The story of Zhang Side eating poisonous grass to save others

After the troops entered the grassland, due to the very harsh environment and climate, marching on the grassland was very difficult. What's even more terrible is the lack of food and clothing, so many Red Army soldiers slept on the grass.

Seeing that more and more comrades were falling behind and dying, Commander-in-Chief Zhu ordered his own mount to be killed and distributed to comrades in the communications class and security class as rations. He also issued a warning to the comrades around him. The call of "Taste a Hundred Herbs" enables everyone to find some non-toxic and edible wild vegetables and weeds in the vast grassland to overcome the difficulty of hunger. However, if you want to taste an edible weed or wild vegetable, you have to risk poisoning. Zhang Side always gets ahead of others in the "Taste of Herbs" activity.

According to Zhang Xianyang's recollection: "Once, the troops camped next to a swamp with abundant water and grass. A young soldier came to the pond and suddenly shouted happily: 'Wild radish! Wild radish!' Zhang Side Come over and take a look, and sure enough, there are clumps of wild grass growing not far from the pond, with green leaves that are similar in shape to radish leaves. Zhang Side happily ran over, picked up one and put it in his mouth. Caught up. He grabbed it and put it in his mouth, chewing it carefully. After a while, Zhang Side felt a little dizzy and weak, and then he felt a cramp in his stomach. He vomited heavily. He hurriedly said to the little soldier: "This grass is poisonous, tell me quickly..." Before he could finish his words, Zhang Side fell down and lost consciousness for more than half an hour. After that, Zhang Side slowly woke up. When he came, he vaguely saw the little soldier squatting in front of him with a porcelain vat. He hurriedly said: 'Don't worry about me, go tell other comrades. '" This is how Zhang Side gave up the hope of life to his comrades and the danger of sacrifice. Keep it to yourself. Soon, Commander-in-Chief Zhu found out about this and he praised Zhang Side.