Cause Of The Failure The West Army Revisited

The failure of the West Route Army is a massive loss to the Chinese revolution.There are quite a few reasons for the ultimate failure due to the complexity of its background,and to this issue,and there have been many studies in the academic field.This article analyzes the influence and role of the Kuomintang in the failure of the West Route Army from the perspective of the Kuomintang.In detail:The three main forces of the Red Army faced the encirclement and suppression of Kuomintang's massive forces when they massed in the northwest.And in order to break the restrictions and relieve the pressures of the Shangan Revolutionary base,they formulated and implemented the "Ningxia Campaign Plan"to actively expand to independent developmental space,which is the great background of the formation of the West Route Army;In order to destroy the West Route Army,the KMT Central Government implemented a reward and punishment mechanism,set up a secret agency to collect intelligence of the West Route Army,and supervised and investigated the combat situation that local arm forces to the Western Route Army,as well as the KMT agreed to the peace agreement about the Western Route Army' s face but oppose secretly during the Xi'an Incident,and all of the above makes a difficult situation to the revolutionary forces who entering the Hexi region;In order to prevent the.Red Army developing westward,Ma Bufang has established a blockade with the bunker as the core militarily,intensified the recruitment of men to form a militia group,trained the army with a fascist type,strengthened the ideological control of the troops,and used the policy of "rule soft" to win over the generals and other measures.Politically Ma strengthened the control of the masses of the people,strengthened the reactionary propaganda to the people,and used the policy of the United Front of the Chinese Communists to paralyze the Red West Route Army,and constructed counter-revolutionary front and used religious beliefs.Economically Ma implement militarization of the province's economy,implement the measures to encircle and suppress the West Army such as clearing the wall and clearing the area.Before the Red Army did not enter the Hexi area,Mas Army had already made an army of war preparations for "exterminating the Communist Army".While the Red Fourth Army accomplished the realignment after three times over the grass,they crossed the Yellow River and had not yet been rehabilitated to form the West Route Army,and far from the rear area,and it was already strategically passive.When the West Route Army entered the Hexi area,the military,political and economic measures carried out by Mas Army brought its effects into full play and made the West Route Army struggling in the Hexi Corridor.Mas Army made a bloody "encirclement and suppression" with virtue of its absolute superiority in all aspects and drenched the desert sand with the West Route Army's blood and eventually failed.