At the military parade of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1999, there was a 76-year-old man on the National Day viewing platform. This old man is Tan Bingyun, the most famous anti-tank hero in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.
According to the records of "The Heroes of the Volunteer Army" and "Remembrance Collection of Heroes to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea", "Tan Bingyun, a native of Jiangjin County, Sichuan Province... Blocked the enemy at the 390 high ground in the southeast of Jinhua, and made outstanding achievements. He destroyed three enemy tanks with grenades and repulsed them. The attack of the enemy's tank group prevented the enemy from daring to advance for eight hours, and played a major role in the safe transfer of troops, agencies and logistics. On September 24, 1951, the leadership of the Chinese People's Volunteers Army decided to award special merits and awards at the same time. 'First-Class Hero'. On October 25, 1952, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Korea awarded the 'First-Class Soldier Medal of Honor'".
What kind of person is Tan Bingyun? Why does he make a living by carrying corpses in his later years? Let's walk into Tan Bingyun and learn about this fighting hero who fought against US aggression and aided Korea.
Tan Bingyun was born on November 13, 1923 in a poor peasant family in Baisha Village, Jiangjin County, Chongqing. Since he was a child, he has been herding sheep and cattle for a long time. He has endured the hardships of life and the exploitation of landlords and capitalists. At the end of 1948, Tan Bingyun joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In the battle to liberate Shanghai, he braved the fierce fire of the enemy, jumped into the river and built bridges for the assault troops, fought tenaciously for several days and nights in the fierce battle, and won the third-class merit .
As a PLA soldier , Tan Bingyun felt the happiness of turning over and becoming the master for the first time. It is this sense of happiness that makes him work hard in many battles, study hard in the gaps between battles, and improve his strategic and tactical level. In 1950, Tan Bingyun joined the Chinese People's Volunteer Army and entered Korea to fight with the troops. It was also during the Korean War that Tan Bingyun became a nationally known anti-tank hero.
In May 1951, at the end of the fifth battle, the United Nations led by the United States launched a large-scale counter-offensive operation. In the 390 heights of the Jinhua campaign, it is the place where Tan Bingyun, the squad leader of the Volunteer Army, created a military miracle.
Tan Bingyun and Qiu Shaoyun's mother
Tan Bingyun took recruit Mao He and dug a lot of foxholes next to the road for their own ambush, while the rest of the soldiers were on the mountainside to guard. Tan Bingyun believes that the road is very narrow, and it only needs to destroy one enemy tank, and the large US troops will be congested on the road. Soon after the
position was established, the enemy's tanks drove over. Although Tan Bingyun is already the squad leader, he is not sure about the tank. However, when it was about time, he couldn't back down. He took a grenade from his waist and handed it to Mao He, saying, "I'll go first, you're here", and rushed out.
Tan Bingyun is really inexperienced in fighting tanks for the first time. He was lying in a foxhole on the side of the road, using branches as cover and shelter, and the enemy did not notice it at all. As the tank got closer and closer, Tan Bingyun straightened up and knelt on one leg, holding the grenade tightly in his right hand, with his left index finger in the ring, and continued to wait patiently. When the tank walked in, he threw a grenade, and after it exploded, he found that it only damaged one of the headlights of the enemy tank. Tan Bingyun rushed to the road desperately, threw a second grenade at its butt and threw a second grenade at its butt. Before he could lie down, a piece of shrapnel hit his forehead in the violent explosion. When Tan Bingyun woke up, he realized that the enemy tank had been destroyed.
However, the second tank had already rushed over, and Tan Bingyun rushed to the road with an automatic rifle and started shooting. Tan Bingyun naturally knew that the rifle could not hit the tank. He was diverting the enemy's firepower and attention, and let Mao He and other soldiers attack the back of the tank. Sure enough, Mao and a grenade were thrown behind the tank, blowing up the tank.
Tan Bingyun found that a person came out of the tank, his hands were drooping, his head was drooping on his chest, but his body was still wriggling. It turned out that the U.S. military used the corpse as a cover and wanted to get out and fight back! Tan Bingyun made a decisive decision, rushed to the tank turret, and rushed inside along the Tianmen cover. After a few wailing, all the US troops inside were reimbursed.
Tan Bingyun's main task is to block. After most of the enemies escaped in tanks, he stopped chasing after him, and only then did he realize that his body was top-notch.There was a lot of blood, and even the original bandage was lost. Tan Bingyun didn't dare to delay, and quickly asked Mao Yun to ask for grenades. Without grenades, it would be impossible to kill the tank!
It was dawn, and the enemy came up in a jeep. Tan Bingyun fired a few bursts of his rifle, and the American driver was killed again.
Only then did Tan Bingyun realize that the road was blocked, and the rest of the tanks could not drive here, so they could only continue to look for the enemy along the road. Tan Bingyun found an excellent ambush location again, and Mao Yun came with the platoon leader. The platoon leader insisted on asking Tan Bingyun to go down and replace someone else, but Tan Bingyun insisted that he was not seriously injured and had skills and experience in fighting tanks. In the end, the platoon leader left, while Mao Yun was in charge of vigilance, and Tan Bingyun still took the lead.
Tan Bingyun's choice of ambush points is very clever. Here, there is a mountain on one side and a steep slope on the other. There is a dense cluster of wild grapes growing on the steep slope close to the road. Hiding in it can not only hide, but also observe the movement on the south road. Tan Bingyun was hiding in the wild grape bushes. The enemy's shells and bullets couldn't hit him, and the crawler could not press him. As the enemy tanks approached, he ripped through the vines, climbed to the edge of the road ahead, pulled the latch on the grenade, and threw the grenade at the rear of the first tank that had passed him. When the grenade was still rolling in the air, he had quickly returned to the vines. The enemy tanks were scrapped again with a loud noise, the road was in chaos, all the tanks were desperately backing up, and the artillery and machine guns were firing aimlessly. Tan Bingyun successfully blocked the path of the US armored troops northward, and a proud smile appeared on his blood and dust-covered face.
Tan Bingyun thought that he just destroyed three American tanks on the side of the road, but what he did not expect was that because of his blocking, the second division of the American cavalry was blocked for 8 hours. A month later, Peng Deqing, the commander of the 27th Army, held his hand tightly and said, "Tan Bingyun, Tan Bingyun, you are the greatest life-saving Bodhisattva in the world! You have blocked eight of the 2nd Division of the Beautiful Cavalry. In an hour, a large number of our comrades were able to safely evacuate across the Beihan River!" Commander Peng Deqing immediately called out the political commissar Zeng, the two commanders were on the left and the other on the right, Tan Bingyun was in the middle, and the three took a photo.
Tan Bingyun, because of his outstanding performance in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, in September 1951 participated in the representative of the volunteer army hero returning to China to watch the National Day ceremony. On the 29th, in the auditorium of the General Political Department, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai and other party and state leaders cordially received representatives of Yingmo and shook hands with Tan Bingyun. After the meeting, Academician Nie Rongzhen heard that Tan Bingyun was a fellow of Jiangjin University with him, and he was very kind to him, and he played a "hometown bomb" with him.
In 1952, the leader of the Korean People's Army, Kim Il Sung, was also accompanied by Marshal Peng Dehuai , and met the fighting hero at the headquarters of the Volunteer Army.
Tan Bingyun and other fighting heroes took a photo with Chairman Mao
In 1953, the Korean armistice, Tan Bingyun returned to his home in Baisha Town, Jiangjin County, where he found that his family was already quite poor. When the hero stepped into the house, two officials from the county housing management office came to the door to demand the rent from his mother. Because Tan's mother has no money and has been late, the faces of the two cadres are really ugly. Tan Bingyun paid the rent with the transfer fee, and that's all.
By chance, a friend working in the county party committee asked Tan Bingyun if he was the anti-tank hero in the People's Daily. After this question, Tan Bingyun's identity was only known to the leaders of Jiangjin County. However, in order to ensure that there is no problem, Jiangjin County sent a telegram to the army of Tan Bingyun in Jinhua, Zhejiang for verification, and only then did he get accurate information.
Tan Bingyun, who couldn't pay the rent, became a hero admired by everyone in Jiangjin County overnight. Only then did people learn that Tan Bingyun joined the People's Liberation Army as a prisoner of the national army in the Huaihai Battle and became a fighting hero. In several years of combat career, Tan Bingyun has served as squad leader and platoon leader successively, and has won the third-class merit three times and the fourth-class merit five times.
Tan Bingyun, a fighting hero, won great honors and began to serve as the deputy chief of the Public Security Bureau and the section chief of the Civil Affairs Bureau in Jiangjin County. However, the good times did not last long. In 1960, the whole of China fell into starvation. Tan Bingyun, as the section chief, brought civil affairs cadres to the Youxi Town for a meeting. Someone wanted to get some detonators, explosives, and fish to improve the food. Tan Bingyun agreed. Originally for frying fish, but improper operationIt became a tragedy of one death and two injuries. The superiors investigated it. Although Tan Bingyun did not participate in the fish frying, he did not want to explain too much, and was assigned to a refractory material factory under the Civil Affairs Bureau as the factory director.
Tan Bingyun brought a big red flower and was awarded the "Home of Heroes"
Tan Bingyun was the factory manager. He still maintained the style of the volunteer squad leader and platoon leader. He has been working as a plasterer for a long time. "The face is full of dust and fireworks, and the temples are black and the fingers are black." Those who went into the factory to buy materials regarded him as a "dust digger".
Tan Bingyun's spirit of "taking the lead and not getting off the line with minor injuries" is the spirit of Iron Man in Northeast China, and the spirit of Dazhai and Hongqiqu in North China, but in Chongqing, it seems that everyone is up to this middle-aged man covered in plaster. Man used to be a fighting hero.
Later, Tan Bingyun became the section chief of the Civil Affairs Bureau and took the lead in building the county's first crematorium. In the early days of the crematorium, the workers were too timid to touch the corpses, let alone dress, groom, and transport the dead. Tan Bingyun put on a waistband, personally pulled the trolley to the county court to transport the body back, and moved the body into the cremation furnace by himself, and let the workers stand by to watch how he did it. In the beginning, the cremation work was very resisted by people, and the work was very difficult.
As the Chief of Civil Affairs, Tan Bingyun deeply felt his responsibility. In order to promote cremation, he endured seven or eight kinds of ailments such as hypertension, emphysema, gastric ulcer, and the pain left by the war on him. Climbing mountains and wading water to publicize to the masses, he often went to the door to do work in person when someone died, and when the work was done, he personally carried the deceased onto a trolley and pulled it away. If you can't do your job well, if you don't get it right, you will be scolded in blood! Annoyed, he occasionally punches at him. What's more, sometimes the corpse is pulled halfway or pulled back to the crematorium, and the family backtracks on it and chases it back to get it back for burial.
In 1983, Tan Bingyun wrote a letter requesting retirement to the Organization Department of the County Party Committee, in which he said:
"I am 59 years old this year. I feel very ashamed of the great contributions and achievements the party and the people have made. I have suffered a head injury, and it is difficult for me to work. I can't play a proper role in the leadership position. If I stay here, it will only cause harm to the work of the party. Influenced by the influence, I specially applied to the organization to leave early..."
Tan Bingyun, who retired, did not live a comfortable life of caring for Sun Yi's life, and he paid more attention to those who lacked arms and legs, were deaf and mute, and were stupid. Dependent disabled and orphans. In order to help the disabled to make a living and find employment, he found the famous "He Banya" and asked his disabled people to be his apprentices. He Banya immediately said: "The human heart is full of flesh, you old hero has no worries about food and clothing, and you are still burdened by these disabled people. As a self-employed person, can I still help? Teaching, just for your old hero's face, I don't accept a penny, I teach you for nothing!"
Tan Bingyun was a heroic and invincible PLA soldier in the war years, and the most lovely person. In the peaceful era, Tan Bingyun has always maintained his original intention, not for the sake of fame or for profit, and always for the common people. Think about it and do every job well. This spirit is worth learning from our young people today.
In 1991, Tan Bingyun was invited to visit North Korea and received courtesy and honors from the North Korean government. In all parts of North Korea, Tan Bingyun received countless flowers and applause. What moved Tan Bingyun the most was that in the military museum of the Korean People's Army in Pyongyang , he saw a huge photo of himself when he was young when he accepted flowers from North Korean women. However, Tan Bingyun did not go to the Jinhua battlefield south of the 38th parallel until his death. He could only look south at Panmunjom to cherish the memory of those comrades who died in the Korean battlefield.
On July 15, 2001, Tan Bingyun passed away at the age of 78.
The old hero Tan Bingyun passed away, but the spiritual wealth he left us is worth learning forever.