In the self-defense counterattack operation of the 112th Infantry Regiment, these female soldiers
Chen Desheng
Preface They had the spirit of sacrifice of life and death that year, and now the peace of the past 42 years. This group of female soldiers surpasses the limit of female soldiers on the battlefield, and they should pay tribute to them!
10 female soldiers in the self-defense counterattack operation of the 112th Infantry Regiment Cai Ling provides
Young female soldiers on the battlefield must charge like male soldiers. It seems that the word "female" means weakness and delicateness; while the word "soldier" undoubtedly means roughness and courage. Someone once praised this way that the female soldier combined the tenderness, beauty of a girl and the roughness and might of a soldier. She was not only a girl, but also a soldier. Once they are involved in a cold-blooded and cruel war, it means that there is another shocking lightning or rainbow in the heavy and tragic world military history... Female soldiers, the roses that are open to persistent beliefs and the sacred altars, are like beautiful bloody red flowers. They will lose a lot, a lot, the opportunity to be favored in front of their mothers, and the opportunity to dress a young girl... Even the natural laws of birth, old age, sickness and death may not be followed - be ready to sacrifice their lives at any time.
"Soldiers leave the Southern Xinjiang﹥Search the Self-Defense Restoration of the First 112th Infantry Regiment" (Chinese Culture Press, written by Chen Desheng),
is "Soldiers leave the Southern Xinjiang＿Search the Self-Defense Restoration of the First 112th Infantry Regiment" (Chinese Culture Press, written by Chen Desheng). This book tells the story of these female soldiers in the Self-Defense Restoration of the 112th Infantry Regiment.
On December 19, 1978, 10 female soldiers from the 112th Infantry Regiment followed more than 2,000 male soldiers from the entire regiment from Nanchong, Sichuan to Mianyang , and took the train to , Jinping County, Yunnan, , and went to , the Sino-Vietnam border.
nd regiment health team female soldier Xiao Cai spent her 20th birthday with the main force of the regiment on the Chengdu Kun (Ming) line train.
Xiao Cai went to Mianyang and Chengdu Soldier Station to have dinner. The slow-eating female soldiers gathered in the car and set off before they finished their meal. It is common for them to go hungry. On my birthday, I sat on the clanging train, looking at the village fields and mountains and rivers passing outside the window, and inadvertently sighed to Xiao Xu, a female soldier comrade next to me: "When I was a child, my grandmother always made braised pork , and apples and fruit candy for me to eat. Unexpectedly, I went to the front line of Yunnan this year on my birthday, which is very interesting."
However, the speaker was unintentional, and the listener was unintentional. When the troops arrived at Kunming Railway Station , they needed to convert transportation and stayed for a longer time. Xiao Xu took the opportunity to visit the Bing Station Service Club and found that there was a milk powder sold. He happily told Xiao Cai, "You should celebrate your birthday." Xiao Cai agreed happily, thinking that being extravagant could make up for the shortcomings of not being able to celebrate his birthday during a special period. So the two of them ran to buy a bag of milk powder. But if you have milk powder, you can’t find boiling water. How can you eat milk powder? ! This was not a problem for them. They found a place where no one was present with the milk powder, ate it dry bite by bit, and ate it for half a bag of milk powder in one breath, and they ate it all over their mouths with a "white beard". In the decades since then, Xiao Cai often celebrated his birthday, and he was not as delicious as eating birthday milk powder on the way to the war. This taste is still fresh in my life!
The long-distance marching from Nanchong to Jinping for a long time was very tired. Captain Yang and Instructor He of the regiment's health team considered the special situation of the female soldiers. On the morning of New Year's Day in 1979, he gave the female soldiers half a day off.
The troops arrived at the border of Jinping, Yunnan. The superiors clearly stated that "we must fight", and the string of "we must fight" was tense every day. It was not easy to take a half-day vacation at this time. Xiao Cai, a female soldier in the regiment's health team, and her female soldiers and comrades happily organized the internal hygiene to be neat and cleaner than before. As the saying goes: 3 women play one play. When a few female soldiers were idle, they chattered about how to make good use of the morning holiday. Someone suggested that a suicide note should be written. If he sacrificed, he would also give an explanation to his relatives and the organization, and everyone responded.
Xiao Cai said: "As soon as she heard the word "write suicide note", she remembered her father told her in the letter: "The bullets and shells on the battlefield do not recognize people, and there will definitely be bloodshed and sacrifices. Soldiers can only fight bloodyly to the end on the battlefield and must not be prisoners, especially you female soldiers." She took out a pen and paper from her bag, and as she wrote, she thought that her parents raised herself and went to the battlefield when she was letting the girl's youth dream fly. If she died, she had not had time to repay her parents' grace for raising her... Her nose was sore and tears came down. So, she wiped her tears and suggested: Among the female soldiers and comrades sitting today, if anyone died on the battlefield, the living should treat her parents as their parents, and often Go to visit and take care of it. When everyone agreed to this proposal, they felt great comfort in their hearts.
At that time, everyone was preparing to sacrifice on the battlefield, but the health team in front of them lived in Hanizhai, Jinping County, under the blue sky and white clouds, layers of terraced fields on the mountain, gurgling springs, and the mist in the morning surrounded the mountains. The southwest border of the motherland was so beautiful! Looking at the beautiful scenery, the ears were heard from time to time Li Guyi 'The spring water on the frontier is clear and pure...' Song, thinking that it would be great if there was no war! ”
After the troops arrived at the assembly area of Jinping, they stood firmer and tighter in the pre-war preparations for the war. Since the border line was crossing over the mountains, the enemy often came to agent activities. The regiment commander Chen Manxing sent the spy company's reconnaissance platoon and the 7th company's first platoon set up an observation post on Ping'anzhai Mountain, Shili Village, Jinping County, at the forefront, to observe the enemy situation on the opposite mountain day and night.
Soon after, the 112th Infantry Regiment was ordered to move from Jinping, Yunnan to the Honghe shore of Basha Rubber Forest in Hekou County, Yunnan to prepare for combat, and attack the enemy on the other side of the Honghe ham
Cai Ling is in self-defense counterattack battlefield Cai Ling Provide
On the morning of February 17, 1979, the battle for the self-defense counterattack battle started. At 1:00 pm, the 1st Battalion and the 7th Company of the 112th Infantry Regiment captured the enemy's 1-12 Heights. At that time, Staff Feng, the regiment headquarters, led the regiment logistics department, the health team, and the mule and horse team to cross the Honghe River, and chased the regiment's main force that had penetrated deep into the enemy's depth that morning.
Staff Feng led everyone into the hinterland of the enemy's Basha area for a few kilometers. In an open area, several red signal flares suddenly rose in the air. The enemy machine guns on the mountain fired and were attacked by the enemy. Instructor He from the health team shouted: Get out of the open land quickly and hide on the spot! The female soldier Xiao Cai rolled into the drainage ditch next to the nearby highway, and the bullet flew over her head, with her hat tilted on her head, and she didn't rush to help her. Xiao Cai saw Ma Yizhuo Xiang Yuncheng in the head was shot and fell down, then immediately sat up again, took out his first aid kit and tore it open, and before he had time to bandage the wound, he fell down again. At this time, the cadres and soldiers of the Ninth Company, who were tasked with the logistics department of the escort regiment and the health team, occupied favorable terrain in the direction of the gunshot and tried hard to block the enemy.
Health Team Male soldier correspondent Xiao Sun held the submachine gun and said to Xiao Cai: "The enemy is coming, you can hold the bullets for me." Xiao Cai said, "Of course it can." Seeing that Xiao Sun had also carried two grenades, , Xiao Cai asked him to get a grenade in his hand. On the battlefield days, Xiao Cai only carried a backpack without a bullet bag, and the grenade could not be placed in the backpack. In that case, it would be too late to get the grenade from the backpack, so she marched and held it in her hand, and put it next to her when she stopped to rest, treating it as a "protective god". Xiao Cai has been thinking: If you encounter an enemy, depending on the situation, you should throw the grenade at the enemy and resist it; or if it is really not possible, you should pull the grenade and the enemy as the enemy. You must not be a prisoner, especially our female soldiers.
Before Xiang Yuncheng died, although he kept hearing the sound of gunfire during the marching, the female soldiers were still laughing, just like they usually marched, and they didn't feel that they had entered the bloody battlefield. Xiao Cai said: "The moment Xiang Yuncheng died and fell down, his mind buzzed, and the bloody war immediately jumped in front of him, especially fear and shocking."
was attacked by the enemy, and the regiment basic command post called again, ordering Staff Feng to take the regiment logistics department and the health team to return to the rubber forest in Hekou County, Yunnan on time to stand by.
days, it has been completely dark and nothing can be seen. On the way back, the people behind pulled the people in front, one person pulled forward, and Assistant Lu, the Military Control Commissioner Li, led the troops with a towel. There was a female soldier between the two male soldiers. When they encountered a cliff, the female soldier went up. If you don't go, let a male soldier pull in front and a male soldier push up behind. For safety, you can't walk on the main road, you can only walk in the grass and thorns. The sound of gunfire around you is constantly, and everyone's nerves are tense. No one speaks any longer along the way, for fear of encountering enemies again.
On the way back, he suddenly encountered a buffalo. I guess I heard the sound of the regiment logistics department and the health team walking, and it also followed the team forward, and the bells hanging around its neck were still ringing, clang, clang, clang. This suddenly increased the danger level of the night battlefield. Feng Guanmou Quickly ordered the troops to stop advancing and hide on the spot. The 9th Company's sharp knife platoon occupied the favorable terrain and observed and determined the situation. As soon as the troops stopped, someone reported to Staff Feng that there were female soldiers in the health team. Staff Feng squirmed his mouth and wanted to say something, but said nothing. He sent a few male soldiers to serve as a warning for them, which was convenient on the spot.
Female soldiers were using the toilet on the battlefield. They could not drink water and try not to drink water. During the march, female soldiers usually had to be "convenient". They always took the team to receive the "rest" command and squatted quickly on the resting place. "Convenient" on the spot. Even if the troops gathered on site for a while, the female soldiers did not dare to run far away alone to "convenient". In the special environment of the battlefield, they no longer care about the existence of male soldiers in front, left and right.
On this day, Staff Feng and his team went to the ground until more than 1 a.m., and finally returned to the rubber forest of Hekou County, Yunnan. The next day, Staff Feng was ordered to lead the regiment logistics department and regiment health team to finally catch up with the regiment's main force.
Hu Yumei in self-defense counterattack battlefield Hu Yumei provides
February 23, 1979, the 112th Infantry Regiment attacked the nameless highland, 219 and 369 highlands in the north gate of Gantang City, a major northern town in the enemy. The first aid team of Deputy Captain Zhao of the regiment health team moved forward to the 332 highlands of the main attack company's attack position, and opened a battlefield rescue center near the road.
According to the "Summary of Logistics Support for Self-Defense Response of the 112th Infantry Regiment Self-Defense Response to Defense Frontier Operations" written by the regiment Logistics Department on June 4, 1979, a paragraph of the text records: On the evening of the 23rd, the regiment health team rescue center "has received 27 wounded people and two martyrs. They contacted the regiment forward command post and requested to send a car to the domestic hospital. For some reason, the car has not been seen to pick up the wounded. The wounded were lying on the stretcher of the ambulance center for 9 hours. "
Female soldier Xiao Cai said: "The temperature dropped at night, and the wounded lying on the ground were both cold and hungry, and the pain was unbearable. She and her comrades in the ambulance center were busy taking care of the wounded, and suddenly a wounded soldier shouted: "Old Bing Cai, do you still know me?" ’I was stunned for a moment. He continued: "I'm from the Fourth Company. During the construction of national defense in Qianjiang, Sichuan in 1977, I was hospitalized in your health team. Do you remember it? ! ’I said ‘oh’ and asked him at the same time: ‘Where are you hurting? Does it hurt? ’He said: ‘The waist hurts very much, and the body is particularly cold. ’In fact, he had a blanket covered with his body and was still so afraid of the cold, which was mainly caused by blood loss. I hurriedly went to get my own raincoat and covered it with the blanket on him, and said to him, 'I'll get you medicine,' he said 'um, um' twice. I jogged to the place where the emergency team put the medicines to get Du Lengding. When I was about to give him an injection, I touched his limbs and his heart sank down. I really didn't expect that the few words he said to me a few minutes ago became his last words. I think if I could have been sent to the rear hospital for emergency treatment earlier...
40 years ago, whenever I think of this pain, I feel a regret. I regret that I have never known his name, only knowing that he was injured and sacrificed by attacking the nameless Heights of Gantang, 219 and 369 on the Fourth Company that day. He had previously helped the comrades get water and food to deliver food during his hospitalization in the health team, and actively cleaned public health... and scenes appeared before his eyes. "Xiao Cai was talking, and his voice became smaller and smaller.
He Yushui provides
The female soldier of the regiment's health team, Xiao Hu, who fought side by side with Xiao Cai, also said: "The stretcher of the health team was transported to the ambulance center for many wounded people. One of the wounded men was bleeding from their left chest, their face turned pale and moaned weakly. She ran over with the shouts of Platoon Leader Li on the stretcher platoon, tore open the first aid kit and bandage him the wound, fill in the ticket for the injury. At this time, our army fired shells not far away, and in the flash of fire, she found that he had stopped breathing. At that moment, my mind was blank, and I was asking in my heart: Whose son is he? ! Whose father and brother are they? ! "
It was almost dawn. Xiao Cai and his comrades in the first aid team were busy all night and drowsy. After settling the wounded, she took the raincoat that had been blocking the cold from the body of the veteran of the Fourth Company who had already died, put it on her body, and prepared to find a place to lie down and take a nap. It was too dark, and I didn't know where the other female soldiers of the health team were staying. I saw a lot of people sleeping on a slope, and they were sleeping together. So she simply stuffed them hard, squeezed into them, and pushed the people on both sides with her body. After dawn, the male soldiers found a female soldier squeezed into them and fell asleep, surprised, laughed, and joked... woke Xiao Cai. Xiao Cai saw that he She fell asleep among the dozen male soldiers wrapped in the stretcher of the sanitation team and laughed from the bottom of her heart, smiling so calmly.
Just as Liu Xinmiao and Du Qi wrote the lyrics and famous composer Du Xingcheng sang: "Comrades-in-arms are as close as brothers, and the revolution summons us together..." On the battlefield, the enemy was everywhere, and guns and cannons rang in his ears 24 hours a day and a war of sharing honor and disgrace practiced the most precious and innocent comrades in the world. Female soldier Xiao Hu said: "On the battlefield for more than 20 days and nights, we struggled with the male soldiers, facing the common enemy, there was no concept of gender, only comrades-in-arms.
In the early morning of February 21, the regiment health team followed the regiment's main force to advance to the 332 Highland, the northwest wind accompanied by drizzling drizzles, sweeping away the scorching sun and the high temperature during the day. The thin shirt and coat she was wearing could not stop the cold, and she was trembling with coldness. When you are marching towards the enemy's frontier positions, you often have to pause, and once you stop and stop, it will be even colder. I, a pair of young male and female soldiers of the health team, were covered in a raincoat in the dark night, sitting on the ground waiting for the order to move forward. We could hear the beating of the beating and the beating of the beating of each other without distraction, and we didn't feel a little awkward, and our hearts were so clean and pure. "
After the Fourth Company captured the nameless highlands, 219 and 369 highlands, on February 24, the regiment health team followed the regiment logistics command post and advanced to the Guliu to Gantang Highway on the southeast side between the 219 and 369 highlands, and set up an emergency team to ensure that the Third Battalion captured the 587th Highlands on the southeast side of the 369 highlands, and cooperated with the 37th Division of the Army to encircle and annihilate the 345th Division of the Gantang enemy. From the 332 highlands to the southeast between the 219 and 369 highlands On the side road, you have to pass the Yomu River suspension bridge outside Gantang. The suspension bridge is hung with steel ropes, and the bridge deck is laid on the steel rope with wooden boards. It spans more than 80 meters. The bridge deck is more than 20 meters above the river surface. Even if one person walks on it, it will shake. The large group of people will shake even more violently when walking on it.
Female soldier Xiao Cai said: "I have a serious acrophobia. When I walk on the bridge, my muscles are tightly tense, my palms are sweating, and my heart is jumping towards my throat. At this time, the mule that walked to the middle of the bridge might have been frightened by the sound of cannons. The four hooves were lifted up and lost their balance, and fell into the river with a rumbling sound. When I saw this scene, my legs became weak and I lay on the bridge deck and never dared to move forward again. The bridge deck was only more than one meter wide, so I couldn't lie down and blocked the troops behind and had to stop.I heard someone shouting: ‘Coward, coward. ’I hate myself for being too unscrupulous, mainly because my legs are not in control. If I really face the enemy, I will not retreat and fight with him. At most, I will ring my "protection god" grenade and die together. At this moment, Instructor He from the regiment health team came to encourage and help me, so that I could close my eyes and cross the suspension bridge. For decades, I often dreamed of the Suspension Bridge of the Outiom River. After waking up, I was covered in cold sweat. "
After Xiao Cai recalled the shocking act of crossing the suspension bridge of the Waiyomu River, he said: Once, she and several female soldiers from the regiment's health team plucked up their courage to go to a small foreign building in Gantang. Seeing a shower head on the bathtub in the bathroom in the small foreign building, unscrewed it, and the water flowed out was still a little warm. He excitedly picked up the water with both hands and wiped his face hard. Since more than 20 days crossing the Red River, the clothes, shoes, and leggings he wore had never loosened, and he had never washed his face before.
The female soldiers are not afraid of hardship and fatigue on the battlefield, nor are they afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice. The most worrying is that the "old friends" come during the physiological hygiene period.
The female soldiers on the battlefield are arranged in the infantry team, and they rely on two legs to march to fight. They are originally not as physically strong as male soldiers. The items they carry with them are so simple that they are only water kettles, gas masks and first aid kits, and even a piece of paper is unnecessary. But shortly after entering the battlefield, the female soldier Xiao Hu said to the female soldier Xiao Maverick: "I came yesterday, and today is another most powerful day, but I still have to march at night. "The "old friend" mentioned by Xiao Hu refers to a woman's "menstrual period". Xiao Mausoleum said: You didn't drink jealous." "It doesn't work after drinking it, it's not going to be the same." Xiao Hu answered Xiao Maverick helplessly.
A little older female soldier once told the recruit that "old friend" would drink some vinegar before coming, and it could be pushed back a few days later. Someone tried it and said it worked. It seems that this method did not work with Xiao Hu. "What do you do?" Xiao Niu was a little anxious about Xiao Hu. Xiao Hu said with a "alassy": "The only triangular first aid kit is currently. There is no other alternative supplies, so I have to use the first aid kit to make do with it. However, the quilt of the first aid kit is evaporated to dryness and hardness. He marched continuously, grinding the skin on the inner thighs with blood stains. Every step he took was so painful that he was beaten by the bloody dry and hard triangle scarf ."
The troops were always in trouble with the enemy situation, and they were always in a state of stability. It was impossible to find a place to change tissue. Xiao Niu felt very uncomfortable when he saw Xiao Hu's painful expression, but no one could help her in the battlefield environment filled with smoke. Xiao Hu had to silently endure the unspeakable pain that only the female soldiers could feel.
Speaking of Xiao Hu's "menstrual period", some female soldiers were completely disrupted due to the battlefield life rules, and were mentally nervous all day long, and the "structure" of the physiological hygiene period was also messed up. Some people had "menstrual periods" several times a month, while others did not have "menstrual periods" for several months, and were always in the "blank period".
Chongqing Shapingba Majiabao Primary School presented souvenirs to soldiers participating in self-defense counterattack operations Lin Meixuan Provide
In early March 1979, the basic command post of the 112th Infantry Regiment was held on a small hill in Bianda, Gantang City. Shortly after, a supply car from the regiment logistics department sent some urgently needed supplies from Hekou County, Yunnan, and also brought limited spiritual food. The driver opened his shoulders and carried a pack of envelopes in his hand. He walked from the sand and gravel road halfway up to the regiment's basic command post. He raised the envelopes in his hand high from afar and shouted, "Hey! Letters from home." Even in the military camp, letters from home were a major event that cadres and soldiers attracted much attention. Whenever the company's communications officer brought a stack of newspapers back from the mailroom, his comrades would gather around him and ask the communications officer if there was a letter. In the company's weekly military and political training schedule, there must be an evening self-study time to write a letter. In the era without computers, Internet and mobile phones, I can only write letters down and send lovesickness thousands of miles away. Moreover, in front of me, on the battlefield of self-defense counterattacks, there was a war of fire for three months, and my letters from home were worth ten thousand gold."
Regiment Command Chief Cai of Communications Section when he was in Xinjie, Pingbian County, Yunnan Province, Yunnan Province, said, "I am in poor health and have many difficulties with my child. I want to come to the army early..." Chief Cai could only reply and inform his wife that the army had an emergency task. For several days, he has been thinking about his wife. At this time, when he heard Xiao Zhang shouting that there was a letter, he couldn't help but greet Xiao Zhang. When Xiao Zhang saw Chief Cai, he shouted, "Captain Cai, Chief Cai, you have a letter from you. "Chief Cai got the letter and stood aside and looked at it, her eyes turned red. Xiao Song, a female soldier standing opposite him, felt that Chief Cai's expression was strange when he saw the letter, so he walked over and said, "Chief Cai, can you show me your letter? "
These days on the battlefield, comrades-in-arms depend on each other's life and death, just like brothers and feet connected. In a special environment, even if one person receives a letter from his home, everyone thinks it is the voice of relatives coming from his motherland and from his hometown, it is hope and inspiration.
Xiao Song just took the letter handed to her by Chief Cai, staring at the letter with his eyes straight. The female soldiers Xiao Shen and Xiao Lin also came over to let her read the letter, As we were thinking, everyone's tears came down. The staff, officers, and stock leaders were married and unmarried. As they listened, they were silent. The voices, appearances and smiles of parents, wives and children appeared one after another. On the position filled with smoke, a letter from a domestic military wife caused the tender waves of the hearts of soldiers on the battlefield. The soldiers fought with the enemy and were iron men, but the love of children flowed in their blood.
For decades, the female soldiers of the 112th Infantry Regiment have talked about these unforgettable words on the battlefield. The personal experience always shows pride in their words. They said: There are few female soldiers in the infantry regiment, and even fewer female soldiers can go to the front line to participate in the battle. They are fortunate to go on the battlefield for the peace of the motherland and the happiness of the people. They are worthy of pride for the rest of their lives, just to fear that men and women in today's peaceful environment can understand it? !
--I would like to use this article to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of participating in the self-defense counterattack and defending the frontier!
Author Profile:
Chen Desheng was awarded the third-class merit of when he participated in the 1979 self-defense counterattack in . His representative work "Soldiers Go to Southern Xinjiang﹥Tracking Self-defense counterattack in the 112th Infantry Regiment" (China Culture Press) is a 250,000-word long documentary, which describes the entire process of self-defense counterattack in the 112th Infantry Regiment. The book has been collected by more than 40 well-known libraries.
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