Zhang Xiufang, a native of Bazhong, Sichuan, joined the revolution in 1933 and was incorporated into the Independent Division of the Red Army in 1934, and was a guard for Zhang Qinqiu, a famous general of the Red Army.
In Zhang Xiufang's eyes, Zhang Qinqiu is a very good person and a leader with a good temper.
When Zhang Xiufang went out with the Western Route Army to fight in Hexi, she was surrounded by an earthen fence when she was in Fengle Fort. Zhang Xiufang's hand was pierced by the enemy's bullet, and she fainted at that time.
When Zhang Xiufang was just working as a guard for Zhang Qinqiu, she suddenly got smallpox, which was very serious and almost lost her life.
After Zhang Qinqiu found out, he hurriedly sent her to the hospital for rescue, which was able to turn the crisis into safety. After her recovery, Zhang Qinqiu came to pick her up, but Zhou Guangtan, the director of the General Hospital, said to her: "Your women's independent division is a school for training women cadres, but our female cadres here are in great short supply, so you should give Zhang Xiufang to us." ”
Zhang Qinqiu really left Zhang Xiufang in the hospital and served as a platoon leader.
Later, Zhang Xiufang went out with the Western Route Army to fight in Hexi, and was surrounded in an earthen fence when she was in Fengle Fort. Zhang Xiufang's hand was pierced by the enemy's bullet, and she fainted at that time.
The Western Route Army was arduous, going deep behind enemy lines, there was no supply, in the face of the cavalry that came and went like the wind, the logistics of the Western Route Army could not keep up, the wounded in the hospital were not well cared for, many people were wounded and could not get effective treatment, they did not even have a piece of cloth to bandage the wound.
Later, in order to solve the practical problems of the wounded on the spot, the doctors of the hospital were assigned to the various units below for field rescue.
Zhang Xiufang and several other comrades-in-arms followed the fighting troops to qilian mountain after the Battle of Liyuankou.
Later, the war became more and more unsuccessful, the troops withdrew again and again, and the comrades-in-arms could no longer take care of them, so the regimental commander said to them: "The number of our troops is no longer much, you should not follow us anymore, you should still go to the General Hospital and go back to the logistics unit!" ”
That being said, now wherever they went to find the General Hospital, the troops were scattered, there was no longer a complete structure, they did not find the General Hospital, they met some comrades who were active in the mountains, and then they followed everyone.
Under the snow, Qilian Mountain could not find food everywhere, the sky was still surprisingly cold, they lived a day with today and no tomorrow, hunger and cold followed them like two devils.
Zhang Xiufang, Fan Xiuying, Zhu Zhixiu, and a warrior surnamed Zhao hid in a stone cave, Zhu Zhixiu's arm was broken and incapacitated, and several other people went out to pick up some cow dung and burn it for warmth.
Later, when they were hungry, they put the cow dung on the stone and roasted it dry with the fire, crushed it, and like fried noodles, they shoved it into their mouths one by one with snow water and swallowed it. Later, Ma Jiajun searched the mountain and found their cave.
Unwilling to become prisoners of the enemy, several people jumped into the cliff next to them.
I don't know how long later, Zhang Xiufang woke up, found that she was still alive, unspeakably sad, originally jumped off the cliff with the determination to die, but let the dead branch save a life, but although she did not die, Zhang Xiufang's body was very seriously injured, she broke her right leg, tailbone and several ribs.
At this moment, the enemy also came to her side and shouted, saying that this person was still alive! So he slashed at them with the back of a knife. Zhang Xiufang was still able to feel pain, but her three comrades-in-arms could no longer feel pain.
Later, the enemy simply treated her and captured her.
The enemy escorted all captured Red Army prisoners to Qinghai, including Zhang Xiufang.
The enemy escorted the Red Army soldiers to Qinghai not to heal them and make them happy, but to extract the maximum value of the Red Army soldiers, to treat them as slaves, to force them to work, so as to create benefits for themselves.
Zhang Xiufang and some Red Army soldiers were organized together, and each of them was given a shovel and arranged to build a road in Laoya Gorge.
When building roads, those who worked a little slower were severely beaten by the enemy, and they treated the Red Army soldiers as slaves. Zhang Xiufang persevered in such an environment, and she couldn't care about the pain in her body at all, so she persisted day by day.
In 1938, after the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, the enemy released a group of Red Army soldiers, including Zhang Xiufang. Zhang Xiufang didn't know where she was going, she could only go in the direction of Lanzhou.
When she walked to Haishiwan on the border of Gansu and Qinghai, she was hired as a helper by a lady who was an innkeeper next to the highway. The hotel is located on a major traffic road, the hotel has a canteen and guest rooms, and there are many pedestrians passing by every day, Zhang Xiufang's work is very busy, but in addition to doing her own work well, she also undertakes the work of the owner's home.
The owner of the shop is an old man with a white beard, or a local security chief, but also an old man with a heart, who actually wants Zhang Xiufang to be his concubine, but Zhang Xiufang's stern refusal.
On this day, this flowery old man actually used the excuse that Zhang Xiufang had put less alkali when she was baking cakes, so he grabbed a stick and hit her. At that time, Zhang Xiufang was burning the fire, lifting the small bench she was sitting on and smashing it towards the old guy, and suddenly the old guy's head was bleeding.
Here Zhang Xiufang could not stay any longer, so she went to Lanzhou.
In Lanzhou she found a livelihood for Muslims to take care of their children, cook and raise cattle. Here, there were many missing Red Army sisters, and later she became friends with a laundry worker in the hospital with the help of her old red army sisters. Completely settled in Lanzhou...
After Zhang Xiufang's husband died, she had no children and became a widow and an old man. The local civil affairs bureau wanted Zhang Xiufang to go to the Red Army nursing home. But Zhang Xiufang said: "I am a Muslim, there is no halal stove there, I can't eat it!" I won't go..."
Zhang Xiufang, who did not go to the Red Army nursing home, could only live alone, but was carefully cared for by the old sisters of the Red Army in Lanzhou and the government.
An Mingxiu was an old Red Army soldier who often took care of her.
An Mingxiu is Zhang Xiufang's Sichuan compatriot, and both have worked in the General Hospital of the Red Fourth Front. An Mingxiu also followed the Muslims, and she often arranged for her four children to come to visit Zhang Xiufang, often sent food and drink, and bought her household appliances rice cookers and electric cups.
Zhang Xiufang once suffered an injury in the Qilian Mountains and shed pus and blood, and An Mingxiu took her to his home to take care of her and treat her. That treatment stayed at Ahn Myung-so's house for a whole year before returning to his home again.
The old man is old and loves to reminisce about the past.
Every time at the time of the festival, Zhang Xiufang would recall her past, and she once said with tears: "My brother is called Zhang Dogwa, four years older than me, in the Night Tiger Regiment of the Eighty-eighth Division, first as a company commander, and then as a battalion political commissar, when crossing the Yellow River in the west, he died in Linze, and now I don't even have a relative, my life is really bitter!" ”
Zhang Xiufang said very desolately, everyone who listened to her talk about this past would feel the same way and shed unspeakable tears...