湘鄂川黔边区的神兵运动自一九二○年兴起之后,到一九五○年为止的整整三十年间,其势如暴风骤雨、狂涛巨澜,迅猛席卷湘鄂川黔四个省区四十余县。神兵运动不但唤醒了千百万民众,动摇了反动统治集团的根基,造成了湘鄂川黔边革命形势的空前高涨;而且在中国工农红军的发展史上起过不可低估的作用,促进和加速了湘鄂西苏区和湘鄂川黔革命根据地的开辟与巩固。但是,对于神兵的性质问题,大多数说法是予以一概否定和一律贬斥。如“封建武装的‘神兵’各据山头,与国民党反动派纠合在一起,为害群众,十分猖獗”,“神兵是一 After the rise of the magic knights movement in the border areas of Hunan, Eichuan, and Guizhou in 1920 and 1930 up to 1950, the momentum of such movements has risen violently as the stormy and turbulent Lanlan swept through the four provinces and autonomous regions of Hunan, Ecuador and Guizhou More than 40 counties. The magical movement not only awakened tens of millions of people, shaken the foundation of the reactionary ruling clique, and caused an unprecedented rise in the revolutionary situation in Hunan, Sichuan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces. It also played an overvaluable role in accelerating and accelerating the history of the Red Army in the Chinese Workers ’and Peasants’ The development and consolidation of the revolutionary base areas in western Hubei and western Jiangsu and Hubei, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou. However, most of the claims on the nature of the magical forces are denied and denigrated altogether. Such as “feudal armed” magic “each according to the hills, and Kuomintang reactionaries together to harm the masses, is rampant,” "magic is a