The Red Army's anti-Japanese advance team marched thousands of miles north.

Fighting thousands of miles-the Red Army's North Anti-Japanese Advance Team

In order to publicize and promote the Anti-Japanese War, mobilize and contain the Kuomintang troops, and relieve the pressure of the struggle against "encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area,1In June, 934, the Central Committee decided to reorganize the Seventh Army Corps of the Red Army as the "Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army's Advance Team to the North for Anti-Japanese War". The task of the advance team is to carry out guerrilla warfare in Fujian, Zhejiang and other places, create guerrilla zones, and create new Soviet base areas in Zhejiang and southern Anhui.

On July 7th, 1934, the advance team of more than 6,000 people set off from Ruijin, Jiangxi, and entered qingyuan county, Zhejiang via Mindong on August 28th. 1 1 In June, according to the telegram of Zhongge Military Commission, the advance team moved to the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi Soviet Area to rectify and supplement, and joined the Red Ten Army led by Fang Zhimin to form the Red Ten Army, continuing to undertake the task of the anti-Japanese advance team going north. The advance team went in and out in four directions in Zhejiang, passing through Qingyuan, Longquan, Jiangshan, Changshan, Hua Kai, Sui 'an, Chun 'an, Fenshui and Changhua counties, and carried out more than 10 important battles. He once captured Qingyuan, attacked Changshan and threatened Hangzhou.

1935 1 month, the advance team was surrounded by Kuomintang troops in Huaiyushan, Jiangxi, and only a few troops broke through. Fang Zhimin and other comrades died after being arrested. The revolutionary feats and heroic fighting spirit of the officers and men of the northern anti-Japanese advance team have been celebrated on the land of Zhejiang and have far-reaching influence.