From Nov 25th to Dec 1st in 1934, the Central Red Army fought a bloody battle with enemies on the east coast of Xiangjiang River, in the south of today’s Quanzhou County in Guangxi province. The battle of Xiangjiang River, deliberately planned by Chiang Kai-shek, was the first big and fierce battle with Guomingtang Amry during the Long March of the Red Army. Chiang gathered the troops of nearly 300,000 people both under his direct control and his allied local warlords’ forces in Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, attempting to completely annihilate the whole Central Red Army before their crossing of Xiangjiang River. In spite of the wide gap in the military forces and the wrong decisions made by leftist leaders within CPC which had situated the Red Army on completely passive position, the Red Army have finally managed to cross Xiangjiang River. However, it brought tremendous losses to the Red Army, whose manpower decreased from more than 86,000 people at the beginning of the Long March to about 30,000 after the battle.