Chapter 2 The Long March was originally a great shift to survive, but the slogan of the Long March was "Go north to resist Japan"

The Long March of the Red Army is unparalleled in the world.As for the reason for the Long March, anyone who has knowledge of history knows that it was because the Central Red Army arrived at Wuqi Town in northern Shaanxi. So far, the Red Army successfully ended the Long March. The Red Army suffered a defeat in the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, so it had to quietly leave Ruijin, the red capital, abandon the Central Soviet Area, and carry out a strategic shift. Harrison Salisbury said in the book "The Long March-Unheard Stories": "It is not a 'march' in the ordinary sense, it is not a battle, it is not a victory. It is a song of human existence. The triumphant song is a life-and-death, long-distance retreat to avoid Chiang Kai-shek's clutches, a battle full of dangers and dangers."

The Long March was originally a great shift to survive and survive. However, the slogan of the Long March was not to survive and survive, but to go north to resist Japan. The slogan "Go north to resist Japan" is a wonderful chess game played by the Communist Party at a moment of life and death. The Long March of the Red Army was carried out under the situation that the contradiction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the contradiction between China and Japan were sharp at the same time. The triangular struggle of "Japan, Chiang Kai-shek, and the Communist Party" constituted the era content of China's political situation at that time.

"Japan, Chiang, and the Communist Party" are different from "Wei, Shu, and Wu" that have appeared in Chinese history.Japan wants to turn China into its colony, which is unacceptable to the entire Chinese people, including the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. "Anti-Japanese War" is the aspiration of all Chinese people.Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China seized the new changes in China's current situation and Chinese people's psychology brought about by the Japanese invasion in a timely manner, boldly put forward the slogan of "going north to resist Japan", carried the great banner of the anti-Japanese nation, and compared the forced strategic shift of the Red Army with the northward movement. The anti-Japanese march was organically combined, skillfully combining the interests of the nation with the interests of the party.As the slogans of "Chinese don't fight Chinese" and "Stop the civil war, unitedly resist Japan" became popular among the people, Chiang Kai-shek's anti-communist slogan of "To fight against the outside world, we must first settle down inside" was rightly accused of being a traitor among the people of the whole country. .

The slogan of "going north to resist Japan" was the beginning of the Red Army's long march to get rid of passivity, get rid of being beaten, and start to gather strength.