The historical term for fighting one party with troops from the southeast and northwest is the four front armies.
The Fourth Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, referred to as the Fourth Red Front Army, is also called the First Red Front Army and the Second Red Front Army. It is one of the three main forces of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. During the Red Army period alone, it wiped out 880,000 enemies. As the first, we plan to produce more than 700 founding generals.
The Fourth Red Front Army was mainly composed of troops from the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area and was established on November 7, 1931 in Qiliping, Huang'an, Hubei. Commander-in-Chief Xu Xiangqian, Political Commissar Chen Changhao, and Director of the Political Department Liu Shiqi. It has jurisdiction over the Fourth Red Army (the military leadership is concurrently held by the Front Army Headquarters) and the 25th Red Army (Commander Kuang Jixun, Political Commissar Wang Pingzhang), with a total strength of 45,000 people. Soon, the Ninth Red Army was established, and the entire army ***There are six divisions.
Beginning in July 1932, the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China launched an encirclement and suppression campaign against the Hubei, Henan, and Anhui Soviet Areas with a force of 300,000 troops. This was part of the Fourth Encirclement and Suppression War. On October 10, Zhang Guotao held an emergency meeting in Huangchaifan, Huang'an County. On October 12, under strong pressure from the National Revolutionary Army, the Fourth Red Army decided to abandon the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area.
In addition to leaving the Red 74th and Red 75th Divisions and independent units to form the Red 25th Army, with Shen Zemin responsible for persisting in guerrilla warfare, the military headquarters and the main Red Tenth Division and Red Tenth Division Four main divisions including the First Division, the 12th Red Division and the 73rd Red Division, as well as more than 20,000 soldiers from the International Regiment of the Major League, moved westward, and the designations of each army were cancelled. In December 1932, the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area was established on the border of Shaanxi and Sichuan.