Trace the red memory and look back at the beacon journey. In order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, co-sponsored by the Institute of Party History of the Shanxi Provincial CPC Committee, the Political Work Bureau of the Shanxi Provincial Military Region, and the Shanxi Radio and Television Media Group, and undertaken by the Shanxi Radio and Television News, the editor compiled and sorted out the stories of their own revolution dictated by 100 party members and veterans who had undergone the baptism of the revolutionary beacon years, recalled the red glory days of that year, and lamented today's peaceful and happy life.
The hundred-year journey is magnificent, and the original intention of the hundred-year journey has lasted for a long time. These "stories of the original heart" are the simple memories of party members and veterans of their own road to joining the army, one true story after another, full of their firm belief in loyalty to the party and their unity with the party, the spiritual outlook of Hao Shou Dan's heart and the old age and strength, and the noble feelings of always maintaining the original heart and keeping the mission in mind, which is not only a tangible positive energy, but also a living value. The stories are all dictated by the parties, and the characters and events are full of flesh and blood, so that readers can get emotional resonance from the story, produce action consciousness, let the red gene and the revolutionary flame be passed on from generation to generation, continue the spiritual blood of the communists, and take the long march road of the new era.
Special planning of Shanxi Radio and Television News
Participated in the Yan'an Defense War
Kang Shengrong joined the Northwest Field Army in August 1945, joined the Communist Party of China in March 1947, and successively participated in the liberation of Lanzhou and Xining, and retired in August 1984.
When the Japanese "swept away", I was still young, and I only knew that after the Japanese arrived in the village, they adopted the "three-light policy" and burned, killed, and robbed the light. They kicked open the doors of the people's homes, scavenged for food, and set fire to the houses, and the people suffered greatly. At that time, the Japanese were overbearing in China, doing whatever they wanted and committing many crimes. Since then, my young mind has sown the seeds of hatred for the Japanese invaders.
In 1945, I joined the revolutionary ranks as a soldier of the 358th Brigade, and in the same year I participated in the defense of Zhuozishan Railway Station. Zhuozishan Railway Station was founded in December 1936, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhuozishan Town has been occupied by the Japanese army, Zhuozishan Railway Station as an important transportation hub of Pingsui Railway, is heavily guarded. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhuozishan Railway Station was occupied by the Kuomintang. In order to defend the fruits of the victory of the War of Resistance, the rampant invasion of the Kuomintang army was crushed. The Jin-Sui Field Army led by He Long, together with the Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army led by Nie Rongzhen, launched the Suibao Campaign on October 18, 1945, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission, and on the 19th successively destroyed the enemies in Liangcheng, Xintang, and Tiancheng Village, and the enemy fled west along the Pingsui railway line in an attempt to shrink its strength to Guisui. He Long immediately made a decision, promptly changed the original plan of attacking Fengzhen and Jining, swung northward, plunged straight into Zhuozi Mountain, cut off the enemy's waist, quickly cut off the retreat route of the enemy army in eastern Suidong, annihilated its living forces, and disrupted the enemy's plot to retreat westward. To this end, the independent 1st Brigade, the 358th Brigade, the 3rd Independent Brigade, and other units of our army moved in the direction of Zhuozishan, forming an encirclement of the enemy at Zhuozishan. At 6:00 p.m. on October 24, the various units of our army launched an attack on the enemy troops who were entrenched in Zhuozi Mountain. The enemy used the Zhuozishan Railway Station as a fortress to violently block the attack of our army. Before that, I had fought with the enemy for bayonets, and in the battle of Zhuozishan I was transferred to the machine gun platoon. At that time, our troops had no guns, no tanks, only infantry, and the Kuomintang weapons were much better than ours, with heavy machine guns and light machine guns. Our army actively took measures to adjust its firepower and support the infantry to launch another attack, breaking through the enemy position at about 20 o'clock and capturing the railway station at 21 o'clock.
After the end of the battle to defend the Zhuozishan Railway Station, our troops were ordered to defend Yan'an in northern Shaanxi. In the winter of 1946, after arriving in Yan'an, Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu received us and spoke to us. At that time, there were many troops of the Eighth Route Army, and not every unit could hear Chairman Mao's speech with their own ears, so we were greatly encouraged.
In March 1947, Chiang Kai-shek changed the all-out offensive against the Liberated Areas to a key offensive, one of the key offensive directions was the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and the first to bear the brunt of it was Yan'an, the headquarters of the CPC Central Committee. On March 13, 1947, Hu Zongnan, with a total of about 140,000 people in 15 brigades of 6 integrated divisions of the 1st Army and the 29th Army, set out from Luochuan and Yichuan respectively and pointed to Yan'an. In accordance with the situation on the battlefield, the Communist Party of China decided to first lure the enemy deeper and abandon Yan'an at an appropriate time. From March 13, 1947, the field armies and local armed forces in the northwest, relying on the existing positions, carried out resolute and tenacious resistance to the invading enemy, and bought time to cover the central organs and the transfer of the masses. On March 18, 1947, the central organs had been transferred, and the Northwest Field Army took the initiative to withdraw from Yan'an on March 19, 1947. After the Kuomintang army occupied Yan'an, it was constantly harassed and circumvented by the Northwest Field Army, and the Kuomintang army was exhausted and was grinded to the point of starvation of food and cut off the stove. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Northwest Field Army concentrated its superior forces and waited for the opportunity to annihilate each one. Due to the proper use of the tactics of the Yan'an Defense War, the Kuomintang army suffered heavy casualties, and even the hairs of our central command center could not be touched.
I participated in the Battle of Panlong at that time, I was a heavy machine gunner, only 240 rounds of ammunition, one minute of heavy machine gun is 360 bullets, 240 rounds of bullets is not enough to hit a minute, just like this, we stubbornly fought with the enemy, after three days and three nights, conquered the town of Panlong, completely annihilated more than 6,700 defenders, captured more than 12,000 bags of flour, more than 40,000 sets of clothing and a large number of weapons and ammunition. The battle was a resounding victory and is still fresh in the memory and exciting.
Materials are written | Han Feng Fan He Tian Qiaozhen
Footage collection | Zhao Xincheng Wang Yonghui Chai Jinfeng