In the Long March of the Red Army, there were the First Red Army, the Second Red Army and the Fourth Red Army. The reason why there was no Third Red Army was that the 3rd Red Army Corps led by Peng Dehuai and the 1st Red Army Corps led by Zhu De and Mao Zedong were based on the needs of the struggle situation at that time. They were combined into one front army, and the Red Third Front Army was no longer formed separately.

In May 1930, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China convened the National Conference of Soviet Regional Representatives and the National Red Army Representative Conference, and decided to organize activities in western Fujian and southern Jiangxi, as well as in western Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hubei and Henan. The Red Army in Anhui and other revolutionary base areas were reorganized into the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Army Corps respectively. It is also planned to continue to expand the Red Army on the basis of these four army groups, and then organize them into four front armies.

According to this plan, the First, Second, and Third Red Army Corps were established one after another. After the first and third armies were formed, according to the original plan, they should have expanded rapidly in a short period of time and then been organized into the first and third front armies respectively.

In late August 1930, after the First and Third Army Corps met in Hunan, at a joint meeting of the front committees of the two armies, the Third Army Front Committee with Peng Dehuai as secretary proposed the establishment of a First Front Army and a General Army. Front Committee, the three armies were organized into the first front army. This means that the three armies will no longer be expanded into the third front.

Peng Dehuai also said: "From a strategic perspective, I support the organization of the three armies as the first front army and unified command. This is the need of the revolution." 1. The joint meeting of the front committee of the three armies passed The Third Army Front Committee made this proposal and unanimously agreed that Zhu De should be the Commander-in-Chief and Mao Zedong should be the General Political Commissar and Secretary of the First Front Army General Front Committee. In this way, the Third Front was not established.

Extended information:

During the Long March and after the Long March arrived in Shaanxi and Gansu after the victory, various Red Army units underwent some changes in their organization sequence.

Changes in the organizational sequence of the Red Army:

1. Changes in the organizational sequence of the First Red Army

The First Red Army was established in August 1930 The 1st and 3rd Yuehong Army Corps were jointly established in Liuyang, Hunan. In late November 1931, the headquarters of the First Red Army was abolished, and the units under its jurisdiction were directly commanded by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and were collectively known as the Central Red Army. In June 1932, the Central Bureau of the Soviet Area of ??China decided to restore the designation of the First Red Army.

In January 1934, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China abolished the headquarters of the Red Army and merged it into the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. All the units under its jurisdiction were directly commanded by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission and were once again called the Central Red Army.

Second, changes in the organizational sequence of the Second Red Front Army

In October 1934, the Sixth Red Army and the Third Red Army (in July 1930, the Fourth Red Army and the Sixth Red Army were at the Hubei Public Security Bureau In March 1931, according to the instructions of the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of China Soviet Area and the Western Hunan and Hubei Branch, the Second Red Army was reorganized into the Third Red Army) and joined forces in Muhuang, Yinjiang County, Guizhou, and the Third Red Army was restored to the Red Army. Second regiment number.

In November 1935, the Second and Sixth Red Army Corps began their Long March. In early July 1936, according to the order of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, the Second Red Army, the Sixth Red Army and the 32nd Red Army (formerly the Ninth Army of the First Red Army) formed the Second Red Front Army in Ganzi.

3. Development and changes in the organizational sequence of the Fourth Red Front Army

The Fourth Red Front Army was established in Huang'an (now Hong'an), Hubei Province in November 1931. When the Long March began in March 1935, the Fourth Red Front Army consisted of the 4th, 9th, 30th, 31st and 33rd Armies. In August, the 1st and 4th Red Front armies were mixed into the left and right armies. The 9th, 31st and 33rd armies were organized into the left armies, and the 4th and 30th armies were organized into the right armies. .

In mid-September, the Fourth Red Army moved southward, and the Fifth and Thirty-second Armies, which were originally part of the First Red Army and were incorporated into the Left Army, went south together. In April 1936, the Fourth Red Front Army was reorganized and consisted of the 4th, 5th, 9th, 30th, 31st, and 32nd armies. In July, the 32nd Army was assigned to the Red Second Front Army.

V. Changes in the organizational sequence of the 25th Red Army

The 25th Red Army was established in Lu'an, Anhui in October 1931. In October 1932, after the Fourth Red Army withdrew from the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui revolutionary base areas, a section of the 25th Red Army was left to continue the struggle.

In November of the same year, according to the decision of the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the 25th Red Army was reestablished in Huang'an, Hubei.

In November 1934, the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China led the 25th Red Army to conduct a strategic transfer, leaving an armed force to persist in the struggle. In September 1935, after the 25th Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi on a long march, it was combined with the 26th and 27th Red Army to form the 15th Red Army. In November, the 15th Red Army was incorporated into the First Red Army.

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