Author: Unsentimental
In June 1935, the Red Army crossed the Jiajin Mountain. The mountain is covered in snow and ice all year round, and there are huge icicles hanging from the valleys, the roads are difficult and the air is thin. The higher you climb, the harder it is to breathe. Even the exhaled breath of the commanders and fighters would freeze into frost. The climate on the mountain is even more unpredictable, and hail often comes without warning. Egg-sized hail hit the commanders and fighters with blue noses and swollen faces, making it more difficult to travel. Often, commanders and fighters stepped into the air and fell into the snow cliff. It was only by the comrades-in-arms that they lowered them with the knotted leggings that it was possible to pull them up.
On the Jiajin Mountain, I don't know how many Red Army commanders and fighters who survived the bloody battle on the Xiang River, experienced four crossings of the Red River, and crossed the Jinsha River died of physical exhaustion. The situation of the surviving people was not much better, almost step by step, supporting each other, before they crossed the Mountain of Jiajin and came to Zhuo Keji, where they rested.
The Zhuoke base is relatively flat, and the local residents are mainly Qiang. The Golden Temple, where the Red 3Rd Army is stationed, has a street of about 500 meters long, and the street is full of wooden houses, including many small shops, which is a very prosperous place in the local area. But not far from this street, there is a primeval forest with ancient trees.
Before the Arrival of the Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek carried out long-term propaganda in the local area and intimidated the masses. Therefore, the Red Army rested here to collect food and prepare to cross the meadows, and the work did not go well. After repeated propaganda, the local people saw that although the commanders and fighters of the Red Army were all ragged and thin-skinned, they spoke kindly and did not commit any crimes, so they tried to take out some of the grain that had been cleared up and sold to the Red Army. In order not to let the masses suffer losses, the Red Army not only insisted on buying and selling publicly, but also paid with silver dollars painstakingly picked up from Jiangxi, and did not use all kinds of miscellaneous banknotes with poor credit among the local people, which greatly won the favor of the masses. As a result, more and more people were willing to sell grain to the Red Army.
However, the main grain grown locally was barley, which made the Commanders and Fighters of the Red Army, mainly from Jiangxi, Fujian and Hunan, very uncomfortable. At the beginning, everyone used barley as rice to cook, and made a lot of jokes. Later, under the guidance of the local masses, people borrowed stone mills from the masses, grinded the barley into powder, and processed it into rice dumplings as military food.
However, this kind of food is not easy to digest for people who are accustomed to eating rice, and it must be eaten with tea to swallow. However, the tea leaves that the Red Army could find were all tea bricks that had been fermented and pressed. Although this thing is convenient for storage and long-distance transportation, there are many tea stems in the tea bricks, and the quality of ordinary tea bricks is also average, so the taste of the entrance is difficult for the Commanders and Fighters of the Red Army to adapt for a while. As a result, many people have a great loss of appetite. To this end, the superiors also specially carried out ideological work on this issue, and completed it as a task by eating difficult to swallow rice and drinking bitter and inferior tea.
Of course, just eating this is not enough. What's more, Zhuo Keji and its surrounding areas are vastly sparsely populated, and the property is not abundant, so many troops have poured in at once, and the stock of barley cannot be supported for too long, and it is necessary to find another way to do it. As a result, various units sent some commanders and fighters who were in relatively good physical condition to the surrounding areas to search for something that could be fed and prepare military food for the next long march.
During those difficult days, the search scope of the food collection detachment was extended to dozens of miles away from the station, but many times it was still necessary to rely on luck.
One day, a grain-raising team of the Red 3rd Army went out to about 30 miles northwest of the Temple to look for food, but found nothing, and when the people were frustrated, they suddenly encountered a group of wild yaks. The yak, a special species that is only found in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its adjacent areas, is much stronger in temperament and physique than the common buffalo in the south. Rao was the commander and fighter of the Red Army, most of whom were from peasant families, and they did not herd cattle when they fought small, and they could not help but be shocked when they saw the fierce yak herds running in groups for the first time. What is even more amazing is that this group of wild yaks actually regarded the Red Army fighters as "invaders" who had trespassed into their territory, and rushed straight over in groups to fight these Red Army commanders and fighters who had fought all the way from Jiangxi to Sichuan and had never feared any opponent.
Warriors with slightly slower legs, seeing that they were about to be chased by these wild yaks, were forced to fire warning shots to scare them away. Unexpectedly, this group of yaks, who had never seen the world, was provoked by the gunshots and became even more crazy. In self-defense, there were Red Army fighters who had to shoot in self-defense. As a result, these days, the creatures who are not afraid, the ground is not afraid, and the wild creatures are thick and thick, and they have been shot several times and are still brutal, and when the blood is exhausted, they scream to the ground, roll and struggle for a while before they die of exhaustion. Only then did the other yaks get scared and run away.
After the inspection, the Red Army killed 3 wild yaks at the cost of several minor injuries. The wounded warriors were no big deal, but how to deal with the aftermath was a problem for everyone. When the Red Army first arrived here, it was unfamiliar with the local geography, people's customs, and customs. Whether the yak that was killed was an ownerless thing or raised by the locals was not known to people. After discussing the discussion, the soldiers divided into several roads, guarding the yak carcasses all the way, while the others searched around to see if they could find a home or herdsman. As a result, it was almost dark, and the people who went out returned empty-handed, and no clues could be found.
Supposedly, in this case, it is almost certain that these yaks are wild. However, after a meeting and discussion, the Red Army decided to erect a rather conspicuous red flag in the local area for the sake of safety. Under the red flag, press a note with a stone, leaving half of the note outside so that people can find it. It is stated that because of the attack, the Red Army had no choice but to shoot and kill 3 yaks, hoping that the compatriots would forgive them. In addition, because of the shortage of military food, these yaks had to be brought back to the garrison even with their belt bones, so some silver dollars were left as compensation for their fellow villagers. In case the silver dollars are lost, the remaining silver dollars are wrapped in cloth and pressed in a central position under the stone.
After doing this, everyone divided the 3 wild yaks and carried one piece back. When I returned to the station and asked the local villagers, people knew that they were worried. After the anecdote that the Red Army hunted wild yaks and left silver dollars and notes in place, it made the local people quite moved. Even stubborn forces such as the leaders, landlords and slave owners closed their mouths, and it was much easier for the Red Army to raise grain in the local area.
As for the 3 wild yaks brought back, the Red Army did not waste anything. Cow bones are used to boil soup, and the cowhide is not conditionally nitrated, so it is cut into small pieces with a knife to make a belt and a shoe sole. The advantage of this is that, if necessary, these unnitrated leather products can still be used to fill the hunger. As for the beef, everyone was not willing to fight the tooth sacrifice at that time, but dried it into dried meat, cut into small pieces or crushed into minced meat, and each person shared a little. Given the high calories of beef and the hard-won, this is an emergency life-saving food. It is not allowed to eat without order.
In the subsequent journeys, the lack of food has always plagued the Red Army. On those difficult days, it was approved to use a piece of beef jerky or a handful of beef flour and sprinkle it into a pot and cook it into a paste. These 3 wild yaks, I don't know how many commanders and fighters have saved their lives, can also be regarded as contributions.
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