During the period of the Land Revolutionary War, the main force of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army withdrew from the Soviet zones north and south of the Yangtze River, and after two years of fighting, reached the strategic transfer operation in the Shanxi-Gansu Soviet Zone.
In October 1934, after the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and annihilation campaign, the main Red Army of the Central Committee, in order to escape from the encirclement and pursuit of the Kuomintang army, was forced to carry out a strategic transfer, withdrawing from the central base area and carrying out the Long March.
The Long March is a great miracle in the history of mankind, the Central Red Army*** conducted more than 380 battles, captured more than 700 counties and cities, the Red Army sacrificed up to 430 cadres above the battalion, with an average age of less than 30 years old, **** routed the Kuomintang army of hundreds of regiments, during which*** passed through 14 provinces, climbed over 18 mountains, crossed 24 rivers, walked through barren meadows, turned over snow-capped mountains, and traveled about 25,000 miles. Traveling about 25,000,000 miles, the Red First Front Army reached Shaanbei in October 1935, and met with the Shaanbei Red Army victoriously.In October 1936, the Red Second and Fourth Front Armies arrived in the area of Huining in Gansu, and met with the Red First Front Army. The meeting of the three main forces of the Red Army marked the end of the Long March.
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Preparatory stage of the Long March (July 7, 1934 ~ 1934) October 10, 1934)
Stage of the Loss of the Long March (October 10, 1934 to January 15, 1935)
Stage of the Turnaround of the Long March (January 15, 1935 to June 14, 1935)
Stage of Persistence in the North and the Split in the South (June 14, 1935 to October 19, 1935)
Stage of Development and Consolidation and Southward Frustration (October 19, 1935 to July 1, 1936)
Stage of General Division (July 1, 1936 to December 12, 1936) The units
The first was the Central Red Army (later renamed the Red First Front Army), which set out from Changting and other places of Fujian on October 10, 1934, and arrived at the town of Wuqi in Shaanxi Province on October 1935, and was then transferred to the Red First Army on December 12, 1936, which was then transferred to the Red First Army. On October 19, 1935, it reached the town of Wuqi in Shaanxi Province (present-day Wuqi County), covering a distance of 25,000 miles;
The second was the Red 25th Army (later reorganized into the Red First Front Army), which set out from Hejiachong, Luoshan, Henan Province on November 16, 1934, and arrived at the town of Yongping, Yanchuan, Shaanxi Province, on September 15, 1935, where it reunited with the Shaanxi-Kannabean Red Army to be reorganized into the Red 15th Army Corps, covering a distance of nearly 10,000 miles, and was the earliest to arrive in the northern Shaanxi Province. Red Army .
The third branch was the Red Fourth Front Army, which abandoned the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area in early May 1935 and set out from Changming, Zhongba, Qingchuan and Pingwu to advance westward toward the Minjiang River area, arriving at Huining in Gansu on October 9, 1936 to meet with the Red First Front Army, a journey of more than 10,000 miles;
The fourth branch was the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps (which was later merged with the Thirty-Second Red Front Army to form the Red Second Front Army
The fourth is the Second and Sixth Red Army Corps (later merged with the 32nd Army of the First Red Army to form the Second Red Army), which set off from Liu Jiaping, Sangzhi, Hunan Province, on Nov. 19, 1935, and arrived at Jiangtai Fort east of Huining on Oct. 22, 1936 to meet with the First Red Army, a journey of more than 20,000 miles.
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