Who is the originator of Chinese guerrilla tactics?

As early as June 1925, Zhu De was arrested by the German authorities and his passport was revoked for participating in a German-organized conference in support of China's "May 30th" movement in Berlin. After leaving Germany, in July of the same year, Zhu De went to the former Soviet Union to study military affairs. At that time, the instructor asked him how to fight after returning to China. He proposed to implement the tactics of "fight if you win, leave if you can't" and "drag the team up the mountain if necessary." When Zhu De was in the Soviet Union, he first studied Marxism-Leninism at the Eastern University, and then studied modern military affairs in a military training class. There, he combined with China's actual situation and further perfected the "fighting method for large troops, and the fighting method for small troops", "fight if you win, leave if you can't", "draw the team into the mountains to fight when necessary" Guerrilla strategic and tactical thinking. In other words, the idea of ??guerrilla tactics proposed by Zhu De was at least two full years earlier than Mao Zedong! Later during the Jinggangshan period, he developed this set of tactics based on specific conditions into the Red Army's combat method for dealing with enemy encirclement and suppression. This is the true origin of the Sixteen-Character Jue of Guerrilla Warfare. It's just that Zhu De is generous and generous in dealing with people and never cares about these personal gains and losses. Therefore, taking a step back, Mao Zedong summarized China's "guerrilla tactics" and "sixteen-character formula". In the eyes of discerning people, it should naturally be the crystallization of collective wisdom. It should be said that Mao Zedong was a great man of the times, with great talents and strategies that few could match. Like "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun!" "The party commands the gun, not the gun commanding the party." "The countryside surrounds the city until armed forces capture the country's victory..." These all shine with the light of genius thought. This also played a crucial role in winning the victory of the Chinese revolution! But when it comes to actually leading troops to fight, to be honest, there is no way to compare with Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, the "Father of the Chinese Red Army"! Mao Zedong himself acknowledged this. On the contrary, some people who created gods, like Lin Biao, just made it up in order to achieve their own personal goals. Zhu De is 7 years older than Mao Zedong. As early as January 1909, Zhu De went through all kinds of hardships and came to Kunming, where he was admitted to the infantry department of Jiangwu Hall and systematically studied military affairs. Here he joined the Tongmenghui, a bourgeois revolutionary organization. During the war against Yuan Huguo, Zhu De was ordered to organize troops, requisition wagons and supplies, and prepare for Cai E's expedition. When Cai E led his army to Sichuan to fight the Beiyang warlords, Zhu De and his team fought the most bravely, and their clothes and hats were pierced by bullets in many places. After many fierce battles, Zhu De became famous in the army for his bravery, resourcefulness, and outstanding military exploits. Soon he was promoted to major general and brigade commander of Cai E's National Guard Army, and became a well-known young general in Sichuan and Sichuan. Moreover, Mao Zedong never systematically studied military affairs. No matter how talented a person is, he cannot become a military strategist out of thin air! This is also contrary to the Marxist-Leninist creed that true knowledge comes from practice! As for Marshal Lin Biao, although he was a military genius and had great military exploits, his military qualifications were incomparable to those of Zhu De, He Long, Ye Ting and other military strategists. He was very young! Lin Biao is 20 years younger than Zhu De. In 1925, he was admitted to the fourth class of Huangpu Military Academy to study military affairs (he should be a student of Zhou Enlai). At this time, Zhu De was already a major general and brigade commander with great military exploits, and he had already studied military affairs in the Soviet system. During the Nanchang Uprising, Zhu De was the deputy commander of the Ninth Army (and the head of the Nanchang Officer Training Corps). Marshal Lin Biao was only serving as a subordinate under Ye Ting, the commander of the Eleventh Army and the commander of the 24th Division (adapted from the independent regiment). A small company commander (During the Northern Expedition, Ye Ting was the commander of the independent regiment, and Lin Biao was the trainee platoon leader under Ye Ting), and Marshal He Long was already the commander of the 20th Army. In other words, during the August 1st Nanchang Uprising, Marshal Lin Biao was insignificant. Without him, he had nothing to do. The decision-makers were Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, He Long, Ye Ting, Liu Bocheng and others. Here I want to pull the gourd here and there, and talk about the acquaintance between Nie Rongzhen and Lin Biao. They also met at Whampoa Military Academy. At that time, Lin Biao was a student in the fourth batch of Huangpu, and Nie Rongzhen was an instructor at Huangpu. He was Zhou Enlai's subordinate, but he was also Lin Biao's superior. Lin Biao graduated from Huangpu and was assigned to the Ye Ting Independent Group, which was handled by Nie Rongzhen. According to Nie Rongzhen's recollection (then deputy commander of the 115th Division), "Lin Biao did not agree with guerrilla warfare at the meeting. He said at the meeting that mobile warfare should be the main focus." What I'm talking about here is just to clarify. This proves that Lin Biao was not the founder of guerrilla warfare at all. However, during the Cultural Revolution, the meeting of Zhu De and Mao Zedong in Jinggangshan actually became the meeting of Mao Zedong and Lin Biao. Of course, it stands to reason that the saying "'Fight if you can win, run if you can't win', this is the guerrilla tactic invented by Lin Biao", naturally cannot be established. Things in the world are difficult to explain clearly, and even imagining them makes people laugh and cry.

Haha, let’s not go too far. Having said that, let me add some extra details. The originator of China's "guerrilla tactics" is naturally Marshal Zhu De, and that can be said to be his due, but there are several Chinese Red Army generals who can also be called the founders of China's "guerrilla tactics". The first one should be General Zuo Quan (if Zuo Quan had not sacrificed his life during the Anti-Japanese War, he would definitely have been awarded the rank of marshal after the founding of the People's Republic of China). Zuo Quan (1905-1942) was born in Liling, Hunan. After graduating from the first class of Whampoa Military Academy, he entered Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and Frunze Military Academy in the former Soviet Union. After being inspired and introduced by Zhou Enlai, he joined the Communist Party of China in 1925. He returned to China in 1930 and served successively as political commissar and commander of the 15th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, chief of staff of the First Army Corps and acting army commander. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army and chief of staff of the forward headquarters (Lin Biao was the commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at the time). Accompanied by Commander-in-Chief Zhu De and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai (Peng Dehuai was also a tiger general. At every critical moment, Mao Zedong would shout loudly: "Who dares to cross the sword and leap on the horse, only I am General Peng." Defend Yan'an, defend the Party Central Committee, Defending Mao Zedong and liberating the northwest. Fighting against U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, the Americans were frightened by his name.) Crossed the Yellow River eastward, commanded the Eighth Route Army to go deep into enemy lines, carried out independent guerrilla warfare, established the Luliang, Wutai, and Taihang Mountain bases, and laid the foundation for resistance to Japan behind enemy lines in North China. We can appreciate the elegance of the Eighth Route Army and guerrillas from the movies "Mine Warfare", "Tunnel Warfare", "Guerrillas on the Plains"; the anti-war song "Song of the Guerrillas", etc.