On October 22, 2019, Zhangjiajie Daily published such an article called "Kim Jin-biao: Heroic Machine Gun Shooter on the Korean Battlefield", which told the heroic performance of Comrade Kim Zhen-biao, a first-class hero of the Korean War, on the battlefield, so that this war hero once again entered people's vision after 40 years.
Why again? Because this is not the first time That Jin Zhenbiao has been known to people, as early as shortly after the end of the Korean War, the People's Liberation Army Logistics Department's "Red Flag Fluttering" series of books recorded his story, telling the heroic deeds of this combat hero.
Kim Jin-biao, a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, was awarded the Title of Meritorious Servant of the First Class of the State and the Order of The Hero of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea of the Second Class, and even Kim Chong-il, the supreme leader of the DPRK at that time, awarded him the International Medal. According to statistics, he killed a total of 165 enemy soldiers on the Korean battlefield, which was the most frequently killed volunteer soldier in a single battle.
But compared with his record, his life is full of ups and downs and misfortunes. He was captured by bandits before joining the army, framed for labor reform after retiring from the army, and even sentenced him to death in the worst case, and he was forced to hide in the mountains for eight years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > forced to become bandits</h1>
The Xiangxi region, due to the large number of mountains and dense forests, has been a gathering area for bandits since ancient times, and the bandit plague in western Hunan has not been completely eliminated until the early days of the founding of the people's republic, and jin Zhenbiao's story begins with the bandit plague in western Hunan Province.
Jin Zhenbiao, who grew up in poverty, lived in the mountains of western Hunan Province, and because he had not experienced culture and education, he could only make a living by doing some agricultural work as an adult. That year, he was working in the fields when suddenly a group of bandits came to arrest people to replenish the troops, and he became a candidate for bandits when he was young and strong.
In this way, he was taken to the mountains as a bandit, but Jin Zhenbiao was lucky, he thought that he might be a bandit in the mountains for a lifetime, but New China suddenly eliminated the bandits in western Hunan with a thunderous momentum.
Jin Zhenbiao, who had just been a bandit for three days, was rescued by the People's Liberation Army. At that time, China happened to be carrying out the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the korean battlefield was scarce, and under the instructions of the Party Central Committee, the bandits in western Hunan were recruited into the Korean battlefield to fight with the US army.
So Jin Zhenbiao's life was very magical in just a few days, from an ordinary xiangxi peasant, to a bandit, and then to the people's volunteer army. What is even more magical and unexpected is that Kim Jin-biao's performance on the Korean battlefield surprised everyone.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="54" > second- and first-class meritorious jin zhenbiao</h1>
In 1951, Jin Zhenbiao, who had just joined the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion, 423rd Regiment, 141st Division, 47th Army, 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army, entered the Korean battlefield, and as a machine gunner, Jin Zhenbiao joined the battlefield without receiving too much training, and his veteran said to him, "Look after your machine gun, aim at the enemy, and fight me to the death!" ”
In the subsequent battles, Jin Zhenbiao really remembered the words of the veteran. Especially in the Battle of Old Bald Mountain, Jin Zhenbiao fought with the team, with the goal of taking the Old Bald Mountain occupied by the US army and more than a dozen nearby US military points.
When the Battle of Lao Bald Mountain began, Jin Zhenbiao had been in Korea for some time, and he had gradually become familiar with the life of the troops. And it just so happens that many people in his unit have the same fate as him--they are all adapted from the bandits in western Hunan Province.
There have been many veterans who have made evaluations of the army reorganized by the bandits, and their statements are surprisingly consistent, "These people are not afraid of death, not afraid of suffering, not afraid of tiredness, seeing the enemy is desperate to do, especially when charging, the trumpeter has just sounded the charge trumpet, they rush out, put the muzzle of the gun against the enemy's head to kill." ”
Veterans' evaluations are indeed true, not only true, but also without any exaggeration. According to post-war statistics, in the Battle of Lao Bald Mountain, the first battalion of the 423 regiment, where Jin Zhenbiao belonged, undertook the main offensive task.
Jin Zhenbiao, as a machine gunner, took down dozens of US fortresses with one person and one machine gun, successfully attacked the summit of Old Bald Mountain, and planted red flags on the top of Old Bald Mountain. In the face of the counterattack of the US aircraft artillery, the whole battalion fought bloodily, and Jin Zhenbiao alone set a record of killing 165 enemy people. However, the price was that only two people in the whole battalion, including Jin Zhenbiao, were seriously injured and survived.
This incident was a sensation at the time, and even reached the ears of Marshal Peng Dehuai and The supreme leader of north Korea, Kim Jong-il. In recognition of Kim Jin-biao's awarding of his country's first-class meritorious service and second-class combat hero in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Supreme Leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-il personally awarded him the International Medal, which was also a highlight moment in Kim Jin-biao's life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > third, gray life</h1>
After returning to China after the victory of the war, Jin Zhenbiao has been commended by all walks of life and has become an instructor of the military academy, which can be described as an infinite scenery for a while, but what he never expected was that just when he felt that he was happy for a lifetime, what awaited him was a gray and dark life.
"He used to be a bandit." "He burns and plunders without evil." "He killed my daughter and my son." Just after returning to his hometown, the Golden Needle Biao was drowned in the saliva of the original compatriots, people did not know, did not care what Jin Zhenbiao did, what kind of hero, the villagers who were killed by bandits, only knew that he was once a bandit, even if it was only a bandit for three days.
A false and exaggerated whistle-blowing letter was directly submitted to Jin Zhenbiao's unit and school, and Jin Zhenbiao was approved by the school to return to his hometown and carry out a long labor reform. But for Jin Zhenbiao, his tragic life will never end.
During the turbulent decade, Jin Zhenbiao's life once again fell into a trough, and this time he was even sentenced to death, fortunately, a leader of his year, who was already a leader of a party weight, understood his heartache and pain, and desperately saved him.
Fortunately, such a life did not crush him, he lived in the mountains for eight years in order to survive, eating bark, drinking spring water, unclothed, it was simply a savage life for eight years, until ten years of turmoil passed, only to go down the mountain...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > Summary:</h1>
After ten years of turmoil, many of Jin Zhenbiao's former comrades-in-arms and superiors came to help him testify in court, and the final result was ultimately Jin Zhenbiao's rehabilitation. The poet Yang Ji, a poet of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, once had a saying that was recited through the ages, and the hero did not ask the source.
And when I learned about Jin Zhenbiao's deeds, I think this sentence is also in everyone's mind. When he was caught as a bandit when he was young, and later he completed his self-redemption by winning glory for the country and becoming a first-class hero, Jin Zhenbiao's life cannot be described as legendary.
But why his life developed so much was inseparable from those bandits who burned and looted, and with those bandits who left a painful history for the vast number of people in western Hunan Province. What really hurt Jin Zhenbiao was the trap of public opinion and villains, and it was he himself who really completed the final redemption!