1935年春,中央红军四渡赤水后,红4团完成了佯攻昆明、掩护主力向云南方向转移的任务,要到金沙江畔归建。途中,他们必须经过禄劝、武定、元谋3个县城。这3个县虽然没有多少正规军,但为了避免在与那些杂牌军、反动民团的纠缠中拖延时间,以致影响中央红军的下一步行动,团政委杨成武提出,通过这3个县宜智取不宜强攻。团长王开湘完全同意。 In the spring of 1935, after the Central Red Army had crossed the Chishui River, the Red Corps completed the task of feigning Kunming and shielding the main force from transferring to Yunnan. On the way, they must go through Luquan, Wuding, Yuanmou 3 counties. Although there are not many regular armies in these three counties, Yang Chengwu, a political commissar of the regiment, proposed that the three counties should not adopt appropriate storming in order to avoid delays in the entanglements with those motley-force armies and reactionary militias and thus affect the next move of the Central Red Army. . Head Wang Kai Xiang fully agreed.