On the Korean battlefield, the US military often relies on advanced weapons and equipment to occupy the superiority of firepower, using automatic rifles to shoot wildly at close ranges, forming a dense network of light and heavy machine guns at long distances, and even sometimes the infantry bombards indiscriminately with aircraft and artillery before they are dispatched.
Because of the gap in weapons and equipment, our army often avoided its sharp edge and avoided large-scale head-on confrontation, but instead launched a surprise melee night battle, which repeatedly frustrated its vigor and finally won the war.
However, one soldier in our army, with only the help of the Millet Plus rifle without a scope, in several head-to-head confrontations with the enemy, under the dense fire of the enemy, accurately shot one bullet after another into the bodies of 203 enemies and killed them.
His name is Zou Xixiang, he is an ordinary peasant boy in Zunyi, Guizhou, what kind of experience made him a sharpshooter who made the enemy feel frightened? How did he kill 203 enemy soldiers under the heavy enemy fire?
Peasant children who came out of the mountains
Any good sniper is a collection of many excellent combat qualities, and Zou Xixiang, as the sniper god of the Korean battlefield, is no exception, and the reason why he can achieve such impressive results is that in addition to the hard training in the army, the growth experience in the early years has already cultivated him into a good seedling of a sniper.
In the mountains of the countryside of Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, Zou Xixiang was born into a poor rural family, although most of his fathers lived by working long-term jobs for rich families and as sharecroppers, but no local landlord and local tycoon dared to easily provoke the Zou family.
Because Zou Xixiang's father and brothers have a total of seven people, and each one loves to play with gunpowder guns, once anyone has a problem, everyone gathers up, it is simply a small civilian armed force.
In that turbulent old society, such a family can not only protect their own safety, but also guard the peace of the village, so the Zou family is enough respected by the local people, Zou Xixiang was born in such a family, and his heart is full of security.
From the time he understood things, Zou Xixiang followed his father to hunt in the mountains, and when he couldn't move the shotgun, he first learned how to find prey, how to hide himself, and how to design traps.
After getting a little older, Zou Xixiang took up a gunpowder gun to hunt with his father, from aiming to serving the gun, from quickly reloading ammunition to continuously tracking the target, his father, uncle and uncle all carefully taught him, Zou Xixiang's gun skills can be described as the strength of a hundred families.
At the beginning of the gun training, the fixed target could not be hit, and later after hard training, you can quickly raise the gun at any time to hit the birds in the sky and the beasts on the ground.
While other local teenagers were playing around, Zou Xixiang was already carrying a gun and hunting in the mountains and forests to make a living, while protecting the safety of his father and elders in his hometown.
Zou Xixiang originally thought that such a full and uneventful life would continue forever, but the social turmoil still changed his fate.
At the age of seventeen, Zou Xixiang was captured by the Kuomintang army, and later the Kuomintang army was defeated, and Zou Xixiang's unit was captured by the People's Liberation Army.
Zou Xixiang could have gone home directly with the coils given by the Plaster, but at this time he realized that the PLA was a truly people's army, and that the decaying and vicious Kuomintang army had long been deeply resentful, so he resolutely joined the PLA.
The Battle of Huaihai showed its skill
In the Battle of Huaihai, Zou Xixiang's company was ordered to serve as a blockade task in a position, and after repelling the enemy's first charge, Zou Xixiang suddenly thought of a good idea: even if the marksmanship is good, it can only kill one enemy with one shot, but if the power of the grenade can be combined with the accurate marksmanship, the killing efficiency will be greatly increased.
So he took out a few grenades, and instead of pulling them, they were thrown all over the vicinity of the position where he could see them.
After the enemy pounced, Zou Xixiang shot the grenade thrown in advance with his excellent marksmanship, so that the enemy did not have the reaction time of the opponent's grenade, and was blown up by these "live mines".
After a battle, Zou Xixiang killed more than a dozen enemies with a few bullets and a few grenades, and since then, he has often carried many grenades on his body, and in large and small battles, Zou Xixiang has killed more than fifty enemy troops with superb marksmanship and grenade cooperation, becoming a veritable heroic sharpshooter.
After the founding of New China, the head of the army specially let Zou Xixiang serve as an instructor to teach the soldiers marksmanship, and Zou Xixiang gave his hunting experience and combat experience to the soldiers without reservation, training more sharpshooters in the republic.
In June 1950, the Outbreak of the Korean War, the Central Military Commission in order to protect the security of the northeast border, decided to send troops into Korea to fight, Zou Xixiang immediately asked the leader of the unit to enter the Korean War, but the superiors considered that he was a senior shooting instructor, hoping that he would stay in the rear to continue to teach the soldiers skills.
Zou Xixiang firmly told his superiors that it is more meaningful to teach fighters marksmanship and sniper techniques on the front line, and he hopes that when he goes to the front line, he can not only kill the enemy and serve the country, but also teach marksmanship to the soldiers in practice.
In the end, his superiors approved of Zou Xixiang's idea, and he was incorporated into a combat company under the 45th Division of the 15th Army of the Chinese Volunteer Army.
The Korean battlefield achieved an astonishing record, and the demobilization returned to the field without eating canned food
The arrogant U.S. military did not pay attention to the volunteers at first, and the commander-in-chief of the United Nations army even openly called for an end to the Korean War in a few months, so that soldiers could spend the holiday at home on Thanksgiving at the end of the year.
What made the U.S. army feel incredible was that as soon as the Volunteers entered Korea, they quickly launched the first campaign to defeat the UN army, and the second and third campaigns launched in succession made the UN army retreat one after another, all the way to the south of the 38th Parallel.
Fleeing U.S. troops
The 15th Army was known as the "Nine Thousand Years Old Army" because it had been able to die many times when it was in trouble, and this army still exerted great power on the Korean battlefield, and served many important offensive and blocking tasks, the most famous of which was the Battle of Shangganling.
In the autumn of 1952, because of its successive defeats on the Korean battlefield, the United States took the initiative to propose an armistice to China, but this was only a delaying strategy for the United States.
While negotiating with the volunteers, the US military was preparing to launch the "Jinhua Offensive" in the middle of the Korean Peninsula in an attempt to capture the Ganling area, a strategic point north of Jinhua, and the main target of the attack was the Five Holy Mountains where Zou Xixiang's troops were stationed.
Near the high ground defended by Zou Xixiang's company, the U.S. army built a defensive offensive, because they did not receive the offensive task, these American soldiers smoked and chatted and played cards on the position.
When some people saw that there had been no movement on the Positions of the Chinese Army, they became more and more fearless, walking around the vicinity of the positions with great swagger, making wild remarks at the Mouth of the Chinese Positions, drawing all kinds of insulting defensive positions, and even shamelessly peeing in the direction of the Chinese positions.
For these acts of the US military, Zou Xixiang and the soldiers had already held their stomachs on fire, and they discussed how to let these Yankees taste the taste of bullets.
At this time, Zou Xixiang was a machine gun platoon leader, and he let the soldiers take turns to guard the best observation position of the position, while he stayed in the position that was most conducive to concealment, sniping and retreating, and once the soldier found that there was a sniper target to shoot, and tell him.
One day, an officer came up from the US position, and the soldiers on the position saluted him, and the soldiers immediately reported the situation to Zou Xixiang, who quickly loaded the bullets, judged the wind direction, wind speed and distance, and looked at the timing.
With a "bang" of gunshots, the US officers fell to the ground in response, and the other US soldiers were suddenly frightened and headshots, burrowed into the bunker, and shouted "There are snipers!" ”
In fact, Zou Xixiang is not as the US soldiers think, through the sniper rifle with a scope of advanced sniper rifle, he is holding only a "old" millet plus rifle.
The US military thought that the simple weapons and equipment of the Chinese army could not be accurately sniped at such a distance, so it became more and more arrogant, but it did not expect that the superiors who came to inspect were directly planted under the guns of the Chinese army, and the US soldiers after that became a flock of frightened birds, often hiding in the trenches and never daring to show their faces easily.
And Zou Xixiang did not make the life of the US military better, and always found an opportunity to kill the US troops who appeared.
The angry Americans retaliated against chinese positions with intensive firepower, and the fighters were prepared for this situation, always quickly hiding in bunkers to avoid their fire.
Before the US army launched the attack, Zou Xixiang had already killed more than 30 US soldiers with cold gun tactics, causing the enemy to fall into a deep panic, and after starting the attack, he did not dare to launch a charge, but only used air force and artillery fire to bombard the volunteer positions indiscriminately.
Between the flying sand and stones, the position was blown up in the dark, the soldiers hid in the bunker and endured the bombardment, and finally waited until the enemy infantry came up, the soldiers opened fire, desperately resisted, and repelled several enemy attacks.
However, the fire generated by the enemy's bombers, tanks and mountain artillery was too fierce, and one soldier after another fell in the artillery fire, Zou Xixiang and the remaining fighters temporarily hid in the tunnel, and the enemy touched it again.
Zou Xixiang hid himself in the shadows, specifically sniping the enemy officers who were charging in front, and which American soldier dared to boldly rush forward would also be solved by Zou Xixiang with bullets.
The warriors held in the tunnel for seven days and seven nights, the dry food was almost eaten, the soldiers were all hungry by the little wild vegetables they found, Zou Xixiang held the gun for a long time, the skin of his hands was seriously cracked, but he never left the gun, ready to pull the trigger.
One night, Zou Xixiang decided to risk his life to find out the position and go to the distant battalion command post to report the situation here.
When he left the position more than a hundred meters later, he was accidentally discovered by the American troops, and the dense fire immediately hit him, and he jumped and tumbled down the hillside, his arms and chest bleeding.
After a simple bandage with his clothes, he immediately rushed towards the battalion headquarters, and before he was about to faint, he finally arrived at the headquarters and informed him of the situation of the position, and the battalion commander immediately sent someone to support the position, and the Five Holy Mountains were successfully defended.
After recovering from his wounds, Zou Xixiang immediately returned to the unit to continue to participate in the battle, and did not return to China with the troops until the end of the Korean War, in the process of Participating in the Korean War, Zou Xixiang used a total of 206 bullets and killed a total of 203 enemy soldiers, known as the "sniper god" in the People's Liberation Army.
Xiaomi Plus rifle
The superior leaders decided to award Zou Xixiang the title of "first-class combat hero" and the first-class meritorious service medal, but Zou Xixiang said that he would not accept anything, and whenever he thought of his comrades who fell beside him in the battle, he could not help but shed tears.
The brother who had been eating in a pot the day before, and even a minute before, was shot and killed next to him, with blood in his mouth and his hands clutching the steel gun in his hand.
Zou Xixiang told his superiors that his comrades-in-arms were all combat heroes, and he was only lucky to survive and was not eligible to enjoy this honor exclusively, and later at his request, the troops awarded this honor to his platoon, and each soldier became a combat hero.
Shortly after the end of the war, Zou Xixiang retired from the army and returned to his hometown to live a simple peasant life again, silently storing the military merit badges and honorary certificates brought back from the army at the bottom of the box, without mentioning anything about his famous mythical sniper record of the whole army.
Whenever someone asked about his military experience, he always said that he was an ordinary soldier and had nothing to say.
For Zou Xixiang, the purpose of joining the army is to strive for national peace, and now that his wish has been fulfilled, he should live his current life well, and should never use the past honor as a capital to show off.
It was not until many years later, when a media reporter took the initiative to interview Zou Xixiang, which touched his memories of the past, that he once again mentioned his experience of participating in the war in Korea many years ago.
At that time, there were often some canned gifts given by everyone during the New Year's Festival, and Zou Xixiang never ate them.
Zou Xixiang had eaten canned food several times before the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, but he never ate it again after returning home from the army.
When fighting in Korea, American soldiers often used canned food as dry food, and volunteer soldiers were always tired because they were hungry, and when he and his comrades dug wild vegetable leaves to survive in order to hold their positions, he thought that if the soldiers could eat canned food, they would definitely have more physical strength to continue fighting.
As long as he saw the can, the voice and smile of the sacrificed comrades and the appearance of the sacrifice would come to his mind, making him sad.
Whenever he mentioned his comrades-in-arms who died in those years, Zou Xixiang would still shed tears, "Those brothers are still buried in Korea, they exchanged their lives for victory, they exchanged their blood for the current peaceful days, I remember the faces of those comrades-in-arms around me in this life..."
Zou Xixiang
Later, the local government department repeatedly proposed to provide Zou Xixiang with various welfare guarantees, but he refused one by one, and eventually he passed away calmly as an ordinary farmer.