1937年初，红军西路军两万多人，在河西走廊遭到几乎全军覆没的厄运。关于西路军的惨败，中共党史上有许多说法；比如《毛泽东选集》第一版的注释说，西路军是奉张国焘命令擅自过河，致使两万红军失败。许多党史专著也说，西路军的失败是张国焘退却主义与取消主义所造成的恶果 At the beginning of 1937, over 20,000 Red Army West Route Corps suffered almost no-go defeat in the Hexi corridor. On the fiasco of the Western Route Army, there are many statements in the history of the Chinese Communist Party. For example, the first edition of the “Selected Works of Mao Zedong” commented that the West Route Army ordered Zhang Guofei to order the unauthorized crossing of the river, resulting in the failure of 20,000 Red Army troops. Many party history monographs also said that the failure of the West Route Army was the evil result of Zhang Guoxun’s withdrawalism and cancellation doctrine