On September 29, 1927, the troops of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, the First Division of the First Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, after the baptism of fire of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, under the personal leadership of Mao Zedong, waded through mountains and rivers, through difficulties and obstacles, to Sanwan Village in Yongxin County.
On the same day, several villagers from Sanwan Village went to Gaoxi Fengwei, saw a unit advancing in the direction of Sanwan, and feared the suffering of robbery and evil by soldiers and bandits, hurriedly ran back to the village, saying that thousands of soldiers had come from Gaolong's side. Sanwan has always been deeply harmed by soldiers and bandits, and the villagers did not know the truth, thinking that they were soldiers from the Kuomintang army, so they hurriedly packed up a few valuable things and helped the old and young to hide in a hurry to the mountain. After the rebel troops came to Sanwan Village, they saw that all the houses were empty, and Mao Zedong knew that the masses were afraid of hiding in the mountains, so he sent people to the mountains to shout, telling them that they were a team that fought for the poor and the poor, specialized in beating up the local tycoons and inferior gentry, and asked the villagers to go down the mountain to go home.
At first, the villagers were suspicious, fearing that they would be like the Kuomintang army, tricking the people into going down the mountain to catch Zhuang Ding or act as porters. In the village, an old man in his old age volunteered to go down the mountain to conduct a trial.
After descending the mountain, the old man saw that these soldiers were dressed in a very mixed way, some were dressed in Kuomintang uniforms, some were dressed as ordinary people, and some were wearing robes and horse coats, but everyone had a red tie tied around their necks. On further observation, this unit is indeed very different from the "Southern Army" and "Northern Soldiers" of the past; although the soldiers were hungry and panicked and their clothes were ragged, these soldiers did not set a gun after entering the village, did not set fire to the second, did not break into the house door and broke into robbery, did not kill pigs and dogs, did not catch chickens and ducks, many soldiers sat resting under the maple tree plain, the wounded only lay on the straw that had just been harvested, they spoke kindly, and when they saw him, they were called "old watches", and some soldiers also helped the village clean the yard and roads, and tied up the villagers who were too late to hide the cattle.
Seeing these scenes, the villagers suddenly felt strange and returned to the village one after another. After inquiring, it was learned that this was the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army led by the Communist Party, the Autumn Harvest Uprising unit led by Member Mao, and an army completely different from the Kuomintang reactionaries. After the propaganda of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, the villagers immediately dispelled their doubts and fears in their hearts and took the initiative to go into the mountains to call the villagers back.
Soon, the villagers mingled with the rebel army, got along well, took the initiative to welcome the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army into the accommodation, scrambled to vacate the houses for the troops, lay down the door panels, spread the grass, and delivered grain and vegetables to the soldiers, and the whole ravine became noisy.
After the masses returned to the village, Mao Zedong immediately organized personnel to personally visit the homes of the masses, conducted social investigations, and instructed the troops not to live in the houses of the people, not to arbitrarily take and damage the things of the masses, and also distributed the grain, cloth, and clothes seized by the local tycoons along the way to the poor masses, and the masses in great difficulty also received silver yuan.
In the afternoon of the same day, the regimental headquarters dispatched more than a dozen officers and men to visit the masses in the village and learned that Luo Lianying, Xie Zhaoying, Li Xiangying, and eight or nine elderly people were poor, and some of them did not even have food overnight. Before dusk approached, Former Committee Member Yu Benmin and Captain Fan Shude each brought a few soldiers and delivered some grain, cloth, shoes and other items to the homes of these poor elderly people, and also helped them clean the courtyard and fill the water tanks. What moved the people of the village even more was that when Committee Member Mao learned that Zhong Huarong's uncle was sick and had no money to grab medicine, he lay on the bed and groaned, came to his home to visit Old Uncle Zhong, and took out money from his body to ask Old Zhong's daughter to grab medicine.
This style of work of not committing any crimes in autumn and not harming the interests of the masses has made the people of Sanwan marvel endlessly. The old people said that they had lived such an old age and saw such a good army for the first time. The next morning, more than a dozen peasants from the village gathered at Zhong Huarong's house to discuss the matter of comforting the laborers and peasants' revolutionary army.
After deliberation, it was agreed that although the village was poor, it was necessary to buy two pigs for such an army. The people said they would do it, bought two large pigs in the village, slaughtered them, and then picked the pork to the headquarters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Corps. Chen Hao, the regimental commander, and Fan Shude, the captain of the regiment, received the crowd delivering the meat and repeatedly said that they would pay according to the price. The people of Sanwan said that they could not collect money. Commander Chen said that he would send the pork back without collecting money, and his attitude was very resolute. The people of Sanwan had no choice but to collect meat money.
The descendants of the village also sprinkled fishing nets in the pond and fished more than 100 kilograms of fresh fish to the troops. The troops refused to accept it, so the villagers scraped their own scales, cut the fish, cleaned the fish with all hands and feet, and carried it to the cooking class. Later, the troops had to pay, and they had to pay 15 pounds more, saying that it was because the fish was cut and the scale was reduced, and it should be added. This style of work of not committing any crimes in autumn and not harming the interests of the masses has made the people of Sanwan marvel endlessly.
On the night of entering the village, Mao Zedong presided over a meeting of the Former Enemy Committee at a grocery store called "Xieshenghe," which summed up the lessons learned from the autumn harvest uprising, analyzed the political and ideological situation of the troops, and decided to reorganize the troops.
On the morning of September 30, when the sun was still hot in early autumn, all the commanders and fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army gathered under the trees at the head of the village to listen to Commissar Mao's speech. Mao Zedong had long hair on his head, wore plain clothes, a pair of leggings on his legs, and a pair of straw shoes on his feet, and his dress was no different from everyone else, but his kind attitude and optimistic expression suddenly made the silent air of the venue come alive, and the soldiers warmly applauded.