My name is Zeng Wengao, I am 86 years old, I have been a member of the Party for 65 years, and my military career has been 25 years. Today, although we have entered the old age, the past years, the negatives of the battle and life are always washed away and lingering in the memory. I joined the army when I was 18 years old, and my unit was an anti-aircraft artilleryman. I experienced crossing the Yalu River to resist the United States and aid Korea, going to the Qinghai Plateau to protect nuclear air defense, and sending friendship to vietnam to resist the United States. The past is vividly remembered, as if it happened yesterday. As a first-hand witness to the war against the United States in Vietnam, this is a war that cannot be forgotten.
In February 1965, the US imperialist war of aggression against Vietnam further escalated, and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was blatantly invaded, and the US military landed nearly 430,000 people in Vietnam, dropping thousands of bombs every day, and indiscriminately bombing Vietnam, and the Vietnamese people suffered unbearable suffering. After the "Beibu Gulf Incident," the mainland has closely followed the movements of the US military. It is known that the United States invaded Vietnam and used huge manpower and material resources, and its purpose was to occupy and establish a land colony around China like Korea, and then threaten and invade the mainland and curb the development of the mainland, so as to achieve its goal of dominating the world.
In April 1965, during Ho Chi Minh's secret visit to China, Chairman Mao met him in Changsha, and during the conversation, Ho Chi Minh took a map out of his clothes and asked China to enter Vietnam to help build a strategic passage. Chairman Mao summoned Luo Ruiqing and Yang Chengwu, the General Counselor, and asked the troops to handle this matter. This is the origin of the story of "Vietnam mobilized 80,000 Chinese engineers on a map". With the continuous expansion of the scale of the Vietnam War, since August 1965, the Chinese government has successively dispatched artillery, engineers, railway troops, signal troops, navies, air force, logistics and transportation and other services, and more than 320,000 volunteer troops, that is, the "Chinese Logistics Force", at the request of the Vietnamese government. More than 150,000 people from my anti-aircraft artillery unit participated in the war, and by March 1968, all the anti-aircraft artillery units had withdrawn and returned to China.
In December 1966, my artillery regiment was ordered to withdraw from the Qinghai Atomic Bomb Base, transport it by long-distance railway, and arrive on time in Chongzuo County, Guangxi Province, to assemble and stand by order. After the pre-war mobilization education, internationalism, and patriotism education, the cadres and fighters' ideological consciousness was unprecedentedly high, and they wrote letters of determination and petition to the party organizations one after another, and some even wrote blood letters and suicide notes. Vow to fight with the US imperialists to the end, vow to add glory to the "five greats", and avenge the hatred of the Vietnamese brothers.
Entering Vietnam to participate in the war was a covert operation, and the cadres and fighters of the troops dressed completely in the style of the Vietnamese Army, wearing helmets, no collar badges, no hat badges, and even the brand of the car was changed. Through the Friendship Pass, all the troops assembled separately and swore an oath to the Friendship Pass, to the people of the motherland, and to Chairman Mao. Friendship Pass was renamed several times (also known as Jiling Pass and Zhennan Pass), but was later renamed "Mu Nan Guan" according to Chairman Mao's instructions on "living on an equal footing, being friendly and harmonious". In 1965, with the approval of the State Council, it was changed to "Friendship Pass" and asked Marshal Chen Yi to write the name of Guan). When one of my comrades-in-arms left the customs, he wrote a poem to express his determination: "Xiongguan stands tall and imposing, and the clan sea people and mountains are full of swords and crossbows." The enemy and the enemy save the Vietnamese country and fight the United States in a tit-for-tat battle. Exotic land like homeland, iron horse Jingo good classroom. Blood stained clothes are not afraid, the world is hot and cold with me."
On January 19, 1967, the first battle of my unit began. After more than eight months of fighting, more than 90 air-to-air operations were fought, and the whole division shot down 100 enemy planes, wounded 97, captured 17 enemy pilots, and killed 8. We suffered 514 casualties (including 86 deaths).
On March 10 and 11, 1967, the two air-fighting operations were the two most brilliant battles achieved by our regiment in more than 90 battles in Vietnam. At 4 p.m. on the 10th, the enemy dispatched 11 batches of 58 sorties, and our army shot down 8 in one fell swoop, of which 4 were in the air, 3 were wounded, 3 pilots were captured, and only 4 were wounded by our side.
On March 11, 1967, the U.S. military invested more troops in an attempt to make a comeback. At 3:40 p.m., the first few pretend flights. Large-scale implementation of electronic interference of our military radar, the loss of targets. When braking, the enemy cuts in the direction of Taiyuan in multiple batches, multiple planes, multiple directions, multiple layers, and different heights. Looking up, the enemy planes were all over the sky, and all kinds of artillery fire of our army were fired in unison. Suddenly, the sound of aircraft, bombs, artillery, and deafening noises, thick smoke billowing from the entire battlefield, flakes of fire, and cannons rumbling, there was a great threat of black clouds crushing the city. After 40 minutes of bloody fighting, 10 enemy planes were shot down, 3 were wounded, and 7 pilots were captured. Our army suffered 31 casualties and 13 deaths. The sixth company of my brotherhood (605) was the most tragic, the company commander was wounded, the deputy instructor was killed, and all but 2 people in the first squad were killed. The guns and trees outside the bunker were hung with the flesh and blood of sacrificed comrades.
The Vietnamese people in the Taiyuan area were amazed by these two battles: the first time they saw the American planes taken down, the first time they saw the enemy planes blossom in the air, and the first time they saw the pilots who took a lot of prisoners. Congratulatory and condolence telegrams were sent from the General Staff Department, the General Political Department, the Shenyang Military Region, and the Guangzhou Military Region. Vietnamese Defense Minister Wu Yuanjia sent a congratulatory message in the name of the Vietnam Military Commission
On the battlefield, the greatest contradiction is life and death. In the company squatting point, I met a lot of soldier friends, many of whom grew into heroic models, and from their same behavior, I found a same "gene", that is, to break through the threshold of "life and death".
Death is not afraid, what else are you afraid of? Liu Jianlie, the second gunner of the second squad of the third company of our regiment, was wounded in the head, his face was covered with blood, and his eyes could not be opened during the battle on June 7, so he pushed the shell weighing more than 20 kilograms into the chamber with amazing perseverance and fired it out, and then fell on the gun plate. After rescue, he was sent to the General Hospital of the Guangzhou Military Region for treatment and was in a coma for 48 consecutive days. After the war, he was honored with a first-class merit and was known as a "Hero of the Mai Xiande Style".
Wang Kejing, the instructor of the fourth company of our regiment, in the "one. In the first battle of the Twenty-Nine, their company was handing over positions with the Vietnamese army, and their foothold was unstable, and they were bombed by enemy aircraft, and they were wounded in 36 places. The company hygienist went to rescue the bandage, but he refused, and asked the medical staff to rescue other comrades. Later, the doctors who came to the hospital were treated under simple conditions and sent back to the General Hospital of the Guangzhou Military Region for treatment, and after the war, they were credited with first-class merit. Before the war, he was an active member of the Shenyang Military Region's active study and use of Chairman Mao's writings, and was elected as a member of the party committee of the Shenyang Military Region, a deputy to the "Ninth National Congress" of the party, and a member of the presidium, and was cordially received by Chairman Mao.
They are also flesh and blood, and they also understand that life is precious. However, the battlefield is a place of life-and-death struggle, and it is impossible to avoid or choose. According to our warriors, "Even if you die, you will die worth it." Serious injuries do not cry, minor injuries do not scream, bloody sacrifice, revolutionary needs! ”
In this war, 12 people of the whole division served first-class merit, 78 people with second-class merit, and 2,170 people with third-class merit; 4 companies with first-class merit and 15 companies with third-class merit; 15 third-class meritorious service platoons; 29 second-class meritorious service classes and 143 third-class meritorious service classes.
Hats off to the old heroes