The main content of "Half Bowl of Barley Noodles" is: The Red Army's Long March crossed the grassland, and there was not much food. Everyone only had a bag of Barley Noodles. Zhou Enlai shared his own half bag of Barley Noodles with the soldiers in order to encourage them to persist until the end. Zhou Enlai's selfless dedication enabled the Red Army soldiers to achieve the final victory.

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The story of "Half Bowl of Barley Noodles" comes from the fact that the Red Army crossed the grass.

On August 21st, 1935, the Red Army began to cross the grassland. Line the army left and right, and move forward in parallel. The army on the right, led by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Xu Xiangqian, set out from Maoergai, Sichuan and entered the grassland. After seven days of hard work, the right army reached the Banyou area at the end of the grassland. The left is the Red Army of Lin Biao, which goes first.

followed by the central leading organs, students of the Red Army University, etc. The right wing is the Red Thirty Army and the Red Fourth Army led by Xu Xiangqian and Chen Changhao. Peng Dehuai rate GongSanJunTuan mat, take the left-wing March route.

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Going to Maoergai:

Maoergai is a town with only a few hundred families. Tens of thousands of Red Army troops were stationed overnight, and the food problem could not be solved. At this time, the fields outside the village were full of mature highland barley, but the Red Army did not touch a highland barley of the people, and bought some highland barley from the people with silver dollars.

The Red Army women couldn't find their sickles, so three old men, Dong Biwu, Xu Teli and Xie Juezai, took everyone and pulled them out by hand. Although everyone's hands are worn out, the highland barley we got back is still pitiful. They went to the roadside and fields to pick up the barley ears that had been trampled into the mud. When they returned to the station, they couldn't find the stone mortar, so the female Red Army began to rub it for two whole days before rubbing out these pitiful highland barley.

In order to save food, female Red Army women try their best to save money. They would rather dig wild vegetables in the mountains than eat more highland barley, because it is already the best food in the local area.

Female Red Army women who take care of the wounded and sick of the Central Red Army, almost all of them rely on digging wild vegetables to make a living during the few days when they cross the grassland, and leave those highland barley for the wounded and sick. A few days later, they were all pale and emaciated, but when the wounded and sick people walked out of the grass, their faces were filled with bright smiles.

Zhou Enlai crossed the grass:

When Zhou Enlai crossed the grass, he didn't eat for five or six days because of his high fever, and he was very weak. He followed Peng Dehuai's Third Army in the rear.

Peng Dehuai confessed to Xiao Jinguang, chief of staff: It's really no good for you to be responsible for organizing a stretcher team. You'd rather throw away some equipment than carry Zhou Enlai out of the grass. Xiaojinguang buried the mortar that he couldn't take away, and the stretcher team became several groups, taking turns to carry Zhou Enlai across the grass. Chen Geng, the head of the cadre group, volunteered to be the captain and carried the stretcher with the soldiers.

And Yang Lisan, Minister of Station Department, will also carry a stretcher. Yang Lisan was very tired, but still insisted on carrying Zhou Enlai out of the grass.

Spiritual strength:

Under the extremely harsh environment, the officers and men of the Red Army, with the same revolutionary ideal, maintained strict fine discipline and optimistic revolutionary spirit, carried forward touching class friendship, shared joys and sorrows, overcame the difficulties in nature with great spiritual strength, and finally made their way out under the threat of death.

General Xiao Hua later wrote in "Songs of the Long March": "The bones of clothes soaked in wind and rain are harder, and the determination of wild vegetables to satisfy hunger is stronger. The officers and men are United in joys and sorrows, and the revolutionary ideal is higher than the sky. "

The reference comes from Baidu Encyclopedia-Red Army Crossing the Grassland.