In 1964, the famous film "Heroic Children" produced by Changchun Film Studio was officially released.
"Heroes' Children" mainly tells the story of Wang Cheng and Wang Fang, two brothers and sisters, who successively participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
His brother Wang Cheng fought with the enemy until the last moment, he held a blaster in his hand and shouted with a walkie-talkie: "For the sake of victory, shoot at me",Then the scene of dying with the enemy infected countless moviegoers. However, Wang Cheng is a fictional character in film and television works after all.
In other words, when the main creators of "Children of Heroes" completed this role, they must have borrowed real volunteer heroes as prototypes. On October 25, 1950, the 360th Regiment of the 120th Division of the 40th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers broke out into a fierce battle with the 15th Regiment of the 1st Division of the Han **, firing the first shot of the Chinese People's Volunteers entering the DPRK.
Shi Baoshan, then the squad leader of the 360th Battalion, 3rd Company, 1st Platoon, 3rd Squad, picked up two blasting canisters at the last moment of the battle, pulled the fuse, and died with the enemy like Wang Cheng in the movieShi Baoshan is also one of the prototypes of Wang Cheng.
The 40th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers entered the Korean War in only six days before inflicting heavy losses on the South Korean puppet army, and Shi Baoshan completely subdued the enemy army.
70 years later, ** broadcast the "Literary and Art Gala to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Chinese War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea", and the deeds of Shi Baoshan's heroes were known to everyone.
Are there any untold stories behind this "Wang Cheng-style" combat hero Shi Baoshan?
Portrait of the martyr Shibaoshan.
In 1925, Shi Baoshan was born in a poor peasant family in Huinan County, Tonghua City, Jilin Province.
Huinan County is located in the north of Tonghua City, at the western foot of Changbai Mountain, just in the transition zone between the Changbai Mountains and the Songliao Plain, with fertile land.
Today, the annual grain output of Huinan County is stable at about 1.1 billion catties.
In the 20s of the 20 th century, the Japanese invaders occupied the three northeastern provinces of our country and wanted to use them as a base camp for conquering the world, and carried out "slavery" education for the Chinese compatriots.
Shi Baoshan grew up in such an environment; The family conditions are not good, he has not been to school since he was a child, and he followed his parents to the field to dig food.
In 1937, the Japanese army bombarded Beidaying in Shenyang, unilaterally provoking the "77 Incident", which made the lives of Chinese compatriots in the three northeastern provinces even more difficult.
Shi Baoshan once witnessed the Japanese invaders beating many innocent people to death in order to steal food, and even set fire to their houses.
Such a heinous act is perfectly applicable"Outrageous, too many to write".Describe.
Since then, Shi Baoshan has always thought about joining the army to serve the country and fight against the Japanese invaders.
Because of his young age and the complicated environment of revolutionary struggle in Northeast China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
It was not until after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression that ** and others were sent to the Northeast to form the Northeast Anti-Japanese Democratic Alliance Army (the prototype of the Fourth Field Army).
What's more, Shi Baoshan stood up straight and was not as high as a rifle at that time, so his dream of joining the army was shattered.
In the blink of an eye to 1946, Chiang Kai-shek provoked a civil war, and millions of troops launched a fierce attack on the ** base areas in East China, Central China, and Northwest China, intending to "exterminate" the people's army led by the Communist Party in one fell swoop.
At this time, Shi Baoshan had reached the age of 21, and it was the time when he was hot-blooded. Through personal experience, Shi Baoshan felt that the Kuomintang army was simply more hateful than the Japanese army invading China, and they completely ignored the lives of the people, and repeatedly went to the village to "catch strong men".
Most of those who were captured by the Kuomintang army lost contact with their families, and they did not know whether they were dead or alive.
On the other handThe people's army under the leadership of the Communist Party did nothing wrong with the people, and even did what it could to help the compatriots rebuild their homeland.
The two comparisons are made.
Shi Baoshan decided to join the people's army led by the Communist Party of China no matter what, fight against the Kuomintang army, and protect the fruits of this hard-won victory.
After that, Shi Baoshan and several fellow villagers joined the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, and participated in the Liaoshen Campaign with the large army, annihilating the main force of the Kuomintang army.
Because of his bravery on the battlefield, Shi Baoshan was promoted to the leader of the third company and three squads of the first battalion of the 360th regiment of the 120th division of the 40th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in August 1949.
After the founding of New China, the 40th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, under the leadership of army commander Han Xianchu, fought all the way from Baishan and Heishui to the ends of the earth.
Picture: Soldiers of the 40th Army swim across the Qingchuan River.
The 40th Army, which had made outstanding achievements in war, was called the "Whirlwind Force" by everyone.
After entering the DPRK, the 40th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers won a great victory from the Chushan area of North Korea on the banks of the Yalu River to the "37th line" of South Korea's Hoengseong County.
Forty Corps with fraternal units.
Three. Ten. The 8th and 39th armies were called the "Three Tiger Army" and stayed".The 40th Army galloped for 3,000 miles, and was invincible and victorious".
This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.
The predecessor of the 360th Regiment of the 120th Division of the 40th Army, where Shi Baoshan was located, was the Special Service Battalion of the 2nd Division of the Luzhong Military Region, the Yizhong Independent Battalion, and the 6th Regiment of the county's district squadrons.
In January 1946, the 6th Regiment was incorporated into the 27th Regiment of the 9th Brigade of the Third Column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army in Liaodong; In 1947, it was renamed the 27th Regiment of the 9th Division of the Third Column of Liaodong; At the beginning of 1948, it was renamed the 27th Regiment of the 9th Division of the Third Column of the Northeast Field Army.
In November 1948, it was officially established as the 360th Regiment of the 120th Division of the 40th Army.
Before entering the Korean War, the head of the 360th Regiment, Ding Xiande, and the political commissar Zhanming. After entering the DPRK, the head of the 360 regiment was changed to Xu Rui, a native of Xifeng County, Liaoning Province, and the political commissar of the regiment was still Zhanming.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, in July 1950, the Military Commission incorporated the 40th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army into the Northeast Frontier Army; On October 8, the whole army was reorganized into the 40th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers; On October 19, he entered the DPRK and officially entered the war.
The 360th Regiment is the main force of the 120th Division, with relatively strong combat effectiveness, and as the first batch of troops of the 40th Army to enter Korea, it rushed to the northeast region in advance for pre-war training.
When entering the DPRK, the leadership of the 40th Army was changed, General Han Xianchu was transferred to the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, and the new commander of the 40th Army was General Wen Yucheng.
Under the leadership of Wen Yucheng, the soldiers of the whole army rushed to the northeast.
In October 1950, more than 230,000 "United **" ground troops on the Korean Peninsula captured Pyongyang and crossed the north of the "38th parallel" to burn the flames of war to the banks of the Yalu River and the northern border of our country.
According to the deployment of MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the "joint **", he will divide 130,000 "joint **" troops into two fronts, east and west, and continue to advance towards the Yalu River.
On the Eastern Front, Lieutenant General Walker led the US Eighth Army and the US First Army from the Pyongyang area to Sinuiju and Soju to advance continuously.
The three divisions of the ROK 2nd Army attacked from the Seungcheon and Yangdeok areas in the direction of Chusan; The 1st U.S. Cavalry Division and the 187th Airborne Regiment were stationed on the Eastern Front in the Pyongyang area as reserve units of the Eighth Army.
Major General Almond led two divisions of the U.S. Tenth Army to continue to advance from Hamxing Port in the direction of Huishan Town; Two divisions of the 1st Korean Army advanced along the coastline in the direction of the Tumen River.
"The east and west roads are advancing very fast, which makes MacArthur particularly happy, and he even makes bold statements in front of reporters"We must occupy all of Korea before Thanksgiving Day in 1950, and the Korean People's Army will put down ** and stop making useless resistance." ”
The New York Times pointed out that victory in the war was a foregone conclusion, and the U.S. War Department had considered distributing large quantities of supplies to other allies.
The commander of the logistics command of the US military in Japan decided to cancel all payments for ** equipment, and many "joint" ** soldiers were full of optimism.
The GIs of the US Tenth Army swaggered around the northern part of Korea, not at all as if they were fighting on a front-line battlefield, but had come to the Korean Peninsula for tourism.
Figure: General Wen Yucheng.
General ***, then commander-in-chief of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, was very angry, and he ordered all participating units of the Volunteer Army to teach the "joint **" a harsh lesson.
Let's go back and look at the 40th Army of the Volunteer Army.
After entering the DPRK, the 40th Army was divided into two lines, east and west, and the military headquarters and the 118th Division were on the east road, along the direction of Wenjing, directly into the highway transportation hub, and stuck in the Nixichuan hub area, so that the US troops on the east and west lines could not meet.
The 120th and 119th Divisions marched along Yunsan to Yongbyon, rushed to the banks of the Qingchuan River as quickly as possible, built fortifications, and ensured that the large forces of the Volunteer Army could quickly assemble and deploy north of the Qingchuan River.
After a rapid march of three days and three nights, the 118th Division of the Eastern Front arrived in the Liangshuidong area and stood by.
On October 25, 1950, the 354th Regiment of the 118th Division's Advance Guard Regiment set up an ambush ring on a road four kilometers north of the Onjeong area, inflicting heavy losses on the 2nd Regiment and a reinforced battalion of the 6th South Korean Division.
In this battle, the 354th Regiment killed, wounded, and captured more than 500 enemies, captured a large amount of military supplies, and officially fired the first shot of the Chinese People's Volunteers entering the DPRK. (Battle of the Two Water Caves).
Almost at the same time, the 360th Regiment of the 120th Division of the Advance Regiment of the Right Wing of the 40th Army passed through Taichuan and arrived in the area of Shangsidong and Xiasidong in the north of Yunshan City.
During the march, the 360th Regiment encountered some Han ** teams retreating north, and the regiment commander Xu Rui asked Shi Baoshan to catch a few "tongues" and come back for interrogation.
Shi Baoshan took three soldiers and captured two Korean defenders without much effort.
Listening to these two "tongues", the Korean People's Army, which was previously stationed in the Hasadong area, has retreated to the north, and the main force of the "United **" has occupied the ancient city of Yongbyon and cut off the main road to Unsan.
This information is very important, because if the 360th regiment does not grasp the enemy's movements in advance and rashly continues to go to Yunshan, it is very likely that it will be dumplings made by the "joint **".
Thinking of this, Regiment Commander Xu Rui immediately sent a reconnaissance platoon and the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion to reconnoiter and search in the direction of Yongbyon to provide support for the advance of the large army.
When the reconnaissance platoon and the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion searched, they were in close contact with the 1st South Korean Division.
Interestingly, the South Korean ** team regarded the volunteers as the retreating Korean People's Army, and they didn't take it too seriously and seized the time to camp and rest.
The reconnaissance platoon of the 360th regiment, judging by the vehicles parked on the side of the road, had at least one enemy regiment nearby or even more.
The reconnaissance platoon cautiously returned along the same path and reported the situation to Regiment Commander Xu Rui.
Picture: Wen Yucheng and Han Xianchu.
Xu Rui was a little difficult now, because the task he received was to quickly go to the front line of Yunnu Peak in the north of Yunshan City to build a position and block the advance of the 1st Division of the South Korean Army, which was known as the most elite from Yunshan City to the north.
Cover the full deployment of the main force of the 40th Army and ensure the safe arrival of the 39th Army of the brother army in Yunshan.
Now that the area was already occupied by Baek Sun-yeol's 1st Korean Division, the original plan had to be changed.
In the early days of the DPRK, the communications facilities of the Chinese People's Volunteers were very backward, and the combat units at the regimental level did not have a radio station to communicate with the division headquarters and the military headquarters.
In addition, in order to maintain concealment, the commanders and fighters of the 360th Regiment were all lightly armed, and they could not get in touch with their superiors at this time.
Such a situation is not a difficult situation for the Volunteer Army, whether it is in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression or the War of Liberation, our army can reasonably carry out offensive and defensive tasks according to the battlefield situation.
In the classic Anti-Japanese War drama "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong did not notify his superiors and brother troops to rashly attack Ping'an County.
His two old comrades-in-arms, Ding Wei and Kong Jie, were confused, but they keenly grasped the situation on the battlefield and decisively blocked the enemy's reinforcements.
What's more, the 360 Regiment is subordinate to the Northeast ArmySiye has long been adapted to the sudden change in the enemy's situation and independently adjusted the combat plan.
Xu Rui felt that the 360th Regiment was an advance regiment, covering the deployment of the main force, since the predetermined area was occupied by the enemy, the 360th Regiment should seize the time to build fortifications on the spot, and move forward if it could advance.
If the enemy's fire is too heavy, then stop the enemy on the spot and gain valuable buffer time for our large forces.
At 9 o'clock in the evening of October 24, 1950, the 360th Regiment quietly entered the northern heights of Yunshan City, quickly built fortifications, and prepared to resist the enemy.
Facts have proved that the decision of head Xu Rui is very correct.
At 6:30 a.m. on the morning of the 25th, the ROK 1st Division, led by a group of sharp soldiers, drove 14 tanks and dozens of self-propelled guns, and made a huge move along Unsan.
The 360th Regiment had already taken advantage of the night to build fortifications, and the soldiers waited for the 1st Division of the South Korean Army to enter the ambush circle.
Because of the narrow terrain, the South Korean army's mechanized troops could not be deployed at all, so they could only let an infantry platoon go in front to explore the way for the large forces behind.
Perhaps they did not expect that there were Chinese volunteers ambushing around, and the 3rd Infantry Platoon of the 1st Division of the ROK Army, which was responsible for reconnaissance and search, did not spread out the formation, but lined up in four columns and marched in unison.
According to the combat experience he had accumulated in the past, if a small unit at the company and platoon level was used as the main force to carry out the search and cover mission, then all the soldiers in charge of the preliminary reconnaissance would have to disperse and search along the highway and railway.
At the same time, all combat units must maintain close ties and quickly feedback information to the rear units.
But this infantry platoon of the South Korean army actually marched in columns, as if it was a live target.
Pressing the doubts in his heart for the time being, Regiment Commander Xu Rui patiently waited for the 1st Division of the ROK Army to enter the effective range of the infantry of the 360th Regiment, and decisively ordered the first company and the third company to be at the same time, and the regimental artillery concentrated superior firepower and launched a salvo.
The 1st Division of the ROK Army, which was suddenly hit by the fire of the Volunteers, saw that the situation was not good, the formation was completely disrupted, and the tanks even turned around and ran, without the slightest regard for the comrades beside them.
The enemy soldiers who lost the protection of the tanks were suddenly miserable, and the South Korean troops, who were lucky not to die, fled in all directions.
The first round of the attack ended in 15 minutes, and the remaining ROK 1st Division did not reorganize its two battalions until 8:20 a.m. on the morning of the 25th, and launched an attack on the Jadong Namsan area held by the three companies of the 360th Regiment in three directions, and at the same time called for US air support.
The US 6th Tank Battalion, the 9th Field Artillery Group, the 6th Mortar Battalion, and the 10th Antiaircraft Artillery Group received a request for help from friendly forces and quickly rushed to this area, and dozens of US fighter planes flew in the sky, which was the first time that the Chinese People's Volunteers faced a combined ground and air strike by a modern army.
Figure: Yunshan Resistance Battle.
Because the position of the third company was a hill less than 500 meters long, the napalm dropped by the US military plane immediately ignited the entire hill.
After the planes bombed, the heavy artillery of the US army aimed at the positions of the volunteers and launched an overwhelming and intensive fire strike.
Many years later, Xu Rui, then head of the 360 Regiment, recalled this"Our regiment has fought 8 years of the War of Resistance and 3 years of the War of Liberation, and has faced the fierce bombing of the Japanese army, as well as the bombing of the Kuomintang army equipped with American style.
When the 360th Regiment was bombarded by American artillery for the first time on the Korean battlefield, it was still shocked. ”
With the support of heavy artillery fire, the ROK 1st Division relieved itself and began to launch a strong attack on the position of the 360th Regiment, and the enemy's target was the forward position of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion where Shi Baoshan was located.
The geographical location of the southeast mountain area is particularly important, it is located at the intersection of the two highways of Yunshan and Xichuan, which is a hill with a height of about 150 meters, which holds the road of the Han ** team from north to south.
In the face of such unreasonable and indiscriminate bombing by the US army, the regiment commander Xu Rui had no good way for a while, and he ordered the soldiers to put the enemy in front of the position.
Because the volunteers mainly relied on machine guns and grenades to kill and wound the enemy, their combat range was limited, and they could only fight closer in order to damage as many enemy troops as possible.
As mentioned earlier, the forward position of the 360th Regiment 1st Battalion and 3rd Company on the southeast hill is a small earthen hill with a width of less than 500 meters, and the US troops threw dozens of napalm bombs on the mountain.
The Han ** team seized this good opportunity and quickly organized superior forces to advance to the top of the mountain.
They believe that the main force of the Volunteer Army has been burned to death by napalm of the US army, and the remaining soldiers must have no combat effectiveness, and now they can occupy positions and change the battlefield situation by rushing forward.
However, they did not expect that although more than half of the officers and soldiers of the third company were killed, the remaining dozens of fighters quickly moved to the halfway up the mountainside, and the only remaining ammunition poured towards the enemy.
The South Korean soldiers hurriedly retreated, and the two sides began to fight back and forth for position.
After several battles with the enemy, the position of the three companies was completely flattened, all the bullets were gone, and the soldiers could only lift stones and throw them at the enemy.
At this time, the 1st South Korean Division began to attack again and again, and the enemy with a platoon finally rushed to the position and pounced on the 3rd squad, where Shi Baoshan was located.
Figure Defensive positions of the Volunteer Army.
The enemy found that the ammunition of the volunteers was exhausted, and pressed even more frantically, and soon occupied most of the surface positions of the third squad.
At the critical moment, Shi Baoshan, who was the squad leader, picked up two blasting canisters from the ground, endured the pain on his body, and shouted loudly"Comrades, win glory for the country, and hate for the friendship ***!" ”
After saying that, he pulled the fuse and pounced on the enemy group. More than 20 South Korean soldiers were shocked by Shi Baoshan's whirring and smoking blasting canisters, shouting and hugging each other.
With a loud "boom", Shi Baoshan and more than 20 enemies perished, his feat aroused the courage of the other comrades of the third company, and the soldiers picked up their bayonets, picked up the stones and rushed towards the enemy.
Despite the enemy's superior firepower and numerical superiority, they were unable to penetrate the frontal line of the Third Company.
The 6th Tank Battalion of the US Army dispatched 7 tanks to return to the position behind the 3rd Company, preparing to cooperate with Han ** to take the southeast mountain in one fell swoop.
The 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 360th Regiment organized an anti-tank assault team, and Qin Yongfa, deputy squad leader of the 9th squad of the 2nd Company, pulled the blasting canister of the fuse and inserted it into the gap of the track wheels of an American tank.
Just when the blasting barrel was about to be **, it was thrown out by the track.
Regardless of the danger to his life, Qin Yongfa picked up the blasting canister and stuffed it into the gap in the wheels of this Patton tank.
Boom" There was a loud bang, and the martyr Qin Yongfa died along with the tank and several drivers.
Shi Baoshan was the first combat hero of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army to die with the enemy; Qin Yongfa is the hero of the Volunteer Army who went abroad to fight and blew up the first American tank.
After the end of the Yunshan blockade, Qin Yongfa was named "Anti-Tank Hero" by the division headquarters.
Because of other reasons such as unsound archives, the division did not ask for credit for Shi Baoshan, let alone name it.
He could have become a great volunteer hero recorded in textbooks like Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun, and Yang Gensi, but he was annihilated by the vast war history.
It was not until 2020 that ** broadcast the "70th Anniversary Gala of the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea", and the host briefly mentioned Shi Baoshan's heroic deeds.
Figure: Certificate of another Shi Baoshan martyr of the 12th Army of the Volunteer Army.
So, after Shi Baoshan's sacrifice, did the 360th Regiment complete the tasks assigned by the division?
In the early morning of October 26, 1950, Regiment Commander Xu Rui took advantage of the enemy's exhaustion and paralysis to launch a counterattack, and after 30 minutes of fierce fighting, he captured 4 mountains in a row, including the southeast mountain position that was lost during the day.
The battle lasted until 4:00 p.m. on October 27, when the 360th Regiment completed the blocking mission, handed over the defense of the position to the 39th Army, and successfully withdrew from the position.
In the three-day and two-night Yunshan blockade battle, the 360th Regiment destroyed more than 280 enemies and blew up three tanks.
The Yunshan Blockade Battle was a battle fought on the sixth day after the 40th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers entered the DPRK.
The 1st Division, known as the most elite in South Korea, has more than 500 people and was completely subdued by the Chinese People's Volunteers. Because the Yunshan Resistance Battle and the Liangshuidong Encounter started on the same day, and they won respectively, with the approval of ***October 25, 1950 was officially designated as the "Commemorative Day of Volunteers Fighting Abroad".This is a special honor for all the officers and men of the 40th Army.
Later, the 40th Army participated in the second to fifth phases of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and each time it carried out offensive missions.
On July 28, 1953, the day after the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement, the 40th Army of the Volunteer Army returned homeThis unit was the only unit that fought all the battles at all stages of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.