"Old Yangtou, why are you doing this? The two children have already left, these children should let them stay at home, even if it is time to give you a pension! ”
"I don't need them to die, it's good that they can do a good job in the army, even if they die on the battlefield, they defend the motherland and the people, and they deserve it! ”
"Hey, you, you, old Yang, I really don't know whether to say that you are smart or stupid. ”
This is an ordinary conversation in a small mountain village in Ruijin, so that every day Lao Yang Tou will hear others say to him, and he will answer others several times a day, so what kind of situation is he going to send his son to the battlefield?
Yang Rongxian is one of the ordinary people in Ruijin, an ordinary small city in Jiangxi Province, where peasants are born with bureaucratic capitalist exploitation and higher taxes that are getting higher and higher year by year.
Yang Rongxian, who was born as a farmer, has lived in oppression since he was a child, planting rice for the landlord's family, harvesting rice, herding cattle, and feeding horses, all of which are his work, but he usually can't even eat enough, and the family has to rely on the landlord's gift if they want to barely make a living.
However, those landlords don't have to work every day, just rely on the annual grain paid by the tenants below to have enough food and clothing, such a huge gap in life makes Yang Rongxian feel unfair, how can he never resent God.
complained that he was not entrusted to the landlord's house, complained about why everyone was unequal, why they could receive high returns without labor, but God told him through time that resentment was useless, and he could only rely on himself if he wanted to change the status quo.
In order to change his living environment, Yang Rongxian worked harder, the landlord saw that he did more work, and he gave him more food every year, plus he went to other places to do odd jobs to make money, and finally he saved a small amount of money, which was enough for him to marry a daughter-in-law.
With the passage of time, Yang Rongxian married a wife and had children, and lived the same life as his parents, the only difference was that the braids on his head were cut off, but from the Qing Dynasty to **, everyone has earned money, and it seems that only the common people are still struggling at the bottom. Yang Rongxian has long lost the determination to change everything when he was a teenager, time! It is always possible to easily wear down a person's will.
Yang Rongxian has eight sons, his son needs money to grow up healthily, and his son needs money to marry a wife and have children, in short, Yang Rongxian has to work harder, work harder to please the landlord, and pray that the landlord can pay less rent this year, so that the family can have more surplus food.
FigThe common people lived at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
In this way, Yang Rongxian's groveling days have passed for more than 20 years, for the sake of his children and family, Yang Rongxian can give up all dignity, as long as they can live. Unable to change, he could only be forced to accept it, until the arrival of the Red Army changed everything in Ruijin.
The Red Army seems to be a special army, and after they came to Ruijin, they helped the common people to overthrow the landlords, and also distributed a large amount of land from the landlords to each household according to the labor force of each family, so that every ordinary person could have his own land.
In addition, they are different from the Kuomintang army in Ruijin before, the Kuomintang army robbed the common people like bandits, and the Red Army did not even take a stitch from the common people, maybe they really changed their lives.
The Red Army came, the days of not having enough food and clothing were over, and he had his own field, which was something that Yang Rongxian had never dared to think of before.
The Red Army is good to the common people, and the common people naturally support the Red Army, and the ordinary people have not gone to school and do not understand the "communist ideology" of the Red Army, but they only need to know one thing that the Red Army is good to the common people.
The people were the masters of their own affairs, and with the support of the Red Army, the common people of Ruijin did it, they did not have the oppression of the landlords, they did not have tenants or tenant farmers, and some were just industrious and willing to work, in order to ensure that there was a close connection between the Red Army and the peasants.
The Red Army sent instructors, and under the command of the instructors, autonomous committees were set up in the villages, whose members were ordinary peasants in the villages, so that they could actively participate in the future development of their villages. Only then will it be clear to them that their village is in charge of their own affairs.
In 1931, the Soviet Union was officially established in Ruijin, and the banner of the Communist Party of China fluttered early every day. Every member of the Soviet ** became good friends with the common people here.
Sometimes the old farmers give a few catties of dates and eggs to the cadres there, and the cadres also have some respects, although the things are not expensive, but they are the most precious things that are homely, and sending each other is the real neighborly mode of getting along.
FigRuijin. With the official proclamation of the establishment of the Soviets, the Red Army faced an increasingly serious threat to the people, so it had to recruit troops in Ruijin and various base areas.
Just when the recruitment requirements were released in Ruijin, Yang Rongxian took his two sons to the recruitment site and signed up for the army on the spot.
When Yang Rong seemed to know that the army needed soldiers, he hurriedly called his eldest son, Juju and his second son, to his side and told them"Our family doesn't have to worry about eating and drinking now, such a good life was brought by the Communist Party, and now they are in danger and are going to recruit soldiers, you two go to be soldiers!" Even if our family does its part for the Communist Party. ”
Hearing his father say this, the two sons were also grateful people, so they agreed to their father's request. After the two went back to the house to tell their wives the news that they were about to join the army, they took the clothes prepared by their wives and accompanied by their fathers to the recruitment site early the next morning.
After signing up, Yang Rongxian said to his two sons:"When you enter the army, you must obey the party's command, and everything is under the leadership, my father does not expect you to make meritorious contributions, nor does he expect you to glorify your ancestors, but only hopes that you can contribute to the cause of the Communist Party. ”
Yang Rongxian watched his two sons slowly walk into the barracks, he didn't have the slightest feeling of loneliness, only the excitement and joy of his son being a soldier, in the face of his expression, his wife was naturally unwilling.
After all, the eldest son already has children, so it's okay for the two sons to leave their wives and children to serve as soldiers and come back alive on the battlefield, if there is danger, wouldn't it make the two daughters-in-law have no husbands and grandsons have no fathers?
Therefore, after the two sons became soldiers, Yang Rongxian's wife and husband gradually became estranged, but fortunately, the two daughters-in-law were reasonable people, and their husbands also explained it to them clearly. In this way, Yang Rongxian's family continued to live a dull life.
Fig** The Red Army's Fifth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" Strategy.
But war is unforgiving. In 1931, Chiang Kai-shek of the Kuomintang had regarded the Communist Party as the "number one enemy" and began to encircle and suppress the Communist Party many times.
It's a pity that the Communist Party escaped many times, but escaping does not mean that there are no sacrifices, under the guns of the Kuomintang army, countless Red Army soldiers died, including Yang Rongxian's two sons.
Even though the two daughters-in-law prayed day and night that their husbands would be safe on the battlefield, they were still no match for the bullets of the Kuomintang. Yang Rongxian's two sons had just been in the army for three months before the bad news came, which made the old man who was already over seventy years old exhausted, and he didn't expect that the moment he sent his son to join the army would be a farewell.
The two sons are gone, and there are grandchildren at home, the grandchildren are in good health, and the son's bloodline has been inherited, which is already the best situation at present.
With the loss of the two main laborers in the family, in order not to make the fields barren, Yang Rongxian can only drag his elderly body to do more labor, he has to support this family, this family that is about to be broken.
But he didn't regret sending his two sons to the battlefield at all, even if his old wife and daughter-in-law were complaining in secret, he still didn't regret it.
In 1932, Chiang Kai-shek again organized troops to destructively suppress the Red Army, but it caused criticism in the Congress, and Chiang Kai-shek was forced to go into the wilderness, and the combat mission of the Red Army was forced to stop.
Three months later, Chiang Kai-shek returned and became the actual leader of the Kuomintang army, and Chiang Kai-shek became the de facto and sole leader of the Kuomintang after gaining military power. And his "killing" of the Red Army also began.
In June 1932, Chiang Kai-shek earnestly put forward the political proposition of "settling the inside before attacking the outside world", and regarded the encirclement and suppression of the Communist Party as the current phased task of the people, and did not resist the Japanese invaders for the time being.
FigProvisional *** of the Chinese Soviet Republic
On the one hand, the Communist Party of China had to face the encirclement and suppression of the people, and on the other hand, it had to resist the threat of the Japanese invaders. In order to narrow the gap between the Red Army and the two sides, it also increased its own political costs, so it once again called on the people in the Soviet area to "expand the Red Branch."
Faced with the Red Army's call to "actively join the army", Yang Rong seemed to hesitate after learning the news.
Yang Rongxian understands that the land he is currently cultivating is full of the blood of Red Army soldiers, they are all children of other people's families, which one is not a husband, and who is not a son, who sacrificed his life for these lands, for the equality of the common people, and for the ideals in his heart.
But his two sons have only been on the battlefield for three months, and the two children died in this way under the cruel war, and they didn't even have a corpse capital, so they could only erect a mound for their two sons to give their souls some sustenance.
The sacrifice of his two sons made Yang Rongxian realize the cruelty of war and the pain of losing his relatives, but it is incumbent on him to join the army, how to choose?
In the past few days that Yang Rongxian was thinking, he would sit in front of the spiritual seat of the two children every day in his spare time, and finally one day, he figured it out and called the remaining six children to his side and called them to the spiritual seat of the two sons.
The old man looked at the six sons standing in the room, who were not young, and nodded with satisfaction.
The sons looked at their father's silent nod, and already understood what he was thinking.
The third brother, who is the elder brother, said"Dad, our brothers know what you mean, we go to join the army, we avenge our two brothers, and we help other ordinary people live a good life. ”
The rest of the brothers nodded in agreement when they heard the third brother's words.
It is necessary to go to the battlefield, not only Yang Rongxian knows about this, but also the six brothers, after all, the current stable life is given by the Communist Party, and if this base area of the Communist Party is occupied by the enemy, then his hard-won good life will come to an end.
FigOil painting of eight sons joining the army.
Although the six children went to the battlefield with the support of their father, the mother still believed that going to the battlefield was equivalent to sending them to death, and that this was how her two sons died, and he did not want the remaining six sons to die on the battlefield.
Faced with the reluctance of the old mother, the sons had no choice but to comfort them softly, lay out the facts and reason with their mother, and finally agreed.
is about to send six children to the battlefield, two a year ago, and six now, but before going to the battlefield, the Yang family has to do a great event, that is, to marry the third daughter-in-law.
Regarding the fact that the third child of the Yang family is about to join the army, the woman's family also knows that Yang Laosan's brave participation in the army makes his engaged wife want to marry him quickly, in case anything happens to Yang Laosan, as the third daughter-in-law, she can also help the family.
Faced with the kindness of their future daughter-in-law, the Yang family could only accept it, and the day before the six children of the Yang family joined the army, Yang Laosan got married.
Early the next morning, still accompanied by Yang Rongxian, the six children of the Yang family went to join the army, and the third wife of Yang Laosan, who had just spent her wedding night, also began to miss her husband.
When he sent his two sons to serve as soldiers, Yang Rongxian was overjoyed, but now he was very worried in his heart, not knowing if the children could come back, so when filling out the application form, Yang Rongxian looked at several children again and again, for fear that he would never see them again like the first two children.
* After filling in, there was an episode, it turned out that the Yang family was old.
The seventh and eighth are still young and not old enough to enlist in the army, so the two of them were brushed down, and the other four entered the barracks.
The old seven and eight who have been brushed down are not discouraged, here is because everyone in the township knows each other, and there is no way to cheat on age, but once it is far away from here, a little more remote, find a village that no one knows, and two people can join the army. After making up their minds, the two brothers left their father and rushed to a small mountain village twenty miles away, and sure enough, they successfully signed up for the army.
FigOrdinary people of the Soviet district.
The cruelty of the war is unimaginable, Chiang Kai-shek after grasping all the power of the Kuomintang, launched a series of attacks on the Communist Party, in the case of the huge disparity in national equipment, many soldiers died bravely.
On the battlefield, the corpses of fallen soldiers are everywhere they look, and these bodies cannot be sent back to their hometowns, so they can only be buried on the spot, or all of them are incinerated and the ashes are buried. On the battlefield, no one knows where the comrades-in-arms around me come from, only that I can hand over my back to you when I am on the line of life and death.
Every time there is an extra corpse on the battlefield, there is an additional broken family behind it, they are the hope of the family and the pillars of the future.
And among them are Yang Rongxian's four sons, the old ones who enlisted in the army together.
3. Old. Fourth, old.
Fifth, the sixth. The third child had just gotten married the day before he joined the army, and his wife was still looking forward to his return every day, and the old mother at home was looking forward to her son's return, but she didn't expect to wait for an obituary.
The names of the four children are written on it, and the time and place of sacrifice are not written, only the four children died on the battlefield.
There are four more clothed mounds in the family cemetery, four more spirit tablets in the main house, and one more widow in the Yang family.
In this way, there were more than ten members of the Yang family, who were originally lively, but now there are only two old couples left, a grandson who is waiting to be fed, three widowed daughters-in-law, and two younger sons who are already uncertain about life and death on the battlefield.
The news that Yang Rongxian personally sent his eight sons to the battlefield soon spread in the army, and even the story of the family was published in the newspapers of the Soviet organ in Ruijin.
When this article was unanimously read by the members of the party group, they all attached great importance to the situation in Yang Rongxian's family.
When the land was divided, Yang Rongxian and his eight sons were the main laborers, and the amount of land allocated by the family must have been a lot, and the eight sons sacrificed six, plus Yang Rongxian's physical condition was not good, and farming was just a strong support for the body to work.
At that time, the machine was not developed, and the main labor force in the field had to be men, but the main labor in Yang Rongxian's family was all pressed on three women, who had to take care of their parents in place of their husbands.
1931 *** in Ruijin.
Yang Rongxian's deeds not only moved the leaders, but also deeply moved ordinary people, after all, not every family has such a high consciousness and can send all their sons to the battlefield.
In order to allow Yang Rongxian to have his son by his side to support the elderly, and in order to allow his family to live a normal life, **leader*** personally came to the door to thank Yang Rongxian for sending his eight sons to the battlefield, and promised Yang Rongxian"I will definitely find the elders of the Yang family and make them safelandSend it back to you. ”
**Although this is said, but there are wars everywhere, the two children of the Yang family are assigned to which barracks I don't know, how easy it is to find, God pays off, in the case of the active organization of the Yang family, the old seven and eight of the Yang family are still alive, and they were fighting on the Guangchang battlefield at that time.
When the two brothers of the Yang family heard the news that the six brothers had died, they burst into tears, but"I am both a son and a soldier, as a son, we can't be filial, as a soldier, we can't turn our backs on our comrades-in-arms and the army, but my father has three sisters-in-law to help take care of them, but the only comrades-in-arms in the army are each other. ”
Seeing the Yang family's seventh brother saying those words firmly, ** was also moved to say: "You are at ease to fight on the front line, we will take care of you at home, remember to come back well, go home well, your parents are waiting for you at home." ”
Originally, the elders of the Yang family could wait until the battle situation had an advantage to go home, but they didn't expect that a fierce battle made the two brothers unable to go home, and the last two children of the Yang family died there on the Guangchang battlefield.
Yang Rongxian received an obituary for the third time. The children were all sacrificed, and there was not a single one left, and they were all gone.
At this time, Yang Rongxian regretted it, he shouldn't have let all the children go to the battlefield, and in the end he didn't even have anyone around him to send him to the end, but he didn't regret it, it was their honor for the children to die on the battlefield, and it was their obligation to sacrifice for the Communist Party.
FigBattle of Guangchang (oil painting).
In this way, holding the obituary, Yang Rongxian fell to the ground all of a sudden, this time he couldn't get up again, lying on the bed he no longer had the spirit of the past, his life was about to come to an end, he was dying and grabbed the belly pocket that his eldest son wore when he was a child, presumably as a father, he had too much to say to his sons, and he couldn't stop talking.
On the battlefield, behind every soldier who died was a family who adhered to their revolution, and their sacrifice made the family full of grief, but it was these soldiers who did not flinch on the battlefield to ensure the victory of the war and ensure that thousands of ordinary people could get a better life.
Yang Rongxian sent all eight sons to the battlefield, and all eight sons died, which was a huge blow to him, but even so, he never really regretted it, because the hero had no regrets.