"Dongtai Memory" 80 years ago, Su Yu led the New Fourth Army to learn shellfish picking from fishermen in Weigang

October 5, 1941, Mid-Autumn Festival.

At dawn that day, Commander Su Yu of the First Division of the New Fourth Army personally led the commanders and fighters of the division's direct subordinate troops and marched from Sancang to Taigang. After breakfast in place, walk barefoot to the sandy beach on three miles to the harbor where the ship is anchored.

At noon, the tide of the day began to rise, and Commander Su Yu took a wooden sailing ship named "Big Nephew" and led a naval military exercise fleet of 10 wooden sailing ships to the east with the tide. On the long undulating waterways, commanders and fighters practice basic skills such as wind tuning, ridge-piercing navigation, and signal communication.

October 6th, six tides. The morning glow reflects the red sand tide beach. On the fishing boats not far from the military exercise fleet, more than twenty fishermen, young and old, carrying net pockets in one hand and forks in the other, seized the opportunity of the tide receding for a few hours, and disembarked and boarded the beach to carry out shellfish collection operations.

Commander Su Yu, who was standing and commanding the ship, looked at this scene and said happily: "Sandbar Haibaoduo, dance in unison." The military and the people hold hands and work hard to make good traditions. When the commanders and fighters heard the division commander's order, they rolled up their pants barefoot and ran to the beach, "Folks, teach us the skills of picking shells!" Well, let's do the demonstration, and you learn to step on the "fishermen who rush to the sea" see the children and soldiers, and each one happily becomes a caibei instructor.

"Hands behind the back, feet apart, moving left and right, up and down, clams out of the mud, leaning over to pick up...".

The young and studious commanders and fighters listened with their ears open and studied carefully, and a cigarette worker mastered the basic essentials of shellfish picking.

The fishermen gave the spare shellfish collection tools on the fishing boats to the commanders and fighters to use the shellfish.

Before the tide rose, the fishermen went to eleven military exercise ships to teach the soldiers to wash the mud of the four-horned clam shell, boil it in white water, open the shell and expose the flesh, and the soup was milky white, fresh and refreshing.

On October 7, the main subjects of the maritime military exercise team were sea surfing, sea shooting, sea bomb throwing, sea bungee jumping boat, and sea risk avoidance. After successfully completing the military exercise mission, the commanders and fighters landed in The harbor overnight.

(Source: Fan Kai Wei Gang Author: Yang Jiuhua)