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[quote=JABAROOTOO,249682]It was an incredible feat for those who marched any distance but especially for those who SURVIVED.  Countless more men enlisted but perished from starvation, exhaustion, illness and exposure to the elements or lost their lives in battle.

I have just returned from Maerkang last week where Mao Zedong and his generals spent a week in the small village of Zuokeji, strategizing.  Much of the village was ravaged later as the army moved north from Sichuan into Gansu.  The Red Army spent almost a year in the valley around Maerkang, living off the generosity of the locals.

This was the nature of the Long March and I wonder if the locals were ever recompensed or if they gave as their civic duty.  The Suomo Valley is a very picturesque but for the most part it is narrow and hemmed in by steep mountains and would be a difficult area to march through today.  Back then even more so and this very inaccessible terrain like most of the route was I'm sure chosen  in order to evade the opposition.[/quote]

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