During the War of Resistance Against Japan, our resistance was not smooth sailing, and there were also cases of being defeated and retreated by the enemy, which was very miserable. Even among the founding generals of China today, many of them were originally in the Western Route Army, following the defeated Western Route Army all the way to escape, exhausted. Even some people, in the end, still rely on begging all the way to return to Yan'an, which is really regrettable. And the general's encounter was even more shocking, he was Ouyang Yi.
Ouyang Yizuo
For the sake of the revolutionary old man who participated in the Jinggangshan struggle, it can be said that he has a high level of seniority in the Party. After that, he joined the Red Fourth Army, but because of Zhang Guotao's mistakes in leadership policy, he had to go through the hardships of three meadows, and then joined the Western Route Army, and also fled all the way to the Qilian Mountains with the Western Route Army after the defeat.
Inside the Qilian Mountains, Ouyang Yi believed that at this time, the enemy in the east was looking at the tiger, simply going west into the desert, and maybe he could find a way to survive. Unfortunately, the Ma family army behind them quickly caught up with this group of remnants, and Ouyang Yi was also separated from the large army, and only three people were still together, how would they escape?
Among the remaining three people, a military and political commissar named Zhang Ranhe, a special commissioner surnamed Zhou, and a messenger Xiao Zhang, together with Ouyang Yi, planned to break through and return to Yan'an. Unfortunately, not long after, Zhang Ranhe was washed by the river when passing through a rapid, and he almost died, he immediately gave up the idea of breaking through and left the team, after which he did not know the end. After Zhang Ranhe left, the remaining three found a cave and wanted to go inside to rest. As a result, the Zhou commissioner took Ouyang Yi's gun and the remaining ten yuan of legal tender, and finally left.
In the end, Ouyang Yi and Xiao Zhang began their journey of ups and downs. They changed into the clothes of ordinary people, begged during the day, and at night they either slept in the open air or in the broken temple with good luck. After that, Ouyang Yi also had a high fever and did not retreat for several days, but eventually they came to the Yellow River and were about to cross the blockade of the Majia Army. As a result, when the moment came, Xiao Zhang also suddenly gave up and was no longer willing to continue to walk, leaving only Ouyang Yi alone, who went through hardships and relied on selling words and begging, and finally returned to Yan'an in 1937.
It was such a determined man who became seriously ill after returning to Yan'an, and finally in the late stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he did not go to the battlefield once in five years, but he was also awarded the post of founding lieutenant general after the founding of the Country. Unfortunately, this soldier died at the age of 97, nearly a hundred years old, half his life, his life was worth the trip.