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Liu and Deng's armies fought without a rear in the Dabie Mountains. The hardships they suffered at that time were beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Here, we interviewed more than 300 former commanders and fighters of Liu and Deng's army who participated in the Thousand Mile Leap into the Dabie Mountains. They included column leaders at the time, such as the political commissar of the Sixth Column, Du Yide, as well as brigade and regiment commanders, such as Li Desheng, commander of the 6th Column and 17th Brigade, Xiao Yongyin, Commander of the 18th Brigade, political commissar Liu Chang, Tang Mingchun, commander of the 46th Regiment of the 16th Column, etc., But most of them were grassroots commanders and fighters at that time. During the interviews, the old people said: The Red Army and the Eighth Route Army went through hardships, but when they arrived in the Dabie Mountains, the days were even more difficult than the Long March and the War to Resist U. S. Aggression and Aid Korea...