In the winter of 11953, the third Chinese People's condolences delegation to North Korea wrote on the banner given to Engineering troops , saying:
to clear obstacles to the troops' advancement,
to build a great military project,
to ensure smooth traffic lines, and
to build a hero's steel position. The four sentences of
can be said to be an appropriate evaluation of the historical achievements of the Volunteer Army Engineers.
Li Junde, as the deputy commander of the 13th Regiment of the Engineer, was sent by the Engineering School to the 50th Army of the Volunteer Army to guide tunnel operations, and contributed to the anti-login operation preparations of the 50th Army. On September 27, 2022, Li Junde's daughter Li Wenhua, who lives in Nanjing, told reporters that her father was the hero behind the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.
Li Junde
Heroes resume
Li Junde is from Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, born in 1916, and served as deputy commander of the 13th Regiment of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army Engineer. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1938 and joined the army in 1939. He has served as a member of the local work group, publicity officer, chief of the Civil Movement movement, instructor, station director of the logistics supply station, deputy director of the Civil Movement Department, director of the Engineering Corps, and deputy head of the Engineering Corps. On April 12, 1953, he was bombed by enemy planes during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.
burial situation
On April 15, 1953, Li Junde was buried in Shenyang Martyrs Cemetery of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. The cemetery number is No. 4, row, West District.
Home Anti-Japanese War
1937 After the July 7 Incident, Li Junde, who was studying in high school in Anqing , was full of righteous indignation like the patriotic young people. He told a classmate: "The mountains and rivers are broken and the country is about to die. How can every man be at peace?" He resolutely joined the army, signed up for the Anhui Provincial Student Wartime Service Training Team, and joined the ranks of fighting against Japan and saving the country. After the training team ended, Li Junde was assigned to work at the 33rd Working Group of the Anhui Provincial People's Anti-Japanese Mobilization Meeting and served as the instructor of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Corps of the Anti-Japanese People's Self-Defense Army.
11938, the underground party organization of the Communist Party of China sent Li Junde to his hometown to protect him as the director of the joint security, organized and mobilized the masses to crack down on traitors and local reactionary forces, and engaged in publicity anti-Japanese and national salvation activities.
Li Junde's hometown is located at the junction of Henan and Anhui. Officials, gentry, soldiers and bandits are mixed together. They are in the name of resisting Japan and robbery. They are rampant in the villages, and the people are full of complaints. After Li Junde returned to his hometown, he often convened meetings with the security guards, chiefs of the gentry and the gentry to study issues such as maintaining social security and arresting bandits. He shot Ye Yeru, the former joint security director who served as an official during the day and bandits at night. He also actively mobilized the people in his hometown to participate in the Anti-Japanese National Rescue Movement, creating favorable conditions for the establishment of an anti-Japanese democratic regime behind the enemy.
11 In January 1939, Li Junde stepped on the front line of the anti-Japanese war and served as the propaganda officer of the Political Department of the 4th Detachment of the New Fourth Army. Soon, he was transferred to the position of head of the Democratic Movement Section. At that time, the salary of the New Fourth Army was controlled by the Kuomintang Anhui Provincial Government and could not be paid on time. The work of the civil movement had to cooperate with the logistics department to work for the troops. Li Junde actively contacted people from all sides to publicize the anti-Japanese united front policy, received support and help from many aspects, and solved the problem of salt deficiency in the army.
training recruits
During the Liberation War, Li Junde served as the head of the civil transport enemy engineering department of the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the New Fourth Army, deputy station chief of the General Station of the 7th Column of the East China Field Army, chief of the Transport Section of the Logistics Department, head of the transport regiment of the Army Logistics Department, and station chief of the supply station. He led his personnel to enemy-occupied areas such as Yancheng , Huaiyin and Shandong Jiaodong for military supplies. In the battle of Menglianggu, Huaihai battle, Crossing the River Battle, , and the battles of liberating Nanjing and Shanghai, Li Junde always rushed to the front line and organized troops to successfully complete major tasks such as material support, ammunition transportation, and wounded transfer, and was awarded the third-class merit of three times.
Volunteer Army Soldiers summarized their combat experience in the "Underground Great Wall" built with their own hands.
111 In August 950, Li Junde served as deputy director of the Civil Movement Department of the Political Department of the 25th Army. In January 1951, he was transferred to the deputy commander of the 3rd Regiment of the Recruitment Regiment. In July, he served as deputy commander of the 20th Regiment of the East China Field Army's Recruitment Training Regiment. He was responsible for the reception, training and delivery of recruits in the Songjiang Division of Jiangsu Province and the Jianyang and Nanping Divisions of Fujian Province, and made every effort to ensure the needs of the combat troops in Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.
Li Junde carried out meticulous ideological and political work, reasoning, the overall situation, and educating everyone to understand the relationship between protecting the family and defending the country. He mobilized the general meeting, helped the minor meeting, and talked in person. Through class education such as settlement, complaining, and chasing roots, he improved the awareness of the new recruits. In order to improve the relationship between officers and soldiers, he mobilized cadres at all levels of the regiment to help the soldiers do good deeds, took the lead in giving shoes and towels to the soldiers, helping the soldiers wash clothes, standing guard and on duty with the soldiers, and making heart-to-heart talks with the soldiers. Li Junde's regiment has successively received and trained more than 4,000 new recruits, and has made positive contributions to defending the country and resisting the United States and aiding Korea.
Guiding tunnel operations
11952, Li Junde was transferred to the deputy commander of the 13th Regiment of the Engineer. During his studies at the Engineering School in early 1953, Li Junde was ordered to come to the battlefield of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea to guide the 50th Army of the Volunteer Army to build fortifications and tunnel operations. In January 1953, after the 50th Army held an anti-enemy landing combat meeting, the divisions actively carried out preparations for anti-landing combat. Li Junde is very busy every day.
htmlAt around 6 pm on April 12, Cai Zhengguo, deputy commander of the 50th Army, presided over a report meeting of the team leader of the rotation training class of the 50th Army Regiment and the second battalion department in the conference room outside the tunnel as scheduled. At around 10 o'clock in the evening, Cai Zhengguo stood by the table and spoke. Several enemy bombers suddenly came from the northeast, dropped bombs, and hit the headquarters station. One of the bombs fell 5 meters away from the conference room and blew up the house. Li Junde, who attended the meeting, unfortunately died.
When Li Junde died, his wife Huang Yichao was pregnant with his son Li Chao and his daughter Li Wenhua was just one year old. Li Wenhua said: "My mother lost her mother's love in childhood. She joined the revolution as a teenager and followed the army through life and death. Because she had lost her mother's love, she gave us all her love after we lost her father's love."
Li Wenhua still remembers that in the 1960s, every household posted colorful paintings on the walls. My mother bought a colorful painting "Riding Horse and Walking the World" and posted it on the wall. There were two soldiers riding horses on the hillside. One in front held a telescope in his hand and it seemed to be an officer. The one behind was carrying an submachine gun like a guard. There was a white horse and a red horse on the picture. My mother once said to her: "Your father had a telescope and two horses, one white horse and one red horse. He rode one horse by himself, and the other by a guard. This painting is really similar."
11956, Huang Yichao came to Shenyang to sweep the tombs of the Martyrs Cemetery of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. After that, she told her children to come to visit her father's grave when she grew up. Now, Li Chao and Li Wenhua have fulfilled their mother's wishes, and their next generation will also come to Shenyang to pay tribute to the martyrs.
Shenyang Daily, Shenyang Daily All-Media Reporter: Zhou Xianzhong/Text Shenyang Martyrs Cemetery of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea/Photo provided
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Editor: Zhang Hongjun
