The meaning of crossing Chishui four times

Battles during the Long March of the Red Army. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Central Red Army fought a mobile battle with the Kuomintang army in the Chishui River Basin at the junction of Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces during the Long March.

The Battle of Sidu Chishui was a decisive mobile warfare battle conducted by the Central Red Army after the Zunyi Conference during the Long March, under difficult and dangerous conditions with hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops chasing and intercepting them.

Under the command of Chairman Mao Zedong, Zhou, Zhu and others, the Central Red Army adopted a highly mobile mobile warfare policy, galloping across the vast areas along the Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan borders, actively looking for fighter opportunities, effectively mobilizing and annihilating the enemy, and completely crushing the enemy. After defeating Chiang Kai-shek and other reactionaries' arrogant plan to encircle and annihilate the Red Army on the Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan border, the Red Army achieved a decisive victory in the strategic shift.

In three months, Mao Zedong commanded the Central Red Army to cross three rivers six times and fight in the three provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. He skillfully interspersed between the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang army's heavy groups, constantly created fighter opportunities, and annihilated a large number of enemies in the movement. , firmly grasped the initiative on the battlefield, and achieved a glorious example in the history of the Red Army's Long March of winning more with less and changing from passive to active.

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Historical significance

The Battle of Sidu Chishui lasted more than three months. In this battle, the Red Army implemented a highly flexible mobile warfare policy, galloping across the vast border areas of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, weaving in and out among hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, actively seeking fighter opportunities, and effectively annihilating the enemy. As a result, it got rid of the enemy's pursuit and interception, shattered the enemy's plan to encircle and annihilate the Red Army on the borders of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, and enabled the Central Red Army to move from passivity to initiative and from failure to victory at the critical juncture of the Long March.

In the Battle of Sidu Chishui, Mao Zedong learned from the lessons of previous battles according to the changes in the situation, commanded the Central Red Army to cleverly intersperse between the heavy groups of the Kuomintang army, and flexibly changed the direction of the battle, winning the victory for the Red Army. Seize the opportunity, create fighter opportunities, annihilate a large number of Kuomintang troops in the movement, firmly grasp the initiative on the battlefield, and achieve a decisive victory in the strategic shift.

This is a glorious example in the history of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's war in which they took the initiative from less victory and more change to passivity. Mao Zedong once said that crossing Chishui four times was the "proud stroke" of his life. The American writer Harrison Salisbury wrote in his book "The Long March - An Unheard Story": The Long March is unique, the Long March is unparalleled. And the fourth crossing of Chishui was "the most glorious and magical chapter in the history of the Long March."

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