In China, the tactics of engineers are gradually formed with the expansion of the operational application scope of engineers. As early as the Warring States period, there were officials in the army who specially organized the construction of cities, roads and crossing rivers. In the yuan army, sailors were set up to set up pontoons and dive. Among the troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there are camps of "digging tunnels privately, burying mines and bombing city walls" and water camps of water transportation, bridge building and fighting. In the new army compiled and trained in the late Qing Dynasty, engineering barracks and engineering teams were formed. By the time of the Republic of China, the corps of engineers had further developed and an independent corps of engineers had been formed. In the army and division, there are also engineers. Engineer tactics are formed and developed in the process of strengthening troops and increasing operational application.

With the 1927 "August 1st" Nanchang Uprising, the tactics of our soldiers have been constantly innovated and developed with the evolution of the main combat forms in different revolutionary wars.