The red land has come out of the new world
Zhou Chengfang
In early summer, the chairman of the District Writers Association issued a notice in the WeChat group: the association plans to organize members to visit the majestic Yangliuguan on weekends.
Hearing this news, my heart was inexplicably excited. In the past two years, I have often heard friends around me mention Yang Liuguan, saying that it is a Xiongguan that is worthy of every Kaizhou person to visit, which makes me always yearn.
Deliberately on the Internet Baidu a bit: Yangliuguan is located in the north of Sanhuikou Township, Kaizhou District, nearly 1100 meters above sea level, straddling the high mountain dense forest of the Daliang Mountains, the terrain is dangerous, because it is located on the mountain beam planted with willows, later generations will call it Yangliuguan. In 1933, the Red Fourth Front led by Marshal Xu Qianqian fought a bloody battle with the Kuomintang army here, laying the foundation for consolidating the revolutionary base area in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and also spreading the seeds of revolution in Kaizhou.
Finally looking forward to the weekend, the sky for many days actually began to rain, and the literary friends who were traveling with them were still in high spirits.
From the city, it takes more than an hour to drive to Sanhuikou Township. The head of the township government was holding an umbrella to greet us at the platform. The three characters of "Yangliuguan" carved on the stone wall next to the highway are vigorous and powerful.
In the face of the wind and rain, we followed the footsteps of the martyrs step by step up the stone steps. The trail winds, the willow trees that were once there are nowhere to be seen, and the mountains are full of tall and majestic pine trees. Birdsong in the mountains are constantly swirling and clouds are swirling.
"This is where the Red Army fought." Standing in front of Yang Liuguan's former Trench No. 1, the voice of the little sister of the docent was sonorous and powerful. She told us many stories about the Battle of Yangliuguan.
"In order to overthrow the old world and establish a new China, the Red Army braved its own body and charged into the battlefield. The Battle of Yangliuguan shocked the enemy and inspired the people..." At this point, the young explainer could not help but burst into tears. Immediately after, she cleared her throat and sang a song that was widely circulated that year in praise of the victory of the Red Army. The song echoed in the valley, and the situation of the red army soldiers heroically resisting the enemy seemed to appear before our eyes.
As the rain grew heavier, we braced our umbrellas, rolled up our pants, and walked carefully through the trenches. The trenches were covered with concrete, and some of the wenyou's shoes were soaked. Xu Shiren, who was also traveling, said that every inch of land under his feet had been infected with blood, and every small mountain bag he passed along the way was most likely the burial place of the martyr's loyal bones. Everyone was full of tongues and tongues, thinking of all kinds of dangers and difficulties that the Red Army had conquered the pass.
In front of the tomb of the nameless Red Army in Trench 2, bouquets of white chrysanthemums are swaying with the wind. Listening to the little sister of the explainer, it was actually a small Red Army who was buried here. I threw my umbrella aside for a long time, and bowed three times for the little Red Army, who had not even been able to leave his name.
"I've heard a lot of Red Army stories here since I was a kid." Just after entering the training ground surrounded by pine forests, a thick voice suddenly came from the side of my ears. An old man with white hair was passing by. The old man said that although he had not experienced the years of artillery fire, he often played war games with his friends in the trenches of Yangliuguan, and also picked up some shell casings left over from the war...
Standing in the misty forest and looking into the distance, the beacon fire and battle song are far away, and the fertile land that the Red Army soldiers once guarded with their lives has begun to be revitalized. Today's Yangliuguan, with its bursts of pine waves and birds singing, has been identified as a party history study and education base in Kaizhou District, attracting many tourists.
Listening to the person in charge of the township, this side bred red genes and was rich in revolutionary traditions, and in the past, due to inconvenient transportation and lagging economic development, villagers chose to go out to work. In recent years, the local government has firmly established the concept that green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, relying on rich red resources, and has invested funds to build and upgrade a number of tourism supporting facilities to promote green development with red tourism. With the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, villagers have returned to their hometowns to start businesses, and characteristic industries have flourished. Let's look at a set of data: 3,000 mu of late-ripening plums, 500 acres of late-ripening pears of late-ripening fruit base gradually formed; 52 large farmers, 23 family farms, 6 professional cooperatives, and other new business entities have become the main force of industrial development. Jincui plum, cuiguan pear and xiayu pear were successfully created as green food in the city.
The fruity scent of the mountain woodlands, the once garbage depressions have become beautiful squares, and you can see that one tourist bus after another is driving into the village, and this blood-soaked land is full of new hope.
Looking back on the glory days of the past, looking forward to the present. The villagers at the foot of Yangliuguan are gradually stepping out of a "new world" on this "red land".
(The author is the vice chairman of the Kaizhou District Writers Association)
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