During the Long March, due to the attacks of the Kuomintang army and the harsh natural environment, the Red Army soldiers faced tremendous pressure to survive. Major General Zhu Jiasheng once recorded a sad story in which we can see the great threat that war and environment posed to the survival of Red Army soldiers.
When the Red Army crossed the grassland, Zhu Jiasheng, a soldier from Jiangxi, suffered severe altitude sickness that made it difficult for him to breathe and almost unable to walk. On the way, he noticed a warrior lying on the side of the road covered with a sheet, and a wooden sign next to it had four words written on it.
Zhu Jiasheng was driven by curiosity and decided to take a closer look. However, when he approached, he found that the words written on the wooden sign were- "After Zhu Jiasheng saw it, he was a little puzzled, and thought to himself, this soldier can sleep, why can't I take a rest?"
So, he decided to sit down next to this fighter and rest for a while. However, when he sat down, he noticed that the warrior did not move. He couldn't help but lift the sheet and found that the little warrior had stopped breathing and his whole body was stiff. ”
Zhu Jiasheng finally understood the meaning of the wooden sign, and he immediately got up and followed the team closely. This kind of scene was not uncommon during the Red Army's Long March, due to the lack of materials and extreme fatigue, many soldiers could not get up once they sat down, and remained on the road of the Long March forever.
To remind the warriors, a wooden sign was erected right next to the deceased warrior. Li Weihan was the commander of the third column of the ** column, and during the Long March, he personally recorded a story.
At that time, he looked around the ranks to see if any fighters had been left behind. When he saw a few warriors not far away who seemed to be resting under blankets, he immediately dismounted, and thought to himself: "How can the grass sit down and rest?"
How many of you can get up when you sit down? ”
When Li Weihan walked under the blanket, his heart sank, and the words of concern that had been reprimanded were stuck in his throat, because the four little warriors who were lying down had quietly closed their eyes and were not breathing.
Li Weihan's heart was full of pain, he put the blanket back on, looked around, and wanted to call a few soldiers to help with the burial, but he saw a soldier not far ahead, shuffling his steps, top-heavy, looking very unstable, and finally fell into the water.
Li Weihan immediately walked over and tried to wake him up, shouting softly, "Wake up!" Wake up! However, the warrior never responded, and remained on the steppe forever.
Every time he mentioned this incident, Li Weihan would shed tears, even though he was a seven-foot man with iron bones. After the Red Army crossed the Banyou River, Mr. Peng asked Wang Ping to return again to collect the Red Army soldiers who had fallen behind.
Wang Ping rushed to the bank of the Banyou River with a battalion, and looked at it from a distance, and there were many people by the river. Their hearts were filled with joy when they saw that everyone was there. However, as they got closer, their hearts grew heavier.
I saw hundreds of Red Army soldiers sitting, lying, lying, kneeling, hugging, hugging, back to back, or shoulder to shoulder, some with calm faces, some with a little sadness, and some with a smile.
No matter how much everyone shouted, these people did not respond. Everyone endured grief and panic and examined them one by one, and in the end, only one young Red Army still had a trace of breath, and the rest of the Red Army soldiers were all sacrificed.
Wang Ping held back the grief in his heart and ordered the soldiers of the first battalion to hurry up and bury the fallen soldiers, and carry the small Red Army that still had some rest on their backs. However, before they could join up with the large army and find a military doctor to treat the little Red Army, the little Red Army died halfway through.
Decades later, whenever General Wang Ping recalled this scene, he would cry and choke up, hide his face with his hands, and could not continue to tell.