Editor's note: In order to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, a special column of "Red Memory" was launched to trace the footsteps of the ancestors and listen to the revolutionary stories that took place in Shangluo. It aims to relive the revolutionary history, carry forward the red spirit, not forget the original heart, keep in mind the mission, and let the red gene be passed on from generation to generation and shine forever.
Shangnan is an old revolutionary area with a glorious revolutionary historical tradition. "Red Shangnan" collects the history of the red revolutionary struggle of the revolutionary predecessors who fought in the hot land of Shangnan in those years. The purpose is to "preserve history, senior administration, and educate people", that is, to dig deep into the red historical and cultural resources of Shangnan, inherit the genes of the red revolution, carry forward the spirit of the old revolutionary areas, use red culture to supplement the "calcium" of the spirit, use red culture to nourish cultural self-confidence, use red culture to gather the strength to forge ahead, mobilize and encourage the vast number of party members and cadres and the masses of the people in the county to "not forget the original intention, keep the mission in mind", strengthen faith, overcome difficulties, forge ahead, work hard, and make unremitting efforts to achieve the goal of a well-off society in an all-round way and build a more prosperous, beautiful and happy new Shangnan! The following is an excerpt from this book:
Lei Zhen escorted us across danjiang
Chen Shaomin
In June 1946, we broke through to Zhechuan County, Henan Province. In a place thirty or forty miles west of the city, the relevant leading comrades of the Central Plains Bureau and the Central Plains Military Region held a meeting. Present at the meeting were Li Xiannian, Wang Zhen, Zheng Weisan, and me, as well as Zhou Zhijian of the 13th Brigade and Guo Peng and Wang Enmao of the 359th Brigade. The meeting mainly studied the problem of going in two directions. After the meeting, Li Xiannian led the Thirteenth Brigade, as well as me, Zheng Weisan, Ren Qianbin, Wen Jianwu, and others, through the Black Water Pond to Longshan in Shanyang, when they received a telegram from the central authorities, telling us to find local troops. After meeting with Tan Daopeng of Gong Defang's department, Tan arranged for me and Zheng Weisan and Gu Dachun to live at the house of his uncle and father-in-law in Longshan, while Li Xiannian and the headquarters and the guard regiment (the Thirty-seventh Regiment) lived in a nearby bamboo garden. After most of the day, Lei Zhen escorted us across the Danjiang River to a place in the mountains northeast of Shang County, eight or nine miles from the market town. I stayed here for one night and was picked up by Wang Laoba to MaJie. Later, Wang Feng brought our troops, and Wang Zhibang sent me to a family surnamed Fu who opened a medicine shop in Lintong. A detachment leader came and took me to Yao County. When I arrived at the Jujube Garden in Yan'an on December 15th and 6th, Li Xiannian and Zheng Weisan arrived early in the morning.
Wang Zhen's 359th Brigade also had a cadre brigade. He fought a battle from Zhejiangchuan to Jingziguan, wounding many people and scattering the cadre brigade (three brigades, two of which went to Shang County to find Li Xiannian). They laid down Zhen'an, and then passed through the south of Xi'an and the north of Xianyang to the horse fence in northern Shaanxi, and there were only more than 400 people. Later, the fallen troops came one after another, a total of more than 2,000 people, and the personnel of the Fifth Division stayed in southern Shaanxi to fight guerrillas.
[Note] Chen Shaomin was an alternate member of the Central Committee at the time and the director of the Organization Department of the Central Plains Bureau. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the chairman of the All-