June 1935, Sichuan China:
Mao stares as another platoon of Zhang's men enter the church. The link up with Zhang was expected to be tense, but not this tense. The men are armed with rifles that undoubtably function and have real, not home made gernades. Mao and his staff are pushed against a wall while an officer reads a hurried declaration in the almost unintelligible dialect of Zhang's home province. The words "spies" and "spying" are used again and again.
Sporadic rifle fire outside the church is followed by long bursts machine gun fire, then gernade explosions. Mao's exhausted and poorly equipped forces in the area are out numbered 8-1, and even those who are willing to try, cannot fight past Zhang's picked force outside the church in time. Twenty seconds later, its over. Mao and his staff are dead and Zhang Guaotao is the leading communist commander.
How does this impact the Civil war and later events? (good point by Meadow too early to look at Great Leap Forward etc)
Mao stares as another platoon of Zhang's men enter the church. The link up with Zhang was expected to be tense, but not this tense. The men are armed with rifles that undoubtably function and have real, not home made gernades. Mao and his staff are pushed against a wall while an officer reads a hurried declaration in the almost unintelligible dialect of Zhang's home province. The words "spies" and "spying" are used again and again.
Sporadic rifle fire outside the church is followed by long bursts machine gun fire, then gernade explosions. Mao's exhausted and poorly equipped forces in the area are out numbered 8-1, and even those who are willing to try, cannot fight past Zhang's picked force outside the church in time. Twenty seconds later, its over. Mao and his staff are dead and Zhang Guaotao is the leading communist commander.
How does this impact the Civil war and later events? (good point by Meadow too early to look at Great Leap Forward etc)
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