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During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, during the Long March of the Central Red Army, it fought a campaign of mobile warfare with Kuomintang troops in the Chishui River basin at the junction of Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces.
The Battle of Sidu Chishui was a decisive mobile warfare campaign by the Central Red Army on the way to the Long March after Zunyi Conference, under the dangerous conditions of being besieged by hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops. The Central Red Army, under the command of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, adopted a highly mobile policy of mobile warfare, galloped in the vast areas along the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan border, actively searched for fighters, effectively mobilized and annihilated the enemy, and completely shattered Chiang Kai-shek's arrogant plan to encircle the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan border. The Red Army won a decisive victory in the strategic shift.
Mao Zedong commanded the Central Red Army to cross the Three Rivers six times in three months and move to Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces. He skillfully interspersed in the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang army's heavy group, constantly made fighter planes, annihilated a large number of enemies in the movement, firmly grasped the initiative of the battlefield, and achieved a brilliant example of the Red Army's long March history in which the few prevailed and the passive took the initiative.
The battle of Sidu Chishui lasted for more than three months. In this campaign, the Red Army pursued the policy of highly flexible and mobile mobile warfare, galloped across the vast area of the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan border, interspersed with hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, actively searched for fighters, and effectively annihilated the enemy. So as to get rid of the enemy's containment, smash the enemy's plan to surround the Red Army on the border of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, and make the Central Red Army move from passive to active and from failure to victory at the critical juncture of the Long March.
The Battle of Sidu Chishui is a shining example in the history of Chinese Red Army's war. Mao Zedong flexibly changed the operational direction according to the change of the situation, won the opportunity for the Red Army, created fighter planes, wiped out a large number of Kuomintang troops in the movement, firmly grasped the initiative in the battlefield, and achieved a decisive victory in strategic shift.
Mao Zedong once said that Sidu Chishui was the "proud pen" in his life. Harrison Salisbury, an American writer, wrote in The Long March-An Unknown Story: The Long March is unique and unparalleled. Sidu Chishui is "the most brilliant and magical chapter in the history of the Long March".
Sidu Chishui is the most direct contest between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme commanders of the two armies, in military command ability. The advantages and disadvantages of Mao and Chiang Kai-shek's strategic thoughts will be directly reflected in their grasp of the overall situation of the war. American writer Harrison wrote in The Long March-An Unknown Story: The Long March is unique and unparalleled. Sidu Chishui is the most brilliant and magical chapter in the history of the Long March.