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"The Long March is an epic. This is not only because of the heroic spirit embodied by simple soldiers and their commanders, but also because the Long March has actually become the melting pot of the China revolution. "
-Harrison Salisbury
The Long March is an incredible miracle in human history. The Central Red Army lasted for one year and traveled 25,000 Li, which was difficult and dangerous all the way. When the Central Red Army set out, only 6,000 of the 86,000 people successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi, less than one tenth. 1in June, 936, American journalist edgar snow visited the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region and became the first western journalist to cover the Red Zone. After on-the-spot interviews, he wrote what he saw and heard as "Red Star Shines on China", which was the first comprehensive report of the Long March of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army to the whole world. Influenced by Si Nuo, from 65438 to 0984, Harrison Evans Salisbury, the 70-year-old chairman of the American Writers Association, once again embarked on the Long March and wrote The Long March-An Unprecedented Story, which showed the world that the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants was forced to move forward in desperation and finally walked out of the danger through difficulties and obstacles.
From the Nanchang Uprising to the opening of base areas, China embarked on the road of seizing power by armed forces with China characteristics.
"A single spark can start a prairie fire."
1April, 927 12, July 15, after the counter-revolutionary coup, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party broke down in an all-round way, and * * * started armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries, and successively launched Nanchang Uprising, Autumn Harvest Uprising and Guangzhou Uprising. After the attack on the central city was frustrated, it changed its original deployment and began to take the road of encircling the city from the countryside, opening up the first rural revolutionary base-Jinggangshan revolutionary base. A single spark can start a prairie fire.
"Encircling Wei to save Zhao" opened up southern Jiangxi and western Fujian.
Facing the growing Red Army, Chiang Kai-shek began to suppress the Jinggangshan base area. After breaking the enemy's encirclement and suppression twice, with the vigorous development of the surrounding revolutionary base areas, it is of little significance to stick to Jinggangshan. Mao Zedong and Zhu De led gongsijun to Gannan and western Fujian, and opened up the base area of the central Soviet area, covering an area of more than 84,000 square kilometers, with a population of more than 4.35 million in its heyday.
The fifth counter-campaign failed.
Under the guidance of the strategic policy of luring the enemy deeper, the Red Army successively defeated the four encirclement and suppression campaigns of the Kuomintang army. 1933, Chiang Kai-shek set up an officer training regiment in Lushan to sum up the lessons of the previous four encirclement and suppression failures. In addition to teaching general theory, field exercises account for most of the whole training time, which improves the morale and combat skills of the troops. 1933 In the second half of the year, Chiang Kai-shek used 500,000 troops and adopted a new strategy of "fortress doctrine" to "encircle and encircle" the Central Red Army.
The Central Military Commission headed by Bo Gu Kailai and Li De insisted on direct confrontation, replaced guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare with positional warfare, and adopted "regular warfare" of centralization, fortress-to-fortress and position-to-position, which made the Red Army completely passive. After a year of hard work, the Red Army was severely weakened and most of the Central Soviet Area was lost. Chiang Kai-shek intends to implement the iron drum plan and annihilate all the Central Red Army. At this critical moment, the Central Red Army had to carry out a strategic campaign and began to embark on the road of the 25,000-mile long March.
Long March
1935 10 When the Central Red Army crossed Minshan and got rid of the containment of Kuomintang troops, and the Long March was coming to an end, Mao Zedong recalled the numerous difficulties and obstacles that the Long March had overcome in the past year and wrote a magnificent poem, The Seven Laws Long March.
Qilu long March
The red army is not afraid of the expedition, and Qianshan is just idle.
Wuling makes waves, and Wumeng takes mud pills.
Jinsha River is warm in the clouds and cliffs, and Dadu Bridge is cold with the cross rail.
I'm glad to see that Minshan Mountain is covered with snow and stretches for miles. Our soldiers crossed it and showed a bright smile.
Looking back, along the way, the Long March had to face the encirclement and interception of the Kuomintang, and secondly, it had to fight against nature. It crossed the river, climbed the snow-capped mountains and crossed the grassland eight times, and it was in danger of being wiped out by the whole army if it was not careful. The Central Red Army completed the 25,000-mile Long March with two legs and an appraisal of revolutionary beliefs, which was magnificent.