ElizabethLM

The Long March between 1934 and 1935 was caused by a number of different reasons. Three major causes of the Long March were the German military’s advice to China to enforce the policy of encirclement and starve to deny the resources of the enemy, the use of pill boxes which were squat concrete forts that were sited at road junctions, canals and other strategic points and finally manned road blocks. The reasoning for these three policies were supposedly resist the Japanese, which led to the Chinese Red Army walking 6,000 miles to remove themselves from encirclement. The March involved 15 Battles and the crossing of 24 Rivers which effected the brotherhoods, selflessness, determination and meant suffering for the Communist Party members. After these events Mao’s tactics seemed the better alternative to the Russian Otto Braun.