When it comes to Zhang Yimin, you may be confused, but after watching the movie "Sea Eagle", you will suddenly realize and sigh that he is a people's hero. The movie tells the story of Zhang Min, the commander of the Navy, who led the Navy to defeat the Kuomintang and completed a difficult mission, remembering his mission from beginning to end. The prototype of the protagonist in the movie is Zhang Yimin, an outstanding commander of my country's navy, whose life experience is more exciting than the movie.
Zhang Yimin, a native of Heilongjiang Province, was born in 1929. As early as when he was young, he had a heartfelt desire to join the army and serve the country. He was an ordinary student until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War changed the status quo. After the fall of Northeast China in 1931, his sincere patriotism was overflowing, and he longed to join the anti-Japanese army and become a soldier against the enemy, but because he was not old enough to join the army, he had to give up.
In 1946, at the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he also graduated from the Qingdao Naval Torpedo Boat School and the Naval Command College with excellent grades, and successfully joined the East China Sea Fleet as he wished, becoming the captain of a torpedo boat, thus starting his legendary military life. At that time, it was a time of domestic turmoil, and various forces were eyeing each other, but despite this, the Northeast Field Army also moved forward bravely. Zhang Yimin's army was the Northeast Field Army, and he participated in several major battles such as the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign, showing his outstanding military talent.
After that, he crossed the Yangtze River with the New Fourth Army and participated in the battle of crossing the river, fighting from the north to the south, and participating in the suppression of bandits. Zhang Yimin is not only experienced in navigation, but his combat experience is also unparalleled. He directly commanded six naval battles alone, the most shocking was in 1955, in the Northeast Battle of Jigu Mountain, Zhang Yimin led his torpedo boat to sink the Kuomintang gunboat "Dongting", and also set a record for world naval battles at that time. After going through countless hardships, he finally saw a great country, that is, the founding of New China, which he recalled was one of the few moments of excitement for him.
However, such a model who won the first-class merit was involved in the storm of censorship. After the 913 incident in 1971, because Zhang Yimin had served under ** and the founding of New China, Zhang Yimin, as a senior naval officer from Siye, was naturally considered to be related to the ** incident, so he became the object of review.
He went through 16 years of detention review, and he did not give up, appealing 13 times, but all of them were lost. It wasn't until 1987 that the results finally came and he was demoted two levels in a row and at the same time punished with a warning from the party. Although he was demoted from a regular army cadre to a divisional cadre, his heroic deeds were widely known.
After his retirement, he was placed as a division-level cadre in the cadres of the logistics departments of the Dinghai and Nanjing Military Regions. In his later years, he wrote many memoirs to document his involvement in the war, and in 2016, he died of illness at the age of 87.
People come cleanly, and they must go cleanly, and the sixteen-year review has not crushed Zhang Yimin, he is a warrior, not limited to merit, but also a high level of spirituality. Fate is like a cloud, fluctuating, but at least this cloud is enough.
Although this people's hero has left us, his fearless spirit and determination to fight for the country are worthy of our Xi and respect, the movie is called "Sea Eagle", and Zhang Yimin is like a sea eagle, soaring on the sea, going against the wind, fearless, and is a well-deserved strong man on the sea.