Chapter 21: The Battlefield That Year
"There are more than 30 people in our county, and the oldest is Liu Chengyuan from Changgang Township, who was 25 years old at the time, had just gotten married, and was the militia captain of their village. Liu Chengyuan and I were in a company, and this big brother took good care of me. ”
"The supplies in the company were very tight, so we each were given a bag of fried noodles at that time, you all know, we southerners can't get used to eating that thing, but there is no way, there is nothing else to eat, in order not to go hungry, we can only eat this. ”
"What about guns and bullets?" Zhang Meng asked.
"There are all kinds of guns, the rifles have the old Chuntian, the M1 carbine, the middle formal, the 38 big cover, the machine gun has a crooked handle, the target crutch, the Makqin heavy machine gun, it was very messy at that time, there are all kinds of guns. I was assigned an old middle school official at the time, and it was more laborious to pull the bolt, and the shooting accuracy and range were not good, but where did I know so much at that time, anyway, if I had a gun in my hand, I dared to do it with Eagle Sauce!"
"We soon entered Goryeo, which has a lot of mountains and the road is not easy to walk. We don't have many planes of our own, most of the time we have to stop and go during the day, and there are so many planes in Eagle Sauce, and when the buzz comes, we have to hide. Their plane was also very bad, and when they noticed something wrong, they lowered the nose and fired with a machine gun or dropped some incendiary bombs, and many comrades died in this way, and many times we marched at night. ”
"When did you exchange fire with the enemy, Second Master?" asked Li Liang.
"It was the third day of entering Goryeo, and the weather was not very good, the fog was very strong, and the enemy planes did not make many sorties. We hurried on the road after eating a few bites of fried noodles early in the morning, and as soon as we reached a river valley, the comrades of the reconnaissance battalion in front of us exchanged fire with the enemy. There were not many enemies, it was a convoy, there were more than a dozen cars, and we happened to run into it halfway through, and we were caught off guard. The battalion sounded the trumpet of the charge, Liu Chengyuan and I rushed to the front, and the battle ended quickly, this group of enemies was a transport company under the 5th Division of Nanbang, and its combat effectiveness was not good. ”
"The first battle was so easy, we were so happy at the time, and we also captured a large number of enemy supplies, and I ate canned meat with eagle sauce for the first time, and the canned meat of eagle sauce was really made of large pieces of beef, and it tasted so beautiful!" Chen Zhuguo said here, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Then we continued our march, and despite the repeated demands of the regiment at that time that we should not underestimate the enemy, we still underestimated the enemy. He had only walked a few miles before he was bombarded by the enemy. It turned out that the enemy of the southern country that we had annihilated used the radio to inform Eagle-chan's troops during the exchange of fire. In this way, we foolishly plunged headlong into the enemy's artillery fire. ”
"The enemy's artillery fire was very fierce, and the troops in the rear urgently withdrew into the nearby hills, and we suffered heavy casualties in the front. My head was buzzing, I couldn't hear anything, I saw a crater in the ground and lay down, and I had to resign myself to fate. It took about half an hour of shelling before the enemy's artillery fire stopped, and then the enemy infantry began to come up. I heard the sound of the cannon stopping, so I raised my head and poked out the crater, those eagle sauce devils were very well equipped, and they slowly advanced in groups of three or five. I raised my gun and took aim, using the same method as the militia had been training, and as soon as the bullet passed, I overturned one, and the bullet hit the enemy on the opposite side in the chest, and I could clearly see the pain on his dark face. At that time, it was the first time I had seen such a black person! The people of Eagle Sauce Country are different from us, they are very white, and the black ones are more black than carbon black. Chen Zhuguo continued.
"At this time, the rear team, when we were being shelled, quietly went around the rear of the enemy from the mountains and forests, and launched an attack on their artillery positions, and the enemy was in great confusion. Seeing my brothers killed and wounded all over the ground, I was so angry that I shot all the bullets on my body at the enemy one by one. The more painful I saw the enemy's expression, the more I felt relieved. ”
"In this way, it only took us two months to advance to the 38th parallel, and then the fourth battle began, but this time, but at that time we lacked heavy weapons, there were no aircraft and artillery, the battle line was stretched so long, and the supplies could not keep up, and the American devils used unlimited planes and artillery to launch a fierce shelling on us, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
Liu Chengyuan's big brother was in that series of battles, in order to protect me, half of his head was eliminated by the enemy's shrapnel. Even due to the harshness of the war, we had to bury him in a trench and retreat in a hurry. Hey, now, I haven't even found a corpse, I'm ashamed of Brother Liu!" said Chen Zhuguo's cloudy eyes overflowing with tears, choking.
"Later, while retreating, I was stunned by the air of enemy shells, and I was captured by the enemy. But we really didn't become traitors, at that time Yingchan found a lot of Chinese from Wanwan to come over and do ideological work for us, as long as we were willing to go to Wanwan, we would give money and arrange jobs, we were resolutely unwilling to go. ”
"I remember that one night, the enemy informed us that anyone who is willing to return to the mainland should come forward quickly and not miss the opportunity. As soon as his words fell, people walked out of the queue one after another, and a few minutes later, hundreds of people came out. When the enemy saw so many people asking to return to China, he was angry and shouted: 'It is easy to return to the mainland, but first leave the words tattooed on the body.' As he spoke, he pulled a man out of the ranks of our captives, and with a knife in his hand, a bloody strip of flesh fell into his hand. He cut several people in succession, and the people who were cut were all blood-stained military clothes, and some of them even let out screams of pain. The enemy frantically brandished his sharp knife and said, 'See, whoever wants to go back to the mainland, leave these words before leaving ......'. The enemy slaughter continued into the middle of the night, but even that didn't frighten us, and we insisted on coming back.
Then the enemy grabbed one of our comrades and asked: 'You want to go back to the mainland too?'
The comrade replied: 'I'm going back to the mainland!'
The enemy stabbed him in the chest and asked, 'Do you want to go back?'
The comrade staggered two steps to the ground and replied loudly: 'Born as a Chinese, die as a Chinese ghost!'
The enemy stabbed again: 'Will you go back?'
'Born as a Chinese, dead as a Chinese ghost!' the comrade still replied.
The enemy stabbed him more than 20 times, stabbed him once, and asked him once, and the comrade replied like this every time until he lost his breath. The comrade died, and the enemy cut open his chest, dug out his heart, put it on the tip of his knife, and said to us gathered in the square: 'Whoever wants to go back to the mainland, this is it!' Still others were put in small prisons. ”
"The second master is really not a traitor, not a bad seed!" Chen Zhuguo's deep voice.