The woman holding a pistol in the picture is the protagonist of today's story, Wang Quanyuan, through this photo, we can still guess how handsome the old man looked when he was young.
In the ranks of the Red Army, there were quite a few female soldiers, but if we want to say that the first fully armed female corps of the Red Army was the Women's Vanguard Regiment of the Western Route Army, the leader of this women's army was Wang Quanyuan, the political commissar was named Wu Fulian, and there were more than 1,300 female soldiers in the regiment.
Wang Quanyuan was a veteran of the Red Army, who joined the revolution in March 1930 and successively served as the women's minister of the Ji'an County Young Communist Party Committee and the vice chairman of the Women's Presidium of Xianggan Province.
In the process of the West Route Army's breakthrough to the west, it was almost frantically surrounded and blocked by the Ma Family Army, and after more than forty days of bloody fighting, the West Route Army suffered heavy losses, from more than 20,000 people at the time of departure to less than 5,000 people, including nearly half of the wounded.
In order to break through the siege of the Majia Army, the Women's Vanguard Regiment took on the heavy responsibility of blocking the elite cavalry division of the Majia Army. A group of women, armed with rudimentary weapons, fought to the death with the mighty Ma Jiajun, and the desolate yellow land in the west will also be moved by this scene, right?
Bullets were thrown out, grenades were thrown out, even the stones that could be thrown around me were thrown out... The iron hooves of the Ma family's warhorses broke through the positions of these women.
More than a thousand female warriors sacrificed their precious lives in the desolate west, and the rest were taken prisoner. After three consecutive nights of torture, Wang Quanyuan never admitted that she was the leader of the regiment. Taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the toilet, she bravely jumped and jumped off the city tower.
However, due to the height, Wang Quanyuan fainted under the wall, and she was carried back by Ma Jiajun after the escape failed.
Later, someone informed that Wang Quanyuan's identity as the leader of the regiment was exposed. Hearing that a female regimental commander had been arrested, Ma Buqing was full of excitement, personally interrogated and tortured, and in the face of the enemy's torture and coercion, Wang Quanyuan always gritted her teeth.
Coercion does not work, inducement does not work... Annoyed and angry, Ma Buqing suddenly had a plan, and gave Wang Quanyuan as a trophy to Ma Jinchang, the commander of the engineer regiment, as a concubine.
Ma Jinchang brought someone to forcibly marry, and Wang Quanyuan kept circumventing him, and finally put forward a request, "It is okay to get married, but you have to promise me a request, I have a man named Wang Xiuying, who is my personal person, and find her for me to be a maid." ”
Wang Xiuying was a little girl less than 15 years old who had been ravaged by Ma Jiajun at that time. Wang Quanyuan's purpose is very obvious, that is, to pull Wang Xiuying to his side and protect her from being hurt again. This is a woman who is also in danger, providing the maximum protection that another girl can provide, right?
Ma Buchang immediately sent someone to find Wang Xiuying, and the next day he sent this little girl under the age of fifteen to Wang Quanyuan's side...
In March 1939, taking advantage of the opportunity of Ma Jinchang leading the troops to go out to build roads, with the help of Madame Ma Buchang, Wang Quanyuan and Wang Xiuying fled through the window.
After escaping from the Ma family compound, the two girls rushed toward Lanzhou.
When the two came to the "Eighth Route Army Office" in Lanzhou, the staff told them the instructions of their superiors: "One year of acceptance, two years of investigation, and three years of no collection." Besides, you are still Ma Buchang's little wife..."
Eventually, the Eighth Route Army office gave her five oceans.
This female Red Army regimental commander, who had strongly completed the 25,000-mile Long March, did not return to northern Shaanxi in the end, and she followed the road of the Long March, all the way to eat and sleep, all the way begging for a living, and walking step by step to her hometown.
After countless hardships, when Wang Quanyuan appeared in front of her biological mother, her mother couldn't believe how this ragged woman with festering legs and feet could be her own daughter.
When Wang Quanyuan accurately said her family information, her mother finally believed that the girl in front of her was her own daughter-in-law, and the two women hugged and cried... Tears surged wildly on the face of the female commander of the Red Army. Yes, this woman's life is full of too many hardships.
Later, Wang Quanyuan married Liu Gaohua, a descendant of the revolutionary martyrs, and the two sons went to the land to cultivate the land and support themselves, and the days passed slowly. Perhaps, the peaceful years diluted the memories of wang Quanyuan's heart.
But that special historical period once again tore apart the tranquility of her life, her husband was persecuted to death, and she herself was constantly fighting, wandering the streets, and the physical and mental torture made this strong woman miserable.
So she explained the situation to the organization again and again, hoping to clarify her own history.
In the summer of 1982, with the help of Kang Keqing, Cai Chang and several other red army elders and sisters, Wang Quanyuan, who had suffered more than half a century of grievances, finally restored her party membership and Red Army status, and Wang Quanyuan was 69 years old at this time.
After Wang Quanyuan began to enjoy the treatment of old Red Army soldiers, he took in 6 orphans successively, and on April 5, 2009, Comrade Wang Quanyuan died at the age of 96 in Taihe County People's Hospital due to ineffective treatment of various diseases such as cerebral thrombosis and bronchitis.