Essays on the Long March embodying the heroism and revolutionary optimism of the Red Army

Long March Stories

The first one:

In the autumn of 1945, the Red Army entered the grassland. Since the three little comrades had gastrointestinal problems, the instructor asked the cooking squad leader to take care of them.

The three patients only walked twenty miles a day. When they arrived at the camp, the squad leader dug up grass roots and cooked them with highland barley noodles. In less than half a month, all the highland barley noodles were eaten. Hunger threatens them. Although the squad leader is looking for weeds and digging tree roots everywhere, how can he be full just by eating these? The squad leader watched them lose weight and couldn't close his eyes all night long.

One day, the squad leader was washing clothes by the river and suddenly saw a fish jumping out of the water. He quickly found a sewing needle and bent it into a hook, allowing the three comrades to eat fresh food. fish and drank fish soup. But a little comrade noticed that when they were eating fish, the monitor never ate. Later, the little comrade found that the squad leader was eating the leftover food, and he couldn't help but shed tears.

Just as they were about to walk out of the grassland, the squad leader fainted from hunger. The three young comrades hurriedly went fishing and made soup, but the squad leader still sacrificed for them.

The second one:

It was a day in late autumn, and the sun was in the west. Comrade Chen Geng felt very tired from marching on uninhabited grasslands for a long time and often suffered from hunger. This time he fell behind, leading the thin horse that was also tired, and walked forward step by step. Suddenly, I saw a small Red Army soldier in front of me. Like him, he also fell behind.

That little guy is only eleven or twelve years old. He has a small yellow face, a pair of big eyes, two thin lips, a slightly turned-up nose, and his feet are wearing broken straw sandals, which are green and red from the cold. Comrade Chen Geng walked up to him and said, "Kid, please get on the horse and ride for a while."

The kid put on a nonchalant look, stared at Comrade Chen Geng's thin face with beard, smiled slightly, and said with Speaking in Sichuan dialect:

"Old comrade, my physical strength is much stronger than yours, please ride on."

Comrade Chen Geng said in a commanding tone: "Ride for a while Let’s talk about the road later!”

The kid said stubbornly: “If you want me to compete with your horse, then let’s compete.” He straightened his waist and made a gesture of getting ready to run. .

"Then, let's go together."

"No. You go first, I have to wait for my companion."

Chen Geng The comrade was helpless, so he took out a small bag of highland barley noodles from his body, handed it to the kid, and said, "Eat it."

The kid pulled the bag of dry food on his body, patted it gently, and said: "Look, it's bulging. I have more than you."

Comrade Chen Geng was finally convinced by this kid, so he had to climb on the horse and walk forward. He was riding on the horse, and his mood couldn't calm down. From the kid he met just now, he thought of a series of children. From Shanghai, Guangzhou to the docks of Hong Kong, the poor children he had interacted with appeared in front of him one by one.

"No, I was deceived!" Comrade Chen Geng suddenly shouted, immediately turned the horse's head, kicked the horse's belly several times, and started running on the road he came from. By the time he found the kid, he had already fallen on the grass.

Comrade Chen Geng struggled to lift the kid onto the horse's back. His hand touched the kid's dry food bag. The bag was hard. What was it containing? He took it out and saw that it was an ox knee bone that was burnt black and had several teeth marks on it.

Comrade Chen Geng understands everything. At this moment, the kid stopped breathing.

Comrade Chen Geng hugged the kid and slapped himself hard: "Chen Geng, how can you be worthy of this little brother!"

The third one:

During the Long March, the Red Army was intercepted in front and pursued by troops behind. It also had to constantly fight against enemy planes conducting aerial reconnaissance and bombing. Although the Red Army's air defense weapons were extremely crude at that time, they still carried forward the spirit of winning over the superior with the inferior and daring to fight, actively carried out air defense operations, and shot down 6 enemy planes during the Long March.

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 continued, "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 Comrade He Long's lover. 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 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."

Respectable Martyrs

Since the Second and Sixth Army Corps withdrew from the Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou revolutionary base areas, the Kuomintang troops have been following them. , Search for them, trying to eliminate them during the Long March. 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 aircraft still found the target and frantically dropped 6 bombs. 20 soldiers died gloriously on the spot and dozens more were injured.

Wang Kangyuan, who was only 12 years old at the time, was driving his cattle home. A Red Army soldier saw this and hurriedly ran over. The corpse pusher pushed Wang Kangyuan to the ground and used his body to cover him. Wang Kangyuan was safe and sound, but the soldier was bleeding profusely. After Wang Kangyuan's uncle Wang Rende learned about it, he was deeply moved by the spirit of the Red Army soldiers who sacrificed themselves to save others. In order to repay the Red Army soldiers for their life-saving grace, he took the risk and together with more than 20 poor farmers including Li Mingsheng and Liu Dabing, buried the remains of the martyrs in the cemetery. A clearing on the Serpentine Mountain.

But not long after the Red Army left, some local tyrants and evil gentry had ulterior motives and said, "The place where the Red Army is buried is a 'feng shui treasure land' and the 'Dragon Vein' of Lijiadu. Now that the 'Dragon Vein' has been dug out, the 'Dragon God' is uneasy. The only choice is to destroy the Red Army." Only by digging up the corpses and throwing them into the river can the 'dragon veins' be preserved and the 'feng shui' be 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 to the rolling pines of Changling overnight. The boundary is surrounded by pines and cypresses. Wang Kangyuan, whose life was saved by the Red Army, visits the tombs of martyrs every year during Qingming Festival. 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 "Long March Martyrs" There are six big buildings in the tomb, with two couplets engraved on both sides. One is "Greatness in life, glory in death" and the other is "Inherit the ambition of the martyrs and always be a revolutionary." The Dongkou County Party Committee and County Government have used the Martyrs’ Tomb as a county-wide patriotism education base. For decades, cadres, workers, farmers, and students have often visited the tombs to pay their respects, learn from the martyrs' spirit, inherit the martyrs' legacy, and contribute to the construction of a socialist country.

China Broadcasting Network, Beijing, September 30 News Seventy years ago, thousands of female Red Army soldiers embarked on a long march. Among the female soldiers of the Red Army, there was an 11-year-old girl. She was carrying a thread blanket, a flute at her waist, and a wooden stick in her hand. She sang and played to cheer everyone up. She was the one who fought in the Long March. The youngest female Red Army member - Wang Xinlan.

Wang Xinlan was born into a wealthy family in Xuanhan, Sichuan in 1924. Her uncle Wang Weizhou was a famous early member of the Communist Party of China. Under the influence of his uncle, Wang Xinlan's two brothers and two sisters successively joined the Communist Party. When Wang Xinlan was 7 years old, because she was young and could not easily attract the attention of white bandits, the party organization often asked her to deliver secret documents.

In 1933, the Fourth Red Army entered Sichuan, and the "Eastern Sichuan Guerrilla Army" led by Wang Weizhou was reorganized into the 33rd Army of the Fourth Red Army, with him as its commander. Wang Xinlan was only 9 years old at the time. Although she was young, under the influence of her family, she also understood a lot of revolutionary principles. The Red Army was about to march on a long march, leaving only Wang Xinlan and her sick mother at home. Seeing Wang Xinlan sitting on pins and needles all day long, her 15-year-old sister and female Red Army soldier Wang Xinguo saw what was on her sister's mind and knew that she wanted to follow the Red Army. So, with the encouragement of her sister Wang Xinguo, Wang Xinlan plucked up the courage to sign up for the Red Army.

My mother, who understands the righteousness well, is particularly pleased with this, but is worried that Wang Xinlan is too young and the Red Army will not accept her.

Xu Liqing, then director of the Political Department of the Fourth Red Army, received them. When he saw Wang Xinlan wearing two braids and being no taller than a rifle, he smiled and asked, "What can you do at such a young age?"

Wang Xinlan was afraid that the head of the Red Army would underestimate him, so he She said in a loud voice: "I can do anything!"

Director Xu laughed when he saw her frank look: "Oh? I can do anything? Then tell me what you can do."

"Okay!" After hearing the chief's words, Wang Xinlan became even more energetic: "I can write, dance, play, and sing!" As she spoke, she wrote a few words on the ground with her hands. Let Xu Liqing read the words.

At this time, her sister Wang Xinguo also supported her: "Chief, please accept my sister! Even though she is young, she has been working for the party for several years." Wang Xinlan told Xu Liqing about the information he had delivered to the party over the past few years. While listening, Xu Liqing nodded repeatedly: "Well, not bad, not bad." After listening to Wang Xinguo attentively, Xu Liqing turned to Wang Xinlan and said: "Little sister, it's not that the Red Army doesn't want you, it's just that you are too young..."

Hearing that there was no hope again, Wang Xinlan lost her childish temper: "Little? What's wrong with little? Who is born to fight? He didn't just learn it bit by bit. Although I am young, I learn things quickly!" "

Seeing Wang Xinlan's determination to join the army, Xu Liqing finally agreed: "Okay, then you can come over tomorrow!" Wang Xinlan immediately jumped up with excitement. With a "yes", Wang Xinlan took her sister and ran outside.

Xu Liqing suddenly remembered something and shouted to them: "Does your mother agree?" "I have agreed a long time ago!" A happy answer came from outside the door.

After the brothers and sisters entrusted their mother to the local Soviet organization, Wang Xinlan reported to the Fourth Red Army early the next morning. Wang Xinguo was assigned to work in the Propaganda Committee of the Political Department of the Fourth Red Army, and Wang Xinlan was assigned to work as a propagandist in the propaganda team under the committee. As soon as they arrived at the publicity team, the sisters began to write programs and write slogans. On the Long March, Wang Xinlan and his comrades traveled through mountains and ridges, climbed on ice and lay in snow. No matter how much hardship they endured or how much they suffered, they never complained about hardship or tiredness, and never fell behind. However, Wang Xinlan was indeed too young. When climbing the snow-capped mountains, she had to pull the horse's tail to climb up; when crossing the grassland, she sometimes had to lie on the shoulders of her big brother in the Red Army. Despite this, as long as Wang Xinlan has the opportunity, she will stand in the wind or on the roadside, singing, dancing and cheering for her comrades. Wang Xinlan, a young Red Army soldier, walked the 25,000-mile Long March with his immature feet and successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi with the large army

After the Red Army’s Long March, what should we do with the wounded Red Army soldiers who were injured in the counter-campaign of “encirclement and suppression”? ? Where are they hiding and who looks after them? While interviewing in Ruijin, Yudu, and Xinfeng along the Long March Road, the reporter found many clues.

According to historical records, after the main force of the Red Army left the Central Soviet Area, about 7,000 wounded people were left behind. After treatment, about half were discharged from the hospital and reorganized into independent divisions and regiments, while the other half were evacuated to people's homes for hiding. At that time, many wounded soldiers wrote an oath dipped in blood: "I will not leave the army until I die, and I will immediately go to the front line and fight the enemy to the end." It was organizationally impossible for the wounded to return to the front line, and thousands of wounded were urgently evacuated to remote mountainous areas.

Shaxing District in Yudu County was a model district for protecting and resettling wounded Red Army soldiers. Among them, 12 wounded Red Army soldiers lived in Liu Fati’s natal family. Unfortunately, Aunt Liu has passed away, and the reporter found her son, 81-year-old Zhu Shaoming.

Zhu Shaoming said: "My father was a martyr of the Red Army, and my mother had a particularly deep affection for the Red Army. I was only seven or eight years old at the time, but I still remember the name of a wounded Red Army soldier named Zhu Jiacai. My mother took the wounded soldier to They hid in the cellar and sent them in quietly during meals. A year later, 10 of the wounded were basically able to walk. We had 6 children in our family, and we had to take care of 12 wounded, and it was very hard for my mother." /p>

The reporter followed Zhu Shaoming’s younger brother, Zhu Shaocai, starting from the town and walking along the winding mountain road for 30 minutes to find the cellar where the wounded Red Army soldiers were hidden. The cellar was on a low hillside, had collapsed, and was overgrown with shrubs and weeds. Standing on the hillside, the reporter thought, in such difficult days, what kind of power enabled Mrs. Liu Fati to support this special home alone? A monument should be erected here with the words: A great mother once lived here!

Continuing the interview, I found that there are many places where I can establish monuments. There was a small mountain village with only three households in Yudu County, called Anshan. Red Army wounded Zhong Jiayao, Liu Yicai and Zhong Guichun were hiding in the cave next to Yang's house. At that time, there was only one and a half loads of millet left at home. Aunt Yang gave the wounded Red Army soldiers a meal of rice porridge every day, while she and her grandson ate sweet potatoes and taro to satisfy their hunger. In order to make the wounds of the wounded recover as soon as possible, Aunt Yang often went to the mountains to collect Chinese herbal medicine. Later, all three injured people recovered. Unfortunately, Anshan is still there, but due to the resettlement due to the construction of the reservoir, the reporter has been unable to find Aunt Yang and her descendants.

In Xinfeng Youshan Town Le Village, the reporter finally found a living old lady, 93 years old this year, named Guo Lianhua. According to the masses, she was a traffic officer for the southern Gansu guerrillas and often took care of the wounded in the Red Army. Her husband Lin Yuliang was also a martyr in the Red Army. Facing reporters, the old woman's smile was so kind. My heart overflows with deep respect, and I sincerely wish Aunt Guo and all the aunts who are still alive who took care of the wounded in the Red Army a long and healthy life

1. Flying over the Luding Bridge

1935 On May 25, 2011, after the First Front Army forcibly crossed the Dadu River at Anshun Field, it had to use only a few small boats to cross the tens of thousands of Red Army troops, which would take a month at the earliest. The Kuomintang's troops were in hot pursuit, and the situation was very serious.

On the morning of May 26, after Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Wang Jiaxiang, Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen, Luo Ronghuan, and Luo Ruiqing reported, they immediately made the decision to capture Luding Bridge. The deployment is for the first division of the Red Army led by Liu Bocheng and Nie Rongzhen and the cadre regiment led by Chen Geng and Song Renqiong to form the right route army. The central column and the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 9th Army Corps will form the left route army to cross the river and attack Luding Bridge. . The Fourth Regiment of the Second Red Division of the Left Route Army, led by Wang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu, acted as the forward attack. On May 28, the Fourth Red Regiment received an order from the First Red Army: "Wang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu: A call from the Military Commission has restricted the Left Route Army to capture Lu tomorrow. Dingqiao, you must use the highest marching speed and resolute maneuvering to complete this glorious mission. In this battle, you must break the previous record of one hundred and sixty miles in one day to capture Daozhou and the fifth regiment to capture Yaxi. ". After receiving the order, the Fourth Red Regiment marched the 240-mile mountain road day and night. On the morning of the 29th, it unexpectedly appeared on the west bank of Luding Bridge and exchanged fire with the enemy.

At that time, the enemy had removed about 80 meters of the bridge deck of the more than 100-meter-long Luding Bridge, and used a company of machine guns and artillery to form intensive firepower on the high ground at the east bridge to tightly blockade Luding Bridge. Fixed bridge deck. At noon, the Fourth Red Regiment held a cadre meeting in the Shaba Catholic Church to carry out combat mobilization and organized a 23-man bridge commando team led by company commander Liao Dazhu and instructor Wang Haiyun. At four o'clock in the afternoon, 23 warriors were armed with submachine guns, sabers on their backs, and a dozen grenades on their waists. Braving a hail of bullets, they climbed on the bare iron chains and pounced toward the east bridge. Three soldiers, led by Wang Youcai, followed closely behind, carrying guns on their backs, holding wooden boards in one hand and chains in the other, laying bridge planks as they advanced. When the warriors climbed to the middle of the bridge, the enemy set a fire at the east end of the bridge in an attempt to use the fire to prevent the Red Army from seizing the bridge. Facing the sudden flames, the warriors shouted, "Comrades, this is the last moment of victory. Take courage and charge forward! Don't be afraid of fire, charge forward! The enemy is defeated, charge forward!" Liao Dazhu jumped up and stepped forward. Get on the bridge board and rush to the east bridge head. The warriors rush up soon after, draw their sabers, and start hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. At this time, political commissar Yang Chengwu led the team to rush across the east bridgehead, repelled the enemy's counterattack, occupied Luding City, and quickly extinguished the bridgehead fire. The whole battle lasted only two hours, and the Luding Bridge was captured in a thrilling and thrilling manner, shattering Chiang Kai-shek's dream of pursuing the south and north to turn the Red Army into the second Shi Dakai by relying on the natural dangers of the Dadu River. Luding Bridge therefore became an important milestone during the Long March of the Communist Party of China. It laid a solid foundation for the rendezvous of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Red Army of great historical significance, and finally went north to northern Shaanxi to end the Long March. It is in the history of the Chinese revolution. He wrote an immortal chapter and received the magnificent praise of "Thirteen iron chains split the road to the Republic of China". Seven of the ten founding marshals of New China passed through Huding Bridge during the Long March. . At that time, on the Luding Bridge after a fierce battle, Marshal Liu Bocheng once stamped his feet heavily on the bridge board three times and said with emotion, "Luding Bridge, Luding Bridge, how much energy we have spent on you, how much energy we have spent on you." With all our hard work, now we have won, we have won!" Commander-in-Chief Zhu De wrote in his memories of the Long March the poem "Thousands of miles of Yangtze River still remembers the danger of Luguan", which fully explains the Red Army's Long March