htmlOn July 3, in Guangfu Village, Longxing Town, Hechuan District, Jiang Cheng talked about the details of shooting down the enemy plane, his eyes were bright. (All pictures in this article are taken by reporter Zhang Jinhui) belongs to Jiang Cheng's "The Good News of the Meritorious Affairs of Revolutionary Soldiers" (copy) that has been sealed for 36 years.
On July 3, Jiang Cheng and his commemorative medals were held in Guangfu Village, Longxing Town, Hechuan District.
On July 3, Jiang Cheng, wearing green clothes, took a walk with his wife's help.
There is such a veteran in Chongqing. In the Shangganling Battle , his intestines were blown out and he stuffed them back. During the battle, he wiped out more than 400 enemies with heavy machine guns, destroyed one enemy heavy machine gun, and miraculously shot down an enemy plane with a machine gun, winning first-class merit. After demobilization and discharge from the army, he did not disclose his legendary achievements to any first-level organization for 36 years, nor did he ask any first-level organization to make a request for even normal job arrangements. He just worked silently as a farmer, and even borrowed money to build roads in his own hands, leaving a "giant debt" for his son.
It was not until a "Good Revelation of the Meritorious Revelation of Revolutionary Soldiers" was discovered by a series of coincidences that his achievements were revealed to the world. The day he received the treatment of "all workers" for implementing the policy was over 60 years old.
Such a veteran interpreted the solemn oath of a Communist Party member with his own blood and no regrets.
"Old man, have you ever regretted this life?"
"No regret! Fighting so many wars, so many of my comrades are dead and disabled, and I am still alive!"
"For decades, no one knows that you are the hero of the Shangganling Battle. Do you regret it?"
"I am for the country and the people, and the country and the people have given me a lot, and there is nothing to regret."
This conversation that spans time and space, life and death, honor and disgrace, and gains and losses occurred on July 3. The protagonist of the conversation is Jiang Cheng, a 91-year-old man who is not good at speaking. He currently lives in Guangfu Village, Longxing Town, Hechuan District. However, it was such an old man who made great achievements in the Battle of Shangganling and interpreted the solemn oath of a Communist Party member with his blood and no regrets.
Original intention
Liberation of the whole country
Great hair, bald, and full of age spots on his face. He was panting, even with a cane and moving small steps, he would tremble all over his body. This is Jiang Cheng now.
The only thing that shows his veteran's mark is his fat, worn green army trousers, but there are traces of patches everywhere, especially on the knees, where the patches inside have been exposed.
However, it was this trembling old man who looked trembling. In the Battle of Shangganling, when the right abdomen was blown out of his body with a heavy machine gun, he wiped out more than 400 enemies with heavy machine guns, and miraculously shot down an enemy aircraft with a machine gun, winning first-class merit once, and then another third-class merit once.
64 years ago, he was demobilized and returned to his remote hometown to participate in local construction as an ordinary veteran.
31 years ago, because of the compilation and compilation of historical materials by local chronicles, the "good news of meritorious service" that year came back to light, and he became a "national worker".
However, that year, he was over 60 years old, and it was 36 years since he made meritorious service and received the award.
Nowadays, he is no longer clear in his mouth. However, when it comes to the past military trance, his eyes still shine in an instant.
Jiang Cheng was born in 1928 and spent his entire teenage years in war and turmoil. Before joining the army, Jiang Cheng's family had only "two acres of land, two tenant houses, and one cow". However, they had to support seven parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, brothers, and nephews.
11949, amid the rumbling cannons of Chengdu liberated, 21-year-old Jiang Cheng joined the People's Liberation Army.
"Liberate the whole of China! Liberate the whole of China!" During the interview, most of the time, Jiang Cheng's family and village cadres introduced the situation. Jiang Cheng, who sat aside with his head down, seemed to be half asleep and half awake, suddenly opened his turbid eyes, and while using a crutch to the ground, muttered repeatedly in a thick Chongqing dialect in his mouth.
"Liberate the whole of China!" Perhaps, this sentence was exactly the simplest original intention of Jiang Cheng when he joined the army.
obsession
Eliminate all enemies
Jiang Cheng became a soldier of the 1st Battalion of the 92nd Regiment of the 31st Division of the 11th Army. In October 1950, the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea broke out. In January 1951, Jiang Cheng's troops were incorporated into the 12th Army of the Volunteer Army and entered North Korea from the mouth of Changdian River to participate in the war.
In March when he entered North Korea to participate in the war, Jiang Cheng, who was 23 years old, was promoted to the deputy squad leader of the machine cannon company by the line of fire. Together with his comrades, he carried his beloved machine gun and sang the military song "High and proud" and crossed the Yalu River.
The file of Jiang Cheng's soldiers found by the reporter showed that less than a year after entering North Korea, Jiang Cheng "introduced Zhang Yun to join the party in Jincheng, North Korea in June 1952."
After nearly 70 years, Jiang Cheng has experienced a bloody test in a foreign battlefield to achieve promotion and join the party on the front line within one year. He can no longer find his original witnesses, and he himself cannot clearly describe the past after entering the North Korea to participate in the war, but the war history faithfully records the bloody battles experienced by Jiang Cheng's troops.
According to historical records such as "History of the War of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army", from April 22, 1951 to November 1951, the 12th Army where Jiang Cheng was located participated in more than 400 battles of all sizes and large and small battles such as the Fifth Battle and the Jincheng Defense Operation, and severely damaged the Turkish brigade.
"It means fighting, fighting, fighting! We must eliminate all enemies!" It is not difficult to find from Jiang Cheng's barely distinguishable words that the six words "eliminating all enemies" run through all his memories of the Korean battlefield.
In October 11952, four months after joining the party, Jiang Cheng ushered in the unforgettable Shangganling Battle. It was also in this cruel battle that shocked the history of world wars that he won the highest honor of a Chinese soldier.
On November 1, 1952, the 12th Army where Jiang Cheng was located began to enter the Battle of Shangganling. At that time, the 45th Division of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army, which was responsible for the first phase of the battle in Shangganling, had fought over more than 5,600 people in just half a month of bloody battle. Jiang Cheng and his comrades rushed to the front line under such a cruel battle situation.
"When I was a child, I liked to ask my father about war. He sighed every time, and bowed his head and said a few words." Jiang Cheng's third son Jiang Minghui recalled that his father usually did not take the initiative to mention that war when he was young. Instead, he often nags about the battlefield situation that no one understands when he was young.
The hero has grown old, but history still exists. The 12th Army's war history clearly records that on November 8, 1952, the 92nd Regiment where Jiang Cheng was located arrived at Shangganling, and was immediately asked by his superiors to prepare for three days and launched a counterattack on the 11th.
At that time, the Shangganling Highland 537.7 had fallen into the most critical situation. After four consecutive days of bloody battles, only 24 people left to retreat to tunnel No. 7, and had no water and food for 11 consecutive days.
At this critical moment, Jiang Cheng's 92nd Regiment stood on the most dangerous line of fire on the Korean battlefield.
It was in this cruel bloody battle that concerns the direction of the entire Korean war that Jiang Cheng made a wonderful achievement and shot down an enemy plane with a light weapon.
"An enemy aircraft is about to bomb us. If it rushes down, I will hit its head; if it flies over, I will hit its tail..." Jiang Cheng, who was sane and speechless, expressed it very clearly when he talked about the details of shooting down the enemy aircraft.
According to Jiang Cheng's recollection, when he was suddenly bombed by an enemy plane, as a machine gunner, he jumped into a deep pit with his machine gun while his comrades were looking for cover.
"I stood at the bottom of the ditch, put the machine gun on the ditch, and started to fight, regardless of whether I could fight or not." The old man kept trembling with his hands, and his eyes were extremely shining at that moment.
Legend
One person killed more than 400 enemies
What is more convincing and shocking than Jiang Cheng's memories is his meritorious service and award description: "In November 1952, in the Battle of Shangganling, in the battle of counterattack and perseverance in the battle of 537.7, this comrade played a high degree of bravery and tenacious spirit, overcame many difficulties, and led the team to master the technology under strict enemy artillery blockade...shoot down an enemy plane..."
What is even more incredible is that this meritorious award description also records in detail a brilliant victory that is miraculous in the entire war history of the People's Army: "With heavy machine guns, we will destroy the enemy's heavy machine guns, effectively suppress the enemy's firepower points, and block the enemy's transportation roads..."
"I am his younger brother, but I really don't know that he actually has the record of annihilation of more than 400 enemies. If I hadn't seen these archive records with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it." Jiang Qipeng, 80, looked at the yellowed archives and felt a lot of emotion.
The past is not as fierce as smoke. Even if it is more than half a century apart, you can still feel the tragic battle between the lines of this yellowed explanation of meritorious service.
It was also in this battle that Jiang Cheng was seriously injured.
"He used to say that when his intestines were pierced, he would rub the intestines into them by himself and even beat them!" When Jiang Cheng's wife Chen Mingxiu said this, the corners of her mouth could not stop twitching.
There was a 6 cm deep scar on Jiang Cheng's right abdomen. There is no way to guess what kind of courage Jiang Cheng used to plug the intestines back into his body when he had an open wound on his abdomen and his intestines were flowing out, and how determined he used to wrap his wounds and fight again.
But his meritorious service directly confirmed this earth-shaking detail: "... He was seriously injured and was unwilling to go off the line of fire. He cooperated with the infantry to complete the mission, which played a major role in the victory of the battle."
After this battle, Jiang Cheng was awarded the first-class merit and was commended.
However, when Jiang Cheng lowered his head and touched his scar, he would just smile and say, "I have beaten more enemies, and more..."
demobilized
retired and returned to his hometown to be a farmer
111, the first-class hero Jiang Cheng was promoted to the squad leader of the machine gun company of the 1st Battalion of the 31st Division of the 12th Army of the Volunteer Army.
With the end of the Korean War, in 1954, Jiang Cheng, who had fought on the Korean battlefield for four years, returned to China with his troops.
According to the "Jiangshan City Chronicles" of Zhejiang Province, the 31st Division after returning to China was the stationed in Jiangshan City. Due to the shortage of barracks in various departments, in May 1954, the East China Military Region instructed the troops under the district to start building their respective barracks as soon as possible.
Jiang Cheng made new contributions in this vigorous construction.
"Comrade Jiang Cheng, a squad leader and party member, was a hero in the Shangganling Battle. In this construction task, he maintained and carried forward his past honors, performed hard work, willing to study technology, and was responsible for his work, and truly played the role of a squad leader." This was the overall evaluation of Jiang Cheng in the organization that year.
In the "Meritorious Deeds" column, nearly 500 words were used to carefully record Jiang Cheng's achievements.
Jiang Cheng is responsible for the work of laying stones. With the study of "no matter how tired he is working hard", he has increased from being unable to pave 5 square meters that meet the requirements every day to paving 12 square meters with quality and quantity every day, which is "the work quota for two people throughout the day."
In December 11954, Jiang Cheng won another third-class merit for his outstanding contributions.
The iron battle of the camp is running through the flowing soldiers. The new barracks of the troops were built, but Jiang Cheng had not had time to live for a day and was demobilized and retired from the army on February 10, 1955.
Soldier files show that Jiang Cheng brought back his hometown when he was discharged from the army: a set of plainclothes, a pair of shoes and socks, a towel, a soap, and a cloth ticket of 16 feet.
Returning to his hometown, this hero who was extremely brave in the battlefield of blood and fire became a farmer again.
"We just know that he participated in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and I don't know that he had made such great achievements!" Jiang Cheng's 64-year-old nephew Jiang Renxian knew nothing about his uncle's glorious history.
"I have seen several medals from Dad, but they are all commemorative medals, and I have not seen the medals of military merit." Jiang Minghui said so.
Even though the reporter exhausted all possible ways to search, Jiang Cheng's resume in the past decade from the discharge from February 1955 to April 1964 was all blank.
"Just be a farmer!" Chen Mingxiu said in one sentence. It turned out that Jiang Cheng had never found any department after he returned home from demobilization, but worked as an ordinary farmer and participated in the construction of railways in his spare time.
"Dad has a good personality, he talks very little, he is always silent, and does not compete with others." In Jiang Minghui's childhood memory, his father was always silent like a mountain. No one expected that he was once the first-class hero of the Republic.
Until April 1964, Jiang Cheng temporarily went to Longxing Township to engage in sericulture work because of his outstanding sericulture breeding technology. He has worked in this temporary job for 24 years.
For a full 36 years, the first-class heroes who were once the Battle of Shangganling have worked hard in the simplest way.
inherited
"father's debt and son's debt"
decades after returning home from demobilization, Jiang Cheng spread his sericulture technology throughout the countryside. He often taught his technology for four or five days when he went out to teach his technology, which also made him not even meet his ex-wife for the last time.
1983, Jiang Minghui's eyes "a silent father as a mountain" did a shocking "major thing".
"To be honest, that big thing almost crushed me back then." Today, Jiang Minghui, who is 51 years old, still has complex eyes and even a little painful recollection.
In the winter of 1983, the local government decided to build a road from Longxing Township to Yongxing Township. Jiang Cheng, who believed that some construction skills, actually left the work of a sericulture technician and volunteered to take the lead in building the road.
The rural road construction in the early 1980s was by no means a concept of making money by contracting projects. The leader was not paid, and the road construction was all local villagers, and then the wages were paid according to the work points.
route is halfway through the repair and the money is gone. The villagers put down the steel chisel and picked up the hoe, and said in a disgusting manner that they wanted to go home to work. Jiang Cheng, who has never smoked very much and was taciturn, was said to have smoked three cigarettes in a row. At that time, he threw down his cigarette butt and said in a muffled voice: "Everyone keep doing it, I'll find a way to do it."
Jiang Cheng said very little. Once he spoke, it would be a spit and a nail. When everyone heard this, they put down their hoe and picked up the steel rod.
is fast, and the wages are coming, and even the daily work points standard is not lowered. The road construction project was successfully carried out until it was completed.
"Eight years later, my father called me to me and told me that the money for the road construction back then was borrowed by him from the rural credit union in his personal name." Looking at his father's serious and dodging eyes, Jiang Minghui's heart sank and asked blankly, "How much is the loan?"
"It should be more than 2,400 yuan..." Jiang Cheng's words fell on Jiang Minghui's heart like a huge rock.
That year was 1991. Jiang Minghui was only 23 years old. He saved more than 1,000 yuan after three years of working. In 1983, when Jiang Cheng borrowed a loan, 2,400 yuan was a "huge sum".
"The father and son pay back the debts..." The first sentence after a long time of silence was exactly the same sentence "The father and son pay back the debts."
At that time, Jiang Minghui had a girlfriend who had been dating for more than 3 years and was planning to get married. Faced with such a situation, Jiang Minghui did not dare to tell his girlfriend that he secretly sold his house for 400 yuan, moved into the collective dormitory, and then borrowed a part of the money to repay the loan.
Such a big thing naturally cannot be hidden. His girlfriend asked Jiang Minghui why, but he just kept saying, "That's the loan from my father's name, and the father's debt is paid back by his son, it's natural."
"I have no money and no house. Do you still want to get married? I think you are confused!" My girlfriend was so angry that she went to work in the main city of Chongqing.
Afterwards, Jiang Minghui moved his girlfriend with his true feelings, and the two finally got married. However, because there was no house, the couple had to move into the woman's home after marriage.
"In the countryside, my situation is called back-end." Jiang Minghui admitted that he has endured a lot of rumors over the years, "but there is nothing to regret. It is natural for the father to pay off his debts and the son to pay it back."After 28 years, Jiang Minghui's answer was still the words he said at the time. It turns out that time has not changed his mind.
"Dad talks little, but when talking to us siblings, the most common thing is to 'do your work honestly and be a person with every duty'. "Jiang Minghui inherited his father's taciturn character and his low-key and down-to-earth style.
In fact, except for the five Jiang Minghui who had a city household registration because of recruiting workers, the other brothers and sisters still have rural household registrations, including Jiang Renjun, who later retired from the army and returned home.
"Before I was sent to the army, my father only told me three words: Be prepared to sacrifice when you are in the army; strictly demand yourself in the army; do not cause trouble to the organization. "Jiang Renjun recalled.
Faith
The word "country" is always higher than everything
1988, Jiang Cheng, the first-class hero who had been buried in the countryside for 36 years, ushered in two major events without warning.
The first major event was a "Good Revelation of the Meritorious Affairs of Revolutionary Soldiers" that had been blocked for 36 years, because of an extremely accidental Factors were discovered. In that year, Wang Jueying, the former principal of Hechuan Normal School, was responsible for compiling the " Hechuan County Chronicle". When searching for archives, he found a "Good News of the Merits of Revolutionary Soldiers".
"Good News" states: "Comrade Jiang Cheng of your government made achievements in the Battle of Shangganling, and he was approved to remember first-class merit once. In addition to giving merits according to merit, he will report good news here. Congratulations to Comrade Jiang Cheng for his contributions to the people and his family is glorious. "
For the former Hechuan County, this is a precious historical material. But Wang Jueying found that the "Exam Preparation" column of the "Good News" was marked as "returned from District 8, no such person was found".
looked back at the delivery address and said "Nanya Village, Xinglong Township, Fourth District, Hechuan County, Sichuan Province". Coincidentally, in Hechuan at that time, there were both Longxing Township and Xinglong Township; more coincidentally, Wang Jueying was Jiang Qipeng's teacher many years ago.
"Will "Will "Longxing Township" mistakenly write "Xinglong Township" as "Xinglong Township", resulting in "No such person"? "Wang Jueying took the initiative to contact Jiang Qipeng and verify with relevant units.
This matter was then verified by all parties. Jiang Cheng, who had been buried in the countryside for 36 years, was the first-class meritorious official who made extraordinary achievements in the Korean battlefield.
The second major event was that with the release of the "Good News of the Meritorious Affairs of Revolutionary Soldiers", Jiang Cheng welcomed a notice issued by the then Hechuan County Government on September 23, 1988. The notice was called "About Jiang" Comrade Cheng took back the county sericulture station to enjoy the treatment of workers for all workers.
"Notice" determined that "Comrade Jiang Cheng had made contributions in the Korean battlefield and returned to the local area. No matter what work he did, he never took credit for his contributions, was always modest and cautious, diligent, and down-to-earth contributions to the party's work... He agreed that Comrade Jiang Cheng would treat the official workers of the sericulture station as the national workers from September 1988, and his salary was set at 80 yuan. "
made first-class contributions to the Shangganling Battle in 1952, and to "implementing the policy" in 1988, time flowed for 36 years. In
36 years, Jiang Cheng did not disclose his once brilliant achievements to any first-level organization, nor did he ask any first-level organization to make a request for normal arrangement of work. He just worked silently as a farmer, and even borrowed personal debts to build roads, leaving a "giant debt" for his son.
In 1988, he became the "national worker". In September, Jiang Cheng was 60 years old and 8 months old. He officially retired because he exceeded his retirement age.
Hero has grown old, and the legend is still there.
In 2015, Jiang Cheng, who is located in Guangfu Village, was already 86 years old. Jiang Cheng was the first in the village to take the lead in transferring the whole family's land and volunteer to persuade other villagers.
"The old man has made a lot of contributions to the village over the years. Although he is old, he has a high prestige. All the villagers who have been persuaded by him agreed to transfer the land. "Yang Yuanjiao, secretary of the Party Branch of Guangfu Village, said that when Jiang Cheng was still sane, the troublesome villagers in the village could basically be mediated as long as Jiang Cheng took action.
"I am from the country, and I still have to do things for the country! "This is Jiang Cheng's stubborn words when his wife advised Jiang Cheng to replace the green army pants that had been riddled with holes.
For this veteran, the word "country" is always above everything else.
(Source: Chongqing Daily)
