In 1934, more than 170 Red Army soldiers jumped off the cliff en masse. He Zizhen sighed: "Without them, I would not have the freedom I have today." ”
In 2001, Yang Youzhu, deputy director of the Party History Research Office of Shiqian County, discovered a unique custom of the local villagers in Longtang Town by chance. Every year around the Chung Yeung Festival, the villagers will spontaneously bring offerings to a local high mountain to make incense, and the scene is very spectacular.
He wondered why the villagers did thisWhat is the story behind this mountain?So, he began to delve deeper and investigate. Although he looked through a lot of information, Yang Youzhu could not find the answer.
So, he changed direction and decided to look for clues through conversations with older local villagers. After many visits and conversations, he learned that the villagers had come to the mountain because they had deep apologies and respect for the more than 170 Red Army soldiers who died here 67 years ago.
From September 1933 to the summer of 1934, the Red Army suffered heavy losses in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operation, and the Soviet zone gradually shrank.
In order to preserve the strength of the revolution, it was decided to make a strategic transfer and send the Red Sixth Army Corps as the vanguard to explore the way for the transfer of the Red Army. On August 7 of that year, the Red Sixth Army of the Red Army, under the leadership of Ren Bishi, ** and others, was ordered to march westward, planning to move to central Hunan, develop guerrilla warfare, and establish a new Soviet area.
Knowing this background, Yang Youzhu delved deeper into the history and story of the mountain. He hopes that by learning about the history of this mountain, more people can understand this history and remember those who gave their lives for the revolution.
This contingent of more than 9,700 Red Army troops set out from the Hunan and Jiangxi revolutionary base areas and moved in the direction of Hunan and Jiangxi and Guizhou. In the process of transfer, they went through many battles, and in order to get rid of the pursuit of the enemy and crush the enemy's conspiracy, the Red Army soldiers marched non-stop.
When they passed through Baojing, they did not rest for a day and a night. Finally, on the afternoon of September 29, they successfully reached the mouth of Shidong. During this transfer, the Red Sixth Army broke through four blockade lines of the enemy.
However, when they reached the Ganxi area of Shiqian County, Guizhou on October 7, they had an encounter with the 19th Division of the Gui Army. Despite the fact that the enemy troops seized favorable terrain and launched fierce attacks, the Red Army soldiers fought bloodily and heroically fought for positions, and the battle was extremely fierce.
In the end, the Red Army managed to repel the enemy attack and get out of the encirclement of the enemy army. However, the battle resulted in a large amount of ammunition and personnel, and the troops were divided into three parts.
At a critical juncture, the enemy gathered the strength of 24 legions in an attempt to intercept and destroy the Red Sixth Legion. The Red Army decided to take advantage of the natural environment of high mountains and dense forests, to engage the enemy through guerrilla warfare, and to seek a breakthrough.
In order to ensure that the main force of the Red Sixth Army stood out from the encirclement, ** and Ren Bishi ordered Long Yun, Gan Siqi and Ye Changgeng of the 18th Division to lead the 18th Division to serve as the rear guard of the legion and cover the transfer of the main force of the legion.
Although the enemy's combat effectiveness was strong, the commanders and fighters of the division and the 52nd Regiment led by Long Yun relied on their stubborn revolutionary will to resist the strength of the enemy's four regiments and successfully ensured the safe passage of the main force of the Red Army through the dangerous area.
However, the 52nd Regiment was also besieged by enemy forces from all sides.
In the face of the fierce enemy army, none of the warriors of the 52nd Regiment flinched. With their tenacious will to fight, they fought to the death against the enemy and bought time for the main force of the Red Army to break through.
After several days and nights of fierce fighting, Long Yun led more than 500 soldiers to break out of the enemy's encirclement and came to camp near the sheep farm in Zhenyuan County for a short rest. However, at this moment, the enemy army attacked again and surrounded their camp.
At the critical moment, Long Yun led the soldiers to break through in two ways. In the fierce battle, although the fighters who broke through to the south fought all the way, and in the end only the reconnaissance squad broke out of the encirclement, but unfortunately they were killed by the militia in the process of breaking through.
After breaking through, the Red Army soldiers led by Long Yun came to camp on Guanbi Mountain in the middle of the night. After a night's rest, Long Yun and the others had not yet started their next move, when they met Yang Tongcheng, a merchant who had gone up the mountain to hide cloth.
Soon, Yang Tongcheng began to publicize among the masses that he had encountered the Red Army. When the Kuomintang learned of this, they immediately sent the 14th Regiment of the Guizhou Army and hundreds of militia and bandit troops to quietly come to the mountain in the evening of the same day.
On the way to Cengong County, Long Yun led his team to encounter an ambush by the Kuomintang, and at the same time there were pursuers behind him. Despite the large number of enemy troops and the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, Long Yun remained calm, commanded the soldiers to respond calmly, and fought to the death with the enemy army.
In order to protect the people, the Red Army tried to avoid harming them as much as possible, and despite the precipitous situation in Trapped Niu Mountain, Long Yun and his team still managed to repel the enemy. However, since the high mountains were occupied by enemy troops, and the pursuing enemy forces could not get rid of them, the Red Army could only do its best to preserve the living forces.
Therefore, Long Yun decided to adopt a two-way strategy, he led 200 men to climb the steep wall to the river ditch to break through, while the regiment commander Tian Haiqing led 100 men to stay on the Trapped Niu Mountain and take advantage of the favorable terrain to block the enemy.
After fierce fighting, unfortunately, the regiment commander Tian Haiqing died, but the remaining Red Army still fought valiantly.
Before the arrival of the Red Army, the Kuomintang spread rumors that the Red Army would arrest and kill people, and even practice "communism and communism", causing the local masses to have a deep misunderstanding of the Red Army and were very afraid.
In order to achieve their goal, the Kuomintang coaxed and deceived the local people to go ahead, while they hid behind the people with guns. Seeing that the enemy army was gradually shrinking the encirclement, the Red Army soldiers were always reluctant to harm the civilians, but only raised their guns high and fired into the sky, or fired at people's ears, only scratching a little skin.
But at that time, the bandits who surrounded them were wearing the same clothes as the common people, and the Red Army soldiers could not distinguish them, which led to the reaction of the Red Army to give the enemy an inch, and constantly forced the people to move on.
The statue of the Red Army in Sleepy Niu Mountain witnesses the brave and fearless soldiers, who chose to jump off the cliff in order to protect the people and not fall into the hands of the enemy under the pressure of the enemy.
These more than 100 Red Army soldiers, even in the face of life and death, did not hesitate to sacrifice their lives, and their unhesitating feat deeply touched the local people. The bones of these children can still be seen in the area of the Yaxia River.
With apologies and respect for the Red Army, they risked their lives to secretly collect the relics of the Red Army, help the Red Army bury the remains, and even adopted some Red Army survivors.
Chen Shirong, a thin 17-year-old trumpeter, survived by luck because he was entangled in a rattan after jumping off a cliff.
When Chen Shirong and his military horn of the Red Army were discovered by the local people, they secretly took him home for treatment. Chen Shirong settled down thereafter, married and had children, and lived here until his death.
"My father told me that they knew that the cliff was deep, but they were afraid of hurting the people, so they did not attack the enemy violently," his son said. Otherwise, they wouldn't be so miserable, all jumping off cliffs ......In order to commemorate these Red Army soldiers who love the people and sacrifice heroically, the people in a radius of dozens of miles will spontaneously come here to burn incense and paper to pay tribute to the martyrs.
In addition, the broad masses of workers and peasants began to come to their senses, and some of them took the initiative to join the revolution. At the beginning of 1936, in just a dozen days, the Red Army established 12 guerrilla brigades and two guerrilla units here, adding more than 1,000 new fighters in total.
In the hearts of the local people, the image of the Red Army is like the folk song of the **Soviet region often sung by Chen Shirong: "To be a soldier is to be a Red Army, workers and peasants everywhere come to welcome, officers and soldiers are the same, no one comes to oppress people......”
The brutality of the enemy was heart-wrenching, and they did not hesitate to kill the Red Army soldiers who insisted on shouting "Division Commander Long Yun" in order to cover Long Yun and the breakthrough troops.
Although these survivors would rather die than expose Long Yun, their heroic spirit and sacrifice made He Zizhen sigh: "Without them, I would not be where I am today." However, Long Yun and his troops did not escape their unfortunate fate, and they engaged in fierce battles with the enemy, and many of the soldiers were wounded but continued to fight until they ran out of ammunition and food, and had to fight with the enemy with bayonets.
Despite their exhaustion, with amazing perseverance, they engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. In the end, this brutal battle cost many soldiers their lives, and Long Yun was also seriously injured.
When they retreated to Kuilougou, the enemy troops swarmed up and surrounded them halfway up the steep slope. Although Long Yun broke out of the enemy's encirclement alone, the troops were once again scattered by the enemy, and more than 80 people were captured.
In an unfamiliar environment, Long Yun came to Guanzhuang and wanted to find a local to lead him around. Unexpectedly, the person he invited turned out to be Yang Shizhong, the chief of Guanzhuang.
After Yang Shizhong found out that Long Yun was a soldier of the Red Army, he was secretly happy in his heart and promised to lead the way for him. Then, he deliberately took Long Yun to the vicinity of the militia outpost. At that time, Long Yun was so hungry that his stomach was growling, and he wanted to find a place to fill his stomach.
At this moment, Yang Shizhong suddenly shouted, attracting people from the Kuomintang. After spotting the enemy, Long Yun quickly took out his pistol and fired two shots at the enemy, but he didn't hit.
The villagers rushed up and stabbed Long Yun in the thigh with a shuttle dart. Long Yun tried to escape, but because of excessive bleeding, he was quickly caught. **Later, the puppet county magistrate Li Lin used all kinds of torture against Long Yun, but Long Yun was always loyal and unyielding, and did not reveal any information beneficial to the enemy.
Therefore, the pseudo county magistrate has not been able to determine Long Yun's identity. Later, due to the betrayal of the traitor, Long Yun's identity was **. The puppet county magistrate immediately reported this important information to the Yuanxing Battalion of Qianjun Town.
He Jian was quick, and Captain Cen Gongbao escorted Long Yun to Zhenyuan and handed him over to Huang Liehou, a subordinate of the Guizhou warlord Wang Jialie. Subsequently, Huang Liehou personally escorted Long Yun to Guiyang and imprisoned him in the No. 1 Prison of the Guizhou Provincial High Court of the Kuomintang, where he was under strict supervision.
During this period, in order to win appreciation, Huang Liehou informed He Jian, the "commander-in-chief of the Western Road Suppression of the Communist Party", about the capture of Long Yun. He Jian immediately ordered Long Yun to be taken to Changsha for interrogation.
After arriving in Changsha, He Jian threatened and lured Long Yun, but Long Yun never wavered in his firm revolutionary beliefs. A few months later, under the torture of the enemy and the ravages of disease, Long Yun died of illness in the Wuhan Reformatory at the age of 33.
The great sacrifice of the soldiers of the 52nd Regiment was not in vain, because their brave and dedicated spirit won a favorable opportunity for the main force of the Red Sixth Army to successfully break through the siege, and finally realized the victory of the Red Sixth Army and the Red Third Army at Muhuang, Yinjiang County, Tongren.
At the same time, it also helped the Kuomintang to find out the deployment of troops, understand the road along the way, and provided important reference materials for the strategic transfer of the Red Army.
If it weren't for the heavy price paid by the 52nd Regiment, there might not be the Red Sixth Army, let alone where I am today. However, at that time, ** only knew that Long Yun and others were captured, but he didn't know that more than 100 soldiers bravely jumped off the cliff and died.
Xiao Ke later sent people to look for them, but there was no news. For a long time, ** has always been concerned about these mysteriously missing fighters. The investigation team came to Shiqian County several times to check the information, but found no relevant records.
It wasn't until Yang Youzhu visited the local residents and collected reliable information that this 67-year-old incident became known to the world. Local residents strongly demanded that a monument be erected to commemorate this heroic feat.
There was a time when residents would come to the cave to burn paper and pray to the gods not to disturb them. But I don't know when this custom gradually disappeared.
The monument to the feat of the Red Army in Sleepy Cow Mountain was built to commemorate more than 100 Red Army soldiers in Sleepy Cow Mountain. The heroic deeds of these Red Army soldiers made the local people see the determination and action of the Communist Party to seek happiness for them, so they chose to believe in the Party instead of superstition.
The grandfather of Zhang Guoyu, secretary of the party branch of Sleepy Niushan Village, once said to him: "These Red Army dolls were only fifteen or sixteen years old when they died, and they have no descendants, so you have to be their children and grandchildren.......""The villagers near Sleepy Niu Mountain not only burned incense and paper for the martyrs during the festival, but also strongly demanded that a monument be erected for them.
In 2007, the Shiqian County Party Committee and the county **, in the case of a shortage of funds, decided to overcome difficulties and build a monument to the feat of the Red Army in Sleepy Niu Mountain for the martyrs. After the news was announced, the villagers of Sleepy Niu Mountain were very excited.
Under difficult conditions, everyone enthusiastically participated in the construction of the monument. Some of the villagers drove "climbing trucks" to transport materials, and some took the initiative to take out their own water pipes, connect them to long water pipes, and divert water from the bottom of the mountain for construction.
After a whole year of hard work, the monument to the feat of the Red Army in Sleepy Niu Mountain was finally completed in September 2009. The villagers said happily: "It's like incense, there is finally a place to worship the martyrs!"
For this monument, everyone loves it very much. Since the monument was built, no villagers have come to this hill to graze the cattle, and everyone is lined up to clean the sanitation here.
It can be seen that everyone is from the bottom of their hearts and wants to protect this place.