Tiananmen Square is solemn and solemn, the flowers in front of the Monument to the People's Heroes are like a sea, and the flowers bloom for the heroic martyrs...
Rain, one after another. The overlapping mountains in the north of Guizhou appeared from time to time in the misty rain and fog, like this erratic red army in the mountains.
"Immediately when it is cold food, it is late spring on the way." This was the year 1935 near the dawn of the Ming Dynasty. While the rhododendrons bloomed all over the mountains, Mao Zedong on horseback had no intention of admiring the sea of flowers in the spring rain—his gaze was now on Yunnan, thousands of miles away.
[1] Crossing the Chishui River four times, Mao Zedong commanded the Red Army to use a series of actions to attack the west and the west and the south and the north, leaving behind the Kuomintang pursuit and suppression forces. However, hundreds of regiments of the Sichuan army had already completed the deployment of the Yangtze River, and there were hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang central troops and local warlord troops gathered in southern and northern Sichuan. At this moment, the intelligence found that Chiang Kai-shek, his wife Song Meiling, the German adviser Duan Na, as well as Chen Cheng, Yan Daogang, and others flew to Guiyang to supervise the battle, mao Zedong was overjoyed: the opportunity had come.
Everything is going on quietly. On March 28, 1935, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission left the Red Ninth Army disguised as the main force to contain the enemy north of the Wujiang River, covering the rapid southward crossing of the Wujiang River by the large troops. In the midst of the heavy rain, the dark clouds rolled over, which was a good opportunity for the troops to cross the river. The enemy plane blindly dropped a few bombs and flew away, and the main force of the Red Army crossed the Wujiang River in the south with almost no trouble.
At the beginning of the heavy rain, Mao Zedong rode across the river, and drew a long arc on the map handed over by Chen Guang, commander of the Second Division of the Red First Army, and several Red Army generals suddenly realized that the area that Mao Zedong had re-selected to cross the river was the Jinsha River in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
However, at this moment, an unfortunate news came: Qian Zhuangfei, deputy director of the Second Bureau of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, suddenly encountered enemy planes bombing and disappeared when crossing the river.
Qian Zhuangfei
Qian Zhuangfei is a top figure in the CCP's intelligence circles. At the end of 1929, he formed an underground combat group with Li Kenong and Hu Di and infiltrated the Party Affairs Investigation Section of the Central Organization Department of the Kuomintang intelligence organ, and was praised by Zhou Enlai as the "Three Masters of Longtan". In April 1931, Gu Shunzhang, an alternate member of the Politburo who had long been in charge of the central security work, was arrested and defected in Wuhan, revealing several important underground party institutions in Shanghai. At the critical juncture when the central organs were facing a catastrophe, Qian Zhuangfei, who was the head of the Investigation Department of the Organization Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, and Was a confidential secretary, resolutely rushed to send out intelligence before the enemy's action, so that Zhou Enlai, Qu Qiubai, Chen Yun, and a number of other important party leaders would not be killed. Two months later, Qian Zhuangfei, whose identity was exposed, went through all kinds of hardships and was transferred to the Central Soviet District of Gannan Province. After the Zunyi Conference, it was the excellent work of Qian Zhuangfei and other intelligence experts that provided Mao Zedong with both fast and accurate intelligence for his miraculous use of troops, and the Red Army, which was trapped in a situation of heavy siege and blockade, was revived again and again.
The situation was urgent, and Zhou Enlai hurriedly sent people to look for Qian Zhuangfei. During this time, Qian Zhuangfei's health deteriorated, and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission had just appointed him deputy secretary general of the General Political Department of the Red Army.
One day, two days... On the evening of the third day, Qian Zhuangfei's shadow had not yet been found.
The sunset in the distance and the cuckoo in the near distance burn together. Mao Zedong silently lit a cigarette. He knew that intelligence experts like Qian Zhuangfei would never easily fall into the hands of the enemy, and it was very likely that they would suffer an accident. The tragic scene since the Long March appeared in front of Mao Zedong's eyes-
With the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, the red contingent that had left hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops helpless had to embark on the road of expedition. The night was dark, ten miles were sent together, and the last mournful hiss of the war horse startled the tears of many mothers and wives.
Thus began the Long March, and thousands of young lives fell on this long and dangerous road.
On October 21, 1934, before the team left Jiangxi, Hong Chao, commander of the Fourth Division of the Red Third Army who had participated in the Nanchang Uprising, sacrificed his life at the age of 25 when he led his troops to break through the enemy's first line of defense. Hong Chao was a well-known fierce general of the Red Army, who lost an arm in battle, served as a guard platoon commander for Zhu De and Mao Zedong, served as the commander of 4 main divisions, and was also one of the youngest main division commanders in the Red Army. Hong Chao's partner was Huang Kecheng, who later became the founding general; and Hong Chao was succeeded by Zhang Zongxun, the first deputy commander of the Northwest Field Army during the Liberation War.
In the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, the Red Army fought fiercely for five days and five nights with an enemy several times its own, and the 8.6 Central Red Army was finally reduced to more than 30,000 people. The Thirtieth Division, the main force of the Fifth Red Army, which was responsible for the overall rearguard, was completely destroyed. Chen Shuxiang, a 29-year-old division commander, was wounded and captured, and the iron-blooded man who had followed Mao Zedong in the revolution since the Autumn Harvest Rebellion preferred to be taken prisoner and ripped off his intestines from his abdominal wounds.
It was the most tragic battle on the Long March. Cheng Cuilin, political commissar of the 34th Red Division, Du Meimei, chief of staff of the 4th Red Division, Hu Zhen, chief of staff of the 5th Red Division, Yi Dangping, political commissar of the 5th Regiment of the 2nd Red Division, Shen Shuqing, commander of the 10th Regiment of the 4th Red Division, and Huang Mianchang, commander of the 14th Regiment of the 5th Red Division... Fourteen cadres above the regimental level fell on both sides of the Xiang River. Like Chen Shuxiang, they have experienced hundreds of battles and achieved a hundred achievements. They had the opportunity to take advantage of the enemy's unstable position to lead a bloody road, but the large-scale relocation at the beginning of the Long March tied up the originally mobile and flexible Red Army troops. With indiscriminate bombing of planes overhead and a tidal wave of enemies behind him, incendiary bombs burning the position into a sea of fire, Mao Zedong, who had lost his command, was powerless and could only watch as groups of brave Officers and Men of the Red Army fell in a pool of blood. After the fierce battle, the clear river water turned red, and the local people "did not drink the water of the Xiang River for three years, and did not eat the fish of the Xiang River for ten years."
Nothing inspires reflection on the living more than the blood of the dead. In the face of the fallen comrades-in-arms, almost every Long March soldier remembered the days when Mao Zedong and Zhu De led the Red Army to win the battle, and called on Mao Zedong to come out and command the Red Army. A month and a half after the Battle of the XiangJiang River, Mao Zedong returned to the red army at the Zunyi Conference — a moment that changed the fate of the Long March and the Chinese revolution. Even the Kuomintang troops pursuing the Red Army felt that this tired division had suddenly become haunted again, as if it had returned to the "Vermilion" era.
In the early spring, the Red Army attacked Tibet and Tibet on both sides of the Chishui River, which suddenly disrupted the enemy's attempt to completely annihilate the Red Army on the border of Sichuan and Qian. On February 28, the Red Army captured Zunyi for the second time, and within 5 days, it defeated the strength of two divisions and 8 regiments of the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's concubine Wu Qiwei's department, and won the first major victory since the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign. Immediately afterward, the Red Army crossed the Chishui River three times and four times, and distanced itself for a week with the Kuomintang pursuit and suppression army.
Deng Ping
However, in the battle of Erzhan Zunyi, Deng Ping, chief of staff of the Red Third Army, was killed. The famous general who led the Pingjiang Uprising with Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan was only 27 years old. In the midst of the bloody sun, Mao Zedong chanted a passage of weeping blood: "Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now he steps forward from the beginning." ”
[2] The sound of horses' hooves shattering, the sound of trumpets swallowing.
Only after losing Deng Ping, and then losing money and flying, and folding two generals in a row, Mao Zedong suffered great sorrow for this Qingming on the Long March Road. Mao Zedong was also concerned about those comrades who were ordered to stay in Jiangxi. Although he had long lost contact with the Soviet zone, Mao Zedong knew that the Soviet zone thousands of miles away was undoubtedly facing a more brutal situation - there was his brother Mao Zeqin, his close friends Qu Qiubai and He Shuheng, Gu Bai, who was implicated because of him, and Liu Bojian, whom he called "the first person in political work".
After the Long March of the main Red Army, 200,000 Kuomintang troops surrounded the Central Soviet Region. Dispersing the breakout became the last glimmer of hope for the 12,000-strong red team.
In the early morning of February 24, 1935, He Shuheng, a major party representative, and Qu Qiubai, an important early leader of the party, encountered the enemy near the town of Shuikou in Shanghang County, western Fujian. In order not to drag down his comrades-in-arms, 59-year-old He Shuheng suddenly broke away from the guards around him and jumped off a cliff. Qu Qiubai was unfortunately captured, and after 4 months, he bravely rebelled.
Qu Qiubai
He Shuheng
He Shuheng was an old friend of Mao Zedong's as early as 1914. In April 1918, he and Mao Zedong founded the Xinmin Society, served as the executive chairman, and three years later attended the party congress together. Mao Zedong's evaluation of the elder, who was 17 years older than him, was: "Uncle Weng can do things in the overall situation." ”
In 1931, He Shuheng entered Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, served as the director of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection Department of the Central Provisional Government of the Chinese Soviet, and the chairman of the Provisional Court, presided over the trial of Zuo Xiangyun, the director of the Infrastructure Engineering Department of the "Second Soviet Congress" under the Provisional Central Government General Office, the first county-level cadre executed for corruption in the history of the Party, who embezzled 246.70 yuan of public funds. Later, because He Shuheng did not approve of the increasingly fierce "Left" policy of purging, he was dismissed from all his posts. As chairman of the government, Mao Zedong was unable to take his old friends with him on the Long March. The send-off on the banks of the Yudu River turned out to be a farewell in this life.
That rainy spring became the "spring of death" in the Central Soviet District. On March 6, 1935, Ruan Xiaoxian, a member of the six Central Committees of the Communist Party of China, the 37-year-old secretary of the Gannan Provincial Party Committee and the political commissar of the Gannan Military Region, died heroically. On the same day, Gu Bai, commander of the Fujian-Guangdong-Gansu border guerrillas, also sacrificed his 29-year-old life in the breakout.
Gu Bai, who served as the secretary of the Xunwu County Party Committee, assisted Mao Zedong in completing the famous "Investigation of Xunwu". Mao Zedong wrote in this manuscript: "The person who helped me organize this investigation in all my work was Comrade Gu Bai, the secretary of the Xunwu Party. After that, Gu Bai was transferred to work at Mao Zedong's side, and successively served as the secretary general of the former committee of the Red Fourth Army and the secretary general of the general front committee of the First Front. Because of his resolute support for Mao Zedong's correct ideas, Gu Bai, together with Deng Xiaoping, Mao Zeqin, and Xie Weijun, was branded as a representative of jiangxi's "Luoming Line" and was brutally attacked and wrongly criticized. History calls the "Deng, Mao, Xie, and Gu" incident.
Cooper
In the autumn of 1937, Mao Zedong received a letter from Gu Bai's second brother Gu Mei in Yan'an, and only then did he realize that his close friend had died two years earlier, and he wrote with tears: "My friend Gu Bai, handsome and energetic, sacrificed his life for the country, and is very sad." May the compatriots of the Gu clan, inheriting his legacy, achieve the goal of freedom and liberation together. ”
Liu Bojian, who had planned and led the Ningdu uprising, was also a staunch supporter of Mao Zedong. That uprising enabled 17,000 people of the Kuomintang 26th Route Army to "encircle and suppress" the Central Soviet Region to join the Ranks of the Red Army and reorganize it into the Red Fifth Army. The news that Mao Zedong was once seriously ill was also reported by Liu Bojian that Zhang Wentian was able to be treated in time. It is for this reason that he offended the "Left" authorities.
Ye Jianying was too much, and Liu Bojian went for him. The two comrades-in-arms spoke freely about the wine and could not help but burst into tears. Liu Bojian choked up and said, "There is no effect on me staying in Gannan, so let's go with it!" Ye Jianying immediately reflected Liu Bojian's request to Bogu, and formally reported to the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, proposing that he be sent to accompany the captain. But it was not approved, and Liu Bojian had to stay in the smaller and smaller central base area. On March 4, 1935, when Liu Bojian, who was the director of the Political Department of the Gannan Military Region, led his troops to break through to Youshan, he was shot in the leg and captured.
Liu Bojian
"I am not ashamed to take the long street with shackles, toss and falter, and the people of the city are attracting attention, and I am not ashamed..." A week later, Liu Bojian, who was escorted and transferred by the enemy, dragged a heavy shackle and staggered through the crowded Vegetable Street in Jiangxi. The Kuomintang reactionaries tried to destroy Liu Bojian's will in a humiliating way, but they did not think of it, but they let this staunch revolutionary with a frank heart chant the immortal "Line with Shackles" on the street. The world was amazed, and I was at peace. In a letter to his family, he wrote: "Life is for China, death is for China, everything is just listening." ”
Liu Bojian, who was trapped in prison and was good at doing ideological work, unexpectedly completed "Moon and Night in Prison" under the eyes of the jailer and successfully sent it to his brother and sister-in-law. On the day of the execution, he wrote a final letter to his wife, Wang Shuzhen: "Don't be sad, I hope you will work hard for the Chinese revolution no matter what, and don't break away from the revolutionary front." The last sentence in the letter was: "Twelve o'clock is coming, it is about to go to the killing scene, and it can no longer be written..." However, Liu Bojian did not know until his death, and his wife could no longer see these letters. Almost at the same time as Liu Bojian's death, Wang Shuzhen, who was the chief of the confidential section of the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Republic, was killed in Changting, western Fujian.
March 21, 1935, when Liu Bojian was sacrificed, was the most glorious stroke of Mao Zedong's military career- the end of the four crossings of chishui...
One bad news after another was learned after Mao Zedong led the Long March army to northern Shaanxi. On this Qingming Festival in 1935, Mao Zedong did not even have time to leave any writing for his comrades who died on the Long March. At present, the most important thing in his mind was how to mobilize the main force of the Dian Army so that the Red Army could quickly reach the banks of the Jinsha River in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The arrival of Chiang Kai-shek allowed Mao Zedong to seize the once-in-a-lifetime warplane.
[3] When the main force of the Red Army crossed the Wujiang River, Mao Zedong immediately ordered the creation of a feint attack on Guiyang, and the troops flaunted the slogan of "fight to Guiyang and capture Chiang Kai-shek alive."
April 6, Qingming Festival. The Red Army occupied the Feng, lowered Kaiyang, and the momentum was like a broken bamboo, and the soldiers pointed directly at Guiyang City. At this time, there were only 4 regiments of the Qian Army in Guiyang City, and the troops closer to Guiyang were only 2 divisions that had just collapsed from the Zunyi Campaign, and there was no combat effectiveness at all. In the face of the Red Army that suddenly appeared in front of him, Chiang Kai-shek was caught off guard and urgently ordered Sun Dubu of the Dian Army to come to "escort" him at night and at night.
When Sun Du's column approached Guiyang with a rapid march of 3 days and 200 kilometers, the Red Army suddenly turned southwest outside Guiyang City, accurately and timely broke out of the encirclement between the 30-kilometer gap that the enemy was about to encircle, and rushed all the way into Yunnan. Immediately afterward, he used the strategy of coercing Kunming to attract the attention of the Dian army and took advantage of the emptiness of the enemy's troops on both sides of the Jinsha River to reach the riverbank. By the time Chiang Kai-shek woke up like a dream, the Red Army had crossed the Jinsha River to the north by seven small boats, freed from the pursuit of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops.
April 25 – On the 19th day after the Qingming Festival, when Mao Zedong was marching on the Jinsha River, a guerrilla group led by a Red Army commander was surrounded by enemies in a mountain called Honglin in Ruijinhuangkou, Jiangxi. The bullets ran out, and he put on his bayonet again, ready for a white-knife fight. Just then, a stray bullet hit him above his right waist, all the way through his chest... His burly body fell to the ground in an instant, still clutching a gun in his hand.
From the pockets of the dead man's coats, the enemy retrieved a blood-stained photograph of Mao Zedong. On the back of the photo is Mao Zedong's autograph inscription. It was his third brother, 29-year-old Mao Zeqin.
Mao Zeqin
In 1940, Zhou Enlai brought Qian Zhuangfei's wife, Zhang Zhenhua, to Yan'an. Zhang Zhenhua, who had been waiting for her husband for eight years in Chongqing, did not learn the news of her husband's sacrifice until this time. Qian Zhuangfei's second son, Qian Yiping, recalled: In Yangjialing, Zhou Enlai and Mother Deng called me to say, "Your father was attacked by the enemy during the second crossing of the Wujiang River, and a fierce battle began. After the Kuomintang planes stopped bombing, the team assembled and walked for a while, and when I found that he was not around, I ordered a team to go back and find him... Your dad sacrificed. It was March 29, 1935, and he was only 40 years old..."
Singing through the ages
Author: Jia Yong
Statue of Chen Shuxiang
Rugged mountain roads, bumpy stretchers, sharp pain... Chen Shuxiang, who woke up from his coma, suddenly understood that he was escorted by the enemy to receive merit. "You can't be a prisoner if you swear to die!" He jerked up from the stretcher, tore open the bandage on his abdomen, inserted his right hand into the wound, and pulled out his intestines—
"Ah!" With a heart-rending cry, the intestines were pulled into two pieces, and the tall body rolled heavily to the ground. By the time the enemy had recovered from his panic, Chen Shuxiang had closed his eyes forever...
This scene occurred on December 18, 1934, a month and 12 days before Chen Shuxiang's 30th birthday.
On the morning of April 25, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was inspecting Guangxi, came to the Memorial Garden of the Red Army's Long March xiangjiang Battle in Caiwan Town, Quanzhou County, Guilin, to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs and continue the spiritual blood of communists.
In front of the oil painting "Chen Shuxiang" at the Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Hall, the general secretary stopped, stared at it for a long time, and sincerely sighed: "Magnificent! Chen Shuxiang is a typical one of the heroes who sacrificed. In October 2014, at the all-army political work conference held in Gutian, Fujian Province, the general secretary highly praised Chen Shuxiang for fulfilling the vow he made before his death to "shed the last drop of blood for the Soviets" with his life feat.
Chen Shuxiang was born on January 30, 1905 in a tenant family in Fulin Town, Changsha, Hunan Province, and at the age of 10, his family went into exile in Chen Jia'an, Xiaowumen, Changsha City. In 1921, he became acquainted with Mao Zedong and He Shuheng. In July 1925, at the age of 20, Chen Shuxiang joined the Communist Party of China. Two years later, he participated in the Autumn Harvest Rebellion and followed Mao Zedong up Jinggangshan.
"Ninghua, clear stream, naturalization, deep moss slippery road pass forest." Where today is, pointing directly to the bottom of Wuyi Mountain. Down the hill, the wind shows the red flag like a picture. This is Mao Zedong's "Like a Dream, New Year's Day" written in the New Year in 1930. At this time, the Gutian Conference had just taken place, the new type of people's army was finalized, the morale of the troops was high, and Mao Zedong was in a very good mood.
The "Zhumao" Red Army soon created a red base area at the junction of Fujian and Gansu. In July 1933, in the Battle of Quanshang at the junction of Ninghua and Qingliu, Chen Shuxiang, who served as the regimental commander, became famous in the first battle, and led his troops to set up an ambush in the Wuge area and completely annihilated a regiment of enemy reinforcements. Eight months later, Chen Shuxiang was appointed commander of the 34th Division of the Fifth Red Army, commanding troops to repel the attack of more than 30,000 Kuomintang troops in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" battle.
Most of the Thirty-fourth Division were poor men from the mountains of western Fujian, known for daring to fight hard battles and vicious battles. Before the start of the Long March, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission decided that the Red Fifth Army would serve as the rearguard, while the Thirty-fourth Division would serve as the general rear guard of the Red Fifth Army. The large army moved, and the rear guard division had to contain the enemy as well as block the enemy, and the Thirty-fourth Division became the most dangerous unit in the entire Long March army.
Two months later, the Red Thirty-fourth Division suffered bad luck on the banks of the Xiang River at the junction of Xianggui and Xianggui— the worst battle on the Long March Road.
From November 27 to December 1, 1934, the Central Red Army encountered a catastrophe when it broke through the fourth line of defense carefully constructed by the Kuomintang: in front of them were the Gui and Xiang armies that were fortified and blocked, and behind them were the Central Army, which was surging like a tide, and the Red Army was crushed to death in a cone-shaped zone 30 kilometers wide and 80 kilometers long... In the enemy's artillery fire, it is like wrapping up in a "meat grinder". At the height of the fighting, the Fourth Division of the Red Third Army killed two regimental commanders in one day...
At this moment, on the position of the Red Thirty-fourth Division, which was covering the transfer of large troops, the fierceness of the battle even exceeded the fighting on the bank of the Xiang River. Zhou Hunyuanbu of the Kuomintang Central Committee, which pursued the Red Army, was an old rival of the Thirty-fourth Division, and had been defeated by Chen Shuxiang as early as the "encirclement and suppression" of the Soviet zone. This time, Zhou Hunyuan was determined to rely on strong fire support to wash away the shame of the past. The indiscriminate bombardment of the planes overhead, the incendiary bombs burning the position into a sea of fire... Faced with several times the number of Nationalist troops, Chen Shuxiang's commanders calmly responded to the battle and repelled the repeated attacks of Zhou Hunyuan's troops. Chen Shuxiang had only one thought, that is, to buy time for the large troops to cross the river.
Time passes day by day.
After five days and five nights of bitter fighting, although the main force of the Party Central Committee and the Red Army waded across the river, the 8.6-man Long March army was sharply reduced to more than 30,000 people. By the time the Thirty-fourth Division fought all the way to the Xiang River, the bridge had been blown up by enemy aircraft. Originally, the Thirty-fourth Division had a chance to be spared. However, the large-scale relocation at the beginning of the Long March tied the hands and feet of the large red army and lost the fleeting fighters again and again.
The clear waters of the river turned red. The Xiangjiang River became the disaster land of the Long March.
"The Two Sheep of the Qian Army of the Dian Army, the Xiang Army is a wolf; the Guangxi Monkey is the Gui Army, fierce as a tiger and as fierce as a wolf." The Red Thirty-fourth Division, which had broken away from the large army, was simultaneously surrounded by two tiger and wolf divisions of the Gui Army and the Xiang Army. Fighting alone, people and land are born twice, and there is no food... After several bitter battles, the 7,000-strong Red Thirty-fourth Division had less than 300 men left, and the division commander was only Chen Shuxiang, the commander of the division, Wang Guangdao, the acting division chief of staff, and Han Wei, the commander of the 100th regiment.
Chen Shuxiang decided to break through the Jedi: "Old Han, you continue to go east with the main force of the division, over this foot of the mountain, back to the east, back to Shonan!" ”
Chen Shuxiang ordered Han Wei to lead the main force of 200 men of the 100th Regiment to break through, and he himself led the wounded and sick with limited mobility to stay behind to block the enemy.
How could Han Wei agree?! He cried and said, "You are the commander of the division, as long as you are still in the Thirty-fourth Division, the number of this division is there, or you will return to the east with the main force!" "At this moment, everyone knows what it means to stay and cover? Decades later, Han Wei still remembers the scene. "That was the only time two old comrades-in-arms who had lived and died together since the beginning of the Jinggangshan struggle had a dispute."
Chen Shuxiang narrowed his eyes and asked Han Wei to obey the order. At the moment of the breakup, the two comrades left a life-and-death pact: in case the breakthrough failed, they would shed the last drop of blood for the Soviets.
The 200 people led by Han Wei broke through the siege, and only more than 30 people were left. At a critical juncture, Han Wei jumped from the Dajiangling Mountains between Xishan Township in Guanyang, Guangxi Province, and Mochuan Township in Xing'an to survive. Chen Shuxiang, who was in an even more dangerous situation, led the remnants to continue to maneuver with the enemy in the mangy mountains of Hunan Province, until he was seriously wounded and still lying on a stretcher to direct the battle, and finally ran out of ammunition and food, and unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy.
After jumping off a cliff, Han Wei fell on a tree fork, was captured by the enemy and imprisoned, released after the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance, and made many achievements in the battlefields of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955. In 1986, the old man tearfully wrote the article "The Side of the Xiangjiang River of the Red Thirty-fourth Division's Bloody Struggle", which was the most true record of the magnificent scene of the 34th Division's blue blood Xiangjiang River.
In April 1992, when the 86-year-old Han Wei was dying, he told his children that no matter where Chen Shuxiang's body was buried, they should find it and pay homage to it regularly. And Han Wei himself chose the final destination in western Fujian--he wanted to go to the birthplace of the Red Thirty Division, which was full of rhododendrons, and wait for the souls of his comrades who sacrificed on the Long March Road to return home...
After Chen Shuxiang's sacrifice, the cruel enemy cut off his head and hung it first on the county gate of Hunan Province for public display, and then sent it to his native Changsha and hung it on the wall of XiaowuMen. His elderly widowed mother lived alone in a house near Xiaowumen at that time.
At that time, the people of Daoxian County quietly buried Chen Shuxiang's body on the edge of Xiaoshui in the darkness of the night, but the head of the martyr has not been found. Chen Shuxiang has no children, and the only "photo" left behind is also a portrait restored according to the picture of his head after his sacrifice and the description of Han Wei before his death.
Portrait of Chen Shuxiang
In 2014, on the 80th anniversary of Chen Shuxiang's sacrifice, Han Jingjing, the son of General Han Wei, asked someone to sculpt a stone statue of Chen Shuxiang - since then, in front of the martyr's tomb on the shore of Xiaoshui, an eternal red 34th Division battle flag and the eternal heroic division commander have been accompanied by each other...