Among the Four-Way Red Army participating in the Long March, the number of female Red Army soldiers varied greatly, the least was the Red Twenty-fifth Army, and only seven female soldiers participated in the Long March.
September 1934 5th reaction." After the defeat of the encirclement and suppression, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was faced with a difficult problem of advancing and retreating, and at the same time the female Red Army was also facing the same problem. At that time, the form of the Soviet zone was already very urgent, and it was an honor for every woman to be able to move with a large army, but not every female warrior could follow the large army, and many people had to stay and face a more cruel situation. Whether they stay or not, these female Red Army soldiers do not know that their fate will be rewritten.
The female comrades of the Central Red Army who participated in the Long March were initially thirty-two, five of whom were left on the way due to illness and work needs, and eventually twenty-seven female Red Army soldiers followed the large army to northern Shaanxi.
Some of these female Red Army cadres were the wives of leading cadres, such as He Zizhen, Deng Yingchao, Kang Keqing, and Cai Chang. Many of them joined the revolution very early and themselves held certain positions in the Party and the Red Army.
Not all the wives of leading cadres can move with the troops, and the list of female Red Army officers who participated in the Long March before departure must be strictly examined. Political conditions are paramount, and at the same time certain physical conditions must be met.
Xie Jueya, secretary general of the Central Government of the Chinese Soviet, and his wife Guo Xiangyu, who served as a confidential transceiver, were supposed to follow the large troops, but because she was a small foot with limited mobility, she stayed behind, and was arrested by the enemy and buried alive.
Tang Yizhen, the wife of Lu Dingyi, the head of propaganda of the General Political Department of the Red Army, was not allowed to move with the troops because she was pregnant and about to give birth. Tang Yizhen participated in three years of guerrilla warfare in the south, surrounded by enemies in western Fujian, and chewed up and swallowed the intelligence in order not to expose the information he was carrying. In order to get information, the enemy cut Tang Yizhen alive and rummaged through his internal organs.
Chen Biying, the wife of Dong Biwu, vice president of the Central Party School, was not approved to accompany the army because she was too thin and her weight was not up to standard.
There is no exact statistics on the number of female Red Army members participating in the Long March of the Second Red Front, and there are more than twenty people whose names can be found, including mothers and daughters and sisters. The sisters are known as the sisters in the Long March, and the female Red Army Yin Chengfu took her daughter and daughter-in-law to participate in the Long March.
Among the female Red Army members of the Red Second Front who participated in the Long March, Li Zhen, the first female general of our army, was awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
The largest number of female Red Army troops during the Long March was the Red Fourth Front, which would not be less than 2,000 people. After the Red Fourth Front created the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Region, a large number of poor women in Tongjiang, Nanjiang, Bazhong, Pyeongchang and other places actively demanded to join the Red Army.
To this end, the Red Fourth Front formed a women's independent regiment, headed and political commissar by Zhang Qinqiu, which soon grew to more than a thousand people and was later expanded.
Under the General Supply Department of the Red Fourth Front, there was also a battalion of more than 500 women's engineers, and a large number of female comrades among the medical personnel and troupe propagandists also participated in the Long March.
The Long March has created a miracle that has attracted worldwide attention, and has also achieved strong and indomitable female soldiers of the Long March, whether in the history of the Long March or in the history of women's liberation, the female Red Army has left a strong mark!