On this day in 1956, the Henan Provincial Government Guest House was as ordinary as a weekday, but a newspaper search notice was like a chess piece injected into the calm water, breaking the quiet atmosphere of the guest house.
A staff member of the guest house made himself a cup of tea and picked up the People's Daily of the day and read it. It was naturally not a surprise that a newspaper had published a notice of search for someone, but as he read it, he felt that the person mentioned in the notice was very similar to a person in the guest house.
However, the state is looking for a special meritorious person to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and that person is just an ordinary cleaner.
In order to verify whether it was a person, he also asked another colleague, and everyone felt like and did not look like.
Eventually, they found themselves, Old Ray, and got an affirmative answer: "Yeah, it's me up there." ”
He is a special meritorious hero of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea that the state has painstakingly sought through the newspapers.
Everyone's faces were shocked, it turned out that there was a combat hero who had participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and had made great achievements, but it was really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and everyone sighed: Old Lei is also too low-key!
Lao Lei, as the colleagues of the guest house, his full name is Lei Baosen, a native of Shangcai, Henan, born in 1924.
At the age of 29, near the end of his life, he lived a leisurely "pension" life in the guest house, usually doing cleaning work and pouring water for guests. Regulars at the guest house and colleagues at Rebulson knew he couldn't do too much work. Some people like to watch him joke, laugh at old Ray, always hunched over, rarely speak, and don't look too much like "Young people in their 20s!" ”
Therefore, later, the people found in the People's Daily's search notice had a nine-point image with Lei Baosen, and they did not dare to make an easy judgment, because how could this ordinary cleaner be the one in the newspaper, the big hero who was full of spirit? Everyone was shocked, sure enough, people can't just look at the surface, and old Lei is usually too low-key!
In fact, Lei Baosen's "low profile" is also a helpless move, young people, who have their own ambitions in their hearts, not to mention the establishment of a great feat of Lei Baosen. But the reality is helpless.
Lei Baosen, who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, won special merit, but he also left a body of pain. Who would have thought that this cleaner would be a famous combat hero of the year? No profession is more noble, which position is lower, and it is also doing things to serve the people, what has Rebultson experienced, and such an amazing change has taken place in the trajectory of his life?
When the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was about to usher in the dawn of victory, Lei Baosen angered the US military in a war against the United States and became a key target of attack. In the continuous fire of the enemy, he was forced to the edge of the cliff, and seeing that he was about to be caught, he jumped off the cliff without hesitation, and he was shot at the time.
After being discovered by passing North Korean residents, he took the wounded body with the bullet buried and nursed it in the field hospital for a long time before barely recovering. His body also became so weak that he could not do even the slightest emphasis.
He won the Korean War because he clearly knew that his physical condition was not even as good as normal people, let alone joining the army to carry guns on the battlefield, and he was reluctant to do a little focused work.
Not being able to join the army made his heart very sad, and people were depressed for a while, but he didn't feel that there was anything shameful about doing miscellaneous work in the guest house, and he ate with his own hands.
As a result, he became a simple cleaner in the Henan Provincial Government Guest House, and the glorious achievements and admirable combat heroes of the past seemed to have gone away with the torrent of history.
But Lei Baosen has not forgotten his past, and his comrades-in-arms always remember him, so he has the notice in the People's Daily.
Speaking of Rebalsen's past, he, like most of the people at the bottom, lived a miserable and turbulent life in the years of frequent wars.
In 1923, Rebson was born into a poor peasant family in Lankao County. From the beginning of his memory, his relatives and his own life have been bullied and oppressed by the landlord's family.
When he grew up, he heard his father mention that one of his aunts, when he was one year old, was looked up to and defiled by the son of the landlord's family. Watching his sister being bullied and the brother unable to swallow this breath, he beat the landlord's son to death, fearing that the landlord would retaliate against his family. The Reisson family could only leave their hometown overnight and go to relatives in other places.
Relatives are also poor families, and for a time they accepted the Lei Baosen family of five, making the original life worse. The life under the fence was not good, and The Lei Baosen family of five lived in a broken temple in the south of the city for several years. He also remembered that every time it rained, the family's life was very sad, it rained heavily outside the house, it rained lightly inside the house, and the roof covered only with thatch could not stop the rain.
The children at home are still growing up, and it is precisely when they need to supplement nutrition, but don't say that eating something nourishing, that is, the normal three meals a day are all luxuries for Lei Baosen.
In order to improve the days of eating and eating, Lei Baosen's father could only go out to work, but he was not familiar with life, could not find a stable job, and could only help the local family to carry water from time to time, relying on such a small salary to barely maintain the family's life.
However, the quiet days did not last long, and the father broke the water tank of other people's homes by mistake. The other party was a local landlord, arrogant, and the lion opened his mouth to ask for high compensation from the Lei Baosen family, but the Lei Baosen family was surrounded by disciples and could not come up with money at all. The landlord did not spare, and went to the door every day to insult Lei Baosen's family, and his father, under such a daily persecution, accumulated depression and became emaciated, and even died soon after.
The departure of his father made Lei Baosen heartbroken, but he had to immediately take up the burden of the family, because he was the only man in the family, but it was difficult for him to find a job at a young age. As soon as the shopkeeper saw the diminutive child, he directly waved his hand to let Lei Baosen go. He felt very depressed, and at a young age, he felt the hardships of life and understood the difficulty of his father's livelihood in order to maintain the family.
But he did not give up, and secretly resolved in his heart that he wanted his mother and sisters in the family to live a stable life, no longer eat and sleep in the wind, but also to take his fate into his own hands, without letting others treat each other coldly.
However, shortly after Rebalsen made up his mind, his family suffered another heavy blow.
The traditional idea of son preference was still deeply rooted in that era, whether rich or poor, almost every family valued men very much, and the Reborsen family was not spared.
Just when the family was about to open the pot, the mother actually sold two sisters of Lei Baosen to the landlord's family as child brides. Hearing this bad news, Lei Baosen ran home, and it was too late, and the sisters were taken away. He tried to run to the landlord's house to get his sister back, but was stopped by his mother. This time, Rebultson burst into tears, and the two of them hugged and cried with their mother.
In order to keep himself alive, his family paid too much for it, which had a huge impact on his young mind.
"Live with your own hands" became his life creed. Even if he was just a cleaner, his heart was very calm, and he didn't feel that he was giving up on himself.
The sisters in the family lost their freedom in life, and the money they bought did not let Lei Baosen grow up safely. In less than a year, her mother also came to the end of her life in the days of washing her face with tears, and Lei Baosen became an orphan.
Ray Boson wandered alone for a few years. Eating the hardships of life also made him grow up rapidly, and his mind was much more mature than his peers.
At the age of 8, Lei Baosen was adopted by a peasant family and renamed Lei Baosen, which became his later name, and shangcai County, where the family was located, became his second hometown.
With a place to settle down, in order to reduce the burden on the family of his adoptive parents who were not rich, Lei Baosen, who already knew how to see other people's faces at that time, chose to go out to work. Because of his young age, he could only find some short-term jobs, and his income was not much, but it was enough to feed himself, and he gave all the excess money to his adoptive parents to repay their grace for their acceptance.
Lei Baosen was running between jobs, temporarily living a "stable" life of eating, wearing, warm and living.
Lei Baosen was precocious, and he also saw through the sophistication of human feelings and felt the turmoil of the times in his long-term earning experience.
In the years of war and chaos, everyone was in danger, and the work was said to be gone, and the stable life obtained by doing short-term work was even more gone. But at the moment, he couldn't find a better way out.
As he continued to watch, the Chinese Communist Party gave him a glimmer of hope and the possibility of changing his destiny.
In 1941, when Rebulson was 17 years old, he was working as a guy at a restaurant in the city and met a noble man in his life.
The two became acquainted by accident and often talked about the social situation, including many times the contradiction between the peasants and the landlords, and the wanton exploitation and oppression of the peasant groups by the landlord class. Lei Baosen learned from this noble population that feudal land ownership was the main culprit in the persecution of the vast number of peasants. The Chinese Communist Party is a new force to liberate the peasants.
It turned out that the Party had already taken a fancy to this ambitious and courageous young man and was ready to bring him into the ranks of the Party. The noble man was an underground worker of the party organization, so when he told Lei Baosen of the party's wishes, the two hit it off.
Lei Baosen became an underground correspondent of the party, carrying out the party's underground communication tasks under the cover of the identity of the second child of the hotel. At the beginning of the mission, his heart was also very nervous, but he was very careful and cautious, and he completed the task well every time.
Until, in the late autumn of 1946, when the noble man returned from a mission outside, he told Lei Baosen a grim situation: "Your identity may be exposed, and you must leave this place immediately and go to Laiwu, Shandong Province, to find the local armed forces of the party." His identity was exposed, and Reberson ended this arduous mission.
The nobleman gave Lei Baosen a letter of introduction and asked him to go to Shandong to join the army.
After that, Lei Baosen passed the test of the party organization and officially joined the Communist Party of China.
Every time Lei Baosen mentioned his experience of joining the party, he was very emotional, and he said that what he could not forget was that when he hesitated and did not know what to do in the future, he appeared in time to guide him in the direction of progress. At that time, he could join such a bloody organization, and he could not ask for it.
After that, Lei Baosen went home to bid farewell to his adoptive parents and left Zhengzhou on a train carrying coal.
A month later, he finally reached the party's local armed forces, built in the Nanma District squad in Laiwu City. A year later, the squad was changed to a special agent company of the Yellow River brigade in Shandong Province.
In this way, Rebausen began his military career.
In 1948, Lei Baosen's special service company was reorganized into 9 companies, 3 battalions, 234 regiments of the 78th Division of the 26th Army of the People's Liberation Army, and he also became a machine gunner. Once a small arm, but also to carry a heavy machine gun, he lamented the experience of life to bring his growth and strength.
Prior to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, this company successively participated in the Battle of Huaihai, the Battle of Crossing the River, and the Battle of Shanghai in the War of Liberation. Each battle is an uphill battle, and the Platon Army has won victories in the tenacious and resolute battlefield battle. In the army, the machine gunner can be said to be an important position in stabilizing the rear, and it is necessary to observe the battle situation with a pair of fire eyes and golden eyes to clear the obstacles for the charging soldiers.
Before Lei Baosen joined the army, he had never even touched a pistol, let alone mastered a machine gun weighing tens of kilograms, and when he was assigned as a machine gunner, he was very unconfident. The first time he trained, he needed to take a gun, and he looked at the "behemoth" and could only harden his scalp.
In order not to drag his comrades back, during the rest time, he often let the instructors train himself. I also humbly ask for advice from comrades who have performed well, exchange ideas with each other, and accumulate experience.
When the real knife and real gun went to the battlefield, Lei Baosen also relied on his iron will and flame-like fighting spirit, and repeatedly made battle achievements, won the second and third class battle merits, and was approved to join the party in the line of fire.
Born and died with his comrades-in-arms on the battlefield, he shed blood and sweat to establish a revolutionary friendship, just like After the Korean War, Lee Yao-moon, who later became the founding major general.
Lei Baosen, who participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, was already a veteran who had been tempered by many wars and was enough to stand alone. During the Korean War, he showed great strength and outstanding leadership. His performance in the Korean War was arguably the pinnacle of his military career and made him famous in one battle.
At the end of World War II, the situation on the Korean Peninsula was not peaceful.
Between January 1949 and June 1950, more than 2,000 disputes arose near the "38th Line" demarcated by the United States and the Soviet Union. Armed conflict escalated and finally broke out in June 1950.
In the face of the United States' entry into the war, the Chinese government firmly stated that if it crossed the 38th Line and drew the flames of war to China, China would send troops. On September 30, Premier Zhou Enlai made a tough speech at the National Day Meeting of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: "The Chinese people must not tolerate foreign aggression, nor can they allow imperialism to arbitrarily invade their neighbors and ignore them." "Clearly express China's claim to participate in the Korean War."
If the situation in the Korean War cannot be controlled, the flames of war will soon spread to northeast China and the territorial security will be threatened.
In October 1950, China invaded Korea.
On the 19th, the Chinese Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River to fight in North Korea, and Lei Baosen's unit then pulled out. Ray Baosen, who had just experienced the Liberation War, rushed to Korea with his troops.
Chinese People's Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River with great vigor and vigor, and fought several major victories in the Korean battlefield, and the arrogance of the US army, which did not pay attention to the volunteer army at the beginning, was fiercely extinguished by the heroic achievements of the volunteer army.
The embarrassed and angry US army took advantage of the gap between the end of the third campaign of the Chinese army and the rest of the whole army to launch the fourth campaign against the Chinese army.
In combat deployments, Rebson's company was assigned to the defense department.
On March 24, 1951, when the sky was dark, Lei Baosen took four squads of 9 soldiers and was ordered to go to the 299 heights under the Qifeng Mountain to fight the blockade battle, cut off the enemy reinforcements, and protect the rear of the volunteer army.
After reconnaissance at the site, an ambush was chosen at Height 299. Because of this highland, the shape is relatively narrow and long, and the concealment is strong, which is suitable for them to hide. The terrain is also relatively high, equivalent to an observation deck in this terrain, which can monitor movements in the distance.
There was a road under the slope that was the only way for the mechanized troops of the U.S. army to reach the Seven Peaks Mountain, so Ray Baosen took his soldiers to wait for the rabbits on the high ground.
It was in the trenches for 3 days, not to mention the mechanical troops, even the US army did not see. Some soldiers began to wonder if their superiors' intelligence was wrong, or if the U.S. military had noticed it and abandoned entering the Seven Peaks Mountain from this road.
All kinds of suspicious voices appeared, stirring up the soldiers' hearts very unpeaceful, and even some soldiers were anxious to retreat, afraid of the plan.
But Lei Baosen felt that since the superiors let them squat on the high ground, there must be a reason for the superiors. If you can't hold your breath, you may miss a good opportunity to retreat first, and put the mechanized troops of the US army into the Seven Peaks Mountain, and it is very likely that the tiger will return to the mountain, which will be very unfavorable to the war situation of the volunteer army. Lei Baosen told everyone to calm down and continue to guard.
At about 10:00 a.m. on the 27th, the sound of gunfire was heard from the east and west sides of the Seven Peaks Mountain, but only the sound of gunfire was heard on the 299 high ground, but the shadow of the enemy army could not be seen. It turned out that the scouts had come to report that the US Third Division was preparing to detour from the west bank of the Xinchuan River back to the left side of the Seven Peaks Mountain, as a breakthrough point to attack our volunteers.
The soldiers under Lei Baosen were all rubbing their fists, and the brother troops and the American troops were fighting fiercely, and they could only continue to guard in the trenches, their hands itching, and their hearts itching.
But Lei Baosen knew that the great enemy was at present, and the more this time, the more he could not mess around. He told his 9 soldiers to strengthen their guard, strictly hold their positions, and resolutely not let the US troops have an opportunity to take advantage of it.
The three days of waiting were not in vain, and when it was afternoon, the roar of the car finally came from the southwest, and Rebulson knew that it was the American army coming.
Then there was one tank at a time, twelve in all! They drive slowly past the road at the foot of the mountain. One by one, the behemoths passed by, and a huge amount of sand and dust was raised on the ground, which also provided a good cover for the figures of Lei Baosen and others.
The soldiers in the trenches were both nervous and excited. The atmosphere immediately became anxious, but As the captain, Lei Baosen was determined not to panic. Seeing his serious face and furrowed brows, he ordered, "Don't panic first, follow the previous battle plan." Now hide yourself, don't be discovered! ”
Rebalsen knew that even though we were in the shadows and the enemy was in the light, the enemy's 12 tanks, each filled with soldiers, and those long guns and cannons were much better than his own rifles. Hard fighting can't work, you can only outwit.
Including yourself, there are only 10 soldiers, how to use every point of force on the blade, how to use the terrain advantage to annihilate the enemy, how to minimize the casualties of soldiers?
Lei Baosen had these questions around his mind at that time, and his heart was very complicated, but the arrow was on the string and had to be sent. He quickly calmed down, formulated a battle plan according to the geographical location, and assigned specific tasks to each soldier.
At this moment, the U.S. army sensed the enemy situation and began to look at the side of the highland with a telescope.
Lei Baosen was very worried in his heart, fortunately he was not discovered by the enemy army, and his hanging heart was put down. But the spirit could not relax for a moment, watching the enemy troops about to turn a corner and enter the north side of the cliff next to the high ground.
Closer, closer, watching the enemy slowly enter the ambush circle, Lei Baosen knew that the battle horn was about to blow, and the 299 heights were no longer calm at this moment.
Only when the enemy troops had all entered the set ambush circle, Lei Baosen gave the remaining 9 soldiers a look. Seeing that everyone clenched the guns in their hands, Lei Baosen gave an order: "Attack! Come on! ”
Everyone jumped out of the trenches and rushed toward the enemy, charging and aiming at the drivers of the tanks. In the face of the surprise attack of Lei Baosen and others, the enemy army was in chaos, and the tank convoy was forced to stop.
Ray Baosen saw the armor-like tank and knew that it could only attack its tracks, which was its breakthrough. So he immediately ripped off the anti-tank grenade around his waist, pulled down the fuse, and threw it at the tracks, and the other soldiers saw it and imitated it, and for a moment, the dust flew, and the tanks fell like overturned beetles, falling in place, dying and struggling. Seeing that the tanks were scrapped, the enemy could only escape from the tanks.
When Lei Baosen and his comrades-in-arms saw it, their hearts were very excited, and only in this way could they be more happy with real knives and guns.
At this time, the twelfth tank, which had already withdrawn from the ambush circle, this fish that had slipped through the net, rolled its head and turned its head again, aimed its cannon at Ray Baosen and his comrades, and launched a frenzied strafing. Ray Baosen could only order everyone to retreat to the trenches and reduce casualties.
But he himself was heading in the opposite direction of the trench, crawling his body, toward the twelfth tank that had just attacked. While dodging tanks and enemy strafing, he looked for an opportunity to blow up this evil behemoth.
Later, when Lei Baosen's daughter was interviewed by reporters, she mentioned that in the book "Praise of the Volunteer Army", an article called "Fighting the Seven Peaks Mountain" told the battle of that year, and mentioned in detail that this fragment of Lei Baosen fighting tanks can be sung and wept.
This blockade battle was won by the glorious record of 9 volunteers blowing up 11 tanks and 1 jeep, and was called a model example of the anti-tank combat record of infantry in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
On the second day after the end of the battle, Lei Baosen and his comrades were responsible for staying behind to block the fierce attack of the US army on Qifeng Mountain, and it was also in this cruel battle that many of Lei Baosen's comrades were killed, and Lei Baosen, who was seriously wounded, also jumped off the cliff after covering his comrades. Later, he was rescued by north Korean residents passing by, but his physical condition was far worse than it was then.
The moving deeds of the battle hero Lei Baosen were awe-inspiring after listening to them. When he participated in the Korean War, he had a heroic brilliance, but when he retired from the army to become an ordinary and ordinary cleaner, he also flashed his personality charm.
Later, he served on the Standing Committee and always adhered to the principle of serving the people until he left office due to illness. Several tortuous experiences in life have also achieved the admirable height of Rebson's life.