In the 2000 millennium, a famous military writer knocked on the door of the old General Van Tien. This old hero who personally commanded the Feihu Mountain, Songbone Peak, and the 580 Highland Blockade War on the south bank of the Han River is now plagued by diseases and has been with pills all day long. But when the writer asked him some details about the time of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the old general's eyes suddenly became moist and he said, "I have a problem here, and I have been thinking about it for so many years." Although I don't hope much, I hope you can help more. There was a warrior's family that I had been looking for. If I can find it, no matter how many people there are in his family now, I will give it all up..." The old general's thoughts went back to more than 50 years ago...
Fan Tianen was a native of Tai'an, Shandong Province, and joined the Eighth Route Army in January 1938. Because of his bravery in battle and political proficiency, he gradually sat down as a soldier of the 4th Detachment in Shandong to the position of political instructor and political commissar of the teaching team. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, most of the Eighth Route Army entered the northeast, and Fan Tianen also went out with the team, serving as the battalion commander of the guard battalion of the 1st Column of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, and as the chief of the education section.
Once, Fan Tian'en's troops passed through Qiqihar. He was resting when suddenly he felt that someone was pulling him. Looking back, I found a small, disheveled beggar who was stretching out his hand and begging for pity. On a cold day, this child was wearing an old Soviet-style military uniform, with a pair of old cotton shoes with open threads on his feet, his small face was frozen red, his expression was solemn, and his eyes were full of expectation.
I don't know what was going on, Fan Tian'en had a strange feeling in his heart from the first moment he saw this little beggar. There are too many bitter children in the world, and they are too pitiful, especially in the northeast that has been ravaged by the Japanese army for 13 years. So Fan Tianen gave him some food, let him sit next to him, and the two of them chatted.
It turned out that this little beggar's surname was Wang, and he had no name. For the sake of narrative convenience, we will call him Xiao Wang. When the Japanese army was raging, Xiao Wang and his family were separated. In order to survive, he began to beg around. With a sweet mouth and a sense of ingenuity, he took root near the train station and lived alone for many years.
In 1945, the Red Army declared war on Japan and entered the northeast. The local people were a little afraid of these blue-eyed, white-skinned soldiers, but Xiao Wang was not afraid. He took the initiative to approach these foreigners, do some chores for them, run errands, and then rub some military food with them. Xiao Wang was clever and good at learning, and he could speak a few simple Words of Russian in a few days. While talking and comparing, it can be able to communicate without obstacles! The Red Army also liked this little boy and took him on a march. This is Xiao Wang's first relatively stable life.
After Japan's surrender, the Red Army prepared to withdraw from the northeast. Xiao Wang was a Chinese and could not go to the Soviet Union with the team, so he could only stay and continue to return to the Qiqihar Railway Station to do his old business. This time, when he saw the Chinese army coming, he also thought of helping the troops and earning two mouthfuls of food.
Listening to Xiao Wang's narration, Fan Tianen was very emotional. Although the Shandong region is also a place where devils are rampant, there is the Eighth Route Army, there is a base area, and the lives of the common people are still passable. But after entering the northeast, he was very shocked by the tragic situation of thousands of miles of red land and people's lack of livelihood! In normal times, he often helped the local people as much as he could. Now that I have seen Xiao Wang, I want to help him even more. However, the troops of the People's Liberation Army did not want to accompany the troops, so Fan Tianen used his power to let Xiao Wang join the army!
After Xiao Wang joined the army, he was very energetic. This child has developed a kind of indomitable personality from the snack bitterness. Moreover, he is clever, willing to use his brains in case of trouble, and his combat skills are learned quickly. It didn't take long for him to become a little warrior with a look. Fan Tianen looked at the child and felt a kind of father's appreciation for his son. When the preliminary review was passed, Fan Tianen transferred Xiao Wang to his side and became a guard.
Xiao Wang also has a son's feelings for his father for Fan Tianen. Whether it was marching to fight or stationed for training and meetings, Xiao Wang always followed his commander inseparably and helped him take care of all the trivial matters of life. Moreover, in the contact with other chiefs, Xiao Wang's cleverness and cleverness also won the love of the other party. This child became a pistachio in the army.
Fan Tianen had higher requirements for this little guard of his own. He felt that the guards could not be a lifelong. If you want to get ahead in the future, you must master some other skills. He felt that the child was smart enough to be a surveyor. So in addition to his daily tasks, he always seized every opportunity to let Xiao Wang mingle with the surveying and mapping department in the army. Xiao Wang also really lived up to expectations and quickly mastered the skills of surveying and mapping.
In 1950, the volunteer army entered Korea and began to resist the United States and aid Korea. Fan Tianen's 38th Army was particularly unsuccessful from the beginning. First, it caught up with the refugee tide and affected the march; then it caught up with a car accident, losing many middle and senior commanders; and finally it was wrong to believe rumors in Xichuan and delay the pursuit. Commander Peng Dehuai was furious and scolded the commander Liang Xingchu as a "rat general." At this time, the 38th Army had only one way: to rush to the position of Feihu Mountain at all costs, cut off the enemy's retreat, and try to save the unfavorable situation it had caused.
The task of seizing Flying Tiger Mountain was given to Fan Tianen's 335 regiment. Time is tight and the task is heavy, fan tianen can only order the troops to lightly load, throw away all unnecessary supplies, and run forward. Although they arrived at Feihu Mountain as scheduled and occupied their positions, all the supplies and food were lost. The warriors could only go hungry and blocked the position for 5 days and 5 nights! During this period, everyone was really hungry, so they could only "gnaw stones" and use the "hunger deception method" to help themselves carry it. During this period, Xiao Wang was still inseparable from Fan Tian'en, desperately fighting to protect his regiment leader. Fortunately, this battle was won, and the 38th Army was able to save face.
After the start of the second campaign, the commander Liang Xingchu was determined to be humiliated and began to intersperse the enemy's rear on a large scale. Fan Tianen's 335th Regiment again took on the heavy task of defending the enemy's retreat. The battle was again a bloody battle like a meat grinder, in which the volunteer soldiers fought the enemy again and again with stones and bayonets when their weapons were exhausted. Some warriors caught fire on their bodies and threw themselves at the enemy and died with them! Although the 335th Regiment completed its mission, it suffered huge losses. Fortunately, Xiao Wang became one of the few lucky ones and survived with his master.
In the third campaign, the volunteer army broke through the 38th Line in one fell swoop and occupied Seoul, the capital of South Korea, creating a brilliant record. But the troops were already very tired because of continuous combat. Commander Peng Dehuai then decided to let the troops rest for two months and then start the next step after the new year. Most of the divisional and regimental commanders in the unit were notified to return to Shenyang for intensive training. This was a rare opportunity to relax, Fan Tianen originally wanted to take Xiao Wang back with him, but he felt that he was a regimental commander who would take the guards back to China, which seemed a bit squeamish, so he let Xiao Wang stay and act with the large troops.
Who knows this parting, the two will never see each other again.
On January 25, 1951, the commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, Ridgway, launched Operation Thunderbolt, and 230,000 United Nations troops rushed to the front line of the Volunteer Army. The Volunteer Command urgently ordered all the commanders who had returned home to return quickly, and all the troops stopped resting and quickly drove to the front! The fourth battle was fought.
Because of the absence of the chief officer, Xiao Wang went to the front line under the unified arrangement of the troops. Faced with thousands of shells fired by the enemy every day, this young "old warrior" was fearless and always at the forefront. He had only one thought: through the tempering of the war, he gave himself the long face of the regimental commander like his father! As a result, the war ruthlessly devoured his life, and after the explosion of an aerial bomb, Xiao Wang's body was pushed high by the shock wave, and then fell heavily to the ground.
When Fan Tian'en rushed back to the front line, he saw Xiao Wang's body and felt a strong sour feeling in his heart. In the years together, the two have the same affection as father and son. Today's feeling is really like a white-haired person sending a black-haired person. However, the battlefield did not give Fan Tian'en a chance to grieve, and he had to hurry to the front to direct the battle. So, together with the other warriors, he found some wooden boards that had been blown up, and hastily made a coffin and buried xiao wang. After that, Fan Tianen insisted on commanding on the 580 heights, and in the case of huge casualties and almost total annihilation, he still did not retreat. When he received the order to retreat on February 16, Fan Tianen, who was tired and sad, fainted.
Later, whenever General Van Tienn mentioned his guard, he always closed his eyes and tried not to let the tears stay. Later, he said, "That kid was quite lucky to have a coffin." How many soldiers died, and even the corpses of the capital were not pulled down, and they were buried by the enemy shells. After I returned to China, I once sent the only photo of the child to the government, hoping to find his family. But unfortunately, I never found it. In fact, whether the child still has a family, I don't know now. But I thought, I should still have a glimmer of hope. As long as I find his family, their lives are all covered. For so many years, I haven't given up. You came to interview me today, but I don't have anything to say. The real heroes on the Korean battlefield are the warriors. ”
After this interview, General Fan Tianen fought the disease for more than a year, and finally died in Beijing on December 2, 2001, at the age of 79. Xiao Wang's family, he has not been found, which has become the regret of his life.