Overview map of the route of the Long March Red-hatched areas
show Communist enclaves. Areas marked by a blue "X" were overrun
by Kuomintang forces during the Fourth Encirclement Campaign,
forcing the Fourth Red Army (north) and the Second Red Army
(south) to retreat to more western enclaves (open dotted lines).
The solid dotted line is the route of the First Red Army from
Jiangxi. The withdrawal of all three Red Armies ends in the
northeast enclave of Shaanxi. Chinese Nationalist Party and
allied warlords Communist Party of China |Commanders and
leaders| | Chiang Kai-shek Hans von Seeckt | Mao Zedong |over
300,000||First Front Red Army: 86,000 (October 1934) 7,000
(October 1935) The Long March was a military retreat undertaken
by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner
of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the
Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army. There was
not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various
Communist armies in the south escaped to th