In October 1936, the Red Front Army and the Red Fourth Front Army arrived in the Huining area of Gansu Province and successfully joined forces with the First Red Front Army, marking the successful end of the Long March that spanned 25,000 miles.
To this day, people are already familiar with the difficulties and hardships Red Army soldiers faced during the Long March. Climbing a snow-capped mountain, crossing a grassland , there are interceptions in front and pursuers in the back. Maybe the comrades who were fighting side by side yesterday will have to face life and death today.
The hardships of the Red Army's Long March still scare everyone who witnessed it decades later. When the surviving veterans of the Red Army talked about this thousands-mile journey, what impressed them most was the word "bitter", because the Long March was really too difficult.
had no food or clothing, and was bombarded by enemy planes overhead, and was followed day and night by enemy pursuers. Sometimes, in order to gain time, they had to march dozens of kilometers a day, which made the soldiers miserable. When many veterans of the Red Army recalled this experience, they admitted that they didn't know how they persisted. This may be the power of belief!
However, during this difficult Long March, there was a soldier who completed the Long March very "easily". Because he was carried all the way to the destination on a stretcher by his comrades, and he was also the only person on the Long March who enjoyed such "special" treatment. All of this begins with a fierce battle before the Long March of the Fourth Red Army.
The soldier’s name was Xiao Yongyin. Yes, it was the Major General Xiao Yongyin who would frighten the enemy in the future. However, at that time, he was just a 17-year-old ordinary soldier, and he had not yet grown into the founding major general who would be victorious in all battles in the future. However, as the saying goes, if you have ambitions, you will not grow taller, and if you have no ambitions, you will live a hundred years. Although Xiao Yongyin was only a 17-year-old boy at the time, he had already shown extremely high fighting talent.
In June 1917, Xiao Yongyin was born into an ordinary peasant family in Jianchanghe Township, Huang'an, Hubei. His mother died of illness when he was 5 years old, and his father was killed because of a misunderstanding when he was 13 years old. Also in this year, Xiao Yongyin, who was only 13 years old, joined our army and became a Little Red Army member. Because he was too young to join the army when he joined the army, he first became an orderly and later became an excellent trumpeter.
In October 1933, the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang defeated Liu Wenhui, temporarily ending the chaos in Sichuan. Soon afterwards, Liu Xiang gathered warlords from various factions in Sichuan and formed an army of about 200,000 people in more than 110 regiments, and launched an attack on our army in six directions. Moreover, at the beginning of the war, Liu Xiang also made harsh words, saying that our army's Red Fourth Front Army would be wiped out on the Sichuan-Shaanxi border within three months.
The enemy came with great force. Under the cover of aircraft and artillery, our army suffered great losses. In order to break out quickly, the 33rd Regiment of the 11th Division of the Fourth Red Army made a huge sacrifice. However, because the enemy was well prepared and blocked all possible breakout routes, our army was still unable to completely get rid of the enemy after three days and three nights of fighting.
In this three-day fierce battle, the 33rd Regiment had suffered heavy losses, and most of its battalion and company-level instructors had also died. The regiment leader Zhang Jihou was even more anxious. Seeing that the regiment commander was about to be unable to stop the enemy's attack, Xiao Yongyin, who had been standing nearby as the division commander , stood up. He took the initiative to ask for help from the regiment commander. If you let me take command, I will definitely repel the enemy. attack!
Xiao Yongyin is smart, reliable, and very good at using his brain. He is usually deeply loved by Zhang Jihou. Zhang Jihou had no choice but to treat the dead horse as a living horse doctor. But after all, this was related to the lives of all the soldiers in the regiment. He still asked Xiao Yongyin earnestly: "Are you sure?"
Xiao Yongyin walked up Go forward, puff up your chest and report: "Captain, give me two companies and let me fight offensively and defensively. If I can't beat back the enemy, kill my head!" Zhang Jihou saw this 17-year-old man The 19-year-old soldier was so determined that he agreed to Xiao Yongyin's request and handed over the soldiers of the two companies to his command.
The enemy was pressing forward step by step and was about to break through our defense line. Just when the enemy thought victory was in sight, they suddenly saw a shocking scene. They saw a group of troops rushing out of the trenches of our army. They were led by a child in a desperate posture and didn't care at all. His own life and death were constantly rushing back and forth on the battlefield.
Under Xiao Yongyin's crazy tiger-like offensive, the enemy's morale was quickly hit to the ground. Zhang Jihou took the opportunity to order the entire regiment to counterattack, and drove the enemy 30 miles away in one go, winning the ground for our army's retreat. precious time.
Just as the soldiers were cheering for victory, Zhang Jihou suddenly found Xiao Yongyin lying beside the trench. He saw a finger-thick gun hole in front of his thin chest. With his weak breathing, gunshots were coming out one by one. Blood foam, the slightly loose military uniform on his body was quickly soaked with blood.
It turned out that when Xiao Yongyin was chasing the enemy, a bullet hit his lungs. Zhang Jihou hurriedly called the health worker, but after the health worker saw Xiao Yongyin's injury, he shook his head sadly at the group leader.
The situation at that time was very complicated. The Fourth Red Army was about to embark on the Long March. In this thousands-mile journey, even strong soldiers might not be able to survive to the end, not to mention that Xiao Yongyin suffered such a serious injury. hurt. For a time, Zhang Jihou was in a dilemma. He wanted to take Xiao Yongyin on the road with him, but he was afraid that it would kill Xiao Yongyin. However, with Xiao Yongyin's injury, he could only wait to die if he stayed.
At this moment, Army Commander Xu Shiyou came over to check the preparations of the soldiers. When he saw Xiao Yongyin lying on the ground and Zhang Jihou in a dilemma, he asked, "What's going on?"
Zhang Jihou stood up. Reported to the army commander: "This kid is so cute, I really can't bear to leave him!" After hearing this, the army commander waved his hand and said: "Since you can't let go, let's carry him up and go together." One thing originally made Zhang Jihou The dilemma I felt was easily solved.
Under the careful care of his comrades, Xiao Yongyin, who was seriously injured and had been in coma for several days and nights, lay on a stretcher and embarked on the Long March. Later, after recovering from his injuries, Xiao Yongyin successively participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, and later the to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea, and gradually grew into an outstanding general of our army.
In 1955, Xiao Yongyin was awarded the rank of major general. One day, when Xiao Yongyin, who had grown up to be the deputy commander and chief of staff of the Nanjing Military Region, was talking about the past events on the Long March with the commander Xu Shiyou, Xu Shiyou said with emotion: "I didn't expect that kid to be you! "It is precisely because General Xu Shiyou and General Zhang Jihou never abandon or give up that our army has an invincible general!
