New Fourth Army

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The New Fourth Army was a major Chinese Communist guerrilla force that fought against Japanese occupation and Nationalist rivals during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Communist military formation
guerrilla force
military unit
activePeriod 1937–1947
allegiance Chinese Communist Party
alsoKnownAs Xin Si Jun
commandStructure under Central Military Commission of the CCP
commemoratedBy memorials in China
conflict Chinese Civil War (early phase)
surface form: Chinese Civil War

Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
surface form: Second Sino-Japanese War

Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
surface form: War of Resistance Against Japan
country China
formedDuring Second United Front
foundingCommander Ye Ting
ideology Chinese communism
languageOfName Chinese
laterCommander Chen Yi
Liu Shaoqi
laterPoliticalCommissar Liu Shaoqi
legacy predecessor of the People’s Liberation Army units in East China
notableEvent New Fourth Army Incident
notableEventDate January 1941
notableEventLocation southern Anhui
objective expand Communist influence in central and eastern China
resist Japanese occupation
opponent Imperial Japanese Army
Kuomintang
National Revolutionary Army
partOf Chinese Communist Party forces
surface form: Chinese Communist forces

National Revolutionary Army 8th Route Army
surface form: Eighth Route Army and New Fourth Army system
politicalCommissar Xiang Ying
reorganizedAs East China Field Army
resultOfNotableEvent deterioration of CCP–KMT relations
severe losses inflicted by Nationalist forces
role anti-Japanese guerrilla warfare
political mobilization in rural areas
size hundreds of thousands of troops at peak strength
tactics establishment of base areas behind enemy lines
hit-and-run attacks
mobile warfare
theater Anhui
surface form: Anhui Province

Central China
Jiangsu
surface form: Jiangsu Province

Jiangxi Province
Yangtze River Delta
surface form: Lower Yangtze region

Zhejiang Province

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Ye Ting commanded New Fourth Army
Chinese Communist Party forces component New Fourth Army
East China Field Army formedFrom New Fourth Army
People's Liberation Army formerName New Fourth Army
subject surface form: National Revolutionary Army
New Fourth Army Incident opponent New Fourth Army
New Fourth Army Incident participant New Fourth Army