Cleanersyears have not been forgotten, **praised.
At the beginning of 1952, a different person appeared in the ** reception hall of Henan Province, his name was Lei Baosen. He was about thirty years old, swarthy, and a cleaner in the reception hall.
Due to his physical injuries, the leadership did not let him do heavy work and arranged for him to work with some female comrades. He is honest and doesn't like to talk, and everyone likes to call him "Lao Lei".
However, some people laughed at him: "You are a thirty-year-old man, you can't even do heavy work, you have to go home early!" However, Lei Baosen's identity is not simple.
In September 1953, when the leaders of the guest house were flipping through the "People**", they found a missing person notice issued by Li Yaowen, the political commissar of the 26th Army.
Lei Baosen's heroic deeds shocked **, he was sent to Beijing by a military jeep, ** came to the door in person, held his hand tightly, and said excitedly: "Mr. Peng often mentions your deeds, I didn't expect you to be alive, you are the pride of our volunteer army in the history of war!" ”
Lei Baosen was born in a poor peasant family in Zhangmao Village, Kaocheng County, Shandong Province, and his parents named him Lei Baosen.
When he was one year old, the landlord's son forcibly assaulted his aunt in the name of asking for a debt, but the local officials accepted the landlord's bribe and turned a blind eye to the matter.
In order to liberate himself, Lei Baosen threw himself into the revolution and became a brave fighter.
Lei Baosen, a poor family in the old society, was forced to flee to Shangcai, Henan Province with his mother and three children because his father impulsively cut off the landlord's son, and went to relatives.
They lived a difficult life in the ruined temple of Chengnan Pass. Although their relatives were also poor, the father had to carry water for the landlord and the mother sew clothes for the sake of the children's health, in exchange for sweet potatoes to feed the children's hunger.
However, four years later, Lei Baosen is five years old, and the family finally sees a glimmer of hope, but the disaster they face is not over. When his father was carrying water, Lei Baosen was playing behind his back, and as a result, his father tripped over the landlord's threshold and the water tank was broken.
The landlord was overjoyed when he saw this, and the lion opened his mouth to blackmail the Lei family father and son. However, at that time, the Lei family even had a problem eating, and they had money to compensate. The landlord used this to dismiss his father, and he did not even settle his wages.
Leibaosen's father died of overwork, leaving his mother and three children in trouble. In desperation, the mother sent her two daughters away, and she and Lei Baosen depended on each other.
However, Lei Baosen's two sisters were forcibly taken away by a man, and Lei Baosen could only listen to his sister's cries in his mother's arms. After that, the mother and son begged on the streets.
Soon after, Lei Baosen's mother died of a serious illness, and Lei Baosen became a helpless orphan. In 1931, he was adopted by a childless tenant farmer and treated as his own son.
Although life is not rich, for the wandering Lei Baosen, this is already the best home he can find. In order to repay the family who adopted him, Lei Baosen decided to work as a long-term worker in the landlord's family and try his best to help reduce the burden on the family.
A family living in hardship, because of the landlord's **, Lei Baosen's life is full of suffering. However, he was unwilling to succumb to the arrangement of fate and decided to change his fate himself.
In 1941, eighteen-year-old Lei Baosen embarked on the road of adventure alone and started a new life in Zhengzhou. However, his journey did not go well, and after being separated from his partner, he had to work as a runner in a hotel.
Despite the hardships of life, Lei Baosen did not give up, but worked harder, and eventually won the love of his diners. In the process, Lei Baosen met a man named "Cobbler".
He learned about Lei Baosen's difficult experience and was deeply sympathetic, so he introduced him to communism and hoped that he would become an intelligence agent for the Communist Party. "Our fate has nothing to do with God, we are all oppressed," he said.
Now there's a chance for you to take control of your own destiny, would you? Lei Baosen was deeply moved by the words of the "shoemaker", and he decided to follow the Communist Party to fight for the liberation of the poor, and willingly helped the "shoemaker" to transmit information and carry out revolutionary struggle.
Hurry"Found it"Cobbler", informing Lei Baosen that his identity has been exposed, and he needs to go to Shandong immediately to find the army, and he must not delay. When Lei Baosen heard this, he immediately packed his luggage and marched towards Shandong alone with a letter of introduction, becoming a member of the Nanma District squad in Laiwu and a glorious soldier of the People's Liberation Army.
In 1948, Lei Baosen was incorporated into the 3rd Battalion and 9th Company of the 234th Regiment of the 78th Division of the 26th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as a machine gunner, participated in the Huaihai Campaign, the Battle of Crossing the River, and the Battle of Shanghai, and was honored many times.
second- and third-class merit and thus joined the party.
But his legend has only just begun to ......In November 1950, when the Korean War broke out, Lei Baosen was suppressing bandits everywhere when he suddenly received an order: The 26th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was reorganized into the 26th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and immediately entered the DPRK to fight to defend the motherland.
Immediately, Lei Baosen got on a military train and braved the cold winter wind to the Yalu River to defend the northern frontier of the motherland. At this time"Joint**"After suffering the first, second, and third battles of the Volunteer Army, Seoul was completely lost, and it was lost in one fell swoop"Three-seven line"In the vast land to the north, the wounded American army gathered a large number of troops, and the fourth battle broke out completely.
In the face of the enemy's fierce attack, our army was very difficult because it could not be fully supplied, and the 26th Army was ordered to participate in the defensive operations of the fourth campaign.
On March 24, 1951, he led four classes of nine soldiers to carry out a blocking mission on the 299 heights, and their foot of the mountain was the only way for the US mechanized troops to attack Qifeng Mountain.
In order to ensure that they successfully completed their mission, the chief specially assigned them one set of the only three bazooka launchers in the whole battalion. They held out in the mountains for three days, and when the cold turned the potatoes black, and the little warrior lost his temper, Lei Baosen touched his head and comforted him in the chief's judgment.
Although the morale of the warriors was not high, Lei Baosen still encouraged everyone that if the enemy did come in the Iron King Eight, they could first trap the enemy at both ends and then slowly eliminate them.
However, a small soldier raised the question, with such a small number of people on the mountain, would the enemy use them as live targets? Another warrior said that they were behind the cliff and that Iron King Eight could not see them.
Lei Baosen watched the discussion of the soldiers on the battlefield and decisively decided: "Let's fight like this, let's dig a trench behind the cliff first, hide inside, and when the tanks come, the bazooka will listen to my orders, hit the tanks in front first, aim at their lower parts, and let them block there."
Then, we held back their infantry and picked them up one by one. "At that moment, the rumbling of tanks was heard to the southwest of the position. Lei Baosen carefully probed and saw a column of tanks, a total of twelve tanks and a jeep, with more than a hundred American soldiers on it.
Seeing this number, many fighters were stunned. Lei Baosen stabilized their emotions and said: "We can't panic, now is the time for us to defend the country and defend the territory." ”
Then he said to the soldier carrying the bazooka: "Do you see that ash bridge?" When the first tank is up, you're going to have to get rid of it! ”
Lei Baosen and his comrades are ambushing an American M4A3E8 tank. It was a narrow passage, only big enough for a tank to pass through. When the enemy approached the ambush circle, Lei Baosen immediately made a gesture to signal his comrades to prepare.
A rocket accurately hit the tank's tracks, catching the American soldiers by surprise. They poked their heads out to look for the volunteers, but they only had time to be defeated.
Deciding to strike forward when the enemy was not on a firm footing, they placed the anti-tank grenade in their hands under the tank, blew up eleven tanks one by one, and finally advanced to the last tank.
However, the long fighting alerted the enemy troops. The enemy machine gunners used the cover of the tanks to frantically strafe Lei Baosen and his comrades. Despite this, Lei Baosen decided to fight alone, and he called his teammates back to the trenches and crawled on the ground full of gasoline and fire to the last tank.
The enemy machine gunners spotted Lei Baosen and fired at him frantically, while reversing backwards, trying to find an angle to return fire. Lei Baosen did not flinch, he threw a grenade with force, which hit directly in front of the tank, and the frightened tank immediately fled and quickly left the battlefield.
Lei Baosen and his comrades-in-arms successfully completed the mission, showing their courage and excellent combat skills.
At 2:10 p.m. on the 27th, when the battle began, a soldier armed with an anti-tank grenade led nine soldiers from the fourth squad to successfully resist hundreds of American troops within 25 minutes, destroying 11 enemy tanks and 1 jeep, setting the best record of the infantry squad against tanks during the entire period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea.
However, Lei Baosen did not have time to celebrate the victory, and after repelling the enemy tanks, he was sent to the Seven Peaks Mountain, where he confronted the enemy's frantic onslaught. The U.S. military gathered 29,000 elite troops here and launched an attack on Qifeng Mountain in three directions.
Under the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of enemy planes, the flames fired by the mortars burned wildly, and the battle was extremely fierce, and the positions changed hands many times, 11 times in just one day.
At the critical moment, a volunteer soldier shouted: "Squad leader, the enemy is rushing over, I have no bullets!" Immediately afterward, another fighter said: "Squad leader, I ......."At that moment, a bullet suddenly fired, and the soldier died.
Lei Baosen jumped out of the trench and bravely rushed towards the enemy position, and the other soldiers of the fourth squad hurriedly followed, and fought to the death with the enemy. In the end, only Lei Baosen and another warrior, Zhou Shiwu, were left among the nine fighters of the fourth class.
Lei Baosen ordered Zhou Shiwu to retreat first, and he stayed where he was to cover, but he was surrounded by the enemy.
You see, even if I die, I won't be your prisoner! As soon as he finished speaking, he jumped off a cliff and disappeared from the sight of the American troops. After the battle, the unit held a memorial service for the soldiers of the fourth squad and awarded the fourth squad the title of "anti-tank hero squad", and Lei Baosen himself was awarded the title of "anti-tank hero squad leader", recorded a special meritorious service, and won the honor of "first-class combat hero".
And in North Korea, he was also awarded the honorary title of "First Class Soldier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" in recognition of his sacrifice. What does this mean? In the entire War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, a total of more than 2.9 million people participated in the war, of which only 231 soldiers were awarded "special meritorious heroes", and Lei Baosen was one of them.
The honorary titles of the Volunteer Army are divided into exemplary and heroic, of which there are 51 first-class combat heroes, and Lei Baosen is one of them.
Despite his serious injuries, the first-class combat hero Lei Baosen did not leave the battlefield, but was sent to the hospital by two kind-hearted North Korean fellows**. However, his body did not fully recover, and the bullet in his leg could not be removed, depriving him of the opportunity to return to the battlefield.
While he enjoyed the treatment of a hero, he knew that for a warrior who could not go to war, it was meaningless. So, he chose to return to his hometown in 1952, used his savings for many years to support his parents, and started a new life of his own.
With the help of his friends, he got a job at the People's ** Guest House in Henan Province and became an ordinary cleaner.
Although the dishwasher Lei Baosen was physically disabled and lived a peaceful life, some people ridiculed him for not being able to do heavy work. However, Lei Baosen once resisted the enemy's artillery fire and the American army's saber on the battlefield, and defended the country's security and prosperity.
He kept his true identity hidden until he saw a missing person notice looking for him on "People**". Li Yaowen, political commissar of the 26th Army, issued a missing person notice, hoping to find this hero who defended the country.
The news caused a stir in the guest house. Lei Baosen's heroic deeds made him a hero of the people of the whole country, and people were moved by his heroic spirit. His story teaches us that physical disability does not stop a person from becoming a hero, and with courage and determination, he is capable of working miracles.
Mr. Peng often talks about your deeds, I really didn't expect you to be alive, you are the pride of our volunteer army in the history of war! ”
After attending the celebration, Lei Baosen did not return to the army, but chose to return to his hometown with the certificate of a revolutionary disabled soldier and continue to contribute to the country's economic construction.
On March 9, 2009, Lei Baosen ended his glorious life at the age of 86. In his eulogy, the organization commented on his life: "Comrade Lei Baosen has always been loyal to the party and the people, and his life has been full of revolution, fighting, and arduous struggle, and he has selflessly dedicated his life to the party and the people.
He is the pride of the people of Shangcai and a model for the party members and cadres in the county to learn. ”
Lei Baosen and his wife settled in Xishan, Beijing in their later years, and the courtyard house they lived in was not big or small, simple and warm. Lei Baosen is a burly man, dressed plainly, with a pair of black glasses on the bridge of his nose and a gray beard, looking steady and deep.
He is an avid reader and a writer with a deep interest in Chinese history and philosophy.