Tip: At the yellow river crossing of Yimamu in Xunhua County, Qinghai, there is a Red Army grave. In the tomb, the person sleeping on the soil was Zhang Yike, a soldier of the Red West Road Army. He had said before he died that this ferry was a place that brought him joy, and that when he died, he should stay where he had been happy. He chose the Otomamu ferry, the first stop of our army's forced crossing of the Yellow River into Qinghai in 1949 in eight days and eight nights.
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Zhang Yike was born in Wangjialing, Qingyun Township, Yihan County, Sichuan Province, in a small, poor mountain village. When he was 14 years old, a wave of Red Army came from his hometown, and he did not hesitate to defect. When he signed up, the red army chief asked him what his name was. At that time, he had no name and no surname, and the head of the Red Army was very embarrassed. Therefore, he was named Zhang Yike. Zhang Yike was immediately incorporated into the ranks of the Red Fourth Front and participated in military training and cultural study. Soon after, he became a guard at the Arsenal of the Headquarters of the Red Fourth Front.
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The struggle between the Red Army and the warlords in Sichuan was fierce, wars were frequent, and the demand for guns and ammunition was great. The broken copper and iron needed for production and manufacturing rely on the strength of the masses to collect. The soldiers of the arsenal also had to make explosives out of sulfur, fire salt and charcoal. At the same time, it also undertakes the task of repairing weapons. In addition to guarding tasks, Zhang Yike also had to undertake certain production tasks. On the Long March Road, he and his comrades in arms, carrying valuable lathes and bellows equipment, carried the 25,000-mile long march.
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In late October 1936, the Western Route Army forcibly crossed the Yellow River and engaged in a bloody battle with the Ma Family Army. Zhang Yike took the equipment of the arsenal and was incorporated into the Western Route Army. The hardships of moving the arsenal under enemy fire are known only to those who have experienced it. When the Red Army arrived in Shandan County, Gansu Province, the arsenal was temporarily set up in Li Erye's sand turning factory to produce arms from local materials. At that time, in addition to repairing guns, they had to build more than 500 bombs a day. In January 1937, during the bloody battle of the Ni family camp, the equipment of the arsenal had been destroyed.
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After the Shiwo Conference, the West Road Army ran out of ammunition and was no longer able to fight. Zhang Yike, Li Changde, commander of the Supply Department of the Headquarters of the Western Route Army, and Wang Dalin, a machine gunner of the Red Ninth Army, and more than a dozen other Red Army fighters fought a guerrilla attack under the Qilian Mountains. During the day, they went into the mountains and forests to find the cattle and sheep discarded by the wolves to fill their hunger; at night, they went down the mountain to the village to inquire about the enemy situation with the local people. In a few months, they killed more than 30 people on Ma Bufang's rangers. But the more they went on, it would be difficult for them to borrow food from the common people.
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In the spring of 1938, company commander Li Changde died of hunger and cold. This summer, Zhang Yike disguised himself as a trader and decided to try to return to Yan'an. Pass through Menyuan County, Qinghai to Shandan County, Gansu. He went to shandan county to find Second Master Li, who had accepted the Red Army Arsenal, who expected that Second Master Li had already defected. Not long after, Zhang Yike and his comrade-in-arms Du Wenyan were captured by the men of the Second Brigade of Mabu Qing.
The Red Army fought under the Qilian Mountains
After Zhang Yike and Du Wenyan were captured, they were first taken to Wuwei. When I arrived at Ma Bufang's barracks, I found that there were still five Red Army soldiers in the cell. One night, several bandits walked in, carrying large knives, and asked one of the captured Red Army soldiers: "Gawa, are you afraid of death?" The captured soldier said, "Fear of death is not the Red Army!" The bandit took up his knife and cut off the warrior's head.
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The murderous bandit army gave the remaining Red Army to the officials and asked them to work as long-term workers for the families of the officials. Zhang Yike was assigned to Brigadier Wang. Entering Brigadier Wang's house, the executioner first let Zhang Yike take a bath, and then Meimei ate a meal. After the meal, Brigadier Wang knelt on the floor of the living room, reciting words in his mouth, and pinching Zhang Yike's ear. The executioner, whose hands were stained with the blood of the Red Army, suddenly became mild. Brigadier Wang said, "From today onwards, your name will be Habib." After that, Zhang Yike was forced to work as a hard laborer. Raising horses in the royal family, chopping firewood, washing clothes, and serving the wives of officials.
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Two years later, Brigadier Wang gave Zhang Yike to Lord Han Shizi in Jiezi Township, Xunhua County. Lord Han Shizi is more than 60 years old, and unlike the bandit army of Brigadier Wang, he is kind and kind, and he is highly respected among the Han and Tibetan masses. Master Han's family lacked helpers, so he asked Zhang Yike to stay and help. After a long time, Lord Han Shizi liked this little Red Army very much. In 1945, he was introduced to the shoemaker Lao Han's family and became the son-in-law of Lao Han of the Salar tribe.
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As the son-in-law of the Han family, Zhang Yike changed his name to Han Habib and lived in the village of Otomamu. He no longer gave others hard labor. He had a new career, ferrying the Yellow River ferry at the mouth of the village. This ferry port is the largest ferry port in Xunhua, Qinghai, and it is also a necessary place to Lanzhou. On both sides of the river, Ma Bufang sent troops to handle it. In order to make a living, Zhang Yike soon became a famous sailor. The Yellow River is so turbulent that sailors must work together, shout trumpets, and paddle hard to row the boats to the other side. Sometimes, heavy ships ran aground, and sailors had to go naked to pull the strings. Zhang Yi can do this every day regardless of the four seasons of the year.
A ferry port on the Yellow River in Qinghai
In late August 1949, Lanzhou was liberated. Ma Bufang's remnants fled back to Qinghai, digging trenches and forts on the other side of the Yellow River in the village of Eumam, and demolishing the ships and rafts of imam village. They tried to rely on the natural dangers of the Yellow River to resist stubbornly and obstruct our army's liberation of Qinghai.
Zhang Yike mobilized the masses to help the People's Liberation Army cross the Yellow River
On August 27, the People's Liberation Army marched into the village of Ethimamu.
The Yellow River crossing of Eomamu has become the preferred ferry port for our army to enter Qinghai. Zhang Yike mobilized the villagers to greet the people's soldiers, who knew that the troops were going to cross the river and tied up a few rafts overnight. The next day, Commander Wang Zhen brought a group of famous people such as Lord Han Shizi to the bank of the Yellow River and shouted at the Ma Bufang defenders on the other side of the Yellow River. The enemy on the other side did not listen, and shot hard, and the leaves from the bullet fell a thick layer. Zhang Yike took the handwritten letter of Commander Wang Zhen and risked his life to swim across the Yellow River to persuade him to surrender. Soon, the bandit army withdrew from the bank of the Yellow River and fled in the direction of Xining.
Sheepskin raft crossing the river
Zhang Yike returned to the village, cut down the trees in the village with the villagers, and quickly tied up the tools to cross the river. In one day, they tied hundreds of rafts. When the rope was used up, I cut the leather jacket into leather strips and twisted it into a rope. Immediately afterward, he called on the sailors in the village to work together to transport troops across the Yellow River day and night. Villagers built bonfires along the Yellow River to warm up sailors ashore, slaughtered cattle and sheep, made noodles, and comforted the officers and men of the People's Liberation Army who passed by along the way.
After liberation, Zhang Yike participated in government work
On the fourth day of the forced crossing of the Yellow River, Zhang Yike and the village sailor Han Remuzan carried a cannon across the Yellow River, and when they reached the center of the river, the raft overturned, and even people with cannons fell into the water. The two saw the situation and quickly dived into the water to find a cannon... The Sala youth Han Remuzan eventually gave up his young life due to physical weakness. Flying across the Yellow River from the village of Otomamu, our army entered Qinghai from here and liberated Qinghai.
After the liberation of the whole country, Zhang Yi could participate in the work for 25 years. In his later years, his superiors asked him to go to Lanzhou for recuperation, but he was not moved. He returned to his hometown in Sichuan and saw his closest relatives who had been separated for more than half a century, and his brother said that the wanderer would return to his hometown and return to his roots. And he insisted on returning to Qinghai, saying that people should stay in the place where there had been joy when they died. In accordance with his will, he was buried at the port of Otomamu. The Otomamu ferry port was the first stop of our army's forced crossing of the Yellow River into Qinghai in 1949 for eight days and eight nights. (Text/Fan Forward)