April 1963 , Deng Yue, commander of the 40th Army, saw the deputy commander of the 118th Division who was planning to go out, and asked with a little confusion: "You get up so early, what are you going to do?"
Qu Wenqing said without looking back: "I'll go find Yu Shuilin! " " html l5
Hearing this, Deng Yue widened his eyes: "Level 2 combat hero Yu Shuilin? He disappeared before the battle was over. Have you found him?"
Qu Wen nodded : "I'm looking for it, in his hometown! Alas, it's like a homeless man."
Why did the former second-level combat hero become a homeless man? Why did he disappear before the battle ended?
Back to my hometown
951 spring, at the entrance of Meilihe Village, Chifeng County, Inner Mongolia, a man wearing a PLA uniform suddenly fell there.
After seeing this man, the villagers hurriedly took him into the village.
Because the man was wearing PLA uniform , the villagers were ready to take good care of him and asked what happened when he woke up?
But just as the villagers were about to help him, they suddenly found that the man had one arm missing.
And the gauze wrapped in the arms is still bleeding. Everyone is sure that this man must have just come down from the battlefield.
The villagers hurriedly called the village chief and asked what to do about this matter?
As soon as the village chief saw this man, yelled in surprise: "Isn't this Yu Shuilin? Come and invite the doctor to me!"
When the villagers were going to invite the doctor, the village chief explained the identity of this person to everyone.
Yu Shuilin is a native of Beautiful He Village, born in a poor family.
When he was less than 10 years old, his family suddenly suffered a sudden change. My parents and brothers all died in the war. In order to seek a way to survive, Yu Shuilin joined the army six years ago.
Because his family is gone, he has not returned to Meilihe Village for so many years, and only the village chief can still remember his identity.
Meilihe Village is a small village in extreme poverty. Although the villagers invited doctors, they had no money to pay the doctors.
In the end, the village chief emptied his family’s savings himself, and the doctor helped Yu Shuilin stop the blood.
A few days passed, Yu Shuilin's expression gradually improved, and on the third day, he finally woke up.
When the village chief and Yu Shuilin met with Yu Shuilin, Yu Shuilin showed a surprised look: "Village Chief? Yes, did you save me?"
The village chief shook his head : "Everyone saw you lying at the entrance of the village, so he saved you, not just me."
Then the village chief asked again: "Didn't you join the army? Why did you suddenly come back now and have a broken arm?"
The village chief's words seemed to hit Yu Shui Lin's soreness, he showed bitterness on his face for a long time before he opened his mouth and replied: "I, I am a deserter."
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As soon as he heard this, the village chief sighed : "Depending on your situation, you probably have many hidden secrets, so stay in the village in the future. But you also know the situation in the village. No one has spare money to support you, it depends on your own."
Yu Shui Lin nodded solemnly and expressed his gratitude to the village chief. After
, he lived in the village horse shed under the arrangement of the village chief. is usually responsible for helping people raise horses to support himself.
For the next ten years, Yu Shuilin concealed his experience of joining the army and lived like a homeless man in the horse shed of the production team.
The village chief was worried that Yu Shuilin had been a deserter and would be severely punished if he was discovered, so so he helped conceal Yu Shuilin's identity.
In a blink of an eye, 12 years have passed, and Yu Shuilin lives peacefully in beautiful river village without any trouble.
But every time the People's Liberation Army passes by, Yu Shuilin will secretly hide into the village chief's home.
Just like that, the once young man Yu Shuilin has become a sloppy man with a beard. Everyone no longer called his name, they called him a homeless man.
One day in in April 1963, a stranger came to Meilihe Village. When he saw the village chief, he asked: "Does Yu Shuilin live in this village?"
Village chief denied: "No, no, there is no one in our village called Yu Shuilin, why are you looking for him?"
Hearing this, the leader sighed: "He used to be the second-level combat hero of our 118th Division, I want to talk to him about the past."
The words of the leader made the village chief stunned. deserter Yu Shuilin became a second-level combat hero?
Heroes 118th Division
1949 Peaceful Liberation of , Chiang Kai-shek also fled Taiwan, and the new China, where the people are in charge, once again stands in the world.
However, the battle did not end here. After driving away the Japanese invaders and reactionaries, the claws of American imperialism extended to the surroundings of New China.
For Americans, they are unwilling to recognize the Communist Party of China at all. They just want to see Chiang Kai-shek control the entire China in order to gain benefits.
But Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang eventually failed, so they began to find other ways to continue oppressing us.
Under the influence of the Soviet Union, the United States finally decided to use North and South Korea as as pedals for to invade Asia, so it continued to inspire conflicts, which eventually triggered the Korean War .
The United States originally looked down on China, which was backward, and once shouted: "If China crosses the Yalu River, we will create the largest massacre in human history."
Hearing this sentence, Chairman Mao immediately ordered troops to be sent, and Marshal Peng Dehuai led the People's Volunteer Army to cross the Yalu River to resist the United States and aid Korea!
For the new China, this battle with can be regarded as a battle of national destiny. Even if we lag behind the United States in all aspects, we must win.
Under such a spiritual influence, Chinese People's Volunteer Army finally won the victory of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea.
And in the process of victory, countless heroes emerged. The 118th Division is such a heroic division, and Yu Shuilin is also an ordinary warrior in this division.
At the beginning of 1951, Peng Dehuai led the volunteer army across the Yalu River.
After carefully analyzing the situation, Peng Dehuai believed that head-on battles were by no means wise, so he prepared to adopt roundabout tactics to make up for the gap in weapons and equipment through flexible combat methods.
In the most famous Hengcheng counterattack , General Peng planted the Western Front troops in the Hanjiang area as bait , and arranged the 39th Army, 40th Army and other troops to counterattack in the Hengcheng area. and the 118th Division is part of the 40th Army.
html December 11 Before the battle officially began, Qu Wenqing, the instructor of the 8th Company of the 352nd Regiment of the 352nd Regiment of the 2118th Division, , started a combat mobilization. In order not to make the soldiers too nervous, he pretended to be relaxed and said: "The task is arduous, comrades, are you afraid?"
Hearing this, the soldiers couldn't speak for a while, so Qu Wenqing looked at Yu Shuilin and said, "You are younger than you are an old comrade in the company. Are you afraid?"
Yu Shuilin smiled and replied, "Don't be afraid, if you are afraid of death, you won't be a Communist!"
Yu Shuilin's answer, other young soldiers also responded one after another.
But looking at the soldiers' high-spirited appearance, Qu Wenqing felt a little sad.
Qu Wenqing himself is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of his comrades' death, because their 118th Division is responsible for road blocking , and will fight against US tanks and armored vehicles on the road.
Tragic battle
In the early morning of February 11, US tanks and armored vehicles roared in the distance.
The soldiers held grenade , hid in the grass beside them, waiting for the US military to enter the encirclement.
resisted the Iron Army with a mortal body, Yu Shuilin took the lead, threw the grenade near the enemy's convoy, and then rushed over with machine gun .
On the way to charge, Yu Shuilin got a bullet in his right arm.
Although Yu Shuilin felt pain, the battle was imminent, he could not take care of these things at all, and could only do his best to pour the bullets in his hand onto the enemy.
未分类彩国国国国国 and other 8th Company soldiers, the enemy's armored vehicles and tanks were scrapped one by one.
Just as the victory was about to be won, Yu Shuilin suddenly saw eight or nine US troops running down from an undamaged chariot, and rushed into the nearby woods under the rain of bullets.
Yu Shuilin ignored the blood flowing from his arms and immediately followed several US soldiers with a gun.
The US military was preparing to resist at first, but under the complex jungle terrain, they were no match for Yu Shuilin at all, and they were killed by Yu Shuilin in a short while.
The remaining US military became scared and immediately raised his hand to surrender.
Qu Wenqing, who followed, saw Yu Shuilin escorting seven or eight American prisoners alone, and immediately praised: "Good job, less than!"
Hearing Qu Wenqing's words, Yu Shuilin smiled. When he was about to respond, he suddenly lost consciousness and fell to the ground.
A few days later, Yu Shuilin woke up in the medical position behind, but found that he had lost his right arm forever.
"Deserter"
It turned out that after Yu Shuilin fainted on the battlefield, he was immediately carried back to the rear by Qu Wenqing for treatment.
After examination by medical staff, the enemy's gun penetrated Yu Shuilin's bones. and did not receive treatment as soon as possible after being injured, so this arm could no longer be saved.
If you want to continue living, you must undergo amputation.
Qu Wenqing couldn't help but burst into tears when he heard the news. For a soldier, losing his right arm is equivalent to leaving the battlefield forever.
However, the situation is urgent, he can only agree to the operation.
Three days after the operation ended, Yu Shuilin woke up .
Qu Wenqing came to visit him as soon as possible and told him happily: "You have made great contributions, and we all have obtained second-class merit . You are still a 'second-level combat hero!'"
Hearing Qu Wenqing's words, Yu Shuilin temporarily forgot the pain of breaking his arm and laughed happily.
But Qu Wenqing's next words made him completely lose his smile.
"I helped you arrange a civil service in the back, and you will become a senior official in the future!"
Although Qu Wenqing did not arrange a very high position, it was also quite good.
But Yu Shuilin was not very happy after hearing this news, but asked: "Can I continue to fight in the 8th Company?"
As soon as Yu Shuilin said this, Qu Wenqing couldn't help but take a deep breath , and then shook his head.
Seeing Qu Wenqing's reactions, Yu Shuilin laughed again: "Then don't bother to arrange positions for me, so I can save me trouble for the troops."
Yu Shuilin's words made Qu Wenqing heartbroken. He wanted to comfort Yu Shuilin, but the war was urgent, and he and the soldiers of the 8th Company had other battles to fight.
After Qu Wenqing and the 8th Company soldiers left , Yu Shuilin secretly applied for demobilization and returned to his hometown, and took the train from North Korea to his hometown Meilihe Village.
In order not to let everyone know the identity of his second-level combat hero, Yu Shuilin told the village chief that he was a deserter , and he lived in seclusion like this.
Qu Wenqing, who found Yu Shuilin missing, was concerned about him almost always. Whenever he had free time, he would look for traces of Yu Shuilin everywhere.
Meet again
After the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea ended, Qu Wenqing gradually became the deputy commander of the 118th Division because of his outstanding performance.
The hero's division team is paired with the hero's division commander, which is moving.
But Qu Wenqing could not find the soldier of the 8th Company "small than", but Qu Wenqing could not find it.
In that era when information was blocked, even if Yu Shuilin submitted his own relevant information when he joined the army, he was still looking for a needle in a haystack.
960, Qu Wenqing finally learned from the other 8th company soldiers that Yu Shuilin was Rehe people.
But he searched all over Rehe, but he couldn't find a veteran who had won the title of "Level 2 Combat Hero".
Until 963 , when Qu Wenqing passed by Chifeng County, Inner Mongolia, he learned from the local cadres that there was a homeless man named in Shuilin in Meilihe Village.
One day in April, Qu Wenqing met Yu Shuilin with the help of the village chief of Meilihe Village.
Even in the past ten years, he still recognized the sloppy homeless man in front of him at a glance. It was the "Xiao Yu" he had been thinking about day and night. He breathed a sigh of relief: "Xiao Yu, I finally found you."
Seeing Qu Wenqing come, Yu Shuilin's eyes also shone with light: "Instructor, why did you come here?"
Later, under the arrangement of Qu Wenqing, Yu Shuilin's identity as a "second-level combat hero" was exposed . Only then did the villagers realize that the "deserter" who had lived together for more than ten years was actually a hero of the country.
The local government immediately built a house for Yu Shuilin and sent various daily necessities such as quilts.
Although Yu Shuilin has been refusing to accept these preferential treatments, everyone does not want to see the country's combat heroes living in horse sheds.
After Qu Wenqing discovered Yu Shuilin, his comrades from the 8th Company also came to Meilihe Village to visit Yu Shuilin one after another. also asked Yu Shuilin to go back to the army to take a look every year in the future.
In that difficult era, Yu Shuilin should have gotten married and had children, and lived in happiness with his wife and children.
But because of the arrival of foreign enemies, he could only put down his hoe and carry the spear, and sacrifice his life for the country.
After retiring, he and and were in seclusion because he was worried about causing trouble to the country. Such a revolutionary spirit is touching and worthy of our memory and learning.
