From to 1935 2020

In the past few days after the battle of Baozuo-Songpan, the bald man whose face was beaten into a swollen pig's head closed the door to thank the guests and did not see anyone—the attendants around him were even more cautious, "Hu Zongnan, No. Words such as Yishi, Baozuo, and Songpan" have all become taboo words, and no one dares to mention them.

However, in the past few days, at the gate of the Bandit Suppression Agency in Chengdu, there are a lot of reporters, some from China and some from foreign countries. The group of reporters who appeared to be interviewing and snatching news, but who were actually watching his jokes were all machine gunned to death with machine guns.

During this period, the agents of the Dai Li Blue Shirts Club and the Central Committee were also dispatched all over the world, staring at newspapers all over the country, and they must be asked to "downplay" the report and not to expose the scandal—that is, to ask everyone to pretend to be stupid. I don't know that "the victory of Baozuo turned into a disastrous defeat, and the entire first division was wiped out" happened.

However, what he did was actually the emperor's new clothes.Everyone knows that he was once again humiliated by his life-and-death enemy in northern Sichuan: not only was he creamed, bukkake, and three holes open, but he was also photographed with "pornographic photos"—if Wu Hao was not worried about the "Whampoa Student Ten The photo of "Reunion" humiliated him too much and affected the "prisoner exchange" plan. The related "pornographic photos" have long been used as "headlines" in media newspapers all over the world.

Not to mention the embarrassment of Chang Kaishen incarnated as a "dragon turtle" who refused to meet visitors. After sweeping away all the white troops in northern Sichuan, the Red Army went north out of Sichuan after a little repair. Before leaving, it took away 6000 artillerymen. Party prisoners!Northern Sichuan is a desperate land that does not produce food and has difficulty raising an army.If these captives were released locally, most of them would starve to death in the mountains, and the rest would become bandits and harm the local area, so they had to be taken away.

The complete victory in the Northern Sichuan Campaign also affected the layout of the Red Army's subsequent campaigns. After the Hu Zongnan Group was completely wiped out, the Red Army that was about to leave Sichuan instantly became the largest military power group in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and even the entire Northwest region.

In particular, Hu Zongnan's Gannan region, which has been painstakingly managed for many years, has directly become a blank area of ​​power.

On August [-]th, the Fourth Army of the Red Army, which was the first to come out of Sichuan, easily occupied Tianshui, and throughout the following August, the main force of the Red Army, which came out of Sichuan one after another, swept across the entire Gannan area.

Centering on Tianshui, the largest city in Gannan, where Hu Zongnan used to stockpile grain before entering Sichuan, it stretched south to Longnan, north to Pingliang, west to Wushan, and east to Baoji (to the west). Almost the entire Gannan area was directly swept into the arms of the Red Army.In the process, Hu Zongnan's remnants in Gannan quickly abandoned the city and fled before the arrival of the Red Army.And Ma Hongbin, one of the three horses in the Northwest, was currently blocking the 25th Red Army in the Soviet area in southern Shaanxi moving towards Gannan. After hearing that Hu Zongnan's entire army in northern Sichuan was wiped out, he was so frightened that he left his friendly army (Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army Headquarters) Withdrew to the west and retreated to Lanzhou's lair before the Red Army came out of Sichuan.

Half a month after the main force of the Red Army came out of Sichuan, it was basically in a state of "armed reception" and only had small-scale battles with local militias.In the face of the [-] Red Army that came to wipe out Hu Zong's great victory in the south, the "local warlords" in the entire Northwest, whether it was the "Three Horses" in the Northwest or Yang Hucheng's tribe, instantly became "peace-loving" and fought one after another. Withdrew the troops, retreated to their respective defense zones, and began to refuse to implement the "bandit suppression" order issued by Chang Tuzi.

On August 26, the 25th Red Army marching westward from the Sichuan-Hubei-Shanxi border area easily crossed Baoji under the "indulgence" of Yang Hucheng intercepting the main force and retreating to Baoji behind closed doors. Joining forces, the "Gannan" base area was established with the big city of Tianshui as the center.And the strategically important place in northern Sichuan.The Red Army did not give up easily, but left a guerrilla "independent division" with more than a thousand people in the local area, turning this area into a shield and strategic buffer zone to protect Gannan.

It's September 9th.As part of the main Red Army, the Fourth Army, which continued its northward march, arrived at Yongping Town, Yanchuan County, where it successfully joined forces with the Shaanxi-Gansu Red Army led by Liu Zhidan and others.After the merger of the two armies, they continued to march towards northern Shaanxi, and soon occupied Yan'an, and established a northern Shaanxi base based on this.

After the Songpan-Baozuo Battle ended, it took only one month for the Red Army to successfully encircle two bases of great strategic significance in the area where the three provinces of "Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia" in the northwest meet, and they were closely connected as one .

In the process, Yang Hucheng, who was "incompetent and weak", faced the 25 Red Army "surging to visit", and did not dare to "make a difference", so he could only tremblingly stick to the plain from Xi'an to Baoji. In the area, they did not dare to go beyond the threshold to attack the Red Army, and even "friendly release" the [-]th Red Army troops who were guerrillaizing northward in the Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi areas.

As for the well-known Northwest Three Horses, they also hugged tightly at this time and stayed still, allowing the Red Army to set up two huge bases in northern Shaanxi and southern Gansu.

The "Long March" of the Ruijin Central Red Army and the Red Fourth Front Army can be regarded as over at this time.The ending process was unremarkable, and most of them ended with an armed march: the key was the Songpan-Baozuo battle, which directly wiped out Chang Kaishen’s influence in the northwest, and frightened the other warlords in the surrounding area to shrink back and protect themselves. , Let the Red Army "stake the horse" here.

After retreating for a few days, Chang Kaishen finally "appeared" in front of the public when the main force of the Red Army came out of Sichuan.During the past few days without seeing customers behind closed doors, he has been studying "Zeng Wenzheng Gong's Diary" hard, and after comprehending the essence of "repeated defeats and repeated battles", he finally has the cheek to go out and face others.

It's just that as soon as he opened the door, he was greeted by a large number of family members of the First Division, crying for help like blocking the door.Just in the past few days, the Red Army used telegrams and Soong Ching Ling's network, usually Kaishen put forward a request for the exchange of prisoners of war, expressing his willingness to use all the officers and soldiers of the 49st Division and the [-]th Division to exchange the underground party and Red Army prisoners of war detained throughout the country. Fang Zhimin was also included.

"I would rather kill them all than release these communists!"

Chang Kaishen wanted to drive out all the family members of the group of "defeated generals" and "trash generals" who blocked the door, and then ordered all the Communists in prison to be shot.

But he couldn't give this order at all.

"Seat, calm down! These are more than 100 Whampoa students, and they are all your confidantes!"

"Principal, if you don't care about it, everyone's hearts will be chilled!"

At this time, the other "Huangpu students" who had been prepared for a long time hugged Chang Kaishen's thigh and cried out for mercy.

The annihilation of the First Division has long been known to the whole world, and now the national media and foreigners are paying attention to this matter.Regardless of the influence of world public opinion, it is small to kill a few members of the Communist Party, but this practice of disregarding the "teacher-student friendship" will directly shake his "Whampoa foundation."

The Whampoa Military Academy is the foundation of Chang Kaishen's fortune.

Chinese people value the "teacher-student approach" the most. Without Whampoa, there would be no Chang Kaishen now, and "Meiling" would not look at him and invest in him.

No matter how angry Chang Kaishen was at these "trash" people, he also knew that he couldn't chill the hearts of these miserable subordinates—after all, it had only been a few years since he had persuaded other warlords to take over the central government, and his roots were very shallow. At this time, I am very dependent on these disciples of the Whampoa Department.No matter how much you hate these trashy people, you have to change them back to calm people's hearts.

After a burst of venting roars, Chang Kaishen ordered Song Ziwen to find a "middleman" and began secret negotiations with the Central Committee of the Red Army in Tianshui to discuss the specific matters of the replacement.

In fact, even if he wanted to fight now, he couldn't fight anymore.From last year to this year, with the help of chasing the Red Army, he swallowed Hubei in one go and won the two provinces of Guizhou. Hubei has basically been digested, but Guizhou is still not stable.However, Sichuan Province, which was originally targeted by him and was about to be swallowed, was repeatedly wiped out by Hu Zongnan's entire army.Now Xue Yue's troops entering Sichuan to suppress bandits are in an extremely embarrassing situation.

Most of the main force of the Red Army is in the south of Gansu, but it takes more than ten days to go from the south of Gansu to the north of Sichuan and take the ancient road of the Three Kingdoms.However, the northern Sichuan area is a "chicken place" with nowhere to raise food.Xue Yue wanted to march into northern Sichuan, but he couldn't obtain food and fodder on the spot.As for counting on those local warlords in Sichuan to supply along the way?It is even more impossible.Chang Kaishen was even worried that as soon as Xue Yue's troops moved north and left Baizhang Pass.Entering the Songpan Grassland area, these grandsons of the Sichuan army would probably close the door and throw Xue Yue in northern Sichuan to starve to death.

Unable to advance, unwilling to retreat, wanting to take the warlords in central Sichuan by force, but unable to gnaw down because of the great loss of strength, the current situation in Sichuan, the situation before and after the Songpan-Baozuo Battle, can be vividly compared to: before the battle, this piece of meat was often used Kaishen is in the mouth, Hu Zongnan is the upper teeth, Xue Yuebu is the lower teeth, both teeth are there, as long as he chews up and down, he can tear it up and swallow slowly.

As a result, Hu Zongnan was wiped out by the Red Army in the First World War, and all his upper teeth were lost. With half of his teeth missing, Chang Kaishen could no longer chew on the Sichuan Army.

By September [-]th, Tianshui had been occupied for a period of time, and the Central Committee of the Red Army, which was gradually establishing political institutions at all levels, issued a call for the "Anti-Japanese National Unity" front at this time, expressing its attitude and position, hoping to cooperate with the warlords in the Northwest "" Peaceful coexistence", also hope to negotiate with Chang Kaishen, and then hype up the topic of captive exchange again.

"Committee, our army needs time to restore its vitality. Now, if we forcefully suppress the Communist bandits in southern Gansu and northern Shaanxi, the situation will be unfavorable!"

Whether it is foreign advisers or Chang Kaishen's cronies, at this time they are persuading him not to fight again for the time being, but to regroup, especially to "rebuild the Northwest Army of the First Division" and restore the central government's influence in the Northwest.

The disadvantage of the so-called Golden Horn and Silver Edged Grass Belly, Ruijin Base is that although the climate here is better, it is a very bad place for the Fourth World War.Not only is it close to Chang Kaishen's core interest area of ​​Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but it is also in the center completely surrounded by its forces.Chang Kaishen wanted to suppress the Communists, so he could easily mobilize several armies, and even mobilize 100 million troops to besiege the Soviet area on all sides. "You can fight the Red Army as soon as you go out." Supplies and deployment of troops are extremely fast.

Although southern Gansu and northern Shaanxi are relatively poor, there is one thing that Ruijin cannot compare with.In this poor area, the inconvenient transportation naturally restricted Chang Kaishen's bandit suppression troops, making it impossible for him to invest too much at one time. In the history of the Liberation War, Hu Zongnan had Gannan's support, and he could only invest 20 troops, which was the limit of supplies.

Now Gannan and Northern Shaanxi are both in the hands of the Red Army, and the surrounding areas are: the Sichuan Warlords, the Northwest Sanma, the Northwest Army Headquarters of Yanghucheng in Shaanxi, and Yan Laoxi in Shanxi.At this time, most of Chang Kaishen's main force was in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was simply beyond his reach.

The "remote control command" gang of warlords is going to bite the Red Army on behalf of the dead—except for Zhang Xiaoliu, an idiot, and He Jian, an extremely anti-communist bastard, how can other warlords be so stupid.

After Chang Kaishen's analysis, he found that besides staring blankly, he could only ask his "righteous brother" (Zhang Xueliang) to come forward to be the boss of this "Northwest Anti-Communist" alliance...

After calming down and figuring it out, Chang Kaishen "secretly negotiated" with the Red Army to discuss the exchange of prisoners, but on the other hand he began to encourage Zhang Xueliang to attack the Red Army in northern Shaanxi.

At the beginning of September, Zhang Xueliang was appointed by him as the deputy commander of the Northwest Suppression Command and acting commander in chief. He asked his Northeast Army, the United Northwest Army, and the Northwest Sanma, plus Shanxi Yan Xishan, to cooperate with the Central Army to form an alliance of five. Let's attack the "unsteady" Red Army together.

Historically, in October 1935, the Battle of Zhiluo Town broke out in northern Shaanxi.The Central Red Army, which had just arrived in northern Shaanxi at that time, severely damaged the Northeast Army in this battle, and beat the pompous Young Marshal Zhang honestly for a long time.At that time, the various units of the Northern Shaanxi Red Army combined had no more than [-] troops.

And in this plane, the main force of the Red Army in the Northwest region has reached a terrifying 10 people!Moreover, with the tonic of Hu Zongnan's big blood bag, the ammunition is sufficient and the morale is high. It is the time of "the sun is rising".Zhang Xiaoliu was stunned again and again, no matter how much he wanted to die, his subordinates didn't have the guts to be such a high-ranking rafter—also because the Red Army was too strong at this time, Zhang Xiaoliu didn't dare to do anything when his subordinates opposed it with all their strength. At this time, he took the initiative to challenge and temporarily escaped the disaster of Zhiluo Town.

Note: At this time, the Northeast Army has about 20 people, Yang Hucheng's troops are about 6, and the Northwest Sanma troops are relatively chaotic. The three main forces add up to about 5 to 10,000 people, but they have a large number of local militia troops to supplement them. Although the latter equipment is extremely poor, but the number is very large.As for Yan Xi's mountain tribe, the Jin army has [-]+ people, but Yan Laoxi is very shrewd and only wants to guard his home, so he can't command him with a bald head.In addition, after several years of management, Fu Zuoyi has considerable strength, but he is not stupid if he is asked to jump out as a pawn with a bald head.

Whether it is Sanma, Yang Hucheng, Yan Xishan, or even Zhang Xueliang himself, after receiving Chang Kaishen's secret agreement to "join forces with the Five Route Warlords to defeat the Communist Party", their first reaction was to "cry poor first" and then "ask for money".

"Niang Xipi's!"

"Niang Xipi's!"

"Hu Zongnan deserves death for his crime, and Wu Chengren deserves even more death!"

At this time, Chang Kaishen truly realized how low his political influence on the entire Northwest region had dropped after losing the First Division and Hu Zong's Department, and Gannan as an important support point.

"Commissioned seat, we must rebuild the shelf of the first division! The sooner the better, the longer the delay, the more disadvantageous."

At that time, Yang Yongtai persuaded him so hard.

"After all, there are hundreds of officers and nearly 3 soldiers. Cannon fodder soldiers are easy to recruit, but officers are difficult to train. More importantly, these soldiers are veterans who have fought in battle and seen blood!"

Under the repeated persuasion of Yang Yongtai and a group of Whampoa factions, Chang Kaishen had to hold his nose and initially agreed to the "bandit communist"'s request for a captive exchange.

At that time, Chang Kaishen thought bitterly:

"Give me half a year! Wait until I put the first division back together..."

As for the location of the exchange, "Baoji" in Shaanxi was chosen, a city where the Red Army and Yang Hucheng's Northwest Army forces converged.

Here is a historical literacy data, the number of people in a division of the Red Army, historical data on firearms, in addition to the topic of people in a division, and the proportion of guns.About another 6 or 7 chapters will be written, and the volume of the Long March will end.Finally, I would like to remind everyone: I am different from other authors. When I write historical texts, I often go back and rewrite the previous deficiencies. Many chapters, after the update, I have to repeat it more than a dozen times.If you have the habit of reading it a second time, you will immediately find that there are big differences in many places.

-------------------- How many people and how many guns are there in a division of the Chinese Red Army? --------------------

How many people and how many guns are there in a division of the Chinese Red Army?

Author: SOUL Dill (This article is original by the author of Weibo, I just quote it, hereby declare)

Some information is shown in pictures, those who are interested can go to Sina to read the original text

The organization and equipment allocation of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is a headache. Usually, the strength of an army ranges from one to two thousand troops to nearly [-] troops. There seems to be no rule to follow.

This is because in the Red Army, there are not only the main Red Army and the local Red Army, but also the establishment in 1930 and the establishment in 1933, and due to the long-term mobile combat, the troops have been in a state of shortage, so people will be confused about the specific establishment. Can't figure it out.Today, the author will talk about the staffing and weapon configuration standards of a regular division of the Red Army.

How many people and how many guns are there in a division of the Chinese Red Army?

△The Broadsword Team of the Red Army

From a small group of masters to a large group of masters

In the spring of 1930, with the outbreak of the Central Plains War by the new Kuomintang warlords, the number of Red Army of Workers and Peasants in various places also expanded rapidly. In May, representatives of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants from all over the country held a meeting in Shanghai to discuss the issue of unifying the organization and coordination of the national Red Army.The meeting promulgated the "Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Organization Draft", and decided to organize the Red Army in accordance with the Soviet Red Army's three-three system, and decided to further organize the group army (legion) and front army on the basis of the army.

Due to geographical barriers, the Red Army in various places basically uses the "army" as the active unit in a certain area, and each army governs two or three divisions, such as the 7th Red Army in Guangxi and the 4th Red Army in Jiangxi.At the same time, due to the limitation on the number of soldiers, in the actual operation process, the Red Army in various places canceled the battalion-level organization and changed the regiment to directly command three or four infantry companies. In this way, the strength of each infantry division of the Red Army can reach 2000- 3000 people.

△Early Red Army

Although the Red Army formed in 1930 was small in scale, it had flexible command and fewer surplus personnel, which could adapt to the needs of mountainous mobile warfare, and the number of army numbers was large, which buried the fascination for the Kuomintang army, making them unclear about the size of the Red Army for a while. How big is it.

Of course, there are exceptions. The 1st Red Army commanded by Xu Jishen and Xu Qianqian took more than half a year to grow its headquarters to more than 1 people without adding a new designation. Therefore, by the beginning of 1931, the 1st Red Army was full and sound battalion level organization.

After the temporary central government headed by Bo Gu entered the Central Soviet Area in January 1933, it believed that the Agrarian Revolutionary War had entered the period of regular warfare, and the past organization method adapted to guerrilla warfare could no longer meet the current needs, so it ordered the Red Front Army and its satellite Soviet areas The local Red Army has carried out a major reorganization. Simply put, the original "army-division-regiment" organizational relationship was changed to "division-regiment-battalion" organizational structure, and the legion was downgraded to an army-level organization, with two or three divisions under its direct control. .

Pros and Cons Compiled in 1933

After reorganization, a Red Army infantry division can reach 6044 troops when it is fully staffed. It can also be temporarily attached to auxiliary units such as stretcher teams, transport teams, and local work groups when fighting outside lines.For example, although the Red 7th Army, which went north to fight against Japan, was a regiment in name, its actual strength was only one Red 19th Division. Although the division's grassroots infantry companies were generally short of staff, with the addition of auxiliary troops, the actual strength of the entire division could still reach 5935.

Although the establishment in 1933 was aimed at the nationwide Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, affected by the division and encirclement of the Kuomintang army, only the Central Soviet Area and its two satellite Soviet areas, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, and Hunan Jiangxi, were actually organized in this way.

经这次整编，中央苏区的3、4、5、7、11、13、15、19、21、22这十个军及其他独立部队被整编为红1、3、5、7军团的九个师，湘鄂赣和湘赣苏区的第8、16、17、18四个军则被整编为红6军团的三个师。红四方面军虽然进行了扩编，但每个师实际只有3000-4000人，流动作战中的红2军团（3军）则压根没空整编。

How many people and how many guns are there in a division of the Chinese Red Army?

Of course, in actual situations, affected by casualties, escapes, or insufficient heavy weapons, usually few divisions can reach the required number of people. There are only about 5 people per division, which is the level after just adding a group of recruits.

In the environment of continuous combat with the Kuomintang army, due to the large number of casualties, the actual number of each infantry division will only be smaller. After the Battle of Guangchang, the best preserved 1st and 1nd divisions of the Red 2st Army were only left. There are 3593 and 3277 recruits, and the full staffing rate is less than 60%.

Regarding the establishment in 1933, most views now believe that the centralized reorganization of the troops not only exposed the military strength of the Red Army when the enemy was strong and we were weak, but also seriously weakened the strength of the local armed forces and increased the burden on the main Red Army .In particular, abandoning the guerrilla warfare mode that the Red Army has always been good at, and fighting regular warfare position warfare, it can be said that the gain outweighs the gain.

Of course, some people believe that this reorganization has enriched the strength of the grassroots companies, sorted out the original chaotic troop designation, and played a positive role in the fifth large-scale battle against encirclement and suppression.

In terms of equipment prepared in 1933, according to the combat experience and actual equipment of the Red Army in the past, each infantry company of the Red Army has nine rifle squads, each squad is full of 12 people, and the automatic firepower is assigned to the battalion level. The battalion has a machine gun company with a mixture of light and heavy machine guns.At the regiment level, the fire support that the Red Army can get is even stronger. It is a heavy machine gun company with 6 heavy machine guns. Its powerful and dense firepower is usually the key to the Red Army's victory in most battles.

The picture above shows the number of various weapons that the Red Army should be equipped with in 1933. It can be seen that in addition to light and heavy machine guns, there are also a large number of shell guns (the Red Army calls them automatic pistols). The company and platoon leader of the infantry company leading the charge, and the reconnaissance company and reconnaissance platoon, which have special operations and chief security forces.Although each division is equipped with several mortars in name, there are not enough shells, and those who can actually mobilize mortars in battle will be awarded the first rank of the regiment.

In the table, an infantry division should be equipped with 2916 rifles. Some people will say that the equipment of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants is not good enough. On average, two people share one rifle.This view is obviously ridiculous, and its holders are so naive as to think that everyone in an infantry division is a rifleman, and everyone should have a horse rifle.

But in fact, in an infantry division of the Red Army, in addition to riflemen, there are also many unarmed soldiers, such as signal soldiers, internal service soldiers, transport soldiers, machine gun shooters, medical personnel, and political workers.

So what is the level of such light weapons and equipment compared with the national army?

1932年的蒋介石的嫡系部队诸如胡宗南第1师、卫立煌第10师等部，每个步兵营拥有24挺轻机枪，在团级层面还有6挺重机枪和4门迫击炮，如此强大的轻机枪火力配置是造成红军步兵伤亡惨重的主要原因之一。因此红军步兵师的装备水平只是相当于那些步兵连不配置轻机枪的国民党军杂牌部队。

How many people and how many guns are there in a division of the Chinese Red Army?

The adjustment of the KMT's military establishment

While the Red Army of Workers and Peasants was adjusting the establishment, Chiang Kai-shek was also adjusting the establishment at the division level.The Kuomintang army originally had three types of divisions: the third brigade and the ninth regiment, the second brigade and the sixth regiment, and the second brigade and the fourth regiment. The Sixth Regiment of the Second Brigade and the Fourth Regiment of the Second Brigade, despite this, in several battles from 1930 to 1931, the Kuomintang army still suffered a lot of defeats.

After learning from the pain, in order to prepare for the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign, the Kuomintang Army carried out a new round of adjustments to the division-level organization, which was specifically manifested in the cancellation of the brigade-level command, because in actual combat it was found that the redundant organization at this level was ineffective. Troop mobilization due to emergencies.In this way, each infantry division of the Kuomintang army has 3-5 infantry regiments under its direct control.

In addition, imitating the organization of the Red Army's reconnaissance company, a plainclothes search team was added. The members were all veterans equipped with shell guns and submachine guns.The establishment of this type of division is called "bandit suppression division" within the Kuomintang army.

In terms of weapons and equipment, in view of the general lack of heavy weapons in the Red Army, the "Bandit Suppression Division" generally abolished the irrelevant regiment mortar companies and division field artillery companies. This increased the mobility of the troops and could adapt to mountainous terrain. warfare and counter-guerrilla warfare.Of course, there is also a difference between direct lineage and miscellaneous brands in the bandit suppression division. Except for the Central Army, Guangdong Army, and Northeast Army, the problem of insufficient firepower of company-level light machine guns in other local armies has still not been resolved.

Abolishment of the Red Army formation in 1933

During the Long March from 1934 to 1936, except for the 25th Red Army, the strength of the three front armies of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army was greatly weakened. A small army of two divisions with 2-4 people per division, the 6nd Red Army was reduced to a guerrilla army directly commanded by the army.On the one hand, although the army has expanded during the Eastern and Western Expeditions, the number of divisions under its jurisdiction is still the same.

How many people and how many guns are there in a division of the Chinese Red Army?

△The Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi

Fortunately, the Central Military Commission at this time no longer had the obsession with reorganizing the troops, and in order to take care of the historical honor of each army, until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the entire army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and the formation of each army was never changed.