In June 2008, a Henan farmer from thousands of miles away traveled through the vast Gobi Desert alone and came to a place called Tielekti on the border between China and Kazakhstan. This is a place with no one around the world that is bitter and cold all year round and rarely visited.
Tielekti
Henan farmers who came here put cigarettes and wine sacrifices on a hillside and kowtowed, keeping muttering words, He said, "Go home with me, my comrade-in-arms!"
This man is named Yuan Guoxiao. He is an ordinary Henan farmer, and a national traitor who has been discussed by villagers for more than 40 years. The bullet on his right shoulder, the two scars that penetrated his body, made us unable to help but inquire about the secret behind him, which has been hidden for more than 40 years!
In March 1969, the Sino-Soviet Zhenbao Island War suddenly started. The conflict between the two major powers instantly caused a sensation in the whole world. Loyal bones were buried everywhere in the green mountains. Why do you need to return the body by wrapping your body? In the social atmosphere.
At that time, Yuan Guoxiao, a 17-year-old man from Zhecheng, Henan, joined the army with dozens of fellow villagers. After arriving in the army, he was assigned to a cavalry unit in Tacheng area, Xinjiang.
There, Yuan Guoxiao and his comrades had to conduct a three-month training for recruits. However, more than 40 days had passed since the training. One night, their entire army was urgently transferred to the Tielekti border defense post on the Sino-Kazakh border. This was a strategic location that could restrict Alashankou and was also the forefront of the Sino-Soviet border confrontation at that time. When the news of the victory of Zhenbao Island spread from the northeast to the military camp on the other end of the motherland, Yuan Guoxiao and his comrades who had just entered the military camp seemed to have also seen the opportunity to make achievements.
According to historical records, starting from the early 1960s, Soviet soldiers located on the Sino-Kazakhstan border often crossed the border to drive away the flock of our herdsmen. In severe cases, helicopters and armored vehicles were even dispatched. In addition, the Soviet army also took over step by step in our territory and set up landmarks privately. However, all these provocative behaviors have always regarded peace as the most important thing before the Sino-Soviet relations were completely broken. At most, the soldiers patrolling the border between the two sides would compete with each other.
This situation continued until early 1969. In May of that year, when the herdsmen in our border area were about to make a transition in the summer, the vast flock of sheep and fifty-four herdsmen had a direct conflict with the soldiers who came to drive away by the Soviet army. During the fight, our herdsmen and the border guards who came to support seized three Soviet rifles. After returning to check, they found that there was no bullet in the gun.
This sudden situation made the leaders of Yuan Guoxiao's unit at that time believe that the Soviet army's provocation over the years was actually a bluff. They simply don't have the courage or courage to prepare for the first shot.
Finally, after reporting layer by layer, in August 1969, border defense force decided to send a small team to accidentally destroy the landmarks set up by the Soviet army in our territory and regain the ranch occupied by the Soviet army. At the same time, this combat decision was also reported to relevant Beijing departments. After approval, many media that learned the news asked to go to the front line to interview the combat mission in real time. After layers of application, more than 20 media outlets including Beijing TV station rushed to the Sino-Kazakhstan border.
However, at that time, all of our actions fell into the eyes of the Soviets.
In August 1969, on the Soviet border, it was found that Chinese troops were gathering rapidly towards the border. After observing our abnormal mobilization, the Soviet border station immediately entered a state of alert and urgently built a bunker at the frontier outpost. Two armored vehicles were quietly deployed on the flanks. Unfortunately, we knew nothing about the careful preparations of the Soviet army.
As the war approaches, the soldiers on the frontline learn more and more. A series of unequal treaties in the history of China and Russia are all familiar with them and catchy.
During that time, Yuan Guoxiao's main content in border defense was to make various pre-war mobilizations during the day and listen to radio every day to strengthen his sense of hatred against the Soviet army over the years. However, military training before the war only took up a small part of the time.
For Yuan Guoxiao and others, the shooting skills are also training that can be completed after temporarily reaching the front line of the border. A total of 15 bullets were fired, and the grenade that should be used in actual combat. Yuan Guoxiao only threw away five of them and studied for three days.
Of course, the lack of military technology was not worth worrying in the eyes of Yuan Guojiao and his comrades at that time. After all, a group of young men with strong spirits were already eager to try to fight the upcoming battle to kill the enemy.
Finally, at 2 a.m. on August 13, 1969, Yuan Guoxiao and his comrades quietly set off against the chill of the summer night in Xinjiang. Ten journalists were accompanied by. After arriving at the preset position, Yuan Guoxiao, fellow villager Yin Qingqi, and Xinjiang Film Studio reporter Wen Binglin were responsible for squatting in the northeast corner of an unknown highland. This stone mountain did not grow in no grass, and it was neither covered by natural landforms nor could it be possible to dig a bunker with a shovel.
In the cold night, Yuan Guoxiao and his comrades could only lie on the gravel and wait quietly, and the battle order was initiated. However, it was seven o'clock in the morning.
At that time, it was dim and a patrol plane of the Soviet army suddenly appeared above our position. Seeing this scene, reporter Wen Binglin's eyes suddenly lit up. He stood up and decided to capture the picture. But it was obvious that for reporters who had no military training at all, his behavior directly exposed Yuan Guoxiao and others lurking here. The Soviet soldiers on the plane discovered our entire lurking directly.
At about 9:00 a.m., with the launch of three signal flares, our first patrol team consisting of eleven people led the way out, but before entering the designated location, three Soviet military vehicles suddenly appeared in the valley, surrounding the patrol team, and then dense gunfire sounded everywhere.
The leader of the patrol team, Pei Yingzhang, was shot in the neck and fell to the ground. At the age of 37, he is also the oldest veteran in the team.
He originally hoped that this mission could bring a perfect end to his military career, and it was not until his comrades around him fell that Yuan Guoxiao truly felt the cruelty of the war, which was far beyond his imagination.
The Soviet army with heavy weapons did not give Chinese soldiers any chance to fight hand in hand. Several armored vehicles drove fierce artillery fire to assault quickly. Our soldiers who were completely hiking had no power to fight back. On the empty position, they instantly turned into a bloody slaughterhouse.
Seeing this, Yuan Guoxiao and his comrades-in-arms were rushing to the armored vehicle with a grenade . Unfortunately, for the two recruits who had only fired 15 bullets before the war, this shot did not hit. Facing the rapid-fire armored vehicle, Yuan Guoxiao and his comrades-in-arms who had nowhere to hide, they rushed up with a rifle, but it was obvious that the bullets of the rifle could not cause any damage to the armored vehicle at all.
In the end, Yuan Guoxiao fired two grenades he was carrying, but before he could throw them out, the dense bullets knocked him to the ground. With a huge roar, Yuan Guoxiao immediately lost consciousness.
On the afternoon of August 13, 1969, when Yuan Guoxiao woke up from a coma, he found himself on a train, and lying side by side was Pei Yingzhang, the captain of the patrol team who was knocked down by the first shot of the Soviet army. In addition, there are reporter Wen Binglin and comrade Yin Qingqi, all three of them were seriously injured and still remained.
When the train was at the station, Yuan Guoxiao was sent to the Soviet military hospital for treatment. During this period, in addition to the medical staff, a large number of Soviet journalists held cameras every day, rushing to watch him being captured. After all, the Soviet side needed to use Yuan Guoxiao's captive identity to disgust the people of our country.
At that time, although the language was not clear, Yuan Guoxiao still understood everything from Su Fang's actions.
However, what is surprising is that during the capture, the Soviet side did not torture Yuan Guoxiao. A Soviet officer had interrogated him several times, asking him what his name was and whether he missed home. Some irrelevant problems.
Yuan Guoxiao kept the military order in mind, did not answer any questions from the Soviet army, and made the worst plans for his own destiny. He was ready to be shot. However, the Soviet army had no intention of taking action. It was during his days in the hospital that Yuan Guoxiao slowly realized what happened that day.
It turned out that on the day of the battle, the Soviet army had prepared very well and secretly mobilized ten armored vehicles and more than 300 infantrymen. Our soldiers mainly rely on hiking, and their only heavy weapon was grenades.
Under the huge gap in military firepower, Battle of Iron Lekti turned into a one-sided massacre. During the four-hour battle, all 25 soldiers and three military reporters died. The reporters Wen Binglin, Pei Yingzhang and Yin Qingqi, who were still alive on the train, were later killed in the Soviet military hospital.
so that Yuan Guoxiao became the only survivor in that battle. In order to avoid another large-scale conflict, on September 8, China and the Soviet Union met in Beijing, and the two sides reached a temporary agreement to safeguard the status quo of the border and avoid armed conflict. After the war, a grand memorial service was held for the martyrs who died. Yuan Guoxiao's name was also in charge, just because we still didn't know that Yuan Guoxiao was still alive at this time.
On September 23, 1969, the Soviet army informed Yuan Guoxiao that he could return to China. In front of the Sino-Soviet border, Yuan Guoxiao took off all the Su army's clothes and shoes, leaving only a pair of underwear.
As soon as he entered the country, Yuan Guoxiao, who was originally full of shame and nervousness, saw that the roadside was filled with people who welcomed him back to China. The thunderous applause and cheer made him feel like a dream. Four days later, at the conference held by the Tacheng Military Sub-district, Yuan Guoxiao made a key speech according to the manuscript compiled by the troops. Of course, in this speech, according to the request of his superiors, he did not mention the fact that he was captured, but instead described himself as being kidnapped by the Soviet army. After all, this word is slightly better.
Of course, all this made Yuan Guoxiao feel ashamed, but the continuous speeches made him go from Ke Kebaba's reading manuscripts to passionate and passionate, Yuan Guoxiao gradually found the feeling of being a hero. On October 1st, Yuan Guoxiao was invited to Urumqi to attend the 20th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and for a time he became a well-known hero in the Xinjiang Military Region.
Yuan Guoxiao's parents also rushed to Xinjiang overnight to meet him after learning the news of their son's survival. During the speech, Yuan Guoxiao and his father came to the Tori Martyrs Cemetery, where twenty-eight martyrs from the Battle of Tielekti were buried.
The oldest is thirty-seven years old and the youngest is seventeen years old. Nine of them are recruited at the same time as Yuan Guoxiao. This is their first time on the battlefield, but it is the last time.
Half a year later, Yuan Guoxiao, who had a bright future in the eyes of everyone, expressed his hope to go home to take care of his mother. Just because behind all this, facing the 28 comrades who died, Yuan Guoxiao was unable to convince himself to be a hero.
Two years later, his rehabilitation application was approved. Nineteen-year-old Yuan Guoxiao returned home and became an ordinary farmer. However, after returning home, Yuan Guoxiao found that his heroic aura had long faded. His experience of being captured also made the villagers look at him coldly, until finally, the villagers called him a traitor to the country in public.
The villagers cannot understand why Yuan Guoxiao survived?
Faced with various doubts, Yuan Guoxiao chose to remain silent. In that era, it was defined as a traitor. You can imagine how difficult it was. Not only were he isolated by the whole village, but he was also bullied or even beaten from time to time.
In those almost desperate days, Yuan Guoxiao said that he could only go far away and wished he could live a life of silence. He didn't understand or understand. Why did he become a traitor when he fought bloody battles? Could it be that he survived?
1 The Soviet Union collapsed . The Sino-Soviet border that year has now become the border between China and Kazakhstan.
In 1999, the leaders of China and Kazakhstan signed the joint communiqué . The disputed areas where the fierce battle occurred were divided into two and assigned to the two countries. During this period, Yuan Guoxiao also became a famous pepper-growing king in his hometown through his own efforts, and his life also became rich.
can be called the title of traitor. It is always a pain in his heart that is unacceptable.
In 2008, Yuan Guoxiao, who was already middle-aged, returned to Tielixite again to pay tribute to his comrades after thirty-nine years.
On the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder has long dissipated. As the only survivor in that war, Yuan Guoxiao said that he felt that he had an obligation to let more people know this history, so that his comrades' blood would not flow in vain.
After becoming the king of pepper, Yuan Guoxiao, who became rich, also began to organize gatherings of veterans in the village regularly and held commemorative activities for the Battle of Tirekti out of his own pocket. He also sent a condolence money ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 yuan to the homes of the 28 comrades who died that year at his own expense.
Although the traitor's messages have gradually been eliminated in recent years, Yuan Guoxiao still feels uneasy. He doesn't know if he is a real warrior. I think this question is also a question that we all need to discuss!
