Chinese Red Army

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The Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (traditional Chinese: ??????; simplified Chinese: ??????; pinyin: Zh?ngguó G?ngnóng Hóngj?n), renamed Chinese People's Red Army (traditional Chinese: ??????; simplified Chinese: ??????; pinyin: Zh?ngguó Rénmín Hóngj?n) in 1936, commonly known as the Chinese Red Army, or simply the Red Army (traditional Chinese: ??; simplified Chinese: ??; pinyin: Hóngj?n), 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.

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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 the 1934 Long March, numerous small units had been organized into three unified groups, the First Red Front Army (?????), the Second Red Front Army (?????) and the Fourth Red Front Army (?????). 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
• 1931: Second Encirclement Campaign
• July 1931: Third Encirclement Campaign
• 1932 to 1933: Fourth Encirclement Campaign
• 1933 to 1934: Fifth Encirclement Campaign
• 1934 to 1936: Long March

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Main leadership

First Red Army:

• Commander: Zhu De
• Political Commissar: Mao Zedong

Second Red Army:

• Commander: He Long
• Political Commissar: Ren Bishi -> Guan Xiangying

Fourth Red Army:

• Commander: Xu Xiangqian -> Zhang Guotao
• Political Commissar: Chen Changhao

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References

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