During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the story of Zhang Wenrong, a soldier of our volunteers, can be described as quite thrilling and legendary!
This volunteer soldier,First, he was captured alone in the battle, and then during his captivity, he fought with the Americans, who sent him back in order to make him a spy”
What's going on here?Lao Yan will tell you today how an ordinary volunteer soldier fought wits and courage with the enemy army after being trapped in the enemy camp, and how he later escaped safely after making great contributions.
This story tells us that even if it is an ordinary position, as long as we work hard, we can turn decay into magic, and after reading it patiently, I believe you will gain something.
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War broke out.
Due to the intervention of the United States, the situation of the Korean War took a sharp turn for the worse, and Korea fell to the point of being passively beaten, so on October 1, 1950, Prime Minister Kim, the leader of the Korean People's Army, sent a distress telegram requesting our country to send troops to support.
The landing of U.S. troops at Inchon was a turning point in the Korean Civil War.
As to whether or not to send troops to the DPRK, the top leaders of our country basically have no disagreement, and they all believe thatOur relations with the DPRK are a strip of water, so we should send troops to the DPRK in order to send a message to US imperialism or to relieve the crisis on our northeastern border.
After nearly half a month of assembly, in mid-October 1950, the first batch of volunteer soldiers with hundreds of thousands of soldiers crossed the Yalu River.
Among them is Zhang Wenrong, the protagonist we are going to talk about today.
Zhang Wenrong was a Whampoa student, but he was also the last Whampoa student, because when he entered the school, it was August 1948, as everyone knows, at this point in time, our People's Liberation Army has already crossed the Yangtze River and is about to burn the war to Nanjing, where Chiang Kai-shek is located.
Because of this, Zhang Wenrong, a group of students who rushed to study in Whampoa, is also known as the last Whampoa students.
Internet**. Zhang Wenrong is a native of Northeast China, his family is in Liaoning Province, but when he was in high school, our People's Liberation Army was fighting the Liaoshen Campaign, in order to avoid the spread of the war, Zhang Wenrong had to move to Nanjing with his family, and then went to Chengdu to study at the Whampoa Military Academy.
At this time, Whampoa was no longer the Whampoa of the "Whampoa Three Heroes" period, where there were many famous generals and capable people, but had already become a base for cultivating Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary backbones, and the school site had been moved to Chengdu, Sichuan in November 1938.
The Whampoa Military Academy where Zhang Wenrong enrolled is the Whampoa Military Academy that has been relocated several times and settled in Chengdu, Sichuan.
In the war years, the signal corps was a technical branch of the armed forces, which was more precious than ordinary infantry and artillery, so Zhang Wenrong was regarded as an important talent and was focused on cultivation and education.Xi
It's just that Chiang Kai-shek is destined to work for nothing and cultivate talents for the Communist PartyBecause in November 1949, the Second Field Army of our People's Liberation Army had swept through the southwest, successively took Guizhou and western Sichuan, and then liberated Chengdu.
The same is true of Zhang Wenrong, who followed the darkness and threw himself into the arms of the communist people.
In June 1950, the Korean War broke out.
In October 1950, after the first batch of volunteer soldiers entered the DPRK, the second batch of troops also went north to assemble one after another in the tense situation, and at the same time, the volunteer army began to recruit troops from all over the country to expand the number of soldiers fighting in Korea.
At the end of 1950, Zhang Wenrong, along with more than 400 last Whampoa graduates, joined the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, and Zhang Wenrong was assigned to the 180th Division of the 60th Army of the 3rd CorpsAnd because he had studied military communications and knew how to send and receive telegrams and use equipment, he was appointed as a communications officer, a grassroots cadre who was being ranked.
In response to the call of the motherland, he served as a soldier to support North Korea."
The 180th Division is a special unit, because it is composed of half veterans and half recruits, and its combat effectiveness is not strong.
After several months of emergency training, in the spring of the following year, this unit was incorporated into the second batch of troops to fight in the DPRK and left for the DPRK in a hurry.
And what Zhang Wenrong is about to face is a very cruel battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea!
In April 1951, the 180th Division of the 60th Army of the 3rd Corps of the Volunteer Army left for Korea, coinciding with the end of the Fourth Campaign.
The front-line troops fought particularly fiercely, but the attrition was also huge, and it just so happened that the new force of the Third Corps joined the battlefield and was immediately required to be put into the front-line battlefield to deal with the upcoming fifth battle.
Due to the tight schedule,Zheng Qigui, the commander of the 180th Division, did not have time for the troops to adapt to the battlefield environment, so he hurried to the front line with his team, and on April 22, 1951, the fifth battle began.
Schematic diagram of the first campaign.
However, due to the problem of command, the top brass of the Volunteer Army misjudged the development situation of the campaign and did not anticipate the mechanized mobility capability of the US army, so the US army took advantage of the time difference, so that the US army took advantage of the mobility advantage to penetrate the diagonal rear of the ** army, flank our rear troops, and cut off our army's waist.
Relying on the superiority of equipment several times stronger than our army, the US army, which divided our military strength into two, has a double bread between our army.
The Volunteer Army, including the 180th Division, several units of the Volunteer Army was surrounded by regiments in a narrow area of less than 30 square kilometers.
Schematic diagram of the second campaign.
But our army is not vegetarian, and most of our volunteer troops are elites selected from the old units that fought in the Liberation WarTherefore, under the organization of excellent commanders and fighters and veteran backbones, several units rushed out of the encirclement back to back and under alternate cover.
But the 180th Division was not so lucky, because more than half of the soldiers of the 180th Division came from recruitment and the reorganization of third-line troops, not only the fighting quality of the soldiers lacked, but even the will to fight was difficult to guarantee, plus there were not many veterans, so it was difficult to organize an effective breakthrough.
At this time, the division commander Zheng Qigui made an empirical mistakeIn accordance with the ideas of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation in the past, he ordered to disperse and break out, hoping to break out the troops into pieces and disperse them, believing that such a breakthrough method could ensure the survival rate of the soldiers after the troops broke through to the greatest extent.
But he ignores one fact, and that isThis is the battlefield of the DPRK and South Korea, not our vast land of China, and our opponent is not the backward Japanese devils and the tenacious Kuomintang, but the US military with advanced equipment and changeable tactics.
As a result, Zhang Wenrong and other recruit fighters broke through with the troops, and without running far, they were locked by the US army with a military infantry radar, and then captured one by one, according to statisticsThe 180th Division was formed with more than 10,000 people, and the number of people who successfully broke through in the end was less than 4,000, but the number of prisoners was more than 7,000!
Zhang Wenrong and others were among the first to be captured, and after being captured, Zhang Wenrong and others suffered inhuman torture and blows.
But just when Zhang Wenrong thought that he and others were going to be "glorious and righteous", he didn't expect itAlthough the US military had the bad practice of abusing prisoners, it did not have the Xi of killing prisoners, so Zhang Wenrong did not immediately suffer from the danger of his life.
But that doesn't mean he's safe, because what awaits him after that is hellish prison life.
Geoje Island is a tourist island, located off the southern coast of South Korea, and is the second largest island in South Korea after the tourist destination of Jeju Island.
Geoje Island. The island is surrounded by 52 inaccessible islets and 10 developed islands.
Geoje Island has a beautiful and fresh natural beauty with a gentle sea breeze and blue skies all year round.
But what few people know is that 70 years ago, it was a living purgatory, because 70 years ago, the island was the site of a prisoner of war prison built by the U.S. military during the Korean War.
The Geoje Island prisoner of war camp in the painting.
In November 1951, United ** established a large prisoner of war camp on Geoje Island, which was also the largest prisoner of war camp in the world at the same time.
At the time of the largest number of prisoners, the DPRK and China prisoners of war were held hereAs many as 170,000, including about 20,000 prisoners of war of the Chinese People's Volunteers, and more than 150,000 prisoners of war of the Korean People's Army.
In his later memoirs, Zhang Wenrong described what he saw and heard in the prison on Geoje Island as follows: "Five or six layers of barbed wire are densely packed, checkpoints and artillery towers are lined up in the barracks, and searchlights shine in circles at night, so that even rats can shine ......."”
Strict surveillance and careful anti-escape settings completely cut off the possibility of everyone trying to escape.
And what greeted Zhang Wenrong was inhumane torture.
The first is physical torture.
Exhaustion and hunger are the norm here, because this is a prisoner of war camp, not a prison for convicts, so even the basic needs that convicts can enjoy, such as having enough to eat and a bed to sleep in, are not available here.
Everyone's daily ration of food is 400 grams of rice grain, but rice grain is not normal food, but expired, moldy brown rice, boiled in water, add a little salt, add a little rotten vegetable leaves, is their day's food.
As for sleeping, there are no large bunks, no long straw mats, not even the slightest superfluous thing, just the clammy and cold ground, love to sleep or not.
But no one cares about that, because they have to work every day, and they don't have enough to eat, and they have to do heavy work, and at the end of the day, no one has the energy to worry about where to sleep, because they are too tired.
But compared with most of the volunteer soldiers, Zhang Wenrong seems to be much "lucky", because he is not an ordinary volunteer infantryman, but a technical branch with a position.
Therefore,He was held in Geoje Island Prison as a "special talent" and held in solitary confinement, not only did his labor be reduced and his treatment increased, but he was also often subjected to other **, such as spies from Taiwan, hoping to train Zhang Wenrong and others to become spies, and then infiltrate the volunteer army to break the morale of the army.
I have to say that the intentions of Taiwan's spies are really very sinister.
Zhang Wenrong initially resisted such a woo, but when he listened to the plan of the Taiwan spy, he slowly had some ideas in his heart.
It is true that he is disgusted with these Taiwan spies, but he is also unwilling to work here until he dies, and the so-called "poverty leads to change." If the status quo is changed, he will not find a new way.
Coupled with the pleas of the underground party organization in prison, Zhang Wenrong became even more determined in his thoughts.
Therefore, Zhang Wenrong was very cooperative with the request of Taiwan's spies, and asked him to do whatever he wantedWhen the United States planned to airdrop a group of spies to the rear of the volunteers to engage in sabotage operations, Zhang Wenrong also responded positively.
Zhang Wenrong's positive performance was seen by Taiwanese spies, andWhen he saw Zhang Wenrong in prison, facing good food, drink, and treatment, and acting at ease and enjoying it, he thought that Zhang Wenrong had really been successfully "corrupted", so he was very happy and wrote Zhang Wenrong's name in the airdrop list.
So, after some simple spy training and airdrop training,On the night of February 18, 1952, a small military transport plane carrying US ** officials, US **, Zhang Wenrong and several other traitors flew over the 38th parallel and flew towards the rear of our army.
Because our army basically has no air supremacy, this transport plane boldly flew at a low altitude, completely ignoring the close attention of our volunteer soldiers on the position below.
The plan of the United States is to disguise this plane as a US military reconnaissance plane to carry out a reconnaissance mission, and then parachute down when passing through the mountainsSend the United States and a few spies to the mountains, and then make plans.
When the plane flew over the mountainous area, under the command of the United States, Zhang Wenrong and other spies stood on the side of the cabin one after another, preparing to parachute, and Zhang Wenrong was standing in the first place.
The United States gave an order, and the result was at this time, a mutation occurred!
I saw Zhang Wenrong take out the grenade that had been prepared from his pocket, pull open the big ring, and then quickly threw it into the depths of the cabin, and then turned around and jumped!
With a bang, the transport plane exploded a bright spark in mid-air!
This scene was clearly seen by the guard posts of our army on the ground, but they were also confused, and they did not know why a US military plane was suddenly "reimbursed".
When they met Zhang Wenrong in the process of searching the mountainZhang Wenrong said excitedly, "I found the organization again!."”
Subsequently, Zhang Wenrong handed over all the ** ammunition and ** equipment he carried with him to the patrol post, and then made a report to the commander of the nearby volunteer army, and Zhang Wenrong's brave, witty and courageous behavior was also highly recognized by the commander of the unit!
Because of his great contribution to blowing up a US military plane and killing the United States ** and several traitor spies, Zhang Wenrong was subsequently highly commended by the Volunteer Army Headquarters.
The Americans mistreated prisoners of war.
And that's not all,Zhang Wenrong also compiled and recorded all what he saw, heard, and thought in prison, and these iron-clad facts of prisoner abuse were disclosed by the Chinese delegates at the post-war UN General Assembly, and the US representatives were severely beaten in the face, it can be regarded as helping my volunteer soldiers relieve a bad breath!