The name of the Red Army of Workers and Peasants comes from the official name of the Soviet Red Army (рабо? че-крестья? нская Кра? сная а? рмия)。
During the civil war, the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants continued to grow and develop, and successively established Red Army units such as the First Army, the Fourth Army, the Second Army and the Northwest Red Army, and established central revolutionary bases and revolutionary bases such as Xiangxi, Hubei, Anhui, Qiongya, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zuoyou River, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou, which successively crushed the people.
After the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, according to the agreement reached between the central government and the national government, the main force of the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army (hereinafter referred to as the Eighth Route Army); The Red Army and guerrillas who fought in Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Anhui and other provinces 13 were reorganized into the New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army (hereinafter referred to as the New Fourth Army).
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1927 65438+February 1 1 in the early morning, the Guangzhou Uprising shocked China and foreign countries. The leading organs of the uprising announced the organization of "Outside the Red Flag" and announced the list of leaders of the Red Army of workers and peasants. Workers, peasants and soldiers who participated in the uprising played the banner of "Red Army of Workers and Peasants" on the day of the uprising.
At about two o'clock in the morning, Zhang, Ye Ting and other leaders came to the Fourth Army Officer Training Corps of the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army and held a swearing-in meeting in Beijiaochang Sibiao Camp. At the swearing-in meeting, the Guangzhou Uprising General Command publicly raised the banner of "Red Army of Workers and Peasants", and collectively referred to the troops participating in the uprising as the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, with Ye Ting as the commander-in-chief.
The troops participating in the uprising included all the teaching regiments of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, a guard regiment, seven regiments of Guangzhou Workers' Red Guards and some peasant armed forces in the suburbs.
Although the Guangzhou Uprising was quickly defeated, the resounding name "Red Army of Workers and Peasants" spread like wildfire and spread all over the country. Since then, revolutionary armed forces everywhere have used the title "Red Army".
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