General Qin Jiwei was killed and wounded nine times during the war years, the most seriously injured, his arm was half rotten, his hair was gone, and he almost died.
It was July 1932, when the Red Army besieged the county seat of Macheng in Hubei Province.
Unable to attack for a long time, his superiors ordered Qin Jiwei, commander of the Red 2nd Company, to lead a platoon to attack. After a few of them, half of the warriors rushed to the bottom of the city wall and then took a ladder. Qin Jiwei was the first to climb up. But when he reached the opening, he was "snapped" by an enemy soldier, hit him in the right arm, and immediately the gun in his hand fell off, and the man rolled down the stairs. Fortunately, he was immediately rescued by the messenger who had followed him.
This time injured, although Qin Jiwei did not hurt the point, but he broke the artery blood vessels, it was still very fatal. After being admitted to the Red Army Hospital, due to the lack of medicine, his wounds were infected again, and gradually the flesh rotted out of the smell. Soon, the main force of the Red Fourth Front was transferred, unable to take away the wounded, and Qin Jiwei was arranged to nurse his wounds at a fellow home.
One day, Qin Jiwei suddenly found that the troops were about to be transferred, and immediately quietly followed them.
After catching up with the big troops, he did not dare to return to the hospital, nor did he dare to return to the old troops, but only followed the main force. When the troops finished eating, he immediately ran over to help the cooking class collect the pots and clean the dishes, and fished for two leftovers to eat. In this way, he followed him all the way to Henan. As a result, the wound worsened and stinky pus flowed out daily. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he had to go to the headquarters hospital. The doctor washed his wounds and took some medicine.
In early November, the Red Army reached Manchuan Pass and fell into the enemy's siege. After a bitter battle, the encirclement was highlighted, but many wounded were added. Before the main force was pulled out, Qin Jiwei and others were arranged in a small temple, gave some money, and said to let them recuperate. Qin Jiwei was an old wounded man, and knowing that he was going to be left behind, he immediately went to the hospital director and said: "What I hurt is my hand, not my leg, I can go with the troops, and I should never be a burden on the troops." ”
Seeing that he was resolute, the dean agreed. Therefore, Qin Jiwei followed the troops again and went on the road.
However, in the arduous battle, the Red Army hospitals had little medicine. Qin Jiwei's wound had not been changed, and his arm began from the wound and rotted a little. He had no choice but to untie the bandages in the camp, let the pus and blood drip down, and then tie the wounds tightly. As a result, two months later, when the Red Fourth Front entered Bazhong in Sichuan, most of his right forearm was rotten, and even the bones could be seen.
Qin Jiwei lived in a ravine with the wounded soldiers in the hospital. Due to the strong mountain wind and heavy miasma, Qin Jiwei made it worse and suffered from typhoid fever. As a result, the sick hair was completely lost. However, there are many Chinese herbal medicines in Sichuan, and the Red Army doctors have a good way, collecting a lot of Chinese medicine from the mountains and boiling medicine for the wounded to drink. Qin Jiwei drank the soup medicine from the large earthen bowl three times a day. Miraculously, relying on the large bowl of Chinese medicine soup, he not only drove away the typhoid fever, but his hair also grew, and the long-lasting arm wound no longer shed pus and blood, and then slowly scarred, and later grew fresh flesh.
In this way, Qin Jiwei was discharged from the hospital.
This time he was injured, and he suffered for almost a year. This year, he went from 18 to 19 years old.
After being discharged from the hospital, Qin Jiwei was assigned to the local military work. Soon, the Red Fourth Front formed the Headquarters Guard Regiment, and he was transferred by Xu Forward as the head of the Guard Regiment and returned to the main force. In his later years, Qin Jiwei became the minister of national defense, and when he mentioned Sichuan's Chinese herbal medicine, he was very excited: "It saved the lives of many of us!" ”