In the autumn of 1936, the Long March division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was in Huining, Gansu, and the Red Fourth Front was ordered to cross the Yellow River in the west, planning the Ningxia Campaign. As a result, due to the change in the situation, the original plan was abandoned, and the 21,800 people of the Red Fourth Front army were reorganized into the Western Route Army, and along the Hexi Corridor, they entered Xinjiang in the west, with the intention of opening up an international passage to the Soviet Union.
The opponent that the Western Route Army needs to face is the feudal warlord armed forces occupying the northwest: the Ma Family Army.
Relying on its familiarity with the terrain and the advantage of a large number of cavalry, the cunning and ferocious Ma Jiajun did not fight hard head-on with the Red Army, gave full play to the specialty of fast cavalry movement, and intercepted one of the Red Army's rear guard units every day. If the Red Army insisted on holding on to the city, it would vigorously besiege it. Fatigue pursuit made the Red Army's rest and supply problems, and the defense of the city could not be defended.
In the face of ma jiajun's crazy encirclement and blockade, the Western Route Army suffered heavy losses.
In February 1937, when the ammunition ran out of food, the Western Route Army, which had been fighting bloody for nearly half a year, came to the end in the Ni family camp in the vast Gobi.
Eventually, the Western Route Army suffered heavy casualties in the Hexi Corridor, and by March 1937 it had dispersed and broken through, forcing it to terminate its mission.
The remaining Commanders and Fighters of the Red Army of the Western Route Army scattered and broke through, and along the way they were difficult and miserable. Here is Qin Jiwei, who is the fourth director of the headquarters of the Western Route Army.
As early as ten years ago, in 1927, Qin Jiwei, who was only 13 years old, was already holding a shuttle dart, shouting slogans with the adults, and vigorously participated in the jute uprising.
Now, ten years later, in 1937, Qin Jiwei, who came from the jute uprising, walked into the ice and snow of the Qilian Mountains with the remnants of the Western Route Army and began a long breakthrough road.
Along the way, there are many dangers. Chen Haisong, the political commissar of the Red Ninth Army, was sacrificed, and the Red Ninth Army was defeated. The enemy cavalry crossed the Ninth Army, directly attacked the Red Thirty Army followed by Qin Jiwei, and bit the Red Thirty Army at the mouth of the pear garden, which was another fierce battle.
The natural enemy of the cavalry was the artillery machine gun, and for the Red Army, which was not even equipped with rifles at that time, it was not easy to fight the cavalry.
Qin Jiwei was organized along with the general headquarters organs, including the miscellaneous personnel of the Supply Department, whose only weapons were pistols and not even rifles, and the commanders and fighters of the Red Army had to use stones to smash the enemy's cavalry.
After the battle, most of the Red Army commanders and fighters, including Zheng Yizhai, minister of the General Supply Department, were killed, and Qin Jiwei and the few remaining people refused to surrender, and then walked deep into the Qilian Mountains.
Despite this, Qin Jiwei and others did not give up and formed a guerrilla group in the mountains!
Qin Jiwei recalled, "The snow on the ground is more than two feet thick, and the ice on the trees is several feet long. Ice and snow, not to mention cotton clothes, single clothes are still torn. When fighting, I desperately feel cold. When the battle stopped, I felt frozen to death. As soon as the hand was hit by the stone, it froze, and then it had to be taken off to remove a layer of skin. ”
They walked around the snowy mountains with hungry stomachs and bare arms for a week, their eyes blackened. It was difficult to find a lama temple, go in and turn east and west, turn out some rice, but the porridge was not cooked, the enemy found it again, Qin Jiwei hurriedly organized a battle, and after a battle, the newly established guerrillas were scattered again.
Desperately trying to break through the encirclement, there were only three people left beside him.
In his later years, he recalled: "We had worked hard all night, and we wanted to find a village to rest, but the enemy cavalry did not take more than two hours to complete our overnight journey."
Finally, Qin Jiwei and several comrades were captured.
At the last moment, he pointed his pistol at the door of his head, and just as he was about to shoot, one comrade bumped into him and knocked him to his toes, and the other two comrades also pounced, one of them holding his arm.
Comrades tearfully said that no matter what, we cannot commit suicide, as long as we live and can still fight, suicide will be the end of everything.
The first thing is to live, and then there is a revolution.
They were sent to Zhangye layer by layer, from Zhangye to Liangzhou, and from Liangzhou to Lanzhou. Along the way, facing the enemy's interrogation and torture layer by layer, Qin Jiwei persisted in the struggle and did not reveal half a word.
Finally, on the way to Jingchuan, Qin Jiwei pretended to slip to the side of the road and fled the escort team without the enemy noticing.
He struggled in the snow and ice of the Qilian Mountains, he ragged on the Gobi Desert, he persevered under the whip of the enemy, but he never gave up fighting. He finally escaped from the enemy's prison and ran to the party organization that he had in mind. He traveled thousands of miles, died nine times, and finally returned to Yan'an.
What is the bloodiness of a soldier? This is blood.
What is military loyalty? That's loyalty.
There have been countless armies in Ancient and Modern China and abroad that have been defeated, fled, scattered, and fled for their lives. But the people's army with faith is extraordinary. Qin Jiwei and others did not choose to go home as a group, but persisted, found the party organization, and continued the revolution.
True heroes dare to face the bleak life and dare to face the dripping blood.
This kind of spirit of being a beggar collectively, even going thousands of miles alone to return to Yan'an, so bear the burden of humiliation and loyalty and blood, which country has a general in the army?
When they returned to Yan'an, they were all full of guilt, and after nine deaths, they found the team, and these "beggars" who were skinny and tattered clothes thought of the destruction of the troops, the sacrifice of comrades-in-arms, and the failure of the mission, and everyone cried bitterly.
They got up from the ground, dried the blood on their bodies, buried the bodies of their comrades, and went on fighting. This is the people's army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and this is where our army cannot be insulted!
As Chairman Mao said, "This army has the spirit of indomitable progress, it will overwhelm all enemies and will never be subjugated by them." No matter what the difficult situation, as long as there is one more person, this person will continue to fight. ”
It is easy to shake the mountains, but it is difficult to shake the People's Liberation Army. What is spirit? It is the strength of the heart, the light of the heart. Only when there is strength in the heart can the spirit have concentration. There is light in the heart, and there is guidance in the strength.
They have light in their hearts, so they have to run to Yan'an against the wind and snow of the Qilian Mountains; they have strength in their hearts, so they all weep with blood and fight to the death.
In the following decades, Qin Jiwei fought to the death, fought a bloody war against the Japanese war in Taihang Mountain, led the army and people through the most arduous period of the War of Resistance, and was praised as a "gritting teeth cadre" who was not afraid of suffering; the war of liberation advanced into the Dabie Mountains, attacked Luoyang, fought in Nanyang, And Zhengzhou, and crossed the river to sweep through the southwest; the troops of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea insisted on holding shangganling, forcing the invaders to prevent them from moving forward.
After the death of the kings more efforts, the good news flew to make paper money.
On February 2, 1997, General Qin Jiwei passed away. History seems to go back to February 1937, sixty years ago, when he struggled through the Gobi snow and wind in the Qilian Mountains in rags. The ashes of the general are buried in Hong'an. This is his hometown, where he joined the jute uprising at the age of 13 and followed the Red Fourth Front on the revolutionary road.
In the vast sky of the Hexi Corridor, the admiral who used to be begging for progress seemed to return to the ragged Red Army soldiers at this moment. The old general and the young warrior hugged each other tightly.
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