Chapter 13 Finally have a "home"

Da Cang met, and Mao Zedong and Yuan Wencai reached a consensus, so that Mao Zedong's decision to "settle down" in Jinggang Mountains made at the Gucheng meeting could be implemented. Back in the ancient city, Mao Zedong introduced the situation of the Da Cang meeting to the anxiously waiting cadres, and then arranged the marching sequence and route of the whole army to Maoping the next day, and announced the discipline requirements of the troops and what should be paid attention to. some matters. That night, Maoping was very busy: some people were busy clearing houses, lowering door panels, beating the floor, and laying straw for the troops to stay; Clean up in public places such as Panlong Academy and Yanxian Temple.

On October 7, Mao Zedong led the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to set off from the ancient city and head to Maoping in two routes. At the same time, after arranging everything in Maoping, Yuan Wencai personally led more than 30 people to welcome them in the direction of Dacang.A sedan chair made of couch chairs carried by them was particularly eye-catching. It turned out that after Yuan Wencai returned home the night before, he told his wife Xie Xiangmei about the meeting with Mao Zedong, and talked about his impression of Mao Zedong.Xie Xiangmei saw that her husband showed admiration for Mao Zedong when he saw Mao Zedong for the first time, and thought that Mao Zedong must be an unusual person.So, she not only prepared clothes and cloth shoes for Mao Zedong overnight, but also told Yuan Wencai to send someone to prepare a sedan chair.Because Yuan Wencai mentioned that Mao Zedong had a foot injury, she suggested that Mao Zedong be carried into Maoping in a sedan chair.

In Dacang, Mao Zedong and Yuan Wencai met again.This time, Mao Zedong brought the team, and Yuan Wencai opened the "mountain gate". Yuan Wencai was very enthusiastic. He invited Mao Zedong to get on the sedan chair, and asked Mao Zedong to change into the clothes specially prepared by Xie Xiangmei.Mao Zedong smiled. He neither changed clothes nor sat in a sedan chair.However, he put on the new cloth shoes with the local flavor of Jinggangshan. The ranks of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army arrived at Maoping, a place that the officers and soldiers had never thought of before.

Mao Ping welcomed the arrival of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army with open arms. At the head of the village, many people were waiting here, and the specially invited theater troupe sounded the gongs and drums, and blew the suona.When the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army team entered the village, the 18 guns were fired at the same time, and the four men waiting in front of the Yanxian Temple hurriedly put the two fat pigs that had been tied up on the bench to slaughter - this is the local tradition. The highest courtesy to welcome guests. The officers and soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army are moved!These days, they have been fighting for days, how have they ever received such a welcome?Have you ever received such courtesy?Only then did they really feel at home.

Facing the enthusiastic Maoping crowd, Mao Zedong couldn't restrain his inner excitement, so he immediately gave a short speech.Decades later, some people who were present at that time still remember that Mao Zedong's words were to the effect that: The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is a team led by the Communist Party, and it is a team dedicated to fighting the world for the poor. When we arrived at Maoping in Ninggang, we finally had our own foothold.This place is very good, with high mountains and dense forests, favorable location and harmonious people, and with the help of Commander Yuan, we must cooperate closely with Commander Yuan and the peasant brothers to create a great cause together.

This was Mao Zedong's first speech to the Maoping masses, and it was also Mao Zedong's first impression on the Maoping masses. As night fell, the specially invited theater troupe began to sing, and the local people and revolutionary army officers and soldiers went to watch the performance one after another.Hundreds of foreigners in military uniforms came all of a sudden, making the originally deserted backcountry seem very lively.In front of Yan Xiandian, there were crowds of people, laughing and laughing, like a festival. In Panlong Academy, it was a different scene.Long Chaoqing presided over the party meeting of Ninggang County here, and they specially invited Mao Zedong to attend.

Mao Zedong was very happy to meet with local party members.At the meeting, he inquired about the situation of the Ninggang party organization in detail.When some party members in Ningkang were afraid to flee to Shanghai and Nanjing after learning about the "Ma-Day Incident", or hid in the mountains to "lay an ambush" and dare not take part in activities, Mao Zedong said: "We revolutionaries must fight alive and do not lay ambushes." Deadly ambush. When the enemy comes, we hide first, and then, come out here, come out there, and beat them everywhere, and the enemy will be exhausted and defeated!" After saying these words, everyone nodded repeatedly.

The opera in front of Yanxian Temple was sung very late; the meeting in Panlong Academy was also held very late. That night, Yuan Wencai arranged for Mao Zedong to live upstairs in Xie Cili's house, an old Chinese doctor.Since then, this building has been associated with Mao Zedong's name and has become one of the symbols of Jinggangshan. An ordinary building has become famous all over the world because of the affectionate song "The Light of the Octagonal Building". From this day on, the history of Maoping opened a new page. It began to be recorded in the annals of the Chinese revolution as the first foothold and base area selected by the Chinese revolution in the countryside.

After the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army entered Maoping, it immediately did two major things that would have a positive effect on the actions of the troops in the future. First, a rear hospital was established.The placement of the sick and wounded has always been a major issue that Mao Zedong considered, and it was also Yuan Wencai's promise to Mao Zedong during the talks between Mao and Yuan.Therefore, after the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants entered Maoping, with the help of the local party organization and Yuan Wencai, they established the Maoping Rear Hospital.

The hospital is located in Panlong Academy, the first dean is Cao Rong, and the party representative is Zhao Fazhong. This is an extremely simple hospital, lacking doctors and medicines, and the conditions are extremely poor.Western medicine is extremely difficult to obtain, so Chinese herbal medicine has to be used in large quantities.Lai Zhangda, who worked as a Chinese medicine doctor at that time, described it this way: "Chairman Mao came to Ninggang in October 1927. The health team was set up in Maoping, with about 40 people, and the Red Army Hospital was in Panlong Academy. Chinese medicine practitioners Lai Ganhua and Chen Jin (from Hunan) , Western doctor Wu Pengfei. In November, three Chinese medicine practitioners Lai Zhangda, Huang Shaogu (Chaling), and Xie Yijie (Maoping) participated. The small dining hall is now a Chinese medicine medical room, and the lightly wounded and stretcher teams live upstairs, with beds spread out On the floor. At first there were only 40 or 50 wounded and sick, and the traditional Chinese medicine used by the wounded was supplied by Dalong and Tantou pharmacies... When the medicine was empty, we went up the mountain to dig more than 70 kinds of local herbs, including silver flower, Smilax cocos, Akebia, Ophiopogon japonicus, Jinyingzi, fennel, plantain, Wuguapi, Magnolia officinalis, etc. In April 1928, Chairman Mao launched a campaign to fight Yongxin... More than 400 loads of medicine were paid and placed in Chashanyuan. At this time The medicinal materials are abundant, and the troops and the masses all come here to buy medicines.”

Xiao Ming, who used to work in the rear hospital, also recalled: "The hospital can accommodate forty or fifty patients, and there are many patients coming in and out... The hospital is very short of medicinal materials. For gunshot wounds), iodine tablets and other Western medicines were sent to the base areas, but they were always not enough. Therefore, the hospital often organized medical staff and nearby people to go up the mountain to collect herbs. At that time, common diseases could be cured with Chinese herbal medicine, and salt water was used to wash the wound, and nitrate salt could also be used, but it had to be filtered.” Obviously, the condition of the hospital is very bad.However, it is the first hospital in the Jinggangshan base area after all.Its establishment has enabled the wounded and sick who have been carried around on stretchers or walked around with difficulty to at least have an environment where they can heal and recuperate with peace of mind. Secondly, the rear left-behind office was set up.Since Maoping was the foothold of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, it became the rear base of this army.For this reason, in the Xiangshan Nunnery in Maoping, the rear left-behind office of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army was established, and Yu Benmin, who was originally the deputy division commander, served as the director of the left-behind office. The left-behind office in the rear is responsible for the overall management of the officer team, medical team, supply team, machine gun company and other units, and almost takes care of all the logistics stalls of the army. The establishment of the left-behind office made Maoping truly the base of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and also enabled the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to have its own "rear area".