Determined and determined, continue to dedicate, this is the truest portrayal of the revolutionary disabled soldiers. They fought bloody battles on the battlefield and fought bravely against the enemy;When they retreated from the battlefield, they were covered in scars, but no one regretted it. These disabled soldiers are not afraid of difficulties, strive for self-improvement, and move each of us with practical actionsSpend your life practicing your original intention and mission, and leave a valuable spiritual wealth.
The Sichuan Provincial Rest Home for Revolutionary Disabled Soldiers was established in 1951 and undertook the tasks of hospitalization, recuperation and recuperation for disabled servicemen of the first to fourth grades during the war period and national defense construction. There are more than 2,800 disabled soldiers in the hospital, of which about 2,200 have participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Here, there are Tu Boyi, a veteran soldier who is not afraid of incendiary bombs, Zhou Quandi, a survivor of the "Ice Sculpture Company", and many heroes who have paid for the motherland like them.
Zhou Quandi was invited to participate in the recording of the special program "Bright Sword Changjin Lake" on the National Defense and Military Channel of ** TV Station. At the recording scene, an old man with white hair, he raised his hand, without a palm, sat in a wheelchair, and raised a standard military salute to the audience.
That winter a few decades ago is a memory that Zhou Quandi will linger in his life. Everyone present felt the cruelty of the war under his story. The Battle of Changjin Lake can be called one of the most tragic battles in the world's military history, and "Changjin Lake", as one of the most popular movies in the past two years, has also made many people understand this battle.
Zhou Quandi, as a survivor, has also become the prototype of the role of Wu Wanli in the film. The protagonist Wu Wanli, who is just a teenager, has already followed in the footsteps of his brother and stepped on the battlefield far from home. In the movie, Wu Wanli has a lot of enthusiasm, he first came into contact with the battlefield, faced all kinds of life and death, and finally became the only survivor among the 157 people.
But the reality is often more cruel, and Zhou Quandi's lost limbs have already given an answer. I don't know if you have any impression of this scene in the movie: at the end of the film, the soldiers lying motionless in the snow are covered in snow and finally freeze to death, but their posture remains in a fighting state. They are the famous "Ice Sculpture Company" in history, and Brother Zhou Quandi is also one of them.
Zhou Quandi was born in a poor family in southern Sichuan in 1934, and his family life was not good. But for the sake of their son's future, his parents emptied all their savings for him to study, and Zhou Quandi was very competitive, and he studied hard Xi. He thought: study hard, get ahead when you grow up, be a teacher, and let your parents no longer suffer.
Who would have thought that Zhou Quandi's wish changed when he was 15 years old. In 1949, the civil war was about to come to an end, but Chiang Kai-shek still had a thief's heart and failed again and again. Seeing that the Kuomintang troops were about to be defeated, Chiang Kai-shek led his cronies and fled all the way to Taiwan, leaving many troops to stay where they were and continue fighting.
In April of this year, the Kuomintang troops went around arresting strong men and forcing them to join the army, and soon came to Zhou Quandi's hometown. They rushed into Zhou's house, saw that the Zhou family had four children, and demanded that they must send a son to join the army. 15-year-old Zhou Quandi stepped forward, he did not know the difference between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, only knew that they had both fought the Japanese and were fighters who had helped the people.
Zhou Quandi thought that joining the army was to fight the bad guys, but he didn't expect that the target was the Communist Party!Zhou Quandi's heart was tormented, he couldn't do it to his own people, and soon his Kuomintang 47th Army rebelled, threw himself into the arms of the Communist Party, and was incorporated into the 26th Army of the 3rd Field 9th Corps of the People's Liberation Army, and the heavy stone in Zhou Quandi's heart also completely dissipated.
Under the influence of the army's education, he had a firm goal, and his brother Zhou Quan, who once wanted to live peacefully at home, gradually had lofty ambitions. He trained hard in the army, exercised his thin body, and never allowed himself to be held back by the team.
In October 1950, the troops went on an expedition and left the motherland. They know that the place they are going to is the battlefield of another country. The Chinese People's Volunteers crossed the Yalu River with great strength and high spirits, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea began. The fighters, in order to protect the territory of the country and the property of the people, once again went to the battlefield.
Combat life is hard, they have to fight not only the enemy, but also the bad weather. In the film "Changjin Lake", Wu Wanli led the team to pick up cotton clothes before boarding the train, but due to the urgency of time, he ran on the train before he had time to receive the clothes. The soldiers who were in charge of distributing cotton clothes threw their clothes on the car one by one.
This is a real thing in history, the combat mission is urgent, Zhou Quandi and his comrades-in-arms received cotton clothes and pants, big-brimmed hats and rubber shoes at the border, and they didn't have time to bring more warm clothes, so the team had to hurry up and set off. Zhou Quandi followed the team all the way to secretly cross the Yalu River, and enemy planes circled back and forth on the border, launching attacks on our territory again and again.
Most of the team are young men, some of whom have little combat experience, and they have to stay away from their homeland for the first time they go to war. A group of teenagers cheered each other on, relying on the unique innocence and resilience of teenagers, hiding and fighting all the way under the attack of the enemy, and they experienced all kinds of life and death before they even reached the battlefield. Some of the comrades-in-arms whose names were not yet known suddenly fell, and the team went through all kinds of hardships and finally rushed to the battlefield.
At the end of November, the Battle of Changjin Lake officially began. Changjin Lake is not a naturally formed lake, but a reservoir built and the largest man-made lake in northern Korea. The two sides involved in the war were the army of the Ninth Corps of the Volunteer Army, with a total of about 150,000 people, and the commander was Song Shilun;The U.S. troops participating in the war are the 1st Marine Division and two infantry regiments, plus the 1st Army Corps of South Korea, with a strength of about 100,000 troops.
Hearing this, some people may wonder, we have so many more people than the US army, why is it so difficult to win?The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea brought far more difficulties to the volunteers than imagined. The first thing in front of us is the weather, the Ninth Corps has been stationed in the Jiangnan area for a long time, and most of the soldiers are southerners, and they have hardly seen snow.
They were even temporarily transferred to the Korean battlefield, and before they had time to receive cotton clothes, they entered the icy and snowy Korean Peninsula. This year, North Korea encountered extremely cold weather that was rare in a century, and the temperature dropped to minus 40 degrees Celsius. As soon as this group of soldiers entered the court, there were countless **, the cold wind was biting, and before the war began, the news that countless soldiers were frostbitten and unable to act appeared one after another.
This is just one of them, and the most important thing is the sense of oppression from the US military. It can be seen in the movie "Changjin Lake" that the ** owned by the Chinese team are all snatched cannonballs. However, the US tanks, planes and other tanks with major lethality emerged one after another, bringing serious losses to the ranks of the volunteers.
In the real battle, the Volunteer Army is faced with a mechanized army known as the world's top, the so-called mechanization refers not only to the advanced in their hands, but also to logistics and supply transportation. The U.S. military has all the most important trucks, and their supplies are also very abundant, with plenty of gloves, cotton clothes, overcoats, and even turkey on the battlefield.
And what did our volunteer army experience?They lacked food, clothing, and supplies, and could not even keep themselves warm that winter. A few frozen potatoes have to be given priority to the wounded, and many soldiers can only endure hunger, is this big gap?
In the movie, the soldiers of our army have to be humble to each other even a potato, and no one is willing to eat it;And the US military is celebrating their Christmas, eating and drinking well. I believe that many people will feel miserable and sad when they see this scene, but we also need to know that the weather in North Korea was bad at that time. Even in the well-equipped U.S. military, there are still soldiers who are frostbitten, not to mention those thinly dressed volunteer soldiers?
After the Battle of Changjin Lake began, the surrounded American troops began to retreat, and Commander Song Shilun arranged for a team to ambush the retreating American troops, and Death Eagle Ridge was one of the many ambush sites.
The retreating American troops were subjected to all kinds of sniping, and they could not imagine why there were soldiers squatting on every hill, the trumpet of the charge kept sounding, and the soldiers rushed up desperately, and even some were naked. It's minus temperatures!They retreated, shocked all the way, until they came to Death Eagle Ridge.
The terrain of Death Eagle Ridge is suitable for ambushes, and the American troops have long been ready for battle, and the soldiers advanced with live ammunition, but they did not receive a single shot. The commander picked up the binoculars to check, and the scene in front of him shocked him extremely much, obviously there were rows of volunteer soldiers opposite, but there was no one.
He led his troops forward to check, and the volunteer soldiers were all in a battle-ready posture, some holding grenades in their hands;Some of them still had their fingers on the bolts. It's a scene that will be remembered for a long time, as a U.S. soldier stepped forward to inspect and tried to pull a gun from a soldier's hand. However, the fighter's hand and gun were glued tightly together, and three of the warrior's fingers had to be broken.
What a shocking scene, the snow-capped hillside is full of the remains of volunteer soldiers!They maintained a prostrate shooting position, and not a single one fell. They waited for six days, and finally waited for the arrival of the enemy, but no one sounded the trumpet again, and the fighters were not able to carry out the ambush mission. After 6 days of waiting, it became ice sculptures.
The U.S. military doesn't know how long these fighters waited before they froze to death here. They obviously couldn't withstand the cold weather, but no one was willing to retreat, he understood the will and determination of the Chinese soldiers, and the American commander even made a move to take off his hat and salute.
Not a single shot was fired on the position of Death Eagle Ridge, and Song Shilun sent troops to check, and the soldiers all froze to death on the position in a battle formation, and their bodies did not have any scars or bloodstains. The unit frozen into ice sculptures was the 6th Company of the 117th Regiment of the 59th Division of the 20th Army, and all 129 soldiers of the company froze to death on the Dead Eagle Ridge.
There is not only 1 "ice sculpture company" like this, but also 3 companies with a full formation, which are frozen into ice sculptures like the 6th company during the mission!We can find records about the Battle of Changjin Lake, where more than 4,000 volunteers froze to death in Changjin Lake, with a total attrition of more than 56,000 people, including 11,000 deaths. 129 people froze to death in the 6th Company, and more than 4,000 people froze to death in the First Battle of Changjin Lake.
Zhou Quandi's team also received an ambush mission. In December, when temperatures in North Korea were minus 30 degrees Celsius, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army braved heavy snow, hunger and cold, and secretly entered Huangcaoling to carry out the task of ambushing the 31st Regiment of the 1st and 7th Divisions of the US Army.
Zhou Quandi set off with the team and rushed to the only way for the American army to ambush. They were thinly dressed, braved the extreme cold weather, lay on the snow and lay in ambush, many of them had already suffered from a cold, but no one refused to retreat from the battlefield to rest, in order to complete the task, they were ambushed for three days and three nights. The snow was falling, and the fighters were holding the trigger tightly, and their eyes did not dare to drift.
Zhou Quandi recalled the events of that year and said: "At that time, each person had three potatoes a day, and when we were hungry, we would nibble on them, and when we drank them, we would eat the snow around them, and all the soldiers firmly held on to the ambush point, waiting for the enemy. At that time, I couldn't even untie my little hands, so I could only untie them in my pants and wait for the weather to dry, and the pants would be even cooler. ”
We don't know how cold Changjin Lake is. But every winter, everyone goes out dressed very warmly, and sometimes it feels bitterly cold. What about the volunteer soldiers at that time?They had no cotton clothes, nothing to keep warm, their hands bare, guns and triggers.
Brother Zhou Quandi mentioned the situation back then, his eyes were full of tears, and when he talked about his physical condition, the old man only said: "My legs are unconscious, I can't move, and I feel that I can't control my whole body." "In the extremely cold weather, the volunteer soldiers still maintained a fighting state and lay in the snow for three days and three nights.
On the fourth day, the U.S. troops finally came, and Zhou Quandi's unit received a battle order. The trumpet sounded, the warriors were finally able to get up and fight, the guns rang out, and the warriors attacked. But the soldiers who got up found that many of the soldiers lying there were obviously in a fighting state, but they were silent, and they had been frozen to death before they could reach the enemy.
The warriors turned their grief and anger into strength, and they opened their guns and charged forward. The soldiers, who were frostbitten and could not stand up, kept crawling through the snow, trying to rush up with the team to kill the enemy. There were also quite a few warriors who charged naked. Because they lay on their stomachs for three days, their clothes and the snow were tightly glued, so they could only take off their clothes and fight naked in the cold weather.
The sound of the charge also made Zhou Quandi wake up from the chaos, he knew that it was time to act, the gunshots around him rang out, and his comrades had already attacked. Zhou Quandi clenched the gun and tried to stand up, but he only crawled a little, his legs couldn't bend, and he couldn't stand up at all.
Zhou Quandi tried to get up, but in vain after all, he insisted on the belief for three days, that is, to snipe the enemy army, but he could not charge with his comrades. The surrounding comrades-in-arms charged, and Zhou Quandi could only watch, he didn't even know that his legs had been severely frostbitten. Brother Zhou Quan's heart only was: I have dragged the team back, and I can't kill the enemy with my comrades.
Brother Zhou Quan, who had been lying in the snow for three days and three nights, had already developed a high fever, and his inability to get up to fight made him emotional, and sadness began to spread. The warrior finally couldn't bear it anymore and fainted completely. While the battle was sweeping the battlefield at the end of the battle, someone tried to wake up the motionless warriors, hoping that they would only be stunned by the cold, and not goodbye. One by one, the warriors probed their breath and brushed the snow off their bodies, hoping that someone else would open their eyes.
Disappointing again and again, the soldiers wept one after another, so many soldiers were still young, and there were parents and relatives at home, waiting for their children to return home, who knew that they were frozen to death in a foreign land. Soon, Brother Zhou Quan, who still had a trace of breath, was found, his whole body was stiff, but his face was hot, obviously he was in a coma with a high fever, and his comrades-in-arms picked him up and hurriedly sent him to the rear field hospital.
The medical staff found that Zhou Quandi's limbs were severely frostbitten, without the slightest sensation, and his limbs were also infected, and it was easy to be life-threatening if he did not rush to remove them. At first, the medical staff wanted to save his right hand, and if a person lost all his limbs, how difficult his life would be!
They bandaged Zhou Quandi's right hand, trying their best to keep the young man's right hand. The next day, the situation was very bad, and Zhou Quandi's right hand was completely rotten. In case of emergency, the medical staff immediately prepared for surgery, and Zhou Quandi's hands were amputated from the forearms and both legs from the root of the thighs. There was a shortage of first-class products in the field hospital, and Zhou Quandi was in a coma, so the doctor could only wrap his limbs in ice cubes for surgery. This year, he was only 16 years old when he lost his limbs.
After the operation, Zhou Quandi did not wake up, and the doctor said to the accompanying staff: "This patient still has to go through a 7-day dangerous period, and it is up to him whether he can wake up in these 7 days." "The last scene that Zhou Quandi experienced before he fell unconscious was when his comrades launched a charge, gunshots rang out in all directions, and he had one nightmare after another during his coma.
In the dream, the enemy's bombers chased him and dropped bombs, the shells landed beside him, a huge ** sound sounded, and the impact made him fly, as if he was flying in the sky. At the same time, he seemed to be roasted and frozen by fire, and the dream brought him mental torture again and again. Zhou Quandi couldn't tell the difference between dreams and reality, he tried to open his eyes, completely shake off the dream, and wake up.
He's still alive!This was Zhou Quandi's first thought, and soon the medical staff who surrounded him conducted various examinations on him, and Zhou Quandi gradually sobered up, only to find that his legs were empty and his hands were lightly falling. What about his hands and legs?Zhou Quandi exclaimed, the medical staff were very unbearable, although there were more lives and deaths on the battlefield, who could not care about it?
At first, Zhou Quandi couldn't accept it, the lack of limbs brought him a lot of trouble in his life, he couldn't dress and eat by himself, and it was very difficult Xi to learn these life skills again. Brother Zhou Quandi even wanted to seek death for a while, but he thought of those soldiers who were frozen to death on the battlefield, and they didn't even have a chance to live, so they said goodbye to the world completely. If he ends himself easily, he will not be responsible for the doctors and dead comrades who bothered to save him.
Zhou Quandi's life cannot rely on others, he used the spirit of revolutionary optimism to overcome one difficulty after another, with super willpower, experienced countless difficulties, and learned the ability to take care of himself. In 1953, he organized and arranged for Zhou Quandi to come to the Sichuan Provincial Rest Home for Revolutionary Disabled Soldiers.
Life in the sanatorium was very leisurely, and the soldiers who were seriously injured on the battlefield were carefully cared for. Zhou Quandi couldn't let himself be idle, he was curious about everything, the mutilation of his body didn't make him collapse, he began to explore his potential, once a person has faith, then his whole body will be full of strength.
Zhou Quandi already had some cultural level, after coming to the rest home, he picked up books again, wrote with a pen ** on the severed limb, and in a year, he was gradually able to write complete words. Later, Zhou Quandi began to practice calligraphy with Xi brush again, holding the brush with his stump arm to practice calligraphy. After a long period of practice, Xi his calligraphy has also formed his own special style, and professional calligraphers have constantly praised him.
In 2012, the rest home specially produced the "Calligraphy Collection of Zhou Quandi, a first-class disabled soldier", which included 85 calligraphy works, allowing countless people to see his firm will.
The war left a cripple on him, but the will of the Chinese ** people could not be broken and destroyed, and Zhou Quandi used the fastest time to get out of his grief and survive with the spirit of self-improvement. His optimistic attitude towards life touched everyone, and he was praised as "China's Paul".
In the midst of countless praises, Zhou Quandi said indifferently: "My second life was given by the party, and the blood flowing in my body is the blood of medical staff." I am alive today thanks to the help and dedication of many people. Since we are alive, we have to laugh at life and temper ourselves in order to be tempered, and I am very lucky compared to those comrades-in-arms who died gloriously. ”
Every time Brother Zhou Quandi raised his right arm to salute, he would say very proudly: "Brother Zhou Quan, a soldier of the first battalion and the second company, report to the motherland!"This old man's special military salute made countless Chinese teary-eyed.
Changjin Lake paid a great price, but this battle also played the military prestige of our country, and the soldiers burned their lives, so that the world could see the military soul belonging to the Chinese people. The soldiers fought tenaciously with their flesh and blood and completed the tasks assigned by the leaders, and their exploits will be firmly remembered by the younger generations.