Huang Jiguang's comrade-in-arms and military writer Wang Jingzhong passed away

  A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned from Dong Hongyou, former chairman of the Wuhan Writers Association: Comrade Huang Jiguang, military writer, and former Secretary-General of Wuhan Writers Association, Wang Jingzhong, passed away at 3:40 on November 21.

  It is understood that Wang Jingzhong's children are all abroad, and he lives in Wuhan with his wife and nanny.

During the November of this year, during a physical examination, he was found to have a lung mass, and he was immediately diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma.

"The elderly are very old, have multiple organ insufficiency diseases such as heart, lung, and kidney before surgery, and are still a patient after cardiac stent surgery. We successfully removed the lesion with the help of minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgery. The postoperative recovery was good, but I did not expect it He died suddenly." Director Huang Zhiliang of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery of Wuhan Sixth Hospital introduced to a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily.

  It is worth mentioning that during his illness, Wang Jingzhong and his wife also watched the meeting to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers’ mission to fight the United States and Aid Korea on the morning of October 23 in the Wuhan Federation of Literary and Art Institute.

At that time, Wang Jingzhong's thoughts were still very clear: "Compared to the comrades who sacrificed on the battlefield, I am already very happy. After experiencing the cruel and determined battle in Shangganling, what hurdles can I not overcome?" "I am just a survivor. , The real heroes are sacrificed comrades."

  In March 1951, Wang Jingzhong, as a member of the 15th Army of the Volunteer Army, went to the front line of North Korea with the troops.

On October 14, 1952, the Battle of Shangganling broke out.

When the fighting was fierce and the front-line troops were severely attenuated, the art troupe, hospitals, etc. all deployed a large number of personnel to the front, and Wang Jingzhong was also among the fighting.

In the tunnel, he met Huang Jiguang, a communicator from the 2nd Battalion of the 135th Regiment of the 45th Division of the 15th Army. "He is not tall and dark. At that time, I never imagined that this seemingly ordinary comrade in arms before him was so earth-shattering a few days later. Heroic behavior..."

  In this way, in the frontier tunnel, Wang Jingzhong used affectionate brushstrokes to create a large number of works such as the recitation poem "The Great Warrior Huang Jiguang" and the song "Fire Hero Qiu Shaoyun".

After the battle, the comrades of the Arts and Crafts Troupe first recommended Wang Jingzhong to make second-class merits, which was a commendation and affirmation for him not afraid of sacrifice and fighting bravely.

  In the following decades, Wang Jingzhong devoted a lot of time to the creation of heroes and history.

For example, in the 1960s, he published more than 100 works such as reportage "Huang Jiguang Lives in Everyone's Heart" and "Blood Battle on Ganling"; in 1977, he published the novel "The Red Flag of Ten Thousand Miles" and the collection of stories "Super Hero Huang Jiguang" (and Co-authored); 2007 documentary literature "Chinese Hero Huang Jiguang" and so on.

  Respond to queries

  Why didn't Huang Jiguang leave a photo?

  On October 20, 1962, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Huang Jiguang's sacrifice, Wang Jingzhong and his comrades visited the hero's hometown and met with Huang Jiguang's mother Deng Fangzhi for the third time and obtained a lot of first-hand materials.

  For Huang Jiguang, most people's impression comes from the color illustration of the hero pounced on the enemy bunker in elementary school textbooks.

Why didn't such a "super battle hero" leave a photo?

Wang Jingzhong said, “After Huang Jiguang’s sacrifice, his comrades first thought of looking for his photos, but they didn’t find any photos when they opened his baggage and military satchel.”

  In Wang Jingzhong's view, his comrades in arms could fully understand this. Before joining the army, Huang Jiguang was a peasant child and had no conditions to take pictures.

After joining the volunteer army, he has been on the front line. At that time, there were only two photographers in the division's political department, and three old-fashioned black-and-white cameras. Even film and photo paper had to be purchased from China. As an ordinary soldier, Huang Jiguang had no condition to go by himself. Take pictures.

After Huang Jiguang's sacrifice, the troops collected photos of heroes many times, but none of them came to fruition.

  "In 1954, Mother Huang visited Huang Jiguang's company for the first time. The army painter used Mother Huang as the prototype (their mother and son are very similar), and under the guidance of Mother Huang, painted a portrait of the heroic mother who was basically satisfied. This portrait It was re-photographed and became a hanging statue of the hero's army and Huang Jiguang Memorial Hall." Wang Jingzhong said.

  This group of articles / our reporter Zhang Enjie