The salt merchant we mentioned above, who held the lives of more than 3,000 Red Army soldiers in his hands, was actually an ordinary person named Chen Yanxian, so why did he become an old Red Army after his death? Let's learn the truth today.
The story takes place in the middle of the thirties during the Long March, it was a cold winter night, under the enemy's close pursuit, Cheng Zihua has led the soldiers to fight for several days and nights, behind the Yellow River, the only way out for the Red Army, is the two passes occupied by the enemy, Cheng Zihua gambled all the luck and decided to venture to find a small road to advance.
However, if Cheng Zihua's plan was to be well implemented, it was necessary to have the support of the local compatriots, but the exploited peasants at that time did not know the position of the Red Army at all, and the people who did not know them were nothing more than the landlord exploiting class, and they were frightened, so they saw that the Red Army did not want to pull out their legs and run, but what if there was no plan for the compatriots to lead the way?
Just when Cheng Zihua and others were hesitant, they met a salt merchant Chen Yanxian who went south and north, this person because of his perennial wandering, he did not seem to be as timid as the villagers, and he behaved very calmly in the face of the Red Army's asking for directions, not only that, plus Chen Yanxian was a runner who ran rivers and lakes, and he was familiar with every road here.
Cheng Zihua and the small businessman in front of him talked a lot, even about their own revolutionary experience and revolutionary ideals, Chen Yanxian heard these sincere words, and then looked at the more than 3,000 starving and ragged fighters in front of him, resolutely decided to help them tide over the difficulties, and led the soldiers on the path he knew well.
Of course, the result was that they successfully walked out of the enemy's encirclement, chen Yanxian was short of money but he was clear about right and wrong, simple and unpretentious, and when Cheng Zihua took out the ocean to thank him, he did not accept it. Cheng Zihua wrote a certificate to Chen Yanxian and then separated, but in the face of such a great favor, Cheng Zihua has always remembered in his heart and thought of repaying the favor.
Until after the founding of New China, Cheng Zihua sent people to look for Chen Yanxian, unfortunately, Chen Yanxian had lost the note that proved himself, and because of the problem of accent, Cheng Zihua had been looking for Chen Yanxian, both sides were not powerful, naturally Cheng Zihua could not find this benefactor, until Chen Yanxian died and never met again.
It was not until the 1980s, under the investigation of the organization, that he heard the story of Chen Yanxian, and found that the benefactor of the Red Army was no longer alive in order to commemorate him, he was named an old Red Army and buried in the party school cemetery.
No matter what kind of effort, it is a contribution to the motherland, and we should pay tribute to this old Red Army!