One day in 1932, a group of strangers poured into a small village in Sichuan, dressed in military uniforms, and the villagers fled the mountains in fright.
In the crowd of people who escaped, there was a twenty-year-old girl named Liu Wenzhi. At that time, she probably did not think that it was this group of people that made her life change. If her previous life was miserable, then her life for a long time afterwards was not only bitter, but even full of dangers.
Although this group of people wear military uniforms, they look simple, they speak kindly, do not hit people or curse people, which is completely different from the warlords in people's minds. Over time, the villagers found that this group of soldiers often helped the villagers to do things, although they were not "welcomed", but they were still happy to do so. Carrying water, weeding, where there is dirty work, where there is their presence.
Later, the villagers accepted from the bottom of their hearts this group of people in military uniforms, this group of people is the Red Army. Like all the villagers, Liu Wenzhi felt a warmth he had never felt before in his dealings with the Red Army.
In 1933, at the age of 21, Liu Wenzhi made a bold decision to join the Fourth Front of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
Liu Wenzhi was born in a poor peasant family with 5 brothers and sisters, she is the eldest and the main labor force in the family.
Maybe at that time, she only knew that she was no longer the child bride of someone else's family, no longer a peasant girl who beat pig grass and watered dung every day.
She did not know that she had cut off her long hair, put on her military uniform, and walked alone with the Red Army, but she had actually pinned her hopes for life on the Red Army.
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Liu Wenzhi joined the party organization, actively publicized, and recruited many girls to join the Red Army, and in two years, her women's platoon was expanded from three to eighty, bringing vitality to the Red Army team.
In October 1934, the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Campaign of the Red Army failed, and the main force of the Central Red Army was forced to withdraw from the central base area and carry out a strategic transfer in order to get rid of the encirclement and pursuit of the Kuomintang army. Liu Wenzhi, who served as a women's platoon leader, left his hometown and embarked on a long and arduous long march with the army.
What the Long March meant, Liu Wenzhi may not have been entirely clear at the time, but what she knew was that she could see hope by following the Red Army. So she brought a child with her, and this child was her third brother, thirteen-year-old Liu Wenwen.
As a women's platoon leader, Liu Wenzhi not only took care of the female soldiers in the platoon, led the female soldiers through the Long March, but also had to take care of his frail and sick brother. No matter how hard the road is, how tired she is, she will make a fire, dig wild vegetables, and cook for her brother to eat. Perhaps it was the experience of the early child brides-in-law that allowed her to experience, perhaps it was the responsibility of the eldest daughter on her shoulders, or perhaps it was the belief that Liu Wenzhi insisted on in his heart, so that Liu Wenzhi gritted his teeth and insisted. "You can't leave a man behind" was something she had said to herself countless times.
The enemy's artillery fire did not make Liu Wenzhi afraid, and her Red Fourth Army broke through several enemy blockade lines, but the harsh environment and simple equipment made Liu Wenzhi feel helpless. The climate on the snowy mountains is unpredictable, but rubber shoes are rare treasures, cloth shoes are not wearable, and soldiers carry two or three pairs of grass shoes, marching all the way to play grass shoes. The warriors draped everything they could wear on their bodies and still froze and shivered, sometimes speaking loudly would cause an avalanche, and sometimes as soon as people stopped, they died with a "oops" sound.
Liu Wenzhi tried to lead her comrades-in-arms to overcome all kinds of difficult circumstances, she carried the male comrade-in-arms Yang Mingquan, and walked the snow-capped snowy mountains; she commanded the female comrades-in-arms to pull the ponytail and drag their clothes to line up a blackwater river that did not fall to the ground and stepped on the fast-flowing blackwater river...
In June 1935, the Red Army began to move north, and Liu Wenzhi led his comrades to cross the Jiajin Mountain at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters. Less than 3 miles from the top of the mountain, Zhang Wen, a female red army soldier seven years younger than her, could not walk, Zhang Wen was a fellow of Liu Wenzhi, who often fell in the snow as she walked, and was lifted up by Liu Wenzhi one at a time. Although Zhang Wen insisted that he was fine, Liu Wenzhi knew that Zhang Wen would not last long if this went on.
She did not push away from Zhang Wen again, carried Zhang Wen's things, and continued to climb with the management section chief to support Zhang Wen, and finally reached the top of the mountain. Unfortunately, the wind at the top of the mountain was fierce, and the ice and snow struck, and Liu Wenzhi quickly made a decision: to go down the mountain from the other side. So they climbed with rolling belts, and finally they all climbed over the snowy mountains.
This experience made the wife of the later founding general miss him for life, because Zhang Wen was the wife of the founding general Hong Xuezhi. Later, Zhang Wen sent Liu Wenzhi her memoir "My Road to the Red Army", which included deep gratitude to Liu Wenzhi.
Compared with climbing the snowy mountains, it was more difficult for Liu Wenzhi's Red Fourth Front to cross the meadow. The warriors walked non-stop every day, eating beans, barley, grass roots when they were hungry, and if they encountered wild vegetables, it was really lucky. Such a hungry, tired and hungry day has made many people lose confidence, and people have no belief in going out at all, and they can live day by day.
However, Liu Wenzhi did not think so, she believed that the Red Army could really go out of a way and give her a new life, and she was thinking all the time about how to go out alive, how to take everyone out alive.
Before entering the meadow, once, Liu Wenzhi's team passed by a salt mountain, she dug a piece of salt back, since she was a child daughter-in-law, she knew the importance of salt. Every time she went to a place, when everyone was cooking, she carefully scraped a little salt in the water, and she did not dare to share the salt with everyone, because she was afraid that everyone would not be able to control the amount, and every time she would divide the salt. Relying on this piece of salt, everyone was able to save their physical strength when there was not enough food, and Liu Wenzhi led the female soldiers in the platoon through the meadow until the end of the Long March, when only two people in the platoon were sacrificed.
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The days of the Long March were arduous, and if there was a romance in those glorious years, it was the encounter between Liu Wenzhi and Xie Changchang, and they could also be regarded as joyful enemies.
During the Long March, Xie Changchang was one of the members that Liu Wenzhi had saved. But at that time they did not leave an impression on each other's memories.
In October 1936, Liu Wenzhi was stationed in Gansu with the army, doing logistics in the 385th Brigade, continuing to make clothes for the Red Army, responsible for leggings, managing explosive packages, and other work. At that time, Xie Changchang was the leader of the clothing factory, equipped with a guard, and Liu Wenzhi was the platoon leader. Xie Changchang's guards and Liu Wenzhi also set their sights on a grass house with a better environment, and they did not give in to each other.
Liu Wenzhi told the guards that the house was for women comrades to live in, because the good environment was more convenient for women comrades to live. However, Xie Changchang's guards did not "pity Xiang Xiang and cherish The Jade", he felt that the grass house with a good environment should be lived by the leader, so the two people who did not give in to each other quarreled.
Xie Changchang knew, and honestly he reprimanded the guards and gave the house to the female soldiers. It was the experience of this quarrel that made them "not fight and did not know each other", and also made them recall the life-and-death friendship on the Long March Road.
Liu Wenzhi is a man of integrity, distinguishing between right and wrong, and can speak the Tao, and has a good popularity and strong ability. Xie Changchang is reliable, has no leadership frame, is close to the people and grounded. More importantly, they shared a common ideal and belief that the Red Army could bring hope to a desperate populace. In this way, Liu Wenzhi and Xie Changchang attracted each other, and in 1937, they became each other's other halves.
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After marriage, Liu Wenzhi and Xie Changchang were very affectionate, although they also quarreled, but they would soon be reconciled after the quarrel. They respect each other as guests, and there is a clear division of labor in housework, mutual understanding and tolerance. Usually, Liu Wenzhi is responsible for the family's living and eating, and if there are guests or xie long-term during the New Year's Festival, he will become a chef, fried fritters and steamed steamed buns.
After marriage, although Liu Wenzhi and Xie Changchang worked in the rear, they often received organizational transfers. In 1945, Liu Wenzhi was assigned to Yan'an for three years, which also made Liu Wenzhi have a deep affection for Yan'an.
Although they are not often together, their hearts are very close, they are willing to win the hearts of one, and the white heads are not separated, Liu Wenzhi and Xie Changchang explained to us the most simple appearance of love.
In this way, there was joy in suffering, and Liu Wenzhi, who had followed the Red Army on the Long March, looked forward to the founding of New China.
At work, she refused the care of the organization and was willing to be a grassroots administrator. She started from an ordinary administrator, worked steadily at the first level, worked conscientiously, and became a cadre.
Later, because of the need to set wages according to rank, Liu Wenzhi's salary was lowered. However, she still had the same mentality as she had started at the grassroots level, without complaining, just as she had firmly followed the Red Army, she said, "Follow the national policy, and set whatever level you want." ”
Having experienced life and death, what else can't be seen? Liu Wenzhi not only has a good attitude, but also is also very kind. Usually, she always tries her best to help the people around her, not to embarrass others, and not to make small moves behind her back. She warned her son, who was a soldier: "Be a soldier, don't be afraid of death, don't be a deserter." ”
In 2012, 100-year-old Liu Wenzhi made a wish to go to Yan'an to retake the Long March. The family carefully planned, considered the various problems of the elderly running on the road, and finally the whole family traveled by car and accompanied Liu Wenzhi to Yan'an.
When she knew she could go to Yan'an, Liu Wenzhi did not sleep for several days and nights, and she was overwhelmed with excitement, just like when she joined the Red Army.
Excited before departure, Liu Wenzhi was also very excited on the way. She was like a child, pointing everywhere, looking everywhere, remembering wherever she went. The family prepared a nanny car for Liu Wenzhi, which was convenient for her to lie down and rest, but Liu Wenzhi did not feel tired at all, and she even had to sit in the back seat to watch the scenery.
When Liu Wenzhi walked to Pagoda Mountain, he insisted on going up the mountain to see the Yellow River. The family worried about her safety and would not let her go up, but she said that she would not say anything, and that persistence was like when she did not give up leading the paili fighters out of the long march no matter how tired she was. With the help of her family, the old man reached the top of the mountain, looking at the rushing Water of the Yellow River, she seemed to see the distant years of military service, "Before, there were no pebbles on both sides of the river, and the river channel became narrower" Liu Wenzhi shed tears of excitement.
Liu Wenzhi, she is a member of thousands of Red Army, she has gone through decades of revolutionary storms, although there is no earth-shattering great cause, but she has used her life to practice the "red spirit" and be a patriotic wave in the long river of the times.
I can't help but think of an interview on the Internet, when an old revolutionary was in his later years, someone asked him, what was the biggest feeling of participating in the Long March? The old man replied without hesitation: "Follow the ideal!" ”
More than 80 years have passed since the Long March, but looking back at the heroic deeds of the revolutionary fighters, we can still feel the surging revolutionary passion. Different times, people have different ideals. For a revolutionary fighter like Liu Wenzhi, who is obscure and hard-working, their ideal is to plant the red flag all over the land of China, and following the ideal is their hope for a happy life.
Following the ideal is a combination of faith and action, and faith must be firm and action must be decisive. The road to pursuing dreams is obstructed and long, and only by having no distractions and moving forward with one heart can we get out of the predicament and see hope.
The famous American novelist Dreisay once said that the ideal is the sun of life. Life has the sun, although it will encounter darkness, but it will always encounter light.
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Author: Xiaoxi's mother loves to read
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Edited by: Yayu
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