In May 1939, in Wanrong, Shanxi, the son of a landlord's family picked up the fatty slices of meat in the bowl and ate them while saying to the poor children of the hired workers in the family: "This meat is really fragrant, if you want to eat it, kneel down and beg me, and when you are comfortable, you will share a piece, how?" The poor child remembered his mother's advice to himself: "Son, we poor people have a hard life, and we must endure everything." He ignored him.
Seeing that the poor child ignored him, the landlord's son continued to stimulate the poor child: "Are you a poor person, not tired of living?" "The poor boy couldn't stand it anymore. Because there is no opportunity to study and read, so there is no right to speak, so the debt owed to his family will be paid off forever, there is no way to reason, his family is tired and tired, but also to swallow the voice, insulted, so he waved his fist. In exchange, he was tied up and used to dip his leather whip in water and breathe.
At that time, it was the period of cooperative war of resistance, and it just so happened that soldiers of the Eighth Route Army came to the village to engage in "rent reduction in the second five-year plan" and also held free literacy classes. Two months later, the poor boy entered the literacy class of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and due to his young age, after graduation, he became an officer of the propaganda team of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. Putting up slogans and engaging in anti-Japanese literary and artistic propaganda became his main work. The starting point of his revolutionary career was a standard literary soldier, but an accident made him a former soldier. After that, he went all the way to the end of his career, until he won the honorary title of "Combat Hero" 4 times, 9 times special merit, 5 times first class merit... And this record, the whole army has not broken so far. In 1941, the Taiyue 212th Brigade was attacked by the Japanese army and suffered heavy losses. At that time, he was a member of the propaganda team of the 212 Brigade of Taiyue, but he also bid farewell to the post of literary and artistic propaganda. In order to fight back and survive, even the husband has to pick up a gun at this moment to fight with the devil.
And he has always held a pen and has never held a gun, and he actually shot for the first time, he killed a ghost, which was amazing, which may be talent. War makes people grow rapidly, and after several battlefield trainings, he is also astonished when he goes to the battlefield again.
In order to open a bloody road for the evacuation of his comrades, he ignored his already injured body, and let his comrades throw grenades forward while holding up his machine gun to open the way in front. At the end of the service, all the officers and men of the brigade knew about this "desperate sanlang", and he was actually only 17 years old.
By August 1945, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he had grown to become the commander of the 9th Company of the 38th Regiment of the 13th Brigade of the 4th Column. During the Chongqing negotiations, Yan Xishan secretly attacked the base area of the Changzhi region, and the Shangdang Campaign broke out, and this was the road to the rise of the real soldier king of this "Desperate Sanlang".
He was ordered to take advantage of the night with the soldiers of the 9th Company to lurk outside the north gate of Changzhi. The simple mission started out in a mess, because the 9 companies had more recruits and less battlefield experience, and the result was a night march, a huge movement, which was detected by the enemy. The enemy defenders in Changzhi City laid out a net of fire in front of them, and at night the tongue of fire was like a wall, the mission failed, and when they wanted to withdraw, they were followed by four bombs that kept roaring. The 9th Company was forced into several private houses, unable to retreat, and fell into a dead end.
But the miracle also followed, they relied on these houses, and fought with the enemy all night, and the enemy was unable to enter the house for half a step. The next morning the enemy brought in a battalion of troops and more than 10 cannons in an attempt to raz the houses to the ground and bury the soldiers of the 9th Company here.
What the enemy did not expect in his dreams was that when the cannon sounded, the houses had been blown into the same ghost, but there were bullets constantly shooting out of them.
And just when the enemy was intent on bombing those houses, the people inside did not know when they sneaked out and blew up the bunkers and high-guard houses.
A battle without suspense, how to fight into this ghost? The enemy can't figure it out. Throughout the day, the enemy launched 22 intensive charges, leaving behind more than 300 corpses, but still could not completely sweep away the houses. More than 7,000 nationalist troops in Changzhi City were defended, and all of a sudden they had no fighting spirit.
What kind of battle is this fighting? Why is it that such a powerful firepower can't beat the more than 100 people? At this moment, this desperate Sanlang was also close to the limit, and he kept comforting the recruits who were still alive: "Hold on a little longer, and the main force will come to reinforce us..."
When the main force really arrived at Changzhi City, the 7,000 defenders were already extremely tired and ran out of ammunition, and there was almost no resistance, and Changzhi City was liberated.
At the end of the war, there were still more than 30 people left in the 9th Company, and they were awarded the honorary title of "Iron Ninth Company" by the Political Department of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, and the company commander also won the first special merit in his life.
In early November 1946, in order to sabotage the nationalist plan to attack Yan'an, the four columns attacked the Lüliang area, and the 9th Company was ordered to block the enemy at Dongyang Village to cover the transfer of the main force. There is nothing in the blockade battle that is not tragic, but the 9 companies are not more than a hundred people, and if they want to block tens of thousands of enemies, and there is no strong danger to defend, how can they do it? The commander of the "Desperate Sanlang" company led a platoon of fighters deep into the enemy position and took the initiative to launch an attack, and the enemy saw that the 9 companies had few people and arrogantly wanted to catch the live, so the 9 companies filled in batches and launched hand-to-hand combat with the enemy to delay the time, which was really exchanging life for time. As a result, the battle involved the enemy for a full 4 hours, and only about 10 people were left below the commander of the 9 companies, all of whom were wounded.
The company commander was once again awarded the title of "Special Combat Hero". And the opening of a battlefield similar to this was almost an ordinary state in his revolutionary career afterwards. His collective will always be the hero's collective, and he will always be the "desperate samurai" on the battlefield.
In 1950, at the British Congress, Chairman Mao knew that he was from Shanxi, and specially instructed the staff to decorate him with vinegar and put aside. Awarded the rank of Colonel in 1955, he was awarded the rank of Colonel and was awarded the Order of Independence and Freedom, Third Class, and the Liberation Medal, Third Class. He is Zhang Yingcai, a native of Wanrong, Shanxi, who was an officer to deputy commander before his retirement, and is still alive at the age of 98.