Schematic diagram of anti-encirclement campaign in Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area

Difficulties in Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area. Over the past two years since the Red Fourth Front Army entered Sichuan, the Red Army has successively smashed the three-way siege (1February to June, 933) and the six-way siege (1933,165438+1October to1September, 934) of the Sichuan Army. On both occasions, we adopted continuous defense, tightened our positions and concentrated our forces. Therefore, after the victory of the siege against the Sixth Route Army, the Red Fourth Front Army had planned to develop to the northwest and establish the Sichuan-Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet Area, but it was later abandoned because of the Jialing River Campaign.

Coordinate the tasks of the Central Red Army. 1935 65438+ 10 (before and after the Tucheng campaign), the Central Red Army marched into northern Guizhou and planned to cross the river from northern Guizhou to meet the Red Fourth Army, so it ordered the Red Fourth Army to send a division south to meet it. After studying the order, the leaders of the Red Fourth Army thought that it was difficult to complete the task of receiving the Central Red Army by only one division. A better choice is to cross the Jialing River to the west and capture the western Sichuan region to cooperate with the actions of the Central Red Army. If we want to cross the Jialing River and March into western Sichuan, we must concentrate our main forces to gain a foothold in the local area, and the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area will be empty. Therefore, the Red Fourth Front Army decided to take the initiative to gradually withdraw from the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area.

The pressure of the enemy. After the siege of the Sixth Route Army failed, Liu Xiang, a warlord in Sichuan, began to prepare for a new siege. Moreover, with the Central Army entering Sichuan, the Sichuan Army is prepared to dispatch more than 200 regiments together with the Central Army to launch the "Sichuan-Shaanxi Society Suppression" Soviet area. I'm afraid that the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet area and the Red Fourth Front Army at that time could not resist this larger-scale encirclement and suppression. Instead of waiting for the enemy to attack, we should take the initiative to attack, open up new battlefields and lead the war to the white areas.

? Generally speaking, the Red Fourth Army's withdrawal from the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area was forced by the situation, and this behavior of giving up areas that were difficult to adhere to in order to win the strategic initiative was also common in the history of war.