The Spring Festival is coming soon, and I think everyone is busy with New Year goods and preparing a hearty Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
On this day of family reunion and abundant food and clothing, I don't know if anyone will remember how the Red Army, which was still struggling for the revolution nearly a hundred years ago, spent the Spring Festival.
From 1927 to 1937, it was a decade of rapid growth of the revolutionary forces, and of course, 10 years of the harshest conditions and the harshest environment. However, despite the dilemma of lack of food and clothing, the Red Army still suffered bitterly and spent the Spring Festival that was recorded in history.
In October 1927, the chairman led the troops to the Jinggangshan area and created the first rural revolutionary base area, and three months later, the first Spring Festival of the base area was ushered in.
At that time, the base area had just been created, everything was in ruins, and the finances and grain of the troops were very tight, but the chairman was very optimistic, saying that he must let the soldiers have a good year, so he asked the troops to issue three silver dollars to each soldier, and also specially sent people down the mountain to buy pigs to slaughter, and each person was given three catties of pork.
In this way, the troops settled down in Jinggangshan and spent a good Spring Festival.
However, at that time, no one may have thought that this would be the best Spring Festival they would have in the next few years.
By the end of 1929, in the face of the Kuomintang army's wanton encirclement and suppression of the base areas, the Red Army was forced to move to the Ruijin area to open up new base areas. Chinese New Year's Eve night, the troops marched to a village called Qiancun, and considering that they had temporarily escaped the pursuit of the Kuomintang army, the chairman ordered the troops to be stationed here.
Chinese New Year's Eve, you can't always ask the soldiers to go hungry for the New Year, right? However, helplessly, they are in a strategic shift, and the grain and grass for the march may not be enough, so why should there be any extra grain to do Chinese New Year's Eve? Since I don't have it, I can only go to my hometown to borrow it.
However, when they entered the village, they found that there was no one in the village! It turned out that the local people had seen a large wave of troops coming towards the village from a distance, and they thought that it was a robbery gang, so they all went into the back mountain. Since the fellow villagers are not at home, what should they do? Take it hard, right? Violated the "three major disciplines and eight attentions", do not take it? The warriors were still hungry. In the end, it was the President who came up with the best of both worlds — borrowing food.
How to borrow the law? That is, the Red Army can take away some of the grain of the common people, but it must be weighed by the pound, and then calculated according to the market price, and the IOU is left for each family. In this way, the Red Army relied on borrowed grain and barely ate a Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
In the following years, the Red Army was basically in a very harsh environment, on the one hand, the material conditions were scarce, on the other hand, the Kuomintang army was chasing and blocking, so the Spring Festival of the Red Army soldiers was closest not to chopsticks, but to guns.
For example, in January 1935, shortly after the Zunyi Conference was held, in order to jump out of the enemy's encirclement, the Central Military Commission quickly formulated the "River Crossing Operation Plan", and from January 19 to March 22, 1935, the "Four Crossings of Chishui" battle, which was recorded in history, broke out, so the Spring Festival of this year was spent on the battlefield by the Red Army.
For example, during the Spring Festival in 1936, the Red Army formed the anti-Japanese vanguard army to cross the Yellow River in the east, making immortal contributions to the formation of the anti-Japanese front.
The list goes on and on. All in all, the Spring Festival spent by the Red Army in those years was spent in a very difficult environment, but no matter how difficult the environment was, it could not stop the revolutionary enthusiasm of the Red Army, and finally laid a new world.
If you think about the experience of the Red Army, what reason do you have to be dissatisfied with the status quo? Let go of all the baggage and spend a happy Spring Festival with your family!