Essay on Deng Shijun

Deng Shijun's troop "old five regiments" is a heroic troop with glorious history, which has participated in Pingxingguan Battle, Hundred Regiments War, etc. During the war of resistance, the local people had a song: "There are old three regiments in the north and old five regiments in the south. During the war, the local people had a song: "There are three old regiments in the north, and five old regiments in the south. Kill the enemy show power, the ghosts chilled."

In 1938, the Japanese army with more than 30,000 troops, divided into 9 road siege Jinchahi border area, sub-district school battalion by the enemy pressured to retreat, Deng Shijun in the company was ordered to rescue, and the enemy defending the formation of a confrontation in the village of Nampo, the superiors ordered to take the village of Nampo that night. However, the terrain near the heights of Nanpo Village was treacherous, and the Japanese blocked the road, making it difficult to approach. The company commander advocated a 25-kilometer detour overnight to launch an attack, while Deng Shijun, the platoon leader, advocated climbing the steep cliffs to launch a surprise attack and volunteered to lead the platoon to open up the road in front of him. After some consideration, the company commander adopted his opinion. That night, the enemy guarding the hill relied on the dangerous terrain and relaxed their guard. Deng Shijun led his platoon to climb up the cliff, and with a burst of grenade explosions and gunfire, a squad of the enemy was wiped out. At dawn the next day, the main force of the Eighth Route Army launched a successful attack, eliminating more than 300 Japanese troops.

In the fall of 1943, Deng Shijun was wounded and stayed in the rear hospital of Huamu. During an enemy "sweep", Deng Shijun, who was suffering from malaria, fell out of the line. The Japanese army found his trail, trying to capture him alive, began a search of the mountains. At this time, the head of the Women's Relief Society, Rong Guanxiu, who was leading the townspeople to move, found him, "Ah, it's one of us! It's one of our own, quick! Come with me!"

Rong Guanxiu helped Deng Shijun climb toward a cave halfway up the mountain. But the hole is seven or eight feet high from the ground, and Deng Shijun, who was seriously ill and weak, could not climb up. At the critical moment, Rong Guanxiu squatted down and let Deng Shijun step on his shoulder, and then pushed him into the cave.

Under the careful care of Rong Guanxiu, Deng Shijun finally recovered his health, and when he returned to the front line, he knelt down to Rong Guanxiu and shouted, "Mother, Mother!" Rong Guanxiu said with tears in her eyes, "The Eighth Route Army is not interested in this, you are wounded, I should serve you."

On February 10, 1944, the first meeting of the Jinchahi Border Region was held in Beiyacun, Fuping County, Hebei Province, and Rong Guanxiu was awarded the title of "Beiyue District Model for Supporting the Army" for her active support of the army, and Deng Shijun was awarded the title of "Hero of the Battle in the Jinchahi Border Region" for his bravery in battle. "

The conference will be held in Beijing, China.

On the last day of the conference, Rong Guanxiu went to the podium to tell the story of his rescue of the Eighth Route Army wounded. Seeing the life-saving benefactor he thought about day and night, Deng Shijun walked quickly to Rong Guanxiu, grasped her hand tightly and said: "Auntie, do you still remember me? I'm the Eighth Route Army you saved!" Rong Guanxiu said smilingly, "You are all my relatives, but who you are, I really don't remember!" "Auntie, my name is Deng Shijun, without your rescue, I definitely wouldn't be alive today! Thank you ......"

At that time, Ye Manzhi, a full-time photojournalist of the Jinchahi Military Region, had them stand together and recorded the touching moment with a photo. When Nie Rongzhen saw the photo, he gladly made an inscription of "glory forever" for it. The famous "Three Heroes of Jinchaji", that is, Deng Shijun, Rong Guanxiu and Li Yong's group photo, was published on the cover of the 5th issue of Jinchaji Pictorial in 1944, and became Ye Manzhi's heirloom masterpiece.

After the meeting, Deng Shijun personally put Rong Guanxiu on the mule and gave him a ride. After returning to his unit, he also wrote a letter to Rong Guanxiu: "You are the great mother of the sons and daughters of the soldiers, I would like to carry my gun flat and aim accurately, to shoot the evil enemy, to defend you, to defend our Jinchaji."

In 1950, the National Conference of Combat Heroes and Labor Models was held in Beijing, Deng Shijun and Rong Guanxiu met again, and Rong Guanxiu stroked the scars on Deng Shijun's body and asked him about them. Deng Shijun regarded Rong Guanxiu as his own mother, and always had a lot to say when they met. During the meeting, they also happily took pictures with Mao Zedong and other central leaders.

October 1, 1959, Rong Guanxiu went to Beijing to participate in the 10th anniversary of the National Day ceremony, heard the sad news that Deng Shijun died in the Korean War. Hearing the news, Rong Guanxiu's legs weakened, crying, "He contributed everything to the revolution, what a good comrade ah!"

Today, in the Armed Police Command College Guardian Square corner, stands a portrait sculpture based on Deng Shijun and Rong Guanxiu year's photo, the touching story of the love between them has also become the Armed Police Command College of the trainees in the revolutionary tradition of education of the living teaching materials. In March 1950, Deng Shijun in the sixty-third army 187 division 559 regiment stationed in Shaanxi Xunyi County, the main task is to open up the land and planting, during this period, due to the absence of war, the troops temporarily stabilized.

Since he left his hometown in 1932 to join the Red Army, Deng Shijun has never forgotten his parents and siblings.

In April 1950, Deng Shijun tried to write a letter to his father, Deng Yuanguo, who was thousands of kilometers away, but because the country had just been liberated and the postal routes were not yet very smooth, the letter took several months to reach Cangxi.

Suddenly receiving Deng Shijun's letter, the whole family was overjoyed. 18 years, relatives have not known his whereabouts, thought he had long been sacrificed. He was not only alive, but also became a regimental commander, the Deng family was suddenly lively, folks have come to the door to say goodbye, Deng Yuanguo couple is very excited, and a few nights of sleeplessness.

Deng Yuanguo decided to leave for Shaanxi immediately to visit his son.

As the saying goes, "The road to Sichuan is more difficult than the sky". At that time, there was no railroad in Sichuan, although the Sichuan-Shaanxi highway has been opened, but Deng Yuanguo's family was so poor that he couldn't afford any transportation. However, even the greatest difficulties could not stop his determination to find his son.

In mid-September 1950, Deng Yuanguo, in his 50s, set off with his nephew, Deng Shiyao, each carrying a bamboo rattan, containing a few pairs of straw sandals, as well as a few pairs of coats, food rations, and tools to make bamboo mats, but also carrying a lot of gimlets split from bamboo. The two nephews and uncle along the winding rugged mountain road, step by step began the difficult road to find relatives.

On the way, uncle and nephew slept and slept, night and day, hungry, ate some dry food, thirsty, drank some spring water, sleepy, fell on the roadside to sleep. Later on, when the dry food was finished and the money was spent, they made up bamboo mats while walking and sold them for money, and then later on, when there were no more gimlets to make up, they simply begged for food.

Deng Yuanguo told everyone: my son is the Red Army, the People's Liberation Army, stationed in Shaanxi Xunyi County, the town of Malan, we have not met for 18 years, I am going to look for my son. This move is really effective, many kind-hearted people take the initiative to help them, give them food, give them water to drink, some people also let them borrow the night.

The whole 18 days, Deng Yuanguo straw shoes worn out many pairs, feet were worn out countless blood blisters, experienced countless difficulties and obstacles, hard from Cangxi to Xi'an.

After arriving in Xi'an, the uncle and nephews heard that the 63rd Army was stationed in Sanyuan County, and could not take a rest, but also opened their legs to travel by night and day, and walked nearly 70 kilometers in two days, finally arriving at the Sanyuan, and found the troop station.

Fu Chongbi, then commander of the 63rd Army, listened to Deng Yuangao's story and was touched by it, and immediately notified Deng Shijun by phone and sent a car to send his uncle and nephew to Deng Shijun's residence in Xunyi County, the town of Malan.

When he saw his father in rags, dark, tired and like a beggar, Deng Shijun, the enemy and difficulties in front of the iron man never bowed down, no longer able to control their feelings, he "flopped" kneeled down and kowtowed to his father a few times, and father and son embraced each other and cried bitterly. This scene, y touched everyone present, everyone is falling tears of excitement.

Deng Shijun called his wife Yuan Xiuzhen also kowtowed to his father, and picked up his son Deng Qiping, saying, "This is your grandson." Deng Yuangao immediately picked up his grandson and laughed happily. Deng Shijun let his father take a bath and get a haircut, and bought him several new clothes, and took him around the county town of Xunyi, taking many pictures. He also took him to visit various units of the army and the land planted by the army. Deng Yuanguo felt very new to everything here. He never dreamed that he could still see his son in his life and that his son had become an official. He said to everyone, "My son is a regimental commander! My son is a regimental commander!"

The reunion was a happy one. Deng Yuanguo hugged his precious grandson every day, enjoying the happiness of the family. As a child, Deng Qiping was both naughty and cute. Whenever his grandfather kissed him to coax him, he always used his little hand to touch his grandfather's two eight-handed beard: "Grandpa, you have a hu hu, I do not have a hu hu, you go on the train to buy me a hu hu to." The company's products and services have been widely recognized by the public and the public.

Deng Yuanguo thousands of miles to find his son's news spread, Deng Shijun many leaders and comrades, and even many soldiers, family members have come to visit the old man, but also Deng Yuanguo's deeds as a living political teaching material, compiled into a tabloid, the program is widely publicized. Even touring exhibition of his worn straw shoes, tattered clothes and walking used stick, so as to stimulate the class feelings of the majority of soldiers.

While he was in the army for only ten days, it was the happiest day of Deng's life. As the army received orders to fight in Korea, Deng had to say goodbye to his son, daughter-in-law and grandson with tears in his eyes.

On the day of his departure, Deng Yuanguo and his nephew rode on a horse, and Deng Shijun and his wife went to see him off. Deng Shijun repeatedly urged his father to take care of his health, saying that he would return home after the victory in the war against the U.S. and in aid of North Korea. Deng Yuanguo is old tears, reluctant to part, the baby grandson hugged and kissed ......

No one thought, this go is the farewell of the father and son. In the second half of 1951, many of the troops' families were in contact with their relatives on the Korean battlefield, only Yuan Xiuzhen did not have any news of her husband Deng Shijun. Soon she found around her comrades, family members see her words are less, some people see her quietly avoided, is her husband wounded again? Why are people avoiding themselves? Yuan Xiuzhen could not help but doubt, until the leadership of the Corps stayed to talk to her, she realized that her husband has been sacrificed on the Korean battlefield.

The news of her husband's sacrifice was like a bolt from the blue, Yuan Xiu Zhen couldn't help but lose her voice and cry, thinking that she was only 24 years old, with two families of the elderly, and a pair of young children, she suddenly fell into a boundless sadness and helplessness, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, and every day she washed her face in tears.......

Yuan Xiu Zhen The first time I saw a man, I was a child bride at the age of 8. In 1946, a battalion of the 19th regiment of the 7th brigade of the 3rd column of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was stationed in the village, and the commander of the battalion, Mr. Deng Shijun, used to help the people to sweep the yard, pick up water, collect firewood, plant the land, and chat with the townsfolk about their families and jokes. He was so cheerful and friendly that he even made trouble with the people in the village when their wives got married, and the whole village loved him very much. Whenever they heard the sound of his horse's hooves, the whole village would run out to meet him.

At that time, the area around Mancheng was already a liberated area, and Yuan Xiuzhen, who broke off the feudal marriage contract, joined the Women's Relief Society, fighting the landlord, making military shoes, and engaging in propaganda, all of which were in the forefront. The village chief Ran Jinyong saw that Deng Shijun was still single, so he was eager to play matchmaker and introduced Yuan Xiuzhen to Deng Shijun. After a period of interaction, in early 1947, 20-year-old Yuan Xiuzhen and 32-year-old Deng Shijun tied the knot.

After the marriage, Yuan Xiuzhen went to the army with her husband, Deng Shijun helped her learn culture, taught her to read books and newspapers, write letters home, and introduced her to the party.

April 12, 1948, Yuan Xiuzhen gave birth to a son in Lijiazhuang, Tangxian County, Hebei Province, at that time, Deng Shijun was at the front line of the war, only to return to the rear after 4 months to see his baby son. He said, "We have a place called Qiping in Cangxi, so let's name our son Deng Qiping."

Since then, Yuan Xiuzhen followed her husband to liberate Taiyuan, crossed the Yellow River to the west, marched into the northwest, chased horse bandits for thousands of miles, and fought all the way from Shanxi and Shaanxi to Gansu and Ningxia. She carried her son in her arms and followed the troops wherever they fought.

In March 1950, Deng Shijun, who had been promoted to the rank of regimental commander, led the 559th Regiment into Malan Town, Xunyi County, Shaanxi Province, and the couple finally had a stable home, living in two kilns at the troop site.

In mid-November 1950, the troops were preparing to leave for the Korean front. When leaving the site, Yuan Xiuzhen held her son, pregnant with more than nine months of belly, to see off her husband, how she hoped that her husband to stay by his side ah! But the vocation of the military is to protect the country, looking at her husband riding on a horse, Yuan Xiuzhen reluctant to tell again and again, has been sending the horses farther and farther away, she and her son is still waving.

Who knows that this walk is a parting of the ways, she lost her beloved husband forever.

On the night of December 31, 1950, Yuan Xiuzhen gave birth to a daughter in Sanyuan. After learning the news of the birth of his daughter, Deng Shijun, who was still in Qufu, was ecstatic, saying, "This is the best gift that God has ever rewarded me with, and now it's really a child with two daughters!" What should we name our baby girl? Deng Shijun remembered that girls from his hometown always have the word "Ju", "Yes, let's call his daughter Deng Ju Ping!" But he never saw his daughter once, to himself and his daughter have left a lifelong regret ......

October 1951, after hearing the news of her husband's sacrifice, Yuan Xiu Zhen made a shocking decision: she wanted to go to the front line of North Korea to look for her husband, to live to see people, to die to see the body, she wanted to see her husband and her husband fought side by side with the The first time I saw him was when he was a young man, and he was a young man who was a young man.

At that time, the leadership and comrades did not agree, because the war in North Korea is fierce and dangerous, but Yuan Xiuzhen's attitude is very determined: "Go, must go!"

Because Deng Shijun is known throughout the army as a special-class combat hero, and is the old Red Army, the old Eight Roads, and finally approved by the Volunteer Army Command and the leadership of the Nineteenth Corps, agreed to Yuan Xiuzhen's request to enter North Korea.

In the late fall of this year, Yuan Xiuzhen took her 3-year-old son from Sanyuan to Xi'an by train and returned to her hometown of Da Lou Village, where she had been away for nearly five years. She decided to put her son next to his grandma and went to the DPRK all by herself.

Returning to her hometown, Yuan Xiu Zhen forced a smile, did not dare to tell the two old people the bad news, for fear that they could not bear the blow. At night, she and her sister slept in a house, which told her sister the news of her husband's sacrifice, the two sisters quietly hugged each other and cried, for fear of disturbing their parents next door.

The next day, Yuan Xiuzhen told her mother that she wanted to go to North Korea, but her mother did not agree, fearing that it was too dangerous. So Yuan Xiuzhen made up a lie and said, "Shijun was wounded in North Korea and I'm going to visit him." Yuan Xiuzhen kneeled on the ground, hugged her mother and cried loudly, her mother loved her daughter so much that she had to agree to her request.

This winter, under the arrangement of the superior, Yuan Xiuzhen with infinite love and deep longing for her husband, resolutely set foot on the land of North Korea.

In the days of North Korea, the head of the corps, the military division leaders have received Yuan Xiuzhen, introduced her to the sacrifice of Deng Shijun, introduced the troops to grab the remains of the process, the leaders repeatedly encouraged her to be strong, and to raise their children. Many Korean people heard that her husband died bravely on the front line, they all came together to comfort her, help her and take care of her. Yuan Xiuzhen said: "Shijun was sacrificed for the defense of the country, I want to raise two children, so that they inherit their father's legacy." Yuan Xiuzhen stayed in North Korea for nearly a month before returning home. In 2012, Chen Mingyue, who served as Deng Shijun's security guard, tearfully recalled Deng Shijun's sacrifice:

On February 17, 1951, the twelfth day of the Lunar New Year, the troops quietly crossed the Yalu River.

The next day, the army commander Fu Chongbi ordered the division commander and regimental commander to take a car to the front to survey the terrain and accept the combat mission. At that time, the volunteer army, in addition to the army commander in a small car, each division in a large truck, division commander, regimental commander sitting in a truck, Deng regimental commander in a third car.

At that time, enemy airplanes circled in the air all day and bombed our targets indiscriminately when they found them. In addition, North Korea is mostly mountainous, the road is narrow, many curves, the driver is not familiar with the road. The car climbed up a large slope to the top of the mountain, suddenly encountered a dead end, the driver could not react, lost control of the truck fell into the ravine, even rolled over three rolls, the car people died on the spot two, Deng and I was wounded.

The Deng leader therefore stayed in the rear to recuperate.

The first time I saw him, I thought he was a good man, and I thought he was a good man, and I thought he was a good man.

After the five battles were fought, Deng heard that the 559th Regiment was not doing well and was anxious, plus his superiors were ready to promote him to be the deputy division commander of the 189th Division. He was worried that after arriving at the division, he would have fewer chances to participate in the battle. Therefore, he ignored his injuries and immediately took me south to look for troops. When he couldn't walk, he refused to rest even though I advised him to do so, saying, "There's no such thing! Once the war is over, all illnesses are gone!

In the evening of the 19th, the division commander ordered Deng to shake off the enemy in front of him and continue to the enemy's depths in a roundabout way, Deng immediately led the first and second battalions boldly to the enemy's depths in the courage to penetrate, he took the guards and bugle call chiefs are always at the forefront of the position, position is even more than the sharp knife platoon in the foreground.

Shortly after that, more than one regiment of American troops under the cover of airplanes, artillery and tanks took turns attacking the 559th Regiment. Deng led the regiment to repel six enemy regimental battalion-sized charges, wiping out more than 200 of the enemy. After receiving orders from the division headquarters, the regiment held out until 12 o'clock at night and then withdrew from the position in groups.

Just as we were passing through an isthmus, we were met with heavy enemy artillery fire, and one of the shells hit Deng's regimental commander, who cried out, "Mingyue, Mingyue, I'm hanging flowers!" I immediately ran to the chief's side and saw that Deng's left thigh had been struck by shrapnel and was bleeding profusely; I immediately took out two first-aid kits from my purse and prepared to bandage him. Just then, the enemy another burst of artillery shells over, one of them landed and exploded, flying shrapnel hit the head of Deng, he died on the spot at the age of 35. The time was May 20, 1951, about 9 o'clock in the evening.

I rushed to find someone to find a stretcher, on the way back from the front line encountered Liu Bo political commissar, I quietly reported to him, seven hundred and eleven (Deng's code name) sacrificed. Liu political commissar with a very heavy heart, immediately ordered the head of the organization unit, the head of the security unit and I carry back the remains of the head of Deng, if the conditions do not allow, to find a suitable place to temporarily bury, but to make a good mark.

We quickly returned to the place where Teng died, find the people a door board, take turns carrying the remains of Teng to an open space. This place is not far from the Hongchuan River, because the Hongchuan River is deep and the waves are fast, it is difficult to carry the remains of the river, so it was decided to bury them on the spot.

We found a dry river ditch nearby, put the remains on the door, I brought a square raincoat on the body of Deng, three people with the ditch on both sides of the soil to bury him. The remains were head to the north and feet to the south, and I used a small shovel to chip off a piece of bark from a small tree nearby as a marker.

Crossing the Hongchuan River on the morning of the 21st, I saw Xu Xin, the division commander, standing by the river, and he was so angry that he ordered two soldiers to take me over. I was covered with dirt and blood, a barge gun on my left side was broken, and the small pistol that I had inserted in my waist to protect myself from Deng, the commander, was also damaged by the explosion.

I reported to the commander of the division about the death of Deng, and the commander asked, "Have you been wounded?" I replied, "I don't know." I know the meaning of the division commander asked, because the guard's duty is to protect the chief, to do the chief in the guard in, the chief died guard died. The division commander added, "How come you're back after Deng's sacrifice?" Said, the division commander ordered me to turn back, I thought I was going to shoot me, so I turned around and closed my eyes and waited, but I didn't hear the gunshot for a long time. It turned out that the division commander saw the binoculars of Deng's commander that I was carrying on my back, and both lenses were blown away, the division commander understood at once, so he waved his hand and let me go.

That day at dusk, I received another notice to immediately rush to the division headquarters.

The division commander, Xu Xin, personally laid out the task, saying that Chairman Mao had given the order: he must snatch back Deng Shijun's remains! The division commander said, "If you can't snatch it back, I'll take your heads."

The division commander asked me: "Can I give you 200 people?" I replied, "There can't be too many people, more than 30 people will be enough. Too many people is too big a target, but more dangerous." The division commander said, "I'll give you 30 men, and the artillery of the entire army will support you."

I carried a walkie-talkie with a platoon and recrossed the Hongchuan River at 10 p.m. on the 21st under the cover of artillery fire from the whole army. We traveled about five or six kilometers, climbed over a hill and a mountain, and in front of us was the open field, about the location where the remains of Deng's head were buried. Who knows at a glance, the place is full of enemy tanks, all the headlights are on, a bright light, it is impossible to get down.

I made three trips back and forth, trying to get closer to that open area, but all were unsuccessful. I had no choice but to use a walkie-talkie to report the situation to the division commander, who told us to wait where we were, and we waited for more than two hours before the commander ordered us to pull back.

Crossing the Hongchuan River, this time the day is close to dawn, I saw Xu Xin division commander stood on the riverside by the west position, Fu Chongbi army commander stood a little to the east of the position, they are all night to personally command this action, has been waiting for us to return safely. Division commander told me, why let you stay in place for so long, because snatch back Deng Shijun's remains is Chairman Mao's order, let you withdraw back also have to ask for Chairman Mao's consent ......