The story of the Red Army's Long March (300 words)

He Zizhen was embedded with 17 shrapnel.

In the tragic 25,000-mile Long March, a group of special figures were active, including the wives of central leading comrades, female cadres and ordinary female soldiers. Hunger, disease, bloody battle and death, nothing can stop their progress. This group of amiable and respectable heroines walked all the way through the diffuse smoke.

The author often says that in the winter of 1995, he and the writer Dong Cun traveled all over the streets of Beijing, struggling to find the female Red Army who participated in the Long March that year. This is a very hard job, which consumes a lot of their time and energy, but they still enjoy it, because every interviewee has brought them great surprises, and a long-lost spirit is calling them, inspiring them and moving them.

Although most of the young and all-powerful female Red Army soldiers have passed away, the beautiful story left by the female Red Army on its long journey is still so tragic and touching.

1935 One night in early April, the female Red Army just dragged her tired body to Wulipai near Panxian County, Guizhou Province. An unexpected situation appeared: a group of enemy planes buzzed and suddenly flew from behind the mountain. One of them swooped down quickly, a fierce machine gun bullet strafed head-on, and three bombs landed on the rest camp. The soldiers quickly squatted under the road, in the ditch and on the slope. The high and low terrain covered some people, but the terrible thing was that some Red Army wounded people were lying on stretchers, unable to move at all.

He Zizhen was hiding under a ridge on the side of the road, but she climbed out of the stretcher regardless of her personal safety. At this moment, a bomb was dropped, and a cloud of smoke suddenly rose beside her. ...

The enemy plane flew away, the gunfire and explosion stopped, and the smoke gradually dispersed. He Zizhen's body was covered with shrapnel, and his military uniform was dyed red with blood.

The intense rescue began. The guards rode to the Ministry of Health and asked Dr. Li Zhi to treat He Zizhen. Li Zhixian gave He Zizhen a hemostatic injection, and then made a general examination. It was found that there were 17 shrapnel of different sizes and shades on her head, upper body and limbs. Without any anesthesia, the operation began. He Zizhen was sweating with pain, and his eyes were full of tears, but he insisted. The shrapnel in the shallow layer of the body was finally taken out one by one, but it was difficult to take out the shrapnel that went deep into the body, which became a permanent memorial left to her by the war.