The Second and Sixth Army Corps led by He Long, Ren Bishi, Xiao Ke, Guan Xiangying, Wang Zhen and others evacuated the Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou revolutionary base areas in November 1935, passed through Dongkou County, and went north to fight against Japan. Although decades have passed, the Red Army left many touching and touching deeds, which are deeply engraved in the hearts of the elderly and spread among the masses. Now when they recall them, they are still fresh in their memories and they talk about them with relish.
Our Chairman He
At noon on December 19, 1935, part of the main force of the Second Army led by He Long entered Yanshi Township from Guanzhu. Three soldiers wearing gray cloth uniforms and carrying short guns came to the third-bedroom courtyard and saw a woman hurriedly walking into her home with a child in her arms. The soldier followed him into the main room of her house. Seeing that her door was closed, he knocked gently and said, "Sister-in-law, please don't be afraid. Our Red Army serves the people. Please open the door. We have something to discuss with you." "The young woman's name is Ouyang Xiangyuan, and her husband is working as a porter outside. When she heard the knock on the door, she was not very anxious, and the voice of the shout was very calm, so she opened the door. Seeing that there was an empty room in her house, the soldier asked, "Sister-in-law, do you think it would be okay to lend you this empty room to build a bunk for the night?" Although Ouyang Xiangyuan did not fully understand what they were saying, he knew that they were He wanted to borrow a house to live in, so he agreed with a smile on his face.
After a while, a soldier led a tall and burly man wearing a blue cloth gown and a mustache to the door of Ouyang Xiangyuan's house, followed by twenty or thirty people in uniforms. Soldiers in gray cloth uniforms and carrying short rifles stood neatly in two rows in the Heping. The man with the mustache told everyone: "We, the Red Army, are a team of the poor and seek liberation for the people. We have iron discipline. Everyone must be careful not to enter the bedrooms of young women." Then he continued, "We, the Red Army, are No matter where we go, we must care about and care for the people. Things in the people's homes cannot be moved without the owner's consent. Borrowed things must be returned. Damaged and lost things must be compensated according to the price. Only in this way can we gain the trust of the people and gain the trust of the people. Unite the masses to overthrow the traitor Chiang Kai-shek and overthrow Japanese imperialism."
Ouyang Xiangyuan could tell from the expressions of the soldiers that the mustache was a high official. Listening to his speech, he always considers the common people and believes that the Red Army is a good person. She walked to the yard with excitement and told others what the mustache said. She didn't go home until it was almost dark. She walked to the door of the hall and saw that a bunk was set up on the ground. The mustache and two other people were there. I read the map under the kerosene lamp and made gestures while reading. She wanted to know what kind of official that official was, so she walked outside the door and quietly asked a young soldier: "Who is that man of yours wearing a blue cloth gown and a beard?" the young soldier whispered softly. He told her: "It's our corps commander, Chairman He of the Soviet government. We all call him Mr. He." After hearing this, she muttered to herself that he was a high-ranking official. No wonder the soldiers listened to him in a polite manner.
She walked into the room, and a female warrior asked her to sit down very kindly, and chatted with her like sisters. During the conversation, she asked the female soldier: "Whose wife are you?" The female soldier told her readily: "I am Comrade He Long's lover. I am staying at your house tonight. It is really troublesome for you." She knew that she lived in Her family was Chairman He Long, a high-ranking official of the Red Army, and he said embarrassedly: "This house is not good. It has not been cleaned up properly. I'm really sorry for you." The female soldier said, "After the war is over, the poor will have good houses to live in." "
Early the next morning, the troops were leaving. Some soldiers were packing and some were cleaning. A soldier walked up to Ouyang Xiangyuan's sister-in-law Lei Qingju (who lived opposite her) and said repeatedly Asked if there was anything damaged or lost, Lei Qingju said: "There is only a wooden washbasin that I didn't see." After a while, the soldier took a copper washbasin and said to her: "If you can't find it, use this washbasin." , keep it as a souvenir if you find it. The discipline of the Red Army is stipulated by Chairman He, you must accept it." When Chairman He and the soldiers left, the crowd sent them off with tears, and the soldiers also
Look back from time to time and say goodbye.
Decades have passed, and Ouyang Xiangyuan has not forgotten "Chairman He" back then. In 1956, when she saw the hanging portrait of the top ten marshals of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, she recognized Chairman He who lived in her home at a glance, and said happily: "Look, our Chairman He has returned to Yanshan." Here we are, here again."
Respectable Martyrs
Since the Second and Sixth Army Corps withdrew from the Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou Revolutionary Base Areas, the Kuomintang troops have been following them. , search for them, trying to eliminate them during the Long March. At noon on December 21, some of the Sixth Army Corps heading from Gaosha to Huayuan were resting in the Lijiadu area, and some were on the way. Although the soldiers' heads were camouflaged with branches and green leaves, the Kuomintang aircraft still found the target and frantically dropped 6 bombs. 20 soldiers died gloriously on the spot and dozens more were injured.
Wang Kangyuan, who was only 12 years old at the time, was driving his cattle home. A Red Army soldier saw this and hurriedly ran over. The corpse pusher pushed Wang Kangyuan to the ground and used his body to cover him. Wang Kangyuan was safe and sound, but the soldier was bleeding profusely.
After Wang Kangyuan's uncle Wang Rende learned about it, he was deeply moved by the spirit of the Red Army soldiers who sacrificed themselves to save others. In order to repay the Red Army soldiers for their life-saving grace, he took the risk and together with more than 20 poor farmers including Li Mingsheng and Liu Dabing, buried the remains of the martyrs in the cemetery. A clearing on the Serpentine Mountain. But not long after the Red Army left, some local tyrants and evil gentry had ulterior motives and said, "The place where the Red Army is buried is a 'feng shui treasure land' and the 'Dragon Vein' of Lijiadu. Now that the 'Dragon Vein' has been dug out, the 'Dragon God' is uneasy. The only choice is to destroy the Red Army." Only by digging up the corpses and throwing them into the river can the 'dragon veins' be preserved and the 'feng shui' be restored." In order to smash the conspiracy of the local tyrants and evil gentry, poor farmer Deng Chengzhu and others moved the coffins of the Red Army martyrs to the rolling pines of Changling overnight. The boundary is surrounded by pines and cypresses. Wang Kangyuan, whose life was saved by the Red Army, visits the tombs of martyrs every year during Qingming Festival. After he became the party branch secretary of the Xizhong Brigade in 1972, he actively initiated and under the leadership of the commune party committee, led the cadres and masses of the brigade and Lijiadu to renovate the martyrs' tomb, and erected a martyrs' monument in front of the tomb with the inscription "Long March Martyrs" There are six big buildings in the tomb, with two couplets engraved on both sides. One is "Greatness in life, glory in death" and the other is "Inherit the ambition of the martyrs and always be a revolutionary." The Dongkou County Party Committee and County Government have used the Martyrs’ Tomb as a county-wide patriotism education base. For decades, cadres, workers, farmers, and students have often visited the tombs to pay their respects, learn from the martyrs' spirit, inherit the martyrs' legacy, and contribute to the construction of a socialist country.
Collecting the debt of blood and tears
The vast number of farmers in the old society suffered from oppression and exploitation by the local tyrants and evil gentry, and were struggling on the verge of death. The Red Army fought against the local tyrants and evil gentry and sought liberation for the poor peasants, thus winning their sincere support.
There was a wealthy man named Fu Shengting in Shafang Yard, Yanshan Township. He had a pockmarked face, was tyrannical and cruel, and bullied the poor. The people called him Cimicifuga. His five sons were all as ferocious as tigers, and the masses called them the "Five Tigers." In 1931, Shengting Mazi was preparing to build a new house and asked Master Xinhua Fang to bake bricks and tiles for him. Poor Master Fang worked so hard, not only did he not get any wages, but he also had to pay for his food. In anger, he knocked down the piles of bricks and returned to Xinhua full of resentment. In 1935, he joined the Red Army. On December 19, the troops camped in Yanshan. He reported to the head of the army what he had experienced at the Fu family and the situation of local farmers being oppressed by the Fu family. The head of the army agreed that he would take three soldiers to find him. Seeds of cohosh settle accounts. They walked along the path to Shafang courtyard and caught Sheng Ting Mazi who was about to escape. When the people nearby heard that the Red Army had captured the evil-doing Cimicifuga, they were so happy that they rushed to tell each other and exposed Cimicifuga's crimes to the head of the Red Army. The chief sent a soldier to lead the poor farmers to Cimicifugae's home, opened the Fu family's granary, and distributed the food to the people. When the Red Army left Yanshan the next day, they took Cimicifuga to Li Xiqiao, Suining County and executed him.
The Sixth Army of the Red Army executed Wang Wenxiang in Shijiang, who had always been involved in litigation and extortion; suppressed the big bully and bandit Yuan Kuan on the streets of Gaosha Town, who was known as one of the "Three Kings and Five Tyrants" : Yin Chengzai, a local tycoon from Shibei Township, Deng Xingfang, a heinous criminal from Huayuan Township, and Deng Chenzhuo, a reactionary security chief who refused to send food to the Red Army, were taken to Wuyang, Suining County for execution. The broad masses of the people applauded and thanked the Red Army for redressing their injustice and repaying the debt of blood and tears.
The situation between the military and civilians
Before the Red Army arrived at the entrance of the cave, the Kuomintang reactionaries and local reactionary forces created many rumors, and many farmers hid in the mountains. The Red Army's practical actions of obeying discipline and caring for the people relieved the masses' concerns. Soon, everyone came back to solve the food and housing problems for the Red Army soldiers, and they were very cordial.
At first, many store doors on Yanshan Street were closed tightly. Later, I heard a Red Army soldier shouting affectionately: "Fellows, don't be afraid. Our Red Army is a team of the poor and will not take your things. If you have anything to eat, sell it to us and we'll pay according to the price." Some people saw the Red Army soldiers squatting on the street through the cracks in the door and no one knocked on the door. So some people took out the boiled sweet potatoes and sold them at the door. The soldiers did not negotiate the price, they paid as much as they said, and they only paid a lot more. After the news spread, all the shops were opened and edible things were put out. People nearby sold all the edible things they had in their homes on the streets. Several soldiers walked up to Mrs. Lin Yuyuan and said softly: "Mom, the weather is too cold. We want to take shelter at your home tonight." The aunt welcomed her with a smile on her face. The soldiers put down their backpacks and started cleaning. Carrying water and chopping firewood. In the evening, Aunt Lin saw several soldiers making gestures with white cloth under the lamp. She guessed that they were cutting the cloth into foot wraps, so she called her daughter-in-law, who was in confinement, to help her. The mother and daughter stayed up all night, ***Make 10 pairs of cloth socks, exactly one pair for each person. The next day when the soldiers left, they thanked Mrs. Lin again and again and gave him some white cloth, a printed quilt and two round porcelain urns as souvenirs.
The touching deeds of the Red Army caring about and loving the masses deeply moved the masses. The broad masses of farmers cared about and loved the Red Army from all aspects. Shijiang sewing master Qiu Guocai and 11 other masters worked together overnight to make 120 military caps. The Red Army gave each of them a silver dollar, and they were very excited. They made up a poem with your words: "The Red Army came to Shijiang Town and beat up the local tyrants and evil gentry. The rich were frightened and frightened, and the poor were in high spirits. The soldiers and civilians were Wearing military hats all night, we work together to kill the enemy. "Aunt Deng and her daughter-in-law Zeng Dong'e were hoeing in the soil of Ma's house in the garden. When they heard a faint moaning sound in the mountain, Aunt Deng immediately put down the hoe and went to search for it in the mountain.
Sure enough, she found a Red Army soldier (from Liuyang) about 20 years old and wearing an octagonal hat lying on the ground. She touched his forehead with her hand and it felt hot. She also saw that the wound on his right foot had begun to ooze pus. She thought that she could not let her loved one freeze to death in the wild, die of pain, or starve to death, and she must find a way to save him. She called her daughter-in-law to help the wounded man back home and let him lie on her daughter-in-law's bed. The daughter-in-law took out her husband's old blue cloth clothes and put them on him. The aunt told the wounded to rest in peace and recuperate, and to pretend to be mute if he saw an outsider coming, asking his daughter-in-law to recognize him as her husband (the daughter-in-law's husband was working as a porter in Guizhou). After the arrangements were made, the aunt went up the mountain to collect herbs every day and took good care of him. After a week, the soldier's injuries were basically cured. He told the aunt to go to the army. On the day before he left, his aunt got up at dawn and prepared food for him on the road. The soldier said to his aunt: "Aunt, you are my biological mother. I will always remember your kindness. After the revolution is victorious, I will definitely come to visit you." He reluctantly waved goodbye.
Follow the Red Army
The masses feel personally that the Red Army is their own team and the backing for their own struggle for liberation. The path of the Red Army is their own path to liberation. As a result, many poor farmers sent their children to join the Red Army, and young and middle-aged people were even more active and demanded to follow the Red Army. The poor farmers in Lijiadu saw 20 Red Army soldiers dying gloriously under bombing by enemy planes. Filled with anger to avenge the martyrs and a strong desire to seek liberation for themselves, they actively signed up to join the Red Army. Deng Xingyi, Deng Zhengren, and Wu Laosai from Xizhong Village, Deng Xingkai from Blind Field Village, Liu Laoxi from Xinxing Village, Chen Songqing from Mujing Village, and Luo Yu from Shenshang all followed the Red Army. Two sewing masters, Zou Yuhe and Wang Shunsheng on Dongkou Street, were invited to the garden to make military uniforms for the Red Army. They were deeply moved by the spirit of the Red Army and resolutely followed the Red Army on the Long March.
According to preliminary statistics from the county after liberation, there were more than 20 people who followed the Red Army. They contributed to the revolution. Among them: there are revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed their lives on the Long March without fulfilling their lofty ideals, there are national heroes who shed their last drop of blood on the anti-Japanese front line, and there are people’s heroes who have devoted their lives to the liberation cause of the Chinese people and socialist construction, such as those from Shijiang Town. Wang Zhengui, 30 years old at the time, joined the Red Army and was incorporated into the Sixth Army Security Bureau. During his 17-year military career, he fought in both the south and the north. He was awarded one commemorative medal each for "People's Meritorious Service", "Liberation of North China" and "Liberation of Northwest China". In 1952, he transferred to work in Xinjiang and retired in 1965. In January 1966, he returned to his hometown in Dongkou to settle down. He wrote revolutionary memoirs such as "Crossing the Jinsha River at Night", "Crossing the Snowy Mountains", and "The Past in the Spring and Autumn Period of Sixty Years".
During the Long March, touching and touching stories happened one after another. The story I am familiar with is called "A Bag of Dry Food". It tells the story of Xiaolan, a 13-year-old Red Army soldier who finally got a bag of dry food when she was marching with the army. However, when she was crossing a bridge to take care of a wounded soldier, she accidentally dropped her bag of dry food into the river and washed away. Gone. In order for everyone to have enough dry food to eat, she insisted not to tell them. In order to pretend that nothing happened, she pulled out a lot of wild vegetables and stuffed them into her satchel until it was bulging. Soon her health failed. After the head nurse discovered that she was eating wild vegetables and "dry food" in her bag, everyone knew the truth. So everyone gave her some dry food, so that she could feel the warmth of home... …Although the story is small, its connotation is not small. These little details and stories can reflect the outstanding qualities of the Red Army soldiers - not afraid of hardship, strong, selfless, enthusiastic... Xiaolan, she is only a 13-year-old girl, but she has a strong will like a boy; But know how to be considerate of others. When she had no food, she could have stretched out her hands to ask for some from her comrades, but she did not do so. She chose to remain silent, not telling anyone, and endured the hardship by herself. At this moment, she only thought about the interests of her comrades and ignored them. to overcome her own difficulties; and for the seriously injured wounded, she could have left them to fend for themselves, but she did not do that. She took care of the wounded carefully without complaining or regretting. If Xiaolan is like this, one can imagine the quality of the entire team of our great Red Army.
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Listen to the story of the Long March told by the old Red Army
“Young people, it’s hard for you to understand how we old people feel when we face the peaceful age gained through bloody battles. We have never wavered in dangerous situations because we firmly believe that our efforts can bring about today’s stability and prosperity.”
At 20:00 on July 23, the reporter met a 14-year-old who joined the Red Army and served three times! An old Red Army soldier who has spent half a century in grassland and military service, Mr. Sizhong was the former deputy political commissar of the Jinan Military Region. The 83-year-old man's chatterbox opened up, and he became excited when talking about the past prosperous years, and his lips trembled a little...
15-year-old boy led 171 people to join the Red Army
In December 1932, the main force of the Fourth Red Army arrived in northern Sichuan, and the guerrillas led by the underground party in eastern Sichuan began to operate in the Daxian area. At that time, Mr. Ren, who had dropped out of school due to poverty, was helping his father in farming at home.
"The party's team gave me the ability to think. I understand why the poor have worked hard all their lives and future generations will continue to suffer from poverty." The red regime divided the land from the local tyrants and pointed out a way for the poor to survive. This stirred up the heart of Mr. Ren. A huge wave.
The Red Army team made decisions for the poor peasants. Mr. Ren understood that this was a team of poor people.
The influence of the red family on him is crucial. His eldest brother joined the guerrillas earlier than him, but soon died heroically in a battle. His father actively responded to the call of the revolutionary ranks and served as chairman of the village Soviet. During the years when the Red Army left the base area, the old man was imprisoned by the reactionary army and tortured to death. Shortly after his father died, his mother also left with hatred. All of this strengthened Mr. Ren's determination to join the revolution.
1933 was a critical year for Mr. Ren to embark on the road of revolution. In June, Mr. Ren joined the guerrilla group and soon joined the Communist Youth League of China. Ren Lao was active in thought and actively explored the principles of revolution, and soon became the backbone of the guerrillas. After the main force of the Red Army occupied Daxian, he was elected as the captain of the district's Young Pioneers. The 15-year-old boy became the "leader" of 171 Red Devils. Under his leadership, the entire team of 172 people collectively joined the Red Army.
The young soldier became famous after fighting against the "Fan Team"
From a guerrilla to a veritable revolutionary warrior, the powerful reactionary warlords in Sichuan still forced the troops to move around to carry out revolutionary work.
In July 1934, Ren Lao served as the political and educational section chief of the Sichuan Provincial Young Pioneers Command and the instructor of the cadre company. Work is carried out in Danba area in western Sichuan. One day, when Mr. Ren and others were having a meeting in a three-story building, the reactionary warlord's armed forces suddenly rushed into the building and started a fierce gun battle on the stairs with the comrades in charge of sentry duty. The footsteps were dense and fast, and they were getting closer. Those who stayed would definitely die. Mr. Ren and the other three people jumped out of the window to escape. One of his companions fell to death on the spot. Mr. Ren’s right arm was supported on the ground. After his upper arm was fractured, he broke the ribs and inserted it into the chest. He He endured the pain and quickly moved into the night with his companions.
But not long after, Mr. Ren, with his injured arm hoisted by a bandage, became active in the mountain village again.
The work of the revolutionaries triggered a crazy counterattack by the evil forces. In the Xintangba area, there was a landowner armed force of about 500 people. They madly attacked the revolutionaries' work team and massacred the revolutionary masses. During the war, people The man held a fan and claimed to be an invulnerable magic weapon. The local people called him the "Fan Team". Late one night, Mr. Ren led a company of cadres to attack the "Fan Team" at night with the cooperation of the local Red Guards. During the battle, he was stabbed by the enemy's bayonet but still insisted on participating in the battle. In this battle, the Fan Team was completely wiped out, and the Young Army became famous in the first battle by eliminating harm for the people in the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area.
As soon as he crossed the grass, the bamboo stick penetrated the soles of his feet
“Young man, words cannot express the real scenes of the Long March. It is impossible for you to imagine how difficult it was at that time.” Mr. Ren told reporters. Some time ago, Mr. Ren insisted on watching the TV series "The Long March" every day. He watched it more intently than everyone else in his family. He was moved by the TV series, but he still told his family that "it was a bit painful and they couldn't film it."
The three scars on Old Ren’s head and a penetrating wound on the arch of his foot were all left during the Long March. Speaking of his first injury after the start of the Long March, Mr. Ren took off his shoes, and there was a dent about three centimeters square in the center of the instep of his right foot.
"The Fourth Red Front Army's Long March was the longest, crossing grassland three times. The first time I crossed the grassland, my right foot was penetrated by the bamboo stick formation deployed by the reactionary army."
It was a forced march at night, with interceptions in front and pursuers behind. Mr. Ren led a team of more than a dozen people and quickly moved towards Aba. Mr. Ren was walking in the front. He carefully crossed the barbed wire fence laid by the reactionary army. Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in the sole of his foot. He fell to the ground and could no longer move. The comrade brought up the lantern and took a look. A bamboo stick nearly 0.1 meters long passed through the sole of his right foot, and a long length was exposed on the instep.
The injury lasted only a moment, and Ren Lao suffered from the injured foot for several months. The team marched continuously without any chance to stop and recuperate. When the wound became suppurative, the comrades cut the gauze into long and narrow strips, dipped it in water and passed it through the wound, pulling it back and forth to remove the pus, blood and polyps inside. Every pull was accompanied by excruciating pain, but there was no way. It was the only way to prevent further infection in an environment where there was a lack of medical treatment and medicine.
"Who among the young people today in peaceful times can endure such pain?" At this point, Mr. Ren murmured.
The second time I crossed the grassland, I saved my life at the gate of hell.
The second time I crossed the grassland, it was even more dangerous. Mr. Ren stepped into the gate of hell with one foot.
In the second half of 1935, Ren Laoshi served as the instructor of the first company of the teaching regiment of the headquarters of the Fourth Red Army. The army marched from Aba in the direction of appeasement. When we arrived at the Blackwater River, the bridge had been destroyed and the south bank was occupied by bandits. In order to ensure that the main force could cross the river, Mr. Ren and 30 other cadres and soldiers swam across the river in the dark. It was the middle of winter, the water was fast and freezing, and only eight people managed to swim to the other side. What followed was a surprise attack that stunned the enemy troops on the south bank. Most of the enemy troops were shot dead in their sleep. Eight people quickly occupied the bridgehead, and the large troops successfully built a short bridge.
As a result, Mr. Ren contracted severe typhoid fever. The Red Army lacked medical treatment and medicine, and the supply of food was cut off. His illness worsened step by step, and he often fell into a coma, so his comrades carried him on the march. 20 days later, the troops walked out of the grassland and came to appeasement. At this time, Lao Ren was in shock for a long time. His comrades mistakenly thought he was dead, so they placed him in a cave under the stone cliff of Appeasement Beach.
After an unknown amount of time, he regained consciousness and struggled to crawl to the river to drink water. For a distance of more than ten meters, Mr. Ren actually crawled for two or three hours. Local resident Hao Laohan found out and rescued him home.
Old Hao treated him like his own son, cooking millet porridge and feeding him bite by bite every day. The old man had only one daughter, so he wanted to adopt her as his son. But Mr. Ren wanted to return to the team. He moved a small bench and sat at the gate every day, hoping to see his comrades in the team. Two months later, Mr. Ren's illness was basically cured. He said goodbye to Mr. Hao and his wife with tears, found the Jinchuan Provincial Party Committee active in the area, and returned to the revolutionary ranks.
When he experienced this resurrection from the dead, Mr. Ren was not yet 18 years old.
In July 1936, Ren Lao's illness was completely cured. At this time, the team departed from appeasement and headed north again. Mr. Ren marched on the grassland with seven or eight soldiers younger than him. One night, a young soldier asked Mr. Ren, "Section Chief, what will the future be like?" "Everyone lives happily, with no shortage of food and clothing." "Can that be realized?" "Of course it can."
There are not many words to say about the honorary old man
Ren took up calligraphy in peacetime. Whenever his friends asked for calligraphy, he could not forget to stamp it with a seal, or "Long March Warriors", or "Survivors". This is the position the old man gave himself in his later years.
During the war years, Mr. Ren was a brave and capable general. He attached great importance to ideological work and was good at using mind-attack tactics, and was often able to defeat others without fighting. At the beginning of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Mr. Ren led his team to counter the rebellion in Harqin Banner. He properly used the policy of peaceful counter-insurgency and opened up the 300-kilometer Chengchi-Chi Highway. Since then, Mr. Ren has made great achievements in many battles such as the attack on Tianjin, the suppression of bandits in Guangxi, and the counterattack in Jincheng to aid Korea. In 1955, the old man was awarded the second-level August 1st Medal, the second-level Medal of Independence and Freedom, and the second-level Medal of Liberation. In 1988, he was awarded the first-level Red Star Medal of Honor. But when it comes to honor, the old man doesn't have many words.
"During the war years, too many good comrades fell around us. Compared with them, I am a survivor and even more lucky." "I can see with my own eyes that I have worked hard for it. Achieving the goal is the greatest luck, and the real honor goes to those martyrs who sacrificed their lives with honor.”
According to Mr. Ren’s family, Mr. Ren feels very sad every time he thinks of his fallen comrades. At that time, Mr. Ren led 171 people to join the Red Army, but after various incidents, Mr. Ren could not see any of them after liberation. He could never forget the experience of returning to his hometown in 1953. At that time, the relatives of his comrades heard that he was coming back and stood on both sides of the road waiting to inquire about the whereabouts of their relatives. Mr. Ren rode a horse for more than 30 kilometers on the mountain road. When the villagers who had been waiting for a long time came forward to ask, the old man burst into tears.
Another time, Mr. Ren found the names of his comrades on the Revolutionary Martyrs Monument.