The wounded and sick in Shajiabang

Shajiabang is located in the south corner of Changshu City, Jiangsu Province. More than 70 years ago, the New Fourth Army and the people of Shajiabang carried out arduous guerrilla warfare behind the enemy lines in this vast reed, and United as one, they wrote a much-told story that the army and the people shared weal and woe.

Approaching Shajiabang Revolutionary History Memorial Hall, Reed Marsh, Chunlai Teahouse, and the statues of Guo Jianguang and Aqingsao standing in Jiefang Square ... In front of us, there is an endless reed bonfire.

Shajiabang is famous all over the world because there were 36 new fourth army wounded people here that year, from which the drama "Ludang Fire and Shajiabang" was derived.

Walking into the memorial hall, the "eighteen pine trees" stills standing proudly in the Beijing opera Shajiabang are radiant; A model reproduces the floating hospital of that year, and a small wooden boat carrying the sick and wounded was displayed next to it.

? Seeing things and thinking about people, how did the wounded and sick in those days spend the storm? Who is the instructor "Guo Jianguang"? ? 1939, Ye Fei, head of the Sixth Regiment of the First Detachment of the New Fourth Army, led his troops to Yangcheng Lake in the name of Jiangnan Anti-Japanese Volunteers (hereinafter referred to as "Jiang Kang"), opening up the Su Changzhou Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Zone. After that, the main force shifted, leaving 36 wounded and sick people to recuperate in Shajiabang area. These 36 wounded and sick people are the archetypes of "Eighteen Pines" in the Beijing Opera Shajiabang. Among the wounded were Wu, the director of the Political Department of the Jiang Kang of the New Fourth Army, and Zhang Shiwan, a soldier. Xia Guang, chief of staff of Jiang Kang, was also arranged to receive treatment in Yangcheng Lake after he fell ill.

The wounded are scattered in the village between Kuncheng Lake and Yangcheng Lake, relying entirely on the support and help of the local people. There is a hospital behind the New Fourth Army in Shajiabang. The Japanese puppet troops who heard the news raided the countryside every three days.

There are many reeds on the lake and the terrain is complex. When the enemy was in an emergency, the villagers carried stretchers and rocked boats, hiding the sick and wounded in the reeds. As soon as the enemy left, they waded across the river and sent food and medicine to the sick and wounded.

Due to the serious shortage of drugs, medical staff baked egg shells by indigenous methods and ground them into powder, so that tuberculosis patients could take calcium supplements; Boiling sulfur powder and lime water into liquid medicine to treat scabies; Heat with bricks and then apply hot compress …

/kloc-at dawn in 0/939, the Japanese army suddenly surrounded the rear hospital of the New Fourth Army in Caojiabang. At a critical juncture, the peasant woman Cai Amei woke up four female nurses at home, hid in the straw pile behind the house, and walked out of the house with the enemy's bayonet. On the fishing boats of villagers Chen Jinsheng and Chen Jinlin, four seriously wounded people were lying. The two brothers were not afraid of danger, and tactfully put the boat into the reeds.

? The wounded and sick were not intimidated by the Japanese puppet army's rampant sweeping. In June165438+1October this year, they received instructions from their superiors: reorganize their armed forces and stick to their original positions. In a ruined temple, the "Jiang Kang East Road Command" with 36 wounded and sick people as the backbone was established in Shajiabang, and Xia Guang was elected as the commander-in-chief, and the anti-Japanese artillery fire resumed.