The jinsha river, which runs south from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is unstoppable to break through the lofty mountains and mountains, stir up the cloud cliffs on both sides of the strait, and flow on the Yunling Plateau.
Yunnan is an important province through which the two main Red Army Marches passed. With the help of the people of all ethnic groups in Yunnan, the Red Army won a decisive victory in strategic transfer and won the strategic initiative to go north.
84 years later, standing at kyaukpyeong Ferry, the river lapping at the shore and turning over countless waves. Kyaukpyeong Ferry, in the history of the Red Army's Long March through Yunnan, wrote the most colorful stroke. In the spring of 1935, it was at this crossing that 30,000 Red Army soldiers, with the help of 37 veteran shipwrights, relied on 6 wooden boats, which lasted 7 days and 7 nights, crossed the Jinsha River and escaped the encirclement and blockade of hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops.
In the near future, the large-scale hydropower station in Wudongde downstream of kyaukpyeong ferry port will complete the storage of water, witnessing the legendary history of kyaukpyeong ferry port will sink to the bottom of the water, and nearby residents will also move to the resettlement site planned by the government.
Only the Jinsha River is still majestic, after hundreds of twists and turns, day and night, like the historical echoes of the Long March, sonorous and powerful, and continues to this day.
The Blood-stained Journey of the Red Army played a rousing and majestic movement in Yunnan
On the land of Yunling, the Red Army was left with a journey of thousands of kilometers. "Wumeng majestic mud pills" and "golden sands and waters pat clouds and cliffs warm", Mao Zedong wrote in the "Seven Laws ⋅ Long March". The Blood-stained Journey of the Red Army played a rousing and majestic movement in Yunnan. The first important note of this movement fell in the Weixin Tashi region of Yunnan.
Weixin County is located at the junction of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guichuan, known as the "Three Provinces of Jiming", and is the county with the longest activity time of the Red Army's Long March in Yunnan. After the Zunyi Conference, due to the defeat at the Battle of Tucheng, the Red Army's plan to cross the Yangtze River to the north into the river could not be realized. The Central Revolutionary Military Commission immediately made a decision to cross the Chishui River in the west and enter the territory of Weixin County.
From February 5 to 10, 1935, the Politburo of the Central Committee successively held meetings in Shuitianzhai, Dahetan, and Tashi Town in Weixin County, which were collectively called the "Tashi Conference" by the party historians and were listed as one of the 35 important events of the Red Army's Long March.
"The Tashi conference is the continuation, expansion and completion of the Zunyi conference. If the Zunyi Conference was a life-and-death turning point in the history of the Party, then from this point to the Tashi Conference, the Long March of the Central Red Army has been continuously marching toward victory. Cheng Xinjiang, director of the Propaganda and Education Office of the Party History Research Office of the Yunnan Provincial CPC Committee, said that as a continuation of the Zunyi conference, the Tashi conference resolved several important issues that had been identified at the Zunyi conference but had not yet had time to solve, and also made major adjustments in the operational strategy of the Central Red Army and the downsizing of troops.
Since the Red Army left the Central Soviet Region, along the Long March, it has not only broken through the barriers of countless natural barriers in high mountains and rivers, and escaped from the encirclement and blockade of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, but also waged a struggle against the erroneous ideas in the Party. After the Tashi conference, a set of mobile and flexible strategies and tactics gradually revealed their skills, threatening Guiyang, marching into Yunnan, and planning to cross the river to the north.
The Central Red Army entered Yunnan for the second time. On April 29, 1935, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission officially issued the "Instructions on The Rapid Crossing of the Jinsha River by Our Army to Establish a Soviet Zone in Western Sichuan" at the Xundian Lu Outpost. On April 30, the Central Column was stationed in Dangui Village, Xundian Kedu Town, where the Central Revolutionary Military Commission made specific arrangements for the rush to cross the Jinsha River.
Crossing the Jinsha River skillfully, he won a decisive victory in the strategic transfer
Departing from the county seat of Luxun to the Kyaukpyeongdu of the Jinsha River, it winds down along the edge of the cliff, with steep curves and steep slopes. At the top of the mountain, you can faintly see dozens of sharp curves at right angles, and the steep terrain is dizzying.
Along the way, many abandoned mountain roads can also be identified, and the accompanying guide told reporters that some of the mountain roads should be the roads traveled by the Red Army march in that year. Even by car, it took nearly two hours to catch a glimpse of the corner of the Jinsha River, and it is hard to imagine that the Red Army soldiers relied on their feet to travel hundreds of miles a day and directly hit the ferry.
"It was here that my master rowed a boat across the Red Army." Mao Hongyin, secretary of the party branch in Kyaukpyeong Village, used to work as a boatman, and his master was one of the 37 veteran boatmen of that year. When he was an apprentice, Mao Hongyin listened to the old shipwright's recollection, which was "a boat that did not stop, and the oars never stopped."
The night was dark, but the water surface of the Jinsha River was not calm, the torches on both sides of the strait were illuminated, for 7 days and 7 nights, relying on 6 small boats, 30,000 people of the Central Red Army, in addition to the Red Ninth Army, broke the tradition of "Crossing the Golden Sands Without Night" and successfully crossed the Jinsha River.
During this period, the Red Ninth Army, which was mainly responsible for covering the main central Red Army, crossed the Jinsha River from the areas of Shujue and Yanjingping west of Huize after completing the task of containing the enemy.
A year later, The Stone Drum of Lijiang, which traced hundreds of kilometers from KyaukpyeongDu, ushered in the Red Second and Red Sixth Armies that had been fighting all the way. With the help of the local people of all ethnic groups, on April 28, 1936, the Red Second and Red Sixth Armies used wooden boats and rafts at five ferry ports in Lijiang's Shigu, including Papaya Village, Gezi and Ciko, to cross more than 18,000 Red Army fighters to the opposite bank, completely getting rid of the rear-chasing enemy.
On the Long March Road, the fish and water are deep, and the red gene is passed down from generation to generation
Standing in front of the group of sculptures in the Huize Water City Expansion Red Cultural and Ecological Park, it seems that the grand situation of the Red Ninth Army expanding here seems to emerge in front of you.
On May 2, 1935, the Long March of the Red Ninth Army passed through Huize, conquered the county seat, opened warehouses and released grain, fought the rich and the poor, mobilized the masses, and called on the toiling masses to participate in the revolution, which soon set off a boom in the expansion of the red.
In just a few days, the Red Ninth Army expanded more than 1,500 people in the county seat, raised 100,000 silver dollars, mules and horses hundreds of horses, and captured a large number of guns and ammunition... At that time, a silver dollar could buy five buckets of rice, and the surging red tide of Huize effectively replenished the material and financial resources of the Long March and enhanced the combat effectiveness.
Along the shore, the jinsha river rushes and jumps, and there are constantly tributaries injecting. Always relying on the masses of the people and always relying on the masses of the people for life and death is the magic weapon for the Red Army under the leadership of the Communist Party to overcome all difficulties and obstacles.
A propaganda slogan that reads," "The Red Army is a good friend of the People," impressed Li Gang, the old director of the Long March Museum of the Red Army in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. In 1936, the Long March of the Red Second and Sixth Red Armies passed through Shangri-La, and the naturalization temple at that time, which is today's Songzanlin Temple, sold 60,000 kilograms of grain to the Red Army, and with the help of the Naturalization Temple, the local merchants sold about 50,000 kilograms of grain to the Red Army, providing sufficient material support for the Red Army to go north.
Li Gang said that at that time, there were only more than 4,000 people in the Shangri-La grassland, and it was the spring famine season of "pouring cattle in March and horses in April", and people from all walks of life in the local area "pulled up their belts to support the Red Army."
The Long March of the Red Army passed through Yunnan twice, bringing light and hope to the sons and daughters of the Red Clay Plateau and further promoting the political awakening of the people of all ethnic groups in Yunnan. Inspired by the spirit of the Long March, in November 1935, the local organization of the Communist Party of China in Yunnan, which had been damaged for five years, was restored and rebuilt; under the inspiration of the anti-Japanese resistance in the north, the sons and daughters of Yunnan set off a vigorous anti-Japanese salvation movement; during the Liberation War, under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people of Yunnan rose up to resist and ushered in the complete liberation of the people of all nationalities.
Along the way, earth-shaking changes are taking place in all parts of Yunnan through which the Long March passes. Journey thousands of miles, do not forget the original intention.