Vice Chairman Zhou helped me onto the war horse
In May 1935, after the Red Army forcibly crossed the Dadu River, it continued to advance northward. At the beginning of June, we successively captured tianquan, Lushan and other places, leaving the enemy's main force far behind. So the enemy sent planes to bomb indiscriminately every day in an attempt to prevent the Red Army from advancing.
-day, we passed Lushan and were heading towards Baoxing along the mountain road when suddenly the air defense horn sounded again. As soon as everyone took cover, a group of enemy planes swooped down halfway up the mountain like snitches, dropping bombs and strafing, causing gravel to fly everywhere and the vegetation to catch fire. Regardless of the enemy's ferocity, our Red Army has already experienced this trick many times. Therefore, as soon as the air raid alert was lifted, everyone immediately came out of their hiding places and continued moving forward.
After we walked for a long time, guard Fan Jinbiao suddenly called out to me: " Wu Sheng opened , are you injured? I lowered my head and saw that it was not the case. Blood was seeping out through the pants leg. . I immediately bent down and rolled up my trousers, and then I realized that my leg was injured, and I immediately felt terrible pain.
However, I was afraid that the chief would worry about it, so I pulled a piece of cloth and tied the wound tightly. I lowered my trousers. But this could not be hidden from Vice Chairman Zhou’s eyes. He immediately stopped and wanted to see my wound. Skin. "
After lunch, the weather cleared up and we continued the march. Not long after we set off, we came to a hillside and an air raid horn blew in front of us.
There were few trees in this area. President Zhu and Vice Chairman Zhou Enlai led their people to a cemetery in a nearby depression. Inside. I hurriedly told the soldiers and the cooking squad to lie down on the spot. The enemy planes flew low and soon spotted us. The two enemy planes kept diving, bombing, and strafing above us for a while. Let's go.
As soon as the enemy plane left, we quickly checked and found that several people were injured. A piece of Mr. Zhu's trouser leg was torn by shrapnel. A bomb exploded on the side of the grave where he was lying, flattening the grass on the grave. Fortunately, he was not injured. . At this time, the health workers brought gauze and cotton wool to bandage the wounded.
I remembered that when passing through Yunnan, the Red Army handed over a batch of Yunnan Baiyao . The general health department gave some to the boss. This medicine is very effective in stopping bleeding and treating injuries. As soon as the boss said this, the two men immediately opened the briefcase, took out more than a dozen small bottles of Yunnan Baiyao, and gave the red pills to the wounded with the health workers. They applied the white medicine on the wounds, and then helped the wounded to bandage them, knowing that it was the commander-in-chief who took them. Many people expressed their gratitude for the Yunnan Baiyao that came out. Some of them said loudly as soon as they were bandaged: "The Commander-in-Chief's Yunnan Baiyao is really effective. Even after taking it and applying it, I soon felt no pain.
After bandaging the wounded, the troops set off again. Pan Kaiwen (Boss Zhu's bodyguard), Fan Jinbiao (Vice Chairman Zhou's bodyguard) and I arranged for the wounded who could not walk to ride on an animal.
Boss Zhu and Vice Chairman Zhou freed up their animals and walked with everyone. When several wounded men saw them walking, they wanted to get off their horses and ask the chief to ride on them. Zhou Enlai and the boss hurriedly stopped them:
"You can't walk or ride a horse. Should we all carry you on our backs? Besides, it's not like the commander-in-chief and I can't walk. We have been riding for most of the day, and now we need to walk. Move around. "
At this time, the breeder comrade had already led the horse to me. No matter how I explained, Vice Chairman Zhou still insisted on helping me onto the horse. He waited until I was riding steadily on the horse before he happily went back to work.
Two old tea jars
- In mid-June of 1935, the Red Army crossed the Snowy Mountains one by one and sandwiched Jinshan Mountain. Later, I heard that comrades from the Red Fourth Front Army were preparing to welcome them in the Dawei and Maogong areas. us. Everyone was very happy. The fatigue and sleepiness of crossing Luding and climbing the snow-capped mountains suddenly disappeared. The leaders were also busy excitedly in preparation for the rendezvous between the two armies.
html One day, Vice Chairman Zhou, Commander-in-Chief Zhu, Zhang Yunyi and other leaders were sitting on stones by the roadside, studying the issue of joining forces. The snowy mountain is like a cold ice cave, but at the foot of the mountain, it is as hot as a fire.
I untied the two teapots and was about to pour water when I started muttering in my mind: Of the two teapots, one is slightly better, but a lot of enamel has been knocked off and the embroidery has become mottled. The other one is even worse. , the enamel has basically fallen off, is rusty and broken, and there are still many gaps on the mouth of the jar, which are jagged and jagged. How can you use such a tea vat to entertain the chief to drink water?
I thought about it for a moment, then picked up the slightly better teapot, filled half of it with water, and brought it to the leaders. But with one vat and three leaders, who should I give it to? I was in a dilemma, and my awkward look made the leaders burst into laughter.
After laughing, Vice Chairman Zhou took the jar and gave it to Commander-in-Chief Zhu De. He then asked me, "Wu Shengkai, is there no bowl?"
I said* "There are no fellow villagers here, so I can't borrow a bowl." "Isn't there a teapot?" "
I was even more embarrassed when asked by Vice Chairman Zhou," he replied hesitantly: "That teapot is too... broken..."
At this time, Comrade Fan Jinbiao came over with half a bowl of water. Vice Chairman Zhou After the chairman took it and handed it to Comrade Zhang Yunyi, the Chief of Operations,
said to me: "Xiao Wu, if there is still water, use that broken tea vat to pour some for me to drink. "
I had no choice but to pour water into the rusty teapot and gave it to Vice Chairman Zhou;
Then the leaders turned to talk about Vice Chairman Zhou's two old teapots.
Zhang Yunyi The comrade said wittily, “Vice Chairman Zhou’s two old tea jars have a very long history. "
Commander-in-Chief Zhu also said with a smile: "In Ruijin, he used it to entertain me many times!
Vice Chairman Zhou touched the broken teapot with his hand and said with a smile, "It has done a lot of work! These are all historical records!
The mountains are rolling, the rocks are bumping, and the enemy's bullets are knocking... it They all came over. I want to take it to Lushan and use it in the future!”
The leaders all laughed. Speaking of Vice Chairman Zhou’s two old tea jars, they indeed have a “long history”! I remember that when I was packing Vice Chairman Zhou’s luggage in Meikeng, Ruijin, in preparation for a major strategic shift, a local comrade who was doing military work in the district said that when Vice Chairman Zhou arrived in Ruijin, he brought these two old tea jars with him.
I usually use it to drink tea and hold salt water. Because the enemy in that country imposed an economic blockade on us, there was an extreme shortage of salt; the Red Army commanders and soldiers had to eat mussels often and drink light soup.
Once, after he reported his work to Vice Chairman Zhou, the leader invited him to eat. He poured the salt water collected in a bamboo tube into an old tea vat and asked him to pick up mussels and eat them with the salt water.
Vice Chairman Zhou himself only occasionally dips a little bit into the salt water with the tip of his chopsticks, takes a sip in his mouth, and then eats "steamed bun rice" (the so-called steamed bun rice is made with a certain amount of rice, some beans or vegetables, wrapped and steamed) Rice balls, one for each person regardless of cadres or soldiers).
