In 1951, Lu Chaoran, a Chinese-American who returned home from injury on the Korean battlefield, said proudly when facing a reporter's interview: "At that time, I shouted 'I am Chinese' in order to confuse the enemy. Then they were stunned and we successfully wiped out a platoon of the enemy."
Hearing Lu Chaoran's words, all the American journalists present were uproar and applauded Lu Chaoran's witty behavior.
. Among these reporters, a Chinese reporter suddenly expressed a point of view: "Your platoon is almost wiped out. Can you really turn the defeat into victory with such a sentence?"
So what was the situation back then? And why did Lu Chaoran become an American soldier as a Chinese?
Chinese-American
1926 Lu Chaoran was born in San Francisco, USA. His parents were originally ordinary Guangdong.
However, a few years before Lu Chaoran was born, his father and mother left Guangdong, where they had lived for decades, and resolutely took their family to the United States in order to seek development.
When I first arrived in the United States, Lu Chaoran and his parents' lives were not ideal.
Originally, Lu Chaoran's parents thought that they could live a good life as long as they arrived in the United States.
But in fact, in every corner of the world, only those with ability can make money. Therefore, Lu Chaoran's parents, who had never studied much, could only barely live by being a vegetable vendor in the United States. Although life like this is poor, it is also far from the melee of warlords. At least the whole family can live together comfortably.
But although life is comfortable, the family has not received less anger on weekdays, which is mainly because of the traditional racial discrimination in the United States. Problems like
still exist today. For example, the frequent shooting of black people by white police in recent years, etc., all prove the fundamental racial discrimination problem in the United States.
This kind of racial discrimination problem was actually even more serious seventy or eighty years ago.
Since the 1940s and 1950s, people from all over the world have begun to immigrate to the United States. Neither black, white or yellow people have been attracted by the human rights and equality claimed by the United States.
But in fact, although these foreigners who came to the United States have obtained American nationality, Americans have been treating them as foreigners for a long time, even if they are Americans themselves are foreigners in this land of North America.
The problem of racial discrimination had no effect on Lu Chaoran at first, but after he reached the age of school, his daily life began to become painful.
After Lu Chaoran arrived in the American school, he suffered the malice of some white classmates, even those of the same yellow classmate, almost every day.
The young Lu Chaoran would cry when he came home every day because he was bullied by his classmates, but his parents did not think that this was a problem of the country, but someone else's problem. Instead, he accused Lu Chaoran of not being able to get along well with his classmates, which made the couple lose face.
Under such education, Lu Chaoran also began to blame his discrimination on his own bloodline, and even believed that if he was not his parents' Chinese bloodline, he would not have been bullied like this.
So he tried hard to become a genuine American, ready to completely integrate into American society and eliminate all the Chinese elements in his blood.
But no matter how hard Lu Chaoran tried, he could not change the current situation of American society. So he kept thinking of ways to make himself a real American.
Until 1941, Lu Chaoran finally got this opportunity.
American soldier
Although Lu Chaoran has no sense of belonging to China, Lu Chaoran still has the excellent qualities of the Chinese.
He has been very good at studying since he was a child, and his grades have always been among the best in school.
However, Lu Chaoran was not happy with this because the reason he worked hard was to make people look up to him. But even if he got the first place in the school, no one was willing to look up to him more.
His parents didn't care much about Lu Chaoran's mental journey.They just want to let their children study hard, so that they can make a name for themselves when they come out, so as to change their social status.
But Lu Chaoran knew that learning alone could not change his social class. If he wants to be a true American, he must take greater action.
Just as Lu Chaoran was thinking this way, something big suddenly happened to the United States. The Japanese took advantage of the United States' unpreparedness and suddenly launched an attack on the Diaoyu Islands , causing heavy losses to the United States and killing many Americans.
While expressing condolences to his "American compatriots", Lu Chaoran also saw the opportunity to change his destiny, which is to become a soldier.
After the United States officially declared war on Japan in 1941, Lu Chaoran changed his original volunteer to an officer's school without hesitation and began to work hard with soldiers as his goal.
By 1944, Lu Chaoran graduated from the Military Academy and was assigned to the US Ace Marine Corps First Division.
As a US military, this Marine Corps became a trump unit not because of its advantages in weapons and equipment, but because of the tenacious fighting will of the soldiers in the team, which is relatively rare in the US military.
As the American ace force, not everyone can enter the First Marine Division. Under the already harsh registration conditions, more than 40,000 people have signed up, and less than 6,000 of them have been able to pass.
And Lu Chaoran can become one of them, this aspect shows Lu Chaoran's efforts in the officers' school.
After officially joining the army, Lu Chaoran worked diligently and became the platoon leader with his qualifications. However, in the past few years, he has been training in the rear and has never really been on the battlefield.
It was not until June 1950 that Lu Chaoran got the first chance to go to the battlefield.
Korean battlefield
June 1950 After the outbreak of the Korean War , the United States immediately transferred a large number of elite troops to the Korean battlefield, and Land War 1st Division, where Lu Chaoran is located, is also one of them.
Just after arriving on the battlefield, Lu Chaoran and the First Marine Division where he was located showed excellent combat capabilities, repelling the attacks of the Korean People's Army many times, making the US commander attach great importance to them, and transferred them around and used them as emergency teams.
And in this kind of running around, Lu Chaoran gradually showed his abilities. Every time he fought, he rushed to the front line just as he was desperate, and was busy with his "loving motherland".
But even if he is so brave and shows himself like this, in the eyes of other white soldiers, he is still that "Chinese man" rather than their "American compatriot".
In the battle against the Korean People's Army, Lu Chaoran and his troops can win by crushing equipment. But not long after, their good days came to an end, and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army came to this battlefield.
After achieving numerous achievements in the first four months of arriving in North Korea, Lu Chaoran then began to face the volunteer army , which was the same blood as him, who came from the mainland of China.
At first, like other Americans, Lu Chaoran looked down on the backward Chinese Volunteer Army at all, and thought about being able to fight us like the Korean People's Army.
However, the fighting will and combat capabilities of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army far exceed the imagination of these Americans.
Not long after, the news of successive defeats on the battlefield made them gradually realize the reality. The US military commander even sighed: "Only God joins the war with a helmet can he defeat the People's Liberation Army."
And Lu Chaoran truly realized this on the night of November 2, 1950.
At that time, Lu Chaoran and his soldiers were resting in the camp. When they suddenly heard the gunshots at night, they found that they were surrounded by volunteer corps.
Lu Chaoran became nervous and began to find an opportunity to escape. But luckily, the main target of the Volunteer Army at that time was not the machine gun platoon where Lu Chaoran was, but the mortar platoon behind Lu Chaoran.
So in a turmoil, the volunteers passed the camp where Lu Chaoran and others were and rushed straight to the US mortar platoon. In just a few hours, they wiped out the mortar platoon and captured the entire US military camp.
The reason why he was able to capture the US military camp so smoothly was thanks to the retreat of Lu Chaoran and others. In order to save their lives, they ignored the comrades in the rear and fled as scapegoats.
During the retreat, Lu Chaoran almost died.
Several volunteer soldiers stared at the platoon where Lu Chaoran was, but just as they were about to shoot Lu Chaoran and others on their backs, Lu Chaoran suddenly shouted in Cantonese: "I am Chinese!"
This made many soldiers stunned, and the gun that was originally aiming at the key also hit other parts.
Post-war interview
After experiencing a crushing defeat on the evening of November 2, the seriously injured Lu Chaoran did not return to the army until November 7. Fortunately, his upper hand was not too heavy, and he could continue fighting after two days of rest.
But blessings come unparalleled, and misfortunes never come in singularity. The next day after returning to the battlefield, Lu Chaoran was shot in the chest during the battle and almost passed away.
After suffering such serious injuries, Lu Chaoran was sent back to the United States.
Although Lu Chaoran did not make any contribution in the battle, he returned home with injuries and finally achieved his goal.
After returning to the United States, Lu Chaoran changed his experience with great qi.
Originally, he was surrounded by the volunteer army at night and changed it to a sneak attack by the volunteer army. The main target of the volunteer army was not in them, so he let them go. He changed it to him who claimed that the Chinese frightened the volunteer army and killed many volunteers because of this. After news such as
was reported to the army, Lu Chaoran won many medals. After the media heard about Lu Chaoran's "deeds", they also came to interview him.
In the face of the reporter's interview, Lu Chaoran told his deceitful story with shameless words.
Although the stories he mentioned were full of loopholes, the Americans and the American media did not care. They portrayed Lu Chaoran as a Chinese hero fighting against China, and have also publicly praised Lu Chaoran's behavior many times.
Even if the story is fake, Lu Chaoran still uses the kindness in the hearts of the volunteers in to hurt the volunteers. This seems to be a despicable thing in our eyes, and it seems to be an encouragement behavior in the eyes of Americans.
In fact, there are many Chinese-American soldiers like Lu Chaoran in in the same era, and decades later, more "green card soldiers" with green cards have appeared.
During World War II , at least 20,000 former Chinese people joined the US military and became Chinese-American troops.
However, in addition to people like Lu Chaoran, there are still some Chinese who do not join the army for the purpose of being accepted by American society, but to raise the banner of anti-Fassy.
In recent years, as more and more "green card soldiers" enter the United States, hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers have been among the American military.
For example, on the US navy before, the Chinese navy who called out to the Chinese navy, and those Chinese who were far more patriotic than ordinary American soldiers.
However, there are still many "green card soldiers" who choose to join the army. They are not only working hard to get a green card for themselves, but also for their own family and the next generation.
For example, a person born in a poor African country can get a US green card after coming to the United States to serve in the military. Next, it is not only this soldier who can live a wealthy life in the United States, but he can also bring his family and descendants to the United States and completely change the fate of the entire family.
And this is true for Lu Chaoran. After he obtained the American green card, he and his parents can become formal American citizens and live forever in the country they dream of.
Lu Chaoran abandoned his original country's original country and joined other countries in this way, and there was nothing worth discussing.
However, after immigrating to other countries like him, he also helped other countries to find trouble from the motherland, which made people have no good impression of him.
What is even more terrifying is that there are more than 6,000 Chinese in service in the US military, and this number is still increasing.
Most of the Chinese-American soldiers are like Lu Chaoran, and the rest is even more exaggerated, reaching the point of selling their country and seeking prosperity.
It is worth mentioning that after the arrival of the new crown epidemic, the US policy has changed a little. In order to prevent the economic collapse caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has strengthened its relevant settings for joining the army to obtain green cards, which has made the green card soldiers at a loss.
In fact, in order to better develop, it is understandable that individuals immigrate to other countries. After immigration, in order to be recognized by the new environment, it is understandable that it is actively showing that one is "patriotism".
At that time, no matter what, we should not forget our ancestors. At least we should know that our ancestors were buried under the loess of China.
Maybe in order to be accepted by the new environment, something extraordinary needs to be done. But at least when you really need to make a choice, please do not become an obstacle and do not use the blood of the Chinese as an American.
