On this day 89 years ago, on June 1, 1936 (April 12, 1936 in the lunar calendar), the Anti-Japanese Red Army University was established. On June 1, 1936, the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Red Army University (referred to as "Red University", the predecessor of "Anti-Japanese University") was founded in Wayaobao, Anding County, northern Shaanxi. Lin Biao served as the principal, Mao Zedong concurrently served as the political commissar, and Luo Ruiqing served as the head of education. On that day, the first batch of students held an opening ceremony. Leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhang Wentian, and Zhou Enlai attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. This batch of students was divided into 3 departments, with a total of 1,063 people. Among them, there was a "general department". After the 25,000-mile Long March, the Red Army successfully reached northern Shaanxi, but was chased and blocked by Chiang Kai-shek along the way. After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, only 30,000 people were left, and the army In order to train and supplement anti-Japanese military and political cadres and improve the strategic and technical level of the Red Army itself, on June 1, 1936, the Party Central Committee established the "Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Red Army University" in Wayaobao. On June 21, Gao Shuangcheng Department of the 86th Division of the Kuomintang raided Wayaobao, and the Red University immediately withdrew from Wayaobao with the central organs and moved to Baoan County. In Baoan County, the Red Dazhao accepted the first batch of students. They were all from the Central Red Army and the 15th Army Corps, divided into 3 departments, the most eye-catching is the first department. The first department had 38 students. When our army was first awarded the rank in 1955, the lowest rank was lieutenant general. Among the more famous ones are Luo Ronghuan, Luo Ruiqing, Tan Zheng, Peng Xuefeng, Yang Chengwu, Liu Yalou, Zhang Aiping, Su Zhenhua and others. This is a veritable "general department". According to statistics, the average age of the students in the first department is 27 years old, and each person has 3 scars. If you add up the bounty offered by Chiang Kai-shek to these famous students, the total amount exceeds 2 million silver dollars.