The long March

Is there any way the Long March could have been altered? I was thinking about this as I am not knowledgeable of the details of that event. So I was wondering if anyone is and if anything could have happened different, such as Mao's communist being routed elsewhere in China.
 
Is there any way the Long March could have been altered? I was thinking about this as I am not knowledgeable of the details of that event. So I was wondering if anyone is and if anything could have happened different, such as Mao's communist being routed elsewhere in China.

I'm curious if Sichuan could've been used as a base myself. The region is pretty isolated from the rest of China, although I reckon they picked Shaanxi since the warlords there weaker and it was a good base due to a lack of strong powers already there.

I'm also curious if the Blockhouse Strategy might actually have proven capable of permanently murdering the Communists too, since the resulting purges left them with very small numbers, and the effect this would have in China outside the obvious.
 
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