One day in March 2009, two elderly people came to the Jingxi Martyrs' Cemetery, supported each other and walked several times before they came to a tombstone.
"Son, Dad brought you a watch. Dad is proud of you! You did not disgrace the party and the country! ”
"The most successful thing Dad did in his life was to transfer you to the front; The most painful thing is also to send you to the front. ”
The old man wiped the dust off the tombstone, stood up tremblingly, and made a solemn military salute to his son.
The old man knew that this was the last time they came to see their son, and that he was ill and that his time was not long.
This old man is called Zhang Zhixin, who was the commander of the 160th Division of the 54th Army and the prototype of Commander Lei in "Garland Under the Mountain".
Lying here was his only son, Zhang Li, who was a deputy squad leader of the 9th Company of the 478th Regiment of the 160th Division before his death.
In 1979, after the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam began, Zhang Zhixin transferred his son from the south to the reconnaissance platoon of the special agent company, served as a deputy squad leader, and made three chapters with Zhang Li, so that his comrades could not know that he was the son of the division commander.
Even, in order not to be too ostentatious, he ordered Zhang Li to take off his watch and bring it with him when he returned home.
This watch was a treasure of tension, but he never had a chance to bring it again.
In February 1979, father and son arrived at the front with the troops, immediately engaged in intense battles, and never saw each other again.
Zhang Li did not live up to his father's expectations, he fought bravely and well, made meritorious contributions twice in 10 days, and joined the party in the line of fire. On the 27th, Zhang Li and his comrades were attacked by the enemy's dark bunker while performing reconnaissance missions, and suffered heavy casualties.
At the critical moment, he desperately went to blow up the dark castle alone, and unfortunately was shot in the back.
When Zhang Li was dying, he said that he was the son of the division commander: "Tell my father that I didn't disgrace him." ”
In this way, Zhang Li froze the 21-year-old in this land.
The division headquarters received a telegram that Zhang Li had died, and no one dared to tell the division commander.
However, the sadness could not help it, they looked depressed, Zhang Zhixin suddenly felt that something was wrong, and after repeated questioning, he learned the news of his son's sacrifice.
Zhang Zhixin almost fainted, he endured his grief, grabbed the table hard and said, "The sacrifice of tension is worth it!" ”
After that, he continued to calmly command the battle.
Throughout the self-defense and counterattack war against Vietnam, more than 500,000 PLA troops entered Vietnam to fight, and more than 8,000 soldiers were sacrificed, including many high-ranking cadres like Zhang Li.
When the sovereignty of the country was threatened, they stood up and shed their blood, leaving their youth there.
So, who are they? Let's walk into the glorious lives of these heroic fathers and sons together.
Geng Jun, Geng Xiaokang: brothers on the field, shoulder to shoulder spilled blood
They are brothers and soldiers of the 50th Army.
Their father was Geng Jinfu, deputy chief of staff of the 150th Division of the 50th Army at the time, a general who had experienced hundreds of battles.
In 1958, Geng Jinfu's troops were stationed in Tibet, and the two brothers grew up in the army, eager to join the army and defend the country like their father.
In 1978, Geng Jun and his sister Geng Qing entered the army one after another, and Geng Xiaokang was still in school and not old enough.
However, Geng Xiaokang could not sit still, he ran to the cooking class every day to do miscellaneous work, and he could not rush away, so the troops had to make an exception to accept him.
In this way, the three siblings all became soldiers of the 150th Division, performed excellently, and grew rapidly.
In 1979, after the outbreak of the counterattack against Vietnam, Geng Qing and Geng Jun submitted applications to participate in the war at the same time, but Geng Qing did not pass, and Geng Jun got his wish.
At that time, only one person in the family could go to the front, but Geng Xiaokang resolutely did not do it, as a soldier, how could he not fight.
In this way, the two brothers rushed to the battlefield of Vietnam together.
At that time, Geng Qing was 21 years old and a squad leader of the 8th Company. Geng Xiaokang, 18, is a deputy squad leader of the 6th Company.
They are well aware of the cruelty of the battlefield and left a suicide note to their parents, containing the 12 yuan allowance accumulated by the two.
At this time, Geng Jinfu had changed jobs, and after he learned the news, he rushed to the army to perform for his two sons, and wrote down eight words before leaving: "Heroically kill the enemy, make meritorious contributions to the country." ”
He probably already knew that this was a farewell to his sons.
On the front line, the two brothers cooperated tacitly, heroically killed the enemy, and defeated the enemy step by step.
But just as our army won a decisive victory and was about to retreat, the Vietnamese army began to retaliate wildly, and the company of the two of them fell into the heavy encirclement of the Vietnamese army, behind the cliffs, there was no way to retreat.
On March 15, after two days and two nights of fierce fighting, more than half of our troops were wounded, but the enemy was increasing.
In order to cover the wounded to break through, Geng Xiaokang resolutely undertook the heavy task of fire suppression despite his many injuries.
In the middle of the night, they caught the enemy by surprise, and some of the soldiers rushed out of the encirclement, but Geng Xiaokang unfortunately died and stayed there.
On March 16, the enemy rushed to our position, and Geng Jun and his comrades fought to the death, firing the last bullet.
Geng Jun did not want to be taken prisoner, he clenched his submachine gun and shouted: "Rather die than surrender, the communists jump with me!" ”
He jumped into the cliff, and his comrades jumped with him.
When Geng Jinfu and his wife read their sons' suicide note, they burst into tears, and Geng's mother had gray hair overnight.
Although some people lamented that Geng Jinfu should not have sent both sons to the front, he replied firmly:
"How can my child be specialized!"
Although the loss of his son is painful, it is even more obligated to serve the country, this is the responsibility of the soldier, but also the responsibility of the chief!
Qu Ningjiang: Ask my father to go to the front line through the back door
In March 1978, Qu Ningjiang entered the army from school and became a veritable "second generation of the army", and his mother participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
His father was Qu Kui, then deputy chief of staff of the 41st Army, who made eight great achievements in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation.
As soon as he entered the army, Qu Ningjiang did not want to hear others call him a "scholar", so he constantly increased the amount of exercise, practiced physical strength, marksmanship, and endurance, and soon became a "real soldier", with a strong physique and accurate marksmanship, and was praised many times.
In 1979, in the face of Vietnam's advance, Qu Jiangning immediately wrote an application for participation in the war: "Fight to the end!" ”
However, the troops rejected his application, and Qu Jiangning was not convinced, and applied again and again, and was rejected again and again, for only one reason: "The enlistment time is less than one year."
Qu Jiangning had to turn to his father, and his father, who had always adhered to principles, agreed and applied to the army on behalf of his son.
In this way, Qu Ningjiang rushed to the border with his father, and Qu Ningjiang entered the most dangerous sharp knife company of the 121st Regiment of the 363rd Division of the 41st Army.
On the way to Gaoping, Qu Ningjiang sat in the tank and saw Qu Kui holding a telescope to observe the terrain ahead, which was the last time Qu Ningjiang saw his father.
At dawn on February 17, 1979, the Sharp Knife Company, as the vanguard force, took the lead in invading the territory of Vietnam after 28 hours of fierce fighting with the enemy, and planted our military flag on the 841 Heights.
This is the only way for the Vietnamese army to come to reinforcements, and it must be held.
By this time, they had already run out of food, and in order to find food, they had to pass through the Vietnamese positions, which was quite dangerous.
At 10 a.m. on February 24, Qu Ningjiang and his comrades were passing through the Yuntun area in search of "grain" when they were discovered by the Vietnamese army and ambushed.
The enemy fire was quite fierce, they were forced to both sides of the road, it was difficult to move an inch, and the platoon commander was killed.
At this critical moment, Qu Ningjiang decided to go to the other side alone to attract enemy fire, and just as he quickly ran towards the small mound next to him, the enemy shot him in the left foot.
Qu Ningjiang stopped his comrades from running towards him, made a simple bandage himself, and continued to shoot at the enemy troops.
At this time, the enemy shot him in the left ankle joint, bleeding so much that he did not care about bandaging and continued to fight.
The enemy fired at him with all his might, and he bounced in his left hand, unable to raise the gun.
He took out a family portrait with his right hand, took one last look at his parents, and climbed in front of his comrades with all his might, holding up his body to ward off bullets for them.
"Tell my father, I'm not a bitch!"
In this way, Qu Ningjiang was sacrificed, and this photo became his only relic.
Qu Kui held the family portrait stained red by his son's blood, and he held back tears and said: "Son, dad is proud of you!" ”
In fact, Qu Ningjiang's younger brother Qu Ningguang also participated in the war against Vietnam, and the three of them went to the front line, which is worthy of being a glorious military family.
Zhen Ping: A role model for the children of high-ranking cadres
In 1977, Zhen Ping, like countless children of the army, entered the barracks, and because of his outstanding performance, he not only joined the party, but also won the third-class merit twice.
In 1979, Zhen Ping was already a platoon commander of the 8th Company of the 487th Regiment Infantry Battalion of the 163rd Division, and his father was Zhen Wenlin, then deputy director of the Political Department of the 55th Army.
After the start of the counterattack against Vietnam, Zhen Ping's unit received an order to participate in the battle, and when Zhen Wenlin learned about it, he immediately encouraged his son:
"Don't talk about special, be brave in battle, not only charge ahead, but also pay attention to tactics and lead the whole platoon to complete combat missions."
As a "high-ranking cadre", Zhen Ping has not a sense of superiority, but pressure, which is a heavy responsibility.
After the battle began, Zhen Ping always took the lead and charged ahead.
On the afternoon of February 27, the 487th Regiment of the 163rd Division began to launch a general attack on the perimeter of Langshan, and Zhen Ping led the assault platoon to the front, he commanded well and organized well, and quickly knocked out three enemy fire points.
Every time Zhen Ping knocked out an enemy fire point, he sent out a signal flare to report the position to the headquarters.
Step by step, they approached the main peak, and when they were only 50 meters away from the enemy's position, Zhen Ping was organizing the final charge with all his might.
Suddenly, Zhen Ping suddenly fell, and he was hit by a bullet fired from the dark bunker.
The enemy was full of thoughts that if he shot the commander, the charge of our army would fall into chaos.
But what they did not expect was that the soldiers of the 8th company were instantly enraged, they shouted "avenge the company commander", and in one go, completely destroyed the enemy.
After the report of Zhen Ping's sacrifice was sent to the headquarters, General Xu Shiyou said with heaviness and regret: "This is the example of the children of high-ranking cadres!" ”
When Zhen Wenlin learned the news, he was grief-stricken, but he still pretended to be indifferent.
And when no one was around, Zhen Wenlin called over and over again, "Pingping, Pingping, my good son." ”
On the issue of the disposal of Zhen Ping's body, Zhen Wenlin made a special confession that he could not engage in specialization, because Zhen Ping disliked special things the most during his lifetime.
Zhen Ping did not leave a word, Zhen Wenlin wanted to come to his son's blood clothes, he wanted to bring it back and give it to Zhen Ping's younger brother.
This is the family of heroes, although the elder brother has sacrificed, the younger brother still has to relay down, not afraid of sacrifice, to protect the family and defend the country.
Cao Hui: Sacrificed in front of my father's eyes
In 1979, Cao Hui was still a new soldier, he was in the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 445th Regiment of the 149th Division.
At that time, his father, Cao Conglian, was the commander of the 446th Regiment of the 149th Division.
In February, when the counterattack against Vietnam was about to begin, the 149th Division had just received the order to open the battlefield, and someone called Cao Conglian and proposed to transfer Cao Hui to the military headquarters.
Cao Conglian refused: "What a system!" Whose son is not a son! ”
Not to mention, Cao Conglian specially found the commander of the 445th Regiment and asked to arrange Cao Hui in the Sharp Dao Company, which was equivalent to putting his son at the forefront of the most dangerous battlefield.
Soon, the whole army of the 149th Division officially started, and Cao Hui saw Cao Conglian from a distance, and grimaced at his father as usual.
That smiling face was fixed in Cao Conglian's mind.
On February 24, as soon as the 139th Division reached the Sabah area, it received an order to attack Sabah County, and father and son joined the famous "Battle of Sabah".
In Sabah was stationed the Vietnamese ace infantry division, equipped with sophisticated Soviet-style weapons.
Under the city of Sabah, there are countless bright and dark bunkers, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
In the early hours of March 1, the 446th Regiment seized a high ground in the No. 4 Bridge area and continued its offensive against the Vietnamese forces in front.
The enemy's fire was unusually fierce, and the attack was seriously resisted, and Cao Conglian applied to the headquarters for tank support.
Soon, the tanks of the 3rd Battalion of the 445th Regiment arrived, and one of the fighters supporting them was Cao Hui.
Under their command, the tanks hit precisely several fire points on the mountainside, and the sound of enemy machine guns was muted at once.
The infantry took the opportunity to attack, and bridge No. 4 was successfully conquered.
The tank continued to advance, and when Cao Hui passed Cao Conglian's side, he was called down by the guards, warning him that the tank was too dangerous.
When Cao Hui heard the sound and saw his father, he jumped down and gave a standard military salute to Cao Conglian, and then asked with a smile: "Is there smoke?" ”
Taking the cigarette handed by the guard, Cao Hui jumped into the tank again, and this turned out to be the last meeting of the father and son.
Cao Conglian shouted at Cao Hui's back: "Don't stand on the tank!" ”
He just turned his head and replied, "This is an order!" ”
At that time, the tanks of our army were still relatively backward, and the internal observation angle had a dead end, and it was impossible to observe the enemy situation in all directions.
Cao Conglian understood more than anyone that the people outside the tank were "living targets" and died nine times in their lives.
The tank moved forward under the gaze of Cao Conglian, and under Cao Hui's command, several fire points on the southwestern highlands were hit one by one, silently.
Suddenly, one of the enemy's firing points resumed, and several machine guns simultaneously fired at Cao Hui's tank, and he and 3 other fighters were hit, three killed and one wounded.
And all this, Cao Conglian saw clearly, he desperately pounced, only to see blood on his son's head, and there was no breath.
Cao Conglian burst into tears, he grabbed the submachine gun in the guard's hand and rushed towards the enemy, and the guard quickly hugged him and persuaded him: "You are the regiment commander, without you, the whole regiment would be leaderless!" ”
As if awakened from a dream, Cao Conglian endured his grief and led his whole regiment to capture the county seat of Shama.
Cao Hui and his comrades were buried in the Martyrs' Cemetery in southern Xinjiang, and Cao Conglian planted a small tree next to his son's tombstone, which has now grown into a towering tree to shield his son from the wind and rain.
They were all the children of the commanders of the troops, and they all died in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and only five of them are written in the text.
There are also many high-ranking children like them, who stained the battlefield of Vietnam with blood for the territory of the motherland and the dignity of the people.
Zhao Jichang, the platoon commander of the sharp knife platoon of the 118th regiment of the 40th division, his father is Zhao Zixiong, the deputy commander of the 40th division of the 14th army.
In the battle on the outskirts of Lao Cai, he led a platoon of sharp knives to open the way in front and rushed into the enemy position and died heroically.
Zhao Youlin, instructor of the 364th Regiment of the 122nd Division, and his father Zhao Likuan, was the political commissar of the Logistics Department of the Guangzhou Military Region.
During the attack on Nanshan, he was unfortunately shot and died in order to cover his comrades.
Zhou Wei, the heroic regiment of the 123rd Division, his father Zhou Kaiyuan, was the political commissar of the 121st Division of the 41st Army.
He applied to participate in the war without his father, and specially applied for transfer to the 123rd Division, but unfortunately died heroically in the battle against Gaoping.
Jiang Limin, who was supposed to change jobs and leave the army, asked in every possible way to participate in the battle and serve as a platoon leader of the sharp knife platoon.
His father was Jiang Yongxi, a political commissar of the 57th Cadre School of the Xinjiang Military Region and the commander of the 363rd Regiment of the 121st Division of the 41st Division.
He single-handedly blasted 3 enemy bunkers in battle, died while blasting the 4th bunker, and was awarded the title of "Blasting Hero" by the Military Commission.
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They were only about 20 years old when they died, and they forever fixed their lives in the self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam, composing countless touching songs of youth.
The Motherland will never forget them, and the people of the Motherland will always remember them!
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Author: ZHL Suiping
Edit: Leftovers
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