Many heroes emerged in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. They wrote a touching historical chapter with their lives. Apart from a few heroes, the most shocking thing in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was the existence of a combat company. They lay in the cold snow, waiting for the enemy to come, but when the battle started, they couldn't move. From a distance, they look like ice sculptures. This is the famous "Ice Sculpture Company" in Changjin Lake.
But under the influence of such bad weather, there are naturally survivors in the ice sculpture company. They were very excited when they reviewed the fighting at that time. Some veterans even cried and said: I was already lying in the hospital when I woke up, but my comrades around me stayed in the ice and snow forever.
There is such a veteran who is also one of the survivors of the battle of Changjin Lake. At that time, in order to complete the sniper mission, he and his comrades stayed on the ground for three days and three nights. At the beginning of the battle, he found that his body had lost consciousness. He was taken to the hospital for treatment, but when he woke up, he found that his hands and feet had been amputated. This year, he was only 16 years old.
Who is this veteran? How tragic was the battle in those days? What's life like after retirement? Let's look back on that tragic time with questions.
This veteran named Zhou Xiaodi is a hero who experienced the battle of Changjin Lake. 1934 was born in an ordinary family in Sichuan. Because there are five children at home, his family life is relatively poor, but that's all. Zhou Xiaodi's parents still insist on sending him to a private school, mainly because they have high expectations of him. After all, as parents, having a successful child is a lifelong wish.
After graduating from school, he helped his parents do some farm work. With a new workforce at home, the pressure on parents has naturally eased a lot. As a parent, he naturally feels gratified.
But at the age of 15, he was arrested by the Kuomintang and became a strong man, so he ended his life of farming at home and was forced to become a soldier.
At that time, he didn't know which faction the army belonged to. All he knows is that if he doesn't join the army, his brother will be arrested. In order to protect his brothers at home, he had to choose to stand up.
It was not until he came to the army that he realized that what he had done was completely wrong. He didn't understand why his own people wanted to beat their own people, so he decided to run away. However, at that time, the national army was understaffed, and the able-bodied men he caught were under strict supervision. Sometimes when you make a mistake, you are beaten, and even you don't have enough to eat. It's like hell on earth.
Zhou Xiaodi naturally suffered this unusual treatment. Fortunately, the end of the war of liberation eased his life, and his troops were incorporated into our army and became a soldier of our army from then on. It was not until this time that he realized that life in our army was so warm, from soldiers to superiors, like family. It was at this time that he made up his mind to follow our army all the time.
This veteran, Zhou Xiaodi, was arrested by the National Army when 15 years old. After the liberation war, he followed the army uprising and was incorporated into our army. When he came to my military camp, he found it was like home here, so he made up his mind to follow our army all the time.
1950, the Korean War broke out, and our army crossed the river to resist US aggression and aid Korea. However, it was not the first time that Zhou Quan's Ninth Army went to the DPRK to fight. They first went to Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places for training, and then went to Shandong. At first, they didn't know why they were training to climb mountains.
Because in their impression, war is to dig trenches, repair fortifications, ambush the enemy and so on. Even guarding the highlands is only a few hundred meters high and there is no need for training. After all, as a soldier, running with load is the foundation, and you have already developed good physical strength as early as usual.
However, when they came to Korea, they realized how simple their thoughts were at that time. Looking back, if mountain climbing training is useless, why do leaders insist that soldiers do such "useless work"?
Only after the troops crossed the Yalu River did Zhou Xiaodi know that this mission was to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and before they really entered the war, they all needed to sign a letter of guarantee to ensure that they would not defeat the enemy's determination never to return to China.
At that time, the company commander also said: This battle has a good chance of winning, and each of you needs to leave a suicide note. If you die in battle, it will be delivered to your loved ones as your only confidant.
Hearing the company commander's words, the soldiers signed the guarantee and wrote a suicide note. Soldiers who couldn't read a few words began to discuss. Some ask what you wrote, others ask how to write a word. However, Zhou Xiaodi, who stayed in a private school for several years, wrote a letter, and the soldiers around him saw that he was writing flowing on paper, and surrounded him one by one, so as to ask him if he could not understand it.
After a while, everyone handed the written suicide note to the company commander. Because our army entered the DPRK in secret, when their troops first came to North Korea, they got off the train and went forward. For half a month, they had to March in the mountains every day. At this time, their training results at that time appeared.
Most of the troops are southerners. Naturally, when they get off the train, they can't stand the temperature here. Moreover, this year is in the cold winter, and they were still wearing thin cotton-padded clothes before entering the DPRK. The biting cold wind made the soldiers tremble.
1950165438+1On October 24th, cotton-like snowflakes danced in the wind, which was an eye-opener. The task they received was to stop the enemy in Changjin Lake. Because the enemy may pass by here at any time, the soldiers are wearing white shirts and lying on the ice and snow at MINUS 40 degrees, motionless and ready to fight.
The soldiers seemed to be naked in the snow, and their body temperature dropped rapidly. Some soldiers really couldn't hold on, so they took out a bag of millet pepper to keep warm before marching. Sometimes a millet pepper is divided into several parts and distributed to soldiers. Some soldiers don't eat spicy food at ordinary times, so they have to have a bite at this time.
The climate of MINUS 40 degrees made the soldiers tremble. In order to complete the task, they ambushed in the cold snow for three days and nights. Many soldiers were numb with cold and their limbs were unconscious. The considerate brother is naturally among them. He couldn't hold it any longer, so he took a bite of millet pepper to keep warm.
After lying in the snow for three days and nights, they still maintained a fighting posture. Finally, at dusk, the roar of cars came from the distance, which was the sound they had been waiting for for for a long time. When the American army walked on the road unscrupulously, it didn't notice the vision around it.
They think that no one dares to ambush here in such bad weather. In this environment, the American troops wearing thick cotton-padded clothes and thick trousers can't stand for 10 minutes, not to mention our soldiers who lack resources. Moreover, the top commander of the US military has also conducted many investigations here, and has not found any activities of our army here, but this is not the case in reality.
As dusk left and night fell, several flares flashed overhead of the US military, and a signal suddenly sounded, breaking the tranquility of the sky. Thousands of our soldiers jumped out of the snow and rushed to the enemy. At this time, the US military realized that it was ambushed and immediately set up weapons to fight back in a panic.
Although our soldiers are raiders, they have been lying on the snow for a long time in a bad environment, and their feet have long been unconscious, so the speed of charging is not very fast, so the casualties of the US military when they react are not great.
But at this time, our army has become sitting ducks. At this point, Zhou Xiaodi is also trying to get up from the snow, but somehow, his body can't move like Taishan coping, watching his comrades fall in front of him. He tried to stand up to rescue him, but his unconscious body did not move at all, which made him very anxious.
Hungry for a long time, and eager to save his teammates' hearts, in this tense situation, he finally fainted to the ground because of physical exhaustion, and he didn't know what happened afterwards.
When he woke up, he found himself lying in the hospital. He tried to make a move, but found that he had lost his limbs. Suddenly he cried his eyes out, and even the doctor fed him, he ignored him.
You know, at that time, he was only 16 years old. As a child, he lost his limbs when he was young, which is naturally unacceptable. He even wanted to commit suicide to end his life, but a word from the doctor ignited his desire for life.
When he knew that he was the only one in the company, he was silent, quickly adjusted his mood and ate on time every day. He knows that he is not living for himself now, but for his comrades.
After two years of rest, Zhou Xiaodi was finally discharged from the hospital, and then he was arranged to rest in a rest home for disabled soldiers in Sichuan. His life is very difficult because he has no limbs, but the spirit of being a soldier inspires him. In the end, he not only solved the problem of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but even learned calligraphy.
Now Zhou Xiaodi is 87 years old and has been in good health for decades. When asked if he needed help from the state, he shook his head and said, what I regret now is that I didn't charge with my comrades. At that time, the company commander asked us to write a letter of guarantee that we would never return to China without killing the enemy, but I didn't kill the enemy, so I was sent to the hospital, so I didn't complete the task.
In fact, when the U.S. military was cleaning up the battlefield in Changjin Lake, it suddenly found that there were still our troops lurking here. Just as they approached slowly with long guns, they found that our soldiers had no breath and looked like ice sculptures from a distance. They laid down their weapons and sighed: Why should they be enemies with China?