The Story of Liu Bocheng and Xiao Yedan (Yihai Alliance)

Even in the midst of bullets and fatigue, the Red Army trudged through Qian Shan, still holding high its ideals and beliefs: seeking happiness for the working people all over the world, regardless of race or region. In China, a multi-ethnic country, the Red Army has dealt with complex ethnic issues with a broad mind and has become a model of our party's ethnic policy in the future.

The main activity areas of the three main forces of the Red Army in the Long March are the southwest and northwest areas where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities in China. About one-third of the time and journey of the Long March is in ethnic minority areas. It is the first time in the history of China's * * * production party to contact ethnic minorities for such a long time and extensively. In this difficult course, a series of touching chapters have appeared, and Yi's alliance with the sea is undoubtedly the most touching chapter in this series and has become an eternal story.

In a sense, the victory of the Red Army's Long March is also a victory of national policy to a great extent.

Yihai, called "Houlle Su Po" in Yi language, which means Haizi, is located in Mianning County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, 47 kilometers north of Mianning County. It is an alpine freshwater lake with an altitude of 2286 meters and an area of 2 18.5 mu. The lake is as clear as a mirror, and Zhou Lin is lush.

Tuowu District, where Yihai Sea is located, is the largest Yi inhabited area in Mianning County, and it has been like this since liberation. Due to historical reasons, many Yi people have lived in this mountainous area for generations. The natural scenery here is beautiful, but the living conditions are difficult.

On August 6th, the newspaper's Long March delegation came to the seaside of the Yi people, to the memorial hall of the Yi Union, and to the place where Liu Bocheng formed an alliance with Xiao. This is the climax of the drama "Yihai Alliance" in the Long March of the Red Army. However, the beginning and end of this play are far more complicated than the drama. The reporter interviewed in Liangshan Prefecture for nearly a week and got a more detailed understanding of this history.

Liu Bocheng decided to take this opportunity to visit the Yi area.

On August 4, the reporter took a long-distance bus from Xichang, the capital of Liangshan Prefecture, to Mianning. The first half of the road is an expressway. When we get to Lugu Town, the bus gets off the expressway.

Lugu town is also a fork in the road where the Red Army chooses its route.

According to Li Zhihua, director of the chronicle office of Liangshan Prefecture, and Wang Dazhao, director of the chronicle office of Mianning County, the Red Army rushed to Lugu from Xichang, and there were two roads from Lugu to Dadu River, one was Deng Xiangying, the other was crossing the river to Dashubao, and the other was Fulin, which was the avenue leading to Ya 'an, and the other was through Mianning, Da Qiao Town and Tuowu to Anshunchang, which was a rugged mountain road and was particularly easy to pass.

After the Red Army skillfully crossed the Jinsha River, the intention of the Central Military Commission was to quickly go north, cross the Dadu River, move closer to the Fourth Army, and establish a Soviet area in northwest Sichuan. At dawn on May 20th, 1935, Liu Bocheng and Nie led the Red Army advance team to Lugu Town. At this time, the first regiment of the Red Army led by Yang Dezhi and Li Lin has arrived in Lugu ahead of schedule and sent a reconnaissance team to the front for reconnaissance.

At this time, in Mianning County, several young students, including Chen Yeping, Liao and Li Xiangyun, were underground party member, which influenced a group of progressive young people around them and formed a clique. Some stories about the underground party in Mianning and even Xichang area, below we have a special article to tell readers. At this time, Mianning underground party member and progressive youth took action to welcome the arrival of the Red Army. Mianning underground party Deng Minghong, Li Xiangyun, Xiang Xiang, and Li Xiang went to inquire about the news of the Red Army in two ways. In Song Lin and Lugu, they met with the Red Army respectively.

Liu Bocheng and Nie met these underground party member and progressive youths. According to their reports on Mianning Party Organization, the route north of Lugu and the enemy's situation, and according to the information obtained by the Red Army reconnaissance team, Liu Bocheng believed that the enemy had determined that the Red Army would take the road from Xichang to Fuling, with Fuling as the defense focus. Liu Bocheng suggested that CMC change its marching route and take Mianning and Anshun Chang routes.

Liu and Nie immediately drafted a telegram and sent it to the radio station. However, the Central Military Commission is in a marching state and cannot be contacted. After discussion, Liu and Nie decided to send the first regiment to Mianning first, and then contact the Military Commission.

The word "Long March" was first put forward.

American journalist Salisbury wrote in his book "The Long March-An Unprecedented Story": "In the past few months of marching, people here are the most hospitable. They sent buckets of candy, baskets of newly picked apricots and a bunch of red cherries ... People set off firecrackers, set up food stalls and invited the Red Army to drink sugar water. The soldiers had to pay for tea, which made the villagers angry. Slogans are hung everywhere in the street:' Welcome to the Red Army' and' Support the Producers'. "

Mianning people's enthusiasm for the Red Army can still be felt today. After learning our reporter's interview intention, Mianning County Propaganda Department gave us extra enthusiastic support. The deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Mianning County Committee personally accompanied the reporter to interview in Bohai Sea. The Propaganda Minister of the County Committee personally proudly introduced to the reporter that the Red Army's Long March set four firsts in Mianning.

■ The first first: Mianning is the first county town that the Red Army has entered since the Long March. When I heard that the Red Army was coming, Zhong Boqin, the county magistrate of the Kuomintang, fled with a small number of troops, and Mianning became an unguarded empty city. On the morning of May 26th of that year, around 1, the vanguard troops of the Red Army entered Mianning County. After Liu Bocheng, Nie and other Red Army leaders entered the city, they set their headquarters in the Catholic Church. Political commissar Nie Rong Zhen talked with five French nuns in French and advised them not to panic. After Liu and Nie got in touch with the Military Commission, the Military Commission said that they fully agreed with their proposal of going north via Mianning and Anshunchang.

■ Second first: The Red Army established the first county-level revolutionary regime in Mianning. Then the CPC Central Committee stationed in Mianning County. On the morning of May 22nd, Chen Yun, member of the Political Bureau and director of the Central Local Work Department, met with Chen Yeping, a member of the Xichang Branch of the underground party at the headquarters of the General Political Department, to learn about the underground party and local conditions in Xichang and Mianning. After that, a meeting was held immediately, and it was formally decided to set up the Mianning County Revolutionary Committee, with Chen Yeping as chairman, Li Jingquan as vice chairman and Zhong Fang, Xiao Peixiong and Li Faming as members. The Revolutionary Committee consists of the Finance and Food Section, the Small and Weak Ethnic Groups Section and the Administration Section. Chen Yun drafted the notice of the Revolutionary Committee.

On the morning of May 23rd, Mianning County Revolutionary Committee was formally established. The inaugural meeting was held in front of Dacheng Hall of the Confucian Temple in Mianning County, attended by nearly 1,000 Yi and Han people. The meeting was presided over by Chen Yeping. China, chairman of the Central Military Commission and Zhu De spoke at the meeting about the truth that workers and peasants armed themselves for revolution and sought liberation. Li Jingquan also spoke at the meeting.

■ The third one: During the Long March, the Red Army organized the first peasant local armed force "Mianning County Anti-Donation Army" in Mianning. Huang Yinglong, a cadre of the Red Army, is the commander in chief and Chen Yeping is the political commissar. Anti-donation soldiers wear red armbands, and some guns are issued by the Red Army. At that time, more than 500 people in the county participated in the anti-donation army.

■ The fourth first: The word "Long March" was first put forward in Mianning. On May 22nd, the Red Army posted the Notice of Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army signed by Zhu De in Mianning County. The full text is:

Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants, liberating weak ethnic groups; All barbarians are brothers and sisters.

Hate Sichuan warlords and oppress foreigners too much; Excessive taxes, indiscriminate killing of innocent people.

The Red Army's Long March is in full swing; I came to western Sichuan to respect the customs of foreigners.

Military discipline is very strict, not moving a drop; The sale of grain is fair and the price is sufficient.

When I alienate the masses, don't doubt or cringe; Hurry up and unite to drive away the warlords.

Establish the Yi government, and the Yi people manage the Yi people; True equality and freedom, no longer being bullied.

I hope to try my best to broadcast this propaganda to western Sichuan.

Previously, only the words "Western Expedition" and "Expedition" appeared in the documents of the Central Red Army. Only after that, the words "Long March", "March 18,000 Li-Li Long", "March 1 Wan Li-Li Long" and "March 25,000 Li-Li Long" appeared in the telegram of the Red Army.

Of course, what is more important than the first appearance of the word "Long March" is the spirit of national unity and equality embodied in this communiqué of the Red Army. As Wu Jinghua, the former Party Secretary of Xizang Autonomous Region who was born in Yi nationality, said, the short word 156 vividly expounded the basic proposition of China's * * * production party on ethnic issues and laid the foundation for the alliance between Yi and Hai.

On the day of the announcement, the vanguard troops of the Red Army led by Liu Bocheng and Nie have set out for the Yi area.

Xiao Yedan takes the lead with his personal charm.

Having said that, I have to introduce one of the protagonists of this article, small.

In Xichang, the reporter met and interviewed his youngest grandson, 33, who is now a cadre of Liangshan State Administration of Work Safety.

Shen Jianguo said that when the Red Army entered Liangshan, large and small branches of the Heiyi family ruled the Yi area in Liangshan, Sichuan. Every branch of the family has a "plain clothes" (that is, the head or leader-editor's note). Leaders do not rely on heredity or appointment, but on personal cultivation and conduct, which is naturally produced by virtue of personal personality charm in social practice. His grandfather Xiao is such a "Su Yi". Xiao Yedan was very clever since he was a child. He was eloquent and proficient in Chinese when he was a teenager. When he grew up, he could solve any problems at home fairly and formed an influence in that area, so he was called "Su Yi". Su Yi is not the only one in a family branch. For example, Xiao is only a member of the family branch. Bai Yi is in a slave-like position without power in such a society.

During the "Yi-Hai Alliance" period, Tuowu Yi District in Mianning County, several hundred kilometers away from Fiona Fang, was ruled by three black Yi families, Ji Guo (Ji Gu), Luo Hong and Wu Luo, each with its own sphere of influence and military armed forces.