1937年3月,西路军失败后,他作为红30军军长,与政委李先念一道率领着弹尽粮绝的西路军余部千余人,爬过冰封雪冻的祁连山雪岭,穿越“死亡之海”的茫茫戈壁沙漠,经过47个日日夜夜艰险征程,幸存的400多人终于胜利到达新疆。程世才以惊人的胆略和毅力,为我们党保存了一部分力量,受到毛泽东的称赞。 In March 1937, following the defeat of the West Route Army, he, as the commander of the Red 30 Army, led a contingent of more than a thousand soldiers of the West Route Army who had run out of food and clothing with the political commissar Li Xiannian and climbed through the frozen snow frozen Qilian Mountains, In the vast desert of the Gobi, “Dead Sea”, after more than 47 days and nights of hardships and expeditions, over 400 surviving people finally arrived in Xinjiang. With an astonishing courage and perseverance, Cheng Shicai saved part of our power for our party and was praised by Mao Tse-tung.