From the end of 1932 to March 1933, the First Front Army of the Central Red Army won in the Fourth Counter Encirclement Campaign. This is a group photo of the army. [Photo/Exhibition Road to Rejuvenation at the National Museum of China]

From 1933 to 1934, Chiang Kai-shek launched the Fifth Encirclement Campaign against the Central Soviet; after a year's fighting, the Red Army failed to break the enemy's encirclement, and was forced to abandon the central base to begin the Long March. The picture shows Red China publishing the news that the Red Army was victorious in the Fourth Counter Encirclement Campaign. [Photo/PLA Pictorial]