Mid-October, 1934

The CPC Central Committee and the Central Revolutionary Military Commission lead the main forces of the Central Red Army to make a strategic shift and start the Long March. From mid-November to mid-November 1935, the 25th Red Army, the Fourth Front Red Army, and the Second and Sixth Army Groups of the Red Army also withdraw from the Hubei-Henan-Anhui, Sichuan-Shaanxi, Hunan-Hubei-Sichuan-Guizhou and other revolutionary bases to make a strategic shift.

Source From: CHRONICLE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA (JULY 1921–JUNE 2021), by Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China