Editor's note: In 2021, the enterprising China embarks on a new journey, and the struggling Communist Party of China ushers in its centennial anniversary. A hundred years ago, in Kunming, Yunnan, the heroes gathered, and the early local party organization of the COMMUNIST Party in Yunnan was established here, and young communists set out from here to spread the seeds of revolution in the land of Yunling. Kunming has witnessed the great journey of the Chinese Communists in their arduous quest. As the traditional main urban area of Kunming, Panlong District is dotted with many revolutionary sites and many revolutionary stories that can be sung and wept. Palm Spring City and the Party History Research Office of the Panlong District Committee of the Communist Party of China launched a series of reports on the "Panlong Party History Class" to present gifts to the party, review the original intention, and not forget the mission.
Everywhere the Red Army's Long March went, it was wholeheartedly supported and loved by the people of Panlong. The military and the people have established deep feelings and left many touching stories of the military loving the people and the people supporting the army.
Liu Xianrong, the son of an old stonemason in Malaoli Village, Shuangxian Township, Panlong, carried water to comfort the Red Army as the Red Army passed by, and also said to the Red Army instructors who expressed gratitude to them: "The Red Army is really good to our people, and it is right for us to pick up some water for you to drink." The Liu family father and son repeatedly carried water to quench the thirst of the Passing Red Army until the Red Army left the village and went far away.
Cui Kaili's father in Shuangqiao Village helped two soldiers of the 6th Division of the Red Second Army who were wounded in the Battle of Xundian Liujia on the road to their homes, and went up the mountain to find herbs to heal the soldiers' wounds. When the Kuomintang army entered the village to search, the Cui family risked their lives to hide the wounded in the firewood pile in the ear tower of the family to escape the enemy's search, the two wounded returned and offered to chase after the large troops, and the Cui family prepared dry food for them to send to the rich people.
A red army detachment chasing the main force went south from Rat Street to Shuangxian (present-day Panlong Songhua) to ask the masses about the way to the direction of Fumin, and Cai Jinliang, a peasant in Zhuangke Village, was worried that the Red Army would not be able to catch up with the large troops by taking the wrong road, so he put down his own agricultural work and took the initiative to lead the way for the Red Army, and brought the Red Army detachment to the Rich People to find the large troops. He said to the Red Army: "You are the benefactors of the poor people, and you are fighting for the people, and if you do not have family concerns, I am willing to go with you and work with you." ”
Li Youfu, a landlord and parent worker in Shuangqiao Village who had been oppressed and exploited to the end, after hearing and witnessing the fact that the Red Army was propagating the revolution and fighting the rich and helping the poor, and seeking happiness for the toiling masses, he regarded the Red Army as his relatives and was determined to follow the Red Army and follow the Red Army in the revolution.
One day in April 1936, in the late spring of the mountain township on the northern outskirts of Kunming, there was still a hint of chill, and on the rugged mountain road, the Red Army troops withdrew from the Pudu River from the battlefield and broke away from the enemy's encirclement and interception to march in the direction of Fumin. Among the group was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young soldier of the Red Army who was walking hard and walking behind the line with the support of two comrades-in-arms. The little Red Army soldier, named Pu Tianhua, spoke a Hunan accent, had been ill for several days and had a high fever on the march, and although he did not want to add trouble to the troops and insisted on moving with the troops, he could no longer walk on his own. At night, the troops came to the sentinel village, considering that there were still many battles ahead, the long march was still very long, and the fierce battle and high-intensity marching were not allowed to stop and treat Pu Tianhua's illness, so they decided to find a safe fellow to settle him down and chase the troops after recovering.
The next morning, the parents of villager Li Cunxiu found a sick little Red Army soldier sleeping under the eaves, and there were many Red Army soldiers sleeping on the ground, on the ground, and on the side of the road, but last night there was no movement, it felt very strange, where in the world there is a good army that does not disturb the people at night. Just when they were confused, the instructor found him and explained: We are the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the people's children and soldiers, we want to go to the north to fight the Japanese invaders, last night passed by here, Pu Tianhua was sick and could not march with the army, hoping to stay and treat the disease, and at the same time sent 20 yuan to the ocean to express his trust. Li Cunxiu's parents readily agreed and took Putianhua home to treat him. A few days later, the vigilante group came to search, and In order to protect the wounded and sick of the Red Army, Li Cunxiu's parents asked several young people in the village to carry Pu Tianhua to the cave to hide. But Li Cunxiu's parents and the villagers in the village were not afraid and did not bow their heads, and the vigilante group had no choice but to go back in ashes. Since then, Li Cunxiu's parents have been more careful about protecting the Red Army. They told their families and a few young people in the know not to spread the news about the Red Army soldiers, generally do not easily go to the cave to visit the Red Army soldiers, Pu Tianhua lived in the cave, during the day by Li Cunxiu's mother to go up the mountain to the cave in the name of looking for pig grass to deliver food and care, and at night the young people to the cave took turns to take care of it.
Under the meticulous care of Li Cunxiu's parents and villagers, Pu Tianhua's condition gradually improved. Seeing the villagers risking their lives to protect themselves, Pu Tianhua was very grateful. He remembered the teaching of He Long, the leader of the regiment, that the people's army loves the people, and only by treating the people with sincerity and sincerity and establishing a love of fish and water can the Red Army be invincible. After his condition improved, Pu Tianhua told the villagers the story of the Red Army's revolution in the Xiang'eSu District, told the truth of the revolution, and the significance of going north to resist Japan. After more than half a month of treatment and conditioning, Putianhua recovered his health. Everyone took him to the village and lived in his house as a distant relative of Li Cunxiu's family in public capacity.
After staying in the village for two months, Pu Tianhua still did not hear from the Red Army team, and he missed his troops and comrades. One day, he told Li Cunxiu's family that the soldiers of the Red Army could not do without their own ranks and wanted to go after their own troops, and I will never forget your concern and love for me. When Li Cunxiu's family saw that he insisted on leaving, they prepared dry food and supplies for him and told him to pay attention to safety on the road. The next day, Pu Tianhua said goodbye to Li Cunxiu's family and villagers at the head of the village, And Li Cunxiu's family and villagers cherished Pu Tianhua, and Pu Tianhua walked in the direction of Kelang, and the villagers stood at the head of the village and looked at the little Red Army soldiers who were far away, and did not want to leave for a long time.
When the Red Army marched through Panlong, some Red Army soldiers were brutally killed by reactionary vigilantes because they were lost and left behind, and they heroically sacrificed themselves in the land of Panlong, and the people of all ethnic groups in Panlong commemorated and remembered the red army soldiers who died heroically in various ways.
On the morning of April 11, 1936, Wei Yuke, a villager in The Small Sentinel Village of Ciba, went around Ying bend to fetch water and saw many soldiers in gray military uniforms traveling west from Balipo. As soon as he inquired, he learned that it was the Red Army, and the large army had come from the hillside for half an hour, and a man was also dressed as a soldier, carrying a satchel of dry food in front of him, carrying a backpack behind him, and an iron roller telephone line on the backpack, about 20 years old, speaking a Hubei dialect, he asked Wei Yuke: Fellow countrymen, which road to Go to Shalang? Wei Yuke couldn't understand his words, but he could see that this person was in the same team as the troops from the past, so he pointed to the road to the direction of Shalang and said: It is not far from here to Shalang. The visitors humbly thanked him and walked up the hill.
Not long after the Red Army soldier left, a group of cavalry came from the direction of Kunming, who were the cavalry of the patrol in the northern suburbs of Kunming by the Kuomintang government, about 10 people. The leader of the Kuomintang cavalry was a native of Gangtou Village, Kunming. Hearing that the Red Army was going to attack the city of Kunming, the main force of the Dian army gathered in the Pudu River to intercept the Red Army, and the defense of Kunming City was weak. Long Yun immediately mobilized many vigilante groups to participate in the defense of Kunming City, and did not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle, so he could only send a small cavalry patrol to the northern suburbs of Kunming to spy on the movements of the Red Army. They saw someone on the hillside in the distance, so they chased after them on horseback. More than 10 people rushed up, surrounded the Red Army soldiers, and then tied up the Red Army soldiers in front of Wei Yuke's house in Xiaoxian Village.
The young Red Army soldiers were beaten to the point of scales and eventually killed by the enemy. After the Kuomintang cavalry left, the villagers buried the remains of the Red Army soldiers on the hillside behind Wei Yuke's house, which the local villagers called the "Old Communist Tomb".
Later, the "Old Communist Tomb" was built as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Red Army, located on the back mountainside next to the Hei'a Highway in the northern suburbs of Panlong, Kunming, to commemorate this heroic and unknown soldier of the Red Army. The People of All Nationalities actively led the way for the Red Army, enthusiastically helped and treated the wounded, and the masses enthusiastically joined the ranks of the Red Army.
Source: Contributed by the Party History Research Office of the Panlong District Committee of the Communist Party of China
Editor-in-charge: Yang Rong
Editor: Zhou Xiaoxue
Final Judge: Qian Hongbing