On the south bank of the Dashao River in the eastern suburbs of Linze County, Gansu Province, stands the Xilu Army Martyrs' Cemetery, which is a short 7 words, but it contains a sighing history.
In 1936, the West Route Army crossed the Yellow River in the west, due to the enemy's outnumber, plus other reasons, the defeat of the Hexi Corridor, this time the defeat, became the heartache of all Red Army soldiers, few people know that in this team of more than 20,000 people, there is a largest and largest number of female soldiers in the history of the Red Army, which is a women's vanguard regiment composed of more than 1300 female fighters.
Although this female Red Army team is a group of women with an average age of less than 20 years old, they can still withstand half the sky, in such a difficult environment, lack of weapons and ammunition, lack of clothing and food, and even basic life can not be guaranteed, and when they come to menstruation, there is nothing available, only sand to pad.
Despite this, despite this, they never cried bitterly, never fell behind, and were bent on revolution.
When the Western Route Army failed, the people who broke through the women's vanguard regiment encountered the enemy when they were fighting guerrillas in Qilian Mountain, and because they were outnumbered, they were all captured alive, and the regimental commander Wang Quanyuan, the political commissar Wu Fulian, the commissioner Zeng Guanglan, and others were all arrested.
Today we want to talk about Wang Quanyuan, who was the leader of the women's group at that time.
Wang Quanyuan is a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi, born in 1913, when she was 8 years old, due to her family's poverty, her father booked a doll for her, and 3 years later, the Wang family carried Wang Quanyuan to her home, and since then, Wang Quanyuan has become the daughter-in-law of the Wang family.
Her husband died soon after, and it was not a good thing to become a widow in the old society, but this misfortune did not last long, in 1929, the Red Army came to Ji'an and established the Red Government, for Wang Quanyuan, the arrival of the Red Army undoubtedly cleared all the haze above her head.
A year later, Wang Quanyuan joined the Red Army, after which she successively served as the women's minister of the Ji'an County Committee of the Red Army, the officer of the Women's Department of the Xianggan Provincial Party Committee, and other positions, and Wang Quanyuan was among them during the Long March of the Central Red Army in 1934.
At the beginning of the Long March, the organization stipulated that female Red Army soldiers who did not fall in love were not allowed to fall in love; those who fell in love before the Long March set off were not allowed to get married; those who were married were not allowed to become pregnant and give birth.
It was not until 1935 that Zunyi arrived that the organization lifted the ban on husband and wife not living in the same room, and it was also at this time that Wang Quanyuan confessed her origins to Cai Chang's eldest sister, and Cai Chang was very sympathetic after listening, she comforted Wang Quanyuan and said: "Sister Quan, you are still young, the road of life is still very long, you must cheer up." Your marriage is the shackles that the feudal system has given you, and the death of your husband is your misfortune, but you have the right to choose again, and you also have the right to pursue happiness. ”
Later, under the introduction of Cai Chang, Wang Quanyuan married Wang Shoudao as his wife, that day, Wang Shoudao gave Wang Quanyuan a small pistol, Wang Quanyuan did not have time to prepare, she said: "There is a custom in our hometown, the bride should give the groom a pair of handmade thousand-layer bottom cloth shoes, put on this pair of shoes, no matter where you go to the end of the world, you will return to your relatives..."
(This wish was not realized until decades later)
In 1937, Wang Quanyuan led a women's regiment in the Hexi Corridor after fighting the enemy fiercely for many days, unfortunately arrested, she was arrested by horse bandits, and later escaped after thousands of hardships, in March 1939, Wang Quanyuan came to Lanzhou "Eighteenth Route Army Office in Lanzhou".
Here, she was received by the person who had pursued her on the Long March Road and was rejected by her, and the man said coldly: "You have been gone for three years, and it is not so easy to come back when you say you come back." ”
Wang Quanyuan left disappointed.
She decided to go back to her hometown in Jiangxi, on the way, she married a man named Wan Ling, who said he would escort her home, but this man was not a good person, and then he ran away with other women.
After returning home, Wang Quanyuan married a descendant of a revolutionary martyr named Liu Gaohua, and since then, she has lived in obscurity.
Since leaving the team, Wang Quanyuan has never seen her husband Wang Shoudao again.
When the two said goodbye, it was already 1982.
This year, Wang Quanyuan came to Beijing, she came to ask Sister Kang Keqing to testify, she wanted to restore her party membership, heard that Wang Quanyuan came to Beijing, wang Shoudao, who was already the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was full of sighs in her heart.
When the two met again, Wang Quanyuan took a pair of handmade black cloth shoes with a thousand layers and handed them to Wang Shoudao, and the two of them cried tears and looked at each other without words.
In 1989, the state determined that Wang Quanyuan was the head of the women's regiment and enjoyed the treatment of the deputy department of the old Red Army, and this year, Wang Quanyuan was 76 years old.
Shortly after confirming their identities, Wang Quanyuan and her former comrades-in-arms returned to the Liyuankou Battlefield, which was the place where they fought bloodily, where several people wept bitterly and saluted the comrades who died together.
In 2009, Wang Quanyuan completed her legendary life at the age of 96.
Before dying, Wang Quanyuan made a request to the party organization, that is, to revise her party age.
Wang Quanyuan joined the Party in 1934, but the information at that time was November 1949, so Wang Quanyuan requested that November 1949 be changed to May 1934, and the Party organization agreed to the old Red Army's last request.
Receiving an affirmative answer from the party organization, Wang Quanyuan's old Red Army breathed a sigh of relief and passed away safely.