If the Red Fourth Front had bid farewell to the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region and really lost the juvenile little Red Army Hu Zhengxian, and if Hu Zhengxian had not insisted on hard reading, the radio training class held by the Red Fourth Front army in Tongjiang County would not have had him.
More than 80 years have passed, the famous figures of the Red Army who are specially responsible for radio reporting and listening, such as Wang Yi, Chromatography Sheng, Cao Xiangren, Cai Wei, Song Kanfu, Xu Mingde, Wang Zigang, Liu Yin, Ma Wenbo, and others, have passed away. It is likely to be drowned in the dust of history.
In 1955, when the People's Liberation Army conferred the rank of colonel, the 35-year-old Hu Zhengxian was awarded the rank of colonel. He was also awarded the Order of August 1 of the Third Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Third Class, and the Liberation Medal of the Second Class. He has been working in the Central and Southern Military Region and the General Staff Department for a long time.
In November 1933, after the Red Fourth Front won the Xuan (Han) Da (County) Campaign, a large area occupied by the eastern Sichuan guerrilla army was incorporated into the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area, and the Red Army guerrilla army led by Wang Weizhou was reorganized into the Red 33rd Army, and the Red Fourth Front army was also developed from four corps to five corps. The territory of the Soviet Zone was constantly expanding, and the Red Army was already strong and strong.
The situation in which the Red Army and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region ushered in such a situation was achieved by the combatants who were not afraid of sacrifice and were brave and good at war, and it was also inseparable from the radio personnel led by Cai Wei, Song Kanfu, Wang Zigang, Ma Wenbo, and other radio personnel to timely intercept and decipher the enemy's intelligence, so that Commanders such as Xu Xiangqian, Chen Changhao, and Wang Shusheng could accurately grasp the dynamics of the enemy's situation and make operational arrangements for victory. After the victory in the Xuanhan Campaign, Cai Wei, the founder of the Red Fourth Front Radio Station, decided to expand the Red Fourth Front's radio team and train more wind listeners and wind catchers for future operations.
"Mao Tie is an axe, Mao Tie is not an axe. What do contradictory words mean? The main tool used by the carpenter whom the reader has seen is the axe, but like the carpenter's tool, the one used by the peasant to go up the mountain to cut firewood is called mao iron. In order to feed the newborn boys in rural farms, in addition to tigers, dogs, and cattle, there are also small names called hammers, golden locks, rammers, plugs, and pillars. Hu Zheng said first.
Hu Zhengxian, an old Red Army veteran who has gone through a hundred years of ups and downs, pays special attention to inheriting the glorious traditions and fine work style of our party and our army to today's young people. This is an inscription that the elderly specially gave encouragement to young people who re-walked the Long March.
From Eyuwan to the Red Fourth Front Army for more than a year, Hu Zhengxian was only 15 years old, because he was too young and not big, and he lacked experience in killing the enemy in battle, Hu Zhengxian was almost a miscellaneous person, working as a nurse in the hospital and serving as a service clerk for the chief, but he was also particularly diligent and quick, and no matter how big or small the red fourth organ's direct subordinate team was, as long as there was a lack of manpower, he worked diligently and earnestly.
The office is located in a mountain family in Tongjiang County, and his son has a son who goes up the mountain every day to cut firewood, and the mountain people in eastern Sichuan call the axe for cutting firewood as Mao Tie. Whenever the landlord's son wants to go up the mountain to cut firewood, he always shouts, what about my hair iron? After a long time, everyone called him Mao Tie, and everyone forgot what his real name was. Every time he shouted to look for Mao Tie, Hu Zheng, who was always attentive, handed Mao Tie to his hand first, and the landlord's son would say to him at this time, Mao Tie is here. "Mao Tie!" The landlord's son shouted, "Here! Hu Zheng answered first, and this question was answered, as if Hu Zhengxian was also called Mao Tie, and later the comrades-in-arms simply called Hu Zhengxian Mao Tie.
Hu Zhengxian, who cut firewood and rice in his hometown of Anhui, knew the same tools, used in different occasions to call different folk customs, the axe used to cut firewood is called Mao Iron, the sickle used to cut rice is called wheat sickle, the sickle used for cutting firewood is called Mao Sickle, the hoe used for hoeing grass is called Xue Hoe, the hoe used for digging soil is called digging hoe, the hat used by farmers working in the field to cover the sun is called a straw hat, and the hat used to cover rain is called a bucket hat... The common sense of peasant farming and life, hu Zhengxian, who has not been to school, also understands. The super straight approach of the tool name title and the role change of the name of the person largely reflect the close relationship between the army and the people.
The author took a group photo with the elderly Hu Zhengxian.
"Mao Tie, come here." A cadre stopped Hu Zhengxian, and when he answered loudly, he ran to the front of the cadre and stood up straight. The cadres held paper and pen in their hands, shook them twice, and said, I always see that you have time to read and write, how many words do you know? Hu Zhengxian replied that he had never entered the door of the academy, and the words he knew were all learned in the team, about 4 or 500 words. The cadre said, well, now start the exam for you, you write down all the words you know, don't miss a single one, this is the order. Hu Zhengxian didn't know what his purpose was for the exam, and he wanted to write down the words he knew, which he had wanted to do for a long time.
4, 500 words, why write? Hu Zhengxian, who had never read a book, naturally did not know how to write articles, nor did he understand the logical order, nor did he understand structural rhetoric, but he had his own method, first writing out the slogans and slogans of the Red Army, then writing down the names of his hometown and his relatives, agricultural tools and livestock, and then taking the names of the troops' weapons, the names of the places traveled from Eyuwan to Sichuan and Shaanxi, the mountains that he crossed, and the rivers he crossed.
The cadres looked at it and knew that he not only had a lot of literacy, but also had a rigorous linguistic structure. Such people were intellectuals in the Red Army at that time. The cadre praised on the spot, Mao Tie, you can, you really can. In this way, prepare to pack up, report to the station commander Cai Wei in Tongjiang County tomorrow, and participate in the radio reporting training class organized by the Front.
Knowing 4, 500 words, he passed the exam, and was sent to study radio business training, Hu Zhengxian felt that he did not have much literacy, and he certainly could not learn radio newspapers, but when he received the order, he only had the share of execution, and he could not tolerate a little resignation and disobedience.
What is a radio station, and what does a radio soldier do? He had heard about the important information obtained by the Red Army from the west of Hubei and Anhui to Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the Red Army fighting wars and relying on radio to obtain important information, but he did not know what was going on.
Who is Cai Wei? He had also heard that when the Red Fourth Front crossed the Pinghan Railway, he had seen this man's feat, and that afternoon, the front radio station that followed the Red 73rd Division's march was besieged by the enemy in the area from Anlu to Suixian in Hubei Province. Hu Zhengxian saw very clearly that there were intercepted enemies in front of him blocking the way, and the enemy who was chasing after him was only a few hundred meters away from the radio crew, telegraph service, and guard personnel, and both the enemy and us were within the range of rifles, and the enemy was roaring, catching alive, catching alive! In the midst of the crisis, Cai Wei took out the silver dollar on his body and threw it at the enemy, and he also shouted loudly, and the rich man on his body quickly pulled out and used the silver dollar to repel the enemy. This method really worked, the silver dollars of white flowers were scattered on the ground, and the pursuing enemies lay on the ground to pick up the silver dollars, and some people did not even want guns.
Radio personnel and protection of the station's security personnel, immediately organized a prominent encirclement. At this time, I saw Cai Wei take out a small book, tear down a page and stuff a page in his mouth, eat the paper? Why eat paper? At that time, Hu Zhengxian did not know what he was doing, and later realized that Cai Wei was ready to sacrifice for the Soviets, and what he ate into his mouth was the codebook of our army, which was an important secret of the Red Army and must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy.
At this time, Xu Shenji, the commander of the 218th Regiment of the Red 73rd Division, received an order to immediately lead people to rescue the besieged radio personnel, Xu Shenji led the troops to pounce on the enemy in an overwhelming situation, and the enemy who pursued and blocked them was suddenly confused, Xu Shenji and his troops successfully rescued the radio station and cai Wei.
Learning technology with intellectuals like Cai Wei is certainly very meaningful. In this way, there was a Mao Tie in the Training Class of the Red Army Radio, and after that, there was an excellent radio listening expert in the ranks of our army. Hu Zhengxian remembered that the conditions for the training were very difficult, the lack of electric keys and other equipment, so they used wooden blocks instead, even the buzzer was simulated, pencils and paper were not, and they used wooden sticks to write on the ground and write digital. The more difficult the conditions, the more it can stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for hard work and study.
A few months later, after returning from tongjiang county, Hu Zheng first returned from tongjiang county, walked up the Long March Road from the banks of the Jialing River, went to the Hexi Corridor, went to Urumqi in Xinjiang to study again, and came to Yan'an to participate in the War of Resistance.