On September 2 this year, the remains of the eighth batch of Chinese volunteer martyrs in South Korea returned to China, and the heroic souls of 109 volunteer martyrs returned to their homeland! The martyr Chang Guobin, the hero of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, who came out of Wang Zheng Village, Wang Xianxiang, Wanrong County, is still buried in a foreign country. September 30 is the 8th Martyrs' Memorial Day on the mainland, and there is only a 24-word introduction to the deeds of martyr Chang Guobin at the WangZhengcun Xiangxian Museum: "The glorious sacrifice in the Battle of YuyinShan in South Korea was honored with a first-class meritorious service at the age of 24. ”
According to the only 24 words, after many searches, there was finally a clue, and in 1954, the comic strip "Heroic DemolitionIst Guo Zhengxi", published by the East China People's Fine Arts Publishing House, mentioned the deputy squad leader Chang Guobin four times, and gradually found the heroic deeds of Chang Guobin along the heroic deeds of Guo Zhengxi.
Chang Guobin and Guo Zhengxi went to fight in Korea, and together with the 3rd Battalion and 10th Company of the Ninety-ninth Regiment of the Independent Thirty-third Division directly under the headquarters of the Third Corps, Chang Guobin served as the deputy squad leader, and Guo Zhengxi was the explosivesman.
In 1953, the Korean War entered its final stages, and the US military played with two sides of the negotiation table at Panmunjom, talking about fighting and fighting. Finally, the focus of both sides focused on a strategic place on the "38th Line" - Yuyin Mountain. The Yuyinsan position was originally garrisoned by the Korean People's Army, and then occupied by the US military, and at the negotiating table, both sides said that it was their own, and the dispute could not be stopped. The Chinese Volunteer Army Command decided to retake the Yuyin Mountain position and launched a counterattack on Yuyin Mountain on the night of June 14, 1953. Chang Guobin and Guo Zhengxi's company served as sharp knife missions, responsible for blasting the enemy's fire points and opening up passages for the follow-up main attack troops.
At 9 o'clock that night, the signal shells of the attack took off, and the artillery fire of our army slammed into the enemy's positions; after deputy squad leader Chang Guobin led people to blow up the barbed wire on the enemy's first line of defense, Guo Zhengxi, who was acting as a demolitionist, bravely rushed up, and he rushed through several barbed wires in succession... After a fierce fight, Guo Zhengxi finally jumped on the bunker and pulled out two grenades and stuffed them in. With two roars, the enemy's machine guns became mute, and the comrades of the assault squad immediately rushed up.
Deputy squad leader Chang Guobin rushed to the front and led Guo Zhengxi and other comrades-in-arms to continue to develop in depth, blowing up three enemy fire points in succession and then destroying an enemy's ammunition depot. The counter-attack channel was opened, and after 15 minutes, our army had completely occupied the enemy positions. Unwilling to be defeated, the enemy counterattacked madly, and the two sides launched a tug-of-war, the battle was extremely fierce, and the comrades-in-arms repelled the enemy's repeated charges and persisted until dawn before being ordered to move.
The next night, our army launched a second counterattack, and Chang Guobin's company was tasked with plunging into the enemy's rear. Chang Guobin led the soldiers to jump over the barbed wire, blow up the bunkers, chase after the enemy, and rush to the rear of the enemy at all costs, having gone far behind the enemy's position, most of the comrades who followed behind them were sacrificed, and not many people followed. Deputy Squad Leader Chang Guobin and Guo Zhengxi, who had followed up, and other fighters were also scattered, so they had to fight separately, hiding in the shadows of the enemy's positions to find the enemy fighters. According to Guo Zhengxi's dictation, by the light of the enemy's flares, a large masking part of the enemy was found, and faint light came out of the window of the masking department... Guo Zhengxi threw grenades one after another, causing the enemy to scream. The enemy did not dare to rush, guo Zhengxi took the opportunity to throw a powerful grenade into the enemy shelter, and with a loud noise, all the enemies in the cover department were reimbursed. After the war, it was learned that this was a battalion-level command post of the enemy army.
On this night, deputy squad leader Chang Guobin and other fighters charged forward while fighting, fighting very tenaciously, and taking advantage of every opportunity to annihilate the enemy. After Guo Zhengxi destroyed the enemy's command post, he continued to seek opportunities behind the enemy alone to annihilate the enemy. At dawn, the deputy squad leader Chang Guobin and other soldiers who finally rushed up met with Guo Zhengxi and destroyed the enemy on the last high ground with a single blow.
In the two counterattack battles, our army annihilated more than 1,000 enemy troops, and finally the volunteer army finally took the 1089.6 heights and defended it, while the Thirty-third Division also made great sacrifices, the bloody battle was very fierce, the enemy and we repeatedly fought, dead and wounded, blood stained hot soil. In particular, the 3rd Battalion and 10th Company of the 99th Regiment suffered the most casualties, leaving only Guo Zhengxi and a few others in the nearly 200 company, and the deputy squad leader Chang Guobin was only 24 years old when he was on the position guarding the 1089.6 heights on June 15.
After the war, the headquarters of the Chinese Volunteer Army posthumously recorded the first-class merit for the martyr Chang Guobin, the main achievement: "In the battle, heroic and tenacious, good at command, the whole class suffered few casualties in two days." With outstanding achievements, two bunkers were blasted, three bunkers were destroyed, more than a dozen enemy were annihilated, one walkie-talkie was captured, one automatic rifle, one carbine, and one light machine gun, which played a decisive role in the victorious counterattack against June 13 and June 14, and finally made a glorious sacrifice."
The certificate of collective meritorious service issued on July 17, 1954 reads: "Comrade Guo Zhengxi, a member of the 10th company of the 99th Regiment of the 33rd Division, in June 1953, in the counterattack on the Eastern Front of Korea, and all the comrades of the 99th Regiment and a class of comrades collectively established meritorious deeds. The surviving Guo Zhengxi hero accepted this heavy collective second-class merit for the sacrificed deputy squad leader Chang Guobin and other comrades-in-arms.
In the counterattack at Yuyin Mountain, Guo Zhengxi, the demolitionist of deputy squad leader Chang Guobin, was mentioned four times, and his record was even more brilliant and he was not injured, and his main achievements were: "Rushing to the front of the counterattack troops, blasting fourteen enemy forts, completely annihilating the enemy's command post, opening the way for the follow-up troops, ensuring the victorious occupation of the position by the main attacking troops, one person annihilating sixty-two enemy troops, capturing one heavy machine gun, one light machine gun, eight automatic rifles, four carbine guns, one walkie-talkie, two headphones, and a bundle of documents. It played a decisive role in the victory of the 1089.6 battle on this counterattack". To this end, the leader of the Korean people, Kim Il Sung, personally awarded Guo Zhengxi the Order of the National Flag of the DPRK of the First Class, and the Headquarters of the Volunteer Army also recorded his special meritorious service once and issued a special meritorious service medal to the Volunteer Army.
The victory of the Yuyin mountain counterattack, the war began to develop in our favor, and finally won a complete victory in the Battle of Jincheng, which played a decisive role in promoting the negotiations on the Korean armistice, forcing the enemy to demand an armistice on our side, and on July 27, 1953, the DPRK realized the armistice agreement with the 38th Line as the dividing line.
Among the relics of the martyr Chang Guobin, the brief suicide note is the most touching: "After I have made a glorious sacrifice for mankind, please return my medal to my home." "The payment was made on June 14, 1953. This is clearly a pre-war resolution to undertake the task of sharp knives, to open up a passage for the follow-up main attack troops, responsible for blasting the enemy's fire points, and ready to complete the task without fear of sacrifice.
I visited the adopted son of the martyr Chang Guobin, the 82-year-old Chang Weiduo, who pulled out several yellowed good deeds, meritorious deeds, military merit badges, martyr certificates, etc. from the bottom of the box. The old man never spoke, and no one could have imagined that the heroic deeds of the martyr Chang Guobin would be sealed in this dilapidated box, and even the children of the old man did not know that there were still martyrs' certificates hidden in the home. Asking the old man again, I can't tell the specific achievements of the martyrs and more deeds, and the reasons hidden behind them are even more poignant.
It turned out that the elderly Chang Weiduo was the nephew of the martyr. Chang Youguang and his wife gave birth to three daughters, in order to pass on the generations and continue the fireworks, in 1929, the lunar calendar april 16 finally gave birth to a boy named Chang Guobin, this old child, the baby who owes birth naturally became the parents' baby knot, the hope of the Chang family. After the liberation of Ronghe in 1947, the 17-year-old Guo Bin carried his parents to the outside world, where he went, what he did to make a living, the family did not know, only missed, worried about the son who did not quit.
After the martyrdom of Chang Guobin, he learned from the feedback from the troops that he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in December 1949 and joined the Chinese Volunteer Army in 1951, and made meritorious contributions to the army four times. The first time, on November 25, 1950, he was awarded the second class meritorious service in the battle against bandits in eastern Sichuan. The second time, in 1951, he became a first-class model in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, defend the family and defend the country, and train troops in the military and government. The third time, in December 1952, he made a glorious meritorious contribution in the winter construction and was rated as a teacher. The fourth time, on June 15, 1953, he was honored with a first-class meritorious service in the Battle of Yuyin Mountain in South Korea and was honorably sacrificed.
The parents of the martyrs were devastated to learn the bad news of their son's glorious sacrifice. The mother missed her son and died three years later due to transitional grief. According to the elderly Chang Weiduo, my grandfather was raised by my parents in Yangzhuang Village alone, and my mother was my grandfather's third daughter. The father of the martyr was meticulously cared for by his daughter's family, but he was still sullen and sad. In order to let the martyr's father get rid of the grief of the death of his son and wife and enjoy normal family life and warmth, after consultation between the cadres of Wang Zheng Village and the Civil Affairs Bureau of Ronghe County at that time, I let my eldest son go to my uncle's house to be an adopted son for my uncle. Since then, I changed my original surname from Fan to my uncle's surname Chang, set up a household for my uncle's family, and my uncle changed his name to an adoptive father, taking on the task of supporting the martyrs and the elderly, until my grandfather died in 1966, completing the obligation to provide the elderly for the elderly for the sacrificial adoptive father.
The elderly grandfather burst into tears at the thought of his son who sacrificed his life for the country, and the village screened the film "Shangganling" to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and the old man fainted uncomfortably under the stage when he saw the picture of Huang Jiguang blocking the gun hole and sacrificing. From then on, we will no longer let the old man watch the movies of the war, hide the adoptive father's martyr's certificate and meritorious deeds, quietly bury the blood clothes brought back from the army in the underground of the courtyard, and do not talk about topics related to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in front of my grandfather.
Since changing from the nephew status of the martyr to the identity of the adopted son, the old man Chang Weiduo has worked hard to create a relatively complete home for the old man of the martyr, so that his grandfather, the father of the martyr, feels that he has a successor, and his children are the names of his grandfather, and the grandfather slowly has a smile on his face when he hears his grandson called "Laoye". Thanks to the great love of the elderly Chang Weiduo, in order to make the martyr's father less tearful and do his best!
Peace in the motherland was not easy to come by, and our peaceful days and happy lives today have been bought with the lives of countless revolutionary martyrs. Silent prayer for the martyr Chang Guobin who is buried in a foreign country, you are the pride of Wang Zheng Village! (Pan Dafeng, October 1, 2021)