Staying behind the Red Army, a name hidden in time.

  In October 1934, the main force of the Central Red Army's Long March, more than 16,000 Red Army soldiers and guerrillas were ordered to stay in the Central Soviet Area. They carried out an arduous three-year guerrilla warfare to cover the main force of the Red Army to break through and continue the struggle.

  This is a heroic and bloody perseverance.

Behind the enemy lonely, nine deaths.

Qu Qiubai, Ruan Xiaoxian, He Shuheng, Liu Bojian... Many well-known leaders of the Party and the Red Army, as well as more unknown Red Army soldiers, died unfortunately.

The soldiers of the Red Army have firm belief in the revolution, struggled hard, relied on the people, and regarded death as home. This revolutionary spirit is the precious wealth of the Chinese nation.

  In the winter of 1937, the Red Army and the guerrillas of the eight southern provinces were reorganized into the New Fourth Army, and they rushed to the Anti-Japanese Front.

A tragic page in the history of the Chinese revolution

  In Dayu County, Jiangxi Province, the Southern Red Army’s Three-Year Guerrilla War Memorial is like an angular white rock, surrounded by rolling green hills, and a long scroll of history is silently spreading here.

  In October 1934, the main Red Army bid farewell to the Red Capital Ruijin.

The folks and soldiers who were seeing off said goodbye to each other.

The comrades who stayed are speechless and have mixed feelings.

  On the eve of the Long March, the central government established a new party, government, and military leadership agency in the Central Soviet Area.

Among them, the Central Branch of the Communist Party of China is composed of Xiang Ying, Qu Qiubai, Chen Yi, Chen Tanqiu, He Chang and others.

  "Everyone cares not only about the whereabouts of the main Red Army, but also the future fate of the Central Soviet Area." Chen Pixian, then secretary of the Southern Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, later recalled in the book that he was also a member of the left-behind at the age of 19.

  These left-behind people are called the "Death Division" by American writer Harrison Salisbury, including more than 16,000 Red Army soldiers, guerrillas, and tens of thousands of wounded and sick.

After the long march of the main force of the Red Army, the remaining Red Army disguised as the main force to confuse and delay the advance of the Kuomintang army and cover the breakthrough of the main force.

  "The left-behind Red Army contained and attracted hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops, effectively cooperating with the strategic shift of the main Red Army. It is a magnificent revolutionary epic that complements the Red Army's Long March." said Hu Riwang, director of the Party History Office of the Party Committee of Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province.

  I can't bear to read the details of history, once you open it, every word may be bloodstained.

  From the fall of Ruijin in November 1934 to February 1935, the Central Soviet Area was almost completely occupied within three months, many villages were killed, and young and middle-aged people suffered "periodical" sacrifices.

  According to historical records, there were 143 people in 34 households in Louziba Village, Changting County, Fujian Province. Except for an 80-year-old woman who went out to visit relatives and survived, the whole village was slaughtered. There were more than 108,000 martyrs in Ganzhou City, of which about half were from the Su District. The cadres and masses killed in the Soviet area after the fall.

  "Enemies on all sides, gunshots everywhere... Old man, children, women, pits and valleys, villages and wilds. Hearing gunshots from here and running to the other side, gunshots from there and running to this side." Chen Yi once described the scene of the fall of the Central Soviet Area at that time.

  In February 1935, the remaining Red Army Yudu was besieged by heavy enemy troops.

At a critical juncture, Xiang Ying and Chen Yi received a telegram instruction from the central government to organize the Red Army to break through the Ninth Road.

  "The three-year guerrilla warfare was as hard as the Red Army Long March. From the perspective of time, it took two years to win the Long March and the guerrilla war lasted for three years. From the perspective of the number of senior cadres sacrificed, more than 10 cadres above the army were killed during the Long March. No less than 60 cadres at the provincial and military level were sacrificed during the guerrilla war in 1988." Liu Mianyu, an 85-year-old retired professor of Nanchang University, was one of the first experts to study the history of three-year guerrilla warfare in the South. He recalled this epic history. He couldn't help but sigh.

  He Shuheng, a 59-year-old revolutionary elder, died when he moved from Yudu to Western Fujian.

Because too many people have sacrificed, very few living people bring back news of the dead.

Few people know the specific circumstances of the party founder's sacrifice.

  After Qu Qiubai was arrested, he was unmoved by the enemy's persuasion to surrender: "People love their own history, more than a bird loves their wings, please don't tear my history!"

  On June 18, 1935, Changting, Fujian.

36-year-old Qu Qiubai smiled to the executioner on a green lawn and said, "This place is very good", and then settled down calmly.

  Salisbury wrote in the book "Long March-Unheard of Stories": "Among the people who stayed in Jiangxi during the Long March, more outstanding communists were sacrificed than in any other period of struggle."

  As people who failed to participate in the Long March, they completed their spiritual expedition in a special way.

Depend on the people tightly

  Dayu in June is a picture full of prosperity.

  In the place where he was righteous, a monument of heroes has been erected.

In March 1935, Liu Bojian, then director of the Political Department of the Southern Jiangxi Military Region, was wounded and arrested in a breakout battle.

He was escorted by the enemy to parade the streets, dragged heavily in shackles, and hobbled through the crowded streets of Dayu (now Dayu).

  "Walking along the long street with fetters, staggering and faltering, people in the city are vying for attention, I have a clear conscience..."

  Liu Bojian's will was not destroyed by the enemy's intentional humiliation. This magnanimous revolutionary wrote the immortal "Fetters".

  Before the sacrifice, Liu Bojian said in a letter to his family: "Life is for China, and death is for China. It's all about it."

  Today, Bojian Avenue in Dayu County is full of traffic, and at the end is Happiness Avenue... The people have forever engraved Liu Bojian's name on this land for which he shed blood and sacrificed.

  "As long as we rely closely on the people, we will surely be able to overcome all difficulties and obstacles. This was particularly prominent during the three years of guerrilla warfare." said Zhu Chang, deputy director of the Party History Office of the Dayu County Party Committee.

  In order to cut off the contact between the guerrillas and the masses, the Kuomintang army carried out large-scale "clearance and suppression" of the guerrilla areas. They concentrated the common people on the plains and prohibited the masses from entering the mountains at will by means of emigrating and merging villages and driving the masses out of the mountains.

  The guerrillas regard doing mass work as their lifeline. In their view, the more difficult they are, the more they must pay attention to the implementation of the party's policies.

According to some guerrillas, the local people often risked their lives to take advantage of the opportunity to go into the mountains to chop firewood, hide food, salt, intelligence, etc. in bamboo sticks for picking firewood and give them to the guerrillas. Some villagers were tortured by the enemy for this. But they said without fear: "We will die if we die, and we will die at most one, so as not to harm the Communist Party."

  In Chijiang Town, Dayu County, 86-year-old Liu Shihua has guarded his old house and the memories of his parents for many years.

His mother Zhou Lan often sent meals to the guerrillas, purchased supplies, and listened to the enemy. The guerrillas all kindly referred to him as "Zhou Lan's wife."

  "The Kuomintang severely injured my father, burned his mother's hair, interrupted her fingers, and forced them to inquire about the whereabouts of the guerrillas, but they did not disclose the slightest." Liu Shihua said.

  The guerrillas sometimes visited the homes of the masses and saw that some of them had their legs broken, some had their teeth broken, and some had their houses burned. However, they still supported the Communist Party without complaint, and no one was moved to tears.

  The people nurtured the Red Army soldiers in desperate situations.

  "Relying on the people, support will never be forgotten.

  He is the born-again parents, and I am a good boy who struggles.

  The revolution is strong and strong.

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  The deep affection between the Red Army guerrillas and the masses of people’s blood is more vivid and vivid in Chen Yi’s "Guerilla Ci in Southern Jiangxi", as he said: "It is this unswerving alliance of life and death that guarantees our survival and development. victory."

Faith is tempered in the test of life and death

  Meiguan tigers are located in Meiling, and one pass separates north and south.

  For thousands of years, the Meiguan Ancient Road has carried the sorrows and joys of countless lives from the north to the south, and left countless historical marks throughout the ages.

The guerrillas who fought here have used their blood to persevere and write their own red legends.

  In the winter of 1936, the border of Jiangxi and Guangdong.

Declining grass, cold moon, chasing soldiers.

Under the heavy siege of the enemy, Chen Yi has been wounded and ill and has been hiding in the grassland of Meiling for more than 20 days.

Anticipating that he would be more fierce than auspicious, he wrote the desperate poem "Three Chapters of Meiling" and hid it under his clothes, preparing to die righteously.

  "What's the meaning of decapitation today? Entrepreneurship has been difficult and many battles. Now I go to Quantai Recruitment Department, and I will cut Yan Luo with a hundred thousand banners."

  The guerrillas were lonely behind the enemy, dangling in the storm, they didn't know what was going on in the world...

  Surrounded by the Kuomintang army, the Red Army and the guerrillas were trapped in the deep mountains and dense forests. They walked in the forest during the day and stayed in the caves at night, feeding their hunger with wild fruits, wild vegetables, and grass roots, living like wild animals.

  In the cold winter of 1936, the four guerrilla leaders, Xiang Ying, Chen Yi, Chen Pixian, and Liu Jianhua, were forced to hide on a high mountain. The four leaned back to back together, wrapped in only a shabby blanket, and kept each other warm from the cold.

  "Their food, clothing, shelter and transportation are extremely difficult. My father and his comrades had to share a pair of pants for a while, and the two took turns wearing them." said Liu Luming, vice president of the Jiangxi New Fourth Army Research Association.

Liu Luming's father, Liu Jianhua, was the Secretary of the Young Communist Party of the Special Committee of the Gan-Yue Border.

  Even under such difficult conditions, the guerrillas would organize their fighters to study whenever they had the opportunity. They tried their best to collect books and newspapers, study Chinese language, arithmetic, and military theory, and focused on analyzing the situation and future.

Once, when an enemy soldier was searching for a guerrilla, he found a baggage. When he opened it, there was a book in it.

  Most people believe because they see it, and only a few people see it because they believe it.

The power of faith is the secret of the communists' continuous progression from victory to victory.

  With the outbreak of the July 7th Incident, the drum of the War of Resistance against Japan became louder and louder.

In October 1937, at the critical juncture of the life and death of the Chinese nation, the Red Army and the guerrilla iron army from the eight southern provinces came out of the mountain, reorganized into the New Fourth Army, and embarked on the anti-Japanese line, becoming an important anti-Japanese force and continuing to write the heroic legend of the people's army.

(Reporters Li Xingwen, Lai Xing, Huang Haoran)