84 years ago today, on January 20, 1941 (December 23, 1940 in the lunar calendar), the Communist Party of China rebuilt the New Fourth Army Military Headquarters. Photo: Chen Yi, the acting commander of the New Fourth Army (front and middle), and some cadres for a group photo On January 20, 1941, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China issued an order to rebuild the New Fourth Army Military Headquarters. The order was based on the Central China General Command to rebuild the New Fourth Army Military Headquarters. Chen Yi was appointed acting commander of the New Fourth Army, Liu Shaoqi was a political commissar, Zhang Yunyi was deputy commander, Lai Chuanzhu was chief of staff, and Deng Zihui was director of the Political Department. On January 23, Chen Yi, acting commander of the New Fourth Army, Zhang Yunyi, deputy commander, Liu Shaoqi, political commissar, Lai Chuanzhu, chief of staff, and Deng Zihui, director of the Political Department, jointly issued an inauguration call. The telegram said that Chen Yi and others were sworn in according to the order of the Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, "vowing to abide by the Three People's Principles, obey the will of the Premier, and fight to the end against the evil enemy Japanese imperialism and its lackeys Chinese pro-Japanese." Call on the Kuomintang army to "not be deceived by evil, refuse civil war, and face the enemy in unison." On the 28th, the New Fourth Army was established in Yancheng, northern Jiangsu. According to the central order, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army troops active in the south of Longhai Road were uniformly reorganized into seven divisions and one independent brigade: the first division commander Su Yu, political commissar Liu Yan, the second division commander Zhang Yunyi (also), political commissar Zheng Wei III, the third division commander and political commissar Huang Kecheng, the fourth division commander and political commissar Peng Xuefeng, the fifth division commander and political commissar Li Xiannian, the sixth division commander and political commissar Tan Zhenlin, the seventh division commander Zhang Dingcheng, political commissar Zeng Xisheng; the eighth route army taught the fifth brigade to be reorganized into an independent brigade. The new strategic deployment of the New Fourth Army is: the second and fourth divisions respectively operate in the Huaihe River, consolidate the east of Jinpu Road, adhere to the west of Jinpu Road, and defend against the attack of the Kuomintang stubborn army; the fifth division independently adheres to the Hubei-Henan area, and uses one section to go down the river to open up contact with the seventh division; the seventh division adheres to the central Anhui area, and conducts guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines in southern Anhui; the sixth division adheres to southern Jiangsu; the first and third divisions adhere to northern Jiangsu and establish the central China Anti-Japanese base with northern Jiangsu as the center. Picture: The 7th Brigade of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army after reorganization