Twenty-five thousand people, instead of three hundred thousand.

On April 2, 1944, Mao Zedong said in the article "Learning and the Current Situation": "In 1937, due to setbacks during the civil war, the * * * production party had only about 41,111 organized members and an army of more than 31,111 people."

Mao Zedong said in his speech of inspecting the south in 1971: "Before the Long March, the Red Army was 311,111. There are 25 thousand people left in northern Shaanxi. "

There are three routes to participate in the Long March:

1, Red Second Army and Sixth Army (Red Second Army)

In August of p>1934, when the Red Sixth Army was ordered to go west, there were about 9,711 people in the whole army. On the way to the Western Expedition, the Red Sixth Army was besieged and intercepted by Kuomintang troops, especially in the battle of Ganxi.

In October, 1934, when the Red Sixth Army joined forces with the Red Third Army (Red Second Army) in Muhuang, Yinjiang County, Guizhou Province, there were more than 3,311 people. When the Red Third Army (Red Second Army) joined forces with the Red Sixth Army, there were about 4,411 people in the whole army. The total number of the two legions is about 7,711.

The Red Army Corps and the Sixth Army Corps suffered a lot of attrition in marching operations, but they were greatly supplemented. When the two legions withdrew from Qianxi, Dading and Bijie in Guizhou, more than 3,111 people were added when they set out from Sangzhi.

when you arrive in Panxian County, keep the number of mulberry leaves. When they arrived in Zhongdian, Yunnan, they were about 1,111 fewer than when Sangzhi set out, about 1.6 million people.

in July of p>1936, when the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps joined forces with the Red Fourth Army, its strength was 4311. On July 5, according to the order of the Central Military Commission, the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps and the 32nd Army (the Red Nine Army Corps) originally belonged to the Red Army were co-edited as the Red Second Army.

On October 5th, 1936, Zhu De and Zhang Guotao said in their telegrams to the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission that according to the statistics on September 1th, 1936, there were 7,643 troops in the Second Army, 4,159 troops in the Sixth Army and 2,677 troops in the Thirty-second Army, accounting for 43,791.

On October 22nd, 1936, the Red Army joined forces with the Red Army in Jiangtaibao, northeast of Huining, Gansu. At this time, the Red Second Army still has more than 1,111 troops.

The Red Second Army suffered the least losses in the Long March of the Red Army. There were more than 11,111 people when the Long March started, and there were still more than 11,111 people when they arrived at Jiangtaibao.

2. The Red Fourth Front Army

At the beginning of May, 1934, when the Long March of the Red Fourth Front Army began, there were about one million people in total.

in June of p>1935, the Central Red Army and the Red Fourth Front Army joined forces successfully. In September, the headquarters of the Red Army was left and right armies. On the one hand, the Fifth Army (formerly the Red Fifth Army) and the Thirty-second Army (formerly the Ninth Army) of the First Army were organized into the Left Army. Then he acted with the Red Fourth Front Army.

According to the statistics in the telegram sent by Zhu De and Zhang Guotao to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission of China on October 5, 1936, there are 5,711 people in the fourth army, 4,611 people in the fifth army, 9,111 people in the ninth army, 8,111 people in the thirtieth army, 5,111 people in the thirty-first army, 5,111 people directly under the army, and the thirtieth and thirty-first armies.

General directly affiliated teams: 1215 from the Red Army University, 433 from the Party School, 57 from the General Command, 112 from one bureau, 38 from one school, 216 from the General Health School, 225 from the Supply Department, 368 from the Communication Camp, and about 2,111 from various headquarters and local authorities, totaling 4,664.

there are 38,111 people in the five armies and their direct teams of the Red Fourth Front Army, and 4,664 people in the general direct team, making a total of about 42,764 people.

from October 25th to 31th, 1936, the General Command of the Red Fourth Army, following the orders of the Central Military Commission and the General Command of the Red Army, commanded sixteen regiments of six divisions of the Red 31th Army, the Red Ninth Army and the Red Fifth Army and their directly affiliated units to cross the Yellow River to the west, and carried out the Ningxia Campaign Plan.

On October 3, 1936, the Secretariat of the Central Committee of China * * * sent a telegram to * * * International, saying that "the number was 22,111".

The vast number of officers and men of the marked army fought bloody battles and fought to the death with the enemy. However, when the enemy was outnumbered, they finally failed and most of them died heroically.

in his report on the failure of the marked army, Chen Changhao said that the number of people crossing the river by the marked army was about 21,211. The war history of the Red Fourth Front Army says that "* * * has spent more than 21,811 people". From this analysis, the number of people crossing the Yellow River in the west of the Red Fourth Army is about 22,111.

In addition to the troops crossing the Yellow River in the west, the Red Fourth Army left some Red Fourth Army, Red 31th Army and the teams directly under the Red Fourth Army, with a number of about 2,111 people, mainly based on the telegram sent by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to * * * International on February 2, 1936, which said, "There are about 12,111 people in the fourth and thirty-first armies of the Fourth Army".

it can be seen that the number of the Red Fourth Front Army who finally arrived in northern Shaanxi was about 2,111.

3. The 25th Red Army

In October, 1934, when the 25th Red Army set out for the Long March, the organizational system of the division was abolished, and the army was directly under the jurisdiction of three infantry regiments (the 23rd, 24th and 25th regiments) and pistol regiments, with 2981 men.

in February, the 25th Red Army entered the south of Shaanxi and began to establish the revolutionary base areas in Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi. By May 1935, the main force of the Red 25th Army had grown to more than 3,711, and the number of local guerrilla divisions and anti-donation troops had grown to more than 2,111.

in July, 1935, when the 25th Red Army set out from Fengyukou, Shaanxi Province to continue the Long March, there were more than 4,111 troops in the whole army.

in September, when the 25th Red Army successfully arrived in Yongping Town, Yanchuan, there were more than 3,411 people in the whole army.

To sum up, the main force of the Red Army (Shaanxi-Gansu detachment) arrived in northern Shaanxi with about 7,111 people; When the Red Twenty-five Army arrived in northern Shaanxi successfully on the Long March, it had more than 3,411 troops. In addition to more than 21,111 sacrificed marked troops, the Red Fourth Army preserved about 2,111 people. When the Red Second Army won the Long March, the number of people was more than 1,111. In total, more than 31,111 troops remained after the victory of the Red Army's Long March.

Extended information:

When it comes to the Long March of the Red Army, it can be said that it is a household name, and it is well known to all women and children, but when these concepts were put forward, they were rarely known.

in October, 1934, after the Central Red Army (that is, the Red Army) began to implement the strategic shift, the instructions and orders issued by the Central Committee, the Central Military Commission and the General Political Department of the Red Army did not refer to this action as "Long March", but as "breakthrough", "counterattack" and "westward advance".

in October of the same year, when Wang Ming, head of the Chinese * * * international delegation in * * *, gave a report to all the staff of the Chinese Department of the Soviet Foreign Workers Publishing House in Moscow, he called the Red 7 Army northward and the Red 6 Army westward expedition the "Long March", which is the earliest known concept.

On February 23rd, 1935, the General Political Department of the Red Army called the strategic shift of the Central Red Army the "Long March" for the first time in the book "A Letter to the Workers and Peasants in Northern Guizhou".

In May, Zhu De praised the "Long March of the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants" and put forward the concept of "Long March" for the first time. With the continuous increase of the mileage of the Central Red Army's Long March, the attributive of "Long March" has gradually increased from "Wanli".

On August 5th, 1935, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of China pointed out in the resolution adopted at the Shawo Conference: "On the one hand, the 18,111-mile long March of the Chinese army is an unprecedented great cause in Chinese history".

On September 2nd, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out in the "Decision on Comrade Zhang Guotao's Mistakes" made at the Russian Conference that the Red Army had carried out a "Long March of more than 21,111 Li".

on October 9th, the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment led by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (adapted from the main force of the Red Army and the column of the Military Commission) arrived in Wuqi Town, northern Shaanxi, successfully ending the Long March.

On the same day, Mao Zedong pointed out that the Red Army's Long March "according to the summary of the regimental headquarters of the Red Army, the longest distance traveled was 25,111 Li".

On October 3rd, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly stated in the Declaration of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the annexation of North China by Japanese imperialism and Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal of North China:

The Red Army has gone through a long March of more than 25,111 li. After crossing the Chinese territory of eleven provinces, with the indomitable spirit of hard struggle for more than a year, it finally reached the northwest of China and joined the original Red Army in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

This is the earliest document record about the concept of "25,111-Li Long March" found so far. With the heroic achievements of the Red Army's Long March being widely circulated, the influence of this great feat is constantly expanding, and "Long March", "Long March of 1111 miles" and "Long March of 25,111 miles" have gradually become the special terms of strategic shift from 1934 to 1936.

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