At the beginning of 1949, our army was reorganized into four major field armies and the troops of the North China Military Region. According to the planning of the headquarters, the ranking of the four major field armies is like this:The Northwest Field Army, which has been fighting on the Loess Plateau (the team of the 120th Division of Mr. He during the Anti-Japanese War), is a field, with Mr. Peng, who is "horizontal and swordsman", as the commanderThe Central Plains Field Army (the team of the 129th Division during the Anti-Japanese War) was transferred to the Shanxi, Hebei, Luyu, Dabie Mountains, and Huaihai Valleys, and was the second field, with "contemporary Sun Wu" and "Military God" ** as the commander.
The East China Field Army, which brought together the New Fourth Army in Central China and the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, was the Three Fields, with the "Poet Marshal" ** as the commander and Su Yu as the deputy;The Northeast Field Army (formerly known as the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army), which gathered elite troops from all over the world (the team of the 115th Division during the Anti-Japanese War), was the four fields, with the "Eagle of the Red Army" and the "God of War" Lin as the commander.
In addition, the troops of the North China Military Region also replaced Yiye and became the "Imperial Forest Army" directly under it.
The troops of the North China Military Region, formerly known as the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region during the Anti-Japanese War and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, were commanded by the "contemporary Lu Zhishen"**The deputy was the "Marshal of Buyi" who was transferred from Liu Deng's department
After the reorganization of the whole army, the combat units at the lower level of the field army are the corps.
The four major field armies and the North China Military Region are under the jurisdiction of 2 respectively4 corps, the whole army has formed a total of 16 corps, and reserved the number of 4 corps. According to the sequence of the various field armies, the commanders of the 16 corps were:
The commanders of the 160,000-strong corps under the command of General Peng are ** and Xu Guangda.
The commanders of the 280,000-strong corps under the command of Erye Liu Deng are *** Chen Geng and Yang Yong. In addition, a number of the 6th Corps was also reserved for Erye.
The commanders of the 580,000-strong corps under the command of Sanye Chen Su were Wang Jian'an, Chen Shiyu, Song Shilun, and Ye Fei. In addition, a number of the 11th Corps was also reserved for Sanye.
The commanders of the 1.03 million corps under the command of Siye Lin Luo were Xiao Jinguang, Cheng Zihua, Liu Yalou, and Deng Hua. In addition, two numbers of the 16th Corps and the 17th Corps were also reserved for Siye.
The commanders of the 240,000-man corps under Nie Xu of the North China Military Region are Yang Dezhi and Yang Chengwu.
The commanders of these 16 corps, when the title was awarded in 1955, the generals doxxed, there were 1 marshal ***3 generals Xu Guangda, Chen Geng, Xiao Jinguang, and the remaining 12 corps commanders, except for Cheng Zihua who was transferred to local work, the rest were founding generals.
Due to the smooth progress of the battle to cross the river, the number of the reserved corps has not been activated.
If these four corps can be formed, which other generals will be among the corps commanders?
First of all, let's look at the 6th Corps reserved by Erye, which is also the closest of the 4 Corps to be established.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the troops of the 129th Division and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army were strong and strong, and they also won successive victories for a time. But after advancing into Dabie Mountain, Liu Deng's army was dragged to a really thin side, so that the 12th Corps of Huang Wei, which had a considerable number of troops in the Huaihai Campaign, fought extremely hard, and even *** admitted that it was "a thin dog pulling hard".
After the three major battles, the task of the second field was also very arduous: it was necessary to cooperate with the third field to launch the battle of crossing the river, and at the same time to guard against the intervention of the United States and Britain and other countries in the Shanghai campaign;It is also necessary to liberate and pass through the southwest and destroy the main force of the remaining 900,000 enemy troops.
Therefore, the 6th Corps was the most well prepared, and it was formed as soon as the battle to cross the river was blocked.
According to the overall arrangement of Chief Liu Deng, the 6th Corps** is a number of second-level military region troops, the Jianghan Military Region, the Tongbai Military Region, and the Hubei-Henan Military Region. These troops are the result of the localization of the main force of the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan Field Army, which remained in the Dabie Mountains in those years, and if they are reorganized into the main force corps, they can be regarded as returning to their "mother's home".
The more than 80,000 men of the 6th Corps are all from the 10th, 12th, 1st and 6th columns. Therefore, the candidate for the commander of the corps also has eyebrows, that is, Wang Hongkun, a veteran Red Fourth fierce general, who participated in the Jute Uprising and participated in the formation of the 6th and 10th columns.
However, the plan was not as fast as the change, and the battle to cross the river went unexpectedly well.
Moreover, under the solemn statements made by our army on many occasions, the United States, Britain, and other countries have also given up armed interference in the process of our army's liberation of Jiangnan. After the British Navy's destroyer "Purple Quartz" was attacked by our Sanye artillery, Churchill was not convinced, but he could not reach it.
In the next "sweeping southwest" operation, the second field had the blessing of 7 divisions in the fourth field, as well as the strategic strategy of the 18th corps of the Qinling Boss He, and several main corps such as Hu Zongnan and Song Xilian who were trapped in the southwest were quickly scattered.
Therefore, the 6th Corps of the Second Field was ready for everything, only owed the east wind, and it was never established.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, these military subdivisions were assigned to the Hubei Military Region and subordinated to General Lin's Central and Southern Military Region.
The 11th Corps reserved by the Third Field Army is set up on a precondition similar to that of the 6th Corps of the Second Field Army, that is, if the battle to cross the river does not go smoothly or if it encounters a major setback in the process of liberating the southeast coast, the local troops of the Shandong Military Region will be upgraded immediately
After the southern expedition of the main force of Huaye, the main force in Shandong was left with only one 2The 32nd Army, with 30,000 people, liberated Qingdao, where the US army had withdrawn, under the command of Xu Shiyou. In addition to Tan Xilin's 32nd Army, there are more than 70,000 people in five garrison brigades in Shandong.
According to the plan of the East China Military Region, once the 11th Corps was established, Xu Shiyou would be the commander.
As the fighting on the Southern Front was progressing very well, the number of the 11th Corps was not activated. Tan Xilin and the 32nd Army were also transferred to Ye Fei's 10th Corps, which had a small number of troops, and was responsible for suppressing bandits in the Fujian area and defending the landing of enemy troops along the coast.
Compared with the second field and the third field, Mr. Lin's fourth field has the most solid background.
In terms of troop allocation, Mr. Lin's Siye has always crushed the fraternal troops, not to mention the troops of the First Field and the Second Field and the North China Military Region of a corps with only 70,000 or 80,000 people, but the Third Field of a Corps of more than 100,000 people, and it cannot be compared with the Fourth Field.
When the whole army was reorganized, there were only 580,000 people in the 16 corps of the four corps in Sanye, and about 40,000 people in each armyThere are more than 1 million people in the 12 armies of the four corps in Siye, with an average of more than 250,000 people in one corps and 70,000 in one corps.
On the basis of the four corps, Siye plans to expand and increase the corps.
However, due to the campaign of crossing the river launched by the Second and Third Fields, the Bai Chongxi group of the Gui family in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River became a major threat to the right wing. Therefore, the chairman ordered General Lin's advance corps to be dispatched immediately to ensure the safety of the flank of the troops crossing the river.
Xiao Jinguang's advance corps has 120,000 people in the 40th Army, 43rd Army, 1 artillery regiment and 2 engineer battalions.
If the Four Field Corps can be formed, which generals will have the opportunity to become commanders?
In addition to the original commanders of the four corps, Xiao Jinguang, Cheng Zihua, Liu Yalou, and Deng Hua, when Siye was awarded the title for the first time, there were 2 marshals, 3 generals, and 18 generals.
For example, Chen Bojun and Han Xianchu, the two deputy commanders of the 12th Corps, can be Fuzheng as commanders;Li Tianyou, the first deputy commander of the 13th Corps, Huang Yongsheng and Liu Zhen, the two deputy commanders of the 14th Corps, and Hong Xuezhi, the first deputy commander of the 15th Corps.
If the corps is established, the commanders will most likely be Li Tianyou and Huang Yongsheng.
This is because among the four first deputy commanders, Li Tianyou and Huang Yongsheng are more capable of fighting. And Chen Bojun's mercenaries are more traditional in fighting, and Hong Xuezhi, like Huang Kecheng, a general who has been transferred to the logistics field, is better at logistics support work.
Of course, the three second deputy commanders of the four corps, Han Xianchu and Liu Zhen, can also serve as the military supervisors of the corps, and the 40th Army and the 39th Army brought out by Baishan and Heishui are all the best among the "Five Tigers of the East Field".
If Han Xianchu and Liu Zhen, who were born in the Red 25th Army, were on the throne at the same time, they would really create a miracle of the Red 25th Army: two small soldiers in a squad, who were battalion commanders during the Red Army, became regiment commanders and brigade commanders during the Anti-Japanese War, and served as column commanders, army commanders, and corps commanders during the liberation period, and at the same time were awarded the rank of general at the first major award.
Due to the will of the people and the imminent collapse of the building, the names of the four major corps of our three major field armies have not been activated.
Perhaps, this also proves from one side the truth that "those who win the hearts of the people win the world", whether it is ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, or the change of dynasties, it is often not the golden iron horse that plays a decisive role, but the fertile soil that raised the first-class army and the people behind it.