Stories from the Long March

There are not many little heroes

----The story of the Red Army's Long March

--The story of the Red Army's Long March

Ours Chairman He

At noon on December 19, 1935, part of the main force of the Second Army led by He Long entered Yanshi Township from Guanzhu. Three soldiers wearing gray cloth uniforms and carrying short guns came to the third-bedroom courtyard and saw a woman hurriedly walking into her home with a child in her arms. The soldier followed him into the main room of her house. Seeing that her door was closed, he knocked gently and said, "Sister-in-law, please don't be afraid. Our Red Army serves the people. Please open the door. We have something to discuss with you." "The young woman's name is Ouyang Xiangyuan, and her husband is working as a porter outside. When she heard the knock on the door, she was not very anxious, and the voice of the shout was also very calm, so she opened the door. Seeing that there was an empty room in her house, the soldier asked, "Sister-in-law, do you think it would be okay to lend you this empty room to build a bunk for the night?" Although Ouyang Xiangyuan did not fully understand what they were saying, he knew that they were I wanted to borrow a house to live in, so a smile of agreement appeared on my face.

After a while, a soldier led a tall and burly man wearing a blue cloth gown and a mustache to the door of Ouyang Xiangyuan's house, followed by twenty or thirty people in uniforms. Soldiers in gray cloth uniforms and carrying short rifles stood neatly in two rows in the Heping. The man with the mustache told everyone: "We, the Red Army, are a team of the poor and seek liberation for the people. We have iron discipline. Everyone must be careful not to enter the bedrooms of young women." Then he said, "We, the Red Army, are No matter where we go, we must care about and care for the people. Things in the people's homes cannot be moved without the owner's consent. Borrowed things must be returned. Damaged and lost things must be compensated according to the price. Only in this way can we gain the trust of the people and gain the trust of the people. Unite the masses to overthrow the traitor Chiang Kai-shek and overthrow Japanese imperialism."

Ouyang Xiangyuan could tell from the expressions of the soldiers that the mustache was a high official. Listening to his speech, he always thinks about the common people and believes that the Red Army is a good person. She walked to the yard with excitement and told others what the mustache said. She didn't go home until it was almost dark. She walked to the door of the main room and saw that a bunk was set up on the ground. The mustache and two other people were there. I read the map under the kerosene lamp and made gestures while reading. She wanted to know what kind of official that official was, so she walked outside the door and quietly asked a young soldier: "Who is that man of yours wearing a blue cloth gown and a beard?" the young soldier whispered softly. He told her: "It's our corps commander, Chairman He of the Soviet government. We all call him Mr. He." After hearing this, she muttered to herself that he was a high-ranking official. No wonder the soldiers listened to him in a polite manner.

She walked into the room, and a female warrior asked her to sit down very kindly, and chatted with her like sisters. During the conversation, she asked the female soldier: "Whose wife are you?" The female soldier told her readily: "I am the lover of Comrade He Long. I am staying at your house tonight. It is really troublesome for you." She knew that she lived in Her family was Chairman He Long, a high-ranking official of the Red Army, and his family. He said embarrassedly: "This house is not good. It has not been cleaned up properly. I'm really sorry for you." The female soldier said, "After the war is over, the poor will have good houses to live in." "

Early the next morning, the troops were leaving. Some soldiers were packing and some were cleaning. A soldier walked up to Ouyang Xiangyuan's sister-in-law Lei Qingju (who lived opposite her) and said repeatedly Asked if there was anything damaged or lost, Lei Qingju said: "There is only a wooden washbasin that I didn't see." After a while, the soldier took a copper washbasin and said to her: "If you can't find it, use this washbasin." , keep it as a souvenir if you find it. The discipline of the Red Army is stipulated by Chairman He, you must accept it." When Chairman He and the soldiers left, the crowd sent them off with tears, and the soldiers also

Look back from time to time and say goodbye. ‘

Decades have passed, but Ouyang Xiangyuan has not forgotten “Chairman He” back then. In 1956, when she saw the hanging portrait of the top ten marshals of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, she recognized Chairman He who lived in her home at a glance, and said happily: "Look, our Chairman He has returned to Yanshan." Come, come to our home again.

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Respectable Martyrs

Since the Second and Sixth Army Corps withdrew from the revolutionary base areas of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou, the Kuomintang troops have been following them and searching for them in an attempt to eliminate them in the Long March. On the way. At noon on December 21, some of the Sixth Army Corps heading from Gaosha to Huayuan were resting in the Lijiadu area, and some were on the way. Although the soldiers' heads were camouflaged with branches and green leaves, the Kuomintang planes were still there. After discovering the target, he frantically dropped 6 bombs. 20 soldiers died gloriously on the spot and dozens of soldiers were injured.

Wang Kangyuan, who was only 12 years old at the time, was driving his cattle home when a Red Army soldier appeared. Seeing this, he hurriedly ran over and pushed Wang Kangyuan to the ground, covering him with his own body. Wang Kangyuan was safe, but the soldier was bleeding profusely. When Wang Kangyuan's uncle found out, he sacrificed himself for the Red Army soldiers. Moved by the spirit of saving lives, in order to repay the life-saving grace of the Red Army soldiers, he took the risk to bury the remains of the martyrs in an open space in the Serpentine Mountain together with Li Mingsheng, Liu Dabing and others. However, not long after the Red Army left, some local tyrants came to the rescue. The evil gentry had evil intentions and said, "The place where the Red Army is buried is a 'feng shui treasure' and the 'dragon vein' of Lijiadu. Now that the "Dragon Vein" has been dug out, the "Dragon God" is uneasy. Only by digging out the bodies of the Red Army and throwing them into the river can the "Dragon Vein" be preserved and the "Feng Shui" restored. "In order to smash the conspiracy of the local tyrants and evil gentry, poor farmer Deng Chengzhu and others moved the coffins of the Red Army martyrs overnight to the rolling pines of Changling, and planted green pines and cypresses around them. Wang Kangyuan, who was saved by the Red Army, goes to the martyrs' grave every Tomb Sweeping Day. After he became the party branch secretary of the Xizhong Brigade in 1972, he actively initiated and under the leadership of the commune party committee, led the cadres and masses of the brigade and Lijiadu to renovate the martyrs' tomb, and erected a martyrs' monument in front of the tomb with the inscription " The "Tomb of the Long March Martyrs" has six large buildings, with two couplets engraved on both sides. One is "Greatness in life, glory in death", and the other is "Inherit the aspirations of the martyrs and be a revolutionary forever". Dongkou County Party Committee and County Government. The tomb of the martyrs has been used as a base for patriotism education in the county. For decades, cadres, workers, farmers, and students have often visited the tomb to pay homage to the martyrs, learn from them, inherit their legacy, and contribute to the construction of a socialist country. Make a contribution.

Repay the debt of blood and tears

The vast number of peasants in the old society were oppressed and exploited by the local tyrants and evil gentry, and were struggling on the verge of death. The Red Army attacked the local tyrants and evil gentry and prayed for the poor peasants. Liberation, thus gaining their sincere support.

There was a wealthy man named Fu Shengting in Shafang Courtyard, Yanshan Township. He had a pockmarked face, was tyrannical and cruel, and bullied the poor. The masses called him Cimicifuga. The five sons were all as ferocious as tigers, and the masses called them the "Five Tigers." In 1931, Shengting Mazi was preparing to build a new house, so he hired Master Fang from Xinhua to bake bricks and tiles for him. He was forced to pay for his wages and had to pay for his food. In anger, he pushed down the piles of bricks and returned to Xinhua full of resentment. On December 19, 1935, he joined the Red Army and camped in Yanshan.

He reported what happened to the Fu family and the situation of the local farmers being oppressed by the Fu family. The commander agreed to take three soldiers to settle accounts with Cimicifuga. When the people nearby heard that the Red Army had caught the evil-doing Cimicifuga, they rushed to tell the leaders of the Red Army about Cimicifuga's crimes. The leader sent a soldier to lead the poor farmers to Ximiczi's home. , opened the Fu family's granary and distributed the food to the masses. When the Red Army left Yanshan the next day, they took Cimicifuga to Li Xiqiao, Suining County for execution. The legion executed Wang Wenxiang in Shijiang, who had always engaged in lawsuits and extortion; suppressed the big bully and bandit Yuan Kuan on the streets of Gaosha Town, known as one of the "Three Kings and Five Tyrants"; and killed Yin Chengzai, a local tycoon in Shibei Township. Deng Xingfang, who committed a heinous crime in Huayuan Township, and Deng Chenzhuo, the reactionary security chief who refused to send food to the Red Army, were taken to Wuyang, Suining County for execution. The masses applauded and thanked the Red Army for redressing their injustice and repaying their blood and tears.

The situation between the military and civilians

Before the Red Army arrived at the entrance of the cave, the Kuomintang reactionaries and local reactionary forces created many rumors, and many farmers hid in the mountains. The Red Army's practical actions of obeying discipline and caring for the people relieved the masses' concerns. Soon, everyone came back to solve the food and housing problems for the Red Army soldiers, and they were very cordial.

At first, many store doors on Yanshan Street were closed tightly. Later, I heard a Red Army soldier shouting affectionately: "Fellows, don't be afraid. Our Red Army is a team of the poor and will not take your things. If you have anything to eat, sell it to us and we'll pay according to the price." Some people saw the Red Army soldiers squatting on the street through the cracks in the door and no one knocked on the door. So some people took out the boiled sweet potatoes and sold them at the door. The soldiers did not negotiate the price, they paid as much as they said, and they only paid a lot more. After the news spread, all the shops were opened and edible things were put out. People nearby sold all the edible things they had in their homes on the street. Several soldiers walked up to Mrs. Lin Yuyuan and said softly: "Mom, the weather is too cold. We want to take shelter at your home tonight." The aunt welcomed her with a smile on her face. The soldiers put down their backpacks and started cleaning. Carrying water and chopping firewood. In the evening, Aunt Lin saw several soldiers making gestures with white cloth under the lamp. She guessed that they were cutting the cloth into foot wraps, so she called her daughter-in-law, who was in confinement, to help her. The mother and daughter stayed up all night, ***Make 10 pairs of cloth socks, exactly one pair for each person. The next day when the soldiers left, they thanked Mrs. Lin again and again and gave him some white cloth, a printed quilt and two round porcelain urns as souvenirs.

The touching deeds of the Red Army caring about and loving the masses deeply moved the masses. The broad masses of farmers cared about and loved the Red Army from all aspects. Shijiang sewing master Qiu Guocai and 11 other masters worked together overnight to make 120 military caps. The Red Army gave each of them a silver dollar, and they were very excited. They made up a poem with your words: "The Red Army came to Shijiang Town and beat up the local tyrants and evil gentry. The rich were frightened and frightened, and the poor were in high spirits. The soldiers and civilians were Wearing military hats all night, we work together to kill the enemy. "Aunt Deng and her daughter-in-law Zeng Dong'e were hoeing in the soil of Ma's house in the garden. When they heard a faint moaning sound in the mountain, Aunt Deng immediately put down the hoe and went to search for it in the mountain. Sure enough, she found a Red Army soldier (from Liuyang) about 20 years old and wearing an octagonal hat lying on the ground. She touched his forehead with her hand and it felt hot. She also saw that the wound on his right foot had begun to ooze pus. She thought that she could not let her loved one freeze to death in the wild, die of pain, or starve to death, and she must find a way to save him. She called her daughter-in-law to help the wounded man back home and let him lie on her daughter-in-law's bed. The daughter-in-law took out her husband's old blue cloth clothes and put them on him. The aunt told the wounded to rest in peace and recuperate, and to pretend to be mute if he saw an outsider coming, asking his daughter-in-law to recognize him as her husband (the daughter-in-law's husband was working as a porter in Guizhou). After the arrangements were made, the aunt went up the mountain to collect herbs every day and took good care of him. After a week, the soldier's injuries were basically cured. He told the aunt to go to the army. On the day before he left, his aunt got up at dawn and prepared food for him on the road. The soldier said to his aunt: "Aunt, you are my mother. I will always remember your kindness. After the revolution is victorious, I will definitely come to visit you." He reluctantly waved goodbye.

Follow the Red Army

The masses feel personally that the Red Army is their own team and the backing for their own struggle for liberation. The path of the Red Army is their own path to liberation. As a result, many poor farmers sent their children to join the Red Army, and young and middle-aged people were even more active and demanded to follow the Red Army. The poor farmers in Lijiadu saw 20 Red Army soldiers dying gloriously under bombing by enemy planes. Filled with anger to avenge the martyrs and a strong desire to seek liberation for themselves, they actively signed up to join the Red Army. Deng Xingyi, Deng Zhengren, and Wu Laosai from Xizhong Village, Deng Xingkai from Blind Field Village, Liu Laoxi from Xinxing Village, Chen Songqing from Mujing Village, and Luo Yu from Shenshang all followed the Red Army. Two sewing masters, Zou Yuhe and Wang Shunsheng on Dongkou Street, were invited to the garden to make military uniforms for the Red Army. They were deeply moved by the spirit of the Red Army and resolutely followed the Red Army on the Long March.

According to preliminary statistics from the county after liberation, there were more than 20 people who followed the Red Army. They contributed to the revolution.

Among them: there are revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed their lives on the Long March without fulfilling their lofty ideals, there are national heroes who shed their last drop of blood on the anti-Japanese front line, and there are people’s heroes who have devoted their lives to the liberation cause of the Chinese people and socialist construction, such as those from Shijiang Town. Wang Zhengui was 30 years old at the time. After joining the Red Army, he was incorporated into the Sixth Army Security Bureau. During his 17-year military career, he fought in both the south and the north. He was awarded the commemorative medals of "People's Meritorious Service", "Liberation of North China" and "Liberation of Northwest China". In 1952, he transferred to work in Xinjiang and retired in 1965. In January 1966, he returned to his hometown in Dongkou and settled down. He wrote revolutionary memoirs such as "Crossing the Jinsha River at Night", "Crossing the Snowy Mountains", and "The Past in the Spring and Autumn Period of Sixty Years".