During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the main force of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants withdrew from the north and south Soviet areas of the Yangtze River, fought for two years, and reached the strategic transfer action in the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet area; 1934 10 after the failure of the fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", the Red Army, the main force of the central government, was forced to make a strategic shift, withdraw from the central base area and carry out the Long March in order to get rid of the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang troops.
The Long March is a great miracle in human history. The Central Red Army fought more than 600 battles and captured more than 700 counties. The Red Army sacrificed more than 430 cadres at or above the battalion level, with an average age of less than 30. * * * routed hundreds of regiments of Kuomintang troops, passing through 14 province, crossing 18 mountain and crossing 24 roads.
1936 10, the Red Second and Fourth Army arrived in Huining, Gansu Province, and joined forces with the main forces of the Red First Army and the Red Third Army, marking the victory of the Long March.
The origin of the long March
The Long March of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army did not use the name "Long March" at first. At the beginning of the Central Red Army's operation, the goal of the operation was to meet the Red 2 and Red 6 Army Corps in western Hunan and Hubei, and then carry out a counterattack to break the "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang army and restore the Central Soviet Area. So the names used at that time were "Long March and Battle", "Expedition", "Shift" or "Strategic Shift".
These names were used until May 1935, when the Central Red Army passed through the Yi area. At this time, it has been more than seven months since the Central Red Army left the Central Soviet Area in Jiangxi.