The difference between the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army

The Eighth Route Army has three divisions and the New Fourth Army has one division. Although the * * * production party ignored the establishment given by the Kuomintang, the military personnel and military expenditure of each division were limited, so the Eighth Route Army was three times that of the New Fourth Army.

2. The starting situation is different.

The Eighth Route Army was adapted from the regular army of the Red Army, with complete weapons and good expansion conditions. The new fourth army was adapted from guerrillas in southern provinces, and its strength was very weak. There is really no expansion condition.

3. Different sources

The Eighth Route Army was adapted from the main force of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army in the northwest; The New Fourth Army was adapted from the guerrillas of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants in eight southern provinces.

As for the Eighth Route Army, after the Xi Incident, Chiang Kai-shek agreed to state cooperation. At this time, the Red Army in northern Shaanxi accepted the "national adaptation" and was later called the "Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army" (later adapted to the Eighteenth Army), referred to as the "Eighth Route Army".

After the Xi Incident, during the Long March, the Red Army guerrillas who insisted on guerrilla warfare in eight southern provinces were also reorganized into regular troops, hereinafter referred to as the "New Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army".