In the heroic history of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chinese people's Volunteer Army wrote a heroic hymn with his own flesh and blood, setting a new record in the history of modern war and weaving a thrilling story. The 22-year-old young soldier, Zhang, a sniper of the 8th Company of the 2nd14th Regiment of the Volunteers, used 442 bullets to destroy 2 14 enemies in the Shangganling blocking war in Jinhua County, setting a record for our army to kill the enemy in the cold.
Zhang's military career was short and young. 195 1 March, 19 years old, volunteered to join Chinese people's Volunteer Army,1September, 1952, entered the Korean battlefield with the army, and1September, 19531October, went to the first-line position. At this time, it was only more than half a year before the Korean armistice. Good marksmanship depends on diligence and exercise; The achievement of an excellent sniper depends on diligence and talent; To be a sniper hero depends largely on the sky. Zhang is a natural sniper. Talent and diligence made him a sniper hero.
The position held by Zhang's company is the 597.9 highland sacrificed by the hero Huang Jiguang in the Battle of Shangganling. From the moment he entered the position, the young soldier was fascinated by the sniper's business. In his spare time, he either asked the old sniper for shooting essentials or kept aiming with a rifle. So, when he really became a sniper, he quickly entered the role and killed an American soldier in the second sniper battle. More than 40 days later, he killed 7 1 enemy with 240 bullets and became the first sniper in the company.
The cadres in the company found that Zhang was a piece of material that could be made, and immediately sent him to the shooting training class held by the regiment for further study. In the training course, he exchanged experience with other snipers, and his experience and technology went further. At the end of the training class, the head of the team personally assessed the marksmanship of the shooters. When it was Zhang's turn, he missed the target, but shot down four birds with five shots, which surprised everyone.
After returning to the position, Zhang was even more out of control. Every time he went to war, he gained something, and soon broke through the mark of killing the enemy 100, and made his mark among volunteer snipers. His deeds were also published in newspapers and widely circulated among his comrades. However, the biggest affirmation of Zhang's sniper technology still comes from the enemy. Although I don't know who Zhang is, there is a volunteer sniper in the 597.9 highland, who is as good as a marksman. However, the American soldiers on the opposite position are well aware of this and hate it. They specially dispatched snipers and decided to pull out Zhang, a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh. This led to a wonderful confrontation between two top snipers.
1953 One day in early summer, the weather was clear and there were no clouds in Wan Li. As usual, Zhang went to the fields early in the morning. As soon as he entered the No.3 sniper platform along the traffic ditch, a string of machine gun bullets flew over his scalp. Zhang head shrinks, prone on the traffic ditch, nervous at once, feel a strange atmosphere. Something is wrong today. It seems that someone is waiting for me across the street.
A broken helmet was left in the traffic ditch. Zhang picked it up and held it with a rifle, revealing the traffic ditch. He has used this method many times before to lure his opponent to reveal his position. But this time, the helmet swayed for a long time, but the opponent did not fire a shot. Obviously, he is also an experienced shooter.
"I finally met my opponent. This little trick can't fool him. " Zhang Zhang. He crawled in the traffic ditch, reached the end of the traffic ditch, suddenly jumped up and crossed a small clearing in a few steps. He was just about to enter the sniper platform when the other side's machine gun fired another shot, and the bullet chased after his heel, making the ground dusty. Zhang reached out his hands, leaned over and fell into the sniper platform on the left side of the bunker like being hit.
This fake action obviously fooled the opponent's shooter, and he temporarily stopped shooting. Zhang slowly poked his head out of the bunker and began to search the opposite position. He first carefully observed the machine gun bunker on the US military position and found that two machine guns were shooting in other directions. Zhang didn't shoot because he knew it was bait to some extent. A real opponent must be hiding somewhere else, looking for his place. As soon as he shoots, he will be killed immediately. Zhang is very clear that he has only one goal at the moment, and that is the most cunning and terrible opponent opposite.
He waited patiently, searching. Finally, the opponent's position was found in the gap between two adjacent rocks on the opposite mountain. Zhang immediately fired, aiming his gun at his opponent's head. However, just as he was about to pull the trigger, his opponent found him, too. His head tilted and he stood out of Zhang's gun, and then the machine gun in his hand burst into flames! Zhang was trapped in the bunker again. This time, his opponent obviously realized his power. The muzzle of the machine gun was always aimed at Zhang's sniper platform, and a few seconds was a little shot. Zhang outcropped a little and immediately attracted some dragons. Zhang didn't try so hard, sitting behind the bunker, quietly observing the opponent's placement.
After a long time, he suddenly found that his opponent seemed to focus on the left side of the sniper platform, which is where he is now, but he didn't hit the right side of the sniper platform many times, and there was often a gap in the middle. Under the cover of sandbags, he slowly climbed to the right side of the sniper platform and gently extended his rifle to approach the sandbags, but he didn't shoot, because he needed to judge whether it was his opponent's real negligence or a trap.
He waited for more than ten minutes. The impact point of the machine gun showed that his opponent did not notice that he had changed his position. This moment has finally arrived! When his opponent just fired a shot on the right side of the sniper platform and turned his eyes and muzzle to the left, Zhang suddenly stood up, butted his shoulder and shot at once. Almost at the same time, his opponent also found Zhang, and immediately turned the gun and pulled the trigger.
Masters fight, the outcome is only in an instant. Zhang's bullet is a few tenths of a second faster than his opponent. It is this fraction of a second that determines the outcome of both. When Zhang's bullet passed through his opponent's head, the bullet fired by his opponent flew over Zhang's scalp.
By the beginning of May, 1953, Zhang had killed and wounded 2 14 enemies with 436 bullets in more than three months, which was the highest single record of a volunteer sniper. For this reason, he was awarded the title of special hero and second-class hero of the Volunteers, and was awarded the first-class flag medal by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Before the volunteers entered the DPRK, Mao Zedong described the strategic and tactical guiding ideology of the volunteers in the Korean battlefield as follows: "You hit you, I hit me. You play atomic bombs, I play grenades. Seize the weakness and follow you, and finally defeat you. " This passage explains the most profound war theory in the most popular language, and also tells the mystery of the volunteers defeating the US military with superior equipment on the Korean battlefield.
The action of the volunteers' sniper fire also reflects the guiding ideology of defeating the enemy in this war. Although inferior equipment put the volunteers at a disadvantage in the early stage of positional confrontation, it was with this self-confidence, flexibility and endless creativity from the masses that the volunteers flexibly combined various seemingly outdated weapons and then gave them effective tactics to stage the most incredible sniper war in the history of world war. It can't determine the course of the war, but when it is combined with other defensive means created by the volunteers, it has great power, and it has made indelible contributions to the volunteers taking the initiative in the battlefield and winning the final victory of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
From May 1952 to July 1953, the volunteers killed or injured more than 52,000 people of the "United Nations Army" and the South Korean Army in the sniper fire movement. This brilliant record is enough to make volunteer snipers go down in the history of world war.
Zhang is an ordinary soldier in the 8th Company of 2nd14th Regiment of 72nd Division of 24th Army (1932-). In the battle of Shangganling in Jinhua County, he set a record for our army to kill the enemy in the front line of North Korea: 2 14 people were killed! At that time, the calculation of the results was very strict. After the target was knocked down, it took 15 minutes to get up before being killed. At the same time, there must be more than two comrades-in-arms to prove. In his first month in the first position, Zhang killed 7 1 enemy with 247 bullets. Pi Dingjun, the commander of the army, didn't believe this amazing result at first. Later, he was convinced of Zhang's skill by a living witness and immediately rewarded him with a pair of warm leather boots. Here, by the way, I would like to mention the excellent combat situation of our army snipers on the Korean battlefield. It would be wonderful if it were made into a movie, but now the directors of military themes are all pig brains. Sniper activity itself is not new. During World War II, the armies of Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan and the United States all did it. However, this is the first time for the Chinese Army as a major, rather than auxiliary, combat form with a certain color of strategic action. This is not only the activities of a few snipers, but also the organized mass sniper operations of all rifles, light and heavy machine guns and other special shooters in the frontier positions of the whole front, including the organized shooting of enemy exposed targets by single guns or artillery companies or tank units in the launching positions supported by tunnels and temporary launching positions. This kind of active combat action for tactics, campaigns and even strategies has been active until the end of the war. As early as 195 1 65438+ 10 to February, the shooter of the 2nd battalion of the 585th regiment of the 65th Army wiped out 83 enemies with 750 bullets. However, that was after the construction of the first-line tunnel defense system was completed on the Korean front, that is, during the period of1May, 952, because the formation of tunnel fortifications provided a reliable guarantee for the blocking activities, the threat of retaliatory artillery fire by the enemy was greatly reduced. At that time, the 40th Army took over the position of the 64th Army as the first line of defense. There is a deputy company commander named Xu Shizhen in the 9th Company of the 355th Regiment stationed in front of Huangjishan Mountain. He is a famous man with two arms. He couldn't swallow his breath when he saw the unscrupulous display of British soldiers in front of the position. He decided to commit the discipline of "don't shoot at will", export evil spirits and kill seven British soldiers in one day. After being approved by the superior, this flexible sniper activity was quickly popularized in each team. At that time, the China army didn't engage in any professional sniper training at all. The squad leader and company commander took the recruits directly to the front, pointing out how to measure the distance, how to set the scale, how to calculate the advance, how to go up the mountain, how to go down the mountain, what is the main point of shooting at night, and then said that you should try two targets. In this way, the soldiers have been trained, their skills have been improved, their achievements have been achieved, and they have a sense of accomplishment. Many new soldiers became heroes before they knew it.
According to the statistics of 12 Army, from the end of July to the end of 10, the whole army of 12 Army killed 2,506 people, consumed 5,843 rifle bullets, caused sniper casualties 1 1, and hit the target within 100 meters to 80%. 15 Army's sniper activities in the mountainous area of Vu Thang are also very lively. In the 537.7 Beishan position in Shangganling, which was guarded by the 45th Division 135 Regiment, 3,558 people were killed by sniper fire within 9 months, while the whole army wiped out 1992 1 person, of which more than 40% were caused by sniper fire. At the same time, the 15 Army suffered only 35 casualties. The casualty ratio between the enemy and us is 569: 1. This deal is really cost-effective. You know, a large-scale exercise may also cause thirty or fifty casualties. No wonder later, the officers and men of the United Nations gave a name to the 537.7 Beishan position in Shangganling-Sniper Ridge. At first glance, this tactic is not profitable, but it can't stand it every day. Although it is piecemeal, many a mickle makes a mickle, but it is profitable. Two or three a day, two or three a day, over time, the effect will be considerable. Even beyond the period of fierce fighting. After a few months, there are many soldiers who killed and wounded dozens of enemies by one person, such as the 40 th Army 1 18 Division 354 Regiment, which started its first battle abroad. Three months later, several classes made hundreds of achievements in sniper fire. In two and a half months, the 202nd Division of the 67th Army wiped out nearly 4,000 enemies with cold guns and cold guns, accounting for 80% of the total number of enemies wiped out in the two and a half months' defensive operations. The 203rd Division is in a backward position in the 68th Army. Three and a half months later, more than 700 people were held accountable. Even the handyman went on the field. There is a cook named Pang Zilong in the eighth company of the 6 10 regiment of the 204th Division of the 68th Army. He delivered food to snipers at his job, and when he came and went on the battlefield, he saw people playing happily, so he said I tried to shoot twice. As a result, I couldn't stop calling. Within three months, a man shot 54 enemies in the cold, became addicted, became famous and became a hero. A poem written by soldier Jiang Zhongqing is simple and wonderful: It is really important to advocate this tactic when shooting in the cold. This is the fatal wound of the enemy. Before finding a hidden position to shoot, the shooter should load the bullets and pay attention to the enemy's activities. Don't panic. Aim at the effective range first, then raise your gun and knock it down with one shot. You hit me, too. I knocked the japs out. For the sake of world peace, we will resolutely destroy the aggressors. The most frequent sniper activities were 1952. From April to August, China troops attacked and destroyed more than 3,600 people, and from October to August, 1952/kloc-0 destroyed more than 8,900 people with mobile guns. Almost every unit can slip out of the queue a long line of sharpshooters. For a time, the daytime activities of the United Nations Army were basically controlled by the China Army. The morale of the United nations army has fallen to freezing point. Once a volunteer team raided an American bunker at night, and the only American soldier on duty put his gun on the loophole of the bunker, but his head was buried very low. Of course, someone asked him why he didn't look out. The American soldier said, "Don't look up."
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Zhang, a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu Province, was born in 193 1. 1946 as the head of the children's league. 1951March joined the China People's Liberation Army. September in Chinese people's Volunteer Army, 1952. In the Shangganling war, Zhang served as a sniper and killed 2 14 people. He was awarded a special first-class merit, a second-class hero and a first-class national flag medal by the headquarters of the Volunteers and the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of Korea. /kloc-in 0/954, he was transferred to the air force and entered the fifth aviation preparatory school in Xuzhou and the fifth aviation school in Jinan Air Force. 1956 joined China GCD. He once worked as a fighter pilot in the air force Gaomi 1 training base. After retiring, he joined a division of Weifang Air Force as a political instructor. 1980 retired.
20071At 22: 00 on October 29th, Zhang, a famous sniper of China People's Liberation Army, died in Weifang at the age of 77.