On January 25, 1951, on the banks of the Han River in North Korea, melting snow flowed above the positions, the air emitted a strong smell of gun smoke, and the temperature of more than 30 degrees below zero made the Han River lake surface frozen with a thick layer of ice, General Zeng Zesheng looked from the headquarters to the surface of the Han River, and the 40,000 soldiers in the trenches also looked at the thick ice, everyone's hearts were tense to the extreme, and the roar of the aircraft tank engines in the distance gradually became clear, and they knew that the people they had been waiting for were coming. In the distance, a crowd of black oppressors gradually appeared, that is, the 230,000-strong army of the United Nations Army, slowly opening up to them.
Zeng Zesheng
The path to study
In 1902, Zeng Zesheng was born in Yongshan County, Yunnan Province, a large family, with hundreds of acres of land, the family population of dozens of people, and a sudden change changed his life, Zeng Zesheng died when he was two years old, his mother then remarried to his uncle, in this family Zeng Zesheng also did not have a place, on the contrary, he endured a huge blow, but also saw the world's cold, after graduating from high school, the family deprived him of the cost of schooling, did not allow him to study again, At this time, it became a luxury for Zeng Zesheng to continue to study, but Zeng Zesheng, who was eager to study, was not willing to give up his studies, stole two hundred silver dollars from his family, planned to run away from home to continue to complete his studies, and finally was caught at home by relatives who went to the city, after many intercessions, the family reluctantly agreed to let him go to junior high school, but only in the past year, Zeng Zesheng was cut off from all supplies, and General Zeng Zesheng said in his future recollection of that time, "I desperately protested against my family and wanted to enter middle school to study." ”
Tang Jiyao
In 1922, the desperate Zeng Zesheng resolutely chose to join the army, he was successfully admitted to the Jianguo machine gun non-commissioned unit set up by Tang Jiyao with excellent results, and after graduation, he was admitted to the 18th phase of the Yunnan Daowutang with excellent results, after Zeng Zesheng entered the Yunnan Daowutang, everything was not as he wished, the inaction of the leadership in the school made him feel angry, and in 1925, Zeng Zesheng, who made up his mind, dropped out of the Yunnan Daowutang and was admitted to the Huangpu Military Academy, and was appointed as the district captain of the third phase. In December, he was transferred to the company commander of the third regiment of the teaching regiment because of his excellent performance, but after a period of time, Zeng Zesheng found that although the teaching regiment was mostly a gathering place for higher-level officers, it was still unable to get rid of the atmosphere of eating, drinking, and gambling, and the atmosphere of corruption pervaded the entire management, and the military affairs of the officers' team did not pay attention to it.
Two years later, Zeng Zesheng successfully graduated from the senior class of the Whampoa Military Academy and was transferred to the front-line army, but here Zeng Zesheng saw the dirtier side of the Kuomintang army, withholding soldiers' salaries, squeezing soldiers, and the lives of the low-level soldiers were miserable. Zeng Zesheng was deeply disappointed by what he saw and heard, and he once again firmly resigned and went to Shanghai to study auto repair.
In 1929, Zeng Zesheng was invited by the local warlord Long Yun in Yunnan to become the deputy captain of the officer cadet team and met many young officers with aspirations and ideals, Zeng Zesheng hit it off with them, the young Zeng Zesheng seemed to have found his own home, but just a few months later, Chiang Kai-shek sent his cronies to Yunnan to investigate and handle affairs, but the investigation and handling of affairs was only Chiang Kai-shek's ostensible purpose, and its real purpose was to eliminate the local forces in Yunnan and firmly control Yunnan in his own hands. Officer cadets, including Zeng Zesheng, were forced to disarm, and Zeng Zesheng was also imprisoned, and finally released from prison after the unremitting rescue of Lu Han and others.
Bloody war against Japan
In 1937, with the beginning of the Japanese army's all-out invasion of China, the nation was in danger, and Zeng Zesheng knew that this was the time of life and death of the Chinese nation, and defending the family and defending the nation was the innate mission and unshirkable responsibility of a soldier. In a letter to a friend, Zeng Zesheng wrote, "In the period when the violent Japanese invaded the land and brutally killed the people and the country was in trouble, the War of Resistance Against Japan must be the first major event at present. Then under the appointment of Long Yun, Zeng Zesheng became the commander of the 184th Division of the 60th Army, and then went to the Taierzhuang battlefield with the army to fight to the death with the Japanese army, and was bound to fight against the Japanese Kou, the Japanese army formed the Tenth Army in the Taierzhuang battlefield, in a vain attempt to swallow up the 500,000 main forces of the nationalist army, and when the Japanese army thought that they had won the victory, a small Yuwang Mountain made it difficult for them to move, and the blocking force stationed here was the 60th Army where Zeng Zesheng belonged, and the task received by the Zeng Zesheng regiment was to hold the frontal position, and Zeng Zesheng personally led the death squad. Fighting close to the Japanese army, not only defending their own positions, but also recovering many friendly positions.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zeng Zesheng was promoted to the commander of the 60th Army. After the collapse of the Kuomintang-Communist negotiations, General Zeng Zesheng has always been reluctant to fight in China, but under pressure, he had to go with the army to the northeast to participate in the civil war, in the Liaoshen Campaign, the 60th Army was besieged in Changchun City, Zeng Zesheng personally witnessed Chiang Kai-shek's troops withholding the salaries of the Dian Army, well aware of the darkness and decay within the Kuomintang, after many consultations, in 1948, Zeng Zesheng in order to protect the lives of the soldiers, led the 60 army to abandon the dark and surrender to the Ming, gave up any resistance, our party effortlessly liberated Changchun. Subsequently, the Kuomintang 60th Army was reorganized into the 50th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Korean
In 1950, war broke out on the Korean Peninsula, the United Nations army disregarded the mainland's repeated opposition, brazenly crossed the 38th Line, spread the flames of war to the mainland border areas, posing a serious threat to the mainland border areas, the mainland was not afraid of foreign enemies, quickly formed the People's Volunteer Army under the leadership of Mr. Peng, crossed the choppy Yalu River, embarked on the road to defend the country, and the 50 Army was also in the ranks, but in the first and second battles, the 50 Army did not play a dazzling battle, and many times interspersed with empty air. Finally, in the late stages of the Second Campaign, he and the 39th Army invaded Seoul, but their overall performance was still criticized. The whole army, including the commander Zeng Zesheng, held his breath tightly, wanting to shame and prove himself. As a Kuomintang uprising unit, Zeng Zesheng and his generals always felt that they were miscellaneous troops, but they never had the opportunity to justify themselves for the 50th Army, and this opportunity, with the opening of the prelude to the fourth battle, also quietly came.
In the fourth battle, Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai deployed the 50th Army along the Han River to block the enemy, and in January the Korean wind was cold, but the shells of the 230,000 troops of the United Nations Army fell into the positions of the 50th Army like raindrops, and the soldiers of the 50th Army did not retreat from the battle, and carried down the rain of bullets and bullets from the United Nations Army with their flesh and blood, and at the most tragic time, three or four companies were all sacrificed on the positions in one day, and the battalion-level structure was scattered into companies, and they had to reorganize and continue to participate in the battle, in just half a month. The 40,000 soldiers of the 50th Army lost more than half, and the whole army only had about 4 battalions of troops left, and Zeng Zesheng could only shrink the troops and arrange them at strategic points.
In February, the ice surface of the Han River thawed, the 50th Army moved to the north bank of the Han River, built a position, and continued to block the United Nations Army, in the defensive battle that lasted for more than 50 days, more than 40,000 people of the 50Th Army successfully blocked 230,000 United Nations troops at the cost of more than half of the casualties, nailed the enemy to the banks of the Han River, so that it could not move forward, this battle 50 Army became famous in one battle, was praised by Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai as the strongest defensive force, the soldiers were disgraced, and the 50 Army became a well-known unit in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In 1955, General Zeng Zesheng, who had distinguished himself in battle, was awarded the Order of Liberation of the First Class and conferred the rank of Lieutenant General of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the general, who had been summoned twice by Chairman Mao, completed his wonderful life on February 22, 1973.