Under the white snow of Qilian Mountain, countless heroes have been buried, and the blood and tears of countless heroes have also been recorded.
The cold Qilian Mountain woke up Wang Dinglie, who had fallen into a coma. When Wang Dinglie opened his eyes, all he saw were the corpses of his devastated and comrades-in-arms, as well as the equipment scattered everywhere...
Wang Dinglie was born in 1918 to a peasant family in Victory Field, Xuanhan County, Sichuan Province. He entered school in 1928, joined the Red Army in 1933, joined the regiment in 1935, and joined the Communist Party in 1936.
Wang Dinglie was originally a clerk of the Forty-third Regiment of the Fifth Red Army, but after the defeat of Gaotai, the troops merged, and he became a soldier of the second platoon of the Fifth Company, and was shot in the left chest when blocking the enemy near the stone nest in the Qilian Mountains, and passed out unconscious.
When he woke up again, he was left with only himself, and he began to climb down the hill in severe pain, and then found two sticks and struggled to carry them down the hill. On the way down the hill, he met two other wounded, and the three of them came down in a group and begged for the east.
The three of them helped each other down the ravine, and saw a separate hut not far away, thinking they could go in to find something to eat and shelter from the wind and snow. But when a few people entered, they saw a room full of wounded people, about twenty or thirty people, each of whom was wounded, and the warriors were also tormented by pain, hunger, and fatigue.
Only then did Wang Dinglie and the three of them relax and huddled together with everyone to fall asleep.
Just when everyone was asleep, Wang Dinglie was suddenly awakened by the sound of gunshots of "Da, da, da..." And when he opened his eyes, he saw that the enemy's machine guns protruding from the window were sweeping wildly, and then the enemy broke into the house, took the knife and began to slash at Wang Dinglie and the others...
The blood of the warriors once again spilled all over the Qilian Mountains.
I don't know how long later, Wang Dinglie woke up again, his eyes were heavily bloodied, and he couldn't see anything. He wanted to touch it with his hand, but his body was in severe pain, and he couldn't lift both arms. The room was dead silent.
Wang Dinglie called out to everyone softly, but no one answered for a long time. He licked his lips with his tongue, and a smell of blood came. After resting for a long time, he wiped the blood from his eyes with his hand, and only then did he see the situation in the house. At this time, the room was a sea of blood, and the corpses lay on all sides without a single living person.
Wang Dinglie's heart was filled with tearing pain, and he crawled to the side of each warrior one by one, shouting and shaking, especially trying to shout them up, but he could never call them again...
When it was about to reach dusk, suddenly footsteps came from outside, and Wang Dinglie immediately lay down and pretended to be dead. He looked closely and saw that it was a farmer in his thirties and forties who seemed to be stunned by the scene of massacres in the room.
"Fellow!" As soon as Wang Dinglie shouted, the fellow ran out in fright, thinking that he had seen a ghost. After a while, the fellow slowly returned, perhaps reacting to what was going on here and wanting to come back and have a look.
Seeing that his fellow villagers had returned again, Wang Dinglie said to him: "Fellows, we are the Red Army, don't be afraid!" ”
"We all know that the Red Army is a good man!" The fellow said and came over to bandage Wang Dinglie's wound.
After bandaging the wound, the fellow said tremblingly: "You go quickly, Ma Jiajun will come back, they will all kill all the people who see the Red Army, it is really miserable!" What a sin! Let's go! ”
The villagers had been urging Wang Dinglie to leave early, giving him a piece of bread and a stick, and showing him a path.
Wang Dinglie took the cake sent by his fellow villagers and began to walk with a stick, because Wang Dinglie was too badly injured, he only walked two or three hundred steps in two or three hours.
Soon, night fell, the temperature plummeted, Wang Dinglie was frozen to the point of numbness, and the wolf cry from afar made Wang Dinglie especially want to fight with the enemy, instead of being left alone like now...
Later, Wang Dinglie met 3 injured comrades-in-arms, and everyone hugged and cried after meeting.
The four men encouraged each other, supported each other forward, were extremely hungry and thirsty, chewed grass roots, drank snow water, and walked for two days before finally walking out of the mountains, looking at the endless Hirakawa River, they had planned to hide, they wanted to wait for dark, and then desperately cross the enemy's blockade line, all the way along the north mountain to the east.
However, they did not expect that just at dusk, just as they were descending to the river beach, they heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping at them, and several people quickly dispersed and hidden, but the enemy was many and fast, and dozens of flashlights shone through.
They found Wang Dinglie and arrested Wang Dinglie, and Wang Dinglie wanted to resist, so he pushed the enemy a little, but because he was very badly injured, not only did he not push the enemy, but he made his arm more severely painful.
The enemy was very cruel to the Red Army, stripping off the coat and fleece that Wang Dinglie had made in Shandan City, holding him in the back with the muzzle of his gun, and shouting: "Kneel, kneel!" ”
Wang Dinglie did not kneel, and had been fiercely resisting, preferring to die rather than kneel in front of the enemy.
The enemy even kicked and scolded, and with a "whoosh" sound, the enemy's bullets were loaded. Wang Dinglie, knowing that the enemy was about to shoot, shouted with all his strength: "Long live the Communist Party!" Knock down Jiang—" Before he could finish speaking, he was knocked to the ground by the enemy's punch.
At this moment, a shout came from not far away: "Don't shoot, don't shoot, live, live!" ”
Wang Dinglie survived, but was also captured by the enemy.
In late March, the snow and ice in the Qilian Mountains begin to thaw, and the water is when the water is the coldest. The enemy escorted the Red Army soldiers through the ice water, and the trouser pipes were quickly turned into ice barrels, in which case even a healthy person was unbearable, not to mention the wounded of the Red Army soldiers.
When passing through a village, Wang Dinglie and the others were stuffed into a cellar, and the kiln mouth could only accommodate one person, but there were twenty or thirty wounded inside. Eat more clearly and thin wheat soup.
Later, the enemy escorted more than 100 people, including Wang Dinglie, to the courtyard of a mule and horse shop in Ganzhou City.
The soldiers were also brutally abused, the soldiers were exposed to the night and the sun for more than a month, and almost every day the dead comrades were carried out...
After the weather warmed up, Wang Dinglie's wounds began to suppurate, rot, stink, and even maggots, crawling all over the body, but his hands could not catch it.
Wang Dinglie's physical condition is very poor, his bones are as thin as wood, and if he moves his body slightly, he will have golden eyes and dizzy.
We do not know how Wang Dinglie's physical condition persisted, perhaps because the expectations in his heart for Yan'an, the flame of yearning for the revolution have not been extinguished, and perhaps there are still comrades who have sacrificed their expectations for the revolution, which has persisted.
Later, some fellow villagers gradually came to the courtyard to set up stalls, but where the Red Army soldiers had money to buy food, the comrades-in-arms quietly asked the compatriots for some salt water to wash Wang Dinglie's wounds, and some medicine was sent from the Gospel Hall Hospital, which saved Wang Dinglie's life.
Slowly more than 300 Red Army wounded gathered here, and later the enemy wanted to escort them to Liangzhou, and it took eight or nine days to walk from Ganzhou to Liangzhou, and the Red Army soldiers who could not walk were brutally killed by the enemy, and those who walked slowly were whipped by the enemy.
On this day, they arrived at Wuwei City, and the enemy gathered them all on a square, and the enemy found a traitor to come and persuade them to surrender.
This person was Guo Xishan, the former commander of the Fourteenth Division of the Fifth Red Army and the commander of the Forty-third Regiment; at this time he had already defected to the enemy and became a so-called "senator," dressed like a human dog, and came to persuade him to surrender, saying that communism was not suitable for China, how good the Kuomintang was, how could it be promoted to get rich, and let everyone go to him...
However, to the great disappointment of the enemy, even if the Red Army soldiers were ragged and disheveled, none of the more than 300 people responded, and everyone sat there quietly and unresponsively.
Wang Dinglie knew that Guo Xishan's dog could not spit out ivory in his mouth, so he directly covered his ears with his hands and did not listen to what he said.
Wang Dinglie had a bullet on his waist, just stuck in his waist and couldn't stand straight, Wang Dinglie didn't want to bend in front of the enemy, and he didn't want to bend in front of the traitor, feeling that look was very humiliating.
The more Wang Dinglie thought about it, the more angry he became, and in a fit of anger, he gritted his teeth and slammed it, causing him to faint on the spot in pain. No one thought that even if it was like this, the bullet would no longer affect his waist, and his waist could stand up straight. The bullet remained on his waist for 16 years, and was not taken out as a memorial until after the founding of New China.
There were twenty or thirty of his comrades-in-arms who were locked up with Wang Dinglie, and so many of them could only sit down in a cell, but it was impossible to lie down. Every day, I don't eat well and sleep well, and I only have twenty or thirty minutes of air release time.
Later, they were escorted to Yongdeng and incorporated into the supplementary regiment, and he was assigned to the fifth company, two platoons, and four shifts. Wang Dinglie insisted on refusing to be an enemy soldier. Yu Jiabin, the commander of the second platoon he was in, was originally a company commander of the Red Ninth Army, and was captured because of his wounds, and quietly said to him: "You can't go now, the enemy said that he was sending it to Lanzhou, but in fact they were buried alive." When you are healed, stay in the green mountains, are you still afraid of no firewood? Why do you have to die now? (Yu Jiabin later returned to the embrace of the party, participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and died in the battle of Southwest Lu)
The "replenishment regiment" was only a consumable used by the enemy to build roads, the Red Army soldiers dug soil every day, carried stones, punched holes and transported soil, Wang Dinglie had not been good because of the wounds, his right hand was still hanging a bandage, and his left hand could not move, all he could do every day was to show his comrades-in-arms the tents, and even to boil water for his comrades-in-arms, he could only insist on burning a little with his left hand.
When the news of the Qiqi Incident came, the soldiers' blood was boiling and they wanted to go to the front line to resist Japan, and in order to block the news, the Ma family army increased the number of guarding troops and strictly prohibited going out. However, anti-Japanese slogans still appeared on the construction site:
"We are going to the anti-Japanese front!"
"Welcome to Ma Bufang's anti-Japanese resistance!"
"Down with the traitors!"
"Long live the Communist Party!"
As a result, several warriors were brutally killed by the enemy.
Yuan Shichang, former officer of the General Political Department of the Fourth Red Front, organized a "literacy class" to restore the party's organizational life.
Later, according to the above order, the Kuomintang Gansu government requested the recruitment of Zhuang Ding, and Ma Buqing kept Zhuang Ding and replaced him with Red Army soldiers.
Wang Dinglie and others passed through Xi'an on their way to Wuhan, and Wang Dinglie and others sent representatives to the "Xi'an Office of the Eighteenth Group" in Xi'an, strongly demanding to return to Yan'an.
After negotiations between the CPC Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Office and the Kuomintang, Wang Dinglie and others arrived at the Yan'an of their dreams after going through countless hardships.
After returning to Yan'an, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and Zhu De visited them.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Wang Dinglie successively served as a soldier, squad leader and defender of the 343rd Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. In 1939, he served as the Eighth Route Army's eastward anti-Japanese advance column, the eighth sub-district of the Jiluyu Military Region, and in 1945, he went south to create the Anti-Japanese Base Area in Central Henan. In August 1947, he accompanied Liu Deng's army south to Dabie Mountain.
After September 1951, he served as the commander of the 23rd And 18th Division of the Air Force Aviation Corps, and participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. He has since served in the Air Force. He was awarded the rank of colonel in 1955 and promoted to the rank of major general in 1961. He successively served as the principal of the 15th Aviation School of the Air Force, the director of the Shantou Command Post of the Air Force, the deputy commander of the Air Force of the Guangzhou Military Region, and the deputy commander of the Air Force of the Jinan Military Region. After May 1975, he served as chief of staff and deputy commander of the Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.