Qinghai Tibet Railway - On the run - Part 3

We were on the run, for the Chinese police and army. We were walking and walking, trying to get rid of the police & army. As we proceeded towards to mountains, once more, after those horrible memories. We knew we would be save there for a while. Once up on arrival, my wife, Dai, went in to labor. We had another baby coming up, in these horrible times. My brother and I built a shelter, made of wood. My sister was helping my wife, my sister knew what she was going through. Our shelter wasn't that good; yet it did what it was supposed to do. Protect us from rain & wind. My wife was still in labor, it was turning night. We had to make a fire. Four hours later, we had ourselves another beautiful baby, it was a boy. He got named "Yul", everyone in our family agreed with it. The following week, we stayed in our shelter, to let Dai regain power. After the week, we moved on, with a baby. Dai was a great mother during this hard trip, walking almost all day and taking care of a baby boy. After walking for a long time, we managed to get to a village. Which is known as "Haixi", it is very small. My brother noticed that there was a radio tower, which was used to send out radio messages to our cities. It got us all worried, would someone attempt to turn us in? We stayed in the village for a couple days, after being on the run for over 4 weeks now. Through the radio message, we heard that Sun Yat-sen has put a bounty on us, only if we'd be captured alive. It got us all worried, now that money is going to be spend to get us back in our "cages". My family decided it was best to directly move away from this village, move on to another village. Just in case someone would try and get us arrested. We all agree with this idea, we went walking, it seemed like it never had an end. As my sister suggested, to travel towards Kumul, we had our doubts. Eventually, we agreed and we were on our way to Kumul. Not knowing someone, back in Haixi sent out a radio message about us, as soon as we left. We had the police, the army and who not after us this time. Only with our faces now being known and a bounty to make it even better.

Qinghai Tibet Railway - The escape - Part 2

As we were in our prisons, in the cold mountains of China. Waiting to be executed, we met Shang his help. As he stated on the Sunday, before he would attempt to shoot down the leader of China. He tried, the bullet did hit Sun Yat-sen, but it didn't kill him. On our daily routine, we got some rice and some chores inside the prison. My brother had to clean the shower area, dining area and what not. And I, I had to prepare food for all the other political prisoners. A long time went by, we found out the prison is called "Kunlun". At this time, no one believed this prison did exist. No one ever tried to reveal the myth behind the Kunlun Prison. Due it's rough terrain, no one would attempt. And therefore, making it almost impossible to escape. But we, my brother, his friends & I had others idea's. The guards most enter our the prison somehow, wouldn't they? That's how we start to work for an escape, with the idea to be executed anywhere soon. My brother and I started to observe guards, they routines and personal details. It was mid May, 1927, one of the guards called our whole family together. The guard told us about the recent change in our sentence. We weren't going to be executed, we would be put to work camps. We would be working in Chinese mines. According to rumors, everyone has to work there, even children. My parents were old, I knew they wouldn't make it. So in a last attempt, to stay here with my family, I killed a guard. I snapped his neck. One easy movement, to be remember for always. With this happening, I wish they'd let us stay here, in Kunlun Prison. It did, my action made us stay here in Kunlun Prison for another month. Another month to find out how we would get out of this hell. My brother managed to get a drug, that could easily put down a guard for a couple hours. We drugged a guard, which had his keys. We quickly made a copy of his keys, and hit his head a couple times against the floor, to make it seem he tripped. With that being done, we had clear access to our area. Our area had 6 cells, all controlled with the same keys. We managed to sneak out at night, when we had all the time to find ourselves an exit out of this hell. After a couple of nights, we found our way out of here. We heard a guard, talk with another guard how shitty the entrance road is. Know we knew how the guards would enter this prison. We only needed to complete one more thing, take over the prison. My brother had a couple of friends here, in Kunlun Prison. We managed to get them on board, in our attempt to get out of this hell. It was dining time, all inmates came together in a large room to have dinner. My brother and I took out two guards, his friends took out another two. The guards in Kunlun Prison always had a gun with them to protect themselves. Now, we had four people with a gun and keys to get us out of this hell. We went on, only to find out, the prison has been built inside the mountain. We had to fight our way out of the mountain. As we fought our way through the prison, loads of inmates followed us. Not only Chinese residents, but foreign people as well. We managed to make it to an elevator, not knowing where we could end up. As we walked out of the elevator, we found out, our prison wasn't only a prison. It was a gun warehouse, it was filled with rifles, rockets, explosives and what not. We took this, of course, to our advantage, to fight our way out. As all the other inmates were out of the hell, down there. We gave everyone a gun, saying: "If you don't shoot, just pull the trigger while aiming to your enemy." By this time, the prison has launched a massive counter attack, not knowing that we already made it up towards the gun warehouse. We outnumbered them, it was a blood bath. Never again. At least we made it out of Kunlun Prison. Once we were outside, we had a long way down. There were no vehicles, horses. We had to walk to the nearest village. Which we did, we got loads of food and water. All the other inmates went their own way, but we, my family and I, we stayed together. My sister was very familiar with the region, she knew someone who could give us shelter. On we went, to my sister her friend. We walked for several hours to get there. The guy we met there, was really nice, he gave us shelter and some new and fresh clothing.

Qinghai Tibet Railway - The capture - Part 1

It's the year of 1927. My name is Lian Tsui, I'm a political prison in the Republic of China. I am born in the village called: "Liangshan". I grew up & I used to life there, until my capture. My family and I used to be farmers, we had several animals and land with corps. When Sun Yat-sen gained power in 1911, we, our family was all in peace. My brother, which is named Shang Tsui was really against Sun Yat-Sen. On a Sunday evening, at dinner, Shang told our family what he was about to attempt. It was a crazy idea, but according to him, with the right help he would make it. So, there he went, Monday morning, on his path towards Beijing. With limited food & water supplies, he went on his long journey. All by foot, no horses, or anything else. Shang got in to trouble along the road, he run out of his water supply. He found help by an old wise man. The old wise man told him his plan, to assassinate Sun Yat-sen would be a very bad idea. It'll result in a snowball effect, which by then, didn't make any sense for my brother, Shang. He continued his path towards Beijing, all by foot. It was a long trip, but he made it. Shang made it to Beijing, and went on with his plan, to assassinate Sun Yat-sen. Shang had it all planned out, how he would kill the leader of China. Sun Yat-sen had a public interview, on a square in the middle of Beijing. Shang had his sniper rifle out of a window, waiting for the right time and right moment. The moment was there, Shang fired his shot. The bullet traveled really slow, as Shang told me. Eventually it hit Sun Yat-sen, as the old man warned Shang for, it would start a snowball effect. Soon, Shang was in custody. Now, the police was looking for his family. My wife, my children, his children, our parents. Everyone we loved got taken in to custody. We got put in a prison, far in the cold mountains. We got tortured, abused and underfed. Which resulted in two deaths, my babies died in those prisons. The guards, they didn't let us have a proper funeral. So, here we are, in the mountains, waiting to be executed.