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Ye Ting was leading the Kuomintang army at the time, and it was not until the Nanchang Uprising that the Communist Party established its own army. For details, please see the story of the Nanchang Uprising》》》》》

The Nanchang Uprising was a situation in which the Communist Party of China led part of the national revolution on August 1, 1927 in order to save the revolution under extreme crisis conditions. The armed uprising held by the army in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province.

In April and July 1927, the Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei cliques in the Kuomintang launched counter-revolutionary coups in Shanghai and Wuhan, brutally massacring communists and revolutionary masses. The great anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolution failed.

In order to resist the massacre policy of the Kuomintang reactionaries, in mid-July 1927, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China dispatched Li Lisan, Deng Zhongxia, Tan Pingshan, Yun Daiying and others to Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, to prepare to organize the Communist Party of China in the National Revolutionary Army. Part of the forces, combined with Zhang Fakui, commander-in-chief of the Second Front Army, returned to Guangzhou, established a revolutionary base, and then launched a new Northern Expedition. When Li Lisan arrived in Jiujiang, he found that Zhang Fakui had already sided with Wang Jingwei and decided to independently launch military operations against the Kuomintang governments in Nanjing and Wuhan. After learning about the above-mentioned proposals from Li Lisan and others, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China officially decided to hold an armed uprising in Nanchang. Zhou Enlai, Li Lisan, Yun Daiying, Peng Pai and others were appointed to form the Former Enemies Committee of the Communist Party of China, with Zhou Enlai as secretary, to lead the uprising. The troops scheduled to participate in the uprising include: the 24th and 10th Divisions of the 11th Army of the Second Front of the National Revolutionary Army, all of the 20th Army, the 73rd and 75th Regiments of the 25th Division of the 4th Army, and the Officer Education Group of the 3rd Army of the 5th Front. and the Nanchang police force, which killed more than 20,000 people. In late July, the 11th Army and the 20th Army, under the command of Communists Ye Ting and He Long (who joined the Communist Party after the Nanchang Uprising), successively concentrated on Nanchang from Jiujiang and other places.

On July 27, Zhou Enlai traveled from Wuhan to Nanchang via Jiujiang and established the Former Enemy Committee. The Front Committee immediately decided to stage an uprising on July 30. On the morning of July 30, Zhang Guotao, who arrived in Nanchang as a representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (then a member of the Standing Committee of the Provisional Political Bureau of the Party Central Committee), advocated that the uprising must be carried out with Zhang Fakui's consent. None of the front committee members agreed with Zhang Guotao's opinion. Tan Pingshan was very angry and advocated that Zhang Guotao be tied up after the meeting, but Zhou Enlai stopped him. Zhang Guotao's opinion was unanimously opposed by the front committee. On July 31, the front committee decided to take action that night.

At 2 a.m. on August 1, under the leadership of the Central Committee of Former Enemies of the Communist Party of China headed by Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De, Liu Bocheng and others led more than 20,000 troops under the direct control and influence of the party. people, held the Nanchang Uprising. After more than 4 hours of fierce fighting, more than 3,000 enemy defenders were wiped out, more than 5,000 guns of various types, 700,000 rounds of bullets, and several cannons were seized. In the afternoon of that day, Nie Rongzhen led most of the Mahui 25th Division stationed near Nanchang to participate in the uprising, and rushed to Nanchang on August 2.

In order to win over and unite some elements in the Kuomintang who are willing to continue the revolution and expose the ugly face of Chiang Kai-shek and the Wang Jingwei clique who betrayed the revolutionary spirit of Sun Yat-sen, this uprising still uses the flag of the left wing of the Kuomintang. After the victory of the uprising, the Chinese Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee was established, and 25 members including Soong Ching Ling, Deng Yanda (the two did not arrive in Nanchang), He Long, and Zhou Enlai were elected as committee members, and 7 people including Soong Ching Ling, Deng Yanda, and others formed the presidium. The "Central Committee Declaration" was issued in the name of Soong Ching Ling and others, pointing out that Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei betrayed the revolution, and called on all revolutionaries to unite, inherit Sun Yat-sen's legacy, and continue to fight against imperialism and solve the land issue. The Revolutionary Committee appointed Wu Yuzhang as secretary-general, and appointed Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting, and Liu Bocheng to form a staff group. As the military command organization, Liu Bocheng was the chief of staff, and Guo Moruo was the director of the General Political Department. The insurrectionary troops used the designation of the Second Front of the National Revolutionary Army. . The Revolutionary Committee appointed He Long as the acting commander-in-chief of the Second Front Army, and Ye Ting as the former enemy-acting commander-in-chief of the Second Front Army. The Second Front Army has three armies: the 11th Army, with Ye Ting as the commander and Nie Rongzhen as the party representative; the 20th Army, with He Long as the commander and Liao Qianwu as the party representative; the 9th Army, with Zhu De as the deputy commander and Zhu Kejing as the party representative. ; The entire army killed more than 20,000 people. On August 3, in accordance with the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China before the uprising, the rebel army began to evacuate Nanchang, passing through Linchuan (Fuzhou), Yihuang, and Guangchang, and headed south to Guangdong in order to restore the Guangdong revolutionary base area, win foreign aid, and then return to Nanchang. Capture Guangzhou.

The rebels did not realize that after withdrawing from Nanchang, they should go to the vast rural areas of Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei to integrate with the local peasant movements in order to expand the revolutionary power; instead, they were busy going south to Guangdong to win foreign aid, and trapped themselves in Disadvantageous situation.

The rebel army marched towards Guangdong. When they entered Jinxian Village, the 10th Division deserted the rebel army and took refuge with Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the hasty withdrawal of the rebel army from Nanchang, the troops were not reorganized, and due to the intense summer heat, the troops lost a lot of troops. When they arrived in Linchuan on the 7th, the total number of troops was about 13,000. On their way south, the rebel army fought many fierce battles with the Kuomintang troops. On August 25, the rebel army arrived in the area north of Rentian, Ruijin. Before the enemy troops concentrated, they launched an attack on the Rentian defenders, wiped out some of them, and captured Ruijin County on the 26th. Then they attacked Huichang and fought fiercely until the 30th. They captured Huichang County, annihilated more than 6,000 enemies, surrendered more than 2,500 guns, and suffered 1,700 casualties among the rebels. After the battle in Huichang, the rebel army changed its route and marched eastward, passing through Changting and Shanghang in Fujian Province and heading south along the Tingjiang and Hanjiang rivers. On September 22, it occupied Sanheba in Dabu County, Guangdong. The main force continued to advance southward and occupied Chaozhou on the 23rd. Today's Chao'an), Shantou. The main force marched westward to Tangkeng (today's Fengshun County) via Jieyang, while a small number of troops stayed in Chaoshan. When the main force was advancing towards Tangkeng, they fought fiercely with the enemy again. The rebel army suffered 2,000 casualties and was unable to fight anymore, so they retreated to Jieyang. The enemy captured Chaozhou. The various units of the rebel army suffered serious defeats under the siege of superior enemies in early October. Revolutionary committees and rebel leaders were dispersed and transferred. A group of 1,300 people from the rebel army, led by Dong Lang and others, moved to the Haifeng and Lufeng areas to join the local peasant army. Another group of 800 people, under the leadership of Zhu De and Chen Yi, moved to the border areas of Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan, and participated in the Southern Hunan Uprising. In April 1928, they went to the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base to join the Autumn Harvest Uprising troops led by Mao Zedong.

Although the Nanchang Uprising failed, it fired the first shot of armed resistance against the Kuomintang reactionaries, declared the Chinese Communist Party’s firm stance to carry out the Chinese revolution to the end, and marked the Chinese Communist Party’s determination to carry out the Chinese revolution to the end. The party's independent leadership of the revolutionary war, the creation of the people's army and the beginning of the armed seizure of power. Therefore it has great historical significance. On November 11, 1933, the Provisional Central Government of the Chinese Soviet Union and the Republic of China decided on August 1 as the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, based on the recommendation of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission on June 30. From then on, August 1 became the Army Day of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and later the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Zhu De's poem to commemorate the "August 1st" in July 1957 said: "The first righteousness of Nanchang is the birth of a new army, and the workers and peasants are celebrating the beginning of the army."