In the course of the Red Army's Long March, too many thrilling things happened, and many times, it can be said that they were the key moments of life and death, and if they were not careful, they might be swallowed up by danger, but our ancestors, with their steely will and flesh and blood, defeated one danger after another and finally won victory.
Among all kinds of dangerous things, flying to seize the Luding Bridge must be the most thrilling one, at that time when there was a thousand gunshots, the 22 warriors of the Red Fourth Regiment had to use their flesh and blood to kill a bloody road and let the rest of the Red Army soldiers pass, Li Youlin was one of the warriors at that time, at the dangerous juncture, he grabbed the burning wooden plank with both hands and rushed over, but his own hands were seriously injured.
Why fly to seize the Luding Bridge
In May 1935, during the flood season of the Dadu River, the Red Army came to the Dadu River after a long journey, intending to cross the Dadu River to continue the Long March, but at this time the Red Army's situation was very dangerous, and there were troops led by Liu Wenhui, chairman of Xikang Province, on the opposite side of the Dadu River, blocking the Red Army from crossing the river, and there were more than 100,000 troops led by Xue Yue in pursuit.
When Chiang Kai-shek heard that the Red Army had arrived at the Dadu River, he was very excited, and he vowed to make the Red Army Shi Dakai the second, because Shi Dakai came to the Dadu River in a desperate situation, and wanted to forcibly cross the Dadu River and find another way out, but in the end he delayed the crossing time because of his own problems, and later he was deceived by Luo Bingzhang and others, resulting in the thousands of soldiers who eventually followed him all buried here, ending in a desolate ending.
Chiang Kai-shek has always admired Zeng Guofan, so he vowed to turn the Red Army into Shi Dakai's second, after all, the natural danger of the Dadu River is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if the Red Army wants to cross the Dadu River by force, how easy is it to talk about? However, many things have always been man-made, and Mao Zedong believed that he could not pass Shi Dakai, that was Shi Dakai's problem, which did not mean that the Red Army could not forcibly cross the Dadu River.
Under mao Zedong's instructions, the Red Army raced against the clock to begin planning the forced crossing of the Dadu River, when all the ships of the Dadu River had been transported to the other side of the river by Chiang Kai-shek's men, and there was only one boat left on this side of the river for emergency use by the big landlords.
Then the Red Army faced a thorny problem, that is, the Red Army did not have personnel who were good at punching boats, at this time the Dadu River, the water was turbulent, if there was no one who was good at punching boats to lead everyone to cross the river, I am afraid it was also fierce, under the recommendation of some villagers, the Red Army found a young man Shuai Shigao, after communication and exchanges, Shuai Shigao risked death to lead two small partners to help the Red Army punch boat to cross the Dadu River.
On the other side of the river is the enemy's artillery fire, the ship can only carry more than 20 people, everyone is ready to follow the Shuai Shi Gao people to cross the river, when the boat approaches the other side of the river, the other side's fire quickly covers the surroundings of the ship, the Red Army on the boat immediately uses fire to cover the Shuai Shi Gao and the others, the Red Army on this side hears the gunshots, and also uses the artillery fire to cover the soldiers in the ship, relying on everyone's concerted cooperation, only one or two hours of fighting, the Red Army defeated the enemy on the other side of the river, successfully crossed the river, and intercepted the ships on the other side of the river.
Subsequently, Shuai Shigao and others risked their lives and insisted on puncturing boats to transport Red Army soldiers across the Dadu River, and after several days and nights of hard work, they found that 7,000 Red Army soldiers had crossed the Dadu River, but there were still about 13,000 Red Army soldiers on the other side of the river.
In such a critical situation, Mao Zedong immediately gave instructions to the remaining Red Army to cross the river through the Luding Bridge, but it was another difficult thing to take the Luding Bridge, and finally this arduous task fell to the Red Fourth Regiment, Yang Chengwu and others led the army to luding bridge day and night, creating a miracle of marching 240 miles a day, and finally arrived at the Luding bridge in the early morning of May 29.
At that time, across the bridge was the team of Liu Wenhui, chairman of Xikang Province, who had been ordered to have begun to dismantle the bridge slab on the bridge, and when the Red Army arrived at the Luding Bridge, the people who found Liu Wenhui had already demolished a lot of the bridge slab on the bridge, and if they did not quickly seize the Luding Bridge, I am afraid that it would be even more difficult to bridge.
Li Youlin insisted on joining the death squad
Faced with the current situation, the Red Army needs to arrange a group of death squads to lead the way in front, first through the bridge to control the enemy on the other side, and then the remaining Red Army can successfully cross the bridge, but the first people to set out, the hope of survival is very small, Yang Chengwu and others told everyone to participate voluntarily.
Liao Dazhu's 2nd Company seized this task, Li Youlin was originally a rare cultural person in the Second Company, but at this critical moment, he insisted on joining the death squad, and at first Yang Chengwu also suggested that he not go, because there were not many literate people in the regiment, if Yang Chengwu died in the process of charging, Li Youlin could also show everyone something instead of himself.
Li Youlin insisted on participating, and said that he was a party member and gave priority to charging into the front, Yang Chengwu had no way, and finally let Li Youlin become one of the 22 warriors, and finally the 22 warriors, under the command of Yang Chengwu and the leadership of Liao Dazhu, the commander of the 2nd Company, began to rush forward.
Soon 22 warriors rushed to the middle of the bridge, Li Youlin rushed to the front, at this time the other half of the bridge plate has been dismantled by the enemy, they did not expect that the Red Army would come so quickly, so they lit a fire, wanting to burn the bridge plate that was too late to be dismantled, so that the Red Army could not cross the bridge.
Li Youlin saw that the other party lit the plank, regardless of the danger to his life, quickly rushed forward to grab the burning plank and continue to cross the bridge, and the death squad members behind them crossed the bridge while laying the bridge board, and everyone slowly crossed the bridge.
Li Youlin grabbed the hand of the bridge plate, which had been seriously burned, but the situation was urgent at that time, in order to continue the battle, Li Youlin simply did not have time to think about anything, continued to hold the pistol with his burned hand, watching the Red Army so desperately, Liu Wenhui's army on the other side seemed to have stopped a little, and the 22 warriors took less than two hours to seize the Luding Bridge and achieved the military miracle of flying to seize the Luding Bridge.
After the victory of the war, when the soldiers hugged Li Youlin and asked him to put down the gun, they found that Li Youlin's severely burned hands were already tightly glued to the guns in his hands and could not be taken down at all.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Youlin gave lessons to students at the military academy, he had a habit of rubbing his hands, and the students all felt a little strange, until later, when an old Red Army came to the school to attend classes, he told the story behind Li Youlin's rubbing hands, and the students burst into tears after listening to it.
epilogue
In the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Luding Bridge, the local general Yang Chengwu was invited, and also asked him about the names of the 22 warriors, Yang Chengwu said that the situation was critical at that time, there was no time to record everyone's names, after the battle, they ran to each other, and there was no way to record their names, just like this, 22 warriors, with their own flesh and blood, laid the road to victory of the Red Army, But most of them have become unsung heroes, but in the hearts of the people, they have a unified name, that is, "22 warriors", and their stories will be passed on forever!
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