The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army are both national ** armies led by the Communist Party.
The Eighth Route Army was composed of the Red Army (Red First Army, Red Second Front Army, and Red 25th Army) that went on the Long March to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and the Northern Shaanxi Red Army led by Liu Zhidan. The Eighth Route Army was the abbreviation of the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and was later renamed the Eighteenth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
On August 25, 1937, the Ministry of the First Military Commission of China issued an order announcing the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.
I. 2. The Fourth Front Army and the Northwest Red Army were reformed into the Eighth Route Army, and the General Headquarters of the former enemy of the Red Army was changed to the General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, with ** as commander-in-chief, ** as deputy commander-in-chief, ** as chief of staff, Zuo Quan as deputy chief of staff, and the General Political Department of the Red Army was changed to the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, and Ren Bi was the director of the Political Department at the time, and ** was the deputy director. It has jurisdiction over the 115th Division (division commander **, deputy division commander ***, 120th Division (division commander **, deputy division commander Xiao Ke), 129th Division (division commander *** deputy division commander ***
On September 11, 1937, the National ** Military Committee issued an order: the Eighth Route Army was renamed the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army. ** changed to commander-in-chief, ** changed to deputy commander-in-chief.
On December 25, 1937, according to the agreement between the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang authorities, the newly formed Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army (hereinafter referred to as the New Fourth Army) was established in Hankou, Hubei. On January 6, 1938, he moved to Nanchang, Jiangxi. Army Commander Ye Ting, Deputy Army Commander Xiang Ying, Chief of Staff Zhang Quyi, Director of the Political Department Yuan Guoping, Deputy Chief of Staff Zhou Zikun, Deputy Director of the Political Department have jurisdiction over four detachments and a special service battalion. Commander of the first detachment, deputy commander Fu Qiutao, commander of the second detachment Zhang Dingcheng, deputy commander Hou Su Yu);Commander of the third detachment, Zhang Yunyi (concurrently);Later, he served as commander;The commander of the fourth detachment, Gao Jingting. The whole army totaled more than 10,000 men, and was composed of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and guerrillas who persisted in guerrilla warfare in 15 guerrilla areas in Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, and Guangdong provinces after the Red Army's Long March.
The difference between the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army is that the names are different, the establishment is different, the officers and men are different, the jurisdictions are different, and the leaders are different.