Battle of Luding Bridge

Battle of Luding Bridge
	Part of the Long March (Chinese Civil War)
	; Luding Bridge seen from the side of the city
Date	May 29, 1935
Location	Dadu River, Luding County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Result	Red Army victory
Belligerents
Chinese Red Army	Nationalist-allied warlords
Commanders and leaders
Yang Chengwu	Li Quanshan
Strength
22	One regiment
Casualties and losses
3 killed	Minimal; Most fled or went AWOL

29°54′52.2″N 102°13′47.6″E

The Battle of Luding Bridge (simplified Chinese: 泸定桥战斗; traditional Chinese: 瀘定橋戰鬥; pinyin: Lúdìng Qiáo Zhàndòu) of 1935 was a controversial crossing of the Luding Bridge by the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment of the Chinese Workers and Peasants' Army during the Long March. The bridge, situated over the Dadu River in Luding County, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China, was located about 80 kilometers west of the city of Ya'an and was a river crossing vital to the Red Army.

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