"Surrender the Chinese soldiers! You are surrounded ......”
On the afternoon of May 14, 1984, after the Vietnamese army carried out a fierce artillery attack on the 1019 heights held by our troops, they sent two companies of troops to attack the 1019 heights.
"Son of a bitch, come up if you have the ability! ”Yang Zhihua, deputy squad leader of the 8th squad, shouted at the Vietnamese troops who were encircling the high ground, followed by a fierce fire on the Vietnamese troops.
It has been 10 days and 10 nights, and in these 10 days and 10 nights, the seven companies that have stood on the 1019 heights have withstood the bombardment of thousands of shells from the enemy and the repeated attacks that exceeded the strength of the enemy's 4 companies, but they are still like a steel nail, firmly rooted on the 1019 heights.
"I'd rather let my blood bleed than let the motherland lose an inch of land! ”Inspired by this iron oath, they repelled the enemy's attacks again and again, and the Vietnamese troops who tried to rush to the 1019 heights fell one by one under their guns, and the front of the position was already full of Vietnamese corpses.
No matter how the Vietnamese army attacked, the 1019 heights were always firmly in the hands of our army, and they were stuck in the bodies of the Vietnamese army, which could not be pulled out, rushed down, or defeated!
Yang Zhihua and his comrades-in-arms made the 1019 Heights a "sad ridge" for the Vietnamese army.
After the war, Yang Zhihua was locatedThe Seventh Company was awarded the collective first-class merit, and was later awarded by the ** Military Commission"Border Steel Seventh Company".Honorary Title,Yang Zhihua was awarded the first-class meritorious service.
What was the heroic performance of the first-class meritorious hero Yang Zhihua on the battlefield?
In this article, let's travel through time and space, re-enter that war-torn era, and learn about the heroic deeds of the first-class hero Yang Zhihua and his Seventh Steel Company who swore to defend the soil and kill the enemy in blood.
Yang Zhihua was born in August 1963 in a Miao family in Shankai Township, Huangping County, Guizhou Province.
In January 1982, Yang Zhihua, who was only 19 years old, came to the Yunnan Military Region from his hometown in Guizhou to join the army and became a soldier in the 7th Company and 8th Squad of the 2nd Battalion of the 15th Frontier Regiment of the Yunnan Provincial Military Region.
In the barracks, Yang Zhihua was not afraid of hardship, tiredness, trained hard, and soon became the deputy squad leader of Class 8.
In 1984, in the face of the increasingly rampant Vietnam, which continued to invade and occupy China's border areas, and harassed China, China launched the "Two Mountains" operation to once again strike at the arrogant Vietnam.
After receiving the order, 21-year-old Yang Zhihua immediately went to the front line with his unit and quickly went into battle.
On April 20, 1984, the 7th Company was ordered to secretly occupy the 1019 heights in order to ensure the smooth attack of the main attack force, and to wait for the rest of the day, without being exposed.
After receiving the order, the 7th Company moved quickly, and that day and night, braved the drizzle to quietly touch the east mountain of the Bali River, where the Vietnamese army was entrenched.
The mountains are steep, thorny, and bamboos and rattans are intricate, making it difficult for the warriors to walk.
Yang Zhihua, who grew up in Miaoling Cottage since he was a child, took the initiative to serve as a pioneer, holding a machete and constantly chopping the intricate bamboo and rattan in front of him, stepping on the mud, and walking forward with difficulty.
After a night of arduous marching, in the early morning of April 20, they unknowingly occupied the 1019 Heights at the front of the East Mountain of the Bali River, and quickly lurked.
It was only at this time that Yang Zhihua, who was sweating profusely, felt a hot pain all over his body, and after a closer look, he found that his face was also cut, his hands were also stabbed, his head was swollen, his feet were sprained, and even his military uniform was torn one by one.
The terrain of the 1019 heights was too unfavorable for the 7th Company, which was completely under the overlook of the Vietnamese position, and the straight-line distance was only more than 130 meters.
In this case, all the operations of the 7th Company could only be carried out at night, because the slightest movement during the day would be discovered by the Vietnamese army. In order to rush to repair the fortifications, they could not make the slightest noise, but could only use shovels to gently shovel on the ground and pick at them little by little with their fingers.
Many of the fighters' palms had blood blisters, and some even had their fingernails off. But it was in this situation that the soldiers of the Seventh Company were not afraid of difficulties, and after several nights of hard fighting, they insisted on building the 1019 Heights into an impregnable position, like a steel nail, and inserted it into the position of the Vietnamese army.
Due to the concealment and lurking, the supply could not come up at all, and the compressed biscuits that they carried with them were quickly almost consumed, and there was not much water, and in this case, for the next few days, the warriors often ate only one meal a day, and when they were thirsty, they received some rain to quench their thirst.
In order not to make the slightest noise, the soldiers even covered their mouths with hats or towels when coughing, forcing themselves to hold back.
In this way, under such difficult conditions, the fighters lurked for 7 days and 7 nights.
In the early morning of April 28, 1984, the battle to recover the Laoshan area began, and at this time, Yang Zhihua, who had been lurking on the 1019 Heights for 7 days and 7 nights, was very excited, and all his fatigue was swept away when he heard the sound of our army's artillery.
He quickly took advantage of the favorable terrain to reconnoiter and listen to the Vietnamese army's positions, and quickly reported to his superiors the enemy's movements that he had observed, thus pointing out the target of attack for the fraternal troops.
At around 4:20 p.m. on April 28, a small group of Vietnamese troops with about 10 enemies climbed the hillside and searched along the trail towards Heights 1019.
Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, our soldiers lurking on the 1019 heights clenched their steel guns, pressed their heads to the lowest as much as possible, and kept an eye on the movements of this small Vietnamese army.
The enemy is getting closer and closer, 10 meters, 5 meters, 2 meters, a hand-to-hand battle, at this time is inevitable.
As soon as the gun sounds, the officers and men of the 7th Company on the 1019 high ground will be out of the lurking and directly into battle.
Because they were too close to the positions of the Vietnamese army.
Seeing that the Vietnamese army was about to come up, at this critical moment, Li Kaihua, the leader of the third squad who was lurking here, immediately made a decision, jumped up from his hiding place, and killed the enemy with a head-on point shot.
The curtain of the battle to hold the 1019 heights has begun.
As soon as the gunfire on the 1019 heights rang out, the Vietnamese troops on the 31st Heights at the heights found that the 1019 Heights had been occupied by our troops, and they panicked instantly, turning all the light and heavy ** guns to shoot wildly at the 1019 Heights, at this time, the 7th Company lurking on the 1019 Heights was no longer lurking, and they were full of firepower, aiming at the enemy's 31st Heights and firing fiercely.
At this time, as the 8th squad of the 7th company reserve, it has been removed from the position to rest, when listening to the loud guns in the forward position, especially when Yang Zhihua heard the news of the heroic sacrifice of the 3rd squad leader Li Kaihua from the **, he was full of anger and burning.
Yang Zhihua and squad leader Zhang Yongshan quickly gathered the soldiers to stand in a row and solemnly sweared:"The blood debt must be repaid with blood, and revenge for the martyr Li Kaihua! ”
On the afternoon of May 4, the 8th squad after the rest, under the leadership of Yang Huiping, deputy instructor of the 7th Company, took over the defense and defended the 1019 heights.
After Yang Zhihua and squad leader Zhang Yongshan briefly mobilized the soldiers in the field, they immediately stepped up the construction of fortifications.
Yang Zhihua and squad leader Zhang Yongshan took turns to lead the team to monitor the enemy.
On the morning of May 6, Yang Zhihua, who had been on the battlefield for 12 hours and had not closed his eyes, was finally able to take a simple rest in the cat's ear hole after the change of guard of squad leader Zhang Yongshan.
Not long after Yang Zhihua lay down in the cat's ear hole, the enemy launched a fierce attack on our forward position.
Yang Zhihua, who was still sleepy just now, suddenly woke up, saw the soldier Chen Shiyou who was running towards him and asked"What's going on? ”
"Quick! "Quick! The enemy sneaks up on ......The squad leader ordered ......Jump into the ...... battle right away”Chen Shiyou gasped and reported to Yang Zhihua, the deputy squad leader.
Without waiting for Chen Shiyou to finish speaking, Yang Zhihua said loudly to the resting warrior"Follow me! ”，Pick up the gun and run with the fighters to the forward battlefield.
It turned out that after taking a breather and recuperation, the Vietnamese army sent a platoon of troops, using waist-high artemisia grass and wild banana trees as cover, and quietly approached the 1019 heights, in an attempt to carry out a sneak attack on our 1019 heights.
At this time, after Zhang Yongshan, the squad leader who had just taken over the post from Yang Zhihua, discovered the enemy, he ordered Chen Shiyou to inform the deputy squad leader Yang Zhihua and quickly lead the soldiers into the position, and fiercely block the Vietnamese army in the face of the sneak attack.
At this time, Zhang Yongshan was almost equivalent to fighting alone, because there were few soldiers around him at all, in order to let the soldiers rest for a while, he asked the soldiers to basically go back to the hairy ear hole to rest, but he didn't expect the Vietnamese army to touch it at this time.
Relying on the favorable terrain, the Vietnamese army continued to shoot at Zhang Yongshan, Zhang Yongshan was not afraid of sacrifice, stubbornly and the enemy to shoot, after he killed three Vietnamese soldiers, he was hit by an enemy bullet in the right arm, and the blood flowed instantly.
Zhang Yongshan endured severe pain, grabbed the grenade with his left hand, bit off the ring of fire with his teeth, and threw four grenades at the enemy in a row, killing and wounding four Vietnamese soldiers, covering the whole squad to reach the position smoothly.
Yang Zhihua, who rushed to the position, immediately threw himself into battle, he ordered the soldiers to help the squad leader Zhang Yongshan bandage, and at the same time used the submachine gun in his hand to shoot at the enemy, when he found that several Vietnamese soldiers had rushed to a place more than ten meters away from the position, Yang Zhihua decisively took out a grenade, pulled the ring and quickly threw it at the enemy, with a loud noise, two Vietnamese soldiers fell to the ground in response.
When he swept his gaze to the other fighters, he found that most of these new fighters who had just entered the battlefield were shooting indiscriminately, and there was no discipline at all.
Yang Zhihua shouted to the fighters"Don't be afraid! Raise your head and aim at the enemy to fight! ”
When the soldiers heard the firm and powerful words of the deputy squad leader, they all calmed down, and they aimed at the Vietnamese soldiers in front of the position, and shot at them one after another.
Seeing that our soldiers on the 1019 heights were so tenacious, the frenzied Vietnamese troops began to shell the 1019 heights.
In an instant, the artillery fire on the 1019 high ground roared, and the sound of ** came one after another, just in the midst of the enemy's wild bombardment, the Wei platoon commander who came to command was unfortunately hit through the back by shrapnel, and the blood flowed in an instant, and he fell unconscious.
The soldiers hurriedly carried Platoon Commander Wei off the position, and at this time, the squad leader Zhang Yongshan, who was also seriously wounded, resolutely refused to get out of the position and continued to fight. In the end, under the strong insistence of Yang Zhihua, the deputy squad leader, Zhang Yongshan, the squad leader, was forcibly carried off the position.
At this time, only Yang Zhihua was the commander of the position, and the pressure was the driving force, Yang Zhihua led the 8th squad of soldiers to become more and more courageous, and quickly repelled the Vietnamese army who carried out a sneak attack on the 1019 heights.
Seeing that the sneak attack on the 1019 Heights could not be achieved, the Vietnamese army organized a company of troops to attack the 1019 Heights in two ways.
Yang Zhihua saw that the Vietnamese army was fierce, and he said calmly to all the soldiers:"Don't panic, get closer and fight! ”
Yang Zhihua and all the soldiers clenched their submachine guns, always paying attention to the movements of the Vietnamese army, the Vietnamese army was getting closer and closer, and Yang Zhihua, like all the soldiers, was as tight as a bowstring at this time.
When the Vietnamese army advanced to more than 20 meters of the front line, Yang Zhihua shouted:"Hit! ”，In an instant, all the machine guns and submachine guns of the 8th squad roared and fired towards the Vietnamese army.
At this time, the Vietnamese troops were suppressed by the fire of the 8th squad and could not advance half a step, so they retreated behind the trees and grass on the hillside and hid in the grass.
At this moment, the Vietnamese troops on the left and right sides of the 1019 heights simultaneously launched a strong attack on our positions, and the enemy's bullets rained down on the 8th squad.
"Quick! Crush the enemy's machine guns. ”Yang Zhihua, who was on the position, shouted to the machine gunner, and the machine gunner immediately fired at the enemy's machine gun point, and the enemy's machine gun fire point was quickly suppressed.
But at the same time, the enemy's mortar shells and rockets roared towards our positions one by one, and from time to time there were shells around Yang Zhihua**, seeing the crisis of the situation, Yang Zhihua hurriedly asked the machine gunner to change his position.
Just after the enemy's bombardment, the enemy's gunfire suddenly stopped. After a while, I only heard the Vietnamese soldiers not far away shouting in half-baked Chinese to the position of the 8th squad:"Surrender the Chinese soldiers, you are surrounded. ”
At this time, Yang Zhihua looked in the direction of the enemy and found that a group of enemies had rushed to the edge of the first trench.
Seeing this situation, Yang Zhihua was so anxious that he was in a cold sweat, he didn't care about his own safety, picked up the submachine gun and shot at the enemy, and the Vietnamese army who was about to rush into the first trench saw this situation, and quickly retreated.
At the same time, the enemy's machine guns also frantically hit Yang Zhihua, and the bullets rained down on the trench wall of the 1019 Heights, and the dust flew in an instant.
Yang Zhihua, who was hidden in the trench, instantly grabbed two grenades and threw them in the direction of the Vietnamese army.
At this time, Yang Zhihua's heart was happy, he did not hesitate, and then several grenades were thrown at the Vietnamese army in a row, with a loud noise, the Vietnamese soldiers were killed and wounded, and even the Vietnamese machine gun fire point was overturned by the grenade.
Yang Zhihua saw that this method was very effective, so he shouted loudly to all the fighters:"Hit the enemy with grenades! ”
When the soldiers heard Yang Zhihua's words, they picked up grenades one after another, and threw them at the Vietnamese army one by one.
This was the third day that Yang Zhihua led his troops to hold their positions, and they repelled three strong attacks of the enemy in a row in these days.
On May 7, the fourth day of the battle, the Vietnamese army, unwilling to lose, launched an even more fierce attack.
But this time the enemy changed his tactics, and instead of storming, they were fiercely bombarding our positions with heavy artillery.
As the shells fell into the position only the size of a basketball court, the position was filled with gunsmoke in an instant, a sea of fire, in 20 minutes, hundreds of shells kept falling on the 1019 heights, and in a moment the chaotic times were flying, the plantain trees were uprooted, the stumps were bulldozed, the artemisia grass was turned up, and the entire mountain beam was shaved bald.
At this time, because Yang Zhihua quickly organized the soldiers to enter the bunker to defend against artillery after hearing the whistling sound of the shells before the battle, the soldiers of the 8th squad were unscathed after the enemy's fierce artillery attack.
The enemy's artillery fire stopped, and Yang Zhihua quickly commanded the 8th squad of soldiers to return to their combat posts. At this moment, the enemy's forces of about a company divided into four routes and came out to the position of the 8th squad.
Faced with an enemy that was 10 times more than his own, Yang Zhihua quickly divided the class of 7 people into three combat groups
Group 1: Yang Zhihua led a soldier, each holding a submachine gun to form a crossfire blockade, the enemy approach.
Group 2: Two fighters in reserve on the left and right flanks.
Group 3: Two fighters are responsible for transporting, loading, and loading ammunition.
Heavy: Throws grenades when enemies are near.
At this time, the Vietnamese army believed that after a fierce bombardment of the 1019 heights, there were basically no living people on the 1019 heights at this time, and they swaggered and marched towards the 1019 heights with guns on their shoulders.
What they didn't expect was that when they were only about 20 meters away from the front of the 8th class, Yang Zhihua suddenly shouted"Hit! ”, in an instant, the bullets and grenades of the soldiers of the 8th squad flew towards the Vietnamese army at the same time.
The Vietnamese army never expected this sudden fierce shooting, and in less than a moment a large area collapsed, and the remaining Vietnamese soldiers were already in confusion, and they all howled and retreated.
When the Vietnamese army learned that their fierce artillery fire had not wiped out all the soldiers of our army on the 1019 position, they were anxious, angry and annoyed, and began to use all kinds of ** to shoot frantically at the 8 squad positions on the condescending fortifications.
One of the heavy machine guns of the Vietnamese army, under the cover of artillery fire, actually moved to a place only 30 meters away from the front line of the 8th squad position, and fired directly at the 8th squad position, and the soldiers of the 8th squad could not even lift their heads.
At this time, Yang Zhihua was completely enraged when he saw this situation, and he shouted loudly to the soldiers:"Kill the heavy machine gun! ”After speaking, he threw a grenade with all his might, and seeing this situation, the soldiers also threw it out one by one, but the hurried throwing did not kill the heavy machine gun, and the heavy machine gun was still screaming.
Seeing that the Vietnamese army was pressing forward step by step under the cover of this heavy machine gun, Yang Zhihua was so anxious that he was sweating, and at this moment, a bazooka fell from the company to support the 8th squad in the battle.
A rocket flew past, and the heavy machine gun fire point that was still screaming just now was instantly lifted into the sky.
Seeing this situation, Yang Zhihua's confidence was even stronger, and he loudly encouraged the fighters"Comrades, you must hold your position and resolutely beat the enemy back! ”
Under the encouragement of Yang Zhihua, the soldiers of the 8th squad flew bullets one by one like little tigers, and one grenade after another flew towards the Vietnamese army.
In an instant, the Vietnamese army was again killed and wounded.
Taking advantage of the panic of the Vietnamese army, Yang Zhihua jumped out of the trench, took advantage of the victory to pursue, and fought fiercely.
When Yang Zhihua turned around and jumped back to the trench, he suddenly found that there was a Vietnamese soldier in the jungle who was calling with a radio on his back, Yang Zhihua didn't think about it, and then took out two grenades and threw them at the radio station.
On this day,Under the command of Yang Zhihua, the soldiers of the 8th squad repelled 11 rounds of attacks of the enemy, while none of the soldiers of the 8th squad **.
A small 1019 highland is really driving the Vietnamese army crazy.
In the following days, the Vietnamese army organized several strong attacks, but they were all stubbornly beaten back by our army.
The soldiers stubbornly held on to the 1019 heights for 9 days, but the Vietnamese army did not advance half a step.
On the afternoon of May 14, on the 10th day of the battle, the Vietnamese army once again carried out artillery bombardment on the 1019 heights, and after the shelling, the Vietnamese army sent two companies of troops to the 1019 heights to attack again, but the enemy's strong attack was repulsed again.
On this day, our army launched a general attack on the enemy's No. 31 heights, and under the fierce bombardment of our artillery, the No. 31 heights were quickly occupied by our troops.
At the same time, the 7th Company and 8th Squad of the 7th Company, which was sticking to the 1019 heights, successfully completed the task after 10 days and 10 nights of fierce fighting with the enemy, withdrew from the position, and no one in the squad died.
After the war, Yang Zhihua was in the 7th CompanyWon the collective first-class merit, and was awarded by the ** Military Commission"Border Steel Seventh Company".Honorary Title,
In view of Yang Zhihua's heroic performance on the battlefield,His superiors awarded him a first-class meritorious service, at this time he is onlyJust 22 years old
Soon after the war, as the Sino-Vietnamese border gradually calmed down, Yang Zhihua changed jobs.
On December 6, 2014, Yang Zhihua, a first-class meritorious hero, died of illness at the age of 51.
I would like to pay tribute to all the heroes with this article!