Chapter 10 Via Luo River

Starting from Hadapu, the Central Red Army took Liu Zhidan's team and the northwest base as their homeland.As soon as I stepped into Wuqi Town, Chi'an County, I knew that this was Liu Zhidan's hometown, and I really felt the Chi'an people's support for revolution, simplicity, kindness, generosity and enthusiasm.Looking back on the difficult and dangerous Long March with constant wars, and comparing the great love given to them by the people of Chi'an, it made all the Red Army soldiers warmer and unforgettable for a lifetime! After fighting the "tail-cutting" battle, the Central Red Army took a short rest and marched towards Xiasiwan, Ganquan in three routes.All the way from Ningsaichuan, through Daliangmao, through Taogou, Songzhuang, Shunning, and down along Zhouhechuan; all the way through Luohechuan, passing Jinding, Danba, Guairenniugou, Jingzhifang, to Liujiaping , along the Zhou River to the south; from all the way to Danba, go up Baiyegou, Jingsiyu Xianling, Xiachuankou, and then march south along the Luohe River.

Regarding the Central Red Army's southward march, the Chi'an County Party Committee and the Chi'an County Soviet Government have already made arrangements to mobilize all forces to receive the Central Red Army like Liu Zhidan's team, provide all camping facilities, and do everything possible to raise food to support this ragged revolutionary team .Central reception stations such as Jintangfill, Jindingshan, Diaoping, Niugou, Danba Town, Baiyegou, Siguxian, Yaozichuan, etc. have been specially set up in Luohechuan.Central reception sites such as Taogou, Songzhuang, Shunning, Baicaotai, Xutaizi, Liuping, Baoancheng, Lucaogou, Kangjiagou, Yangcheng, Chuankou, etc. have been set up in Zhouhechuan. Many small reception stations.Cadres at the county, district, and township levels respectively organize the masses to raise grain, grind rice and flour, and arrange board and lodging at these sites.

When the Central Red Army came down along the Luohe River, the district government had already mobilized many young and middle-aged people to bring slogans and paste, and posted red slogans on the cliffs, trees, and walls beside the Chuandao Road: "Welcome the Central Red Army and win the Anti-Japanese War ", "The Red Army is the team of the common people, and the common people are the relatives of the Red Army", "The Shaanxi-Gansu Red Army and the Central Red Army are heart-to-heart", "Down with Chiang Kai-shek and defeated Little Japan". Luohechuan farmers, the older generations have never seen such a large army.Some of the old people now are children in their teens. They clearly remember that during the six days before and after, every village in Luohechuan was stationed by the Red Army.Most Red Army soldiers wore straw sandals with bare feet, bandages on their calves, and straw circles on their heads.

He Liyu, an old man from Wangzuizi Village, recalled: One evening, many teams came down, men, women and children stood on the bank of the alkali to watch the excitement.There were many Red Army teams, and they camped separately in more than a dozen villages along the road.There are only four or five families in Wangzuizi Village, and there are many Red Army stationed there. The district government notified in advance that all households should be prepared to receive the Central Red Army. The adults were busy greeting the Red Army, building stoves, and delivering firewood Wo, measure millet, and children run around in various households like a festival.

After the Red Army team settled down, they began to cook, setting up large pots and small pots in the yard or in the open space.Those who cut yams were cutting yams, and those who were lighting the fire, the whole village was full of fireworks and people were coming and going. After a while, the millet rice in the big pot was steaming hot, and the boiled yam paste in the small pot smelled delicious.Due to the limited number of bowls and chopsticks, the team eats in batches, and some people immediately hand over the bowls and chopsticks to other waiting people after eating.Some soldiers saw the earthen pots buckled at the base of the courtyard wall, and took them down to serve rice.When the villagers saw it, they hurriedly said: "No, no, it's a urine basin." The Central Red Army couldn't understand the local dialect of Chi'an County, so they thought they wanted a basin, and explained, "Just have a meal, and I'll return it to you after you use it..."

After the meal, resting Red Army soldiers sat next to the pot and stove, and the villagers gathered around to see their clothes and listen to what they said.He Liyu recalled: We children, like adults, sat cross-legged on the ground and listened to the Red Army talking about their wars.The villagers also asked questions.A local cadre came over and asked the soldiers to hug the grass on the haystack and spread it on the ground to sleep.That night, most of the Red Army camped in the open. In Huxingzhuang, the Red Army also slept outside the kiln, beside the brain, and on the side of the alkali. Compared with other villages, Huxingzhuang had more households, making it very lively.Hu Xingzhuang was named after the Hu family established a business here, and it belonged to a wealthy farmer with a relatively large family business in Luohechuan.At that time, there were nine brothers in the Hu family's grandfather's generation, 20 brothers in the father's generation, and a family of more than 60 people. The four generations lived under the same roof.The Hujia Stone Kiln is built on the hillside, with four courtyards up and down, the lowest floor is the shop courtyard, where workers and buddies usually live, and entertain porters and merchants in the past.The second floor is the college, which is a private school, where Mr. Hu Keren, the fifth master, teaches the surrounding children to learn to read and write.The upper three and four floors are where the grandparents and fathers lived.Usually, if you want to see Hu Gui, the chief shopkeeper of the Hu family, you have to go through three gates.Hu Gui was diligent and inquisitive since he was a child. He studied the Four Books and Five Classics. He entered school at the age of 14. Corruption, the world is in chaos, and he resigned and returned home after a few years as an official.

Under the arrangement of the district government, the Hu family's high-walled courtyard was designated as the key reception station, and the Longmen courtyard on the third floor was the residence of the central chief.Hu Gui mobilized the whole family, old and young, to give up more than a dozen holes (rooms) in the kiln for the Red Army to live in.Seeing the strict discipline of the Red Army and caring for the masses, I was deeply moved. I asked my children and grandchildren to give good firewood and vegetables to the Red Army, and instructed my daughters-in-law to use a few stone mills to push buckwheat noodles day and night, and let the Red Army eat buckwheat noodles, a specialty of northern Shaanxi. chromium.Of course, the pork and mutton on the Red Army stove were cooked, and the head of the Red Army asked the correspondent to bring two bowls to Hu Gui, the chief shopkeeper.

One day at noon, several sentry posts were suddenly added up and down the villa, and several amiable chiefs came.After a while, the rice in the chief's stove was cooked, and the chief invited Hu Gui, the treasurer of the Hu family, to have a meal together.Chatting during the meal, the chief is full of pride, talking about the world.Hu Gui felt that these chiefs were unusual, and they talked very well with each other, so he ordered his family to set up the Eight Immortals table, Taishi chairs, and set up a thirteen flower banquet (the highest standard for entertaining distinguished guests in the local area), and specially prepared shochu and rice wine. , Special banquet for the chief.

During the meeting, the guests and hosts toasted frequently, drank happily, talked about the past and the present, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.In particular, several chiefs are very talkative, and they are omnipotent in topics related to the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, astronomy and geography, farming and mulberry work, and social etiquette.He also praised Hu Gui's ability to manage his family well, his knowledge of the past and the present, and preached a lot of revolutionary principles to Hu Gui.The more Hu Gui listened, the happier he became, and the more he talked, the more he hit it off. Before he knew it, it was already the third watch, and under the repeated urging of the guards, he broke up the banquet and took a rest.

The next morning when dinner was served, the head of the Red Army asked Hu Gui to have breakfast together. The head unintentionally boasted: "Your chairs are well done." Hu Gui was so happy that he wanted to give the two willow ring chairs to the head, but the head refused repeatedly. reject.When the team set off, Hu Gui insisted on tying two chairs to the horse's pack and let the head of the Red Army take them away. At that time, Qianniugou Village, Danba Town, was under the jurisdiction of Zhiliang District (the chairman of the district, Dong Zhiliang, was killed by Cao Junzhang of the Kuomintang militia, so it was named Zhiliang District to commemorate the martyr). A lot of temporary residences have been prepared to receive the passing Red Army.

Elder Zhang Yuzhen recalled: At that time, I was putting on a donkey and milling yellow rice with a stone mill. When the mill was about to finish, a part of the Central Red Army came from the village and stood outside the yard.The district cadres and one of the Red Army soldiers went straight into the yard, asked my uncle Niu Zhanjun, and after talking to my uncle Wang Decheng, they called the team back to the yard.My uncle was busy arranging accommodation for them, and the other soldiers began to get busy without sitting down to rest.Some built pots and stoves in the yard, some picked up axes to chop firewood, and some went down to the river to fetch water, each doing his own work in an orderly manner.At this time, my uncle said to me: "Hurry up and bring back the milled rice." After I took back more than a hundred catties of yellow rice, my uncle gave the grain to the Central Red Army for cooking. Ten cauldrons were set up in the yard, and in less than an hour, more than 300 Red Army soldiers came to the village. District cadres arranged temporary accommodation for them. A man in his 30s lived in a small stone kiln at my uncle’s house. Two guards.The man kept coming in and out, asking about the food and lodging of the fighters.I thought it must be an official.The soldiers of this team wore old faded military uniforms, which looked very simple and able to endure hardships.Since the cave dwellings and houses in the village could not be opened, my uncle and uncle asked me to give up the cave dwellings.The official did not agree, so some of the Red Army was arranged to live in the stone nunnery in front of the village.Their discipline is very strict, they don't talk to us women, and they always negotiate with men when they have something to do. After breakfast the next day, the troops stood up quickly, and the man in his 30s spoke (I couldn't understand his language), and soon the big troops set off.They also left some people to clean the courtyard and the kiln.After cleaning up, I left. Afterwards, I heard from my uncle and uncle that these teams were led by Peng Dehuai, and that "official" was Peng Dehuai. After this part of the Red Army left, hundreds of people came in the afternoon, wearing single clothes and straw sandals, which were also very difficult.Uncle Cheng and Uncle received them again, arranged accommodation, and sent us three women to drive four donkeys to Diaoping to carry food for the soldiers.The discipline of this team is as good as it was the day before.In this way, the team went on and on for many days. Wang Guozhen, a retired veteran cadre who served as the deputy chief prosecutor of the Shaanxi Provincial People's Procuratorate, recalled: In Zhiliang District, Chi'an County, I successively served as the township secretary and district secretary.The county informed the district to send representatives to the Danbaluo River to organize the masses to welcome the Central Red Army.I went to Danba Diaoping Village to organize the masses.There are 11 families living in Diaoping Village. When the Central Red Army passed by to rest here, every household brought boiled water to the Red Army, and some even brought dry food to the Red Army.An old man named Cao Ruzhen gave the Red Army a pot of rice steamed at home to eat. The Red Army didn't want it, so he had to turn around and say that it was for sale.Now that the Red Army is eating, he also has to charge some money.The Red Army rested in Diaoping Village for a while. Before leaving, they all stood up, shouted "attention", and saluted and thanked the people who brought water and dry food. In the afternoon, I rushed from Diaoping Village to Qianniugou, where the Central Red Army was going to camp.The Red Army soldiers cleaned up the front and back of the village, and those who carried water, chopped firewood, cooked food, and cut hay to feed the horses were all busy.The common people want to help them work, but they will not let them do it anyway.Old man Wang Jiucheng from Wuliwan Village went to help the Red Army carry water. An old Red Army rushed over to grab the bucket. Old man Wang told the Red Army to rest and took the bucket away.Comrade Peng Dehuai saw this scene and said to the soldiers: "This is because the masses really love us." During the night when the Red Army lived in Qianniugou, I saw Comrade Peng Dehuai personally distribute food to the troops, write letters and answer questions from his subordinates, and his work was very busy.As a senior leader of the Red Army, Comrade Peng Dehuai eats the same food as soldiers.The guard brought him a bowl of millet porridge. When he saw me, he asked me to sit down and let me eat.The next day, Comrade Peng Dehuai led the Red Army to Zhiluo Town through Qianmazigou.