Record of the Long March of the Second Red Army

Author: Xu Fulu
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: In the winter of 1935, He Long, Guan Xiangying, and other Red Army commanders led 20,000 troops of the Red Second and Sixth Corps to bid farewell to Sangzhi. They broke through the encirclement lines of 130 Nationalist army divisions, headed south to Central Hunan, then turned westward, sweeping across the entire province of Guizhou like a whirlwind, searching for a "beachhead." Before they even realized they were embarking on the Long March, the Long March had already begun. After crossing the vast snow-covered mountains, they found themselves in a hellish grassland where even the grass roots had been eaten bare by the advancing troops. The soldiers were trapped in a heavy of wind, hail, hunger, poison, and marsh. The Long March of the Red Second Corps was essentially the rear guard of the entire Red Army's Long March. The author's generation grew up on the stories of the Long March, but all these stories were distant from him. Determined to follow this path, he decided to walk it. Everyone should walk their own path in earnest. The Long March was no exception. Its ideal brilliance and the beauty of humanity were intertwined with class sentiments and camaraderie. First and foremost, one is an ordinary person, then a revolutionary, a hero, a leader, and finally a soldier. This made it easier to distinguish the extraordinary qualities of ordinary yet extraordinary people. In the winter of 1935, He Long, Guan Xiangying, and other Red Army commanders led 20,000 troops of the Red Second and Sixth Corps to bid farewell to Sangzhi, broke through the encirclement lines of 130 Nationalist army divisions, headed south to Central Hunan, then turned westward.