Trace the red memory and look back at the beacon journey. In order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, co-sponsored by the Institute of Party History of the Shanxi Provincial CPC Committee, the Political Work Bureau of the Shanxi Provincial Military Region, and the Shanxi Radio and Television Media Group, and undertaken by the Shanxi Radio and Television News, the editor compiled and sorted out the stories of their own revolution dictated by 100 party members and veterans who had undergone the baptism of the revolutionary beacon years, recalled the red glory days of that year, and lamented today's peaceful and happy life.
The hundred-year journey is magnificent, and the original intention of the hundred-year journey has lasted for a long time. These "stories of the original heart" are the simple memories of party members and veterans of their own road to joining the army, one true story after another, full of their firm belief in loyalty to the party and their unity with the party, the spiritual outlook of Hao Shou Dan's heart and the old age and strength, and the noble feelings of always maintaining the original heart and keeping the mission in mind, which is not only a tangible positive energy, but also a living value. The stories are all dictated by the parties, and the characters and events are full of flesh and blood, so that readers can get emotional resonance from the story, produce action consciousness, let the red gene and the revolutionary flame be passed on from generation to generation, continue the spiritual blood of the communists, and take the long march road of the new era.
Special planning of Shanxi Radio and Television News
Unforgettable years
When I was a child, our family was very poor, there were five brothers in the family, three brothers went out to herd sheep, cattle, and hard work to earn some money, and my fourth brother and I went to the mountains to pick fruit, collect corn, or go to other people's homes to beg for some food.
My cousin is a communist who works in the Qinshui County government. You Taizhong, the deputy commander of the 17th Regiment, met my cousin, and seeing that I was tall and clever, he made me his attendant.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Eighth Route Army went deep behind enemy lines, and the Weapons and Equipment of the Eighth Route Army were very scarce at that time. In July 1939, the Eighth Route Army formally built our army's arsenal in Huangyadong, Licheng County, Shanxi Province, where the terrain was hidden, producing rifles, bayonets, grenadiers, 50 guns and other weapons and ammunition, with an annual production capacity of 16 regiments, becoming the earliest and largest military base created by the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines in North China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The Huangyadong Arsenal became a key target of the Japanese army. In November 1941, the Japanese army gathered heavy troops and launched a large-scale attack on the Huangyadong Arsenal. As service soldiers, Commander You and I personally experienced the battle to defend the Yellow Cliff Cave in Huangya Cave, and Commander You sat in command in the air raid shelter, looking at the map, "This place should be defended, how to defend it...", after careful consideration, and then passed the battle plan to the troops. After 8 days and 8 nights of bloody fighting, the Eighth Route Army won the final victory and successfully smashed the Japanese conspiracy to destroy the Huangyadong Arsenal.
The most arduous period of the War of Resistance was the period of "sweeping" by the Japanese army. At that time, they did not eat, they had to produce their own, cultivate their own land, plant millet, sorghum, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and be self-sufficient. When the enemy "swept up," we lay in ambush outside the village and could not enter the village, because we could not make a fire to cook, so we filled some millet in rice bags and ate raw rice when we were hungry. At that time, the people made military shoes for the troops, the size was different, if the shoes were too small to wear, the people would do it again. When we stop at a place, we usually choose to rest in the forest first, one is to avoid the pursuit of the enemy as much as possible, and the other is to avoid the common people. Find a tree to lean on or see where you can sleep and go to sleep, trek all the way through the mountains and waters, eat and sleep in the wind, the conditions are very difficult, often do not eat enough, sleep is not good, but in order to drive away the Japanese, everything is worth it.
When guerrilla warfare is waged, when the enemy comes, we run, and when the enemy runs, we beat them. Civilians and militias also engage in some mine warfare or other warfare. When we were engaged in railway warfare, when Linfen was fighting guerrilla warfare, the enemy's train was not very long, that is, one section of two carriages, we ambushed where they were going to pass, lined up the railway with explosives, and put stones on it, and when we saw that the enemy's train was about to approach the stone, the explosives exploded as soon as they were dragged. Another, a tube with stones, sand and explosives, and then a leader, hung quietly on the door of the enemy train, and the door exploded as soon as it opened.
At that time, the Japanese held maintenance associations, and each village had a maintenance chairman to ventilate them. But some of them are fake, nominally maintaining the president, but actually defending the people. Tell the truth to the Communist Party, tell lies to the enemy, and fool the enemy, so that you can get some information from the enemy.
In 1943, cadres above the regimental level wanted to study at the Party School of the Taiyue Military Region, and Commander You asked me to follow. After we went, our attendants formed a guard platoon and stood guard. In the guard platoon, every day to learn the articles in the newspaper. Once, I read an article about the enrollment of Kang Da (Chinese Min anti-Japanese Military and Political University, referred to as "Kang Da"), and the person in charge asked me: "What does Kang Da do?" I said, "The Anti-Japanese War is training cadres." He asked again, "Would you like to go?" I was very excited when I heard it, and replied in a loud voice: "Willing to go, willing to go." He went on: "If you are willing to go, then ask the people in your guard platoon to see who else is willing to go, and give me the name." As a result, 17 people were willing to go, and the person in charge wrote us a note, "The comrade in charge of the Kang Da: There are 17 guards from our school to study at your school." "In this way, 17 of us took this note to the Kang Da to study. At that time, I studied politics, military, and culture in school, and the military class mainly studied bomb throwing, assassination, shooting, etc., and the positions graduated from the Anti-Japanese University were all above deputy platoon leader.
After the victory of the War of Resistance, I went to the northeast to participate in the Liberation War. Once in a war, because my shooting results were good when I was fighting against the big, I took the gun and rushed forward, and the soldiers did not let me rush forward. One of the warriors said, "You have to command in the back, I'll go up." He rushed up with explosives, wiped out a platoon of the enemy, captured a dozen rifles, and captured seven or eight men.
At that time, although it was very hard, there was no sweetness without bitterness. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and over the past 100 years, the Communist Party has led the people of all nationalities in their tenacious struggle, changed the tragic fate of China's poverty, weakness, and bullying, and embarked on the road of independent development. "Without the Communist Party, there would be no New China." We must support the party and cherish the hard-won happy life.
Material acquisition and writing | Han Feng Fan He Tian Qiaozhen
Footage capture | Zhao Xincheng Wang Yonghui Chai Jinfeng