whistle-blowing letter, the school immediately organized a criticism meeting, expelled Jin Zhenbiao from the party, and revoked his regular salary.
Not only that, the organization sent Jin Zhenbiao and his wife to Wuxuan Farm in Shilong County, Guangxi Province, to work.
In August of the same year, Jin Zhenbiao returned to his hometown of Qinglongya Village, Zhonghu Township, Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province, and when the villagers learned of his arrival, they closed their doors and windows and deliberately avoided him.
Jin Zhenbiao, who could not bear the sneers of the villagers, had no choice but to hide in the deep mountains, use the cave as a house, eat wild vegetables, catch poisonous snakes to fill his hunger, and hide in the mountains for 8 years.
Even so, every time I was found on the mountain, I couldn't help but be dragged back to criticize it.
Once, in the deep mountains and old forest was found by the former apprentice, the apprentice did not say a word, picked up the axe and cut on Jin Zhenbiao's back, the wound was 5 inches long, deep to the lungs, Jin Zhenbiao lay in the hospital for 8 months before getting better.
Lying on the hospital bed, Jin Zhenbiao had a lot of thoughts, at this moment he was full of grievances, where did the villagers know that he was a first-class hero on the Korean battlefield?
One
In early 1951, after half a year of the Korean War, the 47th Army stationed in western Hunan was ordered to enter the Korean War.
Jin Zhenbiao was selected by the 47th Army because of his agility.
Jin Zhenbiao vaguely remembers that on the day of departure, the villagers beat gongs and drums, and they were wearing large red flowers on their bodies, and the nearby villagers came to send them to the front line.
After a rapid journey, seven consecutive nights, Kim Jin-biao and other volunteers came to Nanyang in North Korea.
The first task he received was to repair the airfield that had been destroyed by the Us army with his comrades, and then began to remove unexploded bombs on the battlefield.
In Nanyang, the danger is abnormal, in jin Zhenbiao's memory: "It is a miracle to survive, 35 kilograms of bombs, dropped from the air, enough to sink into the ground two meters deep, sometimes you can clearly hear the sound of the timer clicking, and your heart will also be angry." ”
But Jin Zhenbiao was still not afraid of the US army, and after several battles, he became an excellent machine gunner.
In the Korean battlefield, Kim Jin-biao believes that the fiercest battle was the Battle of Lao Bald Mountain in March 1953.
Lao bald mountain, located in the south of the Korean Yigu River, is extremely important and is a fortress to Seoul.
Beginning in the summer of 1952, the volunteer army and the US army began a repeated tug-of-war here, and the positions changed hands many times, and Jin Zhenbiao and other volunteers seized the old bald mountain highland for five consecutive times.
Old Bald Mountain was originally named Shangpu Fang Dongshan, because after several bloody battles, all the lush plants were blown up, leaving only scorched earth, so the volunteer army called it Old Bald Mountain.
The last time the U.S.-RoK coalition fought for the old Bald Hill heights, it sent a reinforcement company, 20 platoons, two exploration squads, and a tank company.
As soon as the field came, it was a crushing artillery strike, and after the artillery fire was over, the volunteers rushed out of the bunkers.
Jin Zhenbiao and his comrades-in-arms successively attacked 17 bunkers of the US-Rok coalition army and planted red flags on the main peak of Lao Bald Mountain.
What followed was a continuous counterattack, Jin Zhenbiao and his comrades back to back, with machine guns firing wildly, did not know how many enemies they had killed, only felt that the right leg was bloody, just looked down, was stunned by the nearby bombs.
When Jin Zhenbiao woke up, he found that the group leader, squad leader, and red flag bearer had all been sacrificed, and before he could be sad, dozens of enemy troops began to rush up again.
Jin Zhenbiao raised his machine gun and fired at them, a US soldier threw an incendiary bomb, Jin Zhenbiao was quick with his eyes, quickly jumped into a deep ditch nearby with the machine gun, rolled around to suppress the fire in his back, but he also passed out in pain.
When he woke up again, he was already in the rear of the field hospital, watching him burn on the back, and the thick yellow water flowing from the blood mouth, the nurse could only deal with it carefully.
According to post-war statistics, Jin Zhenbiao annihilated a total of 165 enemy troops in the Battle of Lao Bald Mountain, which was the most annihilated volunteer soldier of the enemy, and the news spread to the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, and he was immediately awarded the title of first-class meritorious hero and second-class combat hero.
Why did Jin Zhenbiao, who had made such great achievements in battle, fall into the end of hiding in the mountains?
It all has to do with the fact that he was a bandit.
Two
Jin Zhenbiao was born in 1931 in Wulingyuan District, Zhangjiajie, Hunan.
Those who have read the history of bandits should know that the bandits in Wulingyuan District can be compared to the northeast, that is, the bandits in western Hunan who are often heard.
There are many bandits in western Hunan For a reason, there are many mountains and mountains, many rivers, caves and dense forests, and people who have done bad things are hiding in this area, and over time they have become bandits who rob their homes.
If you want to trace it, since the Song Dynasty, Xiangxi has been plagued by bandits, reaching its peak in the late Qing Dynasty.
War is raging, which one can survive is not weathered, Jin Zhenbiao since he understood things, he was extremely afraid of bandits, when he was a child, he did not obey, and his mother always used bandits to scare him.
But he never expected that he would one day become a bandit.
In 1948, a group of bandits came from Jin Zhenbiao's hometown, and when he saw that Jin Zhenbiao was young and strong, he was forced to go to "Liangshan" without saying a word.
He resisted the bandits from the bottom of his heart, the ancient Yun haohan did not eat the immediate loss, the current affairs person was Junjie, Jin Zhenbiao tried to resist, but he was beaten all over the body and could only give up.
In order to implement the escape plan, it is necessary to gain the trust of the bandits first, so he learns to be a "bully" in the fish and meat village, and behaves fiercely in front of the bandits.
The bandit took a look: This will catch a good seedling.
On the third day, he was sent to the mountain to squat, and as a result, Jin Zhenbiao slipped a cigarette and ran away.
Although he ran away, after all, he had the experience of being a bandit for a few days, and the villagers had also heard about it.
In 1949, there were a total of 180,000 bandits in Hunan, and Xiangxi accounted for most of them, and the local government was no longer able to govern, and even some local bandits replaced the government, spending a big fish and meat life.
On the eve of the founding of New China, the central authorities sent the 38th Army of the People's Liberation Army to xiangxi and went all out to suppress the bandits.
Under the armed attack of the People's Liberation Army, hundreds of thousands of bandits in western Hunan were gradually eliminated and annihilated.
In addition to the stubborn annihilated, the People's Liberation Army also captured 30,000 bandits, including Jin Zhenbiao.
Didn't Jin Zhenbiao escape from the bandits' den?
This also has to be the power of the masses, and some people have reported that Jin Zhenbiao has also been a bandit.
According to Jin Zhenbiao's recollection, during that time, he was worried every day, and every day he could see the bandits who were executed.
After the investigation of the People's Liberation Army, 20,000 of the 30,000 bandits were the most heinous crimes, that is, they had carried people's lives.
In the end, only more than 10,000 people were left who had not committed murders, and these people were all held in one place and reformed by the People's Liberation Army.
The place where Jin Zhenbiao was transformed was at the Pagoda Po Ancient Temple, and because of his good attitude, The liang platoon leader called him out and asked him if he was willing to enter the dprk and participate in the war.
Although Jin Zhenbiao did not know why he wanted to fight in North Korea, he agreed without hesitation.
Before becoming a bandit, Jin Zhenbiao asked around where he could join the army, but he did not expect that he was attacked by bandits.
Now to be able to fight as a soldier, that is what he dreamed of, not to mention that he was confused and characterized as a bandit, and to change this identity, he could only join the army.
Along with him, song deqing, Xie Gensheng and others entered the war.
They fought, no worse than those veterans, even fiercer than them.
In the recollection of Cao Lihuai, commander of the 47th Army, "Many of these bandits in western Hunan were forced to go to Liangshan, and you can't imagine how fiercely they fought in order to get rid of the title of bandit, they fought with national prestige, and they were also very strong, and I often read about them in my dreams..." ”
Cao Lihuai
This is indeed true, because Kim Jin-biao and others are indeed unambiguous in the Korean battlefield.
Three
Since Jin Zhenbiao was incorporated into the 423rd Regiment of the 141st Division of the 47th Army, there has not been a single day that he has not thought of "making meritorious atonement for his sins."
Because he had never been a soldier, he had 4 months of training before entering the war, and Jin Zhenbiao served as a machine gun shooter of the third company because of his outstanding performance.
In the ensuing battle, Jin Zhenbiao used practical actions to make the veterans look at them differently.
At first, the veterans were not optimistic about these teams of bandits, but after a few battles, they found that the cohesion of the Chinese was innate, and in times of crisis, none of them flinched, including these former bandits.
In addition to Jin Zhenbiao's single-handed annihilation of 165 enemy soldiers and the achievement of first-class meritorious service, there was also Jiang Changlu, who participated in the battle with him, who was wounded four times and was awarded the third class; Zhang Fuxiang fought until the last person in the class, stubbornly held his position, and made great merits once; Fu Shenghu was even more fierce, made great merits once, and made small merits three times, and was later promoted to the commander of the volunteer army.
Jin Zhenbiao also applied to join the party because of his repeated military achievements, but he did not pass.
Xie Gensheng, who had been a bandit with him, was originally a logistician in the Korean battlefield, climbed up the branches of the tree in spite of himself, fired anti-aircraft machine guns at enemy planes, made third-class merits, and wrote into the party application many times, until the end of the Korean War, the application for joining the party was not approved, for the same reason as Jin Zhenbiao, he was a bandit.
Xie Gensheng was more aggrieved than Jin Zhenbiao, Jin Zhenbiao was forced to be a bandit for three days, Xie Gensheng looked at the notice of rejection and shed tears: "I actually did not become a bandit for a day... just forcibly taken to the mountain by them." ”
For these, Jin Zhenbiao was not discouraged, but constantly changed himself, and was more courageous on the battlefield.
After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, even Kim Il-cheng heard about Kim Jin-biao's single-handed annihilation of 165 enemy personnel, and he personally awarded Kim Jin-biao the "Order of Heroes of the First Class of the Workers' Party of Korea." Kim Il Sung said at the meeting: "The Korean people must always remember this hero. ”
Not only Kim Il Sung, but after Jin Zhenbiao returned to China, his deeds were also published in the "Red Flag Fluttering" by the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army.
However, at that time, the information did not circulate, and the villagers did not know that there was such a heroic figure in their hometown.
After returning to China, Jin Zhenbiao was arranged to go to Tongliao County, Inner Mongolia to learn military and cultural knowledge, during which time he had a new understanding of the military.
Later, he served as the commander of a third company in Guangxi, and it was not until the autumn of 1955 that he received an order to go to the Guilin Infantry School as a military instructor, so it seems that the study in Inner Mongolia can also be regarded as useful.
It was only the original bland career as an instructor, but it was broken by a whistleblower letter.
That is, the whistleblower letter at the beginning of the article.
Four
In fact, this whistleblower letter is completely fabricated.
Jin Zhenbiao has not returned for many years since he joined the war, and he is homesick and anxious, and the organization arranges for him to return to his hometown to visit his relatives.
Along the way, he was taking his newly married wife with him, and when he arrived at his hometown, he was jealous after being seen by a Zhao surname Xiucai.
The people in the village did not know that Jin Zhenbiao was a great hero in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, only that he had been a bandit, and Zhao Laoxiu often read the news and knew about Jin Zhenbiao's deeds.
But he had the heart of a villain, felt that he was talented, often did things for the village, why Did Jin Zhenbiao have such good treatment, and also married his daughter-in-law and joined the party.
Knowing that Jin Zhenbiao was working at the Guilin Infantry School, this whistleblower letter was sent directly here.
When the director of the school saw this letter, because Jin Zhenbiao had experience as a bandit, he couldn't help but say that he had a meeting to cancel Jin Zhenbiao's post, expel him from the party, and cancel his salary as well.
After working on the farm, Jin Zhenbiao returned to his hometown with his wife again.
After Zhao Laoxiucai's three-inch tongue, Jin Zhenbiao's unrealistic deeds were magnified, and there were no flowers to welcome him back to China, no warm applause, and no hundreds of thousands of citizens to welcome him.
This was followed by constant insults and contemptuous glances, and some villagers directly led people to beat him.
Even if he hid in the mountains, he was almost killed by these people.
Lying in the hospital for more than half a year, Jin Zhenbiao said the most to his wife: "I was not killed by the US army in the battlefield, but I almost died at the hands of my neighbors." ”
It was not until 1978, after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, that Jin Zhenbiao's fate changed.
The government began to go door-to-door statistics, when jin Zhenbiao was found, the village people knew that Jin Zhenbiao was a first-class hero of the volunteer army and a second-class combat hero, and the government implemented a pension for him, because he was injured on the battlefield, the government let him go to the hospital to identify, belonged to the second-degree disabled soldier, or a company cadre, and the pension and cadre subsidies added up to more than 1,200 yuan per month.
Jin Zhenbiao was also very satisfied with this, he said: "I have recovered a life on the battlefield, and now in peacetime, I have no worries about food and clothing, compared to my comrades who sacrificed, I am still not satisfied." ”
It is worth mentioning that The Zhao surname Xiucai, who scribbled the whistle-blowing letter, was finally sentenced to death.
In 1980, Jin Zhenbiao dragged his family and went to the Beijing Military Museum at his own expense, and after walking to the exhibition hall of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea on the third floor, he was attracted by a machine gun, and after watching it for a long time, he said to his wife: "This is the machine gun I have used." ”
Then he told the reporter the specifications and models of the machine gun, and even where there was a crack, he remembered it clearly, and the reporter looked at the machine gun, which was the same as what Jin Zhenbiao said.
To this end, the reporter also let Jin Zhenbiao and the machine gun take a group photo, at this moment, Jin Zhenbiao could no longer hold back the tears in the corners of his eyes, sat on the ground and cried.
Later, although Jin Zhenbiao's life was not worried, he was not happy, because the party membership he was most concerned about had not been restored, and the hukou of his wife and children was not there.
Later, although the hukou was solved, Jin Zhenbiao's party membership has not been restored. He said that in the past, the war rolled out of the shell casing, and now he is still the masses, and his heart is not strong.
In April 2019, 53 years after he was expelled from the party, 89-year-old Jin Zhenbiao once again wrote an application to join the party, and this time the village party branch also met to discuss and unanimously approved.
In September of the same year, Jin Zhenbiao, who was hospitalized in the hospital, received a notice to give him a party joining ceremony in the hospital, and in order to wait for this moment, he had survived by will for several months.
On November 20, Jin Zhenbiao died of illness at the age of 89.
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