“红军长征,是在抗日救亡成为全民族最紧迫的任务、中国面临民族危亡的情况下发生的,也是在党和红军面临生死存亡严重危机的情况下发生的。”著名的长征史专家、军事科学院研究员徐占权说。红军为什么要长征?徐占权说,1931年“九一八”事变后,国民党调动100万大军“围剿”红军? “The Long March of the Red Army took place when the anti-Japanese national salvation became the most urgent task of the entire nation and China faced the danger of national demise, and it also occurred under the serious crisis of life and death facing the party and the Red Army.” The famous expert on the history of the Long March, the Academy of Military Sciences Researcher Xu Zhanquan said. Why does the Red Army Long March? Xu Zhanquan said that after the “September 18” incident in 1931, the Kuomintang mobilized one million troops to “encircle the Red Army”?