The story of chef Zhang Desi's sacrifice

19 15 April 19 (the sixth day of the third lunar month), which is Grain Rain Festival. Zhang Side was born in Hanjiawan, Liuhe Township, Yilong County, Sichuan Province. The life of the Zhang family is hard, but at this time, Zhang Side's birth brought home not joy, but deep sorrow. Zhang Side's mother fell ill after delivery and was bedridden. She had no money to buy medicine, rice to cook and milk to feed her children. She had to drag her seriously ill body, get some Gu Mi from poor villagers, mash it and cook it into a paste and feed it to the children. Mother looked at this thin child who was born in Grain Rain Festival and fed him with Gu Mi, and named him "Gu Wazi".

Zhang Side was born only seven months ago, and her mother left this world with illness and fatigue. Before she died, she entrusted Zhang Side to his uncle Zhang and aunt Liu Guangyou for adoption. From then on, the life of the Zhang Side family was even more difficult. Eldest brother worked for the landlord, exhausted in the paddy field; The second brother begged along the street and starved to death on the stage of the pig market; Father Zhang Hangpin went out to make a living and was exiled. So the family went to where you would go.

The life of adoptive father Zhang is also very difficult. He was exhausted from carrying for the landlord and often vomited blood. The adoptive mother gave birth to her daughter Zhang Guixiang only four months ago. She is still very weak. In order to survive, she put two dolls in a basket and carried them in the fields from morning till night.

The children of the poor are in charge early. Zhang Side worked in the fields when he was very young. Mother went up the mountain to plant beans, and he planted them in the back; Mother went to the field to cut wheat, and he followed to pick up ears. Seven or eight years old is the age to go to school, but he has become a laborer who mows grass and digs vegetables. Although adoptive parents have worked hard all day, it is rare for their families to have a full meal.

1933 In September, the Red Army came to Yilong. The Red Army tore up the "Communist Suppression Notice" posted on the wall by Liu Hongan, the head of the Kuomintang, and posted a red and green slogan: "The axe splits the new world, and the sickle cuts off the old Gankun!" "Knock down the local relatives and evil gentry and divide the fields!" The poor and dilapidated Liuhe field has changed the world!

Brave Red Army soldiers led villagers to fight local tyrants and divide fields, and established their own political power-Soviet government in Liuhe Township. The people who turned over were proud and beaming. Zhang Side took an active part in the Young Pioneers, and was elected as the captain. He seriously assisted the Red Army and the militia to stand guard and find out the bad guys.

The hard-working masses know that if they want revolution, they must become the Red Army. Young people from six platforms have signed up for the army. 1933 18 In February, 18-year-old Zhang Side signed up to join the army, and a loyal revolutionary soldier was added to the ranks of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army.

After Zhang Side joined the army, the Red Army left Liuhe Township to perform new tasks. Liu Hong 'an, the leader of the Kuomintang, led the "Home Returning Corps", sabotaged the Soviet regime and shot and killed revolutionary cadres and the masses. Zhang Side's biological father Zhang Hangpin was also killed, his adoptive mother was injured, and his sister Gui Xiang was forced to starve to death. When Zhang Side learned the news, he was heartbroken and wanted to go home to avenge his relatives and his father's hometown. After knowing Zhang Side's thoughts, the company cadres talked with him and patiently inspired and educated him to establish proletarian revolutionary thoughts. With the help of his comrades-in-arms, he understood who to be a soldier, and it was difficult to fight, and his mind was more open and his motivation was more sufficient. He is brave and tenacious, and feels at home. Soon, he joined the Communist Youth League and thrived in the furnace of revolution.

From 1933 to 1934, Zhang Side was praised as a "little tiger" by his comrades in the battle to smash the two large-scale sieges of the Kuomintang against the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area (see the anti-three-way siege and the anti-six-way siege in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area). In the battle against Guanmenliang, he took part in the sharp knife class, braved the bullets, set up an adult ladder with his comrades-in-arms, climbed to the head of the village, blasted the village gate, and opened the way for the troops. Then, he led six comrades-in-arms and guarded a mountain bag, crushing the repeated attacks of two enemy platoons. In another battle, he braved the bullets, ran into the deep valley, climbed the cliff to bypass, inserted behind enemy lines, threw grenades when approaching enemy lines, killed the enemy, jumped on the high slope and seized a machine gun while taking advantage of the smoke. Then, he picked up a machine gun, fired at another group of enemies, seized another machine gun and shouted, "Go!" " Comrades rushed up together and wiped out the enemy. Although Zhang Side was injured in the battle, he hid his face and smiled. In another battle, he continued to fight the enemy in paddy fields, hills and deep ditches in the face of smoke and fire. When the bullets ran out and the enemy pounced, he killed the enemy with a Grenade. The enemy is coming up again. He is fighting with the enemy on the ridge. An enemy stabbed him with a gun. He suddenly swung his broadsword, pulled out his gun, kicked the enemy down in the paddy field and hacked to death. Then, two more enemies jumped on him. He stomped on Tianshui with his foot, so that the enemy's head was splashed all over the floor and his eyes were lost. The enemy was so anxious that he shook his head and wiped his eyes. He threw himself at them with all his strength, raised his broadsword and hacked them to death. At this moment, a bullet flew in and wounded his right arm. The company commander told him to leave the line of fire. He stubbornly said, "no, as long as there is breath, I will fight!" " "

1935 In May, the Red Fourth Front Army withdrew from the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area and began the Long March. In June, the Red Fourth Army joined forces with the Red Army in Maogong, Sichuan. On August 20, the Red Army and the Fourth Army formed the left and right armies and began to go north along the grass. At this time, Zhang split and ordered the Red Army to go south. In this way, Zhang Yi returned to the south from the grassland with the Red Fourth Front Army.

The Red Fourth Front Army fought many vicious battles in the process of going south, but failed to change the sinister situation of the troops. As the weather gets colder, it becomes more difficult for the troops to move. 1936 1 When the Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, the Central Telegraph ordered Zhang to cancel the puppet central government and stop anti-party activities. Zhang was forced to announce the abolition of the puppet central government. In June, the Red Second and Fourth Army joined forces in Ganzi, Sichuan. Then, the Red Second Army and the Fourth Army were divided into three columns: left, middle and right, and headed north along the grassland.

This is the third time that the Red 40,000-faced Army has walked on the grass. At this time, Zhang Side served as platoon leader in the communication camp. Because of him, he was injured three times in the past battle and his body did not fully recover. Coupled with the difficult long journey, his face is haggard and his constitution is very weak. After entering the grass, his feet were swollen by rancid mud. Every step takes a lot of effort, but every time there is a communication task, he always leaves first so that his comrades can have a rest.

After entering the grassland for half a month. There were serious leisure difficulties, and the troops ran out of food. Mules and horses rode by chiefs were slaughtered to satisfy their hunger, and soldiers' belts and gun belts were cooked and eaten. In order to overcome the difficulties, the soldiers risked their lives to find nontoxic wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.

Zhang Side knew that this mysterious grassland was overgrown with weeds. To identify a nontoxic wild vegetable, he had to taste it himself. If you taste poisonous weeds, you may pay the price of your life. Therefore, every time he picks wild vegetables, he always struggles to move forward, leaving the danger to himself.

At noon one day, the troops came to a swamp with abundant water plants. As soon as the others arrived, Zhang went to find wild vegetables with a little soldier. When he came to a dead pond, the little soldier cried in surprise, "Monitor, look!" " Water radish! "Zhang side head a look, and sure enough, there are weeds that look like radishes on the edge of the pond. The little soldier bent down to pick it, but Zhang quickly stopped him. He knows that some wild vegetables that look good are often poisonous. He put a gun in front of him, put a leaf in his mouth, chewed it and picked some more.

After a while, Zhang Side suddenly felt a pain in his stomach and wanted to vomit. Then he spat out clean water. He just felt that everything was spinning. He quickly said, "This grass is poisonous. Tell everyone not to pick it! " "Words haven't say that finish, he lost consciousness. The little soldier shouted anxiously, "Monitor! Monitor! "

Comrades heard shouts. In my hurry, I saw that Zhang Side was blue and unconscious. I knew he was poisoned. They hurried to the health center to find an antidote and give it to Zhang Side. It took a long time for Zhang Side to wake up, and his comrades all breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Side and his comrades came to the grass by the river. They know that after crossing the river, they will leave the grass soon. Encouraged by the war, everyone was in high spirits and waded across the Hege River arm in arm.

Just as they were wringing out their clothes and preparing to move on, there was a cry for help behind them. The journal was written by several lesbians in the headquarters hospital, thin and washed down by the river. I saw them struggling in the water, and their medicine bags floated on the water.

Zhang Side led the soldiers to run downstream, stopped the lesbians in the rapids and carried them ashore one by one, and one of the female soldiers fainted. Zhang Side took out the salt, burned a bowl of boiled salt with a porcelain jar, and fed it to the female soldier's mouth bite by bite. When the female warrior woke up, Zhang Side encouraged her: "Come on, see you in northern Shaanxi!"

1936 10, the Red Second and Fourth Army arrived in Huining and Jingning, Gansu, and joined forces with the Red Army who had come to meet the enemy. After joining forces, Red One, Red Two and Red Army joined forces and successfully fought the Battle of Mountain Castle, breaking the siege of the Tongmin Party.

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Red Army changed to the Eighth Route Army. Zhang Side's troops are going to the anti-Japanese front. The old, weak, sick and disabled people in the army were left behind to form a guard company, which was responsible for guarding the eighth route army rear office in Yunyang, Guanzhong and the wounded hospital (namely the honorary military academy). At that time, Zhang Ende fell ill and was incorporated into the guard company, and served as the deputy monitor of Class Two in a row.

When the guard company was first established, several comrades in the class were seriously ill and bedridden. He ate and drank and waited on sick comrades like a brother. Standing guard at night, he often stands in two shifts to rest his sick comrades. He is the vice monitor, responsible for the internal hygiene in the class, but he rarely orders other comrades to do this and that, but does it himself, influencing and driving everyone with his exemplary actions. When the water in the class ran out, he went to fetch water. When the ground is dirty, he sweeps the floor. He is good at mending clothes and playing straw sandals. Whenever he has a problem, he helps his comrades sew and mend, and he is always busy all day. Everyone praised him at the class meeting. He said, "My illness is very mild, so I don't need to do more."

Zhang Side is not only helpful in life, but also concerned about the ideological progress of his comrades-in-arms, and established sincere friendship with them. When the guard company was first established, there was a liberation soldier in the class, a southerner, who was upset because he was homesick. Whenever it was his turn to stand guard, he claimed to be sick and asked for leave. Comrades criticized him for pretending to be ill at the class meeting. Instead of solving the problem, he became more and more stiff. He simply stopped doing morning exercises and slept in every day.

When Zhang Side saw this, he moved his shop to the soldier's side, slept next to his head and talked to him. It turns out that the soldier's family is also very poor. He was caught by the Kuomintang when he was doing long-term work on the land. He was liberated in the battle of Zhiluo Town and volunteered to join the Eighth Route Army. Zhang Side found out his thoughts and inspired and educated him to establish revolutionary beliefs by remembering his sufferings. Later, this comrade was really ill, so Zhang Side cooked him a sick meal. His shoes were broken, so Zhang gave him a pair of shoes carefully woven with cloth and hemp rope. The soldier was very moved. He shook Zhang Side's hand and said, "Vice President Zhang, you are like a brother to me. Look at my actions in the future! " Since then, this comrade has changed, refreshed, worked very actively and became the backbone of the class.

1in the spring of 939, the Kuomintang army in Yunyang began to create friction incidents. They went to the rear office to pick things up and ordered the Eighth Route Army to leave Yunyang within a time limit. Faced with the unreasonable provocation of the die-hards of the Huimin Party, the soldiers were very angry, but in order to take care of the overall situation, the rear office and the wounded hospital began to March long distances in early autumn and moved to Juyi Tuqiao area.

The weather in autumn is still very hot. The most difficult thing about marching is that there are no shoes to wear. Most comrades had just gone to two universities when their soles fell off and had to walk with ropes. The roadside in Guanzhong is covered with thistles, and some comrades have worn out their soles and pierced their feet, which hurts every step. Seeing his comrade-in-arms limping, Zhang Side offered to play straw sandals, but he couldn't find straw at the moment, so he was very worried.

One day when marching, Zhang Ende found a piece of iris on the side of the road, so he cut it off with a bayonet, tied it into a bundle and carried it on his back. After camping at night, I rushed to play straw sandals and finished three pairs of straw sandals in one breath. It was the first time that a rooster crowed. The next day, he gave these three pairs of grass to three comrades who wore the worst shoes. These three comrades tried it on and felt much more comfortable than broken cloth shoes. They are all very happy. From then on, whenever the comrades found Ma Lindan in the March, they cut it off and took it with them like a treasure. As soon as he arrived at the camp, Zhang Side taught everyone to play sandals hand in hand. In this way, all the comrades put on straw sandals. After the comrades in the rear office and the disabled soldiers' hospital arrived at Tuqiao, the weather began to get cold. In order to solve the problem of heating in winter, the superior decided to burn charcoal. Zhang Side knows charcoal burning technology, so he and his squad leader led the soldiers up the mountain to burn charcoal. Charcoal burning was bitter and tiring, but Zhang Side led the soldiers to work very hard. Every time the charcoal kiln is lit, he stays by the kiln, takes a nap when he is tired, and then goes on working. When the kiln burned out, his eyes were red, tired and thin. That winter, Zhang Side led his comrades to burn charcoal for three months. After burning charcoal, he was rated as a model worker, and the rear office awarded him a towel and a notebook.

/kloc-in the spring of 0/940, Zhang Side returned to Yan 'an, where the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is located, with the security company. Soon, he was assigned to the guard battalion of the Central Military Commission as the communication monitor. In the communication class, he went to Nanniwan to reclaim land, cultivate land and burn charcoal in the mountains, all of which accomplished the task brilliantly.

1in the autumn of 942, the guard battalion of the military commission merged with the central teaching brigade to form the central guard regiment. At that time, the superior decided to let Zhang Ende be a soldier instead of a monitor. Zhang Side happily obeyed the organization's assignment and became a soldier in the second platoon. The monitor of Class Four was a comrade who took part in the revolution during the Anti-Japanese War, younger than Zhang Side, but Zhang Side respected the monitor, actively completed the work assigned by the monitor, safeguarded the monitor's prestige and helped the monitor do a good job in the class. For this, he was praised by the leaders.

1in the early spring of 943, Zhang Side was sent to the surrounding internal security class as a guard. Zhang is very excited here. He secretly made up his mind to work hard and be a loyal guardian of Mao Zedong.

After Zhang Side went to the internal security class, he was more energetic and worked more actively. He often said: "Chairman Mao is the leader of our revolution, and loving the leader means loving the revolution." In order to make Chairman Mao's work and life happy, he devoted all his resources to taking care of Chairman Mao's life and security work. Mao Zedong has the habit of staying up late to write articles and lying down for a while after dawn. In order to let the chairman have a rest, whenever the chairman stays up late, he gets up early and looks around the chairman's cave. If he finds chickens and dogs that get up early to feed, he quietly drives them away. When he heard birds chirping, he threw stones at the tree to drive away the birds so as not to wake the chairman. If someone asks for the chairman, as long as the situation is not urgent, he will explain the situation and persuade them to come back later.

Once, Zhang Side accepted the task and immediately sent the urgent official document drafted by Mao Zedong to the relevant departments. At that time, the thunder rumbled, the rain poured down, and the Yanhe River rose, making it impossible to wade. What shall we do? He said, "Even if there is a knife in the sky and the river is deep, I will send Chairman Mao's official documents across the river." So he came to the river with a long rope in his hand, tied one end of the rope to a tree, put a ring on the rope, tied a thin rope on the ring, and tied the official document firmly to the ring. Then he took the other end of the rope and jumped into the rapids. He struggled desperately, and although he was exhausted, he finally crossed the river. He tied the rope to the tree, then pulled the rope, pulled the official document tied to the ring, and sent Mao Zedong's instructions to the relevant departments in time.

Zaoyuan is located in the northwest of Yan 'an, more than ten miles away from the urban area. At that time, in the most difficult years in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Mao Zedong was very busy and often held meetings in Yan 'an. Every time Chairman Mao goes out, the internal security class follows.

Chairman Mao's black car was presented by Chen Jiageng, a patriotic overseas Chinese. The body is wide and can take 10 passengers. There is a pedal at the back of the car for the guards to stand on. At that time, with the cooperation of the state, many people from the Kuomintang-controlled areas visited Yan' an, and these people were inevitably mixed. For Mao Zedong's safety, every time he got off the bus, a comrade stood behind the car as a guard, just in case.

Standing in the back of the car as a guard is much harder than sitting in the car. In summer, the dust flying behind the car makes people breathless; In winter, the cold wind behind the car makes people numb. However, everyone regards standing behind the car as an honor and tries to be vigilant. After Zhang Side went to the internal security class, whenever he went out, as soon as the car started, he stood behind the car and "preempted" the alert position. Almost every time. Everyone wants to change him, but no matter what he says, he refuses, saying, "I like the cold wind blowing." No one can do anything about him.

1943 In the winter, there were several heavy snows, and the weather in Yan 'an was very cold. At this time, according to the regulations, comrades standing guard behind the car can put down their hats and ears. However, Zhang didn't think that putting the hat ear down would affect the line of sight, so he turned it over. As a result, his face was black and blue with cold, and he didn't care. Throughout the winter, when going out, nine times out of ten, Zhang Yimian served as a guard. The comrades in the internal security class are sorry and want to replace him again and again, but he insists: "I like the cold wind blowing."

1944, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression entered its seventh year. In order to break the blockade of the Kuomintang and completely defeat the Japanese invaders, the mass production movement of the military and civilians in the Yan' an border region became more intense. This summer, the superior decided that some comrades in the internal security class would go to Ansai, north of Yan 'an, to burn charcoal to solve the problem of heating the jujube garden in winter. Hearing the news, everyone rushed to go. Knowing that Zhang Side was burning charcoal, the leader assigned him to lead four comrades to burn charcoal in Shixiayu Village, Ansai County.

One day in July, Zhang Ende led the guards to Shixiayu Village with luggage, saws and axes. There are only one hundred families here, surrounded by mountains and forests. According to the village head, there are Cyclobalanopsis Woods five or six miles into the mountain. Qinggang Tree is hard and is an excellent raw material for charcoal burning.

The next day, at the dawn of the East, Zhang Side led everyone into the mountains to choose a place to burn charcoal, and began to make preparations for burning charcoal. The forest scenery in the mountains is beautiful. The rising sun shines in the Cyclobalanopsis glauca forest, glowing with a green halo, and clusters of Shandan flowers are as red as fire. On Zhang's side, they forgot to enjoy the beautiful scenery and ran up and down with their heads down. According to the size of the mountain and Cyclobalanopsis glauca forest, they chose the place to burn charcoal kiln.

In order to speed up the progress of charcoal burning, Zhang Side divided the comrades into two groups, one group was responsible for digging charcoal kilns, and the other group was responsible for cutting down green hillock trees. He said: "After we entered the mountain, all the comrades at home were busy. We must work hard to burn more charcoal, complete the task as soon as possible, and report to Chairman Mao. " He didn't say much, but he said it to everyone's heart. Everyone is determined to work hard, create excellent results and make Chairman Mao happy.

The intense labor began. In the deserted mountain forest, there was the banging of logging and the cheerful songs of the soldiers. Zhang Side led two soldiers to get up early and get greedy for the dark, and soon they hit the charcoal kiln. Everyone carried the branches of Cyclobalanopsis glauca to the front of the kiln, and Zhang began to load the kiln here. Other comrades continued to dig new kilns and cut down green-bar trees. Zhang Side filled the kiln and lit it at the same time. After the charcoal burned into a fire, the comrades also dug out the new kiln and prepared enough materials. He went to install the kiln and make a fire alone, working from morning till night without rest.

Kiln burning is a technical job. The fire should be burned evenly and pressed properly. It is too early to suppress the fire, which is "raw" and futile; If the fire is pressed late, the charcoal will be reduced to ashes, and all previous efforts will be in vain. In order to master the temperature, Zhang Side ate and lived by the kiln, got up several times at night, climbed to the top of the kiln to observe the smoke color and judge the temperature. At that time, there was no lighting tool, so he collected a small shrub called "Cow Stripe" in the forest, dried it in the kiln and used it for lighting at night. This kind of "beef strip stalk" is oily, and it burns very brightly after being ignited, and it is not afraid of the wind. Comrades all admire Zhang Side's rich experience and are willing to use their brains.

It takes about 10 days for local people to burn a kiln of charcoal. In order to burn more kilns quickly, Zhang Side and others went out of the kiln before the charcoal was completely cooled after pressing the fire, shortening the charcoal burning cycle to 7 days. When leaving the kiln, the temperature in the kiln is very high, and some charcoal has sparks on it, which makes people ache all over and sweat. Every time out of the kiln, Zhang Side wrapped his hands in rags and stood in the innermost part of the kiln to pick charcoal. Driven by him, the comrades forgot to eat and sleep, fought day and night, and burned more than 50,000 kilograms of charcoal for more than a month, exceeding the task.

After the charcoal was burned, Zhang Side led everyone to tie it up with poplar branches and carry it back to Shixiayu Village. More than 50 thousand Jin of charcoal is placed at the head of the village, like a hill. Looking at these fruits of labor, everyone is full of joy. Zhang Ende went to Ansai to call the leader to report the situation. The leader instructed Zhang Side to stay and guard the charcoal temporarily, waiting for the carriage to come for shipment, while other comrades returned to Zaoyuan for duty.

In order to protect charcoal, Zhang Side lives in an old lady's house at the head of the village. He is a restless man, carrying water for the old lady, sweeping the yard and hitting some bundles of firewood up the hill. Later, he remembered that there were some felled Cyclobalanopsis in the place where charcoal was burned on the mountain, so he wanted to burn some charcoal before the carriage came to transport charcoal. He discussed with his aunt and said, "Aunt, I'm tired of sitting watching charcoal all day." You and the children take care of it for me. I will burn more in the mountains. Come back at night, I'll bring you a bundle of firewood, and you'll have something to burn. "The old lady agreed happily. In this way, Zhang Side took dry food into the mountains every morning, and one person cut wood and put it in the kiln to burn. Every night when I come back, I always carry a bundle of firewood for my aunt. The old lady prepares dinner for him every day, and prepares dry food at night for him to eat in the mountains the next day.

On September 5, before dawn, Zhang once again stepped into the mountains. When he left, he told his aunt that when he came back at night, he would give her some broken charcoal to keep her warm in winter. But in the evening, my aunt has heated the meal for three times, and Zhang Side hasn't come back yet. The cock crowed for the first time, but there was no sign of Zhang. Aunt was very upset and went to the village head. Village head uneasy, hurriedly take people into the mountains, to find a side.

The village chief came to the place where Zhang Ende burned charcoal. When he saw charcoal piled neatly in front of the kiln, which had collapsed, he knew something was wrong. He quickly dug out the sand by hand, hoping to save Zhang Yifang.

The collapsed scorched earth was dug out, only to see Zhang standing sideways, clutching a piece of veneer and a pile of Cyclobalanopsis at his feet. It seems that when he was loading the kiln, the charcoal kiln suddenly collapsed and buried him ...