[3] Initially, Mao struggled to garner forces for an uprising, but Li Zhen rallied the peasantry and members of her local[where?]

Mao and the others were forced to retreat to the Jinggang Mountains on the border between Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, where he encountered an army of miners which would help him in later battles.

Mao and Red Army founder Zhu De went on to develop a rural-based strategy that centered on guerrilla tactics.

The uprising shows the overwhelming importance of an organized military force to the success or failure of an insurrection, the failure reveals that the role and question of military force was given different emphasis by operatives of different levels in the communist party and came to be a topic of serious contention and disagreement which led to the disorganization.

An obvious lack of appreciation for rudimentary pre-insurrectionary military organization hints that Mao was more "putschist" (to a point) than his Chinese or Russian superiors.