Why did the Red 4th Front withdraw from the Sichuan Shaanxi base area?

In order to join forces with the Red Army to go north to resist Japan, the Red Fourth Front Army embarked on a arduous and tortuous Long March.

The Red Fourth Front Army was originally in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Region, which was the second largest base area after the ** Soviet Region. The Red Fourth Front Army was in Huang'an, Hubei Province on November 7, 1931.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was renamed Hong'an) Qiliping County was established, and soon grew to 30,000 people. At the same time as "encircling and suppressing" the Soviet region, the Kuomintang reactionary clique also sent heavy troops to carry out "encirclement and suppression" in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet region. After failing to smash the fourth "encirclement and suppression" of the Kuomintang army, the Red Fourth Front Army withdrew and transferred, fought all the way, crossed the railway, waded the Han River, and turned over the Qinling Mountains.

At the end of 1932, Yueba Mountain entered the Tong (Jiang), Nan (Jiang), Ba (Zhong) and Da (County) areas in northern Sichuan, taking advantage of the war of the Sichuan warlords, and created a new base area, that is, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet District. After the Sichuan warlords ended the melee, they "encircled and suppressed" the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet region. In the first half of 1933, the Red Fourth Front Army smashed the enemy's three-way siege, and then launched a struggle to expand the base area, which was expanded to 10,000 square kilometers by October of that year.

The Red Army expanded from 10,000 people when it entered Sichuan to more than 80,000 people, and its structure grew from 4 divisions to 5 armies and 15 divisions. The supreme leading organ is the Northwest Revolutionary Military Committee, chaired by Zhang Guotao.

Vice Chairman Chen Changhao.

***。The commander-in-chief of the Red Fourth Front Army is ***, and the general political commissar is Chen Changhao. The opening up of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region led the revolutionary war led by the Communist Party of China from the southeast to the northwest and initially opened up a new situation.

The rapid development of the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area caused the shock of Nanjing. From October 1933 to mid-September 1934, the Sichuan army assembled and launched a six-way siege on the base area. In the face of the enemy's frantic attack, the Red Fourth Front Army proposed to carry forward the spirit of "wisdom and courage, determination, innovation, unity and struggle, and endless victory", and after more than 10 months of hard fighting, more than 80,000 enemy troops were killed, wounded and captured, and a large number of ** were captured.

However, the Kuomintang was unwilling to defeat and organized the "Sichuan-Shaanxi Meeting". At this time, ** contacted the Red Fourth Front Army and informed the Zunyi Conference.

situation, it is required to send a division to the south to meet the ** Red Army to the north. Based on this situation, the Red Fourth Front Army decided to concentrate its main forces to cross the Jialing River westward, and in fact began the long march.

Sichuan is black history for the Red Army.

The northern part of Sichuan is the territory of the Red Fourth Front Army, the Red Fourth and the ** Red Army. There is a struggle.

From the end of January 1935, the Red Army crossed Chishui into southern Sichuan, and ended in August 1936.

The Second and Fourth Front armies left Aba and marched north from Sichuan, and the Red Army moved to nearly 70 counties in 10 cities (prefectures) in Sichuan in one year and eight months. According to relevant data, the Red Army's Long March traveled a total of more than 32,500 kilometers, with an average of 37 kilometers per day. Among them, the marching mileage of the Red First Front Army was 12,500 kilometers, the Red Second Front Army was 10,000 kilometers, the Red Fourth Front Army was 5,000 kilometers, and the Red 25th Army was 5,000 kilometers.

In April 1935, after the Red Army crossed Chishui four times, it crossed the Wujiang River in the south, coerced Guiyang, feinted to attack Kunming, and from May 3 to 9, crossed the Jinsha River by 7 small boats and entered Huili, Sichuan. In a short period of 28 days, the Red Army galloped across 10 counties and cities in Liangshan, including Huili, Huidong, Dechang, Ningnan, Puge, Xichang, Mianning, Xide, Yuexi, and Ganluo, leaving behind major historical events such as "skillfully crossing the Jinsha River," "Huili Conference," and "Yihai Alliance."

In the second half of 1932, the Red Fourth Front Army failed to break the enemy's fourth large-scale in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area"Encirclement and suppression"He was forced to march westward and entered the Hanzhong region of southern Shaanxi on December 9. On December 17, it crossed the Daba Mountain and began to head north. After more than a month of fighting, Tongjiang, Bazhong, Nanjiang and other places were liberated, and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area was established.

The establishment of the Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area opened up a new situation for the revolutionary struggle in the northwest region. scaled"This astonishing victory laid the most solid foundation for the entire revolutionary movement in the northwest and made a big step forward in striving for the uneven development of the revolution in the provinces of China. "In two and a half years in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, the Red Fourth Front Army annihilated more than 140,000 enemy troops, which greatly increased Chiang Kai-shek's strength"Worries about the West", Sichuan's "Guowen Weekly" also has to admit:

Sichuan has finally become the second in Jiangxi that ordinary people are afraid of its misfortune! "

The second largest Soviet district.

From March 29 to April 21, 1935, the Red Fourth Front Army launched the Battle of Forcibly Crossing the Jialing River, annihilating nearly 10,000 Sichuan troops and occupying a large area west of the Jialing River. Subsequently, the Red Fourth Front Army abandoned the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, and a total of 100,000 troops and local cadres from the evacuated Soviet Area marched westward, seized Maoxian, Lifan County, Songpan and other places, and began the Long March. On June 18, the First Division of the Red Fourth Front Army joined forces with the Red First Front Army in Maogong, Sichuan.

On June 29, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China held a meeting of the Standing Committee in Lianghekou, Maogong County, and decided to unify the leadership and command of the Red Army and the Red Fourth Front Army. In August, the two armies were mixed and went north together, and the main force of the Red Fourth Front Army and the ** Military Commission of the Communist Party of China were the left route army. Soon after, after Zhang Guotao led the Left Route Army through the Songpan grassland to reach Aba, he refused to continue northward and crossed the grassland in the south, hoping to establish a base in Xikang, but suffered repeated setbacks and serious losses to the troops.

At the beginning of July 1936, the Red Second Army Corps and the Red Sixth Army met with the Red Fourth Front Army in Ganzi. The 2nd and 6th Army Corps immediately formed the Red Second Front Army and marched north together with the Red Fourth Front Army. October 22, Red.

The 1st, 2nd, and 4th Front armies met in Huining, Gansu.

Hello, first of all it is a pleasure to be able to answer your question, the answer to your question is, May 3, 1957.

The Battle of Eastern Sichuan, the Battle of Xuanda, the Battle of Chengdu.

The Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area was a Soviet area established by the Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which was strategically transferred to the border areas of Sichuan and Shaanxi in December 1932 and established with the cooperation and support of the party organizations and the broad masses of laborers in the Sichuan-Shaanxi border region. "It is the second large region of the Chinese Soviet Republic. The main founders of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area were Zhang Guotao, Chen Changhao, ***, and Wang Weizhou.

From March to April 1935, the Red Fourth Front Army forcibly crossed the Jialing River and moved to western Sichuan, abandoning the Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area.