Armed struggle is the main form of struggle in China revolution, which is another feature of China revolution, and it is unprecedented in the revolutionary history led by the * * * production party in capitalist countries. China * * * production party did not understand the importance of armed struggle in its early days. At that time, the party was dominated by mass movements such as the workers' movement, the students' movement and the peasants' movement, and did not seriously prepare for armed struggle and organize troops. As a result, in the face of the bloody slaughter of the Kuomintang reactionaries, the * * * production party could not organize effective resistance. The failure of the Great Revolution made the whole party understand a truth, that is, without armed struggle, China would not have the status of a * * * production party, nor could it accomplish any revolutionary tasks. Since then, a group of producers represented by Mao Zedong have firmly embarked on the road of armed struggle.

In the practice of armed struggle, Mao Zedong not only learned the art of armed struggle, but also deepened his understanding of it. He summed up the experience of ten years of agrarian revolutionary struggle and revealed the essence of armed struggle. "In China, as long as armed struggle is mentioned, it is essentially a peasant war" [6]. Therefore, in the armed struggle, we must correctly handle the relationship between the party and the peasants, and we must directly or indirectly coordinate the main forms of armed struggle with the political struggle to establish rural base areas, the agrarian revolutionary struggle representing the economic interests of peasants and many other necessary forms of struggle. This kind of armed struggle is the peasant agrarian revolutionary struggle under the leadership of the proletariat.

In the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Mao Zedong theoretically summarized the long-term experience of guerrilla warfare in China's revolutionary armed struggle and put forward the general concept of armed struggle. He said: "The general concept of armed struggle is guerrilla warfare at present. What is guerrilla warfare? It is the best form of struggle that people's armed forces must rely on to defeat armed enemies and create their own status in backward countries and semi-colonial countries for a long time. "

Based on a deep understanding of the nature of China's armed struggle, Mao Zedong has opened up a unique revolutionary road, relying closely on farmers, organizing and arming farmers, establishing rural revolutionary base areas, encircling cities with rural areas, and finally seizing cities. It is also based on a profound understanding of the forms of armed struggle in China that Mao Zedong formulated the correct military line and the strategy and tactics to defeat the enemy.