Quoc Cong Tiet Che Hung Dao Dai Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan was a person with excellent military talent. General Vo Nguyen Giap commented: Tran Quoc Tuan’s talent manifested in the very clear awareness that our people are the source of the power to hold the country. That power must be built and sustained in peacetime as well as in wartime, by many economic, cultural and social policies.
More than seven hundred years ago, both Asia and Europe were in a panic, horrified about the Art-ta disaster (Mong invaders), as they glided on the expedition horses that devastated one country after another. From the Pacific to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, throughout Asia, Europe, no general can ever stop them.
Yet in Southeast Asia, those Tac-ta enemy had to be horrified and panicked at the great will and fighting talent of the Dai Viet army and people under the genius command of the Quoc Cong Tiet Che Hung Dao Dai Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan.
For his great merits, he commanded the Dai Viet army and people three times to break the invaders of the Yuan – Mongol aggressors, Tran Nam Vuong Thoa Hoan had to get into a copper pipe, someone brought across the border, just escaped death. Tran Hung Dao was born on 10/12/1228 (Mau Ty), the son of An Sinh Vuong Tran Lieu (brother of Tran Thai Tong – Tran Canh).
Tran Hung Dao was imposing, more intelligent than a person, widely viewed, well-versed in martial, dedicated to the study of the three strategies of the ancients and devoted his heart and knowledge to writing works: “Binh Thu Yeu Luoc, Van Kiep tong bi truyen thu and Hich Tuong si” to teach the generals to fight with the enemy and encourage the patriotism of Dai Viet people and army.
Tran Hung Dao always put the interests of the nation and the country above the interests of the house, always cultivating for the solidarity of the Tran dynasty, to make the country’s status at the peak, enough to crush the dangerous enemies.
In 2000, in the conference of 700 years on the death of the Tran Hung Dao, General Vo Nguyen Giap wrote: “… In an arrogant career, there are three victorious times over the Nguyen – Mong invaders in the 13th century, Hung Dao Dai Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan has a particularly important role. He was a politician – a talented military, who was loved by King Tran, entrusted with the right to Tiet Che role, governed the army, the generals, and can mobilize the army and the weapons.
When the Yuan – Mongol army invaded for the first time (1258), he was assigned to command the generals to lead the marines to protect the Northwest border region. In the second resistance war (1285) and the third (1288), he was a Quoc Cong Tiet Che, he led Dai Viet troops to fight to the enemy.
Tran Quoc Tuan’s bravery shows in his determination to win the enemy. Even in the most dangerous times, he still believed in victory and maintained that believing for our army and people
In particular, in the second resistance war (1285), when the independence of our country was in danger, the invaders captured many key areas, including Thang Long citadel and the Thien Truong palace, internal officials and mandarins of the Tran dynasty had flinching, Tran Quoc Tuan was still stubbornly indomitable, maintaining his trust in victory.
