"Majestic, high-spirited, across the Yalu River ......”
The song was sung by a veteran with mutilated limbs at the Invalids Building of the Sichuan Provincial Revolutionary Disabled Veterans Rest Home.
The old man was cheerful and optimistic, and during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he lost his limbs, and the veteran did not have too many regrets about this.
The only regret he felt was that he couldn't fire a shot after lying in ambush in the ice and snow for three days and three nights.
Veteran Zhou Quandi.
The veteran's name is Zhou Quandi, a former soldier of the 231st Battalion and 2nd Company of the 231st Regiment of the 77th Division of the 26th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers.
Zhou Quandi once served as a soldier in the 47th Army of the Kuomintang, but he was forced to be a soldier.
At that time, a group of Kuomintang soldiers came to the village, knocking on doors and pumping strong men.
Three Ding draw one, either give money or give people. ”
Brother Zhou Quandi is the only male in the family, although he has just turned 14 years old, he has not been let go because of this.
So, Brother Zhou Quandi became a soldier in a daze.
Soon after, the Kuomintang 47th Army participated in the "Battle of Xu Beng".
In the northeast area of Yongcheng, Henan, the 47th Army was "wrapped in dumplings" by the People's Liberation Army, and the whole army was annihilated, and the army commander and deputy army commander were taken prisoner.
Zhou Quandi became a liberation fighter and was incorporated into the 26th Army of the Sanye 9th Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, Zhou Quandi's unit was reorganized into the 26th Army of the 9th Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers.
In 1950, he successively trained with the army in Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places, and then went to Shandong.
For a week in Shandong, the troops carried out military training, and there was only one content - climbing the mountain, climbing the mountain endlessly.
At that time, Zhou Quandi didn't know why he was training to climb mountains, and it wasn't until he entered the war and marched in the mountains all day long that he understood the meaning of training.
Propaganda poster to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
After leaving Shandong, the troops marched all the way to the Yalu River and arrived at Andong.
No one told Zhou Quandi what tasks the troops were going to perform, but they received an order to remove the PLA identification symbols from their clothes and hats.
Zhou Quandi and the others also received thin cotton clothes and trousers, large-brimmed hats and rubber shoes, and the troops also prepared dry food such as steamed noodles and fried noodles for the soldiers.
It wasn't until the troops marched into Korea for dozens of miles that Zhou Quandi knew that their original mission was to resist US aggression and aid Korea and fight in Korea.
After more than half a month of marching, the troops arrived at the military stronghold of Huangcaoling in the Changjin Lake area at the southern foot of the Changbai Mountains.
At this time, the Changjin Lake area suffered from extremely cold weather that had not been seen in a century, and the temperature at night was as low as minus 40 degrees, which was slightly better during the day, but it was cold enough.
Most of the officers and men of the 26th Army of the Volunteer Army came from the southern region, and they had never seen such a heavy snow, nor had they experienced such a biting cold.
Under the severe cold, Zhou Quandi and his comrades-in-arms were hungry and cold, and their daily ration was only three potatoes.
The potatoes were frozen as hard as stones, and they had to be gnawed slowly with their teeth, and when they were thirsty, they grabbed the snow next to them and stuffed them into their mouths.
When he was sleepy, Brother Zhou Quandi wanted to take a nap, but as soon as he squinted, the squad leader would push him awake: "Hold on, you can't sleep, or you won't wake up!" ”
Brother Zhou Quandi saw with his own eyes that a few comrades-in-arms couldn't hold on anymore and fell asleep, but never woke up again.
In this way, for three days and three nights, Zhou Quandi and his comrades-in-arms lay in the snow without sleeping.
Screenshot of the TV series.
The task given to Zhou Quandi's unit by his superiors was to block the 1st Marine Division of the US Army and the 31st Regiment of the 7th US Division.
When the trumpet sounded, Zhou Quandi couldn't move, his hands and feet were unconscious, he couldn't stand up with his feet, and he couldn't hold the gun with both hands.
No matter how hard Brother Zhou Quandi struggled, his hands and feet just didn't listen to him.
Brother Zhou Quandi could only lie there and be anxious, watching his comrades rush towards the enemy formation.
Later, Zhou Quandi's eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything.
When Zhou Quandi woke up, he found himself lying on a stretcher in the army health center.
It turned out that after the battle, the comrades-in-arms returned to the ambush site, where they found dozens of frozen fighters, and also found Zhou Quan's brother, who still had a trace of breath.
The comrades-in-arms immediately lifted Zhou Quan's brother, stepped on waist-deep snow, and carried him back to the army health center.
Because of severe frostbite on both hands and legs, the hospitals of the front-line troops did not have the conditions for medical treatment, and the troops quickly sent Zhou Quandi and a group of seriously injured people back to the motherland.
At the 35 Army Hospital, the hospital decided to immediately perform an amputation for Zhou Quandi.
Because Zhou Quandi's hands and legs were severely infected, only surgery to remove his limbs could save his life.
Since there was no *** doctor who could only wrap his limbs in ice, he underwent amputation in the unconscious state of Zhou Quandi.
Screenshot of the TV series.
His hands were amputated from his forearms and his legs from the base of his thighs.
During the operation, several medical staff and lightly injured people spontaneously donated blood for him.
A few days later, Zhou Quandi woke up, but found that he had no hands and feet ......
17-year-old Zhou Quandi was so grief-stricken that he thought of "death".
The hospital took 24-hour care for Zhou Quandi, and they took turns to read him books such as "How Steel is Made" and "Dedicate Everything to the Party", hoping to encourage him and infect him to live strongly.
The hospital also invited actors from the art troupe to perform for him.
After a period of time, Zhou Quandi was deeply moved by the warm care and encouragement of the medical staff, and he gradually walked out of his grief.
Zhou Quandi secretly decided: I want to fight against injuries strongly, what Paul can do, why can't I do it!
The hospital developed a training program for him.
The first thing Zhou Quandi has to live is to take care of himself.
He asked ** to tie the spoon to the severed limb with a cloth strap and scoop it up to eat.
At the beginning, Zhou Quandi ate half and lost half of it, and if the strap was tied too tightly, the severed limb would be painful, and if it was tied too loosely, the spoon could not be tied.
Later, Zhou Quandi tried to replace the cloth belt with a rubber band, and finally solved the problem.
Veteran Zhou Quandi.
The second level is to move from the bed to the tricycle and solve the problem of "walking".
I don't know how much sweat I sweated, how many times I fell, and after a few months, Zhou Quandi finally didn't need to be helped, and he was able to move from the bed to the tricycle to "walk" out.
Then there are the ...... of dressing, going to the toilet, washing your face, cooking, and washing your clothes
Brother Zhou Quandi has to learn from scratch, for people with sound limbs, these are easy things, but Brother Zhou Quandi has to overcome unimaginable difficulties.
In December 1950, Zhou Quandi was transferred to Xuzhou to continue, and two years later, he was transferred to the Sichuan Provincial Revolutionary Disabled Soldiers' Rest Home.
Here, Zhou Quandi learned to write with a stump arm, and also created the original "calligraphy with a pen".
His "calligraphy with a pen" has shocked and educated generations of young people, and he is known as "China's Baoer" because he is disabled and self-reliant.
Zhou Quandi looked at these honors very lightly.
He often said: "My father and mother gave me life, the army gave me a second life, I have the blood of my comrades-in-arms, without the troops, without comrades-in-arms, how can I live to this day." ”
Over the years, many units and individuals have gone to express their condolences to Brother Zhou Quan.
Someone said to him: You have lost your limbs to defend your family and country, and you deserve high honor and thoughtful care, what do you want? Although it is brought up. ”
Brother Zhou Quandi always smiled and politely declined, and the most he said was: "Compared with the sacrificed comrades-in-arms, I am very satisfied." ”
To this day, the veteran still deeply regrets that he did not shoot the enemy back then.
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was the first cry of New China, which displayed the national prestige of New China and the military prestige of the people's army.
Veteran Zhou Quandi.
Countless martyrs gave their lives for this, and countless veterans like Zhou Quandi were left with disabilities.
The Motherland will not bury their exploits, and the people will always be grateful to them.
Time passes, but the spirit lives on.
Let's remember their names: veterans!