Wang Shusheng, born in 1905 in Macheng, Hubei Province, joined the Communist Party in 1926 and participated in leadership in 1927
The Macheng Rebellion and the Jute Uprising. After 1928, he successively served as the commander of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, deputy division commander and regimental commander, division commander, deputy commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front and commander of the 31st Army, deputy commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army and commander of the 9th Army.
After the Battle of Gulangcheng in 1936, the Red Ninth Army suffered heavy losses, and Wang Shusheng was appointed deputy commander of the Western Route Army and commander of the Ninth Army.
He summed up the lessons of the Ninth Army's failure at Gulang. After merging with the Eighty-eighth Division of the Red Thirty Army, although the strength of the Red Army increased a lot, Wang Shusheng did not dare to be careless, he convened a meeting of cadres, raised his vigilance, and made ideological preparations for fighting a vicious battle: "Everyone should realize our current situation, advance thousands of miles, rely on no basis, mobile combat, the environment is harsh, the mass base is not good, the battle is getting more and more difficult to fight, we must make full ideological preparations, and give everything we have for the party and the revolution..."
At the same time, Wang Shusheng also emphasized the leading role of party members in difficult times: "Communists must stand in the forefront of the revolutionary struggle, be the vanguard of the revolution, undertake arduous tasks, and lead the vast number of fighters..."
Driven by Wang Shusheng, the whole army swore to fight with Ma Jiajun to the end, and the soldiers also wrote a "Horse Fighting Song":
Drinking the weak water of the horse has not forgotten,
The cold wind is like a knife like steel.
Yellow sand ice and snow buried loyal bones,
Laugh at the fact that the second horse's life is not long.
Wang Shusheng predicted that the Red Army would be retaliated against by Ma Jiajun, so after arriving in Yongchang, Wang Shusheng immediately ordered the construction of fortifications and strictly arranged.
Sure enough, before the fortifications had been fully repaired, the enemy pounced on them with great momentum, and the situation was quite urgent. Wang Shusheng calmly commanded, but because the enemy was outnumbered, he could only withdraw his troops from Yongchang City.
In the process of retreating and moving, the Ma family army followed close behind.
In the face of the surging enemy, Wang Shusheng calmly and calmly shouted to the soldiers: "Comrades, prepare the grenade, first blow him up on his own horse!" ”
A large number of enemies fell into the bombs, but the enemy who killed the red eyes still rushed in regardless of life and death.
"Put on the bayonet, punch!" At the order of Wang Shusheng, the warriors raised their bayonets, raised the butts of their guns, and rushed towards the vicious wave of black pressure.
Wang Shusheng repelled the enemy's attack with his men, but he also suffered huge casualties.
After that, Wang Shusheng summoned the warriors of northern Sichuan to study how to deal with the enemy's cavalry: "The northwest horse bandits are haunted, the combat is mobile, flexible, and rapid, and extremely difficult to deal with, everyone has any good ideas, three stinky cobblers, worthy of one Zhuge Liang!" ”
Wang Shusheng, a number of senior commanders, never put themselves above the soldiers, every time he encountered a problem, he would ask the vast number of soldiers for advice, and the soldiers were also free to speak, without any sense of restraint.
"Commander, the horse bandit is fierce on horseback, once he falls to the ground, he has nothing to do, shoot the horse first, capture the king first, fight the horse bandit, first try to put down the horse!"
"Commander, when the horse bandits charge and kill, it is best to disperse the troops, take the squad as a unit, and collectively meet the enemy, so as to avoid individual soldiers being divided and surrounded!"
"Commander..."
The soldiers spoke enthusiastically, and Wang Shusheng recorded the opinions of the soldiers in the book, sorted out several tactical policies, and let the soldiers go back to teach the experience of killing the enemy.
Because the Red Army's front line was too long, its troops were scattered, and it was divided and surrounded by the enemy, the Red Army suffered heavy losses.
After 1937, the losses of the various units of the Western Route Army increased rapidly. On January 20, Dong Zhentang, commander of the Fifth Army, Yang Keming, director of the Political Department, Ye Chongben, commander of the 13th Division, and more than 3,000 officers and men of the Red Army, most of whom died heroically.
On January 21, the cavalry division was intercepted by the enemy halfway through, and the division commander Dong Junyan and the political commissar Qin Xiandao all heroically sacrificed their lives in the fierce battle.
The bad news came one after another, which made Wang Shusheng extremely sad, and at that time, he forcibly endured the grief and threw himself into a new battle.
After the Western Route Army concentrated in the Ni family camp, it fought bloodily with the enemy for more than a month, and finally had to retreat because of heavy casualties, and at Nanliugou, Wang Shusheng fought with the enemy for five days before escaping from danger.
At Liyuankou, in order to prevent the enemy from encircling the Red Army, Wang Shusheng and Chen Haisong, political commissar of the army, immediately decided to divide their troops to block the enemy, and Wang Shusheng led a part of the fighters to seize the western mountain head and cover the deployment of the 30th Army, and Chen Haisong covered the retreat of some organ leaders to Liyuankou.
After the bloody battle, Political Commissar Chen Haisong and all the soldiers were killed in Liyuankou, and Wang Shusheng's troops also suffered heavy sacrifices, watching the gods love you soldiers fall down one after another, Wang Shusheng was furious and shouted: "Comrades, fight the enemy to the end in blood, avenge the dead comrades." ”
The machine gunners around him were sacrificed, and Wang Shusheng took up his machine gun himself and shot at the enemy.
"Dog stuff, Lao Tzu told you all to see the King of Yama!"
Wang Shusheng's scolding was mixed with crying, he silently wiped the blood on his body and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, he understood that he had no way to retreat, he must persist, only by fighting hard can he save a little revolutionary force.
The Western Route Army retreated to the Shiwozi area with difficulty and held an emergency meeting, at which time there were only more than a thousand Red Army troops left, the wounded lying on the cold and hard rocks, each covered in blood and disheveled. The gun chamber is empty, the rice bag is deflated, everyone's brain is filled with hatred and grief, and hunger has been forgotten...
The meeting decided to change the original organizational structure, Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao returned to northern Shaanxi to report to the central authorities, and Li Zhuoran, Wang Shusheng, Li Xiannian, and seven others formed the Western Route Army Working Committee to unify the leadership of the remaining Red Army.
Li Xiannian, Cheng Shicai, and Li Tianhuan led the Red Thirty Army into the Qilian Mountains to fight a guerrilla attack.
Wang Shusheng led the Red Ninth Army and the Cavalry Division to cover the Red Thirty Army's entry into the Qilian Mountains...
Qilian Mountain fought guerrilla warfare
Wang Shusheng's troops were facing the enemy's attack at any time, and at the end of the fight, there were only a dozen people standing next to Wang Shusheng, all of whom were skinny, unkempt, and skinny.
What should I do next? It became a question that Wang Shusheng pondered bitterly, the troops and the central authorities completely lost contact, and the soldiers were also wearing cold clothes and no warm shoes on their feet, facing the situation of being frozen to death, starving to death, and trapped at any time.
The warriors choked and said to Wang Shusheng, "Commander, we must not freeze to death here!" It is better to go out and fight with the enemy, anyway, fight him one enough, fight him two to earn one..."
"Yes, we might as well go out and fight, it's better than dying here!"
Wang Shusheng understood the comrades' feelings very well, and could not help but reply with tears: "Comrades, none of us are afraid of death, but we cannot make senseless sacrifices." The enemy has killed so many of our brothers, and we must repay this vendetta, and the most urgent task at the moment is to find a way to return to northern Shaanxi, find the party, find the troops..."
The party is now the only support point in the hearts of Wang Shusheng and the soldiers.
Duyed
At this moment, Du Yide, the optimistic director of the operations department, broke the dull air: "Comrades, don't be in a hurry!" Things are man-made, we will have a way..."
"Yes, the affairs of the world are difficult to defeat the Red Army!" As long as a dozen of us have one heart, unite and fight, and persist, we will certainly be able to overcome the current difficulties, walk out of the Qilian Mountains, return to Yan'an, and find the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao! ”
Wang Shusheng's answer gave everyone encouragement.
"Comrades, remember that 'Horse Song'? Come, let's sing, warm up and warm up! ”
Du Yide took over: "Drinking horses and weak water has not been forgotten, and the cold wind is like a knife like steel." Yellow sand ice and snow buried loyal bones, laughing to see that the second horse's life is not long. ”
"The Horse Song" was sung quickly. Wang Shusheng continued, "Hey, don't stop when you're done singing." Come, keep singing an international song, a little louder! ”
"Rise, hungry slaves, rise up, the suffering people of the whole world, unite until tomorrow..."
The singing lifted everyone's mood. Wang Shusheng pointed to the Qilian Mountains in the distance, "You see, the mountains are covered with ice and snow, full of wild vegetables, high and dense forests, wild grasses, eating, drinking, sleeping, everything is complete." The sky is the room, the ground is the bed, and the wild vegetables and wild fruits are used as dry food. Backing up the mountains and eating the mountains, we will definitely be able to get out of the Qilian Mountains! ”
"As long as we persist and endure, we will certainly be able to survive and return to the embrace of the Party Central Committee!" From now on, we must twist into a rope, carry forward the spirit of unity and fraternity, help each other, and ensure that no comrade will be left behind, and that if we bring out one more, we will save more strength for the revolution! ”
The soldiers were boosted by Wang Shusheng and believed that everyone would be able to overcome all kinds of difficulties and find the Party Central Committee.
"Everyone must remember: as long as the stone is there, the fire will not be extinguished!"
The search for the Party Central Committee became the only belief in everyone's minds, and they took firm steps toward the east, and they crawled and crawled in the depths of the jungle. Tired, close your eyes and rest; thirsty, grab and chew the snow; hungry, pull the grass roots and nibble...
In order to prevent the enemy's tracking, Wang Shusheng led everyone to change places every day, and they could still insist during the day, but at night, the comrades' thin clothes could not make the soldiers sleep, otherwise they might freeze to death at any time.
After choosing a sheltered spot, everyone found branches to spread and light a bonfire to ward off the cold. He said to everyone: "There is a saying in our hometown, 'There is a cold with clothes, no clothes and no cold, and it is called Huazi bluestone slab to sleep for three years'. As long as we have a fiery red heart, what can the cold wind of Qilian Mountain do to us? ”
"Everyone should pay attention to protecting our feet, it is the capital of the revolution, and we must rely on it to get out of qilian mountain." Come, let's put our feet in each other's pants and keep warm! ”
Around the campfire, Wang Shusheng told everyone a story, and gradually the warriors fell asleep in confusion.
In his sleep, Wang Shusheng suddenly smelled a burning smell, and when he got up to look, he found that it was the guard Xiao Dong's shoes that had reached out to the fire and were roasted.
"Xiao Dong, wake up!"
Wang Shusheng gently pushed Xiao Dong. Xiao Dong opened his eyes to see his shoes smoking white and hurriedly took them off.
"Come, hand me your shoes and I'll make them up for you!" After giving him one of his shoes, he smiled and said, "You're just not careful!" Next time you cook your feet, I'll have a full meal!" ”
Wang Shusheng did not know how many days he had been circling in the mountains, until the weather began to warm up and everyone's conditions improved, because there were wild vegetables and weeds. Wang Shusheng had admired the grass, so he knew which wild vegetables could be eaten and which could not be eaten.
Wang Shusheng ate very fragrantly every time, and while eating, he said: "Well, good, good, much better than the wild grass in the northern sichuan grassland!" ”
Once, the guard Xiao Dong got a little wild mushroom from nowhere, cooked it, and brought it to Wang Shusheng.
"Commander, this mushroom is fresh, you eat it!"
"Have you eaten?"
"After eating, I just ate a big bowl, and this mushroom tastes really good!"
Wang Shusheng took a closer look at Xiao Dong and found that his lips were still chapped, knowing that he was lying.
"Xiao Dong, you are engaged in specialization again, how many times have you told me, I am the same as everyone else, what everyone eats together, go, give everyone a little!"
A dozen people formed a circle, one holding a bowl of soup and a few mushroom slices floating in it. Everyone you look at me, I look at you, no one drank.
"Drink! Drink while it's hot. You little devils, eat more, because when you are growing up, you must not be hungry. You see me, I'm in my early thirties, I'm in my prime, my body is so great, don't worry about me all the time! ”
Wang Shusheng knew that if he didn't drink it, everyone wouldn't drink it, so he took the bowl and drank it with a "grunt".
"It's really fresh, Xiao Dong said it well, the mushrooms in Qilian Mountain are really unique!" Wang Shusheng smacked his lips and said.
"Let's drink it, the commander has drunk it, what are you waiting for?" Du Yide also urged from the side.
Everyone then took the bowl and drank it, and then gathered around him and pestered him to tell stories.
"No, today I don't tell stories, I sing a revolutionary song to everyone!"
"Good! Good! ”
"Red cloth strips hang on the chest, and a saber hangs around the waist. Keep up with the Red Army in making a revolution, save the country and save the people——— the sky ——— down! ”
The song inspired everyone's confidence, everyone's mental outlook is good, but the body is very poor, due to the long-term lack of nutrition, the comrades are skinny and bone-thin, the body is quite weak, and even the strength to lift the legs and take a step is gone.
After much deliberation, Wang Shusheng decided to venture down the mountain to buy some food from the local residents.
That night, Wang Shusheng led everyone to quietly explore the mountain, found a group of gold diggers, they only had a dozen people, suddenly saw a group of people with guns and live ammunition coming down, one by one frightened and trembling, and thought that he and others had encountered a group of robbers.
One of the old men knelt down, prostrated his head, and said tremblingly, "We are all poor men with nothing, please ask the boss to be gracious and let us go!" ”
When Wang Shusheng heard the old man call him boss, he smiled and said, "Old master, don't be afraid." I am not a boss, I am the Red Army, the Red Army that specializes in fighting bandits! ”
After saying this, he quickly lifted up the old master, sat down with him, and said kindly: "Old master, we in the Red Army are specially working for the poor to turn over and seek happiness." The Red Army is different from the army of the Kuomintang and the horse bandits, and the Red Army does not steal or rob the poor, does not fight or kill. ”
Seeing that the old master was still a little trembling, Wang Shusheng picked up the gun in his hand: "Old master, come, take this guy, I will talk to you about the heart again!" ”
The old man relaxed and dispelled his doubts.
After knowing the intentions of Wang Shusheng and the others, the old man immediately agreed, and quickly gathered some grain and salt with his accomplices and sent them to Wang Shusheng.
"We know that you are good people, you can take these things, even if it is our little heart, be more careful in the future, the horse bandits often come here to search the mountains, after eating, you will come down and get it again!"
The problem of food has been temporarily solved, but the massacre of the enemy is still going on, and everyone is already in a very dangerous situation, and no one can be happy.
Wang Shusheng also encouraged: "Comrades, we must hold back our grief and turn our grief into strength, and one day the revolution will be victorious!" ”
"We must be like these gold diggers in the revolution, have a spirit of enduring hardships and never turning back, take pleasure in suffering, and laugh at life." In this way, we can always stand in an invincible position and the revolution can succeed! ”
Wang Shusheng led these dozen soldiers to persist in the Qilian Mountains without flinching, until he heard that the enemy had withdrawn his troops and stopped sealing the mountains, Wang Shusheng immediately made a decision, walked out of the Qilian Mountains, and returned east to Yan'an.
How he hoped to arrive in Yan'an as soon as possible, and then pour out his stomach full of bitter water to the party, and tell the soldiers of the Red Army about the tragic and magnificent course of the Western Route Army...
Leaving Qilian Mountain, Wang Shusheng looked at Qilian Mountain behind him, performed a salute, and shed two lines of tears,......
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