What happened to the 71 years of cannonball hiding in the brain? Wang Kede, an old man, lives in the intercity Garden community, Hongshan District, Wuhan city. In December 2018, he was hospitalized due to a brain infarction. During an MRI examination at the hospital, he accidentally found a nail sized piece of metal behind his right ear. In the puzzled eyes of his family, Wang Kede slowly narrated the origin of the fragments, and understood the details of 71 years since the shells were hidden in his brain.
Wang Kede was born in Muyang County, Jiangsu Province in 1931. In the summer of 1948, at the age of 17, he joined the county Brigade (militia), and later joined the field army with three grenades.
In November of that year, after the Huaihai Campaign, Wang Kede and two other soldiers of his company went to a market town to spy on the enemy. Suddenly, a mortar shell exploded on the ground between Wang Kede and another soldier.
At that time, Wang Kede just felt that there was liquid on his right neck. He thought it was water and didn't care. When the reconnaissance was over, the comrades noticed that there was blood on the neck behind Wang Kede's right ear. At this time, Wang Kede knew that he was injured. Wang Kede thought it was a small bruise. After a simple dressing, he continued to fight.
In the winter of 1950, Wang Kede and his comrades in arms took the train to Dandong, Liaoning Province, and entered the Korean Peninsula to participate in the anti US war and aid Korea.
In Wang Kede's memory, only 30 kilometers into North Korea, the first battle was fought. In the constant March, he was sick and feverish, needed support when walking, and was very weak. One day when they were being transferred, American planes found them, and they were bombarded. He lay on a cornfield until it was dark and the plane left.
Under the control of the desire to survive, Wang Kede, who was too sick to walk, climbed out of the corn field step by step. Fortunately, Wang Kede met two Korean people's Army soldiers and stopped a Chinese people's Volunteer Army vehicle on the road after delivering grain bombs to the front line. After a night in a leaky car, Wang was taken to a volunteer hospital in Yangde, North Korea.