---- Stories from the Long March of the Red Army
-- Stories from the Long March of the Red Army
Our Chairman He
On December 19, 1935, at noon, part of the main force of the Second Army Corps, led by He Long, entered the rocky townships from Guanzhu. Three soldiers wearing gray cloth military uniforms and carrying short rifles came to the courtyard of the third house, and saw a woman holding a small child walking into her house in a panic. The warriors followed into her family's hall, saw her room door closed, then gently knocked on the door and said, "Sister-in-law, please don't be afraid, we Red Army is for the people, please open the door, we have something to discuss with you." The young woman's name is Ouyang Xiangyuan, her husband is out working as a picker, she heard the knock on the door is not very
urgent, shouting voice is also very calm, so she opened the door of the room. Soldiers see her house there is a vacant room, then proposed: "Sister-in-law, tonight you borrow this vacant room to build a bunk to live for a night, do you think it's okay?" Although Ouyang Xiangyuan didn't fully understand their words, she knew that they wanted to borrow the house to live, so her face showed a smile of agreement.
After a while, a warrior led a tall and sturdy man wearing a long shirt with a beard to Ouyang Xiangyuan's door, followed by twenty to thirty warriors wearing gray cloth military uniforms and carrying short rifles, who stood neatly in two rows in the Wo Ping. The eight-bearded man told everyone, "We Red Army are the poor people's team, seeking liberation for the people, we have iron discipline, everyone must pay attention, we can't go into young women's bedrooms;" and then he said, "No matter where we go in the Red Army, we have to care for the masses, love the masses, and things in their homes can't be moved without the master's consent. The things in the masses' homes cannot be moved without the owner's consent, borrowed things must be returned, and damaged and lost things must be compensated at the price, so that we can gain the trust of the masses, and unite the masses to defeat Chiang Kai-shek's traitors and the Japanese imperialists."
Ouyang Xiangyuan could tell from the warriors' expressions that the eight-bearded man was a big official. Hearing him speak for the sake of the people, she decided that the Red Army were good people. She walked to the yard with excitement and told others what the eight-bearded man had said, and didn't go home until it was almost dark. She went to the door of the hall and saw that a bunk had been set up on the ground, and that the eight-bearded man was looking at a map under a kerosene lamp with two others, and while looking, he was gesticulating. She wanted to know what kind of official that big official was, so she went to the door and quietly asked a small warrior: "What kind of person is that one wearing a long shirt of blue cloth and a
beard of yours?" The little warrior told her softly, "It's our army chief, Chairman He of the Soviet government, we all call him Mr. He." She heard this and muttered in her heart, "So he is a big official, no wonder the warriors listen to him in a regular manner.
She went to the room, a female warrior very kindly asked her to sit down, like a sister and she talked to her. During the conversation she asked the warrior woman, "Which one are you the wife of?" The woman warrior told her readily, "I am Comrade He Long's lover, and I'm staying at your home tonight, so I'm really troubling you." When she realized that the people staying in her house were the family of Chairman He Long, a big official of the Red Army, she said with embarrassment, "This house is not good, I didn't clean it up properly, I'm really sorry for you," the woman warrior said, "After the war is over, the poor people will have a good house to live in."
The next morning, the troops to leave, some soldiers in the packing, some cleaning, a soldier walked to Ouyang Xiangyuan sister-in-law Lei Qingju in front of (live across the door from her) repeatedly asked whether there is damage and lost things, Lei Qingju said: "Only a wooden basin did not see." The soldier took a copper basin and said to her, "If you can't find it, use this basin; if you find it, keep it as a souvenir; the discipline of the Red Army is stipulated by Chairman He; you must accept it." When Chairman He and the soldiers left, the crowd saw them off with tears in their eyes, and the soldiers
also turned back from time to time, bidding farewell.
Decades later, Ouyang Xiangyuan did not forget the "President He" of that year. 1956, when she saw the hanging statues of the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China, she instantly recognized President He, who was living in her house, and said happily: "Look, our Chairman He has come back to Rocky Mountain and to our home again."
Respectable martyrs
Since the Second and Sixth Army Corps withdrew from the Xiang-E-Chuan-Qian Revolutionary Base, the Kuomintang's army had always followed them and searched for them, trying to eliminate them on the Long March.At noon on December 21, the Sixth Army Corps, which had been driving from Gaosha to Jardin, was resting in the area of Lijiadu, while some were on the march. Although the soldiers were camouflaged with branches and green leaves on their heads, the Kuomintang planes still found the target and heartlessly dropped six bombs, 20 soldiers died honorably on the spot and dozens were wounded.
Wang Kangyuan, who was 12 years old at the time, was driving his oxen home. When a Red Army soldier saw this, he rushed over to him and pressed him to the ground, covering him with his own body. Wang Kangyuan was unharmed, but the soldier was bleeding profusely. Wang Kangyuan's uncle Wang Rende knew, y moved by the spirit of the Red Army soldiers sacrificed their lives to save others, in order to repay the Red Army soldiers for saving their lives, he took the risk of Li Mingsheng, Liu Dabing and other more than 20 poor peasants together, the remains of the martyrs buried in the serpentine mountain in an open space. But soon after the Red Army left, some landlords and shady gentry instigated that "the place where the Red Army was buried is a 'precious land of feng shui', which is the 'dragon vein' of Li Jiadu. Now that the 'dragon vein' has been dug up and broken, the 'dragon god' is disturbed, and only by digging up the bodies of the Red Army and throwing them into the river can the 'dragon vein' be preserved and the 'feng shui' be restored. 'Feng Shui'." In order to crush the plotting and scheming of the landed gentry, Deng Chengzhu and other poor peasants moved the coffins of the Red Army martyrs to the Changling boundary where the pine waves rolled in the night, and planted pines and cypresses around them. Wang Kangyuan, whose life was saved by the Red Army, went to the tomb of the martyrs every year during the Ching Ming Festival, and after he became the secretary of the Party branch of Xizhong brigade in 1972, he actively initiated and led the cadres and masses of this brigade and Lijiadu under the leadership of the Party Committee of the commune to refurbish the tomb of the martyrs and erect a monument to the martyrs in front of the tomb, with the inscription of the "Tomb of the Martyrs of the Long March" on it, and the two sides of it are carved with the inscription of the "Tomb of the Martyrs of the Long March". In front of the tomb, a monument to the martyrs was erected, inscribed with the six words "Tomb of the Martyrs of the Long March", and two couplets were engraved on both sides of the tomb, one of which was "Great in life, honorable in death", and the other was "Inherit the will of the martyrs, and be a revolutionary forever". Dongkou county party committee and the county government has made the martyrs' tomb as the county's patriotic education base. Several
over the past ten years, cadres, workers, peasants, students often go to the tomb to visit and learn from the spirit of the martyrs, inherit the will of the martyrs, and contribute to the construction of a socialist country.
Recovering the debt of blood and tears
The vast number of peasants in the old society suffered from the oppression and exploitation of the landed gentry and struggled on the death line. The Red Army fought against the landed gentry and sought liberation for the poor peasants, thus gaining their sincere support.
Yanshan Township, Shafang Yards, there is a tycoon called Fu Shengting, a face of pimples, tyrannical and cruel, oppressing the poor, the masses called him Sheng Pocky. His five sons are ferocious as a tiger, the masses say they are "five tigers". 1931, ascending court hemp son ready to repair the new house, looking for the new chemical Fang master to give him to burn bricks and tiles. The poor master worked hard, but not only did he not get paid, but also had to subsidize his food. In 1935, he joined the Red Army. 19 December, the troops camped in the rocky mountains, he
The encounter in the Fu family and the local farmers were oppressed by the Fu family, reported to the head of the army, the head of the army agreed to take three soldiers to go to find the ascendant pazi to settle the score. They took a shortcut to the courtyard of Shafang and captured Sheng Tingmazi, who was about to escape. The people in the neighborhood heard that the Red Army had captured the evil Sheng Ma Zi, and they were so happy that they rushed to tell each other, and they all denounced Sheng Ma Yu's sins to the chief of the Red Army. The chief sent a soldier to lead the poor peasants to Sheng Ma-zi's house, opened the granary of the Fu family, and distributed the grain to the masses. When the Red Army left Yanshan the next day, they took Sheng Ma-zi
to Li Xiqiao in Suining County and executed him.
The Sixth Corps of the Red Army executed Wang Wenxiang in Shijiang, who had always taken over the lawsuits and extorted money; suppressed Yuan Kuan, a big bully and bandit known as one of the "Three Kings and Five Bullies" in the streets of Gaoshazhen; and escorted Yin Chengya, a tycoon and rich man from Shibei Township, Deng Xingfang, a criminal from Huayuan Township, and Deng Chenzhuo, the reactionary head of the insurance company who had refused to give grain to the Red Army, to Wuning County, Suining County, and then sent them to the Red Army's granary. were executed in Wuyang, Suining County. The masses applauded and thanked the Red Army for redressing their grievances and repaying the debt of blood and tears.
Military and people's love for each other
Before the Red Army arrived at Dongkou, the Kuomintang reactionaries and local reactionary forces created many rumors, and many peasants hid in the mountains. The Red Army's practical action of compliance and love for the people lifted the people's worries, and soon everyone came back to solve the problem of food and shelter for the Red Army soldiers, very cordial.
Beginning rocky mountain street many store doors are closed tightly, after hearing the Red Army soldiers kindly shouted: "old folks don't be afraid, we Red Army is the poor people's team, won't take your things, if you have anything to eat just sell us a little bit, we pay according to the price." Some people saw from the doorway that the Red Army soldiers were regular, squatting in the street, and no one was knocking on the store door. So some of them took out the boiled sweet potatoes and put them on the door to sell, the soldiers did not bargain, said how much is how much, only more to pay not less to pay. After the news spread, the store door are open, can eat all the things are put out, the neighborhood people have home can eat, all to the street to sell. A few soldiers walked up to Lin Yuyuan's old lady and said softly, "Ma'am, the weather is too cold, tonight we want to come to your home to escape the wind and cold." The lady welcomed them with a smile on her face, and the soldiers put down their backpacks and cleaned the house, picking water and chopping wood. At night, Lin Da Niang see a few warriors in the light of the white cloth, she guessed that the cloth is cut to make foot cloth, the daughter-in-law called "sitting on the moon" to help, mother and daughter stayed up all night, **** good 10 pairs of cloth socks, just a pair of each person. The next day when the soldiers left again and again to thank Lin Da Niang, gave him some white cloth, a bed printed quilt and two round porcelain jar as a souvenir.
The touching deeds of the Red Army in caring for the masses and loving them y touched the masses, and the masses of peasants cared and loved the Red Army from all aspects. Shi Jiang sewing master Qiu Guocai, together with 11 other masters, rushed to make 120 military hats overnight. The Red Army gave each of them a silver dollar, they were very excited, you a word and I a word, put together a poem: "The Red Army came to Shijiang Town, beat the landlords and the bad gentry, the rich afraid of fear and fear, the poor people's spirit is greatly uplifted, the army and the people all night to make hats, and work together to kill the enemy." Garden Ma family yard Deng Auntie with daughter-in-law Zeng Dong'e hoeing in the soil on the mountain side, heard a faint moan in the mountains, Deng Auntie immediately put down the hoe to go to the mountains to look for. Sure enough found a about 20 years old, head with octagonal hat of the Red Army soldiers (Liuyang people) lying on the ground, she touched her hand on the forehead, so hot, and see his right foot wound has begun to flow pus. She thought she could not let her loved ones in the field to freeze to death, pain, starvation, must find a way to save him. She called her daughter-in-law to help the wounded man back home, let him lie on her daughter-in-law's bed, and her daughter-in-law took out her husband's old blue cloth clothes for him to change into. Auntie told the wounded at ease to recuperate, such as the discovery of outsiders to pretend to be mute, to daughter-in-law to recognize him as her husband (daughter-in-law's husband in Guizhou to do the picker). Arrangements, Big Mother every day on the mountain to pick medicine, careful care, a week after the warrior's injuries are basically cured, he told Big Mother to go to catch up with the troops. On the day of his departure, Auntie got up at dawn to prepare for him to eat on the road. The warrior said to Auntie: "Auntie, you are my own mother, I must always remember your kindness, the revolution won, I will come to visit your old man." Fondly, waved goodbye.
Following the Red Army
The masses felt that the Red Army is their own team, is their own turn for liberation of the backing, the Red Army's road is their own road to liberation. So, many poor peasants have sent their children to the Red Army, the young and middle-aged people are even more active, asked to follow the Red Army. Poor peasants in Li Jiadu, seeing the glorious deaths of 20 Red Army soldiers under the bombing of enemy planes, filled with the anger of avenging the martyrs and the strong desire to seek liberation for themselves, actively enrolled in the Red Army. West in the village of Deng Xingyi, Deng Zhengren, Wu Laosai, blind field village of Deng Xingkai, Xinxing
Village of Liu Laoshi, Mujing village of Chen Songqing, Shenzhen Luo Yu and so on followed the Red Army. Dongkou street Zou Yuhe, Wang Shunsheng two sewing masters, was invited to the garden to the Red Army to make uniforms, they were y moved by the spirit of the Red Army, resolutely followed the Red Army on the Long March Road.
According to the preliminary statistics of the county after liberation, there were more than 20 people who followed the Red Army that year. They contributed to the revolution. Among them: there is the ambition is not rewarded and sacrificed on the Long March of the revolutionary martyrs, there are in the anti-Japanese front shed the last drop of blood of the national heroes, there are for the liberation of the Chinese people and the socialist construction of the liberation cause of the people's contribution to the people's merit, such as the stone river town of Wang Zhengui, 30 years old that year, to join the Red Army, after the Sixth Army Corps Defense Bureau, in the 17 years of the military career of the North and the South, was awarded the "People's Merit", "liberation of North China", "liberation of Northwest China" commemorative medals each one, in 1952, transferred to work in Xinjiang, retired in 1965, in January 1966 back to the Dongkou home settlement in January 1966, wrote the "night crossing the Jinsha River", "over the snowy mountains", "sixty years of spring and fall talk about the past" and other revolutionary memoirs.