In 1959, on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a revolutionary film "Daughter of the Party" was released, and hundreds of founding generals gathered together to watch the film based on the real history of Jiangxi's old revolutionary areas.
Who knows watching and watching, some people began to sob quietly, as the plot progressed, more generals had tears in the corners of their eyes, when li Yumei and a large number of revolutionary masses appeared on the screen who were about to be pushed to the execution ground, she turned around and instructed her young daughter Yu Yu to remember that her mother was the daughter of the party, and when she was picked up by the traffic officers in the back basket and fled to the mountains, she turned back and stretched out her small hands and cried out "Mother-" with her heart broken, and the venue was already full of crying!
Why do these tough guys who have experienced countless hardships and hardships and will not frown even in the face of death collapse because of a movie? Because this movie evokes a lot of painful memories for them.
After the Red Army was forced to march that year, the Kuomintang reactionaries shouted crazy slogans such as "every family is overheated, everyone has been stabbed", "three years of mass murder, people must change species", and so on, and launched a brutal killing in the old revolutionary areas, and the number of people once dropped sharply by several million!
Without giving too many examples, there are many people among the founding generals who have had the tragic experience of being killed by their relatives, so the officers and men of our army have an indelible bitter hatred for the Kuomintang reactionaries!
On August 25, 1937, the Red Army was officially reorganized into the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, under the jurisdiction of the 115th Division, 120th Division, 129th Division, tens of thousands of Officers and men of the Red Army took off the Red Star uniform and changed into the uniform of the National Revolutionary Army.
Yang Chengwu, then the commander of the Independent Regiment of the 115th Division, was deeply impressed by this, and when the troops brought in a batch of new uniforms, the ragged soldiers were still very happy, but when they saw the military uniforms and military hats with the blue sky and white sun emblem, many soldiers were indignant on the spot and talked about it.
"How many of our comrades-in-arms have been killed by the reactionaries?" How many relatives? Now how can we wear this too? Ten years of our blood in vain? ”
"Yes, I was red in the eye when I saw this dogtooth emblem and wanted to shoot at it!" If Lao Tzu bears it every day in the future, how to explain it to the relatives of his comrades-in-arms who sacrificed! ”
"Adaptation, I see this as surrender! Are we fooled by Old Jiang! ”
Everyone tore off the blue sky white sun hat badge and stomped on the ground fiercely.
After hearing everyone's opinions, Yang Chengwu enlightened everyone and said: "Comrades, our reorganization into the Eighth Route Army now does not mean that the Red Army has surrendered, because now we are all Chinese facing an even bigger enemy, Japanese imperialism, which is trying to destroy us, and we must unite all Chinese with flesh and blood and national dignity to fight Japan together!" So we should look farther ahead, relax our minds a little, change into the Military Uniform of the Kuomintang, and our hearts are still red, are you right? ”
Listening to Yang Chengwu's words, many soldiers stopped talking.
However, a squad leader still couldn't turn around, and he ripped open his shirt, revealing a deep scar, and said, "No matter how well said, I don't wear the military uniform of a white dog!" There are more than a dozen fellow countrymen who came out with me to join the Red Army, and now I am the only one left, I can't avenge them, I still have to be a soldier of the enemy, I can't do it when I die! ”
After saying that, the squad leader squatted on the ground and cried.
The next day, when the troops were pulled out, someone reported a bad news to Yang Chengwu: Several fighters "deserted" with weapons and ran!
When Yang Chengwu heard this, this was a very serious matter, and immediately investigated who it was, it turned out that it was the squad leader and several other fighters from the old Soviet area, and before they left, they also left a note saying that they were not running away, but wanted to return to Jiangxi to continue the revolution.
Others said in the note: "The Red Army here has changed, I am going to Yan'an, and the Red Army there will certainly not change!" ”
Due to the urgency of the march, Yang Chengwu did not have time to go to them one by one, so he ordered the troops to set off as planned.
After a few days of walking, someone came to Yang Chengwu to report that those people had returned. Yang Chengwu called them over and asked, "Aren't you going back to Jiangxi and Yan'an?" How did it come back? ”
The squad leader smiled sheepishly and said, "Commander Yang, we know that we are wrong, we actually did not go far, we found that the common people are praising our Red Army for their deep understanding of the great righteousness and willingness to fight Japan together with the Kuomintang. ”
Some soldiers said in shame, "Commander, we have made a big mistake, so punish us!" ”
Yang Chengwu happily patted them on the shoulders and said, "Just come back, your intentions are all good, it is understandable, I will not punish you, I hope you can understand the bitter intentions of our party, be a qualified eighth route army soldier like the Red Army, and drive the Japanese out of China as soon as possible!" At that time, everyone will be a great hero of our Chinese nation! ”
In this way, the soldiers gradually accepted the name of the Eighth Route Army, and made many meritorious achievements in the future War of Resistance Against Japan, which also made the name "Eighth Route Army" a glorious term in the history of our army.