Visit the Martyrs' Cemetery of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang, and the famous martyrs of Dongguan have been famous for thousands of years

The Shenyang Martyrs' Cemetery for Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea has become the spiritual home and spiritual altar of the martyrs of the National Volunteer Army. Recently, reporters came here to visit the relics of the martyrs in Guanzhou and remember the spirit of the martyrs.

After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, from 1950 to 1954, more than 500 people in Dongguan enlisted in the army every year, and more than 30 people died in the Korean battlefield. Their names are engraved on the wall of English names, which have been passed down through the ages.

The names of the martyrs on the Wall of Heroes shine brightly

September 15, Shenyang, autumn high, cloudless.

Located at No. 50 Jinshan Road, Huanggu District, Shenyang City, the Shenyang Martyrs' Cemetery for Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea has a gentle breeze and a burst of pine waves. The conspicuous "1950" and "1953" numbers on the wall at the main entrance remind the start and end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

In the cemetery, the green grass, pine and cypress are green, solemn and solemn. Under the illumination of the sun, Comrade Dong Biwu's handwritten inscription "The Heroic Souls of the Martyrs of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea Are Immortal" shone brightly. In the cemetery areas on the left, right, and back of the monument are yang gensi, a special combat hero who rushed toward the enemy group with an explosive pack, Huang Jiguang, a special combat hero who blocked the enemy's machine gun muzzle with his chest, Qiu Shaoyun, a first-class combat hero who burned himself and did not expose his lurking targets, and Sun Zhanyuan, Yang Liandi, a first-class combat hero, and 123 martyrs of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea at or above the regimental level.

A hundred meters behind the monument is the martyrs' memorial wall of the sunken Martyrs' Memorial Square, built by the state in 2014. On this 3-meter-high, more than 130-meter-long semi-circular martyr's name wall, 174449 martyrs' names are arranged one by one according to their surnames, densely inscribed on the black gold sand granite rock. There are also 23,246 martyrs whose names have not been inscribed. The heroic names of the martyrs of Dongguan are engraved on the wall of the Heroic Names, and they have flowed through the ages.

The Martyrs' Cemetery of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang has become a place for the martyrs of the Volunteer Army across the country to pay tribute to the martyrs and send their condolences. Every day, martyrs come from thousands of miles away, and the citizens of Shenyang always have people with children to visit and worship.

Wan's heroic martyrs were all in their twenties when they died

Flipping through the list of heroes in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the reporter found that the heroic martyrs from Dongguan were all in their twenties when they died, and the vast majority of them left behind were resumes of less than 100 words, and some even did not know the number of the unit to which they belonged, let alone the specific time of sacrifice, and most of them did not mark the burial place. The staff of the Martyrs' Cemetery for The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang revealed that at present, in addition to burying 123 heroic martyrs, the cemetery also buries the remains of more than 800 martyrs who have returned from the South Korean war in recent years. Most of the other heroes, especially the more than 190,000 heroes on the Wall of Heroic Names, are buried in North Korea, not in Shenyang.

Combing through the list of heroes and martyrs, the reporter found that the earliest person to participate in the revolution was Zou Dequan, who joined the Dongjiang guerrillas in 1942, and the highest-ranking company commanders were Chen Zhongyue, Zhang Zhiming, and Zou Dequan, followed by platoon leader Zhong Yuanjin, and the squad leaders were Li Yutang, Xiao Zhongming, Zhong Huasheng, Wan Lisen, Chen Chi, and Chen Mantang, as well as staff officer Li Yuxiang and cultural instructor Chen Yi. Except for Lu Hong, who was a car driver, the other heroes were all fighters.

Through an online search, the reporter found that in the process of other heroic martyrs' children going to North Korea to search for relatives, the tombstones of four Dongguan martyrs Chen Xian'en, Li Xiunan, Li Yutang, and Fang Pei were found during the tomb sweeping of the Kaesong and Anju Volunteer Army Martyrs' Cemeteries in North Korea.

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The letters recall the glory days, and the heroes in the movies see the blood of the heroes

On October 5, 1952, the third day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the heroic martyr Li Yunxiang of Dongguan was sacrificed at the 281.2 heights of Hakuba Mountain in Tieyuan, North Korea. In order to fight for this high ground, countless heroes fell here, including Wang Cheng's prototype Yu Shuchang in "Heroes and Daughters" who shouted "Shoot at Me" and also died here.

In late June 1951, the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Tank Division, together with the anti-aircraft artillery battalion and the engineer battalion, took the lead in entering the Korean War, and was the first batch of armored troops to participate in the war in Korea, and successively cooperated with the 43rd and 39th Armies to fight 18 times, annihilating 1180 enemy troops, destroying 2 tanks and injuring 1 vehicle.

On June 25, 1952, Lee Yun-hsiang wrote in his diary, "Today is the second anniversary of the war waged by Korea ... The two years of war have developed back and forth, and now they have maintained a stalemate. On this day, we held an oath-taking meeting to resist US aggression and aid Korea in Huaihai, and at the meeting, every comrade showed his heroic and vigorous courage, and every comrade showed his determination to fight to the death. Our motherland is one of the bastions of world peace, and all the armed forces of our motherland have every responsibility to assist the DPRK and defend world peace. In particular, we Communists should fulfill our responsibilities entrusted to us by the Party and the tens of millions of working people in the world in the spirit of internationalism. Regarding this, every comrade who went out on the battlefield understood it very well. The meeting adjourned in the afternoon, and each person sorted out all his personal affairs. Some write a farewell letter to the family, some send the remaining supplies to the family or pack them to stay behind... In short, every comrade showed a hundred thousand points of happiness and was glad that he could accept this great task of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea. At night, the weather was clear and sweltering, so it was difficult for everyone to fall asleep and talk about the upcoming trip. ”

Two days later, Li Yunxiang set out from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, with the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Tank Division and other units as the second echelon, to Liaoning. On June 30, Li Yunxiang's 4th regiment arrived in Andong (present-day Dandong), Liaoning. On 7 July, the 4th Regiment entered North Korea and arrived in Chewon, where it was handed over to the 3rd Tank Regiment for defense.

After the armored troops of the Volunteer Army entered Korea, they first encountered two major problems: air threats and ground difficulties. The United States Air Force held air supremacy over the Korean battlefield, its aircraft bombed indiscriminately behind our rear, and due to the weak air defense strength of the volunteer army, it was very dangerous to march during the day, and could only take advantage of the darkness of the night or bad weather to advance. North Korea's terrain is mountainous and the roads are rugged and narrow, which is not convenient for tank troops to move quickly. The volunteer armored corps overcame many difficulties and finally arrived at the assembly area on time.

Li Yunxiang once wrote in a letter to his family: "There is a railway from Sinuiju to Pyongyang, and due to the hardships of the war, although it can be driven, it is possible to be bombed at any time, so we do not have a railway march, and the three-level highways in the west through Sinuiju, Taecheon, and Bocheon (which should have been built only after the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea). This road is very dangerous, it is all climbing mountains and mountains... On one side is a cliff, walking in a crooked way, and people in the car do not dare to look down... Now such a summer in Korea is really the same as Guangdong, with a burst of pine forests and babbling streams, which is really beautiful and clear, and there are rice paddies at the foot of the mountain. In the middle of the rice paddies, there is the sorghum field... The people here are very kind to our volunteer army. When I first approached ordinary North Koreans, I remembered the first time I went to a Hakka place in 1944. In the letter, he also detailed the situation of a North Korean family.

Since then, Li Yunxiang has also written to his home many times, detailing his observations on the Korean battlefield.

After Li Yunxiang's unit entered the front line, he did not rush to confront the enemy tank unit, but first familiarized himself with the battlefield environment and grasped the enemy's situation. On this basis, step by step, steady and steady into the role. Company and platoon units should be used as units to conceal the position of the tanks in favorable positions, carry out covert firing, in order to suppress the enemy's artillery groups, eliminate the enemy's reserves assembled in shallow and deep depths, destroy the enemy's observation posts, command posts, and communication hubs, in order to support the infantry attack, or to sabotage the enemy's attack.

October 5, 1952, the third day after the Mid-Autumn Festival. 281． The counterattack on The 2nd Highlands began at 17:30, and the two platoons of the 2nd, 9th, and 3rd Companies of the 339th Regiment of the 113th Division, which attacked the 281.2 heights of the 281.2rd Division, were attacked from the west and north directions, and the attacks on the west and north roads were not very smooth, and the enemy's shells took the form of air explosion, knocking our assault detachment to the ground in pieces, suffering heavy casualties. The troops were blocked by enemy artillery fire, fought very tenaciously, followed by successive soldiers, repeatedly charged, fought bloody battles, and the command issued a death order: Before 3 a.m., the tanks must enter the predetermined shelter position.

Li Yunxiang took the initiative to request the chief of staff of the regiment to lead 4 or 5 sappers to the forward position and cover the roar of the tank with the sound of throwing grenades and explosive packs, so that the tank could secretly enter the predetermined position. After agreeing, Li Yunxiang immediately led the personnel to climb to the top of the mountain and threw grenades and explosive packs one after another, which effectively lured the enemy to shift the direction of attack and covered the advance of the tanks.

The task of covering the tanks was completed, but Li Yunxiang was honorably sacrificed on the forward position of our army at the age of 22. In the letter from Li Yunxiang's comrades-in-arms to the Li family, it is written that Li Yunxiang died at about 12:00 p.m. on October 5, 1952, during the completion of command and liaison tasks at the front-line command post.

In the surprise battle on October 6, our army annihilated more than 9,000 enemy troops, destroyed four enemy tanks, shot down more than 30 enemy planes, and wounded more than 20. In this battle, our army has won a brilliant victory, which is inseparable from the heroic sacrifice spirit of thousands of comrades Li Yunxiang.

The diary of the past is full of memories. At the height of 281.2 Hakuba Mountain in North Korea, Li Yunxiang was sacrificed here, and countless heroes fell here. Until the moment before the armistice, Yu Shuchang of the 218th Regiment of the 73rd Division, the prototype of Wang Cheng in the movie "Children of Heroes", was killed in the battle for the 281.2 heights.

"The enemy is 50 meters away from me... 30 meters... 20 meters... Shoot at my bunker! For the sake of the motherland, shoot at me! In the face of the fierce enemy, Yu Shuchang smashed the walkie-talkie, pulled the grenade, and died with the enemy, only 22 years old.

Reporter Fu Biqiang; special correspondent Shenyang Evening News Wang Lijun