On the banks of the Yalu River, the logistics and transportation contingent was as industrious and dense as ants, and the cadres of the logistics department of the Northeast Military Region shouted with loudspeakers for fear that there would be an accident with the supplies. Although the materials are simple, they are full of the love of the motherland.
This touching scene is the result of *** not hesitating to clash with ***. Let's praise *** for your courage and determination to pay for the front line!
In February 1951, shortly after the Spring Festival, ** secretly summoned Deng Hua, deputy commander of the Volunteer Army. He told Deng Hua with a solemn face: "I will leave for Beijing tonight, and after I leave, the team will be under your full command."
The news of my return to Beijing must be kept strictly confidential. Deng Hua was taken aback when he heard this, and said: "Now that the sky is full of American planes, it is too dangerous for you to go out." ”
** Without hesitation, he replied: "I can't care so much now, I can wait, but the fighters can't!" I have to go tonight! Deng Hua couldn't stop ***'s resoluteness, and could only watch the taillights of the jeep he was riding in slowly disappear into the darkness.
However, what is the reason why *** left hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the Korean front line and insisted on returning to Beijing? Jeeps speed along the winding mountain roads, the rumbling sound of artillery echoes around, and the light of the artillery fire is like day, and the night in North Korea is always difficult to sleep.
**Sitting in the jeep, speechless all the way, his face was pale, perhaps, there were too many unspeakable hidden pains in his heart. As the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, he knows very well how many sins the soldiers have suffered on the cold front line since the war entered the DPRK!
In the early days of the dynasty, many soldiers could not even eat a hot meal for more than ten days in a row! The dry rations they carried with them had to be taken to the front line, and they did not dare to eat them easily. So, four or two meters plus self-dug wild vegetables is a day's food.
Thousands of fighters suffered from stomach problems, enteritis and dysentery.
In this war, the fighters faced a harsh living environment. In order to prevent the bombing of American planes, they could not even make a fire, let alone enjoy hot rice and soup.
Under difficult conditions, they had to eat hard fried noodles and cold snow to feed their stomachs, and even had to dig wild vegetables to survive. And they have become accustomed to such days.
In days when supplies were scarce, they even had to rely on their own strength to carry food up the mountain. In this way, thousands of soldiers froze to death because of hunger and cold.
In the Battle of Changjin Lake, the cotton clothes of the volunteers were seriously insufficient, and the soldiers could only take turns wearing cotton shoes. In North Korea that year, the low temperature of minus 40 was unbearable, and the soldiers' hands and guns were frozen, and if they wanted to take them off, they had to endure the pain of penetrating their hearts.
Dressed in straw sandals, even barefoot, hungry, they insisted on charging the enemy in the snow. Their courage and perseverance are admirable.
** Never forget the nearly 70,000 volunteer soldiers who froze to death and frostbitten in order to successfully stop the enemy. An indescribable grief welled up in his heart, knowing that this battle could not be fought like this again.
He drove all night in the car, and finally arrived at the embrace of the motherland at 6 o'clock in the morning of the next day. However, the scene in the territory of the motherland made him very angry. In Anton's material transfer station, there are mountains of grain, and there are even live chickens and ducks.
Thinking that the soldiers on the front line were starving in the ice and snow, while there was so much food stored in the rear, ** became angry and ordered the arrest of the cadres of the material transfer station.
However, he reluctantly released them, because they innocently said that it was not that they were unwilling to transport food, but that they could not transport it at all. Know in your heart that this is not a lie.
The entire sky was filled with US planes, which flew with impunity from the south to the north of North Korea and from the east coast to the west coast of North Korea. Whether it is in a dense forest valley or in the depths of the mountains, the piercing whistling sound of US military planes is indispensable.
Once our army's transport vehicles enter the DPRK, they will be bombed indiscriminately by US planes. Even if only one vehicle is spotted by enemy planes, hordes of enemy planes will immediately fly in and bomb and strafe.
There were only 1,300 vehicles in the DPRK troops, and 1,000 were blown up in just one month, with an average of 30 vehicles being bombed into the sky by US planes every day. When the 38th Army entered the DPRK, it was equipped with 100 vehicles, and only 6 vehicles were left to run after only 20 days of entering the DPRK.
Under the indiscriminate bombardment of the US military, the logistics and transportation units could not travel on the highway or on the railway, and could only rely on primitive manpower to carry them. In such difficult conditions, not to mention ammunition, even the fried noodles that the soldiers eat and the cotton clothes they wear are not up to the top.
The supply of the Volunteer Army suffered a significant part of the losses, all on the way. According to the estimation of General Hong Xuezhi, who is in charge of the logistics of the Chinese People's Volunteers, only 60 or 70 percent of the materials in the rear will reach the front line, and 30 or 40 percent will be blown up on the way.
This shows how difficult it is to transport.
**'s special plane arrived at Beijing Xijiao Airport at about 1 p.m. on February 21, 1951, and he didn't even eat a hot meal, so he hurriedly asked the driver to drive to Zhongnanhai, hoping to meet ***
However, when *** rushed to Zhongnanhai, he was told that the chairman was in Jingmingyuan in Yuquan Mountain in the western suburbs. Despite this, ** looked serious and shouted: "The military situation on the front line is like fire, go away!"
Don't stop me! He pushed the door open despite the guards' obstructions. At this time, the voice of ** had already woken up the chairman of *** who was taking a nap while dressing, and quipped: "I thought which copper hammer was calling Banli, it turned out that General Peng was breaking into the palace, how dare I not see it."
Come in! Although the conversation lasted for a long time, it was clear that the logistical support needed was by no means something that could be solved in such a simple sentence. In order to solve the problem of logistics supply for the Volunteer Army, two days later, on February 23, the ** Military Commission held an enlarged meeting in the conference hall of the General Staff Headquarters in Jurentang, Zhongnanhai.
**After returning from the Korean front, he bluntly mentioned the serious difficulties of the volunteers in terms of materials, life, and soldiers on the Korean battlefield, and hoped to receive full support from the country.
There was a lot of support for everyone, but when it came to discussing how to implement the specific logistical issues, the voices became chaotic. Some cadres stressed that domestic institutions have just been established, there are still many problems and lack of experience, and logistics may be difficult to meet the huge needs of the volunteers for a while.
After hearing these words, the original anger in his heart became heavier, he slapped the table, stood up, and shouted: "This is also difficult, that is also difficult, I think you are patriotic, don't the volunteer soldiers know patriotism?"
Go to the front and see what the fighters eat and wear! In addition to the soldiers who died on the battlefield, there were also those who starved to death and froze to death, and they were all young dolls!
Isn't it possible to overcome the difficulties at home? "Inside the Juren Hall, there was a dead silence. **'s words are deafening! Subsequently, he successively presided over the meetings of the Central Military Commission and made many important arrangements for the specific rules of logistics work.
General Peng's roar really brought food, clothing and ammunition to the volunteers. Under the meticulous deployment, cadres and masses in Beijing and other places rushed to make fried noodles for the volunteers day and night.
** Even personally went to the workshop to inspect the fried noodles and made the fried noodles for the volunteer soldiers with the workers.
The three northeastern provinces are the strategic rear of the volunteers, and the whole people are engaged in the work of fried noodles and boiling meat. Although Gao Gang, secretary of the Northeast Bureau, tried his best, the needs of *** were still not met.
As a result, the common people of all China mobilized, men, women and children mobilized together, and every household was busy with fried noodles. This upsurge ensured the supply of hundreds of thousands of troops, and a large number of fried noodles were quickly sent to North Korea, greatly alleviating the suffering of the volunteers who ran out of food.
** It is clear that without air force support and air supremacy, the logistics support of the volunteer army will face great difficulties. So, he asked the ** Military Commission to send the air force and anti-aircraft artillery units to the Korean front to fight.
History will soon prove that the cover support of the Air Force played a huge role in the protection of logistical transport routes. Under the guidance of the new operational guidelines, the offensive of the "joint" was successfully stopped under extremely difficult conditions.
In the fourth battle, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army, who had improved logistics, annihilated the enemy80,000 men, the battle line was driven back to the vicinity of the 38th parallel. * Causing trouble in Zhongnanhai, although he lost etiquette, his purpose was hundreds of thousands of volunteer soldiers on the front line.
His demeanor of loving soldiers like a son is admirable.