The First Step: Wuling Meandering
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In early October 1934, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the launch of a general offensive against the Red Army's fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign in the central strategic area. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China led the Central Red Army to embark on the first step of the Long March. Due to mistakes in the guidance of Bogu and Li De, the Central Red Army was blocked by powerful enemies from crossing the Xiangjiang River in the west. Red Army generals such as Peng Dehuai, Lin Biao, and Dong Zhentang led their officers and soldiers in tragic and heroic bloody battles. Although the Central Red Army broke through the encirclement, it had lost more than half. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai turned the tide, and the Central Red Army arrived in Zunyi. At this step, the Central Committee's strategic guidance was wrong, the turbulent waves were cleared, powerful enemies were chasing and intercepting, and the material difficulties were surging. The Central Red Army fought tragically in these turbulent waves. Mao Zedong described it as "Five Ridges and Thin Waves", and the book unfolds in the first step that is both tragic and heroic.
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