Wen | Yang Zai said history
Editor| Yang Zai said history
History really exists, but we don't feel it.
Most of the ways we learn about history are through video materials and textbooks;
A more intuitive way is to walk into the museum, piece together the original appearance of history under the narrator's narrator, and feel the history "personally".
As soon as we enter the museum, the portraits displayed on the walls and the objects placed in the glass cabinets seem to break the barrier of time and space and meet us.
But have you ever wondered what kind of scene it would be if one day, the person in the portrait really came out of the two-dimensional space and stood in front of you?
I'm not him
"Dad, you admit it, the person in this newspaper is you."
"You match the many clues on this, and my intuition tells me that this is you."
The man who spoke was a man of about thirty years of age, wearing a dark dress, but he still couldn't hide the charcoal black on his clothes.
In front of the man sat an elderly man with gray hair and cloudy but determined eyes.
He sat hunched over the bed, unmoved by what the child in front of him said.
Moving down, you can find that the old man's curled fingers are not the same as ordinary people.
When the young man saw that he had broken his mouth, the old man in front of him still did not react at all, and he had no patience before.
"Dad, I really don't mean anything else, I just think everyone really wants to find you, they've worked so hard for so long, since we saw it, we don't hide anymore."
"I know you were afraid of the leaders before you, afraid of getting into trouble with the country. But if you admit it,
Maybe you can still meet the former leaders or subordinates, and you don't want them at all? ”
Hearing these words, the old man's determined gaze finally loosened a little.
The young man was an ordinary coal puller.
Just a few hours ago, he finished today's work, and after refueling, he wanted to rest and go home.
Anyway, idle is idle, he casually picked up the newspaper on the side, trying to look at it twice to kill time.
Unexpectedly, the above news instantly attracted his attention.
The large characters "In Search of Our Country's Special Meritorious Heroes" are extremely eye-catching and are located in the very center of the newspaper.
It was a news story about the search for hero Chai Yunzheng.
A short passage introduces the great deeds of a hero.
Participated in the War of Liberation, the Suppression of Bandits Movement, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea...
Unfortunately injured in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he lost a finger, and then disappeared in the process of treatment...
What attracts the young man's attention is not the hero's glorious deeds, but the similarity between the hero and his father.
All the clues were almost exactly the same as his father's, except that the names of the two were one word apart.
The hero's name is Chai Yunzheng, but his father is named Chai Yunzhen.
But the young man did not dispel his inner doubts, he felt that it was most likely that the person who registered it was mistaken, after all, the pronunciation of the two words was extremely similar.
He decided to ask his father when he got home.
But when he returned home, his father seized on the name and refused to admit it.
"The last word of the family is positive, I am Zhen, can that be the same?" Certainly not me. ”
It is said that the knowledge of the son is like the father, but everyone does not realize that the telepathy between father and son is not one-way.
From his father's reaction, he could feel his father's deliberate evasion.
The boy already has the answer in his heart, and his father should be the hero he is looking for in the newspaper.
He understood his father's inner concerns, but for so many years, although his father had not said it,
But he knew that his father had never been able to let go of his brothers who were born into death, and he couldn't let go of those glorious years.
Under the persuasion of the young man, the old man finally relaxed and admitted his identity.
A dusty history has finally been able to see the light of day.
Special guests
The docent of the Korean Liberation War Memorial received a notice that a special guest would come to the museum.
The docents were notified and returned to their respective posts.
They explained harder than usual.
The voices of docents and translators echoed in the museum, but there was no noise.
The visitors entered that period of history with the narrator's narration.
At the end of the explanation, the crowd had not yet eased up, and a powerful voice suddenly sounded.
"I'm going to take this portrait of Chai Yunzhen with me."
Looking at the source of the sound, you can see an old man with a broken finger, whose appearance is no different from the appearance of the hero Chai Yunzhen hanging on the wall.
The old man's style did not diminish that year.
But the "sacrificed" hero in the museum stood in front of everyone unscathed, which really frightened everyone.
At that time, everyone understood that the hero Chai Yunzhen was still alive.
Heroic nature
Chai Yunzhen was born in 1925.
He was born into an ordinary peasant family, and his family was relatively poor.
Due to the poor economic conditions of his family, he did not receive any education and followed his parents to work in the fields from an early age.
After being slightly older, they enter the landlord's home to work to subsidize the family.
"In those days, there were too many children like me."
"I'm getting older, but I don't have anything to eat, so I can only eat something to fill my stomach every day, and I don't know what it's like to be full."
Ten years have passed, and he has long since adapted to the days of working for landlords.
In his opinion, the rest of his life may have passed like this.
"I'm used to farming, and I don't know what other job I can do."
"At that time, every day was a repetition of yesterday, and there were no goals or dreams to talk about."
But he did not expect that his life would slowly deviate from the track in the midst of constant changes.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang wanted to continue to maintain its crumbling dominance and launched a civil war.
The war that has been raging for many years has dealt an extremely heavy blow to Chinese society and people's lives.
The Kuomintang's human, material, and financial resources have also fallen into a trough.
But they still did not die, and went around pulling Zhuang Ding to reinforce the battlefield.
When Chai Yunzhen was 22 years old, the war situation was extremely anxious.
A group of people dressed in military uniforms broke into Chai Yunzhen's village and pulled away all the young adults in the village.
Mr. Chai also unfortunately became one of them.
After that, he followed the Kuomintang army around to fight, and in the process also saw through the essence of the Kuomintang army.
By chance, Yun Zhen gained a deeper understanding of our party.
"Originally, I was like a sailing ship floating aimlessly in the vast sea, and after our party appeared, I suddenly had a course."
He realized that our party's army is the army that truly serves and considers the people.
He took advantage of the opportunity to join our Party and followed the Party in wars of all sizes, such as the War of Liberation and the War of Suppression of Bandits.
In 1951, he followed a large army across the Yalu River to North Korea.
At that time, the US troops were well-equipped and used warplanes to continuously bomb and destroy our army's reserves.
Our equipment is backward and manpower is insufficient, and we can only rely on combat skills and enemy stalemates.
Chai Yunzhen's unit received orders to march into Park Dafeng to guard the command post and hospital.
In fact, accepting this task was a dangerous order for Chai Yunzhen's unit.
At that time, the US military used tanks and other advanced weapons to bomb one after another, and our army was in a disadvantageous position in the war, suffering heavy casualties, and many positions had been lost.
Their units were given the operational task of covering the retreat of the main forces and retaking the lost positions.
They all knew in their hearts that this was bound to be a fierce battle.
"At that time, we were backward in all aspects, our weapons were inferior to others, and our resources were not sufficient, but we absolutely could not lose in momentum."
"Regardless of the success or failure that awaits us ahead, as a warrior, we have to rush forward."
However, at that time, Chai Yunzhen's men were only thirteen people, and if they were hard, they were simply sent to death, and there was no way to retake the lost position.
Thinking about it, Chai Yunzhen decided to fully expand the advantages of the night against us.
"Although we don't have many people, we fight in three ways."
"At that time, the Americans wanted to reverse the tide of the war with flares, but they definitely did not expect that we would use their firing gap to take back the two positions that had been lost."
However, the US troops are not vegetarians, and after they found that our army had exploited the gap between the firing of flares, they began to shoot non-stop around.
The flesh and blood of the warriors were hard to resist the cold shells, and it wasn't long before Chai Yunzhen was only two people left.
In order to ensure the smooth completion of the mission, the battalion commander assigned him two more soldiers.
Then, with four warriors, he rushed into the fire again.
He did not want to let the warriors sacrifice themselves, so he did not give the order.
Just as he was hesitating how to fight the next battle, he suddenly noticed that a little light was emitted from the top of the mountain.
The Chai warrior suddenly realized that it was most likely the enemy's headquarters.
"As long as it is destroyed there, it will definitely deal a fatal blow to the enemy."
"Let's move a little lighter, let's move slowly to the light."
After reaching the vicinity of the light, his suspicions were confirmed.
This is indeed the headquarters of the enemy army, and there is a meeting in the house.
Without giving it much thought, he immediately pulled the grenade and threw it out toward the room.
With a bang, the house collapsed.
Most of the enemy troops inside were killed, and the enemy troops who survived by chance climbed out and fled in all directions.
The warriors immediately rushed up and fought the enemy to the death.
One of the enemy soldiers pounced on the chai warriors.
The two men quickly wrestled, and the enemy could not defeat this strong warrior.
He opened his mouth and despicablely bit the warrior's index finger, and then smashed it at the warrior when he was not ready to pick up a brick on the side...
Outnumbered, the four fighters brought by Chai Yunzhen all fell under the enemy's bullets, and he himself lost consciousness.
But in this battle, our army recaptured three hills, and the Chai warriors themselves lay down about 100 enemy troops.
Chai Yunzhen was lucky to survive, but he understood that his body was no longer suitable for fighting.
So he secretly went through the demobilization procedures and returned to his hometown.
Unable to find the old hero, the troops had to report the sacrifice.
But everyone does not want to believe the fact that he sacrificed, and for so many years, China and North Korea have never given up looking for this old hero.
It wasn't until the 1980s that people finally got news of this hero.
In 2018, Chai Yunzhen closed his eyes forever.
In 2021, the old hero was posthumously awarded the "July 1st" Medal.
Hats off to the heroes!
Note: The image comes from the Internet