In 1934, faced with the reality of the failure of the 5th anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Central Workers' and Peasants' Red Army had no choice but to carry out the Long March to preserve the last bit of fire for the revolution.
According to statistics, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, in the harsh environment of poor equipment and lack of food, has experienced more than 380 battles and sacrificed more than 400 cadres at or above the battalion level.
On the Long March road of about 25,000 miles, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army traveled through 14 provinces, crossed 18 mountains, and crossed grasslands. This miracle of the Long March in human history is still a very challenging grind for Zhengzheng men, not to mention for women.
On the 25,000-mile Long March, a total of 32 female soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army were approved by the higher-level party organizations to participate in it, in addition, more than 2,000 female Red Army fighters in other aspects of the Long March participated in part of the Long March. They told us a truth with practical actions: the scarf must not let the eyebrows be shaved!
The protagonist of this article is mainly named Qiu Yihan, who was born in a revolutionary family, and her father and brother were all glorious Communist Party members, so naturally she was no exception.
Qiu Yihan was born in 1907 in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, and the Qiu family was not only a revolutionary family, but also a famous local eunuch family.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, due to foreign invasions and the corruption and corruption of the late Qing government, this led to the fall of the Qiu family. The Qiu family, who clearly saw the essence of the times, embarked on the revolutionary road.
In 1926, at the age of 19, Qiu Yihan had already personally experienced several student patriotic movements, and for the first time, she was at the forefront of revolution and the ideological outlet of the times, and for the first time she had her own profound experience: she could truly realize why her father and brother rushed into the revolutionary torrent at such a risk of life, which was a force full of longing and yearning for the era of peace.
It was under this feeling that for the next 4 years, like the vast majority of women of the same era, Qiu Yihan was also wrapped in small feet, but she still threw herself into the revolutionary cause without hesitation. In 1930, at the age of 23, she finally became a Communist Party member on the recommendation of the party organization.
After joining the revolution, Qiu Yihan, in order to carry out the local revolutionary work more conveniently, left Qiu Yihan in the Xianggan Provincial Committee of the Soviet. Starting as a youth officer in the Political Department, she eventually reached the position of director of the Women's Department of the Provincial Party Committee. It is worth mentioning that in the years before the Long March, Qiu Yihan not only gained work experience, but also gained love.
In those days when he worked in the Xianggan Provincial Party Committee and Government, Qiu Yihan got to know Yuan Guoping, who was also struggling for the revolutionary cause, and although the two did not fall in love at first sight, they got along for a long time, which also made them feel love between them. In the end, the higher-level party organization approved a marriage contract between the two of them, and officiated a ceremony for the two in the local area, which was not a grand wedding.
Before the Long March in 1934, Qiu Yihan and his wife had already given birth to three children, but because the situation in our party was relatively difficult at that time, these three children were entrusted to their mothers shortly after birth.
At the beginning of the Long March, the couple did not even have a chance to see their children again. You must know that tens of thousands of Red Army troops are facing hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops to pursue and intercept, and it is difficult to find life and death ahead!
At that time, the party organization considered Qiu Yihan's personal problems and suggested that she stay in the local area and work with other comrades to devote herself to the construction of the new base area, after all, the Long March road was too dangerous. But Qiu Yihan did not hesitate to refuse without even thinking about it, perhaps the local new revolutionary construction needed her, but it was more important to follow the large troops.
Who would have thought that after the Start of the Long March, hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops repeatedly purged the Central Soviet Region, and Qiu Yihan's mother took her three children to hide in Tibet, but even so, in the end, she could not escape the tragic end of "a daughter died tragically, and a daughter married as a child bride of the landlord's family", and only the youngest son who survived was still begging along the street with his grandmother to survive.
Qiu Yihan, on the other hand, walked the 25,000-mile Long March with her wrapped feet, during which time she and her husband climbed the snowy mountains together, walked through the meadows, and crawled forward in the rain of enemy guns and bullets. Fortunately, she and her husband eventually successfully walked to the base area of northern Shaanxi with mutual support.
In 1940, the Anhui Incident broke out, Chiang Kai-shek once again showed his wolf ambitions and ugly features, and began to concentrate the Kuomintang forces to counterattack the Communists. Yuan Guoping, then director of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army, was unfortunately arrested in the process of covering his comrades-in-arms, and finally chose to shoot himself. The sacrifice of her husband and the tragic end of her two daughters before her were the pain points of Qiu Yihan's life.
After the founding of New China, Qiu Yihan, who had made great achievements, became one of the few "female leaders who held important positions" in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and successively served in organizations such as the All-China Women's Federation, the Shanghai Women's Federation, and the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee.
In 1956, at the age of 49, Qiu Yihan fell ill with overwork and fell ill at the post of jiangsu provincial party committee. At that time, Tang Liang, Song Shilun and Zhong Qiguang, who had just been named the founding generals, came to her memorial service to personally support this former revolutionary comrade-in-arms.
After the death of Comrade Qiu Yihan, her youngest son Yuan Zhenwei was only a teenager, but his deceased mother was already his last immediate family member.
Under such tragic circumstances, Yuan Zhenwei, who had become an orphan, was assigned to Jiang Weiqing, who was then the first secretary, under the arrangement of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, and the dispatch of food and clothing after this child was uniformly paid by the provincial government, and it was absolutely impossible to chill the hearts of the descendants of the revolutionary martyrs.