At around 9 pm on May 20, 1951, the commander of the first regiment of the Volunteer Army died unfortunately while performing a interspersed mission.
At that time, due to the critical situation on the battlefield, the soldiers could only bury his body on the spot, then make a mark, and come to find it later.
The news of the death of the regiment commander reached Beijing and Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao was extremely sad and personally ordered that the body must be taken back at any cost.
What is the special thing about this group leader? Even Chairman Mao was alarmed.
The commander of the regiment was named Deng Shijun . He was the commander of the 559th Regiment of the 187th Division of the 63rd Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army at that time.
In addition, he is also an old combat hero in our army. From , the Red Army to the War of Resistance, and then to the liberation period, Deng Shijun participated in more than 100 battles.
He was injured 12 times and won the honors of different titles such as "Combat Hero" and " Special Combat Hero " 9 times.
What he was even more proud of was that in Yan'an defense battle in in March 1947, he and Chairman Mao lived in the same cave.
In 1950, the National Battle Heroes Model Worker Conference was held in Beijing, and it was even received by Chairman Mao.
As a representative of heroes and models in the entire army, just as he actively prepared to go to Polish to attend the World Hero and Model Congress, and Korean War broke out, Deng Shijun actively asked to participate in the war.
On February 17, 1951, Deng Shijun, the commander of the 559th Regiment, quietly crossed the Yalu River .
From then on, he never came back...
Deng Shijun
Deng Shijun, was born in a tenant farmer family in Group 5, Group 5, Lianghe Township, Cangxi County, Sichuan Province on the eve of the Spring Festival in 1916.
As the first son in the family, his birth naturally brought a lot of joy to this poor family.
In order to support him, his parents gave him a nickname called "Iron Can".
Although the family is very poor, when Deng Shijun should go to school, he still raised money to send him to a private school. This is the expectation of his parents for his eldest son. He hopes that by studying hard, he can make a name for himself in the future, change his life, and not live such a poor life again.
However, the family was too poor. Deng Shijun only attended a private school for one year. Because his family was too poor, he could not afford the tuition for the second year. He had to drop out of school and go home and follow his parents to farm.
That's it. His parents' attempt to take the career path by getting their son to school was ruthlessly interrupted by reality.
In May 1932, the Red Army recruited soldiers. Deng Shijun, who was less than 16 years old, joined the Red Army without telling his parents, and began his combat career from then on.
In the army, he started as a serviceman, and then worked as a number-man of and a correspondent. Although his work is ordinary, Deng Shijun learned a lot and made his career very broad.
He is serious about his work and works hard. He has never failed to complete any tasks assigned by his superiors.
On January 28, 1933, Deng Shijun was injured for the first time in a battle. A bullet passed through his right face, and blood flowed in an instant.
But he still insisted on fighting and did not go to the hospital for treatment until the end of the battle. His spirit of not being afraid of bleeding was praised by his superiors and laid the foundation for his many contributions in the future.
In February 1935, in view of Deng Shijun's excellent performance, he was approved to join the Communist Party of China gloriously.
After that, he followed the troops to participate in the Long March 2. On September 16, 1935, Deng Shijun participated in the Lazikou Battle with his troops, commanded by Chairman Mao himself. After
, he participated in many battles. No matter which battle it was in, Deng Shijun was always at the forefront. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and Deng Shijun's troops were incorporated into the 15th Division. Soon, they crossed the 115th Division to the east with the 115th Division and entered the anti-Japanese battlefield, participated in the world-famous Pingxingguan Battle, and began their own years of war of resistance. After the division was divided, Deng Shijun stayed in the Wutaishan area in northeastern Shanxi with the division's direct team and continued to carry out the struggle behind enemy lines. Later, this army established the Jin-Cha-Hebei base area, forming the Jin-Cha-Hebei Military Region , and Nie Rongzhen served as the commander of the military region.
At that time, Deng Shijun was assigned to the 5th Regiment of the 4th Division as the platoon leader.
Soon after, the Japanese army besieged with more than 30,000 troops and nine routes. The situation was very critical. I think all the lines were wrong and responded actively.
At that time, a school barracks in the Jin-Cha-Hebei Border Region were bitten by the Japanese army, and they were beaten and retreated, and were about to be surrounded.
Faced with this situation, the superior ordered the company where Deng Shijun was located to quickly rush to help to prevent the Japanese army guarding Nanpo Village at this time, and ordered that Nanpo Village must be taken down that night.
However, when the troops arrived near Nanpo Village, they found that there were cliffs and there was not even a road. If they wanted to attack the Japanese army, they had to detour for more than 50 miles.
This will not only waste a lot of time, but also consume a lot of energy.
In order to save time, Deng Shijun proposed that he lead a team to climb up unexpectedly from the cliffs and start a battle against the Japanese aggressors.
This suggestion was approved by the company leaders. That night, Deng Shijun led his platoon to quietly lie down from the cliff, quickly annihilated a small enemy squad, and fought fiercely with other Japanese troops.
By dawn the next day, after the large army arrived, they quickly encircled the Japanese army in Nanpo Village. In this battle, more than 300 Japanese troops were wiped out.
Deng Shijun was also praised by his superiors.
Deng Shijun
1940, Deng Shijun made another great contribution.
In August of this year, the Eighth Route Army launched the Hundred Regiments Battle and began to carry out key attacks on railways, highways, enemy strongholds, etc.
At that time, the Niangziguan Railway Station on Zhengtai Road was the focus of the attack. The railway station was located in Mohetan Village, where more than 200 Japanese troops were guarding it. In addition, there were many puppet troops.
The task of breaking the railway station was handed over to the fifth regiment where Deng Shijun was located. After careful preparation, the leaders of the fifth regiment decided to first eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in Niangziguan and plainclothes brigade stationed in Niangziguan, and finally take down Niangziguan city and the railway station, which has achieved the goal of cutting off the Zhengtai Railway.
At 22:00 on August 20, 1940, the battle started. At this time, Deng Shijun was already the company commander of the first battalion of the 5th Regiment, and the regiment handed over the main attack mission to their company.
had just started the battle and the battle went smoothly, but at 0:00 on the 21st, a train actually drove from the direction of Yangquan . There were more than 800 Japanese veterans on the train, and the Japanese and puppet troops at the railway station suddenly reached more than 1,000. This unexpected situation was unexpected by our army.
The attack plan of the Fifth Regiment also encountered obstacles. At this time, the regiment immediately changed its combat plan. Except for Deng Shijun's first company who continued to stay in the village and continued to restrain the Japanese army, the other companies quickly launched a breakthrough or attacked other Japanese and puppet strongholds east of the station.
At this time, Deng Shijun's situation was very dangerous. It had to restrain nearly a thousand Japanese and puppet troops with more than 100 troops. At that time, he was attacked from three sides and faced water. The situation was difficult to imagine.
Deng Shijun ordered all the officers and soldiers of the First Company to dig shooting holes on the walls of the houses and put in fortification bunkers on the roofs to block the Japanese army.
Seeing this, the Japanese army did not dare to attack rashly, and the two sides confronted each other overnight.
:00 on 22nd, more than 800 Japanese troops launched a fierce attack on the first company's positions with the support of fierce artillery fire.
Deng Shijun led all the officers and soldiers of the first company to fight against the enemy for more than 5 hours, repelling more than 10 charges of the Japanese army, and injuring 200 Japanese and puppet troops.
Finally, when the bullets were almost exhausted, Deng Shijun led all the remaining soldiers in a company to bayonets and rushed out of the trenches to fight with the Japanese army.
The hand-to-hand combat was extremely fierce, and Deng Shijun's bayonet was finally bent.
hand-to-hand combat continued until dusk. At this time, there were only more than 40 people left in the row. Deng Shijun decided to break through. Except for the cover personnel, all other personnel crossed the Mianhe River to break through.
However, due to heavy rain at that time, the water level of Mianhe River continued to rise, and many soldiers were unfortunately washed away by the flood. After returning to the army, there were only 17 people left in the company.
and all the soldiers who left the cover died heroically.
After this battle, the first company made great contributions. General Zhu specially met with the remaining officers and soldiers of the company and wrote an inscription for them: "Win more battles and make new contributions."
This battle won the title of "Bloody Battle of the River Beach Steel Company", and Deng Shijun, the company commander of the first company, was awarded the title of "Special Combat Hero of the Jin-Cha-Hebei Border Region".
Zhu De
In the autumn of 1943, Deng Shijun was admitted to the rear hospital due to injuries during the battle.
At this time, the Japanese army was carrying out a large-scale "mopping up" of the Jin-Cha-Hebei base area, and the hospital was immediately transferred.
. During the transfer, Deng Shijun suffered from malaria and was very weak and finally fell behind.
At this time, the Japanese army was searching all over the mountains and fields, and Deng Shijun's environment was very dangerous.
At this critical moment, the local women's rescue president Rong Guanxiu discovered it, and then helped him slowly climbed to a cave halfway up the mountain.
But the cave is two or three meters high from the ground, and it can't be climbed up.
Finally, Rong Guanxiu squatted down and asked Deng Shijun to step on his shoulders. Then he stood up and pushed Deng Shijun into the cave with all his might, successfully avoiding the Japanese army's search.
After the Japanese army "sweeps", Deng Shijun was recovering from the wounded at Rong Guanxiu's house. Under Rong Guanxiu's careful care, Deng Shijun's physical condition quickly recovered and he soon returned to the army.
On February 10, 1944, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region held the first heroic meeting. At this conference, Rong Guanxiu was awarded the title of "Beiyue District Military Support Model" and Deng Shijun was awarded the title of "Fighting Hero of the Children's Army in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region".
At that time, the photojournalist of the Jin-Cha-Hebei Border Region Ye Manzhi took a photo for them and posted it on the cover of the 5th issue of the Jin-Cha-Hebei Pictorial in 1944. Commander Nie Rongzhen also wrote the words "Glory forever" on this photo.
Deng Shijun (first from left) and Rong Guanxiu (middle)
1950, at the National Battle Hero Model Workers Conference held in Beijing, Deng Shijun and Rong Guanxiu met again, and the two were crying when they didn't get up.
Rong Guanxiu stroked the scars on Deng Shijun's body, and she was filled with emotion and asked her questions about her long-term problems. Deng Shijun even treated Rong Guanxiu as her mother. During the meeting, Chairman Mao also met with the two and took photos with them.
Rong Guanxiu, an ordinary rural woman, did extremely unusual things during the War of Resistance Against Japan. He actively raised food and grass for the Eighth Route Army, organized the women's rescue meeting, literacy class , promoted the anti-Japanese war, took the lead in sending his children to the front line, actively took care of the wounded, made great contributions to the War of Resistance Against Japan, and was known as the "mother of the soldiers."
On October 1, 1949, Rong Guanxiu, as the people's representative of North China, participated in the founding ceremony and was received by Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and other leaders.
has since attended the National Model Worker Conference and the commendation meeting for military support and family members. He died in 1989 and was elected as "100 heroes and models who have made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China" and "1,100 Chinese figures who have moved China since the founding of New China" since the founding of New China.
Deng Shijun and Rong Guanxiu's military and civilian images have become models of supporting the military and loving the people. Now there are sculptures of two people in the Guards Square of the Armed Police Command Academy.
Rong Guanxiu
It was also in 1944, after the heroic meeting in the Jin-Cha-Hebei Border Region that Chairman Mao learned about Deng Shijun's heroic deeds and remembered this name even more.
In March 1947, the Kuomintang army attacked Yan'an, and the Central Military Commission decided to draw some troops back to defend Yan'an, including the Fifth Regiment where Deng Shijun was located. At this time, Deng Shijun had been promoted to battalion commander.
When Chairman Mao learned that Deng Shijun, the combat hero of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, came to Yan'an, he immediately sent someone to find him and had a cordial conversation with him.
Chairman Mao and Deng Shijun chatted for a long time, and they continued until evening. At that time, because it was too late, Chairman Mao asked Deng Shijun to stay in his cave for one night.
This experience has also become the glory of Deng Shijun's family throughout their lives, and Chairman Mao also knows this combat hero better.
Chairman Mao’s reception was deeply inspired by Deng Shijun. He experienced military achievements in his subsequent battles. By the eve of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he was already the leader of the regiment.
In the second half of 1950, Deng Shijun was elected as a representative of model workers in the entire army. He was preparing to go to Poland to attend the World Congress of Heroes and Models, but it happened to happen when the Korean War broke out and it was not completed in the end.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, our country was preparing to send volunteer troops to North Korea to fight, and Deng Shijun's troops received an order to fight in North Korea.
On February 17, 1951, on New Year's Eve, Deng Shijun quietly crossed the Yalu River with his troops.
Unexpectedly, on the second day, when the commander of the army Fu Chongbi asked the commanders of each division to come to the military headquarters for a meeting, the truck that Deng Shijun was riding was bombed by US planes on the way to the military headquarters. The truck fell into a ravine. Deng Shijun was seriously injured and could only stay in the rear to recover.
After the five battles started, Deng Shijun couldn't wait to go to the front line regardless of his health that he had not fully recovered. One was because he was afraid that his injuries would be repeated. The other was because he heard that his superiors were preparing to investigate and become the deputy division commander. He was afraid that he would not have more opportunities to go to the front line to command again.
In the end, he ignored the dissuasion and went to the front line with the guards, returning to the position of the commander of the 559th Regiment to continue commanding the battle.
Korean battlefield
On May 15, 1951, the 559th Regiment received an order to detour deep into the enemy and cover the attack of the main force on the eastern front.
After receiving the order, Deng Shijun led the entire regiment to take action immediately and went southeast of Seoul. On the morning of the 19th, he encountered fierce attacks from a US regiment. The entire regiment fought fiercely for one day, repelling several enemy attacks, and suffered serious casualties.
That night, Deng Shijun received an order from the division commander to keep rid of the enemy in front of him and continue to penetrate deeper.
Deng Shijun, who received the order, immediately gathered his troops, threw away the enemy in front of him, and penetrated forward violently, and finally completed the task successfully, occupied the high ground stipulated by his superiors, and defended the high ground according to the order to protect other troops from transferring.
Around 7 pm on May 20, 1951, Deng Shijun received an order to start evacuating his position in batches.
Around 9 pm, they were violently blocked by enemy artillery fire while passing through a canyon intersection. Deng Shijun's left thigh was unfortunately hit by a shell, and blood was flowing in an instant.
At this time, Deng Shijun shouted to his guard Chen Mingyue, "Mingyue, Mingyue, I'm having a lot of fun!"
The guard immediately took out two first aid kits from his bag and prepared to bandage him.
re-recognizes the enemy, and another shell hits. After one of the explosions, shrapnel hit Deng Shijun in the head. He died on the spot at the age of 35.
After Deng Shijun's death, the soldiers wanted to take the regiment commander away, but the environment really did not allow it. In the end, they found a dry river ditch nearby, placed Deng Shijun on a door panel, and covered a square rain cloth it carried with them, and buried him in this way.
The body is head north and feet south. In order to facilitate searching in the future, the guard also used a small shovel to cut off a piece of bark from the small tree next to it to mark it.
The news spread quickly, even alarming Chairman Mao. When Chairman Mao heard the news, he was very sad. He immediately ordered: must snatch Deng Shijun's body back!
After receiving the order from Chairman Mao, Xu Xin, the commander of the 187th Division, immediately assigned 200 people to search for it, but due to the large number of people and the large target, he finally selected 30 people who guard Chen Mingyue to find Deng Shijun's body.
But when they arrived nearby, they found that there were already full of U.S. tanks . The headlights were all on and the lights were on, so they could not move at all. In the end, the 30 people waited for a long time, but they really couldn't move and had to return. After
, with the changes in the battlefield situation and the signing of the armistice agreement, Deng Shijun's body was forever left on the Hongchuan River in South Korea and never returned.
Deng Shijun's family
On March 28, 2014, after friendly negotiations between China and South Korea, the first batch of remains of volunteer soldiers in South Korea were welcomed back to China.
When the remains covered with national flag appeared outside the gate of the Martyrs Cemetery of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea in Shenyang, Deng Shijun's son Deng Qiping couldn't help crying loudly.
No matter whether my father is listed or not, I hope he will rest in peace forever...
