The origin of August 1st Army Day

1April 2, 9271July 5, after Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei launched the "Qing * * *" campaign in Nanjing and Wuhan successively, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provisional Politburo in Hankou, and decided to use the National Revolutionary Army under the control and influence of the * * * production party to hold an uprising in Nanchang, and appointed Zhou Enlai as the uprising leader.

On July 27th, Zhu De, Liu Bocheng, Hui, Peng Pai, Ye Ting, Nie and other leaders of Jiangxi Party organizations attended an important meeting in Nanchang, and a staff committee with Liu Bocheng as the chief of staff, Ye Ting and He Long as members, and He Long and Ye Ting as the commander-in-chief of the former enemies was established.

At 2 am on August 1 Sunday, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, He Long, Ye Ting, Liu Bocheng, etc. Command all the insurgents to attack the Kuomintang troops stationed in Nanchang. After more than four hours of fierce fighting, more than 3,000 people were annihilated, more than 5,000 guns, more than 10,000 rounds of bullets/kloc-0 and several cannons were seized, and Nanchang City was occupied. On the morning of the same day, a joint meeting of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang and representatives of various provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and overseas parties and departments was held in Nanchang, and the Central Declaration was adopted. The Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, composed of 25 members including Soong Ching Ling, Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting and Zhu De, was established, and the Declaration of the August 1st Uprising and other documents were adopted, proposing "Down with imperialism", "Down with old and new warlords" and "Tillers". At the same time, the uprising troops were reorganized, still using the designation of the Second Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with He Long as the commander-in-chief. Because the enemy attacked Nanchang with heavy troops, the Central Front Committee decided that according to the central plan, the uprising troops left Nanchang from August 3 to 6 and marched south, passing through Linchuan, Yihuang and Guangchang, and went straight to the Chaoshan area in Guangdong.

Uprising troops defeated the interception of reactionary Kuomintang troops in Ruijin, Huichang and other places in Jiangxi, then passed through Changting, Fujian, Shanghang and Tai Po, Guangdong, and occupied Chaozhou and Shantou in late September. The main force marched westward, passing Jieyang to Tangkeng. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/0, the westward troops and troops stationed in Chaoshan were besieged by superior enemy forces, and most of the uprising troops were scattered, and some broke through to Hailufeng to join the local farmers' armed forces; The other, led by Zhu De and Chen Yi, moved to southern Hunan through southern Jiangxi and northern Guangdong to carry out guerrilla warfare. 1928 1 With the cooperation of local party organizations and peasant armed forces in southern Hunan, the "Nianguan Uprising" was held in Yizhang. Because of the "co-suppression" by the superior enemy, the uprising troops and peasant armed forces withdrew from southern Hunan, and arrived in Jinggangshan in April of the same year to join forces with the troops led by Mao Zedong to form the Fourth Army of the Chinese Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army, which was later renamed the Fourth Army of the Workers and Peasants Red Army.

1 July 933 1 1 day, on the basis of the proposal of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission on June 30th, the Chinese Soviet * * and the Provisional Central Government of People's Republic of China (PRC) decided August1day as the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants. 1On June 5th, 949, the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of China issued an order stipulating that the flag and emblem of the China People's Liberation Army should be marked with the word "August 1st". After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), this anniversary was renamed the Army Day of China People's Liberation Army.