Yet these incredible peasants and workers hurled themselves at the lines of blockhouses, machine gun nests, trenches, fortifications, barbed wire entanglements, which surrounded the Juichin base, and broke them. The Red Army men, exhausted after months of combat, of malnutrition, lack of salt, defeats, had had no time to rest. These maps did not indicate the straight, straight roads which Li Teh wanted for marching on. There were no maps except the maps Mao had collected. But one important detail had been forgotten. He drew a straight line and that was the line of march. It appears that all that Li Teh knew of military science was the straight, straight line.
"Where were we going? Some were told we were going to beat the landlords and make revolution. Backed by Chin Pang-hsien, he overrode the opinions of other members of the Revolutionary Military Council, as he had done persistently during the fifth counter campaign.ĭuring the last four months, up till the final day of departure, peasants of the base had laboured at earth fortifications and trenches the new recruits in the Army had very poor training, severe shortages had affected their health. Li Teh was the man chiefly responsible for the conduct of this evacuation. The conditions under which the Long March began could not have been worse, with totally inadequate food supplies, much cumbersome and useless baggage, no battle plans in relation to enemy troop movements.
(2) Hans Suyin wrote about the Long March in his book The Morning Deluge (1972) They didn't listen to Chairman Mao, and the result was that the revolution suffered another setback and we had to march 25,000 li. But a group of people inside the Communist Party made "Left" deviationist mistakes and were very narrow in their outlook, holding that the middle and petty bourgeoisie were unreliable. As Chiang Kai-shek's counter-revolutionary treachery became further exposed, only the comprador-bureaucrat and feudal landlord classes supported him. Chairman Mao saw that in order to carry out the revolution it is necessary not only to rely on the peasants, but also to win over the middle and petty bourgeoisie. And sure enough, the revolution suffered defeat because his views weren't listened to. ▲ Main Article ▲ Primary Sources (1) Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong (1978)ĭuring the Great Revolution, Chairman Mao was already aware that the peasants were the largest ally and that the people's revolution could not triumph without them.
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