1, the Eighth Route Army:
1On August 22nd, 937, according to the agreement reached by both sides, the Military Commission of the National Government announced that the main force of the Red Army had been reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and agreed to set up a general headquarters.
On August 25th, the Central Military Commission issued an order announcing that the First, Second and Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army and the Northwest Red Army were reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the former enemy headquarters of the Red Army was changed to the Eighth Route Army headquarters, with Zhu De as the commander-in-chief, Peng as the deputy commander-in-chief, Ye Jianying as the chief of staff and Zuo Quan as the deputy chief of staff.
2. The New Fourth Army:
1937 after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, according to the agreement between China * * * Production Party and Kuomintang authorities, the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants, which persisted in guerrilla warfare in Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and other provinces 15, was reorganized into the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army in 10.
Contributions of the New Fourth Army:
1946 65438+ 10, the New Fourth Army and Shandong Military Region were under unified command of the Central China, Shandong New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army. The Shanxi-Suiyuan Front Field Army was renamed Shandong Field Army. At the same time, the 5th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the 359th Brigade and the Henan Military Region unified to form the Central Plains Military Region. 1947 65438+ 10, the New Fourth Army, Shandong Military Region and Central China Military Region merged, and Shandong Field Army and Central China Field Army merged to form East China Military Region and East China Field Army.
After eight years of national anti-Japanese war, the main force and local armed forces of the New Fourth Army have grown to more than 3 10000, and the militia and people's self-defense forces have grown to more than 960,000. * * * annihilated more than 317,000 Japanese puppet troops, and at the same time paid the price of more than 89,000 casualties.
The establishment of the Central China Anti-Japanese Base, which spans Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Hubei and other provinces, has laid a solid foundation for the persistence and development of the people's revolutionary struggle in East China and made great contributions to the victory of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.