Xiao Anton did not die, he and the second lady also had eight children, eight sons and eight surnames, each child's name is the thought and concern for the sacrifice of comrades-in-arms, such a luxury appeared at the end of the "Meritorious Service" section of "Nengwen Nengwu Li Yannian", touched countless audiences.
However, a "Alas—how is this possible?" "And we have to face the harsh reality. Little Anton did not sacrifice, his story touched the public security bureau chief to make an exception to have eight children, can have eight surnames, these are all beautiful imaginations. Because letting Little Anton go home alive to marry the second lady is the desire of all the people in the world, so they all take their lives to protect Little Anton.
The first unit of the TV series "Meritorious Service" is written about Li Yannian. Let's follow the historical lens and return to the fierce battle for 346.6 Heights and feel the blood-stained style.
On October 8, 1951, the 23-year-old Li Yannian embarked on a journey to recover the 346.6 highlands, opening the most brilliant page of his life.
On this day a year ago, the DPRK requested China to send troops to assist, and China made the decision to "resist the United States and aid Korea and defend the homeland." In just one year, the Chinese Volunteer Army and the Korean People's Army drove the "United Nations Army" south of the "38th Line" and hit the negotiating table through the first, second, third and fourth campaigns and the first phase of the fifth campaign.
At first, the United States only wanted to take a breather from the negotiations and then seek benefits at the negotiating table through military strikes. China and the DPRK insisted on taking the "38th Line" as the military demarcation line, but the US military said, "With my aircraft, artillery, warships, and ships, you must give me a back of tens of kilometers." ”
Dare to cross the Yalu River to take this porcelain work, the volunteer army of course did not give the Americans face, strictly refuted and refused. The US side simply tore its face, bombed the residence of the DPRK-China delegation, and launched a summer and autumn offensive and a "strangulation war" in an attempt to force the DPRK and China to submit with military pressure and interrupt the negotiations for 63 days.
The volunteers quickly launched a counterattack, switching the war to the second phase of the fifth campaign, crushing the enemy's dreams with "protracted combat and active defense" and bringing the arrogant Americans back to the negotiating table.
On October 8, the negotiations had been interrupted for more than a month, and at such a special period and critical juncture, Li Yannian, instructor of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Company, 418th Regiment, 140th Division, 47th Army, gave the US army a good lesson with courage and strategy.
In April 1951, Li Yannian's 47th Army entered The Dprk as a fresh force to take over the defense of the 65th Army and ensure the safety of the positions east of the Linjin River. In the past few months, they faced the elite troops of the US army, Turkey, Belgium and other countries, and their positions had not been lost, and they had made great strides forward.
At the end of September, U.S. and South Korean forces launched the Autumn Offensive, and Hill 346.6 was occupied by a reinforced company of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division. The 346.6 heights are unknown, but they are a strategic place, and with it in hand, they can control the railway and road lines from Lianchuan to Tieyuan, and the 3rd Battalion of the 418th Regiment was ordered to retake and hold the 346.6 highlands.
Highland 346.6 is not a mountain, but a "three-dimensional wall" composed of five side-by-side hills, the last of which is a mountain. In front of this "wall" is an open field of several hundred meters and a small river. It was this open field, completely exposed to enemy fire, that became the ghost gate for the volunteer army to lead to the position.
9 companies of left wing main attack, 8 companies for the reserve team, Li Yannian 7 companies of right wing assists. The soldiers were quite unconvinced that they did not grab the "head attack", and Zhang Defu, the leader of the tenth squad, criticized Li Yannian in person for "instigating" and not actively asking for the task.
But Li Yannian told the fighters: "Complaining is not a skill, and if you have the ability, you can play the assist into the main attack!" It turned out that he had already seen the road in it, and who could safely and quickly pass through the 300-meter open field to touch the "wall".
On the evening of the 8th, the 3rd Battalion launched the 346.6 position grab battle, and after a burst of artillery fire, the 7th, 8th, and 9th companies launched a charge, and the machine gun company followed suit.
The enemy's shells were overwhelmed with money, and they continued continuously, and the 300 open land in front of the five hills was completely turned into "cultivated land", turned over and over again, and the craters were connected to the craters. To go up! Let the warriors go to the position alive! Li Yannian stood by the river, looking at the enemy's shells, and then looking at his watch...
As soon as the enemy's artillery fire stopped, he ordered his troops to stop and rushed into the open field alone. The artillery fire rose again, and the soldiers all sweated for him, but after a few rounds of enemy artillery, Li Yannian, who was covered in dust, returned unharmed. He came up with a way to cross the "cannon field" alive.
Li Yannian found out the time law of the enemy's artillery firing and stopping, and asked the fighters to follow this law, jump into the bomb crater to hide during bombing, spread their legs when they stopped, and the average spacing was 3 meters, so that they kept "lying down" and "leaping forward" and advancing in the artillery blockade area.
Through the open field, Zhang Defu led the first class to quickly rush to the first mountain, the enemy did not expect that someone would cross the artillery blockade line so quickly, and appeared in front of them alive, in a few rounds, the mountain changed hands, and the tenth class was the first to recover the lost ground.
Immediately after, the first, fourth, and seventh classes that had waded through the "forbidden area" were not willing to show weakness, scrambling to pounce on the second, third, and fourth hills and quickly take them. At this time, only the last main peak remained, only one squad of the 9 companies that served as the main offensive task arrived at the position, and the 7th company had already turned the assist into the main attack.
No one expected that the 9th and 8th companies did not successfully pass through the open ground covered by enemy artillery. The soldiers of the 9th Company who escaped death told Li Yannian: "The Ninth Company and the Eighth Company were covered by enemy artillery fire when they passed through the open ground, and the casualties were exhausted. ”
When Li Yannian heard this, he was full of anger and immediately commanded his troops to launch a fierce attack on the last main peak. Zhang Defu, the leader of the tenth squad who vowed to fight the main attack, once again took the lead, leading the whole squad from the right wing to touch only 30 meters away from the enemy, encountering frantic strafing from the enemy's machine guns, and he was wounded in the head.
For a time, Zhang Defu's head was bleeding, but he ignored the pain and asked the soldier Zhu Xiefu to help him unscrew the grenade, twist one, and throw one until he threw the 13th grenade, and the enemy's machine guns all stopped. The warriors rushed to the top of the mountain with a single blow, and all five hills of the 346.6 highland were taken.
Zhang Defu had become a bloody man, fainted on the ground, and was carried on a stretcher, and Li Yannian chased after the stretcher and shouted: "Zhang Defu! Zhang Defu! However, this upright man who criticized the "leadership" in person regarded honor as his life and dedicated everything to the motherland and the people, but he had not woken up for a long time.
There is not much information about Zhang Defu, and on the Website of Chinese Heroes, there are as many as 10 "Zhang Defu" who sacrificed their lives in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. After much effort, Xiaobian found the information of Zhu Xiefu, who helped him screw the grenade cover, and read it to make people cry.
Zhu Xiefu did not find a home until 2017, age, place of origin, especially the identity of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 418th Regiment of the 140th Division of the 47th Army, as well as the memories of his relatives, which were listed together, and finally it was determined that Zhu Xiefu, who was buried in a foreign land, was a native of Hanshou, Changde, Hunan.
Zhu Lunhua was the daughter of Zhu Xiefu, and she was 71 years old when the Volunteer Army Martyrs' Family Search Service Group helped him "find" his father. Zhu Lunhua still clearly remembers that when her father left, she was holding an umbrella, and when she was only three or four years old, she held her father's leg and died.
My father still left "fiercely" and never came back. For decades, the scene of her father leaving home has been imprinted in Zhu Lunhua's mind, and she never expected that it would be a farewell.
In the Battle of 346.6 Heights, Zhu Xiefu did not die, he died during the Battle of Changpong County, North Korea in January 1953. The township government sent Zhu Xiefu's living belongings, certificates, etc., but did not know where he buried his bones. For decades, Zhu Lunhua had been thinking about it, but he couldn't even find a place of worship, only in North Korea.
An episode in which we return to the battlefield.
The recapture of the high ground meant that the enemy's frenzied robbery and retaliation soon followed. The 7th Company, which suffered fewer casualties, took the initiative to take on the garrison task of the main peak and the fourth hill, and Li Yannian quickly led Zhu Xiefu and them to repair the fortifications overnight, dig tunnels, and build bunkers to meet the "storm" of the US army after dawn.
On the morning of the 9th, the first to visit were eight US military planes. The huge roar, the sound of the bomb falling, the explosion are intertwined, the dust flying in the sky and the craters left on the ground form a picture of what a tragic vicissitudes. The plane full of bombs tossed back and forth three or four times until all the bombs were emptied.
The heavens are finished, followed by the "baptism" of the ground cannons. Shells roared in rows and bursts, and the explosion sounded like a series of thunderbolts without gaps, blowing up people with hallucinations. It is said that if the US military's tactics are not good, it will "fight steel", and it can withstand the taste of "fighting steel", how uncomfortable it should be, and how much sacrifice it should pay!
As soon as the aircraft cannons passed, the enemy began to attack. One by one, the "natives" who had been blown up and tinnitus crawled out of the soil, covered in dust, and even no one could tell who it was. But they quickly found their own position, vented all the anger of "being bombed", and repelled the enemy's counterattack with one blow.
Of course, the enemy will not stop here, and the second cycle has begun again, still aircraft bombing, artillery bombardment, ground rushing, and simply and rudely "hitting steel." This looting lasted for four consecutive waves, and the positions of the volunteers were not lost, which was a fortification with blood and life.
When Li Yannian counted the number of people again, only himself and three platoon leaders were left with the seven cadres of the Seventh Company, and the troops could only barely assemble 4 squads and more than 40 people. To their death, the radio has also fallen victim, and they have completely lost contact with their superiors. Everything can only rely on themselves, and the position must not be lost!
At this time, only one squad was left in the 9th Company, only 19 people in the 8th Company, and only Song Guoliang, the platoon commander, was left with cadres; Wang Cai, commander of the machine artillery company, and Wang Rongbao, the instructor, were still there, but there were only 15 soldiers left in the whole company. At the time of the expedition, there were hundreds of people in four companies, and now there were only these dozens of steel soldiers in the 346.6 position.
Li Yannian decided to reorganize the four companies, form 9 combat squads, re-appoint squad platoon leaders, convene an emergency meeting, and form a temporary branch committee of the 5 surviving party members and cadres to command the battle in a unified way. Li Yannian had already gone out, saying:
"At this time, I am not welcome, and I will be the temporary convener; if I am sacrificed, Wang Rongbao, the instructor of the machine gun company, will be the convener." Our task is to hold our ground. ”
Just such a team, to defend the five hills, it is not easy to talk about! Just after the deployment, it was already 2 p.m., and the fifth enemy attack began again! At the top of every hill, there were enemies swarming upwards; at each hill, there were only one or twenty volunteer soldiers, and the fierceness of the battle could be imagined.
Every position is a bloody battle. Gao Qingshan, a soldier of the Ninth Class of the Eighth Company, threw more than 20 grenades alone, picked up the enemy's carbine, and knocked down 5 of them. Wang Rongbao, the instructor of the machine gun company, saw that the enemy was about to approach my communication trench, and he shouted loudly: "Rush with me!" "Leading everyone to jump out of the trenches and chase after the enemy, he was wounded in the legs and feet and fell to the ground...
The fiercest fighting was the position of seven companies and one squad. They repelled wave after wave of enemy shocks, and in the end only squad leader Teng Guiqiao was left. He did not retreat, ran out of bullets, threw out the grenades, grabbed the last explosive canister, rushed into the enemy group, and with a bang, the enemy fell one piece, and another "Yang Gensi" flashed on the Korean battlefield.
The warriors repelled the enemy's fifth onslaught and sacrificed their lives to hold their positions, and none of the five hills were lost, and it was already 4 p.m. After this battle, another squad of strength was lost, and the ammunition was almost consumed, so Li Yannian led everyone to "snatch" from the dead enemy.
Just then, the good news came! Unable to contact Li Yannian, the division headquarters sent the deputy company commander of the second company to come with a platoon and a radio! The division commander told Li Yannian directly through the radio: "You played so beautifully! What a great achievement! Continue to strike at the enemy fiercely, and the artillery of the division will fully support you! ”
Before dark, the crazy enemy continued to launch two rounds of offensives, but with the support of the division's artillery fire, Li Yannian was more confident, and let the wind and waves rise, and the position was still there.
At 5:00 a.m. on the 10th, the troops who received the defense rushed to the scene, held out for two days and three nights, repelled several counterattacks by the enemy, and the US troops lost their positions, stopped moving forward, and paid the price of more than 600 casualties.
Li Yannian's "literature" in ideological and political work, the "wu" who is like a god in marksmanship and dares to rush and dare to fight, the "conspiracy" to find out the enemy's artillery bombardment law and cross the dangerous area and use the intersection of the two positions to avoid artillery fire, and the "courage" of 7 people who broke into the enemy's camp and were pioneers and soldiers.
However, as Li Yannian said in his later years, "You are all gone, but the honor belongs to me..." "Meritorious Service" is to use one person to show a group of people, to show the spirit of an era. This is why at the end of "Meritorious Service", there is a little Anton who was shot and did not die, and went back alive to give birth to eight children with the second lady, eight children and eight surnames.
Just think about it, in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, there were as many as 10 martyrs with the same name and surname as Zhang Defu, the leader of the tenth class. Among them, the oldest, "Zhang Defu" of Funan County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, was 30 years old when he died, "Zhang Defu" of Guanghan City, Deyang City, Sichuan Province, and Pudong New Area of Shanghai City was only 20 years old when he died, and "Zhang Defu" of Jintang County, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, was only 18 years old when he died.
What kind of tragedy is this? Why do they not even want their lives?
In that era, there were thousands of Li Yannian and Teng Guiqiao and Zhang Defu, their wishes were simple and innocent, they just wanted to use their lives to fight this battle for the next generation, that is, they hoped that thousands of second girls would be happy, thousands of young people would be able to live and work in peace, marry and have children, the family could not be humiliated, and the country could not be deceived...
The director's ending is brilliant. Little Anton lives to see the beautiful new life they have bought for their lives for their comrades-in-arms, and children are their expectations and continuations, which is the remembrance of their former comrades-in-arms. Sacrificed, alive, no one can forget, must not forget the loveliest group of people.
Li Yannian must not forget that he donated all his medals and certificates, but he has always treasured the photos of his comrades who fought side by side, and he often took out the photos and said to himself: "Now that you are gone, I survived, it was you who shed blood and sacrificed in exchange for today's beauty!" ”
References: "Decisive Battle of Korea", "China Heroic Martyrs Network", "People's Liberation Army Daily", "Changde Daily", etc