Longest march

The longest march in military history was the famous Long March undertaken by the Chinese Communists which took 368 days, of which 268 days were days of movement, from October 1934 to October 1935. A force of some 100,000 covered 9,700 km (6,000 miles) from Ruijin, in Jiangxi, to Yan'an, in Shaanxi. They crossed 18 mountain ranges and 24 rivers and eventually reached Yan'an with only about 8,000 survivors following continual rearguard actions against nationalist Guomindang (GMD; formerly Kuomintang) forces.