Chapter 12 Error! 'Eight/Road' should be changed to 'New/Four/Army', and be more responsible.

In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out. In August, in accordance with the second cooperation agreement between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China issued an order: The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which reached northern Shaanxi during the Long March, was reorganized into the "Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army" according to the unified sequence of the national anti-Japanese army, with Zhu De as the commander-in-chief and Peng Dehuai as the deputy commander-in-chief, and the whole army had jurisdiction over three divisions, 115, 120, and 129, with about 45,000 people. Later, it was renamed the "Eighteenth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army". In October, the Red Army guerrillas who persisted in the struggle in eight provinces, including Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Zhejiang, and Anhui, were reorganized into the "New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army" or the "New Fourth Army of the Army," with about 8,000 men under the command of Ye Ting. The symbol of the Eighth Route Army is: wearing an armband on the left arm, the word "Eighth Road" in the center of the armband, the year and month of wearing at the lower end, and the word "18GA" (that is, the English abbreviation of the 18th Group Army) on the back. The symbol of the New Fourth Army is also to wear an armband on the left arm, the front of the armband is the three characters "N4A" (that is, the English abbreviation of the new Fourth Army of the Army), and the back is the number of the unit and the name of the wearer. The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army are all gray military uniforms.