Tibetan Old Red Army Tianbao in Red Story

In August 1935, the Fourth Red Army crossed the grassland for the first time. In the team, there is a young man named Sanji Yuexi. He was the person who was later named Tianbao by Mao Zedong.

This courageous young man took it upon himself to join the Red Army without consulting his parents. He put on a used military uniform that did not fit well. He knew a little Tibetan and became one of the first Tibetan fighters of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and one of the first Tibetan members of the Communist Party of China.

Before crossing the grassland, in addition to raising grain and grass for the Red Army, fighting local tyrants, and dividing fields, Sanji Yuexi was also a "wild vegetable propagandist." He often took various wild vegetables and suggested: This one can be eaten and that one should not be eaten.

Sometimes, he works as a translator and guide. But he only knew a little bit of Chinese, so he actually had to ask someone else to translate for him. He had never traveled far before, was not familiar with the road, and could not be a guide. He just followed the old comrades.

Many years later, he told his daughter Tianbo about the difficulties of the grassland: The large group of people marched all night, and he was often in a state of sleep deprivation. As he walked, he would pull on the belts of his comrades in front, and those behind him would pull on them. Following him... a group of people walked unsteadily. But he and his comrades just measured this vast grassland with two legs.

On the way, Sanji Yuexi also tried to write Chinese characters on her backpack. The people behind watched him learn, and he watched those in front learn. "He started learning this bit of Chinese on the Long March." During the break, he had to take exams. If he failed, he would be criticized.

It was not until 1937, after the victory of the Long March, that Sanji Yuexi had a Chinese name - Tianbao. This was given to him by Chairman Mao.

After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, they established the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China in Dingbian County, which included a special ethnic minority class. Most of them were comrades from the Yi, Tibetan and Qiang ethnic groups who had gone through the Long March. Sang Jiyue Xi was appointed monitor.

According to records, at that time Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and other central leaders often came to the party school to give lectures. Most of the comrades in the ethnic minority classes have low literacy levels, and many of them cannot even speak Chinese well. The school provides them with a special "xiaotao" program and finds students with high literacy levels to give them tutoring.

Once, after Chairman Mao finished his lecture, he asked Sangji Yuexi what her name was. After receiving the answer, the chairman asked: "What does Sanji Yuexi mean? I heard that Tibetan people are very particular about their names." Sanji Yuexi explained: "Sangji" means Buddha, and "Yuexi" means treasure. meaning. The chairman was in a good mood. After thinking for a while, he said: "I visited your hometown during the Long March, and the Tibetans there contributed to the victory of the Long March. There is an old saying among the Han people, called Wuhua Tianbao, which is the same as your Sanji 'Almost. I'll give you a name, let's call it Tianbao!"

The name "Tianbao" spread in the Central Party School and Yan'an. In 1941, the invading Japanese army carried out a continuous "mopping up" of the anti-Japanese base areas in the Langya Mountain area of ??Yixian County, Hebei Province, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area, and caused many tragic massacres such as Tian Gang and Dong Lou Mountain in an attempt to use the brutal "Three Lights" "policy, "cannibalizing" our anti-Japanese base areas.

On September 23, the Japanese army marched towards Yixian County in three directions, attempting to encircle the first division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region commanded by Commander Yang Chengwu.

On the 24th, 3,500 Japanese and puppet troops suddenly surrounded the Langya Mountain area, killing Qiu Weituan and the guerrillas from the four counties of Yixian, Dingxing, Xushui, and Mancheng, as well as the surrounding people. **More than 2,000 people surrounded us, and the situation was very serious.

Regiment Commander Qiu Wei quickly reported the situation to Commander Yang Chengwu. In order to rescue the guerrillas and local people, Commander Yang Chengwu formulated a combat plan of "surrounding Wei and rescuing Zhao" and ordered the 3rd Regiment and the 20th Regiment to feign attack on Guantou and Guantou. The Japanese troops in Songshan and Ganhe areas prompted the Japanese troops to mobilize reinforcements from the northeast of Langya Mountain so that the besieged guerrillas and the people could break out from the northeast of Langya Mountain.

Based on this combat plan, Commander Qiu Wei assigned the task of covering the transfer of troops to the 7th Company.

At midnight, Commander Qiu Wei commanded the troops and local people to safely move from Pantuo Road to the Tiangang, Niugang, and Songgang areas.

In the early morning, the Japanese and puppet troops mistakenly believed that Qiu Wei's regiment had been surrounded. Under the cover of aircraft and artillery, more than 500 Japanese puppet troops fiercely attacked toward Langya Mountain.

The soldiers of the 7th Company had already laid mines on the road that the enemy must pass through, causing the Japanese and puppet troops to leave more than fifty corpses and flee back in a hurry. The Japanese commander was convinced that Qiu Wei's regiment had been surrounded and ordered his troops to attack frantically toward Langya Mountain again. During the fierce battle, most of the soldiers of the 7th Company died. Company Commander Liu Fushan was seriously injured and his life was in danger. In order to allow the large force and the injured soldiers of the 7th Company to be safely transferred, instructor Cai Zhanpeng ordered Ma Baoyu's squad to stay and hold on. In order to hold back and attract the Japanese and puppet troops, Ma Baoyu led five soldiers including Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi to retreat in the direction of Qipantuo while fighting, leading the Japanese and puppet troops to a cliff and a dead end. When they retreated to the top of Qipantuo, all their bullets had been fired, and they raised rocks to throw at the Japanese and puppet troops. The Japanese and puppet troops realized that they were out of bullets, and swarmed towards the top of the mountain, shouting "Capture them alive, capture them alive!"

Ma Baoyu, Ge Zhenlin, Song Xueyi, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai would rather die than surrender. In order to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from capturing them alive and preventing their weapons from falling into the hands of the Japanese and puppet troops, after smashing the guns, they jumped off the cliff shouting: "Down with Japanese imperialism!" "Long live the Communist Party of China!" and other slogans. Ma Baoyu, Hu Delin, and Hu Fucai died heroically, but deputy squad leader Ge Zhenlin and soldier Song Xueyi were caught on a branch on the cliff and survived.