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A combat hero who fought in the border counterattack 38 years ago has recently become the Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission. He is Li Zuocheng.
According to China Military Network, on the afternoon of August 26, General Li Zuocheng, Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, met with Tajikistan capital Dushanbe to participate in the second "Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and Tajikistan" four-nation anti-terrorism cooperation coordination. Mechanism senior leaders meeting Pakistan Army Chief Bajwa.
It is reported that this is the first time that Li Zuocheng has appeared in public reports as chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission.
Previously, Li Zuocheng was the commander of the People's Liberation Army Army. This also means that 66-year-old Fang Fenghui will no longer serve as chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Military Commission.
Li Zuocheng was born in Anhua, Hunan in October 1953. He joined the army in December 1970 and served successively as platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander, regiment chief of staff, regiment commander, division chief of staff, division commander, group army commander, and deputy director of the Chengdu Military Region. Commander, Commander of Chengdu Military Region and other positions. On December 31, 2015, the Army leadership organization was established along with this round of reforms, and 62-year-old Li Zuocheng became the first commander of the Army.
html On July 24, Li Zuocheng appeared in the CCTV political commentary blockbuster " will carry the reform to the end " Episode 8: The Road to a Strong Army (Part 2). He said in the film: "In this military reform, the Army has undergone great changes. An Army leadership organization has been established. The size of the Army has been greatly reduced, and the structural layout has been adjusted and optimized. The proportion of the Army's total personnel in the Army has dropped to less than 50%. . Cutting off the flesh and slimming down is to transform and reshape our largest traditional army into a powerful and modern new army. "During the 1979 border self-defense counterattack, Li Zuocheng, who served as company commander, was awarded " "Combat Hero" title, his company won first-class collective merit and was named "Knife Hero Company".
Exactly 30 years ago, Chi Haotian, who succeeded the founding general Yang Dezhi as the Chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army, was also a combat hero. After the reform and reshaping of the People's Army, the original four headquarters of the General Staff, General Political Department, General Logistics Department, and General Armament Department were changed into 15 functional departments including the General Office of the Military Commission, the Joint Staff Department of the Military Commission, and the Political Work Department of the Military Commission. The headquarters system has been changed to a multi-department system, with clearer paths for command, construction, management, and supervision, and more rational allocation of functions such as decision-making, planning, execution, and evaluation, with more focus on strategic planning and macro-management functions.
Soldiers are born to fight, and those who can fight are highly valued! Starting last night, news of Li Zuocheng's new appointment began to spread wildly on the Internet. At the same time, a draft of Li Zuocheng's speech that year was also posted online. The appendix is as follows:
Li Zuocheng: The motherland is in my heart!
In 1979, I was a company commander of a regiment of the Guangxi Border Defense Force, and led the entire company to participate in self-defense counterattack operations.
Fighting in the war is indeed a severe test for us, the new generation of soldiers who joined the army in the 1970s. Especially as a company commander, whether we can lead the whole company to fight the war well and complete the combat tasks assigned by our superiors is a question. This was the question I thought about the most at the time. In the
battle, we have been tempered and tested. Together with our brother company, we completely annihilated the public security troops in two public security villages of the Vietnamese Army, repulsed the counterattack of one enemy battalion, killed 194 enemies in total, seized a batch of weapons, ammunition and other combat materials, and successfully completed the tasks of our superiors. The combat mission assigned to our company. The company won first-class collective merit and was awarded the title of "Knife Hero Company" by the Central Military Commission. I was awarded the title of "Combat Hero" by the Central Military Commission.
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Public Security Tun is the name of the basic unit of Vietnam Public Security Army stationed at the border. A public security village may have more than a hundred people or dozens of people. There are more than 100 people in the public security village where we are attacking. Many of them grew up eating Chinese rice. However, these guys have committed numerous crimes against the people on our border. Because of their anti-China efforts, this public security camp was regarded as a so-called "model public security camp" by the Vietnamese government.
Facing this group of enemies, we have long been unable to endure it. In mid-February 1979, we accepted the task of attacking this public security camp and served as the main offensive unit.
The whole company is excited and everyone is gearing up.The company also distributed letters and condolences from the people to each class. Everyone read every letter carefully and determined to live up to the entrustment of the people of the motherland and report to the party and the people with excellent results.
60 artillery squad soldier Gao Sheng treasured a letter from a young pioneer and told everyone: "I will reply to this letter. I will fight bravely and after winning the battle, I will reply to the children with the good news of victory."
soldier Wang Dayong said in his own Written neatly on the belt: "Swear to avenge the border people and resolutely demand repayment of blood debts from the Vietnamese invaders!" Every person, every squad, and every platoon in the company wrote a petition for war and a letter of determination, and the mood for war was very high.
Li Zuocheng in 1979 (photo by Ye Yongcai)
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In the early morning of February 17, the battle started. Our border guards began shelling enemy positions. Under the cover of my powerful artillery fire, the entire company jumped up from the offensive starting position and ran forward. At that time, artillery fire from both sides was very fierce. Gun smoke filled the air and shrapnel flew across the air, but all comrades in the company showed no fear. They covered a distance of 900 meters in only 6 and a half minutes, and arrived at the designated location more than a minute in advance as required by their superiors.
The main task of our company is to attack the two highlands No. 3 and No. 4 in the enemy's public security camp defensive position. Enemy Hill No. 3 is surrounded by barbed wire fences, with criss-crossing trenches and many firepower points on the surface. Highland No. 4 is on the right rear side of Highland No. 3. The terrain is slightly higher and has the function of guarding Highland No. 3.
Our deployment is: the first platoon, led by deputy company commander Yang Xiren, goes around Xiaoqingshan behind No. 4 Highland, first seizes Xiaoqingshan Highland, and then launches an attack on No. 4 Highland. At the same time, the second platoon attacked Highland No. 3 from the front, and I was in the second platoon commanding the entire company to fight. The third platoon, led by instructor Xie Xisheng, cut off the enemy's retreat at the small unknown highland on the side of highland No. 3.
Since the enemy has built strong fortifications over the years and occupies favorable terrain, it is very disadvantageous for our attack. The battle was fierce from the beginning. The enemy on Highland 4 used submachine guns , light and heavy machine guns, and 60-mm cannon to madly suppress the row coming up from the back of Xiaoqingshan.
A group of comrades were determined to break through the enemy's blockade and cross Xiaoqingshan. Rushing to Highland No. 4, machine gun shooter Wang Menghai faced the enemy's fire from Highland No. 4. He resolutely set up his machine gun on the top of Xiaoqing Mountain and eliminated several enemies. Lan Hui, the squad leader of the second squad of sharp knife squad, led the whole squad under the cover of machine guns to roll down the steep slope more than 30 meters long in Xiaoqingshan. Their hands and faces were scratched by weeds and branches, and bullets whizzed out. When I called, everyone ignored me. Comrades from Class 1 and Class 3 also rolled down.
In this way, all comrades in the platoon rolled to the depression between Highland No. 4 and Xiaoqingshan, and then charged towards Highland No. 4. Deputy company commander Yang Xiren took the lead and rushed to the front. Deputy Company Commander Yang flexibly detoured to the left, rushed to the enemy's bunker with rapid movements, threw two grenades , blasting the enemy's heavy machine gun into silence, and then killed two enemies in succession with a pistol. Just when he was about to rush into the bunker, he was unfortunately hit in the waist by the remaining enemies in the bunker and died heroically.
Comrades endured their grief and issued a common battle oath: rush forward, destroy the enemy, and avenge the deputy company commander!
In order to better win the battle, I directed everyone to fight while calmly observing the situation on the battlefield. I saw that the planned battle plan did not match the actual situation. I felt that the current positions of the second and third rows were convenient for attacking Highland 4. , the second platoon had difficulty completing the task of frontally attacking Highland No. 3. In this case, we should concentrate our efforts on attacking Highland 4. Under the command of deputy commander Lin Meisi, we adjusted our combat deployment in time and gave up the battle plan of attacking the No. 3 and No. 4 highlands at the same time. The second and third platoons fired at the No. 4 highlands on the spot to support the first platoon in the battle, making the first platoon very vulnerable. The five bunkers and firepower points on Highland 4 were almost eliminated, and Highland 4 was captured. In this way, the whole company formed a favorable situation of surrounding the enemy's No. 3 Highland on three sides.
After the initial victory, the deputy commander immediately carefully studied the terrain and enemy firepower of No. 3 Highland with us. Determined to use the occupied positions to suppress the enemy's firepower, they sent commandos to break into the enemy's trenches first. Follow-up troops took the opportunity to move up, surrounded the enemy's trenches, bunkers, and firepower points in sections, and annihilated them one by one. Under the cover of fire, I led a commando team composed of eight comrades including correspondent Wang Kuotao and fourth squad leader Zhang Guisheng, and quickly and skillfully approached the enemy's forward position on Highland No. 3.
At this time, the barbed wire fence blocked our progress. I immediately ordered the soldiers to open a passage with a blasting tube. Because the fuse of the blasting tube was soaked when crossing the river, the blasting was unsuccessful. We are exposed to the enemy, and the more we stay for a second, the more dangerous we will be.
I rushed to the barbed wire fence desperately, grabbed the bottom wire with both hands, pulled it up hard, and pulled out an arc-shaped hole, and then quickly got in through the hole. The enemy, who was afraid of death, began to panic, so we took advantage of the situation and jumped bravely into the trench closest to the barbed wire fence. Several enemies in the trench turned around and shot at us while running away. I picked up my submachine gun and fired, knocking down two enemies, and other comrades killed the remaining enemies.
I divided the commandos into two groups and searched and moved forward separately. Communications officer Xiao Wang and other comrades and I searched from the right. Suddenly Xiao Wang found a hole in front of us. I ran up and saw an enemy huddled in the hole. I quietly jumped to the other end of the hole, and Xiao Wang and I put the muzzle of the gun to the hole at the same time, shouting "come out", and the enemy obediently raised his hands and got out of the hole.
While continuing to search, Xiao Wang was unfortunately hit in the hip by an enemy and was seriously injured. After I carried Xiao Wang to a safe trench, I went to chase the enemy. It happened that the enemy was looking for death, and he also came to chase him. us. At a corner of the trench, the guy and I almost bumped into each other. Just as the enemy was shooting at me, I grabbed the enemy's barrel with my left hand and pushed it up. At the same time, I lifted the submachine gun with my right hand and fired at the enemy. Shooting, the enemy fired a burst into the air. My bullet hit the enemy's chest, and the enemy lay down motionless. Later I discovered that my left hand had blistered with blood from grabbing the enemy's hot gun barrel.
At the same time that we broke into the enemy's trench, the instructor Xie Xisheng led three platoons of commandos to attack the enemy's position from another direction. Before this, the instructor's left knee had been hit by two pieces of shrapnel. He endured the severe pain without saying a word or getting out of the firing line. When the comrades of the third platoon used a 40 rocket launcher to blow up the concrete piles of a section of the enemy's barbed wire fence and opened a passage, he shouted "Communists, come with me!" and led everyone to bravely rush to the enemy's No. 3 high ground.
Under the leadership of the instructor and platoon leader, the comrades of the third platoon fought bravely and tenaciously. We quickly broke through the enemy's forward positions. However, the enemy was unwilling to fail and tried to make a desperate struggle by relying on solid fortifications and hidden bunkers. At that time, my right arm had been pierced by an enemy bullet and was bleeding profusely. I did not bother to bandage the wound, and together with my comrades, we penetrated from west to east to attack the depth of the enemy's position and engage in intense internal battles.
When approaching a bunker on the right, two enemies suddenly jumped out of the bunker and fired at me. I immediately opened fire on the enemy, killing one immediately, and the other enemy immediately retreated into the bunker. While fighting with the enemy, the handle and magazine of my submachine gun were damaged by a hail of bullets from the enemy, and the back of my right hand was injured in five or six places. I quickly changed my gun, and together with the comrades of Class 9, we eliminated them. The 5 people in this bunker are released.
After more than 4 hours of fierce fighting, we basically occupied the surface position of No. 3 Highland, leaving only the enemy in the last bunker in the northwest corner still resisting. This is the enemy's command post and the largest bunker on Highland Three.
Everyone surrounded the bunker and shouted in Vietnamese, "Hand your guns and don't kill!" Due to the deception and intimidation of the Vietnamese authorities, the Vietnamese army did not understand our army's prisoner policy and did not dare to surrender and continued to resist. Everyone was extremely angry and determined to eliminate them completely. I directed the second squad leader Lan Hui to monitor the entrance of the bunker, and I took Gao Sheng and other six comrades to explore the left side of the bunker, intending to find out the situation around the bunker.
Li Zuocheng in 1979 (photo by Ye Yongcai).
The enemy suddenly threw five or six grenades at us from the bunker. They fell and smoked around us. I immediately shouted "Get down" to the soldiers behind me, and rolled along to avoid the continuously exploding grenades. Then he jumped out of the pit and moved on. I carefully observed the terrain on the left and found that there were three trenches leading to the bunker. In order to prevent the enemy from escaping, I immediately ordered several soldiers to block the trenches respectively. Lan Hui and I found a hole in the bunker and cooperated with each other.
Lan Hui threw a grenade at the entrance of the cave. Taking advantage of the smoke from the exploding grenade, I picked up a submachine gun and rushed into the bunker to fire violently. I finished a magazine in one go and eliminated some enemies. But the remnant enemy fired desperately at the entrance of the cave and blocked the entrance with intensive firepower.
In this case, we changed our mind, strengthened the fire cover on both sides, and asked a comrade to climb to the top of the bunker, lean over and drop bombs into the bunker. The soldier took the lead, rushed to the bunker under my fire cover, and threw two grenades into the bunker. He was fighting vigorously, but unfortunately he was hit in the chest by the enemy and died heroically.
Seeing the sacrifice of my comrades, a ball of anger ignited in my heart. I shouted to the soldiers next to me, "Pay attention to cover." I grabbed 6 grenades, rushed to the enemy bunker, and threw all the grenades into the bunker from the entrance. Finally, All the enemies in this bunker were wiped out. We dragged out 16 enemy corpses from the bunker, including an officer. The soldiers said contemptuously: "This is the fate of the invaders."
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After the war, I have been working in the border defense regiment and now serve as the regiment leader. Our regiment is a front-line defense regiment. The terrain of the defense area is complex. In some areas, the mountains are gentle to the south and steep to the north. In some areas, the enemy is condescending, which is not conducive to our defense. In front of our regiment, the enemy deployed several times more troops than we did. In the past few years, the Vietnamese army has often carried out provocations on our border, caused troubles, fired guns, killed and injured our soldiers and civilians, and destroyed the production of border residents. And they continue to send armed agents to sneak into our territory, kidnap border residents, seize livestock, and spy on military intelligence. According to incomplete statistics, since 1984, the Vietnamese army has shot at our border residents 63 times and shelled 7 times, killing 4 of our border residents and wounding 2. They have made 29 armed border crossings and captured 14 of our border residents. I have a lot of supplies.
As the people's soldiers and the border guards of the motherland, we must not sit back and watch the people suffer losses of life and property. Opposite my fifth company, there was a group of Vietnamese troops who were very arrogant and active. They often fired at our border residents. In order to teach the enemy a lesson, I selected four special shooters to lurk in areas where the enemy often invaded our territory.
When lurking, the sun is shining above, the heat is steaming below, and you have to endure mosquito bites. Everyone lurked motionless for more than six hours before they saw three Vietnamese troops walking staggeringly and carelessly. We aimed at the two Vietnamese soldiers in front and opened fire at the same time, killing them both at once. The Vietnamese soldier behind heard the gunshot, hid in the grass nest next to him, and then rolled and crawled back along a small ditch.
We estimated that the enemy would come to drag away the corpse, so we just "sit back and wait". We think the more enemies we have, the better, just to show you how powerful we are.
Sure enough, after a while, four more Vietnamese troops came down. Each of our 4 snipers aimed at one. When the enemy approached the corpse, they opened fire together, and the four enemies met the King of Hell together. After this ambush, the enemy did not dare to act rashly for a long period of time, and their arrogance was much restrained.
We not only seized the favorable opportunity to eliminate small groups of enemies, but also carried out artillery fire operations against the Vietnamese army according to the instructions of our superiors.
The artillery battle is extremely difficult. At that time, all the cadres and soldiers of the regiment lived in tunnels and Maoerdong. For more than a month, no one slept with their legs stretched out. Coupled with the continuous rain, the cat's ear holes were almost filled with water, so everyone squatted in the water night after night. In April, when the fighting was the most intense, none of the cadres and soldiers had taken a shower or changed clothes. They wore "cement" clothes all day long. Some comrades suffered from low back pain and rheumatic diseases. The conditions were very difficult, but everyone had no complaints and always maintained a high fighting spirit.
The artillery battle in 1984 was very fierce in the direction of our country.There is Dongxing Town in our regiment's defense area. This town has done relatively well in the socialist spiritual civilization activities between the army and the people. It was highly praised by ××× and was hailed as "a pearl on the border defense line" by the leading comrades of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. ".
In order to destroy this pearl on the border line, the enemy poured thousands of artillery shells into Dongxing Town in just a few days. At that time, our artillery observation post was located relatively close to the enemy. As long as the enemy moved, we could immediately detect it and instruct our artillery to hit the target. The enemy discovered our observation post and tried every means to destroy it.
html April 12 was the most intense day of the artillery battle. The enemy concentrated four types of artillery including 160 mortars, 82 mortars, 105 howitzers, and 100 mortars to hit our observation post. The 160 mortar is relatively large. One shell weighs 46 kilograms and is very powerful.However, the enemy's artillery fire was not accurate. They fired for more than 2 hours and failed to hit. The artillery shells all fell around the observation post. The enemy did not knock down our observation post, but instead exposed his firing position and received many shells from us. Like a gambler who lost his sights, the enemy used more intensive artillery fire to suppress my observation post.
At around 11 a.m., an enemy 160-meter mortar shell landed on the top of our observation post, blasting through all the concrete floors of the three-story building. At that time, the artillery command platoon leader Kan Naimen and an artillery reconnaissance squad leader who were performing tasks at the observation post were stunned by the shells. But after they woke up, they did not consider their personal safety at all. They always stayed at their posts and promptly reported the location of the enemy's artillery positions to the artillery command post, so that our artillery quickly destroyed the enemy's artillery positions.
Guo Huazeng, a soldier of our fifth company, was on the hilltop alone on artillery observation mission. On this hilltop of less than 60 square meters, the enemy poured more than 150 artillery shells. There were an average of two and a half shells per square meter, and the craters were one next to the other. More than 40 shells fell on and around the top of the observation post alone.
In such a dangerous situation, Guo Huazeng did not take a step back and always insisted on observing. When he was reporting the location of the enemy's artillery position to the company, a shell exploded at the entrance of the cave. The telephone line was blown away, the single plane was damaged, and Xiao Guo was seriously injured and fell into a coma. When his comrades rescued him, he was still holding the phone tightly in his hand
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Are the sacrifices of soldiers only on the battlefield? no! As a border guard, he not only has to withstand the test of life and death every moment, but also has to withstand the test of pain and happiness, love, marriage, family and other issues.
For example, a military doctor in our regiment has been married for more than ten years, but because his wife cannot ride in a car, he has never come to the team to visit his relatives. This military doctor has not visited his home for several years in a row due to the tight border defense work. Although they have been married for more than ten years, they have only been together for a few months. For the sake of border security, they sacrificed opportunities to reunite as husband and wife again and again. Some family members traveled thousands of miles to be with their husbands, but were unable to reunite because their husbands were away on missions.
Comrade Deng Faqin, the commander of our fifth company, after his wedding, his wife came to visit the team. On the second day after arriving at the army, Company Commander Deng was ordered to lead the soldiers to perform tasks on the border. He stayed there for 56 days and nights. After he returned from his mission, his wife also went on vacation, but they had no complaints.
Our cadres and soldiers and their relatives, for the sake of the motherland and for the sake of one billion people, consciously and voluntarily make personal sacrifices and dedicate everything they have to the frontiers of the motherland!
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The company also distributed letters and condolences from the people to each class. Everyone read every letter carefully and determined to live up to the entrustment of the people of the motherland and report to the party and the people with excellent results.60 artillery squad soldier Gao Sheng treasured a letter from a young pioneer and told everyone: "I will reply to this letter. I will fight bravely and after winning the battle, I will reply to the children with the good news of victory."
soldier Wang Dayong said in his own Written neatly on the belt: "Swear to avenge the border people and resolutely demand repayment of blood debts from the Vietnamese invaders!" Every person, every squad, and every platoon in the company wrote a petition for war and a letter of determination, and the mood for war was very high.
Li Zuocheng in 1979 (photo by Ye Yongcai)
(2)
In the early morning of February 17, the battle started. Our border guards began shelling enemy positions. Under the cover of my powerful artillery fire, the entire company jumped up from the offensive starting position and ran forward. At that time, artillery fire from both sides was very fierce. Gun smoke filled the air and shrapnel flew across the air, but all comrades in the company showed no fear. They covered a distance of 900 meters in only 6 and a half minutes, and arrived at the designated location more than a minute in advance as required by their superiors.
The main task of our company is to attack the two highlands No. 3 and No. 4 in the enemy's public security camp defensive position. Enemy Hill No. 3 is surrounded by barbed wire fences, with criss-crossing trenches and many firepower points on the surface. Highland No. 4 is on the right rear side of Highland No. 3. The terrain is slightly higher and has the function of guarding Highland No. 3.
Our deployment is: the first platoon, led by deputy company commander Yang Xiren, goes around Xiaoqingshan behind No. 4 Highland, first seizes Xiaoqingshan Highland, and then launches an attack on No. 4 Highland. At the same time, the second platoon attacked Highland No. 3 from the front, and I was in the second platoon commanding the entire company to fight. The third platoon, led by instructor Xie Xisheng, cut off the enemy's retreat at the small unknown highland on the side of highland No. 3.
Since the enemy has built strong fortifications over the years and occupies favorable terrain, it is very disadvantageous for our attack. The battle was fierce from the beginning. The enemy on Highland 4 used submachine guns , light and heavy machine guns, and 60-mm cannon to madly suppress the row coming up from the back of Xiaoqingshan.
A group of comrades were determined to break through the enemy's blockade and cross Xiaoqingshan. Rushing to Highland No. 4, machine gun shooter Wang Menghai faced the enemy's fire from Highland No. 4. He resolutely set up his machine gun on the top of Xiaoqing Mountain and eliminated several enemies. Lan Hui, the squad leader of the second squad of sharp knife squad, led the whole squad under the cover of machine guns to roll down the steep slope more than 30 meters long in Xiaoqingshan. Their hands and faces were scratched by weeds and branches, and bullets whizzed out. When I called, everyone ignored me. Comrades from Class 1 and Class 3 also rolled down.
In this way, all comrades in the platoon rolled to the depression between Highland No. 4 and Xiaoqingshan, and then charged towards Highland No. 4. Deputy company commander Yang Xiren took the lead and rushed to the front. Deputy Company Commander Yang flexibly detoured to the left, rushed to the enemy's bunker with rapid movements, threw two grenades , blasting the enemy's heavy machine gun into silence, and then killed two enemies in succession with a pistol. Just when he was about to rush into the bunker, he was unfortunately hit in the waist by the remaining enemies in the bunker and died heroically.
Comrades endured their grief and issued a common battle oath: rush forward, destroy the enemy, and avenge the deputy company commander!
In order to better win the battle, I directed everyone to fight while calmly observing the situation on the battlefield. I saw that the planned battle plan did not match the actual situation. I felt that the current positions of the second and third rows were convenient for attacking Highland 4. , the second platoon had difficulty completing the task of frontally attacking Highland No. 3. In this case, we should concentrate our efforts on attacking Highland 4. Under the command of deputy commander Lin Meisi, we adjusted our combat deployment in time and gave up the battle plan of attacking the No. 3 and No. 4 highlands at the same time. The second and third platoons fired at the No. 4 highlands on the spot to support the first platoon in the battle, making the first platoon very vulnerable. The five bunkers and firepower points on Highland 4 were almost eliminated, and Highland 4 was captured. In this way, the whole company formed a favorable situation of surrounding the enemy's No. 3 Highland on three sides.
After the initial victory, the deputy commander immediately carefully studied the terrain and enemy firepower of No. 3 Highland with us. Determined to use the occupied positions to suppress the enemy's firepower, they sent commandos to break into the enemy's trenches first. Follow-up troops took the opportunity to move up, surrounded the enemy's trenches, bunkers, and firepower points in sections, and annihilated them one by one. Under the cover of fire, I led a commando team composed of eight comrades including correspondent Wang Kuotao and fourth squad leader Zhang Guisheng, and quickly and skillfully approached the enemy's forward position on Highland No. 3.
At this time, the barbed wire fence blocked our progress. I immediately ordered the soldiers to open a passage with a blasting tube. Because the fuse of the blasting tube was soaked when crossing the river, the blasting was unsuccessful. We are exposed to the enemy, and the more we stay for a second, the more dangerous we will be.
I rushed to the barbed wire fence desperately, grabbed the bottom wire with both hands, pulled it up hard, and pulled out an arc-shaped hole, and then quickly got in through the hole. The enemy, who was afraid of death, began to panic, so we took advantage of the situation and jumped bravely into the trench closest to the barbed wire fence. Several enemies in the trench turned around and shot at us while running away. I picked up my submachine gun and fired, knocking down two enemies, and other comrades killed the remaining enemies.
I divided the commandos into two groups and searched and moved forward separately. Communications officer Xiao Wang and other comrades and I searched from the right. Suddenly Xiao Wang found a hole in front of us. I ran up and saw an enemy huddled in the hole. I quietly jumped to the other end of the hole, and Xiao Wang and I put the muzzle of the gun to the hole at the same time, shouting "come out", and the enemy obediently raised his hands and got out of the hole.
While continuing to search, Xiao Wang was unfortunately hit in the hip by an enemy and was seriously injured. After I carried Xiao Wang to a safe trench, I went to chase the enemy. It happened that the enemy was looking for death, and he also came to chase him. us. At a corner of the trench, the guy and I almost bumped into each other. Just as the enemy was shooting at me, I grabbed the enemy's barrel with my left hand and pushed it up. At the same time, I lifted the submachine gun with my right hand and fired at the enemy. Shooting, the enemy fired a burst into the air. My bullet hit the enemy's chest, and the enemy lay down motionless. Later I discovered that my left hand had blistered with blood from grabbing the enemy's hot gun barrel.
At the same time that we broke into the enemy's trench, the instructor Xie Xisheng led three platoons of commandos to attack the enemy's position from another direction. Before this, the instructor's left knee had been hit by two pieces of shrapnel. He endured the severe pain without saying a word or getting out of the firing line. When the comrades of the third platoon used a 40 rocket launcher to blow up the concrete piles of a section of the enemy's barbed wire fence and opened a passage, he shouted "Communists, come with me!" and led everyone to bravely rush to the enemy's No. 3 high ground.
Under the leadership of the instructor and platoon leader, the comrades of the third platoon fought bravely and tenaciously. We quickly broke through the enemy's forward positions. However, the enemy was unwilling to fail and tried to make a desperate struggle by relying on solid fortifications and hidden bunkers. At that time, my right arm had been pierced by an enemy bullet and was bleeding profusely. I did not bother to bandage the wound, and together with my comrades, we penetrated from west to east to attack the depth of the enemy's position and engage in intense internal battles.
When approaching a bunker on the right, two enemies suddenly jumped out of the bunker and fired at me. I immediately opened fire on the enemy, killing one immediately, and the other enemy immediately retreated into the bunker. While fighting with the enemy, the handle and magazine of my submachine gun were damaged by a hail of bullets from the enemy, and the back of my right hand was injured in five or six places. I quickly changed my gun, and together with the comrades of Class 9, we eliminated them. The 5 people in this bunker are released.
After more than 4 hours of fierce fighting, we basically occupied the surface position of No. 3 Highland, leaving only the enemy in the last bunker in the northwest corner still resisting. This is the enemy's command post and the largest bunker on Highland Three.
Everyone surrounded the bunker and shouted in Vietnamese, "Hand your guns and don't kill!" Due to the deception and intimidation of the Vietnamese authorities, the Vietnamese army did not understand our army's prisoner policy and did not dare to surrender and continued to resist. Everyone was extremely angry and determined to eliminate them completely. I directed the second squad leader Lan Hui to monitor the entrance of the bunker, and I took Gao Sheng and other six comrades to explore the left side of the bunker, intending to find out the situation around the bunker.
Li Zuocheng in 1979 (photo by Ye Yongcai).
The enemy suddenly threw five or six grenades at us from the bunker. They fell and smoked around us. I immediately shouted "Get down" to the soldiers behind me, and rolled along to avoid the continuously exploding grenades. Then he jumped out of the pit and moved on. I carefully observed the terrain on the left and found that there were three trenches leading to the bunker. In order to prevent the enemy from escaping, I immediately ordered several soldiers to block the trenches respectively. Lan Hui and I found a hole in the bunker and cooperated with each other.
Lan Hui threw a grenade at the entrance of the cave. Taking advantage of the smoke from the exploding grenade, I picked up a submachine gun and rushed into the bunker to fire violently. I finished a magazine in one go and eliminated some enemies. But the remnant enemy fired desperately at the entrance of the cave and blocked the entrance with intensive firepower.
In this case, we changed our mind, strengthened the fire cover on both sides, and asked a comrade to climb to the top of the bunker, lean over and drop bombs into the bunker. The soldier took the lead, rushed to the bunker under my fire cover, and threw two grenades into the bunker. He was fighting vigorously, but unfortunately he was hit in the chest by the enemy and died heroically.
Seeing the sacrifice of my comrades, a ball of anger ignited in my heart. I shouted to the soldiers next to me, "Pay attention to cover." I grabbed 6 grenades, rushed to the enemy bunker, and threw all the grenades into the bunker from the entrance. Finally, All the enemies in this bunker were wiped out. We dragged out 16 enemy corpses from the bunker, including an officer. The soldiers said contemptuously: "This is the fate of the invaders."
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After the war, I have been working in the border defense regiment and now serve as the regiment leader. Our regiment is a front-line defense regiment. The terrain of the defense area is complex. In some areas, the mountains are gentle to the south and steep to the north. In some areas, the enemy is condescending, which is not conducive to our defense. In front of our regiment, the enemy deployed several times more troops than we did. In the past few years, the Vietnamese army has often carried out provocations on our border, caused troubles, fired guns, killed and injured our soldiers and civilians, and destroyed the production of border residents. And they continue to send armed agents to sneak into our territory, kidnap border residents, seize livestock, and spy on military intelligence. According to incomplete statistics, since 1984, the Vietnamese army has shot at our border residents 63 times and shelled 7 times, killing 4 of our border residents and wounding 2. They have made 29 armed border crossings and captured 14 of our border residents. I have a lot of supplies.
As the people's soldiers and the border guards of the motherland, we must not sit back and watch the people suffer losses of life and property. Opposite my fifth company, there was a group of Vietnamese troops who were very arrogant and active. They often fired at our border residents. In order to teach the enemy a lesson, I selected four special shooters to lurk in areas where the enemy often invaded our territory.
When lurking, the sun is shining above, the heat is steaming below, and you have to endure mosquito bites. Everyone lurked motionless for more than six hours before they saw three Vietnamese troops walking staggeringly and carelessly. We aimed at the two Vietnamese soldiers in front and opened fire at the same time, killing them both at once. The Vietnamese soldier behind heard the gunshot, hid in the grass nest next to him, and then rolled and crawled back along a small ditch.
We estimated that the enemy would come to drag away the corpse, so we just "sit back and wait". We think the more enemies we have, the better, just to show you how powerful we are.
Sure enough, after a while, four more Vietnamese troops came down. Each of our 4 snipers aimed at one. When the enemy approached the corpse, they opened fire together, and the four enemies met the King of Hell together. After this ambush, the enemy did not dare to act rashly for a long period of time, and their arrogance was much restrained.
We not only seized the favorable opportunity to eliminate small groups of enemies, but also carried out artillery fire operations against the Vietnamese army according to the instructions of our superiors.
The artillery battle is extremely difficult. At that time, all the cadres and soldiers of the regiment lived in tunnels and Maoerdong. For more than a month, no one slept with their legs stretched out. Coupled with the continuous rain, the cat's ear holes were almost filled with water, so everyone squatted in the water night after night. In April, when the fighting was the most intense, none of the cadres and soldiers had taken a shower or changed clothes. They wore "cement" clothes all day long. Some comrades suffered from low back pain and rheumatic diseases. The conditions were very difficult, but everyone had no complaints and always maintained a high fighting spirit.
The artillery battle in 1984 was very fierce in the direction of our country.There is Dongxing Town in our regiment's defense area. This town has done relatively well in the socialist spiritual civilization activities between the army and the people. It was highly praised by ××× and was hailed as "a pearl on the border defense line" by the leading comrades of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. ".
In order to destroy this pearl on the border line, the enemy poured thousands of artillery shells into Dongxing Town in just a few days. At that time, our artillery observation post was located relatively close to the enemy. As long as the enemy moved, we could immediately detect it and instruct our artillery to hit the target. The enemy discovered our observation post and tried every means to destroy it.
html April 12 was the most intense day of the artillery battle. The enemy concentrated four types of artillery including 160 mortars, 82 mortars, 105 howitzers, and 100 mortars to hit our observation post. The 160 mortar is relatively large. One shell weighs 46 kilograms and is very powerful.However, the enemy's artillery fire was not accurate. They fired for more than 2 hours and failed to hit. The artillery shells all fell around the observation post. The enemy did not knock down our observation post, but instead exposed his firing position and received many shells from us. Like a gambler who lost his sights, the enemy used more intensive artillery fire to suppress my observation post.
At around 11 a.m., an enemy 160-meter mortar shell landed on the top of our observation post, blasting through all the concrete floors of the three-story building. At that time, the artillery command platoon leader Kan Naimen and an artillery reconnaissance squad leader who were performing tasks at the observation post were stunned by the shells. But after they woke up, they did not consider their personal safety at all. They always stayed at their posts and promptly reported the location of the enemy's artillery positions to the artillery command post, so that our artillery quickly destroyed the enemy's artillery positions.
Guo Huazeng, a soldier of our fifth company, was on the hilltop alone on artillery observation mission. On this hilltop of less than 60 square meters, the enemy poured more than 150 artillery shells. There were an average of two and a half shells per square meter, and the craters were one next to the other. More than 40 shells fell on and around the top of the observation post alone.
In such a dangerous situation, Guo Huazeng did not take a step back and always insisted on observing. When he was reporting the location of the enemy's artillery position to the company, a shell exploded at the entrance of the cave. The telephone line was blown away, the single plane was damaged, and Xiao Guo was seriously injured and fell into a coma. When his comrades rescued him, he was still holding the phone tightly in his hand
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Are the sacrifices of soldiers only on the battlefield? no! As a border guard, he not only has to withstand the test of life and death every moment, but also has to withstand the test of pain and happiness, love, marriage, family and other issues.
For example, a military doctor in our regiment has been married for more than ten years, but because his wife cannot ride in a car, he has never come to the team to visit his relatives. This military doctor has not visited his home for several years in a row due to the tight border defense work. Although they have been married for more than ten years, they have only been together for a few months. For the sake of border security, they sacrificed opportunities to reunite as husband and wife again and again. Some family members traveled thousands of miles to be with their husbands, but were unable to reunite because their husbands were away on missions.
Comrade Deng Faqin, the commander of our fifth company, after his wedding, his wife came to visit the team. On the second day after arriving at the army, Company Commander Deng was ordered to lead the soldiers to perform tasks on the border. He stayed there for 56 days and nights. After he returned from his mission, his wife also went on vacation, but they had no complaints.
Our cadres and soldiers and their relatives, for the sake of the motherland and for the sake of one billion people, consciously and voluntarily make personal sacrifices and dedicate everything they have to the frontiers of the motherland!
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