Zhang Guotao
On 2 July 1936, Ren's Second and Sixth Army Groups met with the Red Fourth Army led by Zhang Guotao and Xu Xiangqian in Sichuan, Garzê. Ren was then the political commissar of the Red Second Army. With the end of the Long March in October, Ren and Peng Dehuai were appointed as the Political Commissars for the Front Command of the CCP to resist Hu Zongnan's forces that were in Shaanxi. By December, was a member of both the Revolutionary Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee and the Presidium.