Why did the Red Army cross the Yangtze River?

The reason for crossing the Yangtze River is 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 pursuit of the Kuomintang troops.

The Battle of Sidu Chishui is an excellent mobile war conducted by the Central Red Army in the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan border region. In this battle, Mao Zedong made full use of the enemy's contradictions, flexibly changed the direction of the battle, commanded the Red Army to gallop in the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan border region, and skillfully interspersed among the enemy's heavily armed groups to mobilize and confuse the enemy.

Found the enemy's weakness, immediately seized the favorable fighters, concentrated their forces, wiped out one part of the enemy, firmly grasped the initiative of the battlefield, and thus won a decisive victory in the strategic shift. Taking less to win more, turning passivity into initiative, has become a shining example in the history of war.

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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 was that Mao Zedong, according to the change of the situation and drawing lessons from previous battles, skillfully guided the Central Red Army to penetrate among the heavily armed groups of the Kuomintang army, flexibly changed the direction of operations, won opportunities for the Red Army, made fighter planes, annihilated a large number of Kuomintang troops in the movement, firmly grasped the initiative in the battlefield, took the initiative in the war history of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants, 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".

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