Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (traditional Chinese: 中國工農紅軍; simplified Chinese: 中国工农红军; pinyin: Zhōngguó Gōngnóng Hóngjūn), also known as the Chinese Red Army, or simply the Red Army, was the armed forces of the Communist Party of China. Under Mao Zedong and Zhu De, the number of its troops drastically increased from 5,000 in 1928 to 1,000,000 in 1945. Being totally land-based, the Communist forces had no naval or aerial branch. After World War II, the Red Army was renamed the People's Liberation Army.
History
The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was created on May 25, 1928, at the beginning of the Chinese Civil War. Between 1934 and 1935, the Red Army survived several campaigns against the Nationalist forces who were led by the Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and engaged in the Long March. By the time of 1934 Long March, numerous small units had been organized into three unified groups, the First Red Army (紅一方面軍), the Second Red Army (紅二方面軍) and the Fourth Red Army (紅四方面軍).When the anti-Japanese war broke out on July 7, 1937, the communist military forces were nominally integrated into the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China forming the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army units. At the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War, it had 1 million armed men.
- August 1, 1927: Nanchang Uprising
- 1927: Autumn Harvest Uprising
- 1930 to 1931: First Encirclement Campaign[1]
- 1931: Second Encirclement Campaign[1]
- July 1931: Third Encirclement Campaign[1]
- 1932 to 1933: Fourth Encirclement Campaign[1]
- 1933 to 1934: Fifth Encirclement Campaign[1]
- 1934 to 1936: Long March[1][2]
Main leadership
First Red Army:
- General Zhu De
- Communist Party Director Mao Zedong
Second Red Army:
Fourth Red Army:
- General Xu Xiangqian → Zhang Guotao
- Communist Party Director Chen Changhao and Liu Shiqi
References
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