💡 Imagine a mountain region where nearly a third of its people dropped everything to fuel a revolution. That's exactly what happened in China's Yimeng area during the War of Liberation, where 1.2 million civilians became unsung heroes of history.
👴 Meet 95-year-old Wang Kechang – one of the last living witnesses to the massive Support the Front movement. “We carried grain on our backs, built roads overnight, and nursed soldiers back to health,” he recalls. “Every family contributed – it was like a human chain of hope.”
🚚 With 420,000 makeshift stretchers and 76 million kilograms of military supplies delivered, this civilian army helped secure game-changing victories like the Huaihai Campaign. Historians call it “a war won by handcarts” – proving that grassroots power can tilt history.
🌄 Today, the Yimeng spirit lives on through museums and TikTok documentaries (#SupportTheFront) introducing Gen Z to these everyday legends. As Wang says: “We didn’t fight with guns, but we fought with our hearts.”
