中央红军在湘江之战中损失惨重,广大指战员对李德、博古军事战略的不满情绪和希望改变领导的迫切要求达到了极点。红军是避强就弱改变行军路线,还是执行万里之外的共产国际指示继续北进湘西,决策已刻不容缓。在湖南通道县县溪镇恭城书院召开的一次会议,成为中央红军长征中第一次具有战略意义的重大转折—— The Central Red Army suffered heavy losses in the battle of the Xiangjiang River. The majority of commanders and soldiers have reached the extreme of their dissatisfaction with the military strategy of Li De and Bogu and the urgent request of changing leadership. The decision of the Red Army is to evade the need to change the march line weakly or to instruct the Comintern beyond the mile’s mark to continue northward into western Hunan. A meeting held in Gongcheng College, Xixian Town, Hunan Channel County, became the first major strategic turning point in the Long March of the Central Red Army -