On the morning of November 25, 1950, there was chaos in the Volunteer Army Headquarters in Dae-yu-dong, north of Korea, because just now, 4 Us fighter jets suddenly appeared over the volunteer headquarters station, and Peng Dehuai, then commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, was keenly aware that the US troops at this time were likely to have discovered the location of our Volunteer Army Headquarters, so he immediately ordered all the personnel of the command to immediately hide in the air raid shelter to avoid danger.
And just when the staff of the headquarters was just preparing to evacuate, nearly a hundred incendiary bombs fell like raindrops around the headquarters, and the deafening explosion sounded through the clouds, and the entire headquarters was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire, and the fire caused by the incendiary bombs flooded the houses but also drowned two young lives, they were Gao Ruixin, the headquarters combat staff officer who failed to evacuate in time, and Mao Anying, who was then the confidential secretary of the headquarters and a Russian translator.
As the president of the country, I have a son myself, and if I do not send him to resist us and aid Korea to defend my family and defend the country, whose son will I send?
This is a sentence that Chairman Mao, who has just experienced the pain of losing his son, said to his friend Zhou Shizhao, and for decades, because of this sentence, the people of the world have praised the heroic deeds of Chairman Mao sending his son to the DPRK and Mao Anying's heroic sacrifice. But what most people don't know is that in addition to Chairman Mao, there are still three big figures who, at a time of national crisis, have no hesitation in sending their own flesh and blood to the battlefield.
So, who are these three "big men"? What happened to these three special descendants in the Korean War?
First, a good "one gunner"
You, who were not less arrogant, also sent the big cub to North Korea, this time it was father and son who participated in the war.
It was no one else who spoke, it was Peng Dehuai, then commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, who was smiling and enthusiastically holding the hands of another middle-aged man.
Only to see the middle-aged man smile slightly, and replied with a loud voice: "Defend the family and defend the country!" ”
In October 1950, in order to save the Korean people who were in the midst of the sea, and also to prevent the flames of war on the Korean Peninsula from burning on The land of China, under the order of Chairman Mao, hundreds of thousands of volunteer soldiers crossed the Yalu River with great strength and vigor, and in this strange land of the Korean Peninsula, they showed their fangs to the arrogant United Nations army commanded by MacArthur!
Since the United Nations army led by the United States entered the war, the Korean People's Army quickly fell into passivity, and the land it had previously captured was basically lost. One of the most important reasons for the defeat of the Korean People's Army is that there is an absolute gap in equipment with the United Nations Army. The superior weapons and equipment of the United Nations Army have also brought great casualties to the volunteer soldiers who have entered the KOREAN War.
At that time, taking into account the actual conditions of our volunteer army's poor air superiority, how to give play to the superiority of our army's ground operations became one of the important factors that could influence the war situation, so Peng Dehuai, then commander-in-chief of the volunteer army, immediately summoned Kuang Yumin, then director of the artillery command post of the Chinese Volunteer Army, and briefed him in detail on the situation currently facing our army and the tasks that the artillery had to accomplish during the battle!
Why does Mr. Peng trust Kuang Yumin so much? It all started in 1931.
That year, kuang Yumin, 24, carried a mortar and participated in the second "anti-encirclement and suppression" operation with the team. In May of that year, the Red Army wanted to break through the city of Guangchang, but Hu Zuyu, the commander of the Kuomintang Fifth Division who was responsible for blocking the Red Army, left the strength of 4 regiments to defend Guangchang, and faced with the intensive strafing of machine guns above the city wall, countless Red Army soldiers fell on the road of the charge. Seeing that the troops could not be attacked for a long time, the commanders on the front line were impatient, and with an authentic Hunan accent, they broke their mouths and scolded:
What about our shells? Why can't our shells knock out this point of fire!
At that time, in the ranks of the Red Army, most of the soldiers were equipped with only short-range, low-power mortars, and due to the lack of professional training in mortars, mortars basically relied on experience to target targets for shelling, and their accuracy could be imagined.
After hearing the commander's scolding, several mortars of the artillery company took turns and fired several shots at the Nationalist machine gun company, but none of them could hit the target. What was even more troublesome was that after the shelling of the Red Army, the strafing of the Kuomintang machine guns seemed to be a few points more ferocious than before, and the Red Army soldiers could not even lift their heads.
Looking at the muzzle of the enemy's machine gun, unscrupulously spewing flames, Kuang Yumin, who was lying on the side of the mountain, was filled with righteous indignation, rolled up his sleeves, set up the gun body, aimed at the enemy's position, and quickly fired a cannon, only to see that this shell impartially concentrated on the Kuomintang machine gun position, and the enemy's screams were quickly heard from the trenches.
"The machine gun is dumb! Fast! Comrades rush over with me! ”
Seeing that the enemy had no superiority in firepower, the commander quickly led the Red Army fighters to launch a charge toward the enemy's position, and in order to cover the charging team, Kuang Yumin, together with other comrades of the artillery company, fired several shells at the enemy's position, and the enemy threw away his armor.
In the Battle of Guangchang, the Red Army annihilated more than a thousand enemies, and while the soldiers celebrated for victory, they did not forget to give praise to the artillery company that covered their charge, and inside the artillery company, an unknown soldier became the protagonist of everyone's praise, he was Kuang Yumin, who was jokingly called "cannon barrel" by his comrades-in-arms.
After that, the story of Kuang Yumin dropping the machine gun squad with a cannon reached the ears of Mr. Peng, who deliberately found him and said to him humorously:
Your boy's cannon is really a god, a cannon will put old Jiang's machine gun squad, be careful old Jiang to find you to settle the account!
Only to see Kuang Yumin touch the mortar next to him and confidently say, "I'm afraid old Jiang won't come!" ”
When Mr. Peng heard this, he immediately fell in love with this artilleryman, and soon transferred Kuang Yumin to his command and made him the leader of the special branch team and the commander of the artillery battalion.
After that, in the Three Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Operations of the Red Army and in the arduous and long march, as long as the Red Third Army encountered the enemy's siege, the soldiers could always hear the name of a person in the mouth of Mr. Peng - Kuang Yumin!
In this way, Kuang Yumin followed Peng Dehuai in the southern expedition to the northern war, and used his accurate shells to help our army win a battle, so that on the eve of the invasion of korea, Peng Dehuai personally ordered the general, saying that kuang Yumin should also be allowed to serve as the "one gunner" of the volunteer army artillery.
Kuang Yumin, who was already the director of the artillery command post of the Volunteer Army, learned that he was about to enter the Korean war, and hoped that he could grow into an excellent soldier under the baptism of war.
However, the battlefield is not a child's play, and if you are not careful, you will disappear, so Sun Bin summarized the battlefield as "the place of death and life, the way of survival". Even so, Kuang Yumin's eldest son did not shrink back, preferring to give his life for the sake of the country; Kuang Yumin, as a father, was not afraid, and even the chairman sent his son to the battlefield, and the son of his artillery commander should of course stand on the battlefield of Korea.
However, what Kuang Yumin never expected was that the news of his son's sacrifice would come so quickly and so suddenly.
In November 1950, in order to consolidate the victory of the first campaign, the Volunteer Army and the Korean People's Army launched a second campaign against the United Nations Army under the command of Mr. Peng. In this large battle, Kuang Yumin's eldest son died heroically in a battle.
After learning the bad news of his son's sacrifice, Kuang Yumin was silent for a long time, he forcibly endured the sad mood, continued to command the troops to fight, and waited until after the victory of the army, when Mr. Peng came to comfort him, this veteran general who had experienced hundreds of battles said to Peng Dehuai with tears:
My son died for the country, and the Korean people died a glorious death!
General Kuang Yumin, who sent his son to the dynasty, could only return to his homeland with his son's ashes in the end, which was really sad and admirable, and in contrast, another descendant with a special status had a much better ending, he was the son of the founding lieutenant general Tian Weiyang - Tian Mingsheng.
2. Son of a military commander
Speaking of Tian Mingsheng's life, I have to talk about his father, Tian Weiyang.
Tian Weiyang was born in a relatively progressive family, his father was the captain of the Red Guards, and his five brothers were also members of the Red Guards, and the aura of the Red Guards brought the pride of the Tian family the characteristics of revolutionaries, and also brought disaster to the Tian family.
In 1927, the Kuomintang reactionaries began to carry out a military crackdown on the peasant movement, Tian Weiyang's father was beaten to death by the reactionaries, and his brother was also imprisoned, only Tian Weiyang escaped the disaster, and later joined the Red Third Army led by Peng Dehuai and became a Red Army soldier.
In the following ten years, Tian Weiyang followed General Peng in the southern expedition to the north and made great achievements, from platoon commander and company commander to the position of commander of the 41st Army. After the founding of New China, Tian Weiyang once again returned to his hometown, but at this time, his home had long been unrecognizable, and even the old mother who was often worried about him did not know when he would die. Fortunately, Tian Weiyang found his son Tian Mingsheng, who was born to his ex-wife.
Under the persuasion of his father, Tian Mingsheng voluntarily joined the ranks of the volunteer army, and on the battlefield, he was like Tian Weiyang in the past, not afraid of life and death, and always charged forward.
In a battle, in order to complete the combat mission, Tian Mingsheng was hit in the thigh by the enemy's bullet, and fainted on the way forward due to excessive bleeding, fortunately, the medical soldiers gave him emergency treatment, Tian Mingsheng saved a life, and his thigh that was hit by the bullet could not be saved in any way.
After recovering from his injuries, Tian Mingsheng returned to his hometown and met his father. It is reasonable to say that Tian Mingsheng was promoted to a "high-ranking cadre's disciple" and was wounded on the battlefield, which belongs to a meritorious person, as long as his father Tian Weiyang operates a little, Tian Mingsheng can be mixed into a work that is both idle and decent in the army or localities. But as a communist, Tian Weiyang did not open this "back door" for his son, but only let his son return to his hometown to work as a farmer with peace of mind, and Tian Mingsheng also followed his father's teachings, became an honest and responsible farmer for a lifetime, and finally, accompanied by his children, peacefully completed his life.
Third, father and son reunited on the battlefield
August 14, 1929, Liangshan County, Sichuan Province. On this day, dark clouds hung over the earth, and the earth, which had been hungry and thirsty for a long time, finally ushered in the gift of God at this moment, and on this night when it was as dark as ink and the wind and rain were mixed, a sonorous and powerful cry came from a peasant family in Shima Village.
Looking at the crying baby, the man who was a new father excitedly said to his wife: "Seeing that this child is crying so vigorously, he will definitely be able to be a man who stands tall in the sky in the future, so it is better to call him 'Yan Bangyi'." ”
The wife nodded, "Hmm," and then unbuttoned her shirt and nursed her sobbing child.
In the blink of an eye, 10 years have passed, and this year's kind and benevolent grandmother unfortunately passed away, which completely changed Yan Bangyi's life.
Since the age of 2, after the father went out, he has not been in contact with the family, after playing that, grandma has become the only "top pillar" in this family, when the grandmother was alive, Yan Bangyi's family was not bad, at least eat and wear, but since the death of the grandmother, their family's life is not as good as a day. In the end, Yan Bangyi could only live with his second uncle Yan Zhongying.
In 1945, on the way to the ancestral hall of his hometown to worship his ancestors, the second uncle suddenly told Yan Bangyi that his father was still alive and was still a Communist Party! This made Yan Bangyi, who was thinking of his father, suddenly have the impulse to look for his father. However, in the process of his search for his father, Yan Bangyi was instead captured by the Kuomintang to become a zhuangding and became a soldier in the 25th Division of the National Revolutionary Army.
Fortunately, among the troops serving at that time, Yan Bangyi's superior was a latent member of our party, and under his special care, Yan Bangyi not only became a squad leader, but also launched an uprising with the troops in ShiyangChang, Guanxian County.
After becoming the People's Liberation Army, Yan Bangyi received a letter from his father for the first time, and on the thin two-page letter paper, his father repeatedly told him to study well and obey the organization, Yan Bangyi remembered all these words in his heart and did not dare to forget.
In 1951, because of his culture, Yan Bangyi became a cultural instructor in the 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion, 141st Regiment, 47th Division, 16th Army.
In February of that year, Yan Bangyi's headquarters suddenly received an order to immediately go to North China to participate in the training camp and make preparations for entering the DPRK.
Seven months later, Yan Bangyi followed a large army across the Yalu River to the Korean battlefield. The winter in North Korea was unusually cold, and the thick snow did not even pass the knees of many soldiers, who marched hard in the snow, and as soon as the sweat fell on their cheeks, they instantly froze into ice beads. In addition to the cold weather, Yan Bangyi and his comrades-in-arms must always be on the lookout for enemy aircraft circling in the sky.
Once, Yan Bangyi and his comrades were eating on the side of the road, and suddenly several enemy planes appeared in the sky, and the people who heard the sound of propellers did not dare to be idle, and immediately went down the hillside to hide in the woods on the mountain, and before the soldiers could climb to the top of the hillside, the place where they had just eaten was razed to the ground by bombs. This encounter made Yan Bangyi feel the danger and cruelty of war for the first time, so that many years later, when he was over the age of ancient, he still remembered this encounter when he was interviewed by reporters.
One day in 1952, the instructor suddenly sent Yan Bangyi an envelope marked with Arabic numerals, Yan Bangyi was particularly surprised, immediately opened the envelope, and sure enough, the envelope contained nothing else, it was a letter written to him by his father.
Until this moment, Yan Bangyi did not know that his father had also come to the Korean battlefield. In the letter, his father instructed Yan Bangyi to obey the command, not to be afraid of hardship, not to be afraid of bloodshed, and to temper himself well on the battlefield, and at the end he forgot to tell himself to "pay attention to safety."
Later, in the mouth of the company instructor, Yan Bangyi finally learned the identity of his father, and it turned out that his father was Yan Fu, who was the commander of the Seventh Artillery Division of the Volunteer Army at that time!
If you think about it, on the Korean battlefield, there should not be too many father-son soldiers like me and my father. People may not understand that my father was the commander of the volunteer army and my son was an ordinary soldier, but in those days, this really happened to me and my father!
When recalling the alternative reunion with his father on the battlefield, Yan Bangyi said excitedly.
After the end of the war, Yan Fu educated his demobilized son to obey the organization, be simple and thrifty, not have a comparison mentality, do things in a down-to-earth manner, and act honestly. After his recovery, Yan Bangyi worked in the hookworm disease prevention and control group in Fuling, Pujiang, Renshou and other places, and was later transferred to the Hongya County Blood Prevention Group, where he worked for 33 years until retirement. During his work, Yan Bangyi was commended by the Ministry of Health for his outstanding work performance.
For so many years, Yan Bangyi has not allowed his children to use his grandfather's identity to do private affairs for himself, and he did not even mention it. It was not until a reporter surnamed Zhang came to his home to interview Yan Bangyi that this legendary past between him and his father was known to the world.