The Red Army is not afraid of expeditions and difficulties, and thousands of rivers and mountains are just waiting for idleness.
85 years have passed on the Long March Road, the time is hurried, most of the soldiers who took the Long March Road are no longer there, and now it seems that the difficulty of climbing snowy mountains and crossing meadows has become a legend in film and television dramas.
But even if it is hard, the Red Army still insists on going down, and there are many commendable soldiers in the Red Army, especially the story of Liu Wenzhi saving a platoon with a piece of salt, which makes many people admire these female fighters and call them the Iron Lady Army.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > a piece of salt that saved a platoon of people</h1>
Before joining the Red Army, Liu Wenzhi raised a daughter-in-law at home, and the status of a child bride in the old society was very low.
She had to take care of everything big and small in the family, and at a young age she had to wash clothes, cut pigs and grass, and cook at home. Because she had to do farm work, she was lucky not to wrap her feet.
When the Red Army came to this village, she watched the Red Army take good care of the villagers, completely unlike the burning and looting of some warlord armies before. The spirit of the Red Army infected this girl, and when the Red Army was pulled out, she followed the Red Army without hesitation.
When she left, she left her shoes and clothes for the family, and even cut off her long black braids for a few dollars she could sell for. She said that the Red Army taught the soldiers to care for the people, and they themselves began to care for this family.
Liu Wenzhi suffered from snacks, so when she joined the Red Army, she always seemed to have endless strength. She also actively promoted the Red Army, and more girls joined the Red Army, originally only three female soldiers, but later expanded to more than 80 people. Because of her care for everyone, she also slowly became the women's volleyball team leader later.
When the Red Army failed in its fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the large troops embarked on the long march. After a long time in the countryside, she knew the importance of salt for the human body. Before embarking on the Long March, she carried a bag of salt on her body, and it was this bag of salt that saved the life of a platoon.
Liu Wenzhi's son said that according to his mother's recollection, Liu Wenzhi did not dare to share this bag of salt with others, and he always carried it himself. She was afraid that some people would not be able to stop using the dosage and would have used up the salt early. She carried it alone, sprinkling a little bit in the pot every time she cooked.
There was no food supply on the Long March Road, and when we got to the back road, everyone ate some wild vegetables, grass roots, and sometimes they could only cook a pot of boiling water, no salt and no strength.
At this time, the salt brought by Liu Wenzhi was equivalent to a life-saving medicine.
As the leader of the women's volleyball team, Liu Wenzhi often encourages everyone on the road and arranges the work and rest on the road. All the way through the meadows and over the snowy mountains, the entire women's volleyball team lost only two people.
At that time, there was a youngest girl in the women's volleyball team, called Zhang Wen, Liu Wenzhi had been taking great care of her, afraid that she would fall behind, she took over the things on Zhang Wen's back, and every time Zhang Wen fell, she helped her up.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > go all the way to save people</h1>
Later, Liu Wenzhi and the chief of the management section together carried Zhang Wen to the top of Jiajin Mountain.
This girl, Named Zhang Wen, later became the wife of the founding general Hong Xuezhi. Every time Zhang Wen recalled the scene at that time, he always couldn't help but burst into tears.
She said that looking at the soldiers around her, she always felt that it was a drag on everyone, but the platoon leader never gave up on himself, if there was no Liu Wenzhi and the chief of the management section, she would definitely die in the middle of the Mountain of Jiajin Mountain.
In fact, Liu Wenzhi not only takes care of the women's volleyball team, but also some soldiers who have fallen behind, and Liu Wenzhi also refuses to give up. She has always adhered to the belief of not giving up on any warrior.
At that time, there was also a little boy who joined the Red Army with Liu Wenzhi, who was Liu Wenzhi's next brother, named Liu Wenwen. On the Long March Road, Liu Wenwen was only 13 years old, Liu Wenzhi has always taken this younger brother with him, according to Liu Wenwen's later recollection, he once fell ill, his sister has been carrying him on his back, without his sister, he can't walk out of the meadow.
On the snowy mountain, she also met Yang Minquan, who had fallen behind, the oxygen was thin, Yang Minquan, who had not eaten for a long time, had no strength, and the thin Liu Wenzhi carried him on his back and gritted his teeth to cross the snowy mountain. She recalled that she knew that once she let go, the person would undoubtedly die.
According to later Red Army soldiers, the most test on the Long March was everyone's will, and once some people were relieved, they could not get up again when they lay down. Liu Wenzhi's ability not to give up the lives of every comrade-in-arms is truly admirable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > revolutionary love that does not fight and does not know</h1>
On the actual Long March road, climbing snow-capped mountains, crossing meadows, and falling on the road one by one are all losses of the party and the state. Those hardships are very human tolerable, the long distances, the harsh environment, these are already very testing.
Cold, tired, without supply, these direct physical reactions are even more unbearable. Needless to say, the hardships on the Long March road are no longer enough, many men can't stand it, and the female soldiers in the Red Army at this time are even more admirable.
After the end of the Long March, Liu Wenzhi was assigned to work in a quilt factory and arranged for a dormitory, when she and Xie Yuanchang's guards both took a fancy to a grass house. Liu Wenzhi felt that women should enjoy good treatment, and the guards believed that good houses should be inhabited by leaders. The two men argued for a while.
After Xie Yuanchang learned of this, he reprimanded the guards and took the initiative to give up the grass house to the soldiers of the women's platoon. The two people also got together because of this incident, and later walked together and had four children together. Two of the sons also followed in their parents' footsteps and joined the People's Liberation Army.
The children also remember their mother's instruction before they became soldiers: "Be a soldier, don't be afraid of death, don't be a deserter." ”
Liu Wenzhi, 108, died in September 2020, and she went to Yan'an again before she died, for her, although yan'an life was only three years, it was a place that changed her life, and on the way to Yan'an, she was even too excited to sleep.
Although she did not visit Yan'an in the following decades, every inch of Yan'an was engraved in her heart, and the Long March road of the Red Army was also engraved on the stone stele of history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > conclusion</h1>
According to Liu Wenzhi's daughter, her mother was kind all her life, perhaps after experiencing life and death, she looked down on everything. Even when she was working and her salary dropped, she only said that everything was subject to organizational arrangements.
She always teaches children to cherish their current life, but she always describes the long march she has traveled in simple words.
85 years have passed since the Long March, time is still moving forward non-stop, more and more Long March soldiers have left this world, but their Long March spirit will never disappear.