Mao Zedong once said that "the spark of a spark can ignite the plains." The reason why our party was able to grow up under extremely harsh conditions in those years was that in addition to the firm willpower of our predecessors, it was also inseparable from the support of the military and the people, and it was precisely because of the support and participation of so many people that our party and our army could be clearly distinguished from the Kuomintang at that time, and finally won the support of the people of the whole country.
In those difficult years, if there is not enough true feelings, to be honest, few people dare to easily help and support our party or later Red Army fighters, for example, when passing through the Dadu River in the course of the Long March, there were blockades before and chasing soldiers, the Red Army was in a critical situation, fortunately, a local young guy risked his life to help the Red Army to cross the river, but unfortunately this young man was constantly hunted down by the Kuomintang, there was no way but to hide around, and eventually became a slave, and after liberation, the central government named him, but there was no news.
Risking death to help the Red Army punt boats to cross the Dadu River
Shuai Shigao is an ordinary young man in Xikang area, living on the Dadu River since he was a child, relying on long-term punting to train a very skilled skill, in the local area is also a well-known punching master, when the Red Army Long March came to the Dadu River, need to cross the Dadu River, everyone went to find him.
At that time, the situation of the Red Army was very critical, there were only more than 20,000 Red Army soldiers in total, but they had to face the blockade of Liu Wenhui in the Xikang area and the pursuit of the large army led by xue Yue of the Kuomintang behind them, if purely from the quantitative point of view, the Kuomintang plus Liu Wenhui's army, a total of about 200,000, that is to say, they were 10 times the number of the Red Army.
In such a dangerous situation, the Red Army must race against the clock to cross the Dadu River in order to have a glimmer of life, but Chiang Kai-shek has already decided that the Red Army is the second Shi Dakai, he wants the Red Army to become the Shi Dakai of that year, and it is all over the Dadu River, you must know that Shi Dakai led 40,000 Taiping Army, and now the Red Army is only 20,000, facing far more Kuomintang troops than the Qing army in those years.
Chiang Kai-shek concluded that it was difficult for the Red Army to fly with wings, but Mao Zedong firmly believed that the Red Army could forcibly cross the Dadu River and create a historical miracle, because in Mao Zedong's view, Shi Dakai's defeat of the Dadu River was not because of too few troops, but because Shi Dakai did not have good relations with the local defenders, so it would lead to such an ending.
Mao Zedong said that war is dead, but people are alive, and victory in the war ultimately depends on people, under Mao Zedong's instructions, everyone began to cross the Dadu River by force, but if you want to cross the Dadu River, the most basic thing is to need a boat, but Chiang Kai-shek has long transported the boat to the opposite side of the river, not allowing the Red Army to cross the river, and now the Red Army wants to cross the river, and can only go to the big landlord Lai Zizhong.
Chiang Kai-shek ordered Lai Zizhong to transport ships and grain, and Lai Zizhong left a ship for his own safety, and he was not willing to trust Chiang Kai-shek thoroughly.
Lai Zizhong's team was quickly taken down by the Red Army soldiers, only 20 minutes back and forth, after the Red Army obtained the only boat, but found that no one could row at all, so they went to the village to ask for the righteous soldiers, after everyone's recommendation, the Red Army went to the door of Shuai Shigao's house to seek Shuai Shigao's help.
At that time, Shuai Shigao heard the Kuomintang say that the Red Army was a bandit, so when he heard someone knocking at the door, Shuai Shigao was frightened and resolutely unwilling to open the door, and the Red Army also found a problem, so he took the initiative to explain his intentions, and also said that he would give Shuai Shigao a reward, Shuai Shigao looked at the simple Red Army outside from the crack in the door, and felt that it was completely different from the Kuomintang soldiers, but similar to his own poor people, instantly produced some good feelings, opened the door to let the Red Army enter.
After the Red Army put forward the request to ask Shuai Shigao to help everyone cross the Dadu River, Shuai Shigao hesitated at first, but after some thought, he still agreed to the Red Army, but only proposed that before punching the boat, he wanted to eat a big meal, the Red Army met Shuai Shigao's requirements, prepared rice for him, Shuai Shigao found three small partners, and after everyone finished eating together, he helped the Red Army to punch the boat to cross the Dadu River.
At this time, the Dadu River is in the may rising period, coupled with the fact that it has just rained heavily, the water flow is extremely turbulent, and if you want to cross the Dadu River, the technical requirements of the punting master are very high, but the handsome people are still more confident in their own technology, without the slightest hesitation, they got on the boat.
This boat can only accommodate about 20 people, the Red Army sent 17 people to follow Shuai Shigao and 4 of them to cross the river together, opposite is the xikang province chairman Liu Wenhui's team, once the red army reaches the middle of the river, the opposite army can fire against the red army, it can be said that at this time the red army and shuai shigao who crossed the river were risking their lives to cross the Dadu River.
Sure enough, when the ship approached the shore, Liu Wenhui's army began to attack with firepower, and the Red Army soldiers immediately asked Shuai Shigao to hide behind, and everyone struggled to resist the opposite army, and the Red Army on the shore heard the gunshots and immediately used cannons for fire cover, so that a boat of people could successfully cross the river and land.
In fact, at this time, Liu Wenhui was actually not wholeheartedly dealing with the Red Army, because Liu Wenhui was dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's help to drive his nephew out of Sichuan and come to Xikang to fight alone, and now Chiang Kai-shek also ordered him to deal with the Red Army.
The Red Army went to the shore and got more ships, and the handsome and senior people crossed the river by boat to pick up the Red Army soldiers, and everyone mobilized all their forces, and after seven days and seven nights of forced crossing, more than 7,000 Red Army troops were brought to the opposite side of the river, and at this speed, it was still unrealistic for all 20,000 Red Army to cross the river, because Xue Yue, the pursuing soldier behind, was about to catch up with the Red Army, and it was necessary to cross the Dadu River before Xue Yue arrived.
At the moment of the first attack, Mao Zedong once again made a decision, telling the remaining more than 10,000 Red Army to cross the river from Luding Bridge, so a war miracle flew to seize Luding Bridge, and many people felt that at that time, Liu Wenhui only needed to blow up the Luding Bridge, and the Red Army could not cross the river, but why did Liu Wenhui not blow up the Luding Bridge?
In fact, this question is exactly as I said before, Liu Wenhui was dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek at that time, and he also wanted to leave a back road for himself, so he did not blow up the Luding Bridge, and it was precisely because Liu Wenhui did not blow up the Luding Bridge that the Red Army was able to create the miracle of flying to seize the Luding Bridge, and Liu Wenhui was able to revolt and join our army after many years.
He became a slave to escape the Kuomintang's pursuit
After the Red Army forcibly crossed the Dadu River, due to the urgency of the task of the Long March, they hurriedly left Xikang and continued to advance, and Shuai Shigao continued to live his own life, but soon the news of Shuai Shigao and others helping the Red Army to cross the river was reached the ears of the Kuomintang.
Of course, the Kuomintang would not let shuai shigao go, so it began to arrest them, and before the kuomintang came to arrest Shuai Shigao, a person in the village sent a message to Shuai Shigao, and Shuai Shigao immediately contacted the rest of the people to escape together, and only then escaped arrest.
Originally, everyone thought that the Kuomintang was just a whim, and it was estimated that after a while they forgot about this matter, but no one thought that the Kuomintang continued to wait for them there, so that the handsome and senior people could only run around in order to live, and everyone gradually dispersed.
Shuai Shigao's family was arrested by the Kuomintang, his father eventually died tragically in prison, Shuai Shigao went to another place in anonymity to work as a short-term worker, relying on mining and running horses to make a living, after repeated rushes, finally Shuai Shigao came to the Yi area of Daliangshan, sold himself as a slave, and became a slave of a landlord here.
Here, Shuai Shigao has no dignity, no life security, can only sleep in the cowshed every day, the stench is unbearable, over time, Shuai Shigao's eyes are infected and lead to complete blindness in the left eye, those tragic days, Shuai Shigao has no love.
After the liberation, the central government named and looked for Shuai Shigao
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Red Army and the Kuomintang army broke out the War of Liberation, after the victory of the War of Liberation, the Central Committee began to look for those unsung heroes who helped the Red Army in those years, Shuai Shigao because he helped the Red Army to cross the Dadu River, of course, our party has not forgotten, so the central authorities named him, Peng Dehuai gave Shuai Shigao 8 oceans when the Dadu River and Shuai Shigao parted, for Shuai Shigao's kindness, everyone has not forgotten.
However, looking around, the small partners who helped the Red Army to cross the Dadu River together with Shuai Shigao have found it, that is, there is no news about Shuai Shigao, the central government continues to name and look for Shuai Shigao, still can not find this person, everyone is very sad.
Maybe it was providence, just when people thought that Shuai Shigao was no longer alive, by chance, the People's Liberation Army met Shuai Shigao in Daliangshan, that was in 1952, when it had been 17 years since the forced crossing of the Dadu River, and Shuai Shigao had also been a slave in Daliangshan for more than ten years, thinking that he would never see the Red Army again.
At that time, because the Kuomintang still had some reactionary forces that wanted to do things in Daliangshan, the People's Liberation Army went to Daliangshan to clear and suppress it, and when it went there, it was found that all of them were Yi, no one spoke Chinese, and it was difficult for the PEOPLE's Liberation Army to communicate with the locals, and it was difficult for the People's Liberation Army to communicate with the locals, and it was necessary to find a person who could speak Chinese.
At this moment, a slave who was blind on the left side came over and said that he was a Han Chinese and could help the PLA interpreter, and in the process of communicating with him, Shuai Shigao felt the approachability of the PLA and said that they were too similar to the Red Army at that time.
After Shuai Shigao said this sentence, everyone was a little surprised, and told Shuai Shigao that the People's Liberation Army was the Red Army of that year, and at this time Shuai Shigao became excited, told the story between that year and the Red Army, and said the matter of helping the Red Army to cross the Dadu River.
The People's Liberation Army was very curious, and immediately explained the situation to the superiors, and as a result, this blind slave in the left eye was the Shuai Shigao that the central authorities had been looking for, and it was really a nowhere to look for the iron shoes, and it took no effort at all, just like that, Shuai Shigao left Daliangshan, and after the arrangements of the party and the state, Shuai Shigao had a job and income, and Shuai Shigao, who was more than forty years old, eventually married his wife and became a family, Peng Dehuai and many central leaders would take time to visit Shuai Shigao, and after Peng Dehuai saw Shuai Shigao, he forced him to give him 30 yuan. It is said that he is grateful for the efforts and sacrifices of Shuai Shigao that year.
epilogue
With the passage of time, Shuai Shigao has become the protagonist of many stories about the red army's feat of crossing the Dadu River, and although everything he paid in those years has long disappeared into the long river of history, the country and the people will always remember such a brave and fearless hero!
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