On the Long March, which was under heavy artillery fire, everyone remembered the frontline soldiers who fought bloody battles.
But few people know that the life and death of the army is maintained by a group of logistics personnel carrying grain bags.
Wang Desheng, the leader of the cooking squad, was ordered to face the danger and set up a life and death logistics team on the banks of the Du River.
Li Erzhu, a farmer who repaid his kindness by joining the army, Zhang Xiulan, a female Red Army soldier who strictly abided by the discipline of raising grain, Xiao Shitou, a young boy who was ignorant of his growth, and Laoguan, a man from the Northeast whose whole family was massacred by the Japanese invaders and who bent on going north to kill the enemy.
Each person carries a load of more than 80 kilograms, and their entire belongings are grain bags, iron pots, and medicine boxes.
He broke through the blockade and risked his life to deliver food under the gunfire of the Xiangjiang River; he traveled to the Yi village in Miao Township and exchanged rations with an IOU; he crossed the Chishui River for thousands of miles and buried the stove in the dark at Loushanguan; he climbed over the Jiajin Mountain, stepped on the man-eating grassland, gnawed wild vegetables and boiled leather belts, and defended the army rations in desperate situations.
Enemy planes fired at them, bandits harassed them, and the swamps and freezing cold continued to take away the lives of their companions.
Twenty-four people set out and walked to northern Shaanxi against all odds and dangers, but very few survived.
They did not have steel spears, but they used shoulder poles as weapons; they did not leave their name in history, but they used flesh and blood to carry them on a 25,000-mile expedition.
Food is there and people are here, and people are here when food comes! Logistics is not behind, no name but merit!
This is the iron-blooded food journey belonging to the logistics warriors, and it is a heroic song of faith for the unknown.
I would like to dedicate this book to the unknown logistics heroes on the Long March. They did not have earth-shattering military exploits, but they used carrying poles and food bags to support their journey of thousands of miles.
