Before War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army was originally the Guangdong local warlord army (the former headquarters of Li Jishen), and Chen Jitang was the commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, with three sub-divisions: the 115 th Division, the 120 th Division and the 129 th Division, all of which belonged to the Northeast Army. After the Xi 'an Incident, Chiang Kai-shek tried to weaken the Northeast Army. All three divisions were made excuses to be laid off, and their titles were revoked. When the Red Army adapted the Eighth Route Army, He Yingqin, Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the National Government, proposed to award these three titles to the Eighth Route Army.

The origin of the name of the New Fourth Army:

1937 After the outbreak of the National Anti-Japanese War, according to the agreement between the China * * * Production Party and the Kuomintang authorities, the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants and guerrillas who persisted in guerrilla warfare in 15 guerrilla zones in Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong provinces (except Qiongya in Guangdong Province) on 10.

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The difference between the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army;

Both the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army escaped from the early Red Army of Workers and Peasants, and were the direct troops of our party, the main teams of our party in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Originally, some of our Party's Red Army combat effectiveness was distributed in North China and some in South China. These Red Army troops were dispersed into many detachments and fought fiercely with the Kuomintang troops in the north and south of China. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, our Party cooperated with the Kuomintang for the sake of United front.

Among them, the Red Army of Workers and Peasants in North China was reorganized by the Kuomintang and nominally managed by the Kuomintang, but in fact it was still controlled by our party. At that time, these Red Army of Workers and Peasants were renamed as the "Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army" for short, with a total of 45,000 people.

Although the Kuomintang later renamed the Eighth Route Army "the Eighteenth Army of the National Revolutionary Army", our party has become accustomed to this name, so it still calls itself the Eighth Route Army in ordinary times, and so do the people.

At first, the Eighth Route Army was commanded by two marshals, Zhu Peng, who mainly carried out guerrilla activities in enemy-occupied areas in North China. The Eighth Route Army was like a prairie fire, burning wider and wider.

By the end of the Anti-Japanese War and the outbreak of the civil war, the Eighth Route Army had expanded from more than 40,000 people to a huge army of nearly 900,000 people, and became the real main force of our party. Although the name of the Eighth Route Army was changed to the People's Liberation Army in 1946, the name of the Eighth Route Army was used to it, so it was not changed until 1948.

Guerrilla warfare in the south of the Yangtze River at that time was called the New Fourth Army, which was adapted from the scattered Red Army of Workers and Peasants in the south of our Party. Like the Eighth Route Army, it nominally belonged to the establishment of the Kuomintang after War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression began. These troops were unified by the Kuomintang and became the New Fourth Army, whose full name was called the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was mainly controlled by our Party.

At the beginning, the New Fourth Army only had more than 10,000 people, and launched fierce guerrilla warfare with the Japanese in the south of the Yangtze River. Unlike the Eighth Route Army, the weapons of the New Fourth Army were more advanced. After receiving the support from the Kuomintang troops, the military uniforms and equipment were upgraded to a higher level.

After the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the number of the New Fourth Army also rose sharply, from more than 1 10,000 to a huge number of more than 300,000. Like the Eighth Route Army, it was renamed the People's Liberation Army in the late civil war.

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