71 years ago, a U.S. general of the ace team wrote this sentence in his memoirs: "Whoever fights with China is a fool." ”
What makes the always arrogant U.S. military daunted and sweaty hair of Chinese soldiers?
When the camera pulls back to the shores of Lake Chosin 71 years ago:
129 Chinese volunteers froze to death en masse, row by row, their eyes open, staring in the direction of the enemy's coming, holding steel guns, their eyes like torches, they did not move, and finally they were frozen into "ice sculptures".
On the other side, the U.S. military panicked like rats and ants, running around.
As fellow soldiers, when American soldiers encountered the soul of the Chinese army that stood firm, they were shocked and punched in the face.
They did not speak, but quietly took off their military hats and gave the highest military salute to the Chinese volunteers.
And this company that makes the US military ashamed is the "ice sculpture company" in Chinese history, and they use a Kind of Chinese will to make the enemy army afraid.
In the "Ice Sculpture Company", there is a survivor, although he has not fired a shot, he is still the most respectable combat hero in people's hearts.
He is the brother of Zhou Quan, a warrior of the "Ice Sculpture Company".
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In 1934, Zhou Quandi was born in a secluded village in Sichuan, a pure mountain doll.
Among the three brothers, Zhou Quan brother is the youngest, and he is also the most skinny and bold.
Kids who can play have candy to eat. Therefore, Zhou Quandi is the most favored at home, and there are delicious foods at home, all of which are close to him.
Because of the poor conditions at home, my brothers and sisters all went to the fields early to work in the fields, and no one could read.
Every New Year's Day, red paper is pasted on the door, and there is no one in the family who can write the word "Fu". Therefore, the family pressed baodu on Zhou Quandi's body, and sent him to a private school with all their hearts and efforts.
The five years of studying in a private school were almost the most carefree time in Zhou Quandi's life.
However, the peasant family's years are quiet and good, and they can never escape the turmoil of the times.
In April of that year, it was the time when the seedling farmers were busy.
Suddenly, one day, the Kuomintang came to the door to smoke Strong Ding, and Zhou Quandi's brothers were all working in the fields, and there was only one male baby left in the family.
Therefore, Zhou Quandi reported that he was older and went to serve as a soldier for his brother.
This year, he was not yet 15 years old, and his size was not yet developed, so he became a soldier on his own and became a member of the Kuomintang 47 army.
Only when you are a soldier do you know that your home is warm.
In the army, Zhou Quandi tasted the taste of not having enough to eat, two meals of coarse rice a day with boiled vegetables, little oil, and very little amount, so he couldn't eat enough at all.
Not only that, most of them are illiterate, because they have repeatedly made mistakes in training, they have been kicked and beaten, and they are often green and purple.
Little Brother Zhou Quan followed everyone to climb the mountain and train troops every day. There was a bit of stiffness condensed in the black thinness.
In December 1949, with the gradual liberation of the whole country, Zhou Quandi was reorganized from the 47th Army into the Ninth Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
In the new team, they were not only not treated differently, but also encouraged by their superiors. Here, they have gained a lot of knowledge and skills.
One day, Zhou Quandi and other soldiers were practicing in Shanghai, training in practical skills such as stabbing, shooting, and charging.
After an order, they were transferred to Shandong to practice climbing and other climbing projects. Less than a week after the drill, they were once again urgently transferred.
Then they got on the northbound train, getting colder along the way. When they got out of the car, they were stunned by the vast sea of snow in front of them.
Because the mission was secrecy and urgent, they did not have time to lead the army to need supplies, so they got on the train. On the ice slag day of more than forty degrees below zero, the soldiers were still wearing single rubber shoes and single coats.
The soldiers who came to the station to meet them saw that Zhou Quandi was both distressed and helpless, and hurriedly took off their cotton clothes and distributed them to Zhou Quandi.
However, before they could finish changing their clothes, they received orders to go to Huangcao Ridge to prepare for an ambush.
Military orders are like mountains, and war is like tigers. Receiving the task, Zhou Quandi and them rushed to the battlefield.
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On the march, the soldiers were in a state of flux.
Many soldiers have hardly seen snow because they have been in the south for many years, so their eyes have a particularly poor ability to stress snow, and in just one day, many people suffer from severe "snow blindness".
Some soldiers themselves were not antifreeze, and they were extremely thinly dressed, and on the first day of marching, they suffered frostbite and more than 700 people.
But the task was urgent, and they did not dare to stop, and could only move one foot mechanically in front of the other.
When the army was on the march, the military clothes on his body were soaked, and after a slight pause, the sweat turned into ice particles again, cold to the sweat hair.
During the day, they have been walking, and they can barely get by, and at night, it is the most difficult to survive.
Without beds, they could only huddle together and keep each other warm.
When they didn't have anything to eat, they asked the nearby people for some potatoes and starch, and the potatoes were frozen as hard as grenades and couldn't bite at all. Therefore, they can only put potatoes in the creaky nest in advance to warm up, warm up a little and take a bite.
When you are very hungry, you will drink it with starch soaked in water.
However, this unimaginable suffering for ordinary people is only the beginning for them.
It took them 18 days to reach Huangcaoling.
In order to confuse the enemy, they wore their generals back, revealing the white lining inside, lurking in The Yellow Grass Ridge waiting for an ambush.
The most important thing about an ambush is timing, so they can't move until the attack order comes down.
In the weather of more than 40 degrees below zero, the wind cut on the face like a knife, and the rows of soldiers lay on the snow frozen into the bone marrow, and the warmth of the body changed from 37 degrees to gradual numbness.
Zhou Quandi was young and had no combat experience, so he didn't dare to move at all if he didn't move.
When they can't hold on, they chew a mouthful of dried peppers, and when they're hungry, they grab a handful of snow and stuff it in their mouths.
When urinating urgently, they can only pee in their pants, and the pants go from wet to frozen to air dry, and they are forced to challenge the limits of their bodies.
At this time, the U.S. military was drinking hot coffee and tasting veal airlifted from California. "Except for polar bears, no one can ambush in such a cold place," they said. ”
However, Zhou Quandi not only waited, but also waited for a full 3 days.
On the night of day 3, when the American troops were dreaming of going home for Christmas, the charge horn sounded, and a sound of "rush" resounded through the night sky.
Zhou Quandi was very excited, and he also wanted to rush forward with his comrades- and comrades, however, his limbs were already numb, and no matter how hard he tried, his legs did not move at all.
He tried to pull his legs with his hands and tried several times, but there was no response. He began to be anxious, and took the bayonet and stabbed it into his thigh, hoping to use the pain to awaken the sense of consciousness in his body, but after stabbing 2 times in a row, there was no pain at all.
Zhou Quandi was so anxious that he shed tears, he could only watch as his comrades in the same company were shot and fell, and wanted to help, but he couldn't do anything.
In the collapse of disappointment, helplessness and thoughts, Zhou Quandi's eyes went black and he fainted . . .
Later, the comrades cleaned the battlefield and found him, and four people carried him to the military hospital.
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Horace said: "All mothers hate war. ”
Knives and guns have no eyes, and every soldier fighting on the battlefield may not have time to say goodbye to his mother.
In the dream, Zhou Quandi dreamed of his mother who loved him, and then, he dreamed of bombers. Amid the roar of the bombers, Zhou Quandi woke up.
He was in a coma for seven days, and when he woke up, he felt pain all over his body.
The nurse next to him changed his medicine, and while changing, he couldn't help wiping his tears, and when he saw the nurse crying, Zhou Quandi found that his hands and legs were gone.
"I'm only 16 years old, I've been bouncing around, how did I suddenly become disabled?"
Zhou Quandi felt that the sky had fallen, and at that moment, he changed from a soldier back to a child, and cried bitterly.
Crying was heartbreaking and heartbreaking.
Tired of crying, Zhou Quandi passed out, and when he woke up, he covered his head in the quilt and cried.
In the days that followed, he was like a changed man, not speaking, with a wooden expression. The nurse talked to him, he ignored him, fed him, he didn't open his mouth, he wanted to end the rest of his life by hunger strike.
Until one day, when the nurse told him that all 129 comrades of the "Ice Sculpture Company" team had died, Zhou Quandi told him that he could not die and did not deserve to die.
Because on the battlefield, he didn't fire a single shot.
For the first time, he forced himself to live. Later, because of a book, Zhou Quandi completely dispelled the idea of suicide.
In order to let Zhou Quandi live strongly, the dean brought two books to the nurse and asked her to sit on the edge of the bed and read them to him every day.
One of them is called "How Steel is Made", and under the inspiration of Paul Kochagin, Zhou Quandi's mentality began to slowly change.
Coupled with the nurse's day and night care, every night to help him turn over eight or nine times, he can't sleep well. Brother Zhou Quandi said: "For these people who love me, I must also try to live." ”
Warriors can sacrifice their lives for the country, and the country is determined to take care of the rest of their lives for the disabled soldiers.
In 1953, Zhou Quandi was arranged by the state to enter the Sichuan Provincial Revolutionary Disabled Soldiers' Recuperation Home for recuperation.
Once, dressing and eating, these incomparably simple actions, for the current Zhou Quandi, had to practice for a month or two to do.
Every time he unlocked a skill, Zhou Quandi was so happy that he couldn't sleep. He can do it himself, never trouble others.
Shakespeare said, "In the turmoil of fate, a man's integrity can be most discerned." ”
Zhou Quandi paddled through the pulp of life through one difficulty after another in life.
After passing the life pass, Zhou Quandi still has to pass the second pass: the study pass.
He said, "I'm a private school student, and I have to keep learning." ”
Therefore, Grandpa Zhou read books every day and looked for living souls in the books.
One day, he received a letter from his family, saying that he wanted to introduce him to an object, he could write a letter to talk about it, and the clever ghost Zhou Quandi thought of such a private thing, but he could not always find a comrade-in-arms to reply, so Zhou Quandi began to learn to write.
Initially, he tied the brush to his arm with a cloth belt, practiced stroke order, wrote a stroke, and the pen fell off once, in order to improve efficiency, he tied the pen and his arm very tightly, and over time, the blood flow was not smooth, and the arm was numb.
Later, he thought of a way, tied with elastic rope, practiced for more than two years, the pen really stabilized, and then he learned to hold the pen with two arms to practice.
Practicing and practicing, Zhou Quandi fell in love with calligraphy and was out of control.
When someone came to comfort him, he did not send anything else, but sent his calligraphy to talk about his heart. Today, he has sent more than 2,000 works.
Not only that, Zhou Quandi also actively participates in various calligraphy competitions, he is not a joke, the trophy at home says everything.
He is tenacious, self-motivated, and although disabled, he does more perfect things than ordinary people.
When Grandpa Zhou was a child soldier, he did not bow to suffering and lived out his true colors as a boy. When Grandpa Zhou returned from the battlefield with no hands and legs, he did not bow to life, although he was crippled, he was still determined.
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In Zhou Quandi's heart, there has always been a feeling that it is to rediscover the previous troops.
After hearing about Grandpa Zhou Quandi's deeds, last year, a well-wisher fulfilled Grandpa Zhou's dream.
In the recuperation home, when Zhou Quan's grandfather saw the "mother's family", his eyes were moist. Once strong boys, they have gray hair dyed white frost.
Fortunately, there are still people living together.
After that, Grandpa Zhou signed his name on the honorary battle flag of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance.
His life was closely linked to the country.
Today, at the age of 87, he has both children and daughters, and he is on his knees.
Grandpa Zhou said: "My most comfortable time is to shake the tricycle and feel the warm sunshine under the sun. ”
Yes, more than 70 years ago, Grandpa Zhou was frozen and scared.
Perhaps, the little flowers born with sunshine will not know that the simple need of "basking in the sun" was once the dream of 129 "Ice Sculpture Company" soldiers who could never wake up again.
Among them, a small warrior named Song Amao wrote this letter in his pocket:
"I love my relatives and the motherland, and I love my honor even more, I am a glorious volunteer soldier." Ice and snow, I will never submit to you, even if I freeze to death, I will stand proudly on my position.
When this letter was delivered to Peng Dehuai's hand, the iron-blooded general, who never shed tears, also secretly wiped his tears.
China's zhengrong list is always engraved with their names.
Looking at the present, the years are quiet and the time is soft, but it does not mean that we can forget the past.
Because the past cannot be forgotten, because heroes should not be forgotten.
Maybe we don't have to relay the suffering of the past,
We don't have to fight for our lives, we don't have to fight for love, but we can choose to live like them, live wonderfully and powerfully.
. END .
【Text| North North】
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