Mentioning the reasons why he embarked on the revolutionary road, General Qin Jiwei, who had passed the age of ancient times, recalled: The original intention of the beginning was to embrace an ideal of acting heroically and fighting righteousness, killing the rich and helping the poor, just like the 100 single and eight generals of the Water Margin, and stemming from a consciousness of resisting class oppression in his bones.
Qin Jiwei was born on November 16, 1914 in a village called Qin Luozhuang in Hong'an County, Hubei Province, to a family of honest farmers for generations. His father, Qin Hui, cultivated more than ten acres of land, his mother, Zhou, was responsible for spinning and weaving, and the family had an older brother and sister. Although the life is not rich, but with the love of parents, it is also full of warmth and joy. At the age of eight, his parents also sent Qin Jiwei to a private school.
However, the weather was unpredictable, and a plague took the lives of his father, mother and brother one after another, and only eleven-year-old Qin Jiwei was left in the family that had been laughing and laughing. Qin Jiwei, whose family was ruined and had no one to rely on, made a living by digging wild vegetables, cutting firewood and selling, herding cattle, and doing short-term work at a young age, and with the quality of hard work and hardship, and the character of bravery and perseverance, Qin Jiwei stubbornly survived in a lonely and lonely environment.
For the beauty of his hometown, many years later, Qin Jiwei still clearly remembers that when he got up in the morning and pushed open the door, the sun shone on the top of the mountain, and the golden and shiny appearance was bright. Unfortunately, in this beautiful environment of mountains and rivers, the people's lives are not beautiful, because no matter how beautiful the landscape is, it cannot see people's belly.
In 1927, a surging peasant movement broke out under the Dabie Mountains, and slogans reading "Down with local tycoons and inferior gentry, down with corrupt officials" can be seen everywhere. Thirteen-year-old Qin Jiwei still does not understand what a real revolution is and what is a transformation of society, but whenever he sees the slogan "Fight the local tycoons and divide the land", he will feel excited. There was only one old house left in his own home, and the good land and beautiful houses were in the hands of others, and Qin Jiwei hated the landlord bullies who exploited the poor the most since he was a child.
On August 7, 1927, at the Eighty-Seventh Conference, Chairman Mao proposed: "In the future, we must pay great attention to the military, and we must know that political power is obtained from the barrel of a gun." On November 13, 1927, under the guidance of the spirit of the Eighty-Seventh Conference, more than 30,000 peasant self-defense troops and volunteer soldiers in Huang'an and Macheng, Hubei Province, launched the "Jute Uprising", firing the first shots of armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries in the Eyu-Anhui region.
After the jute uprising broke out, the thirteen-year-old Qin Jiwei joined the volunteer brigade and became a "red teenager", holding a weapon that was often used by the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and the Red Guards at that time. "The shuttle dart is bright, the peasant friends come to arm, follow the Communist Party, turn over and seek liberation", the uprising procession is huge, and the cluster of red wisps tied to the dart illuminates the mountains like fire.
In the early morning of November 14, under the leadership of pan Ruzhong, the siege team climbed up the ladder from the northwest corner of Huang'an City, successfully captured the north gate, attacked the city, annihilated the county garrison, captured more than 10 officials such as county magistrates and local tycoons and inferior gentry alive, captured more than 30 rifles and 90 boxes of bullets, and formed the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's Edong Army.
Qin Jiwei was assigned to the three regiments of machine gun companies as fighters, and the conditions of struggle at that time were very difficult; in the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army adopted the tactics of "moving day and night, attacking from afar and stopping near, going around the south to the north, and attacking the west with sound", and insisted on carrying out guerrilla activities in scattered operations in the Dabie Mountains, not only to deal with the enemy's attacks, but also often to endure hunger and starvation.
Although It is said that Qin Jiwei, as a peasant boy, has experienced manual labor training since he was a child, as a Red Army soldier who often fights in the field, the requirements are not only as simple as good physical quality, not only to have courage, but also to have strategy. When attacking, you need to be as brave as a leopard, and when you retreat, you need to be as agile as a rabbit.
In the army, Qin Jiwei received formal military training as a new soldier, and the instructor was a Kuomintang officer who joined the revolution after being captured, and the training was very strict. Although the training days were very hard, Qin Jiwei was full of hope, since the death of his parents, he was alone, and now he finally felt the warmth of the big family again in the army.
The first time Qin Jiwei went to the battlefield, he explained very well what a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers. At The gate of Macheng County, a regiment of Guo Rudong of the Nationalist 20th Army was surrounded by the Red Thirty-first Division, and the fifteen-year-old Qin Jiwei was also a member of the battle. At that time, most of the weapons of the Red Army soldiers were shuttle darts, while the Kuomintang troops were equipped with rifles. The Red Army was inferior in weapons, and although it surrounded the enemy, it only destroyed a small part, and most of the enemy fled.
The first time he went to the battlefield, Qin Jiwei had a very strong desire in his heart, that is, to rely on his own ability to capture a gun. At that time, the Red Army team could not give every new soldier a gun, wanted a gun, and the most direct way was to go to the battlefield and grab the enemy's weapon.
Since Qin Jiwei participated in the uprising, he has always carried a shuttle dart, he is really eager to have a rifle of his own, he has already gone to the battlefield, it is absolutely impossible without a gun, with a gun, that is the real revolutionary soldier.
After the battle began, first the veteran soldiers with guns shot at each other, and when they saw that the enemy was being beaten backwards, Qin Jiwei saw the timing and rushed up with a half-length dart, shouting loudly while rushing, rushing to the battlefield to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
Qin Jiwei looked at Le, "Haha, such a good Hanyangzao, you don't want it, I'm not welcome!" "Pulling open the bolt of the gun, the bullets in the barrel are still full!" The first time he went to the battlefield, Qin Jiwei captured his first gun with a body of courage, and this battle also made the young Qin Jiwei shine brightly, and the leader of the unit saw the edges and sharpness of this young soldier and promoted him to deputy squad leader.
Qin Jiwei was very much in line with the employment standards of the grass-roots commanders of the Red Army at that time; first, he had the courage to be bold and not afraid of death, and he could lead the soldiers to kill the enemy on the battlefield; second, he had a natural voice, which was suitable for giving orders and commanding the soldiers to charge the battlefield. The experience of attending a private school for a year allowed Qin Jiwei to be able to read and hyphenate, and he was more suitable for being a commander.
Although he was a small deputy squad leader, Qin Jiwei worked very energetically and showed his super organizational ability. Qin Jiwei, who became the defense minister many years later, recalled this period of experience as deputy squad leader, and was still quite proud: "Don't underestimate the deputy squad leader, the officer is not small, he is bigger than the leader of the three-person combat group, he is older than the Japanese devil's Wu, and he manages several people." ”
Seven months later, Qin Jiwei graduated from the camp school, and his Red Thirty-first Division was reorganized into the First Division of the Red First Army.
After several years of combat training, the fledgling new soldier of the Red Army is now a Qin platoon leader with rich combat experience, he has received formal training, participated in countless battles, and can share his experience with the new soldiers. Qin Jiwei's vivid image of the training of troops, in order to impress the soldiers, he first asked everyone a question:
"Comrades, you see that I have participated in so many battles, and every time I am in danger, I rush wherever I am, why have I not been injured once?"
Warriors, you look at me, I look at you, "It is inevitable to hang up a little color on the battlefield, can the Qin platoon commander still be invincible?" Can't the bullets fly around him? ”
Qin Jiwei said: "Tell you, I just can't enter the knife and gun, but there is only one trick to the knife and gun, that is, training, training a mobile and flexible tactical action." ”
How to choose a good concealment, when to launch an attack, when to crawl forward, when to engage the enemy, in the tactical training, Qin Jiwei personally demonstrated, so that the soldiers were immersed in the scene. One day, Qin Jiwei was training troops, when suddenly two people carrying shell guns came and walked to the middle of the field and asked, "Which is the second platoon leader?" ”
Looking at these two people with a serious look, Qin Jiwei played drums in his heart, not knowing what was going on, but still walked out of the queue and replied loudly: "I am the second platoon leader." The visitor patted Qin Jiwei's shoulder and said, "Go, follow us to the military headquarters." ”
It turned out that the military commander Xu Qiangqian was looking for himself, Xu Qianqian knew people and was good at his duties, and he had long paid attention to Qin Jiwei, who was brave and good at war, and this time he was called to come precisely to promote him to be the commander of the pistol company. The pistol company is the guard company, the captain's bodyguard! In the era of the Red Army, pistol companies were elite units, relying on agile attack speed and superb shooting speed, responsible for quickly opening gaps in the position at critical moments of battle.
Xu Xiangqian was a native of Wutai, Shanxi, and spoke with a Shanxi accent; Qin Jiwei did not hear clearly at first, but only later did he understand that the military commander was concerned about his family situation and asked Qin Jiwei about his ideals, and Qin Jiwei said: "Since joining the Red Army, I have been determined to carry the revolution through to the end." Xu Xiangqian smiled and nodded, patted Qin Jiwei's shoulder and said, "You go back and clean up and become a company commander in the second company of the pistol battalion." ”
The jute uprising and the revolutionary struggle in its later period created a revolutionary army capable of recruiting good warriors and a large number of outstanding generals, of which Qin Jiwei was a member. On November 7, 1931, on the banks of the Qiliping River, with the troops of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District as the main force, the Red Fourth Army and the Red Twenty-fifth Army were combined to form the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with Xu Qian as the commander-in-chief and Chen Changhao as the political commissar, with a total strength of 45,000 people.
The Fourth Front Of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, together with the Red Army and the Red Second Front, is one of the three main forces of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and during the Red Army period alone, it annihilated 880,000 enemies, the first, with a total of more than 700 founding generals, including Qin Jiwei.
Qin Jiwei, who was born in November, had just turned seventeen in the year of the establishment of the Red Fourth Front, but he was already an old Red Army soldier with four years of combat experience, from an ordinary peasant boy under the Dabie Mountain to an imposing and energetic pistol company commander. In the contingent of 30,000 or 40,000 Red Army soldiers, Qin Jiwei's soldiers with pistol companies were examined by the commander, and each of them stood in a straight posture and stood particularly neatly.
From the Huang'an Uprising to the establishment of the Red Fourth Front, seventeen-year-old Qin Jiwei has experienced four years of arduous struggle and witnessed the sacrifices of countless comrades, but their blood will not be in vain, and those who survive will take over their banner and continue to fight heroically. The spark of the stars can burn the plains, and the fire of the revolution cannot be extinguished, and it will only burn more and more vigorously.