Four. They are the First Red Front Army, the Second Red Front Army, the Third Red Front Army and the Fourth Red Front Army.

1. The Red Front Army. On August 24, 1930, the First Red Army and the Third Red Army met in Yonghe, Liuyang, Hunan to form the First Red Army (also known as the Central Red Army).

2. Red Second Front Army. Originally the 2nd and 6th Red Army Corps, it was organized into the 2nd Red Front Army in 1935 upon orders from the central government. Later, after joining forces with the Fourth Front Army, the formation also included the 9th Army Corps and the 1st Section of the 33rd Army, which was reorganized into the 32nd Army (along with the Fourth Front Army). Ninth Army Division). Commander-in-chief He Long, deputy commander-in-chief Xiao Ke, political commissar Ren Bishi, and deputy political commissar Guan Xiangying.

In July 1936, the 2nd and 6th Red Army Corps arrived in Ganzi to join forces with the Fourth Front Army, and were ordered to form the Second Red Front Army, and merged the 32nd Army (the 32nd Army was the original 1st Front Army) that was originally part of the First Front Army. The Ninth Army Corps of the Front Army was incorporated into it.

3. The Third Red Army. In January 1930, the Central Military Department held a meeting and decided to unify the numbers and organization of the Red Army across the country, and organize several larger Red Army units into the First to Eighth Armies. On April 15, the Central Military Commission decided to organize the Red Army into three legions based on region.

In May, the National Red Army Representative Conference adjusted the plan and decided to form four armies, namely the third and fourth armies as the first army, the second and sixth armies as the second army, and the fifth and eighth armies. The third army is the third army, and the eleventh and twelfth armies are the fourth army.

4. The Fourth Red Army. The origins of the Fourth Red Front Army can be traced back to the Seventh Red Army established after the Jute Uprising in 1927. After the failure of the Jute Uprising, the remaining troops later developed into the 31st Division of the 11th Red Army. In addition, the Red 32nd Division and the Red 33rd Division, which were born in the Liuhuo Uprising and Shangnan Uprising, were reorganized into the Red 1st Army.

In 1930, the 15th Red Army and the 1st Red Army merged to form the Fourth Red Army. The commander was Kuang Jixun, the political commissar Zeng Zhongsheng, and the chief of staff Xu Xiangqian. In November 1931, the 4th Red Front Army was formally established with the 4th Red Army and the 25th Red Army. The commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Army is Xu Xiangqian, the political commissar is Chen Changhao, and the director of the Political Department is Liu Shiqi.

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The First Red Army: the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th and 9th Army Corps (before the Long March).

Red Second Front Army: Second, Sixth Army, Thirty-second Army (formerly Ninth Army). (When the Second and Fourth Front Armies join forces)

The Fourth Red Front Army: the Fourth, Ninth, Thirty, Thirty-first, and Thirty-third Armies. (1. Before the Fourth Front Army joined forces)

When the Red Fourth Front Army was in the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui base areas, it included the Fourth and Twenty-fifth Army. Later, the Fourth Army moved to open up the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area, and the Twenty-fifth Army stayed in Hubei. Henan and Anhui, and later the Long March to northern Shaanxi to join forces with the 26th and 27th Red Army and form the 15th Red Army.

Before the Long March of the Red Army, the Seventh Red Army first moved to the base areas of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, and jointly formed the Red Tenth Army with the local Red Tenth Army to form the anti-Japanese advance team, led by Fang Zhimin.

The southern guerrillas were reorganized into the new Fourth Army:

The southern Red Army guerrillas were reorganized into the new Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. In October 1937, based on the agreement reached with the Kuomintang, the Communist Party of China decided to concentrate the Red Army guerrillas in eight provinces: Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Zhejiang, and Anhui and reorganize them into the "National Revolutionary Army" The Army's new Fourth Army".

Appoint Ye Ting as Army Commander, Xiang Ying as Deputy Army Commander, Zhang Yunyi as Chief of Staff, and Yuan Guoping as Director of the Political Department. In January 1938, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army was established.

It has four detachments: the first detachment, with Chen Yi as the commander and Fu Qiutao as the deputy commander; the second detachment, with Zhang Dingcheng as the commander and Su Yu as the deputy commander; the third detachment, with Zhang Yunyi as the concurrent commander member, Tan Zhenlin serves as deputy commander; the fourth detachment, Gao Jingting serves as commander. The New Fourth Army immediately went behind enemy lines to launch the anti-Japanese guerrilla war. Reference materials;

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