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The spirit that created the Millennium will be passed down from generation to generation.

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Great cause casts the spirit of generations to come-commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March

Zhang zhen; Chang Chen; Zhang zhen

The Long March more than 70 years ago was not only an unprecedented strategic shift in the world military history, but also a historical turning point for our party and army to rise from setbacks and move towards maturity and victory. Our Central Red Army fought bloody battles with other Red Army.

Break through the tight encirclement, overcome many difficulties and obstacles, and successfully meet in Huining and Jiangtaibao on June 1936+00. The Long March is a heroic feat of the Chinese production party and the people's army led by it. Like inexhaustible spiritual wealth, it has become a historical monument that the people of China will always remember.

Every time I recall the 70-year Long March, I feel uneasy. The vivid figures of former leaders, heads and comrades-in-arms, tragic and tragic battle scenes, and unimaginable hard environment emerge in front of my eyes from time to time. As a veteran of the Red Army, a witness and survivor of the Long March, I deeply felt that extraordinary journey, and there are many important experiences and inspirations worthy of our deep thinking and remembering.

Lofty ideals and firm beliefs are the inexhaustible spiritual power of the Red Army.

I joined the Red Army on 1930. I grew up in the people's army and went through many difficult and tortuous courses. Come to think of it carefully, the most difficult and thrilling thing for the China revolution is the Long March, because it is related to the life and death of the Red Army and the success or failure of the revolution. For the Red Army, which was forced to make a strategic shift and was besieged and intercepted by Kuomintang troops all the way, what bloodshed, illness, disability, cold and lack of oxygen, and swamp hunger never happened? Xiangjiang River, Wujiang River, Jinsha River, Dadu River, Snow Mountain and Grassland, which one is not a hurdle! I often wonder: what supported us in those days and went forward without hesitation? I think the most important thing is persistence and unremitting pursuit of ideals and beliefs. Due to the wrong leadership of "Left" dogmatists, the Central Red Army failed in its fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" and was forced to leave the central base area. At the beginning of the Long March, Bo Gu, Li De and others continued to reject Chairman Mao's correct proposition, which caused the Red Army to lose more than half of its troops. At the critical moment when the China revolution suffered serious setbacks, the officers and men of the Red Army did not give up their persistent pursuit of ideals and beliefs, lost their confidence in the revolution, lost their trust in the party, and firmly believed that the just cause would win, which enabled the Red Army to overcome thousands of difficulties and achieve a great victory in the Long March unimaginable to ordinary people. No matter the plane bombing in the sky, the heavy siege on the ground, or the hunger, cold, fatigue and injury during the journey, they can't stop the Red Army from advancing. How many comrades fell beside us, shed the last drop of blood and exhausted the last bit of strength. Put all your life and energy into the liberation struggle of the working people, which is the noblest ideal and the most magnificent cause. They all hold such determination, their faith will last forever, they will stick to it, and victory and light are ahead. It is this indomitable and indomitable heroism and firm revolutionary belief that inspires us to move forward in the direction guided by the CPC Central Committee. The miracle of the 25,000-mile long March was measured by the Red Army commanders with iron feet and forged with firm ideals and beliefs. Comrade Xiaoping put it well: "Why did we struggle out under very difficult circumstances in the past, overcome thousands of difficulties and won the revolution?" It is because we have ideals, Marxist beliefs and productive beliefs. "Ideals and beliefs highlight cohesion and combat effectiveness, making our army invincible. It is an important guarantee for the progress of modernization and an inevitable requirement for the nature and purpose of the people's army to unite people's hearts and inspire their fighting spirit with firm ideals and beliefs. The Long March is a vivid textbook of ideals and beliefs. Today, with the diversification of social and economic components and values, learning and carrying forward the spirit of the Long March is an important content of ideal and belief education. We in party member and cadres should learn from our predecessors' firm faith in the Party, the people and the revolutionary cause and unswervingly follow the Party. At any time and under any circumstances, we must not lose our ideals and beliefs, relax our revolutionary will and the spirit of struggle. I firmly believe that as long as we firmly adhere to the revolutionary ideals and beliefs, adhere to the orientation of Marxism in China, and realize the Party's guiding theory to keep pace with the times, we will certainly be able to pass on the glorious tradition of the Red Army from generation to generation, create new miracles on earth, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Hardship and courage are the source of strength for the Red Army to overcome all difficulties.

Hard work, courage and tenacity are the true colors of the people's army and the source of the Red Army's combat effectiveness. The Long March is the epitome of a heroic and tenacious epic of our army. Not to mention the tragic battle, just because the road is long and hard, it is unprecedented. Climbing the snow-capped mountains is inaccessible. Not only are there no food, but many people only wear straw sandals. In the process of climbing the snow-capped mountains, I vomited blood several times and it was very difficult to breathe. Later, I learned that I had lung disease and had no medicine to eat. Only with the unremitting and selfless help of my comrades can I conquer the snow-capped mountains. Crossing the grass is equally difficult. During the day, he was exposed to the hot sun and sweaty, and he was attacked by enemy cavalry from time to time on his way. It was raining cats and dogs at night, and it was too cold to sleep. Comrades, tired of marching and fighting, sit back to back and let the wind and rain beat until dawn. Without food, we can only rely on wild leeks and grass roots to satisfy our hunger; Thirst is unbearable, and some comrades have to drink stagnant water in the swamp, but this water is often toxic. Mud, hunger and poisonous water claimed the lives of many comrades. The bodies of martyrs have become obvious road signs, and the follow-up troops can find the direction of the troops without guidance. In this way, the Red Army soldiers opened up the road of the Long March at the cost of blood and life. The victory of the China Revolution was forged by our ancestors with their flesh and blood, and the road of the Long March was paved by martyrs with their bodies. Despite the extreme hardships, we not only persisted, but also maintained the spirit of revolutionary optimism and looked forward to a bright future after the success of the revolution. "The Red Army is not afraid of difficult expeditions, and Qianshan has only leisure". Chairman Mao's Long March poems are full of lofty sentiments, which are a true portrayal of the hard work and heroic and tenacious spirit of the Red Army commanders and soldiers. This is a huge fortune! After the arduous long March, our party and army have been so strong. Only the first generation of the Party's leading collective and the people's army, represented by Mao Zedong, can overcome the difficulties on the revolutionary road, defeat the Japanese aggressors, wipe out Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary army, create a new China, and carry out the great exploration of socialist construction. "Difficulties and hardships, Yucheng." Hard work, courage and tenacity are not only the guarantee of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, but also the spiritual character we must have to promote socialist modernization, realize national prosperity and national rejuvenation. The new Long March of China's modernization needs the spirit of hard work, perseverance, perseverance and self-improvement. Now that our country has developed, the military expenditure has greatly increased compared with the past, and the treatment of soldiers has also greatly improved. In this case, should we carry forward the revolutionary tradition of the old Red Army and maintain the style of hard struggle? There is a view that efforts are mainly reflected in work and need not be emphasized in life. This understanding is biased. Without the life style of hard struggle, there is no work style of hard struggle. China has a large population, a weak foundation, relatively backward science and technology, and is still in the primary stage of socialism. Per capita resources and per capita income are not much, and some people still have many difficulties in life. No matter at work or in life, the spirit of hard struggle can never be lost. Facing the new Long March, we should be brave, tenacious, fearless and persistent. There is an old saying called "how difficult it is to be rich". I think there is nothing wrong with summarizing it. How difficult it is to build a party and an army. The great spiritual character and fine tradition of hard work, courage and tenacity are always worth cherishing and carrying forward.

Close unity and strict discipline are the political basis and important guarantee for the victory of the Red Army's Long March.

The victory of the Red Army's Long March is a triumph of great unity written with blood and life by the whole party and the Red Army of all walks of life with one heart and one mind and strict discipline. In the face of the sinister situation that the enemy is strong and we are weak, only by closely uniting can the Red Army form an indestructible force and survive. The unity of the Red Army is first manifested in the strategic coordination, mutual cooperation and support of the Red Army. At first, the Long March started from various base areas and was carried out relatively independently. Due to historical reasons, the style and habits of the Red Army troops in different base areas are different. However, all of them are under the leadership of the China * * * Production Party, and they have the same political foundation and revolutionary goals, all of which are to overthrow the rule of the three mountains and seek liberation for the people. Under the unified leadership of the Party, the Red Army of all stripes actively implemented strategic cooperation. The Red Second Army and the Red Sixth Army Corps (later formed the Red Second Army Corps) moved to Xiangxi, and the Red Fourth Army held the Jialing River Campaign, which echoed the movement of the Central Red Army in Yunguichuan, making the Kuomintang army lose sight of one thing and disperse the enemy. The Red 25 Army moved from Hubei, Henan and Anhui to southern Shaanxi and west to Gansu, which strategically responded to the actions of other Red Army. Staying in southern provinces, persisting in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare in Northeast China and the activities of underground party organizations in Kuomintang-controlled areas all played a positive role in coordinating with the Red Army's Long March. After the main force of the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, together with the Red 15 Army Corps, it consolidated and expanded the northwest revolutionary base area to welcome the arrival of the Red Second and Red Fourth Army. All the rivers of the Red Army merged into the sea, and the red iron flow gathered in the northwest, completing the strategic assembly of direct operations against the Japanese aggressors and forming a new revolutionary base camp. The meeting of the three main forces of the Red Army is not only a symbol of the victory of the Long March, but also a symbol of great revolutionary unity. The unity of the Red Army is also manifested in the high degree of consistency within the Red Army, between troops and between officers and men. They live and die together, and their fighting friendship is earth-shattering. During the Long March, I couldn't walk for dozens of days because of my injuries. Three of the four intersections in Chishui are stretchers. The stretcher carried me across the mountains and mountains, which was very hard, leaving me only a little food and bacon. A friend in need, the feeling of life and death, I will never forget. In a company, nine cooks distributed the little food left in their rice bags to others, tried their best to find something to eat, all of which were used to ensure that the comrades in the combat class could move on, and finally starved to death on the Long March. They gave the hope of life to their comrades-in-arms and kept the threat of death to themselves. Its scenery is moving. Outside the army, the Red Army adheres to the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, strictly implements the three major disciplines and eight attentions, and has won the support and support of the broad masses of the people wherever it goes. If you use the food and vegetables of the masses, you will leave a silver dollar and a note. Sometimes there is really no money, but also an iou, and some people try to pay it back after the founding of New China. Whether camping or going out of the village, we must clean our hometown; When passing through ethnic minority areas, strictly implement the party's ethnic policies and mass discipline, and respect the customs and habits of ethnic minorities. For example, don't enter the village without the owner's consent, don't enter the house without the owner's consent, don't kill cattle, don't cut down trees, and so on. Because we are the people's soldiers, serving the people heart and soul in order to realize the people's interests is the ideological basis for our soldiers to unite and struggle. The broad masses of people along the Long March saw a disciplined army, which was completely different from the armed forces of the Central Committee of the National Party and local warlords, and was a people's armed force that could bring hope to China. Make them truly realize that only the road of the Red Army is the way to liberate themselves. I remember once, I led the troops to raise food on the right bank of Heishui River. A Tibetan compatriot across the river immediately killed a horse after learning that we had run out of food and grass, and transported horse meat to us by cableway on the river. I also sent the silver dollar by cableway, and he didn't accept anything and gave it back to us. What a good Tibetan brother! I still remember this incident vividly. The unity of the Red Army is also based on strict discipline. Zhang opposed the central policy of going northward in an attempt to split the Party and the Red Army when he thought that there were many people and guns and his personal ambitions were expanding. The CPC Central Committee adhered to the correct principles and did a lot of persuasion and education work, uniting the vast majority of people. Through the struggle against Zhang's separatism, it fully embodies "our principle is that the party commands the party with guns, and never allows guns to command the party", which strengthens the unity of the party, always puts our army under the absolute leadership of the party and resolutely obeys the command of the Party Central Committee. At present, China is in a critical stage of reform and development, and it is also a period of prominent contradictions. We should hold high the great banner of Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as the general secretary, unite as one and mobilize all forces to the maximum extent. Establish and implement Scientific Outlook on Development, safeguard the social situation of stability, unity, harmony and stability, safeguard the unity and discipline of the Party, safeguard national laws and regulations, carry out in-depth law-abiding education, strengthen the implementation of various disciplines, resolutely safeguard the authority of the central government, ensure the smooth implementation of government decrees and military orders, and jointly promote the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Correct strategic guidance is the key for the Red Army to move from frustration to victory.

Whether the strategic guidance is correct or not affects the progress of the war and determines the success or failure of the war. The "Left" dogmatists carried out the wrong military strategic policy, which put the Red Army in an extremely passive situation and almost ruined the China Revolution. In the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", our Red 3 Corps stuck to the gate of Guangchang and fought to the death with the enemy, with more than 2,700 casualties from 1.2 million, a sharp drop of nearly a quarter. Three new regiments were added to the ten regiments of our fourth division alone, and all of them were wiped out in the end. Therefore, Mr. Peng denounced Li De for "selling my baby to Tian Xin is not painful". When we broke through the fourth blockade line, in order to cover the central crossing of Xiangjiang River, our regiment resolutely carried out the orders of "no victory or defeat", "desperate sacrifice" and "opening up the road to the west", and erected a pontoon bridge at Jieshou and Guanghuapu and resolutely guarded it, paying heavy casualties. The Zunyi Meeting summed up the lessons of the failure of the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" and the early losses of the Red Army's Long March, corrected the serious mistakes made by Bo Gu Kailai and Li De in military command, and actually established Comrade Mao Zedong's leading position in the Party and the Red Army. This is a historic choice, which turned the China revolution into safety at a critical moment. We grassroots cadres didn't hear the news until we arrived in Zhaxi (now prestige) in Yunnan. Before that, we had doubts about the passive beating situation since the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" and felt that Chairman Mao was still leading us to fight happily. Why didn't Chairman Mao direct us? After the spirit of Zunyi Conference was conveyed, the mystery buried in the heart was solved. I think the Red Army has hope, the revolution has hope, and the heavy feet seem to have lightened a lot. The weak red army, which has been in a passive position, finally took the initiative on the battlefield and led the Kuomintang by the nose. One time, it was introduced from the east to the west, and it was illusory to avoid reality. It won a series of victories, such as crossing the Chishui River four times, crossing the Jinsha River skillfully, crossing the Dadu River forcibly, and flying the Luding Bridge. Why is there such a diametrically opposite result? The key is the correctness of strategic guidance. Proceeding from objective reality, we should realistically analyze the enemy's situation, terrain and other factors and their development and changes, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, and move with the enemy. From the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" to the serious failure at the beginning of the Long March, that is, regardless of the changes in objective conditions, confined to books and dogmatically directing, the result is bound to be failure. After the Red First Army and the Red Fourth Army joined forces, the Central Committee and Zhang disagreed on whether to go north or south. This is also a major strategic issue related to the direction of the Red Army. The reason why it is right to go north and there is no future for going south is that the situation has changed greatly and the ethnic contradiction between China and Japan has risen to the main contradiction. In this case, only holding high the banner of going northward to resist Japan, placing the foothold of the Long March in the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu region near the front line of the war of resistance against Japan, and doing something to solve the main contradictions, is the only correct strategic policy and has a bright future. From the historical comparison before and after the Long March, we deeply feel the "magical effect" of Mao Zedong's strategic guiding art, and deeply realize that Mao Zedong's military thought is a magic weapon to guide the people's army to defeat the strong with the weak and defeat the enemy, which embodies the basic experience of China-ization of Marxist theories such as seeking truth from facts, independence and the mass line. Fundamentally speaking, the victory of the Long March and even the entire revolutionary war in China is the result of our Party's adherence to proceeding from reality, seeking truth from facts, being brave in innovation, taking its own road, forming correct theories and guiding practice. Today, we are engaged in socialist construction and reform, and there is no ready-made model to copy. We must persist in seeking truth and being pragmatic, innovate independently, carry forward the vigorous fighting spirit of the Party, improve our leadership ability to solve our own problems, fully mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of the people, rely on our own strength to solve the difficulties in progress and the problems in development, and truly embark on a road of modernization with China characteristics.