Editing Long March (section)

===The Second Red Army===
[[File:DSCN1728.JPG|thumb|260px|[[Tiger Leaping Gorge]] in the [[Jade Dragon Snow Mountain]] massif of western [[Yunnan]] province]]
The Second Red Army began its own withdrawal west from Hubei in November 1935, led by [[He Long]], who commanded the KMT Twentieth Army in 1923 before joining the CCP. In 1932 he established a [[Soviet (council)|soviet]] in the Hunan-Jiangxi border area, and in August 1934 received command of the Second Red Army, establishing a base in Hubei. An advance party of the First Red Army, called the Sixth Corps, commanded by Xiao Ke, was sent towards the Second Red Army two months before the beginning of the Long March. Xiao Ke's force would link up with He Long and his army, but lost communication with the First Army that came behind. It was at this point that [[Li Zhen (female general)|Li Zhen]]'s unit was assigned to He Long's command, having already served in the Sixth Corps.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Wiles|first1=Sue|editor1-last=Lee|editor1-first=Lily Xiao Hong|editor2-last=Stefanowska|editor2-first=A. D.|editor3-last=Ho|editor3-first=Clara Wing-chung|title=Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period 1644–1911|chapter=Li Zhen|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-7656-0798-0}}</ref>

On November 19, 1935, the Second Red Army set out on its own Long March. He Long's force was driven further west than the First Red Army, all the way to [[Lijiang, Yunnan|Lijiang]] in Yunnan province, then across the [[Jade Dragon Snow Mountain]] massif and through the Tibetan highlands of western Sichuan. He Long and Xiao Ke were married to sisters who also accompanied the army. He Long's wife, Jian Xianren, carried the baby daughter she had given birth to three weeks before the retreat began. Jian Xianfo gave birth to a son in the desolate swamps of northern Sichuan.<ref name=cd>''China Daily'' (November 23, 2003): [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/23/content_283948.htm Stepping into history] (Retrieved November 23, 2006)</ref> Forces of the Second Army detained two European missionaries, [[Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt|Rudolf Bosshardt]] and Arnolis Hayman, for 16 months.<ref>The New Long March, Photo Archive (January 5, 2005): [http://www.newlongmarch2.com/DisplayNews_en.asp?TextID=83&page=3 Kidnapped!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928070929/http://www.newlongmarch2.com/DisplayNews_en.asp?TextID=83&page=3 |date=September 28, 2007 }} Retrieved 2007-03-15</ref> Bosshardt later related his account of the details of daily life on the Long March in a book.<ref>{{cite book | last=Bosshardt, Rudolf A. | title=The Restraining Hand: Captivity for Christ in China | publisher =  Hodder and Stoughton, London | year = 1936}}</ref>