The reporter will take the Long March Road again： follow, and the red flag will float ahead.

　　[A magnificent new era of 70 years of struggle — — The reporter will take the Long March Road again]

　　When human society entered the 21st century, the book "1000 Years of Mankind" summarized 100 events that had a great impact on human civilization in the past 1000 years. Among them, the Long March of the Red Army from China was selected together with the invention of gunpowder weapons.

　　The Long March traversed Yu Sheng, driving 25,000 miles, crossing nearly 100 rivers, climbing more than 40 high mountains and dangerous peaks, and passing through the vast wetlands with the highest altitude in the world.

　　"The wind and rain soaked the bones harder, and the wild vegetables became stronger. The officers and men are unanimous in their joys and sorrows, and the revolutionary ideal is higher than the sky. " Along the way, the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants experienced more than 600 battles, rose constantly after several setbacks, and were hardened into steel after suffering.

　　Long March — — Harrison Salisbury, the author of an unheard-of story, said: "Reading the story of the Long March will make people realize once again that once the human spirit is aroused, its power is endless." The victory of the Long March is a great victory of ideals and beliefs.

　　Set out, the fire of ideals and beliefs burns high.

　　On October 8, 1934, Luo Binghui, the head of the Hong Jiu Legion, who was withdrawn from the Songmaoling Defence War, went to the front of the troops and said with a heavy tone, "The enemy’s artillery fire hit the gate of Ruijin, and we lost a year’s hard work. We have to make a big shift and leave the red zone where we have been fighting and living for many years. " Hearing this, many soldiers shed tears. The dull air presses everyone like a mountain. Immediately, Luo Binghui waved his arms vigorously and shouted: "Please firmly believe that the revolution must win! We must call back! "

　　Two days later, at dusk, 10 ferries on the Yudu River were crowded with teams crossing the river. In the team, many people can’t predict where chinese soviet republic and the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants will go. They don’t even know where to go next and how long it will take. But this group of soldiers with deep revolutionary ideals always believe that as long as they follow, they will win, and as long as they follow, they will win.

　　Knowing that the Red Army was leaving, the people brought a whole basket of corn, dried pumpkin, dried sweet potato and eggs to see them off. Women gathered together to give their shoes and mended clothes and socks to the Red Army. The children chased the team and stuffed a handful of fried beans into the pocket of the Red Army. The soldiers drank the strong wine brought by the villagers and embarked on a journey with the team.

　　On the eve of the Long March, the Red Army made its last "red expansion" in the Soviet area.

　　In Nanshan Town, Changting County, Fujian Province, there is a Red Army Bridge engraved with the slogan "Saving the country regardless of gender, age and age". At that time, there were four pillars engraved with markings for conscription, which were as high as rifles with spears. Young people could join the Red Army when they reached this height. Most of the more than 2,000 hot-blooded men who passed this line did not come back.

　　During the whole Soviet period, 100,000 workers and peasants’ children joined the Red Army and the Red Guard successively in western Fujian, and among the 86,000 people who participated in the Long March, 26,000 were children in western Fujian, but only 2,000 people remained when they arrived in northern Shaanxi. After that parting autumn night, many mothers, wives and children began to watch endlessly. And what many people finally wait for is just a martyr certificate.

　　Seventeen young adults from Huawu Village in Yeping Township, Ruijin, Jiangxi Province came to Houshan Hamaling on the eve of joining the army, and each of them planted a pine tree. They agreed that after the success of the revolution, they should return to their hometown and repay the villagers. If someone is "glorious", the living should not only respect the dead brothers, but also take good care of these pine trees. Today, 17 pines are lush, but their children have never returned.

　　More than 80 years later, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made a footnote for this period of history: the revolution was very difficult and may not be successful, but once the fire of ideals and beliefs in people’s hearts is lit, it will never go out, and it will surely advance wave after wave, even if it is unsuccessful at that time, it will surely succeed in the future!

　　The red flag fluttered and the bugle sounded. Soldiers, don’t go home. After crossing the river, the moon rose, and the marching team was like a snake. In the team, a little soldier asked the leader, "Look at this battle, where are we going?"

　　"Hit the enemy." The head said.

　　Follow and follow the Red Army to the end.

　　"What did you do during the Long March?" Deng Xiaoping’s daughter asked him.

　　"Follow." Deng Xiaoping replied.

　　How many people have finished the Long March in this way.

　　"Overthrow the rule of imperialism" and "confiscate all the land of the landlord class, and the cultivated land belongs to the peasants" … … This is the content of Ten Platforms of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on the wall of Nanyaojie Land Temple in Youyang, Chongqing. Trekking along the road the Red Army traveled to Qian Shan and fighting for thousands of waters, the reporter saw many slogans of the Red Army during the Long March — — "The Red Army fights for the land and farmers", "Workers and peasants unite as one, overthrow the local tyrants and divide the land" … … Such words can be seen almost everywhere on the road that the Red Army has traveled.

　　This March across most of China is also a great expedition to spread ideals and beliefs. While measuring the mountains and rivers of the motherland with footsteps, the Red Army has given the impoverished peasants, craftsmen and unemployed workers living at the bottom of China society unprecedented yearning and hope. Where the red flag with sickle and axe appears, there is an awakening look. Through the slogans and slogans of the Red Army, the people who are struggling in misery and poverty know for the first time that the Red Army’s expedition is to overthrow the immortal emperor, change all injustice in the world and create a new world without exploitation and oppression. When they witnessed the "red bandits" in the mouth of vigilantes breaking down prisons and opening granaries, they firmly believed that they could change their destiny by picking up hoes, hammers or even just a wooden stick around them. Follow that flag all the way away, and the end of the road is their dream China. As a result, the mother sent her son, the wife sent her husband, and the brothers fought for the Red Army. Every "red expansion" on the Long March was such a scene.

　　They believe that by following them, they can control their own destiny and usher in a new life.

　　Jiang Xiuying, a soldier of the Red Army, ran out of the family of a child bride and joined the Red Army with her mother and family who were slaves. When crossing the snowy mountain, Jiang Xiuying’s toes were frozen. In order to keep up with the marching team, she cut off the rotten toes with an axe. She knew that she had to follow the Red Army, because she had "lived enough" in the old society. Only in the Red Army, she was a person, and only by following the Red Army, could she live as an adult.

　　They believe that if they follow, they can break the injustice in the world and eliminate those who abuse their power for their own good.

　　An Dengbang, the toast of Jiazhu Temple in Zhenping, Songpan County, Sichuan Province, voluntarily gave up the high-ranking officials and generous living environment of the Kuomintang government, and was even wanted for a time because he was dissatisfied with their extortion and oppression of the Qiang people. He led more than 300 Qiang warriors to join the ragged Red Army. Because he knows that this team can break the shackles of the old world and bring equality and freedom to the villagers. In August 1935, An Dengbang’s body was found on his way to raise food, and his blood stained the grass and yellow flowers around him.

　　They believe that if you follow, there will be hope for life; Follow along and the country will have hope.

　　In 1934, the Qiandong Independent Division was ambushed by the enemy in Xiushan, Chongqing, and Duan Suquan, the political commissar, was shot and wounded and separated from the troops. With the help of local villager Li Mufu, he hid in the cave for more than a month. Being able to walk a little, Duan Suquan insisted on looking for troops. He limped and pretended to be a beggar, begging all the way to catch up with the troops, and finally he had no choice but to return to his hometown of Chaling, Hunan. Three years later, once he found out the location of the Red Army, Duan Suquan traveled thousands of miles to rejoin the team.

　　In the Long March Museum of the Red Army in Diqing, Yunnan, the reporter saw a photo taken by several Tibetan soldiers in Yan ‘an after the Long March. In the photo, the sun was shining and the smiles on the soldiers’ faces were even brighter. Next to the photo is "Wish — — The lyrics of "Love Song of a Tibetan Warrior": "How can the rushing Yalong River go backwards? The flying arrow that left the string will never turn back. Our common wish is to go all the way with the Red Army."

　　Move forward, for there is more ambition for sacrifice.

　　On the day the Central Red Army set out, Liu Bojian, who was ordered to stay in the Soviet area and served as the director of the political department of the Gannan Military Region, built a bridge over the Duhe River to escort the main Red Army out of the Soviet area. Many years later, Ye Jianying, a good friend, remembered his busy back that day and wrote the poem "On the beam, Bo Jian came to strike the building, and Jing Qing’s heroism gradually left his feelings", while Liu Bojian was captured and sacrificed in March 1935.

　　Revolution and sacrifice always go hand in hand. According to statistics, a total of 100,000 soldiers died heroically in the Long March. When the Red Army set out, there were more than 80,000 people, and when it arrived in northern Shaanxi, there were only six or seven thousand people. On the journey of this army, an average of one Red Army soldier fell every 300 meters. However, as General Secretary of the Supreme Leader said, hardship can destroy people’s bodies, and death can take away people’s lives, but no force can shake the Communist Party of China (CPC) people’s ideals and beliefs.

　　In the Battle of Xiangjiang River, the Red Thirty-fourth Division, known as the "Desperate Defender Division", fought for four days with an enemy more than ten times its own. Chen Shuxiang, the teacher, was shot in the abdomen and was captured in a coma. The security commander of Dao County of Kuomintang put Chen Shuxiang on a stretcher, and he personally supervised and escorted him to Changsha for credit. On the winding mountain road, the foot of the soldier carrying the stretcher slipped, only to see that Chen Shuxiang had already pulled his intestines out of the wound without saying a word and twisted them by hand. The Kuomintang army cut off Chen Shuxiang’s head and hung it on the wall of Xiaowumen in Changsha, where Chen Shuxiang was born. That year, 29-year-old Chen Shuxiang returned to his hometown in such a heroic way, and realized his oath of "shedding the last drop of blood for Soviet New China".

　　On this red ribbon dyed with blood, people die every day. On the towering snow-capped mountains, the frozen Red Army still points to the direction of the troops. In the vast grassland, many soldiers scrambled to try poisonous weeds.

　　There are even greater sacrifices. From 1934 to 1937, 800,000 families of the Red Army were killed by the Kuomintang in the Soviet area, 66 families of Xu Haidong were killed, and more than 100 families of He Long were killed … … Despite this, on the Long March, the masses still greeted the Red Army in pots and served as guides to raise food and materials for the Red Army. Some villagers even starved to death on the way to deliver food to the Red Army. After the Red Army troops left, the local people still persisted in their struggle, hiding and taking good care of the Red Army wounded, calmly facing the butcher’s knives of the returning group, and sacrificing their lives to protect the Red Army, because they always believed in this ragged but firm-minded team.

　　More than 80 years after this stirring time, the reporter saw this sentence from the book "Glory of Suffering" at the Red Army’s Grassland Monument in Riganqiao Wetland, Hongyuan County, Sichuan Province — — Any nation needs its own hero. The real hero has that profound tragic meaning: sowing, but not taking part in the harvest. This is the national backbone. They went through a lot of hardships, and we gained glory. (Reporter Liu Huadong, Jin Wei)