The Long March + Exagerrated Topographic Map (thelemmy.club)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Awoo@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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A little lazy but I took the wiki map of the long march and an exaggerated topographical map and spliced them together.

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I didn't really have a reason for doing this, I just like exaggerated topographic maps and was curious about the route.

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[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

so the little loop at Zunyi... is there a story associated with that?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chishui_River

Also called "The Four Crossings of the Chishui River". It was Mao's first battle where he was given leadership of the battle during the long march.

Mao had recently criticised the party leadership for fighting conventional battles to hold territory, Zhou and others conceded the criticism was correct and that they had been using the wrong strategies. Mao favoured an extremely mobile guerrilla warfare style that did not seek to hold territory but instead to preserve the army. This extremely mobile style successfully broke the encirclement the KMT had on them and was crucial to the communist movement even surviving. They only had 30k communists at this time compared to the 400k encirclement.

There is in fact a movie called Crossing that covers this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qScOS_kmeak