September, 1935

The First and Third Red Armies and the Military Commission Column move north and arrive in Hadapu, Gansu, and they are formally reorganized as the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment, with Peng Dehuai as commander and Mao Zedong as political commissar. On October 19, the detachment arrives in Wuqi Town in northern Shaanxi. The Central Red Army’s main body completes the Long March. On November 3, the Central Red Army resumes its designation of the First Front Red Army with Peng Dehuai as commander and Mao Zedong as political commissar and consists of the First Army Group of the Red Army (reorganized from the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment) and the 15th Army Group of the Red Army.

Source From: CHRONICLE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA (JULY 1921–JUNE 2021), by Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China