The Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army (August 1937), and the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army (August 1937). 1In August, 937, according to the agreement reached between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the main force of the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army (referred to as the Eighth Route Army). On August 25th, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) issued an order: Zhu De as Commander-in-Chief, Peng as Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Ye Jianying as Chief of Staff, Zuo Quan as Deputy Chief of Staff, Director of Political Department and Deputy Director of Political Department. The Eighth Route Army has about 46,000 troops and has three divisions: 1 15 Division is mainly composed of the former Red Army First Front Army, with Lin Biao as the division commander, Nie as the deputy division commander, and Luo Ronghuan as the chief of staff. It has 343 brigades (Brigadier General) and 344 brigades (Brigadier General Xu Haidong). 120 Division is mainly composed of the former Red Second Army, with He Long as the division commander, Xiao Ke as the deputy division commander, and Guan Xiangying as the division commander of the political trainer, with 358 brigades (Brigadier General Zhang Zongxun) and 359 brigades (Brigadier General Chen Bojun) under its jurisdiction; 129 division is mainly composed of the former Red Fourth Front Army, with Liu Bocheng as the division commander, Xu as the deputy division commander, and director of the political training department. It has jurisdiction over the 385th Brigade (Brigadier General Wang Hongkun) and the 386th Brigade (Brigadier General Chen Geng). On September 1 1, the Military Commission of the National Government renamed the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army as the Eighteenth Army of the National Revolutionary Army.