Mao Zedong is a military strategist.
Autumn Harvest Uprising . Mao and Red Army founder Zhu De went on to develop a rural-based strategy that centered on guerrilla tactics , paving the way to the Long March of 1934 ( the first Long March in 1918 not accountable ) . Mao Zedong . Mao adopted Marxism -- Leninism while working at Peking University and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) , leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927 .