Some people describe the old Red Army Wang Quanyuan as follows: a life of ups and downs, two sleeves of fresh wind, three over the meadow, four climbing snowy mountains, five marriages, six orphans, seven deaths, eight conspiracies, nine deaths. In that special era, the personal fate of this veteran was closely linked to the times, and it was difficult and difficult.
Although life is not easy, in the fire of war, she also has a tearful love story. She was separated from her husband during the Long March, and by 45 years later, the two met in Beijing, where she was already the vice president.
He joined the army at a young age and was separated after living with her husband for two days
Wang Quanyuan was born in 1913, a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi, from a poor family since childhood, and was born as a child bride. Later, when the country was in trouble, Wang Quanyuan offered to join the army in order to serve the motherland, and then joined the Communist Party and became a women's minister.
During her work, although Wang Quanyuan had little culture, she was conscientious and diligent in her work, won the hearts of the people, was valued by the party, and was transferred to study and write. At that time, Dong Biwu was her first teacher, not only teaching her to read and write, but also always guiding her to the correct revolutionary direction and becoming a pillar of the country.
As her seniority in the party grew deeper, Wang Quanyuan gradually reached the age of talking about marriage. Through the introduction of others, Wang Quanyuan married Wang Shoudao, who gave her a gun as a promise of love, and the two stayed together for two days and soon separated.
Who knows, this difference is a lifetime.
In the revolutionary history of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, there is a well-known detachment of the Women's Army, that is, the Women's Independent Regiment of the Fourth Front Of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which was gloriously born in March 1933 in Tongjiang County, the revolutionary base area of Sichuan and Shaanxi. Wang Quanyuan was the female regiment leader at that time, and she always played the backbone.
In October 1936, after the three main Red Army divisions met in Huining, the main force of the Red Fourth Front was ordered by the Central Military Commission to carry out the task of creating a base area in the Hexi Corridor and opening up links with the Soviet Union, and more than 20,000 Red Army troops who crossed the Yellow River in the west were renamed the Western Route Army. At this time, the Women's Independent Regiment was changed to the Women's Anti-Japanese Pioneer Regiment, with a total of about 1,300 people in 3 battalions and 9 companies. Their average age is less than 20 years old, with the youngest being only 12 years old.
Under the leadership of regimental commander Wang Quanyuan, political commissar Wu Fulian, and commissioner Zeng Guanglan, this large-scale women's armed force, which is unique in the history of the Red Army, followed the Western Route Army to cross the Yellow River in the west and embarked on an incomparably difficult, extremely tragic, and very tragic journey to the west.
At that time, the battle was very fierce, and our army was in a disadvantageous position. In order to save most of them, Wang Quanyuan led the female corps to lead the enemy away, so that the large troops could successfully escape. However, this group of captured female soldiers was also humiliated in the enemy camp. Wang Quanyuan, who was already married at that time, was still forced to marry again.
Fortunately, in the end, she escaped and was able to regain her freedom. However, at that time, she had long been separated from the large army, and she had completely lost the voice of her husband. Just two days after the new marriage, she was forced to face the difficult situation alone.
One day in March 1939, Wang Quanyuan finally came to the "Office of the Eighteenth Route Army in Lanzhou" in Lanzhou on crutches, hoping to return to the army, but was refused.
In desperation, Wang Quanyuan had to return to her hometown again.
After 45 years, I met my ex-husband again, and the other party was already the vice president
In July 1942, when Wang Quanyuan returned to her hometown in rags and her legs and feet, no one in her family dared to recognize her. For a long time thereafter, the locals did not know that she had been a female regimental commander of the Red Army. After experiencing the barrier of life and death, Wang Quanyuan longed for an ordinary life and never mentioned those past events again.
In the beginning, Wang Quanyuan also had illusions about reuniting with her husband. However, under the circumstances at that time, she did not even know whether her husband was dead or alive, and she gradually became discouraged. Later, Wang Quanyuan married a descendant of a revolutionary martyr named Liu Gaohua, went to the land to farm, supported herself, and no longer painstakingly guarded the past.
In 1982, in order to restore her original party membership, Wang Quanyuan went to Beijing. After arriving in Beijing, with the help of Kang Keqing, Cai Chang and several other elder sisters, she restored her party membership and Red Army status. At the same time, there is also a windfall: she is reunited with her former husband Wang Shoudao!
Things are people and things are not things, and tears flow first. After 45 years, the former couple has changed greatly. Wang Quanyuan returned to the countryside to live an ordinary life, while her formerly separated husband was already the vice president.
This meeting was short-lived, but it had fulfilled Wang Quanyuan's wish for half a century. After the separation, Wang Shoudao had been searching for his wife for many years, but in the case of closed news, everything was in vain. For two people who have lived through the war, it is rare to survive and see each other again. Even if it is no longer a couple, it is just as gratifying.
In 1994, Wang Quanyuan went to Beijing again to see Wang Shoudao, who was already seriously ill at that time. After greeting each other, Wang Quanyuan took out a thousand-layer black cloth shoes made by hand from the cloth bag she carried with her. Solemnly handed it over to Wang Shoudao. When we were husband and wife, the things we promised had been done.
For this former couple, it is the best ending.
brief summary
The Red Army is not afraid of expeditions and difficulties, and thousands of rivers and mountains are just waiting for idleness. During the Long March, every soldier's wish is the same, but the story behind it is different. The couple, who were separated during the Long March, also missed each other's lives!