Shangganling female soldiers visit the United Statesyears were recognized
In the spring of 1979, the White Rocklen Museum held a lively party in a restaurant in the southeast corner of New York's Times Square. The restaurateur, James Burtner, noticed a familiar face in the crowd, a Chinese woman in her 50s.
He cautiously walked up to her and asked in English, "Are you from China?" If I'm not mistaken, your surname is Liu, you've been a soldier, and you're a translator. ”
The Chinese woman was a little surprised, she had just come to the United States and had no friends, who was this foreigner? She looked at each other suspiciously, and suddenly asked in surprise, "Are you James?" ”
James nodded, and the two hands clasped tightly together, as if time had gone back to more than twenty years ago, and those memories of the past had returned to their minds.
01 Liu Luzeng, an ordinary Shanghai girl, decided to devote herself to the volunteer army to resist US aggression and aid Korea because of her love for the People's Liberation Army. However, due to her background, she failed to join the People's Liberation Army Art Troupe as she wished, and could only choose to return to school to work.
However, when the Korean War broke out and US planes invaded China's airspace and bombed the Dandong area to test the attitude of New China, Liu Lu decided to respond to the country's call again and sign up for the Volunteer Army.
She works at Soochow University, her English is good, and her mother has died, there are many younger brothers and sisters, and she has nothing to worry about, which gives her this rare opportunity to join the army.
This time, she finally realized her dream of enlisting in the army and made her own contribution to the motherland.
On a cold night in December 1950, Liu Lu and 21 other young interpreters crossed the Yalu River into war-torn North Korea. Together with the warriors, they marched and fought as one.
Liu Lu once marched with luggage, a water bottle and a four- or five-pound rice bag on his back, and a camouflage hat made of green grass and branches. In order to avoid air raids, they formed a column, and the distance between people was five or six meters.
U.S. planes often whizzed by in droves, flying almost close to the ground in such a frenzy that sometimes even the faces of the pilots could be seen, and they strafed along the road, not sparing even a single horse.
When Liu Lu first arrived on the battlefield, he was so frightened that he trembled all over when he saw such a scene of indiscriminate bombing and flying flesh and blood. Along the way, they grabbed a handful of snow to eat when they were thirsty, and nibbled on two mouthfuls of compressed biscuits when they were hungry, and by the time they reached their destination, everyone was exhausted.
In order to lighten the burden on the female comrades, the cooks would always use the rice in their backpacks first, but in the next few days, the distance of the march increased and the speed increased, and the backpacks on their bodies became heavier and heavier, and they had to reduce their luggage.
Liu Lu once even threw away his beloved imported sweater in the end. After marching for many days, Liu Luzeng's soles were full of blood blisters and it was difficult to walk, but she was a little girl who was an interpreter and the object of key protection, and the leader arranged for her to march on a buffalo.
At night, they slept in the air-raid shelter dug by the vanguard a few days earlier, and there was not even a single straw in the hole, so they had to sit on the ground. Once Liu Luzeng, who was tired, was about to squint in the cave for a while, when she suddenly saw a white gecko crawling towards her, and she was so frightened that she didn't dare to close her eyes all night.
Before entering the court, Liu Lu enjoyed a carefree aristocratic life, but after entering the court, everything had to be created by his own hands, and he had to minimize the trouble for the troops.
Sometimes, she couldn't even wash her face for days and couldn't eat a bite of rice. When there was no fuel on the battlefield, she even had to eat raw food. However, these difficulties did not defeat her, but made her more resilient.
She learned to work and was able to haul hundreds of pounds of twigs and grass down the mountain. In the winter in the northern mountains, the temperature can drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius at night, and the water can freeze instantly.
Liu Lu had spent three unforgettable Spring Festivals in a cold and damp bomb shelter, which left her with ailments such as arthritis and lower back and leg pain. At that time, there was a shortage of doctors and medicines on the battlefield, and her ** method was to bask in the sun.
One night, the wind and snow were particularly heavy, and the air-raid shelter where Liu Lu had been buried was buried, and he lost contact with the outside world. Faced with the threat of death, she remembered the stove at home, and a strong conviction appeared in her heart: I am fighting for my country, and I must cheer up.
Fortunately, it was not until noon that the North Korean comrades-in-arms shoveled the snow, opened the hole and rescued them. In such a difficult environment, Liu Lu gradually grew from a weak little girl to a tenacious female volunteer soldier.
After graduating from university, Liu Luzeng was assigned to the Enemy Engineering Department of the Political Department of the 9th Corps of the Volunteer Army, responsible for translating military documents, listening to enemy radio stations, broadcasting, etc. Since Liu Lu had studied law professionally, she was also assigned the task of interrogating prisoners of war by the chief.
During the first open-air interrogation, enemy planes came to strafe and the prisoners fled in all directions in fright, and Liu Lu had to interrogate the "ins and outs" of the prisoners within three days. Interrogating prisoners of war required not only knowledge of English, but also knowledge of military language, the size of the army, an overview of the enemy, and interrogation techniques.
Liu Lu studied day and night and quickly adapted to work. After that, she appeared before the captives as a dignified officer and interrogated them one by one.
Liu Luzeng's success shows her ingenuity and firm will.
Liu Lu used his unique interrogation tactics to successfully change the attitudes of captured American pilots, crying American soldiers, and US military prisoners who were serving their sentences, so that they began to be respectful, bowed their heads, and completely confessed.
Not only did she exploit the racial ambivalence of these captives, but she also used their mentality as a basis for sensible enlightenment and warning. In the end, the captives were impressed by Liu Luzeng's proficient English and hard and soft work style, and the interrogation work became smoother.
During the Battle of Shangganling in 1952, Liu Lu asked to go to the front line and launch a political offensive against the enemy army in English. Although she was rejected several times, she still insisted on going to the front, which was finally granted.
Her post is in the company's tunnel command post, and she needs to pass through the enemy's two blockade lines, which are the lifeways of our army's supplies. Carrying a suit weighing more than 10 pounds, she took advantage of the gap when the bombing stopped and ran across the blockade and jumped into the traffic trench in one go.
She imitated the appearance of the soldiers, ran forward with all her might, and after about a few dozen minutes, she safely reached the forefront of the pit not far from the enemy. Life in the tunnels was extremely difficult, the air was very muddy, and the most difficult thing was that the soldiers were beaten through the buckets when they ventured to fetch water from the mountain, resulting in a constant shortage of water.
Liu Lu was the only woman in the Shangganling tunnel, and it was very inconvenient to eat, drink, and sleep, but the three shell boxes became her territory, and she ate and lived on them.
Liu Lu was a brilliant announcer, broadcasting in the tunnels with loudspeakers in bunkers at the top of the mountain. Once, when Liu Lu went out to inspect the radio line, he was knocked unconscious by the fresh air as soon as he walked out of the tunnel.
The soldiers immediately pulled her back into the pit and waited for half an hour before she recovered. Liu Lu used to be good at engaging in psychological warfare, and her methods were flexible and changeable. For example, on Christmas Eve, she would use gramophone** "Jingle Bells" and "Ode to Joy" and other folk songs familiar to Americans, and read some letters from American soldiers to stimulate the enemy's homesickness and war weariness.
At the same time, Liu Luzeng was also very concerned about the entertainment life of our soldiers, and she often met their small requests, putting on some cross talk, allegro, songs, etc. On the eve of the fierce battle, an assault detachment went out, and in the early morning they returned triumphantly with their tired legs.
Liu Lu could see that a few comrades-in-arms were missing, and one comrade-in-arms was covered in injuries and was carried back. Although Liu Lu was most afraid of blood in the past, in front of the soldiers, she had some emotions and took the initiative to scrub the wounds of the wounded.
In this way, Liu Lu stayed in the tunnel for more than 20 days in a row, and her broadcast would also provoke the enemy to be angry and frantically shell our mountain, but in the face of such a situation, the soldiers were always unmoved, and Liu Lu was also very calm.
After a long time, everyone called her "Battlefield Nightingale".
Liu Lu had received an order to retreat, and the communications squad leader led her through the blockade line under artillery fire. However, the enemy's artillery fire was fiercer than ever, and the thick cotton clothes and boots made it impossible for her to run fast in the snow.
The squad leader anxiously helped her with her backpack and urged her: "Run, it's a victory." "After they ran for about 20 minutes, a shell was nearby**, and shrapnel flew past Liu Luzeng, grazed a tree, and sparked.
She realized that the shells were right next to her. After successfully crossing the blockade, she fell to the ground of the bunker, and the soldiers in the bunker were surprised by the little girl who had crossed the blockade under heavy artillery fire and praised: "It's so dangerous, the little ghost is not dead, fortunately, fortunately!" ”
In July 1953, on the eve of the armistice, Liu Lu was again sent to the front line to broadcast enemy troops. At this time, armistice negotiations were underway, and fighting on and off at the front was intermittent.
She had once been in the vicinity of enemy troops, and she didn't care if bullets flew past her. This time, the tunnel that Liu Lu had entered was only a few hundred meters away from the US military standoff, and she directly broadcast the latest negotiation process to the US military to discourage the enemy.
Interestingly, whenever Liu Lu once shouted, the U.S. military generally did not fire. Later, according to strategic needs, the 16th Army took over the position of the 24th Army, because the enemy was already familiar with Liu Luzeng's voice, in order to confuse the enemy, the military department decided to let her stay and continue to serve as the "broadcast host".
On the 27th, the military pressure of our army forced the hill occupied by Syngman Rhee's army to be successfully recaptured, and the American positions were also surrounded by our army on three sides.
At this critical moment, Liu Lu received the news of the armistice, and she immediately broadcast the news to the US troops on the opposite side. There was no greater excitement in the tunnels than when they heard "peace" among the soldiers who were on the verge of life and death.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the armistice agreement officially came into effect, the positions of the two armies were silent, the soldiers jumped out of the tunnel, and saw the American soldiers climbing out of the opposite hill, Liu Lu once said a final goodbye to them in English: "We want peace, we hate war."
The U.S. troops were shocked when they saw Liu Luzeng, they always thought that it was a tape recorder that shouted, but they never expected that it was a real female soldier in such a dangerous place. The morning of the withdrawal was very bright, the air was so fresh, and the mood was so good; There was no gunfire, no blockade, no need to dodge enemy planes, let alone enter the tunnels, and finally swaggered down the road.
Although the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield has dissipated, Liu Lu's encounter with American soldiers across time and space is still moving. After the war, the volunteers returned to China in triumph, and Liu Lu was assigned to Nanjing as a small clerk after changing jobs.
In 1978, the national policy changed, and she was assigned to the Nanjing Overseas Tourism Company as the manager of the European and American department.
Nose scraping is also disrespectful and inconsistent with our policy of preferential treatment of prisoners. ”.
Liu Lu treated the prisoners humanely, which made James see the true face of the US invasion of Korea, received ideological education, and laid a solid foundation for his future career.
Many years later, the two met again, got rid of their old suspicions, and became close friends. James also helped Liu Lu find her American teacher in middle school. In Liu Luzeng's life, although his military career was short, he left an eternal memory.
After retiring, she continued to contribute to the country's opening up to the outside world until her retirement. Today's peace is not easy to come by, and we should continue to strive for self-improvement and pay tribute to our heroes!