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On October 9, 1936, the county seat of Huining County, Gansu Province, was filled with joy. Wei Yu, who was only 3 years old, took to the streets with the little soldiers of the Red Army, playing and watching the little soldiers post slogans. Suddenly, the roar of enemy planes was heard overhead, and the little soldier raised his hands and shouted: "Quickly dodge, the plane is about to drop bombs!" Before the young Wei Yu could dodge, the enemy bomb had already fallen. The smoke cleared, and people found Wei Yu under the little warrior, but the little warrior fell in a pool of blood.
On the day of the sacrifice of the little soldier, the Red Fourth Front arrived at Huining County and joined the Red Army. The warriors who had endured hardships embraced each other excitedly and refused to let go for a long time. Thirteen days later, the Red First and Second Fronts met at Jiangtai fort in Ningxia. The three main forces of the Red Army met the division in victory, and the 25,000-mile long march ended in victory.
October 22 became the anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March.
From June 16 to 18, 2015, Xi Jinping conducted research in Guizhou. The picture shows that on the afternoon of the 16th, when Xi Jinping visited the conference room of the Zunyi Conference, he gazed fondly at the photos of the Zunyi conference participants on the wall. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xueren
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"When the Red Army crossed the meadow, comrade-in-law went to bed together, and did not ask whether there was any rice to cook today, but first asked whether to go south or north. This shows that in the ranks of the Red Army, even a cooker understands that the question of direction is more important than what to eat. On June 29, 2018, while presiding over the sixth collective study of the 19th Politburo, Xi Jinping told this story.
Small stories contain big truths. For a political party, direction is the primary issue of survival and development. In the 1930s, due to the erroneous leadership of "Left" dogmatism within the Party, the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign in the Central Revolutionary Base Areas failed, and the Red Army contingent was forced to march. Where is the place to stay? When is Victory Day? The Chinese revolution is faced with a choice of direction and road.
At No. 96 Ziyin Road, Zunyi Old Town, Guizhou, a small two-story building stands along the street. In January 1935, it was here that after three days of fierce debate, criticism and self-criticism, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China corrected the erroneous line of "Left" dogmatism, established the leading position of Comrade Mao Zedong in the Red Army and the Party Central Committee, and gradually got rid of the passive situation in the early days of the Long March.
On June 16, 2015, Xi Jinping came to the Zunyi Conference Site and the Zunyi Conference Exhibition Hall. He listened to the explanations, looked at the real objects, looked at the pictures, and asked about the situation from time to time. He pointed out: "As an important meeting of great turning significance in the history of our party, the Zunyi Conference has left valuable experience and important enlightenment in integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China's specific reality, adhering to the road of independence and self-determination, firmly adhering to the correct political line and policy tactics, and building a strong and mature central leadership collective. ”
In this sense, the victory of the Long March is the victory of the direction and the road. The Red Army is taking high mountains and mountains, crossing big rivers and dangerous beaches, but how can every journey and every battle not be a process of integrating theory with practice and exploring the revolutionary road? Xi Jinping pointed out, "After the Long March, the Party and the Red Army are not weaker, but stronger, because our Party has found the correct path of the Chinese revolution and the correct theory to guide this road." ”
From April 25 to 27, 2021, Xi Jinping inspected Guangxi. The picture shows that on the morning of the 25th, Xi Jinping presented a flower basket to the red army martyrs of the Xiangjiang Campaign at the Memorial Garden of the Red Army's Long March xiangjiang campaign in Quanzhou County, Guilin City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi
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"How many people survived the Long March?" What did the soldiers of the Red Army rely on? What is the figure? On May 21, 2019, when presiding over the forum on promoting the rise of the central region in Nanchang, Jiangxi, Xi Jinping raised three questions in a row.
Every step of the long march is very difficult. Dong Biwu once recalled the scene when climbing the snowy mountain: "Our people died here for hundreds. They wanted to sit down and rest their legs and gasp for breath, and they couldn't stand up from then on. "Admiral Wang Ping will never forget the scene of the meadow: he returned with a battalion to meet the people stranded on the other side of the Banyou River, only to find more than 700 people, sitting back to back, all sacrificed...
The troops were reorganized again and again, and the comrades-in-arms left one by one, what supported the Red Army officers and men to drive more than 20,000 miles and traverse 11 provinces? Xi Jinping pointed out: "They rely on firm revolutionary ideals and beliefs. The most important conviction is to believe in the Communist Party, to believe in the Red Army, to believe that following the Red Army is to have a future, to believe that what the Communist Party does is to serve the good of the poor and poor people, and to believe that what the Communist Party says is the truth. ”
At the most difficult time of the Long March, many people did not know where the troops would be pulled out tomorrow and where they would eventually settle down, but the officers and men of the Red Army often said: "As long as you follow the party, you will definitely be victorious." General Liu Huaqing was wounded in the leg during the Battle during the Long March, and he refused to settle on the spot, "leaving no room for 100 pieces of ocean, and dying in the ranks of the Red Army"; General Zhong Chibing amputated his right leg three times without anesthesia, but he said categorically, "Even if I climb, I will keep up with the troops."
On April 25 this year, Xi Jinping visited the Memorial Park of the Red Army's Long March on the Xiangjiang River in Quanzhou County, Guilin, Guangxi. In front of the oil painting "Chen Shuxiang", he stopped and stared for a long time. In the picture, Chen Shuxiang is lying on a stretcher, with blood flowing from his abdomen. In order to cover the main force of the Red Army to cross the river, the commander of the "Desperate Rear Guard Division" was seriously wounded and unfortunately captured, and when he woke up, he strangled his intestines from the abdominal wound with his hands and died heroically.
Xi Jinping said: "Just imagine, if there is no such a group of Red Army soldiers who bravely go forward and sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths, how can the Red Army rush out of the enemy's blockade line, and rush out to pay so much sacrifice, and have not yet collapsed." By what? It is precisely the power of ideals and beliefs that depends on it! ”
From September 16 to 18, 2020, Xi Jinping inspected Hunan. The picture shows that on the afternoon of the 16th, Xi Jinping learned about the local strengthening of grass-roots party building, red tourism and red education at the special exhibition hall of "The Warmth of Half a Quilt" in Shazhou Yao Nationality Village, Wenming Yao Nationality Township, Rucheng County, Chenzhou City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi
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On May 20, 2019, Xi Jinping traveled for more than 7 hours by plane, train, and car to Yudu County, Gannan Province, the former Central Soviet District. He said: "I came to Gannan 11 years ago, and I have always wanted to come and see how the lives of the villagers in the old area have improved and how the poverty alleviation has progressed. More importantly, where is Yudu? This is the Central Soviet District, the starting point of the Red Army's Long March. ”
In October 1934, nearly 100,000 Red Army troops crossed the Duhe River at night, without missing a single wind sound, relying on what? It is the guardian support of more than 300,000 Yudu people. When the Red Army was preparing to cross the river, the people took the initiative to send door panels, bed boards, and an old man donated shou wood boards to help the Red Army build a pontoon bridge. The local slogan is circulating: "Don't panic in your heart, look at the stakes." Build the Red Army Bridge and go to the front together. ”
More than a month later, the Red Army moved to Shazhou Village in Rucheng, Hunan Province, and 3 female fighters spent the night at the home of villager Xu Xiexiu. Before leaving, the female warrior cut off half of the only quilt she had left for the old man, saying that she would come to see her when the revolution was victorious and give her a new quilt. But Xu Xiexiu waited for decades and never waited for them to come back...
On September 16, 2020, Xi Jinping stopped for a long time before showing the statue of a female soldier of the Red Army cutting a quilt and sending it to the villagers. "The story of 'half a quilt' represents the original intention of our party and embodies the party's true colors for the people." He said with deep feeling, "The Red Army still thinks about the warmth and cold of the common people in its heart when it lacks food and clothing, and its life and death are at stake. A branch and a leaf are always concerned! ”
The people are the source of strength for the victory of the Long March and the patron of the victory of the Red Army's Long March. In that year, when the Red Army set out from Zhongfu Village in Changting, Fujian Province, the common people picked up a load of cloth shoes and straw shoes, many of which were still stained with mud. It turned out that when they learned that the Red Army was leaving, they took off their shoes and sent them to the troops. "The shoes are too late to be done, take these worn shoes, the march and fight are indispensable."
"The people are the heavens, and the people are the earth." On October 21, 2016, Xi Jinping pointed out at the conference commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Red Army: "The victory of the Long March enlightens us: the people have endless wisdom and strength, and only by always believing in the people, relying closely on the people, and fully mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the broad masses of the people can we gather the majestic strength of the will of the people." ”
In that year, in order to repay the kindness of the Little Red Army, Wei Yu's father, Wei Hongru, buried the Little Red Army next to his ancestral grave and made a rule: as long as there is still one person left in the Wei family, the little Red Army's grave must be incense burned continuously. Later, Wei Hongru named his 3 grandsons Jizheng, Continued March, and Long March, which together were "Continuing the Long March".
Text/Zhong Qi
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Source/People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency
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