Today, 89 years ago, on April 14, 1936 (March 23, 1936 in the lunar calendar), Liu Zhidan, the leader of the Red Army, died. Liu Zhidan On April 14, 1936, Liu Zhidan died when he was blocked by Kuomintang troops while attacking Sanjiao Town, Zhongyang County. Liu Zhidan, Ming Jinggui. Shaanxi Baoan (now Zhidan) native. Born on October 4, 1903 (the 29th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty). In 1924, he joined the Chinese Socialist Youth League. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the spring of 1925. In the autumn of the same year, he went to Huangpu Military Academy to study. After graduation, he returned to the northwest to serve as a party representative and political director in Ma Hongkui's Fourth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In May 1928, he led the Weihua Uprising with Xie Zichang and others and established the Northwest Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army. In the autumn of the same year, he served as secretary of the Military Commission of the Northern Shaanxi Special Committee of the After the September 18th Incident, he served as deputy commander-in-chief of the Northwest Anti-Imperialist Alliance, commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrilla detachment of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, founded the 26th Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, established the Shaanxi-Gansu revolutionary base area, and served as deputy commander and chief of staff of the 15th Red Army during the war against the "encirclement and suppression" in the spring of 1935. He was imprisoned due to Wang Ming's "Left" line. After the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Red Army stationed in northern Shaanxi, a five-member committee headed by Dong Biwu under the leadership of Luo Fu quickly found out the problem and released Liu Zhidan and others who were mistakenly arrested in November. After meeting with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he was appointed as deputy director of the Northwest Revolutionary Military Commission, commander of the 28th Red Army, and commander-in-chief of the North Route Army. In the spring of 1936, he and Song Renqiong led the 28th Red Army to fight Japan and enter Shanxi. When they attacked Sanjiao Town, Zhongyang County, they were blocked and died by the Kuomintang army.