１９３２年夏秋之交，蒋介石调集３０余万大军，对鄂豫皖革命根据地发动了空前规模的第四次“围剿”。由于敌我兵力对比悬殊，再加上张国焘战略指导上的错误，我军未能取得第四次反“围剿”的胜利。１０月１０日晚，鄂豫皖分局在黄安西北的黄柴畈召开紧急会议，决定红四方面军 At the turn of the summer and fall of 1932, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized more than 300,000 troops and launched the fourth “encirclement and suppression campaign” of unprecedented scale in the revolutionary bases of Hubei, Henan and Anhui. Due to the disparity between our enemy and our troops and the mistakes made by Zhang Guotao in his strategic guidance, our army failed to achieve the victory of the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign. On the evening of October 10, Hubei, Henan and Anhui Branch held an emergency meeting at Huangchaijiao, northwest of Huang’an, to decide on the work of the Red Fourth Army