1986 propaganda slogan of the red army's long March

Regarding the great historical significance of the Red Army's Long March, after the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi and successfully ended the Long March, Mao Zedong commented in the article "On Strategies against Japanese Imperialism": "The Long March is the first time in historical records, the Long March is a manifesto, the Long March is a propaganda team, and the Long March is a seeder."

Indeed, as Mao Zedong said, the Long March was a great feat that shocked the world.

The Long March is a declaration.

The victory of the Red Army's Long March shattered the Kuomintang reactionaries' attempt to sabotage the China * * * production party and the China revolution, preserved the essence of the revolution, gave the people of the whole country new hope for the future of the revolution and the anti-Japanese movement, and promoted the climax of the anti-Japanese democratic movement. The Long March declared to China and the world that the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants, led by China, was invincible in the spirit of revolutionary heroism, and became the "manifesto" of the China revolution.

During the two years of the Long March, the Red Army of all stripes fought more than 600 important battles and defeated hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang central and local troops. The battle in the Long March is a desperate struggle under the situation that the enemy is strong and we are weak. On the one hand, the besieged Kuomintang army has advanced weapons and equipment such as airplanes, cars and cannons, and is outnumbered; On the one hand, the 200,000 Red Army, which was strategically transferred, mainly used rifles and broadswords. It lacks heavy weapons, walks the world on two feet, is at a disadvantage in strength and equipment, and is in a mobile war without rear support. The Red Army of all walks of life fought tenaciously with indomitable heroism and overwhelming the enemy, and created one miracle after another: crossing the Dadu River, flying over the Luding Bridge, moving to Wumeng Mountain, fighting fiercely at Lazikou, and seizing it.