A few days ago, the old man Liu Lutian, a Yunting Zhang martyr tombstone donor, came to the Ping Jin Campaign Memorial Hall again and told us the detailed process of finding the tombstone that year.
According to Mr. Liu, in 2002, when his house was renovated, this tombstone was discovered. He thought it was a cornerstone, but he accidentally saw the words engraved on it. After wiping, it was written with seven traditional Chinese characters of "Yunting Zhang Martyrs' Tomb". The back of the stone tablet is engraved with the inscription "Comrade Yunting Zhang, a member of the Northeast Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, died in Tianjin on 1949 1 month 15". In order to make the tomb tablet of the martyrs have the best destination and make the martyrs smile in Jiuquan, the old man Liu Lutian donated the tombstone to the Pingjin Campaign Memorial Hall.
Recently, Liu Lutian learned that this tombstone was originally moved by the owner of the house from the beach of the North Canal when building a house. It is inferred that the tomb of the martyrs should be there. According to this clue, the staff of Ping Jin Museum visited many places on the basis of the original materials, and finally obtained the complete information of the martyrs' life experience.
Yunting Zhang, 1924 was born in Yanjie Village, Suodagan Township, Linxian County, Shanxi Province, and 1944 went to Yan 'an to participate in the revolution. 1946 transferred to the tank brigade from Yan' an artillery school, and later served as the instructor of the special longitudinal chariot regiment 1 battalion 2 company. On the morning of 65438+65438 at 0949+65438 at 10 +04 at 10, the tough battle in Tianjin started. At that time, 20 tanks of Yunting Zhang's No.1 1 Chariot Regiment were on the attack mission to the west, and our army constantly destroyed enemy bunkers and fortifications under the strong artillery fire of tanks. In the battle, he led three rows of tanks to the front and fought with the infantry. When fighting to the enemy headquarters in Guang Hai Temple, Yunting Zhang was shot unfortunately and died gloriously. After the peaceful liberation of Beijing, the Chariot Corps held a celebration meeting in Peking University Auditorium, and the troops awarded Yunting Zhang the honorary title of "Special Tank Hero".
Left, the old man Liu Lutian tells the story of finding the tombstone in front of the tomb of the martyrs in Yunting Zhang.
Introduction of Zhao Zhenglie's deeds
Zhao Zheng (1922- 1945), a native of Jizhong, was born in party member. Participated in the revolution since childhood, persisted in the anti-Japanese war behind enemy lines in Jizhong and other places, and moved to the northeast on the eve of liberation. He used to be the head of Dawa District.
1In the autumn of 945, Comrade Zhao Zheng was sent by the secret service of Liaozhong to cross the Daling River to Panshan to carry out armed struggle and form the people's political power, and was appointed as the first warden of the Great Depression. At that time, it was facing the chaotic situation that Japan surrendered, the landlord armed forces rose, and the squire, local tyrants and pseudo-police jointly maintained the meeting in an attempt to seize local political power. Comrade Zhao Zheng led the regional armed detachment to gallop in the villages around Dawa, widely and deeply mobilized the masses, publicized the Party's principles and policies, spread the revolutionary flame, cracked down on the arrogance of the evil gentry, changed the interests of the people, worked hard to completely liberate Dawa and establish the people's political power, and forgot to fight.
It is true that Dawa Railway Station stores a large amount of food, sea salt and other materials. The president of the reactionary maintenance society encouraged Bai Shao and others to hoard this grain and hand it over to the Kuomintang army. Comrade Zhao Zheng broke their plot and decided to quickly transport food to rural areas and nearby areas to help people and support troops in need of food.
1945, 165438+265438+ 10. In October, when Comrade Zhao Zheng led a team to the railway station to check the cooling situation, he was attacked by a group of gangsters. Comrade Zhao Zheng died gloriously in the battle. The martyr's ambition was not paid, and the big depression was dyed red with blood.
After liberation, the people's government suppressed Cui and other criminals in accordance with the law, and erected a monument next to the original railway station where the martyrs died. 1975 In the spring, the people of Dawa Town built the tomb of Zhao Zheng Martyrs in Dawa Martyrs Cemetery. Hero leader Hu Wenjie.
1May, 949 15, Hu Wenjie died in the Battle of Yuepu in Shanghai, giving his precious life for the liberation of the people of China and the magnificent cause of capitalism, at the age of 33. He was the highest-ranking among more than 7,600 martyrs who died in the battle of Shanghai.
12 On the morning of May, the peripheral war to liberate Shanghai started. I ordered Hu Wenjie, head of the 259th Regiment of the 87th Division of 29 army, to lead his troops to capture Yeda Village on the periphery of Yuepu Town, waiting for an opportunity to capture Lion Limbaugh. After attacking Pupu next month, it will be the main force to capture Baoshan and Wusong.
It was raining in Mao Mao at night, and the road was slippery and muddy, making marching extremely difficult. Political commissar Hu Wenjie and Li Feng, deputy head Li Chao, and director of the Political Department Zheng Fang were at the forefront of the troops, leading the 259th regiment to enter the forefront of the Kuomintang Yeda Village stronghold before 2 am on 13.
Yeda Village, also known as Dacun, is strategically located between Yuepu Town and Lion Forest Castle. Pull out this nail, you can cut off the contact between Yuepu and the Kuomintang army in Lion Limbaugh, and Hu Wenjie is determined to win it at all costs.
The Kuomintang garrison here is subordinate to the 296th Division of the 52nd Army, and is responsible for defending the Lion Forest Fort, Yeda Village and Baoshan City. All its troops are hiding in the bunker, trying to destroy the attack force with three-dimensional firepower of land, sea and air.
In the early morning of May 65438, 2003, Hu Wenjie and his staff, captain and guards directly entered the operational positions of the 2nd and 3rd battalions. When the 3rd Battalion was determined as the main attack force, he entered the front with the 3rd Battalion Commando.
As soon as our 3rd Battalion entered the attack position, it was immediately hit by enemy artillery and machine guns. Ye Shiying, the battalion commander, was seriously injured and Chen, the camp instructor, died. At the same time, more than 80 commanders and soldiers were killed or injured.
Battle-hardened Hu Wenjie is not surprised. He calmly considered that the enemy was hiding in the defensive position supported by the mother fort and killed my attacking troops with artillery fire. So we must first solve the bunker group. After consulting with the political commissar of the regiment, he decided to change the second battalion to the main attack, and ordered all the 1 1 American rockets of the regiment to be concentrated in the fifth company of the second battalion, one for each class. Each company organizes a blasting group, a firepower group and an assault group, and each soldier carries several small bags of explosives. And choose the southwest corner of the village where the enemy's firepower is weak as a breakthrough.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Hu Wenjie ordered the artillery to prepare. Suddenly, six mountain guns belonging to the army fired flat at the enemy bunker, and the artillery of the division and regiment also fired together. After 30 minutes, Hu Wenjie's commander blew the signal to the feint position. At that time, shouting ShaSheng, bugles and explosions broke out on the ground. The enemy panicked, and all the heavy and light machine guns in the artillery and bunker were in my feint direction. Before the enemy in the bunker could react, the rocket launcher had drilled into the hole and exploded in the bunker. The frontal enemy is still busy firing at the feint position of the 89th Company, while our 4567th Company has already attacked from behind. The battle wiped out more than 200 recalcitrant enemies and won the first battle.
13, 260th regiment, 253rd regiment and 26 1 regiment attacked Yuepu town, and encountered stubborn resistance from the defenders, resulting in heavy casualties. There are only 120 infantry left in the 260th regiment.
On June 5438+04, Hu Wenjie received an order from the head of the headquarters to transfer the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 259th Regiment to Yuepu Town for a tough battle. Before 5pm, Hu Wenjie, Li Chao and Zheng Fang led the 2nd and 3rd Battalions to the battlefield in Yuepu. Hu Wenjie immediately took TeWuLian into the front line to investigate. He found that Yuepu Town was surrounded by open terrain, dense rivers, a series of trenches and bunkers. He has never seen such a powerful fire defense position.
Hu Wenjie called a meeting of battalion and company cadres to emphasize: "Our task of attacking Yuepu this time is highly trusted by the heads of the army and divisions, and we must resolutely complete the task." The meeting decided to avoid the frontal enemy and set the breakthrough point at the northwest corner of Yuepu Town. At the end of the meeting, Hu Wenjie stood up, looked at everyone with nervous eyes, clenched his fist and shouted: "Go all out and fight the moon!" This magnificent and lofty slogan made the cadres present see the brilliant achievements of the four regiments (the predecessor of the 259th Regiment) in the Soviet Union's "Seven Wars and Seven Wins" and the Huaihai Campaign, and realized that today would be a fierce battle.
At 6: 40 p.m., the regiments of the 87th Division launched their second attack on Yuepu Town under the cover of mountain guns, howitzers and pursuit guns. The 2nd and 3rd Battalion of the 259th Regiment, with the cooperation of various regiments, courageously and quickly rushed from the northwest corner of Yuepu to the west end of Yuepu Town, and broke into Yuepu Block in one fell swoop. It is already late at night, and our field troops are using weapons. Hu Wenjie carried a carbine on his back and loudly said to everyone, "Comrades, we must fight resolutely! We must attack Xiayuepu and capture Wusongkou! " In the enemy's bullets, they sometimes crawled forward and sometimes rolled quickly, and launched a fierce street battle with the enemy from house to house. In the street, the soldiers of the enemy's 52nd Army saw that the solid fortifications outside Yuepu Town could not stop the People's Liberation Army, so they fled to the southeast of Yuepu Town and hid in 25? The Zimubao Group in 32 Highlands confronted the PLA.
Hu Wenjie also led the instructors to the forward position to observe, so close that even the enemy's voice could be heard. After returning to the position, he asked the commander to seize the time to build fortifications and prepare for the enemy's counterattack.
Unsurprisingly, Liu, commander of the enemy's 52nd Army, was very reluctant to see the Yuepu position fall. In order to save this shocking defeat, from the dawn of 15, the enemy retaliated against our position at all costs in an attempt to recapture Yuepu Town. They dispatched dozens of planes and 10 warships to concentrate their artillery fire on our army's Yuepu position. Shells rained down. Many houses in the town collapsed, leaving broken walls in ruins. Under the cover of artillery fire, the whole row and company of enemy troops headed by tanks rushed to our position.
Hu Wenjie's command troops stubbornly stopped the enemy coming back from the bridge and the river ditch. On the position of the 259th regiment, every time the enemy counterattacked, it ended in leaving a lot of bodies in the river ditch, and our position in Yuepu Town stood tall.
In retaliation, the enemy at the other end of the road organized more intensive artillery fire and bombed our positions continuously. Hu Wenjie, Li Chao and Zheng Fang rushed to the temporary command post in the northeast of the street and deployed several battalions to further block them. It is estimated that officers and men should be "people in positions!" When Hu Wenjie was telling Xue Jingcheng, the assistant instructor of 3rd Battalion who had just come to the meeting, the enemy's shells landed outside the temporary command post and exploded. Unfortunately, Hu Wenjie was injured by several shrapnel, bleeding profusely, and died heroically. Xue Jingcheng also died on the spot, and Li, deputy head of the delegation, and many others were seriously injured.
The officers and men of the 259th regiment were indignant when they saw the heroic sacrifice of the colonel. They are determined to carry on Colonel Hu's legacy and swear to fight the enemy to the end. They worked together in Qi Xin, United as one, and finally, together with the officers and men of the 87th Division, bravely and tenaciously held the position of Yuepu, which effectively ensured the defensive of the brothers' siege of Baoshan and Wusong for the first time and achieved a great victory in liberating Shanghai.
At the moment when the darkness of history has ended and the dawn of new China is about to shine on the land of China, the martyrs of Hu Wenjie gave their precious lives selflessly and fearlessly. Like countless revolutionary martyrs, he dyed the five-star red flag that is about to rise high above the motherland with full blood!