Mao’s March 20 Letter to the Central Committee, and the 5th Red Army’s Retreat from the Jinggangshan (January to April 1929)
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Mao plans to expand guerrilla warfare, and meets up with Peng Dehuai in Ruijin. Further reading: Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji, Mao Zedong: A Biography, vol. 1: 1893-1949 Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 3: From the Jinggangshan to the Establishment of the Jiangxi Soviets, July 1927-December 1930 Stephen Averill, Revolution in the Highlands: China’s Jinggangshan Base Area Peng Dehuai, Memoirs of a Chinese Marshall Some names from this episode: Yuan Wencai, Bandit leader who joined with Mao Zedong Wang Zuo, Bandit leader who joined with Mao Zedong He Changgong, secretary of the Ninggang County Party following the departure of the Fourth Red Army Long Chaoqing, former secretary of the Ninggang County Committee of the Communist Party Peng Dehuai, leader of the Fifth Red Army Li Wenlin, Communist guerrilla commander Duan Yuequan, Communist guerrilla commander Liu Shiyi, Guomindang commander Xiao Jiabi, reactionary militia leader Support the show
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