Wang Heng

Wang Heng

Wang Heng (March 5, 1912 - July 24, 1951), also known as Wang Kuai Fu, was born in a poor farmer's family in beixinzhongyi village, Xinzhongyi Town, Renqiu City, Hebei Province. In 1930, Wang Heng graduated from the Northeast lecture hall and joined the Northeast Army. After the September 18 Incident, he served as the team leader of the Jidong security team.

After the outbreak of the national anti Japanese war in 1937, Wang Heng took part in the uprising of Jidong security team, joined the Eighth Route Army in March 1938, and joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. He entered Korea to resist US aggression and aid Korea in 1950 and died on the Korean front in July 1951.

Now the tombstone is in the cemetery of Korean martyrs.

Life of the characters

Wang Heng successively served as the battalion commander and operational staff officer of the Eighth Route Army, the third column of the Eighth Route Army concurrently served as the chief of staff of the 29th regiment of Jizhong military region, the chief of staff of the 12th regiment of the 13th military region of Jin Cha Ji military region, the brigade commander of the mixed brigade of re Liao column, the rear chief of the 16th military region of Ji re Liao military region concurrently served as the commander of Jinzhou garrison headquarters, the Deputy brigade commander of artillery brigade of Ji Cha re Liao military region, the deputy director of the 1st command post of northeast artillery headquarters, and the special commander of the fourth field army He was the first deputy division commander of artillery division 1 and the division commander of artillery division 8. In the spring of 1949, Wang Heng led the 25th artillery regiment of the Chinese people's Liberation Army southward to cross the Yellow River and the Yangtze River to take part in the battle of Hengbao. He pursued the enemy to Guangxi with outstanding achievements. In 1950, Wang Heng joined the Chinese people's Volunteer Army in the Korean War and served as the commander of the 8th artillery division of the volunteer army. He led his department to participate in the first to fifth campaigns and positional defense operations. He successfully completed the operational tasks assigned by the higher authorities, such as blocking the enemy and suppressing the enemy's firepower, and effectively supported the infantry to wipe out the enemy. In the battle, Wang Heng felt that the original way of fighting was no longer suitable for the new war environment. Starting from summing up the combat experience and lessons, and improving the level of combat technology, he carried out training in the army. During the training, he ordered the division headquarters to organize the use of map shooting and mountain shooting assault training to improve the accuracy of night shooting. When practicing marching at night, we should take measures such as reducing echelons, enlarging distances and adding traffic sentries to reduce the losses of troops. During the exercise, strict camouflage was carried out, and the method of artillery dispersion and firepower concentration was used to attack the enemy's assault group with sudden and rapid fire. In July 1951, Wang Heng led the troops to carry out training. During the training period, he suffered from acute illness and typhoid fever. He died at 23:00 on July 24 at the age of 39.

Character evaluation

Liang Bing, deputy division commander of the 1st artillery division at that time, said: "whether Mr. Wang Heng crossed the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Xiangjiang River, took part in the battle of Hengbao and finally pursued the enemy to Guangxi, he always set an example everywhere, took the lead and fought bravely. He left us a lot of things, which are always worthy of our learning and memory. "

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