In 1955, the People's Publishing House edited and published the Long March of the First Front of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. This is an anthology containing 51 memoirs, 1 poem, 3 schedules, and 4 review articles of the Long March of the Red Army. The 4 review articles are: Chen Yun (pseudonym "Lian Chen") 'Singing The Army's Journey westwards,' published in 1936 in the Monthly Magazine of the People in Paris sponsored by the Communist Party of China, published in Moscow that year, and first published in China in June 1949 by the Shanghai Mass Book Company. In order to facilitate circulation in the white area, Chen Yun pretended to be a military doctor who was captured by the Red Army in the text, and objectively and detailedly introduced the course of the Red Army's Long March as a third party. Because he was on a new mission in the middle of the way, he only wrote until the capture of the Luding Bridge. Yang Dinghua's "March on snowy mountains and meadows" and "From Gansu to Shaanxi" were serialized in Paris (National Salvation Times) sponsored by the Communist Party of China in 1937. In November 1948, the Northeast Bookstore in the Liberated Area published a single edition of "Marching in the Snowy Mountains and Meadows". According to Chen Yun's penmanship, the author pretended to be a telegraph operator who was captured by the Red Army to introduce the situation in the second half of the Long March, which was a supplement to Chen Yun's article. These three articles comprehensively reflect the whole process of the Long March. Many of these plots are personally experienced by the author, informative and touching, and have the same first-hand value as other reminiscence articles.
Yang Dinghua's article records the time of the Red Army's Long March
Commander-in-Chief Zhu was the rank of harvesting barley for the Tibetans
"The vanguard troops advanced to Zege, forty miles ahead of the Mahe Dam, and all the follow-up troops still concentrated on Zhuo Keji, replenished the grain plants, and rested and trained on the spot for four days. Four days later, apart from the stationing of the service organs and the Ministry of Health in Zhuo Keji and summoning the Fenkun officials to do the work of increasing the national affinity, the rest of the troops continued to concentrate on Zege. Advancing through various places from Somo, the Tibetans along the way, regardless of the coercion of the local reactionaries, were no longer as active as before in obstructing the Red Army. However, in the end, because the White Army had carried out a lot of intimidation and deception against them, the local reactionaries had made a regulation to severely punish the Tibetans: Anyone who helped the Red Army to lead the way, helped the Red Army to become a general manager, or sold grain to the Red Army, was sentenced to death; if they did not carry out the execution of the fortified wall, all cattle, sheep, grain, and other property were confiscated; if they did not obey their command and fought against the Red Army, they would also make a "rebellion" theory. Under this repressive policy, Tibetans had to escape. During these forty-mile journeys, the rain and snow were muddy, the pass was difficult to navigate, and it was time for starvation; but there was no way out of heaven, and the barley in the area was already pale yellow, barely able to be cut and eaten. In order to avoid starvation, the Red Army had to cut wheat and rice to cook food, while sending people around to guide the Tibetans home in order to pay a certain price.
So the commanders and combatants all mobilized to cut wheat. Everyone knew that the grain in front of them was even more difficult, so the Red Army authorities ordered the ministries to prepare grain socks for ten days and helped a unit responsible for fighting the pursuing enemy to prepare grain. At this time, there was really a trend of "no wheat to be cut and no food", except for a small number of troops who served as duty and the wounded and sick, from commander-in-chief Zhu De down to the cooks and breeders, all of whom joined hands and participated in the wheat cutting movement. At eight o'clock every morning, the companies assembled and marched toward the designated wheat field, and groups of red soldiers gathered together, like sparrows, and each of them consciously and automatically labored. When they were happy, they sang songs, some singing the songs of the Young Pioneers, some singing the songs of the Red Army's breakthrough victory or the meeting song of the First and Fourth Fronts. For a moment the song sang all over the field, and I don't know what is called pain, only enthusiastic happiness.
Particularly noteworthy here is General Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Red Army. He not only cut and beat the wheat like the combatants, but also returned from fifty or sixty pounds from a distance of one or twenty miles after cutting it. He also used to say to the general soldiers and staff: "You young people can't pick up forty or fifty pounds, alas!" What youth? Everyone smiled at him embarrassed. In addition to Mao Runzhi and Zhou Enlai, the leaders of the Red Army, who did not have time to participate in such labor in order to command the troops, Zhang Wentian and Xu Teli and Lin Boqu, who were already fifty or sixty years old, also came to help make wheat. This spirit of unity and hardship and hardship in the Red Army is really worthy of people's admiration. It is no wonder that in the midst of hunger, cold and extreme difficulties, everyone can unite and maintain a high degree of political firmness and fighting spirit.
At the same time, it is worth pointing out that the women who worked with the army, such as Mrs. Zhu De's wife Kang Keqing, not only walked with the army carrying guns and luggage, but also participated in this kind of wheat cutting labor. Some intellectual-born international students, university students, young men and women went to the wheat fields to wear no shoes, and their feet were pierced; the palms of their hands were blistered when they beat the wheat with sticks. Such a life, as far as I could see, seemed to be the first attempt of several of them in their lives, but no one had ever expressed the slightest resentment.
After stopping work every night, he also had to take political classes, literacy classes, and various meetings, such as party branch meetings and group meetings.
The Red Army carried out ten days of wheat cutting work in Zege, Heishui, and Luhua, and each person raised ten days of grain, which cost the Tibetans a considerable price, and continued to move towards Cangde and drumming. .........