Chapter 56 Female soldiers are always the hardest and happiest

On August 5, the insurgents who left Nanchang marched towards the east of Jiangxi. Of the 30 female soldiers, except for Peng Yilan, Peng Yuanhua, and Hu Yuxiu who remained in the staff group, the rest were assigned to the Ninth, Eleventh, and Twentieth Armies for propaganda or rescue work. At the time of dog weather, the scorching sun was in the sky.Every female soldier carries his own change of clothes and blankets. The stronger ones, called the "Four King Kongs" by the sisters, carry rifles like the male soldiers, and their belts are full of bullets. of.At first glance, one could hardly believe they were girls.Among them, there are also some who are thin and thin, and some whose feet are bound and enlarged. Although they only have a pistol hanging on them, it is very difficult to walk, but being able to join this team already shows that they are some special women.

At first, I walked fifty or sixty miles a day, and it was not uncommon for me to walk a hundred miles a day when there was an urgent task.They can all come down.Because I received half a year of training at the Wuhan Military Academy, but the weather was too hot, and life was much more difficult. I was sweating all day long, and my clothes were wet and dry, and dry and wet again.Coupled with women's long-winded things, it is even more troublesome.Most of them had blisters on their feet, and the skin on their faces was as tanned as copper.The supply of tea was difficult along the way, and the sweat dripped too much, and I always felt dry tongue and burnt lips.Occasionally, they found a small stream beside the road, and it became their happiest moment. They took out mouthwash cups from their waists and drank non-stop.

When camping at night, due to overwork during the day, I can fall asleep no matter what the occasion.Sometimes they slept in the open air, sometimes in the fields.If you can find a door panel or a bench, it will be a great enjoyment.Even then, female soldiers were envied, especially in the eyes of rural women. One night, Hu Yuxiu stayed at a fellow villager's house.The landlord is a young woman.Hu Yuxiu's cloth shoes were worn out, so she asked the landlord: "Cousin, where can I buy straw sandals?" The landlady looked at Hu Yuxiu's bare feet and said, "It's too late tonight, the shop is already closed. "As soon as Hu Yuxiu heard this, she returned to the front hall of the camp and prepared to sleep.After a while a child came and told her to go to the landlady.It was the same cousin who handed Hu Yuxiu a pair of half-new cloth shoes and said, "These are my boy's shoes, try to see if they fit?" "Nothing better, cousin, how much are these shoes worth?" Money?" Hu Yuxiu cried out happily. "Your revolutionary army is reasonable, unlike the bandit soldiers of the Kuomintang, who would rob us when they saw them." When mentioning the Kuomintang soldiers, my cousin kept cursing, but she refused to accept the money that Hu Yuxiu handed over.

After repeated pushes and pushes, Hu Yuxiu had no choice but to accept the cloth shoes, and hastily found a new pair of foreign socks from her bag to give to the landlady.The landlady took the socks, but kept her eyes on Hu Yuxiu's face, and muttered: "Look how nice you are, how free you are, we can only circle around the pot and the babe." When the landlady spoke, her eyes were wet.The second is that the troops are about to leave, and the cousin reluctantly sends the female soldiers out of the village. The female soldiers working in the staff group often get encouragement from the chiefs around them.The one who impressed me the most was probably Yun Daiying.With bald head and bare feet, Yun Daiying marched under the scorching sun.He had already lost his change of clothes, and the coarse military uniform he was wearing was in tatters, with a long "all-purpose" cloth on his shoulders, and his skin was peeling off from the sun, and he was black and thin. Whenever I saw him, I called him "Gandhi".Even Zhang Guotao, who later rebelled against the revolution, had to admire him, saying that his style of work, of course, also had many followers, which moved the general soldiers greatly, and some people often exclaimed: "Those great committee members are more able to endure hardships than us." Hu Yuxiu and the others also saw that when they set off from Nanchang, the organization allocated a horse for Yun Daiying to ride, but he gave the horse to the weak and sick to ride, and walked with the soldiers himself.While marching, he encouraged: "You must be good at propagating our revolutionary mission to the common people so that they understand our policies, so that they can gain their support and the war will be won. I hope you will train yourself more in actual work and become The party's red propagandist"

He also has a stomach full of stories, which often make people around him forget their fatigue.His myopia is more than 1000 degrees, and he becomes blind without glasses.One day, Hu Yuxiu found that the right temple of his tortoiseshell glasses was broken and was tied to his ear with a rope.While the camp was resting, several propaganda team members went up to look for him.As soon as we met, Hu Yuxiu pointed to the rope on his ear and said, "Comrade Daiying, is it convenient for you to walk this way? On behalf of the comrades, I would like to make a request to you. Please don't walk, but ride a horse!" "It's okay, thank you I will always pay attention to the concern of the female generals." He didn't care, but he was very sincere.The female soldier noticed that Yun Daiying walked all the way to Guangdong wearing the glasses on one leg.

Another highly respected chief minister was Zhou Enlai.Later, when he presided over the work of the State Council of the Republic, people around Zhou Enlai said that he was very strict. As long as he found a mistake, no matter whether you were a minister or a secretary, he would severely criticize you.The closer he is to the person, the more ruthless he is when he criticizes him. It seems that his style of work is consistent, and it was shown on the way out of Nanchang.Hu Yuxiu and Peng Yuanhua set out from Nanchang and followed Zhou Enlai all the time.Every day, when the march was resting, the two female soldiers always fell asleep as soon as they fell down because they were too tired.I often woke up and saw Zhou Enlai working under a soybean oil lamp, or pacing and meditating silently.They also often see that whoever fails to complete the task will be called by him to criticize severely.But if the task is well completed, he also praises or encourages him face to face.Often witnessing this situation, the female soldiers reminded themselves not to be lazy and sloppy, and to accept the task happily no matter how tired they were.One night, several female soldiers of the staff group were chatting under the lamp. Zhou Enlai walked up to them with a smile on his face, and they asked him to sit down and chat together.

He was in a good mood that day, so he immediately sat on the ground and said with great interest: "Female generals, you have performed very well this journey, you are brave and persevering. After we have won Guangdong and gained a foothold, we will send you to the Soviet Union to specialize in military affairs and continue your studies. " "Really?" The female soldiers jumped up happily, "nailed" Zhou Enlai, asking him to "guarantee": "Chief of Staff, don't forget it by then!" "Why not true? In the future revolution With the development, there are many things to do. Along the way, we can see that you female comrades can live the same strict military life as the male comrades, and in the future, you will also undertake important revolutionary work like the male comrades.” Zhou Enlai said, let the young female soldiers We had many good dreams that night.