After the escape of the CPC from Kuomintang oppression in the south, and after the Long March put the main communist revolutionary base area up north in Shaanxi, the communists in the south didn't simply die out. They continued to fight against the reactionary government and were instrumental to fending off the Japanese imperialists in the south. These guerrillas have since gotten used to the terrain of Southern China, and are definitely some of the best troops in the country. As Chiang Kai-Shek begins to bring Kuomintang troops north from Indochina, he must move the troops through lands with heavy communist guerrilla activity. Although for the past decade these two forces have developed mostly independently from each other, it is now time to unite them under a new army. Messages and telegrams have been sent back and forth for weeks now, and an agreement has been made. With the Civil War looking more likely to explode once again, it is only right that us communists be united in our efforts to liberate China. As such, over the next few months, the guerrillas will be organized into a new, reorganized, force: The People's Liberation Army. The over seven hundred thousand men in the region will be integrated into the PLA with all haste, and they will continue to be active in the south of China. If we could delay or block Chiang's troops from moving back north, and harass his men all along the way, then perhaps the main armies in the north would have more time to prepare to fight.

That is, of course, assuming that Chiang restarts the Civil War. We're pretty sure he will.