After the founding of New China, there were still a large number of remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's army in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, and they fought guerrillas everywhere on the mountain with the local toastmasters, and went down the mountain to do damage.
At the beginning of 1950, the 141st Regiment of the Erye 16th Army was ordered to eliminate the "Jiang Bandits" in the Bijie area of Guizhou, and a veteran soldier of the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment almost died in the battle of "Suppressing bandits".
Tough march
At that time, we were fighting around Hezhang County. Under the blows of our army, the remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's army could no longer be organized, and they could only retreat into the mountains in pieces, and in order to eliminate them, they had to go up the mountain to search.
Marching in the deserted deep mountains and old forests, there is basically no road, the dense plants cover the places that can be walked tightly, and the pioneers who walk at the front of the line are very hard, and every step they take is tripped by vines, and the action is very slow.
In addition to the difficulty of walking, the poisonous insects and beasts hidden in the grass along the road are the real threats to everyone's safety.
The most frightening thing is the mountain leech, which is commonly known as the mountain locust, generally speaking, this kind of thing is only the size of a knuckle, but the mountain locust in the forest is not disturbed, grows very large, long enough to have chopsticks, and stings on people's legs to suck blood. It is okay to suck blood alone, the key is that their mouths are not clean, and they get sick after sucking people. I was seriously ill after being bitten by a poisonous insect and almost lost my life.
At that time, I did not know that there was a mountain locust on the back of my foot, and when I felt the instep of my foot itching and bent down to scratch the itch, I saw that the poisonous insect had been sucked up, and when I patted it, it rolled to the ground.
After I was bitten by a poisonous insect, I fell ill quickly, basically unable to walk, and even the hygienist could not do anything, only taking a red potion to wipe the wound for treatment. At that time, many people were wounded in battle, there was no medicine to heal, the wound was infected, the body was weak, could not keep up with the troops marching, slowly followed behind the team, as long as they fell behind the line will be killed by bad people.
There is no fixed time for the march, basically it is also walking in the dark, everyone is overtired, but they can't sleep, they can only take a nap while walking, touching the gun of their comrades in front, and they wake up for a while when they hurt.
In this way, some roads can not be walked with feet, must be hands and feet and crawl forward, many northern comrades-in-arms have never seen such a big mountain since childhood, the first time they saw the mountain shrouded in smoke and clouds were very surprised, timid while walking and shivering, things are very strange, the more afraid, the easier it is to fall off the cliff and fall to death.
Many veteran soldiers in the north are very unaccustomed to it, and often tell strange things: Marching in the dark like this, I don't know what year it will take to finish, alas!
In fact, there are many people who have this kind of thinking, and everyone is gritting their teeth and insisting, hoping to eliminate the remnants of the bandits as soon as possible, no longer climb mountains and wade through the water, and go home to live a good life.
Since I couldn't go, Lianli sent four comrades-in-arms to carry me on stretchers, and I want to thank them. At that time, there were frequent battles against bandits, and four people carried me away, and they consumed physical strength, which was equivalent to reducing combat effectiveness, and I felt very guilty. At that moment, I was actually unconscious, but I was still out of breath, just a relatively large enemy caught up with us, and soon to fight, they put me in a small town, this town is very prosperous, I woke up to know that it is a market town where people of all nationalities rush to the scene.
Life-saving quilt
My comrades-in-arms put me in front of a Chinese medicine shop with a wooden plank on the floor, and I lay on the board, and they spread a bundle of straw on me and covered my quilt with straw.
This quilt was laid on horseback during the march, the horse khan soaked the quilt, the weather in Guizhou could not dry, and the whole quilt emitted a smell of horse sweat, and the smell was stinking. The troops left the town, and soon the Chiang Kai-shek brigade arrived in the town and searched everywhere for our army personnel, and if they caught me, I would certainly have no hope of survival.
I was intermittently conscious and knew what was going on, but people were as dead as if they were dead. Jiang Jun came to the town and, under the pretext of searching for PLA soldiers, drove cattle and pigs, and snatched away everything from the common people. Two Jiang soldiers searched the place where I was lying and flicked my quilt with their rifles, and I didn't open my eyes, only heard them talking.
One Jiang Bing said, "It's a dead body, it stinks, so hurry up." ”
Another Jiang Bing said, "Give him a shot." After saying "whoosh" a bullet loaded.
The first Jiang Bing scolded: What can you do to shoot dead people. Usually, I create rumors that Lao Tzu is afraid of death, and now he is playing a mighty wind here! You he X peeked at the commander's little wife all day, thinking that Lao Tzu didn't know? You boy is ready to be shot by the commander.
The second Jiang Bing collected his gun and said in a loud voice: The little brother is not a person, the little brother is not a person, and the old brother is inclusive.
After the two men left, I fainted again, and later the old gentleman from the medicine shop saved me. He personally fed me medicine, helped me walk around the house, and when I recovered mentally, he cooked me rice porridge, if it were not for the treatment of the old gentleman of the medicine shop, I would not die under the muzzle of Jiang Bing's gun, I would also die of illness, but unfortunately, I do not know the name of the savior.
Because I happened to be a little bit, Company Li sent someone back to pick me up, originally I was going to ask for the name of the benefactor, but the company leader said that the time was too late, and there were four regiments of Jiang Bing rushing to our battalion, and they would arrive here immediately, and they must leave immediately. I was too weak to move on my own, so my comrades took me away. The old Chinese medicine doctor was a good man and saved my life, but I don't know their addresses and names, so I can only remember them in my heart, and I can't repay them.
Although I was initially cured of a serious illness, but I could not go fast at all, the comrades-in-arms saw that I was uncomfortable, so they found two bamboo poles of the right length, and then tied them to my waist with ropes, and put my two arms on the bamboo poles, and the two people lifted the bamboo poles one after the other, I was half carried and half walked, so that going up and down the mountain was very labor-saving, and I did not fall behind this time.
After leaving that town, I never took any more medicine, and after two months, my illness finally got better, and my guns and bullets and other items were held for me by the whole class, and I was able to fight again.
Aftermath
After I recovered, my biggest wish was to have a pair of shoes. When marching, I didn't give out a pair of shoes for several months, and after a day of walking, I had to hurry up and get grass shoes when I got to the camping place, because the straw shoes I had beaten the day before were basically impossible to wear.
I was less than twenty years old at the time, and I was a male doll, I had never learned to play straw shoes, I could only watch other people's playing methods to think about myself, play a pair of straw shoes to wear for half a day and rot, what to do without shoes? You can only walk barefoot to the camp, the blood bubbles on the soles of your feet grind out half the size of an egg, you must not fall behind because of the pain, desperately try to keep up with the troops, as long as you fall behind, you will die, either Jiang Bing sneaks up on you, or the beasts in the mountains eat you.
Today,sACK wears shoes so well that veterans like us would never have dreamed of it. At that time, the soldier's hair of four thousand yuan (old currency) was equivalent to four cents now, so he could only buy a pair of straw shoes to wear. We also don't complain that the rear doesn't give us shoes, because the shanghai shoe factory was damaged by the plane sent by Jiang Jun and couldn't be transported.
After three months of liquidation, there were basically no more than 500 bandits in the Bijie area. I don't know the battle situation of other units, but I know the battle situation of our one battalion, a division plus a regiment that eliminated the Xianning rebels, a security regiment in Hezhang County, and some scattered soldiers, with a total of more than 5,000 people.
In short, the remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's army began to hide in Tibet, and they no longer dared to swing into the streets. In addition to the blows of our army, another important reason why they did not dare to show their faces was that the masses of the people began to become conscious and constantly reported to our army that although the peasants paid rent to the landlords as usual, they already knew that they would soon divide the land, and they were very happy in their hearts.
Our army strictly implements the three major disciplines and the eight points of attention; when we live in the houses of our fellow villagers, we must sweep them clean; when we use the water in the tank, we must pick them up when we leave; when we unload the door panels to transport things, we must also load the doors back; we must use the people's kitchens to cook, and we must also leave some meals, so that the owners of the houses can come back and have food, and the people truly realize that the People's Liberation Army is the people's children and soldiers.
In the battle against the bandits, many veterans of the War of Resistance Against Japan and Liberation were sacrificed, and these old comrades who sacrificed their lives were bitter, and they all broke through the rivers and seas, but they sacrificed themselves in the deep mountains and old forests when they were suppressing these Jiang bandits, and their bones did not exist.
A happy life is coming, they themselves have not enjoyed it at all and sacrificed it, how can the living comrades-in-arms not feel sorry for them. I have always said that without the bloody sacrifices of these old comrades, there would be nothing today.
Source: Veteran memories, compiled by netizens