How did the Eighth Route Army get its designation? The origin of the name of the eighth route army

1937 after the outbreak of all-round War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, according to the agreement reached between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the Central Military Commission issued an order on August 25, 1937 to reorganize the main force of the Red Army into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army. So, what is an "army"? How did the nickname of the Eighth Route Army come from?

The "middle route army", also known as the "middle route army", was originally a temporary battle and tactical command level in combat, and was generally cancelled after the war. However, during the ten-year civil war, the Kuomintang army kept it as a first-class operational command level, which was equivalent to or slightly larger than the army, and was intended to replace the command function of the army. Due to the numerous factions of the Kuomintang army, the reorganization of the army could not be completed at the same time, and the planning was very messy. In the process of replacing the army with the "army", it caused many inconveniences, so that most of the ranks were still retained. 1930 central plains war, the serial numbers of some troops were adjusted, restored and supplemented. The coexistence of the "middle route army" and the army makes the establishment of the Kuomintang army, which is already at sixes and sevens, more complicated and chaotic.

The Eighth Route Army was formed by Guangdong troops who stayed in Guangdong during the Northern Expedition, and Li and Chen successively served as commanders. During the melee of the new warlords, the designation of the Eighth Route Army always belonged to the Guangdong Army. 1June, 936, in order to resist Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army's entry into Guangdong and Guangxi, Chen joined forces with Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi to launch the "Guangdong and Guangxi Incident" against Chiang Kai-shek in Guangxi. In July, after the "Guangdong-Guangxi Incident" was resolved, the Kuomintang Military Commission revoked the Eighth Route Army. When the Red Army was reorganized, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs of the National Government awarded this title to * * *.

So, where did the titles of the three divisions under the Eighth Route Army come from? What's more, the titles of the three divisions are not connected. Why?

1 15, 120 and 129 divisions under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army are subordinate to the Northeast Army. After the September 18th Incident, the Northeast fell and the Northeast Army moved to Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces. Together with other Northeast Army troops, these three divisions participated in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army in the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Soviet Area and the continuous "elimination" of the Red Army guerrillas in the Hubei, Henan and Anhui areas, and pursued and intercepted the Red 25 Army, which had withdrawn from the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Soviet Area and turned to the Long March. After being transferred to the northwest, he participated in the third "encirclement and suppression" campaign in the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet Area, the Red 15th Army Corps, the battle of Zhiluo Town, the battle of preventing the three Red Army from joining forces, the battle of Shanbao, and the battle of Longdong in Ningxia. It can be said that these three divisions have always been sworn enemies of the Red Army.

1 15 division, this designation originally belonged to the 67th Army of the Northeast Army. After the Xi Incident, Chiang Kai-shek transferred the division 1 15 to Yang Guo, Anhui Province in March, 937, in order to prevent the Northeast Army from joining forces with the 17th Route Army of the Red Army and Yang Hucheng again and confronting the Nanjing government. In June, Herry Liu hosted a reorganization meeting of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces in Kaifeng, Henan Province, to carry out the training and consolidation and downsizing of the Northeast Army. The A-type army of four divisions of each army was reduced to the B-type army of two divisions and two brigades, and the total strength was reduced by one third. The 67th Army was reduced to two divisions, 107 and 108, each with two brigades and four regiments, and the titles of 1 15 and17 were cancelled. When the Kuomintang and the Communist Party negotiated the adaptation of the Red Army, he Qin Ying