The story of the sacrifice of Zhang Desi, a cook
Only seven months after Zhang Side was born, her mother died even with illness. Before she died, she entrusted Zhang Side to his uncle Zhang Xingzhong and aunt Liu Guangyou for adoption. Since then, the life of the Zhang Side family has been even more difficult. Eldest brother worked for the landlord, exhausted in the paddy field; The second brother begged along the street and starved to death at the stage of the pig market; Zhang Hangpin, the biological father, went out to make a living and was exiled. So the family went to where will you go.
adoptive father Zhang Xingzhong's life is also very difficult. He was exhausted by carrying the work for the landlord and often vomited blood. The adoptive mother gave birth to her daughter Zhang Guixiang only four months ago, and she was still very weak. In order to survive, she put two dolls in a basket and carried them to work in the fields from morning till night.
the children of the poor are in charge early. Zhang Side worked in the fields when he was very young. Mother planted beans uphill, and he planted them behind; Mother went to the fields to cut the grain, and he followed behind to pick up the ears. Seven or eight years old is the age to go to school, but he has become a laborer who mows grass and digs vegetables. Despite the hard work of adoptive parents all day, it is still rare for family members to have a full meal.
In September p>1933, the Red Army came to Yilong. The Red Army tore up the "Notice of Suppression" posted on the wall by Liu Hongan, the head of the Kuomintang, and posted a red and green slogan: "The axe splits the new world, and the sickle cuts the old Gankun!" "Down with the local relatives and evil gentry, and divide the land and land!" The poor and dilapidated Liuhe field has changed the world!
heroic red army soldiers led the villagers, fought local tyrants, divided the fields and set up their own political power-the Soviet government in Liuhe township. The folks who turned over were proud and beaming. Zhang Side took an active part in the Young Pioneers, and was elected as the captain, earnestly assisting the Red Army and the militia to stand guard and find out the bad guys.
The hard-working people who have turned over know that if they want to make a revolution, they must become Red Army. Young people from six stations have signed up to join the army. In December 1933, 18-year-old Zhang Side signed up for the army, adding a loyal revolutionary soldier to the ranks of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army.
After Zhang Side joined the army, the Red Army left Liuhe Township to perform new tasks. Liu Hong 'an, the head of the Kuomintang, led the "Home Returning Corps", destroyed the Soviet regime and shot and killed revolutionary cadres and the masses. Zhang Side's biological father, Zhang Hangpin, was also killed, his adoptive mother was injured, and his sister, Gui Xiang, was forced to die of hunger. When Zhang Side learned the news, he was heartbroken and wanted to go home to avenge his relatives and his father's hometown. After knowing Zhang Side's thoughts, the company cadres talked to him and patiently inspired and educated him to establish proletarian revolutionary thoughts. With the help of his comrades, he understood who to serve as a soldier, which made it difficult to fight, and he was more open-minded and more motivated. He is brave and tenacious, and he feels at home. Soon, he joined the Communist Youth League and thrived in the melting pot of revolution.
from 1933 to 1934, Zhang Side was praised as a "little tiger" by his comrades in the battle to smash the two large-scale sieges of the Kuomintang against the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area (see the anti-three-way siege in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area and the anti-six-way siege in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area). In the battle against Guanmenliang, he took part in the sharp knife class, braved the bullets and rain, built an adult ladder with his comrades, climbed to the top of the village, and blasted the village door, opening the way for the troops. Then, he led six comrades-in-arms, guarded a mountain bag, and smashed the repeated attacks of two enemy platoons. In another battle, he braved the bullets, ran into the deep valley, climbed the cliff and bypassed, inserted behind the enemy lines, threw grenades when approaching the enemy lines, killed the enemy, jumped on the high slope while taking advantage of the smoke, and seized a machine gun. Then, he picked up the machine gun, violently fired at another group of enemies, seized another machine gun, and shouted, "Go!" Comrades rushed up together and annihilated the enemy. In the battle, although Zhang Side was injured, he hid his face and smiled. In another battle, he faced the smoke and fire, and continued to struggle with the enemy in paddy fields, hills and deep ditches. When the bullets ran out and the enemy pounced, he killed the enemy with a Grenade. The enemy came up again, and he fought with the enemy on the ridge. An enemy stabbed him with a gun. He swung his broadsword fiercely, pulled the gun out, kicked the enemy down in the paddy field and hacked him to death. Then, two more enemies pounced on him. He pounded Tian Shui with his foot, so that the enemy's head was splashed with water and his eyes were fascinated. When the enemy was in a hurry to shake his head and wipe his eyes, he threw himself at them with all his strength, raised his broadsword and chopped them to death. At this time, a bullet flew in and wounded his right arm. The company commander told him to withdraw from the line of fire. He stubbornly said, "No, as long as there is breath, I will fight!" "
In May p>1935, the Red Fourth Front Army withdrew from the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area and began the Long March. In June, the Red Fourth Army joined forces with the Red First Army in Maogong, Sichuan. On August 2, the Red Army and the Fourth Army formed left and right armies and began to go north along the grass. At this moment, Zhang Guotao engaged in separatism and ordered the Red Army to go south. In this way, Zhang Side with red fourth-front armies, from the grass back to the south.
In the process of going south, the Red Fourth Front Army fought many vicious battles, but failed to change the sinister situation of the troops. As the weather gets colder, it becomes more difficult for the troops to move. In January, 1936, the Long March reached the central government in northern Shaanxi and ordered Zhang Guotao to cancel the pseudo-central government and stop anti-party activities. Zhang Guotao was forced to announce the abolition of the pseudo-central government. In June, the Red Second and Fourth Army joined forces in Ganzi, Sichuan. Then, the Red Second Army and the Fourth Army were divided into three columns: left, middle and right, and headed north along the grass.
this is the third time that the red 4,-faced army has walked on the water and grass. At this time, Zhang Side served as a platoon leader in the communication camp. Because of him, he was injured three times in the battle in the past, and his body did not fully recover. Coupled with the difficult long journey, his face was haggard and his constitution was very weak. After entering the grass, his feet were swollen with rancid mud. Every step took a lot of effort, but every time he had a communication task, he always took the lead and left, so that his comrades could have a rest.
after entering the grassland for half a month. Serious leisure difficulties appeared, and the troops ran out of food. The mule and horse that the chief rode were slaughtered to satisfy his hunger, and the belts and gun straps of the soldiers were cooked and eaten. In order to overcome the difficulties, the soldiers risked their lives to find non-toxic wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.
Zhang Side knows very well that there are many poisonous weeds in this mysterious grassland. To identify a non-toxic wild vegetable, he can only taste it himself. If you taste poisonous weeds, you may pay the price of your life Therefore, every time he picks wild vegetables, he always struggles to go forward and leave the danger to himself.
At noon one day, the troops came to a swamp with abundant water plants. No sooner had the Rest arrived than Zhang Side and a little soldier went to find wild vegetables. When he came to a dead pond, the little soldier cried in surprise: "monitor, look!" Water radish! " Zhang Side, a look, and sure enough, there are weeds that look like radishes on the edge of the pond. The little soldier bent down to pick, but Zhang Side quickly stopped him. He knows that some wild vegetables that look good are often poisonous. He put a gun in front of him, put a leaf in his mouth, chewed it, and picked some more.
After a while, Zhang Side suddenly felt a pain in his stomach and wanted to vomit. Then he spat out clean water. He only felt that everything was spinning around. He quickly said, "This grass is poisonous. Tell everyone not to pick it!" " Hardly had the words been finished when he lost consciousness. The little soldier shouted anxiously: "monitor! Monitor! "
comrades heard shouts. Come in a hurry I saw that Zhang Side was blue and unconscious, so I knew he was poisoned. They hurried to the health center to find an antidote and give it to Zhang Side. It took a while for Zhang Side to wake up, and his comrades all breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang Side and his comrades came to the Gehe River in the meadow. They know that they will be out of the grass soon after crossing the river. Encouraged by the war, everyone was in high spirits and waded across the Gehe River arm in arm.
Just as they were wringing out their clothes and preparing to move on, a cry for help came from behind them. Log is a few lesbians in the headquarters hospital, thin and thin, washed down by the river. I saw them struggling in the water, and their medicine bags were floating on the water.
Zhang Side led the soldiers to run downstream, stopped the lesbians in the rapids and carried them ashore one by one. One of the female soldiers passed out. Zhang Side took out the salt, burned a bowl of boiled salt with a porcelain jar, and fed it to the female soldier's mouth bite by bite. When the female warrior woke up, Zhang Side encouraged her: "Come on, see you in northern Shaanxi!"
In October p>1936, the Red Second and Fourth Army arrived in Huining and Jingning, Gansu Province, and joined forces with the Red Army who came to meet them. After joining forces, Red One, Red Two and Red Army joined forces and successfully fought the Battle of Mountain Castle, breaking the siege of the Tongmin Party.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army changed to the Eighth Route Army. Zhang Side's troops are ready to go to the anti-Japanese front. The old, weak, sick and disabled people in the army were left behind and formed into a guard company, which was responsible for guarding the eighth route army rear office in Yunyang, Guanzhong and the disabled soldiers hospital (namely the honorary military school). At that time, Zhang Ende was ill and was incorporated into the security company, and he was the deputy monitor of Class Two in any row.
when the guard company was first established, several comrades in the class were seriously ill and were in bed. He ate and drank, and waited on sick comrades like a brother. Standing guard at night, he often stands in two shifts to let sick comrades have a rest. He is the vice monitor, responsible for the internal hygiene in the class, but he rarely orders other comrades to do this and that, but does it himself, influencing and driving everyone with his exemplary actions. When the water in the class runs out, he goes to fetch water. When the ground was dirty, he went to sweep the floor. He is skillful in mending clothes and playing straw sandals. He helps comrades sew and mend whenever he has a problem, and he is always busy all day. At the class meeting, everyone praised him. He said, "My illness is mild, so I don't have to do more."
Zhang Side is not only helpful in life, but also concerned about the ideological progress of his comrades, and has established sincere comrade friendship with everyone. When the guard company was first established, there was a liberated soldier in the class, who was from the south and was upset because he was homesick. Whenever it is his turn to stand guard, he calls himself sick and asks for leave. Comrades criticized him for pretending to be ill at the class meeting, but instead of solving the problem, it became more and more stiff. He simply stopped doing morning exercises and slept late every day.
Zhang Side saw this situation, so he moved his shop value to the side of the soldier, slept head to head with him, and talked with him. It turned out that the soldier's family was also very poor. He was arrested by the Kuomintang when he was a long-term worker in the land. He was liberated in the battle of Zhiluo Town and volunteered to join the Eighth Route Army. Zhang Side found out his thoughts and inspired and educated him to establish revolutionary beliefs by remembering his sufferings. Later, when this comrade was really ill, Zhang Side cooked his sick meal. His shoes were broken, so Zhang Side gave him a pair of shoes carefully woven with cloth and hemp rope. The soldier was very moved. He held Zhang Side's hand and said, "Vice President Zhang, you are like a brother to me. Watch my actions in the future!" Since then, this comrade has changed, refreshed and worked very actively, becoming the backbone of the class.
in the spring of p>1939, the Kuomintang army in Yunyang began to create friction incidents. They went to the rear office to stir up trouble, and ordered the Eighth Route Army to leave Yunyang within a time limit. In the face of the unreasonable provocation of the die-hards of the Hui people's Party, the soldiers were very angry, but in order to take care of the overall situation, the rear office and the disabled soldiers' hospital began to March long distances in early autumn and moved to the Tuqiao area of Juyi.
the weather in autumn is still extremely hot. The most difficult thing in marching is that there are no shoes to wear. The soles of most comrades came off just after they had walked two universities, so they had to walk with ropes. The roadside in Guanzhong is covered with thistles, and some comrades have worn out their soles and pricked their feet, which hurts every step. Seeing his comrades limping, Zhang Side offered to play straw sandals, but he couldn't find straw at the moment, and he was very worried.
One day when marching, Zhang Ende found a piece of iris sheet on the roadside, so he cut it off with a bayonet, tied it into a bundle and carried it on his back. After camping at night, he rushed to play straw sandals, and when he finished playing three pairs of straw sandals in one breath, it was already the first time that chickens crowed. The next day, he gave these three pairs of grass to three comrades with the worst shoes to wear. These three comrades tried it on and felt much more comfortable than broken cloth shoes. They were all very happy. From then on, whenever comrades found the Ma Lindan in the March, they cut it off and carried it like a treasure. As soon as he arrived at the camp, Zhang Side taught everyone to play straw sandals hand in hand. In this way, all the comrades put on straw sandals. After the comrades in the rear office and the disabled soldiers' hospital arrived at Tuqiao, the weather began to get cold. In order to solve the problem of heating in winter, the superior decided to burn charcoal. Zhang Side knows charcoal burning technology, so he and the monitor led the soldiers up the hill to burn charcoal. Charcoal burning was bitter and tiring, but Zhang Side led the soldiers to work very hard. Every time the charcoal kiln is lit, he stays by the kiln, takes a nap when he is tired, and then goes on working. By the time the kiln was finished, his eyes were red and he was tired and thin. That winter, Zhang Side led his comrades to burn charcoal for three months. After burning charcoal, he was rated as a model worker, and the rear office awarded him a towel and a notebook.
In the spring of p>194, Zhang Side returned to Yan 'an, the seat of the CPC Central Committee, with the guard company. Soon, he was assigned to the guard battalion of the Central Military Commission as the communication monitor. In the communication class, he went to Nanniwan to open up wasteland, planted land, and burned charcoal in the mountains, all of which accomplished the task brilliantly.
In the autumn of p>1942, the Guard Battalion of the Central Military Commission and the Central Teaching Brigade merged to form the Central Guard Corps. At that time, the superior decided that Zhang Ende should be a soldier instead of a monitor, and Zhang Side happily obeyed the organization's assignment and became a soldier in the second row. The monitor of Class Four was a comrade who took part in the revolution during the Anti-Japanese War, and he was younger than Zhang Side, but Zhang Side respected the monitor, actively completed the work assigned by the monitor, safeguarded the monitor's prestige, and helped the monitor to do a good job in the class. For this, he was praised by the leaders.
In the early spring of p>1943, the organization sent Zhang Side to the internal security class around Mao Zedong as a guard soldier. Zhang Side was very excited. He secretly made up his mind to work hard and be a loyal guardian of Mao Zedong.
After Zhang Side went to the internal security class, he was more energetic and worked harder. He often said: "Chairman Mao is the leader of our revolution, and loving the leader means loving the revolution." In order to make Chairman Mao work and live happily, he devoted all his efforts to taking care of Chairman Mao's life and security work. Mao Zedong has a habit of staying up all night while writing articles and lying down for a while after dawn. In order to let the chairman rest for a while, whenever the chairman stays up late, he gets up early and looks around the chairman's cave. If he finds chickens and dogs that get up early to feed, he quietly drives them away. When he hears birds chirping, he throws stones at the tree to drive the birds away, so as not to wake the chairman. If someone asks for the chairman, as long as the situation is not