Our Long March：The Bloody Breakthrough on the Jialing River

In the spring of 1935, during the Long March—a major strategic military operation by the Chinese Red Army—one of its main forces, known as the Fourth Front Army, was operating in Sichuan Province. On March 28, the army's commander, Xu Xiangqian, ordered a forced crossing of the Jialing River, a major waterway, at a place called Tazishan in Cangxi County.