The Eighth Route Army, the full name of which was the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army and later renamed the Eighteenth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was an anti-Japanese armed force directly led by the Communist Party of China and reorganized from the Red Army, and was also one of the predecessors of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
After the Xi'an Incident, after repeated negotiations, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached a common anti-Japanese united front and determined the principle of reorganization of the Red Army. On August 25, 1937, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, referred to as the "Eighth Route Army".
The Eighth Route Army set up a general headquarters, with ** as the commander-in-chief, ** as the deputy commander-in-chief, ** as the chief of staff, Zuo Quan as the deputy chief of staff, and the General Political Department was changed to the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, with Ren Bishi as the director and ** as the deputy director.
The Eighth Route Army is under the jurisdiction of the 115th Division, with ** as the commander of the division and ** as the deputy commander;The 12th Division, with ** as the division commander and Xiao Ke as the deputy division commander;The 129th Division, with *** as the division commander and ** as the deputy division commander. Each division has two brigades, each brigade has two regiments, and each division has a quota of 15,000 men.
On September 11, 1937, the National Military Committee reorganized the "Route Army" into a "Group Army" in accordance with the battle sequence of the national army, navy and air force, renamed the Eighth Route Army the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and renamed the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army the General Headquarters of the 18th Group Army. ** changed to commander-in-chief, ** changed to deputy commander-in-chief. However, the title of the Eighth Route Army is still Xi used by the vast number of commanders and fighters and the masses of the people.
During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army annihilated more than 1.25 million Japanese puppet troops, liberated a large area of the country, and made great contributions to the Anti-Japanese National Liberation War and the World Anti-Fascist War. By the eve of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in August 1945, the Eighth Route Army had grown from tens of thousands at the beginning of its establishment to more than 900,000 people, and became the main component of the Chinese People's Liberation Army during the Liberation War.
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