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The New FourthArmy was active south of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), while the Eighth Route Army was based in Yan'an in the northwest.
In October, 1937, an announcement was made that red army soldiers active in the eight provinces in southern China (those who did not embark on the long march) would be part of the New FourthArmy.
The New FourthArmy was established on Christmas Day, 1937 in Hankou, moving to Nanchang on January 6, 1938, when the detachments began marching to the battlefront.
The FourthArmy was formed on 5 February 1916 under the command of General Sir Henry Rawlinson to carry out the main British contribution to the Battle of the Somme.
The plan for the FourthArmy during the 1917 Flanders offensive (that became the Third Battle of Ypres) was to mount an amphibious invasion of the Belgian coast once a breakthrough had been achieved.
In World War II, no British FourthArmy actually took the field, but as part of the deception plan, Operation Fortitude, the Germans were encouraged to believe that FourthArmy existed with its headquarters in Edinburgh Castle, and was preparing to invade Norway.
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