In the ** camp, there is a unit that was pointed at and scolded by Lao Chiang, since the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, it has not won a single battle, but after being absorbed by our party, it has gone crazy on the Korean battlefield.
This unit is the predecessor of the **60th Army, the 50th Army of the Volunteer Army. Although the 60th Army was repeatedly defeated on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, none of the 50,000 soldiers surrendered, making great contributions to containing the Japanese invaders.
It was such a strong-willed army that was angrily denounced by Lao Jiang as a wine bag and rice bag. Chiang Kai-shek even called the 60th Army a "motley bear army", and there was a great tendency to kick the 60th Army out of the ranks.
The **60th Army, which had never won in domestic battles, made brilliant achievements after going to the Korean battlefield?Why is there such a drastic change in this force?
In July 1947, under the leadership of army commander Zeng Zesheng, the 60th Army took the initiative to surrender to our party, directly contributing to the peaceful liberation of Changchun and making great contributions in the Liaoshen Campaign.
After the reorganization of our party, the original 50,000 troops were the **60th Army, which was reduced to 30,000, and at the same time, it was also given the number of the 50th Army of the People's Liberation Army and stationed in the Northeast Military Region.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1950, 350 soldiers crossed the Yalu River and rushed to the banks of the Han River to block the enemy.
However, the dispatch of the 50th Army to fight in Korea was opposed by many people at that time.
High-ranking personnel of the Central Military Commission bluntly said that this "motley army" has not been tempered by a long period of revolution, its combat effectiveness is low, and it cannot shoulder heavy responsibilities at all, and it will also be cannon fodder when it arrives on the Korean battlefield.
However, due to the huge disparity in armaments between the two sides in the Korean battlefield, the situation of the volunteers was not optimistic.
In order to supplement the front-line troops, the 50th Army stationed in the northeast, which is geographically closer to North Korea, is undoubtedly the best choice.
Out of trust in the officers and men of the 50th Army, ** held the mentality of trying to overcome public opinion and ordered the 50th Army to rush to the Han River.
The 50th Army, which endured humiliation and heavy burdens, has long suffered from the strange eyes of friendly forces. The soldiers desperately need a victory to prove that they are not sacks.
When entering the Korean War, the most advanced ** of the entire 50th Army was 16 mountain guns and 45 82 mortars, and there was no anti-tank ** at all.
Such a configuration is miserable within the Volunteer Army, let alone compared with the US military. Taking into account the "special circumstances" of the 50th Army, the *marshal also specially arranged for the 38th Army, the main force commanded by Liang Xingchu, to take care of the 50th Army.
The 50th Army, which had just arrived on the battlefield on the Han River, was not familiar with the geographical environment, and did not bargain in the first two battles, and even let go of the US troops who had been deeply surrounded because it was too slow.
The 50th Army, which did not dare to slack off at all, held its breath from top to bottom. In the third campaign, the 50 Army ran head-on into the British Royal Tank Battalion.
The officers and men of the 50th Army, who did not flinch, directly charged with ** gunpowder under the condition that they were not equipped with anti-tank **.
This unexpected "suicidal" attack really frightened the British army. The officers and men of the 50th Army used their flesh and blood to build a solid line of defense, and the soldiers who went forward and followed each other tore a hole in it.
The 50th Army, which paid a heavy price, finally annihilated the British Royal Tank Battalion in the area west of Xianyouli and Wuqinli, captured 227 British soldiers, blew up 35 tanks, and seized armored vehicles, rode bicycles, and attacked 25 tanks.
Knowing that the forward troops had won the first battle, the army commander Zeng Zesheng instantly became energetic, and the 30,000 soldiers were also high-spirited, intending to use the enemy's blood to prove that they were not a "ragtag army".
According to the instructions of Marshal ***, the 50th Army only needed to delay the Han River position for ten days, and if it was really unable to fight, it asked the main force 38th Army for help.
However, the performance of the 50th Army can make Mr. Peng's jaw drop, and the 50th Army, which has overfulfilled its tasks, has actually fought continuously for 50 days and nights in the Han River position.
The 50th Army faced a fierce enemy with more than 150,000 troops of the US 3rd Division and the US 29th Division. Although the 50th Army, which occupies the heights around Baiyun Mountain, has only 30,000 men, it still has the strength to fight a battle.
In the face of the charge of 150,000 American troops, the officers and men of the 50th Army often lost their positions during the day, but recaptured them at night, and launched a fierce tug-of-war with the American army.
Seeing that the Baiyun Mountain position could not be attacked for a long time, the US troops carried out dense aerial bombing of the surrounding positions, and several hills were even razed to the ground.
The ruthless U.S. military once violated international conventions by using white phosphorus bombs to attack fiercely, resulting in the loss of the bones of many companies.
However, no matter how fierce the artillery fire was, it did not crush the fighting spirit of the officers and men of the 50th Army.
At that time, the temperature in North Korea had dropped to minus 20 degrees, and the soldiers could only dig trenches after the US military threw out solidified gasoline bombs and melted the ice.
The food they ate was often a handful of noodles and a handful of snow, and in cases of severe malnutrition, many fighters suffered from night blindness.
However, on the battlefield of the Han River, relying only on the advantage of the high ground, the 50th Army with 20,000 troops, pinned down nearly 150,000 joint **.
It was such a tenacious force, but when it was working for the Kuomintang, it was repeatedly suppressed by Chiang Kai-shek, and even called it the "Bear Army".
Before entering the Korean war, why did the 60th Army not win a single battle?
I haven't won the civil war, I haven't lost the foreign war!The "motley army" of the Kuomintang went crazy on the Korean battlefield.
*The 60th Army was first formed by Long Yun, the "King of Dian", and most of its soldiers were Yi and Bai.
Under Long Yun's control, the Dian army imported a large number of French weapons from Vietnam. As early as 1936, the military expenditure of the Yunnan army accounted for more than half of the Yunnan Provincial Finance.
Therefore, before being absorbed by the Kuomintang, the Dian Army could be described as a famous man, and its military training level was even comparable to that of the Whampoa Military Academy.
After the 77 Incident, Long Yun, who had a strong sense of family and country, donated all his net worth to the people, including the Yunnan Army, which had been painstakingly operated for many years. Long Yun also told Chiang Kai-shek that Yunnan could supply 200,000 troops.
After gathering 40,000 soldiers, Long Yun resigned from the post of supreme commander and handed over to Nanjing ** for unified management. The Dian Army became the 60th Army.
From the perspective of combat capability, most of the 60 th Army uses equipment imported from Belgium and France, and the soldiers have also undergone professional training and have a complete formation.
However, Chiang Kai-shek, who had not seen the 60th Army, had always regarded it as a supplementary force before the Battle of Taierzhuang, thinking that how the local army could be compared with his descendant troops, the * Army.
It was not until the end of the Battle of Songhu that the 60th Army, which returned to Wuhan with friendly troops on standby, entered Chiang Kai-shek's sight for the first time and was reused by the old Chiang.
In April 1938, the 60th Army finally ushered in the opportunity for its first frontal operation. In more than 20 days of fierce fighting with the Japanese invaders, the 60th Army lost at least 20,000 troops, and then participated in a series of battles such as Wuhan, Nanchang, and Changsha.
In 1940, the Japanese invaded Vietnam in an attempt to open the door to China from the south, and some of the officers and men of the 60th Army returned to their hometown in Yunnan to participate in the war.
Although in a series of battles, the 60th Army failed to get any bargain and paid a heavy price, but the soldiers who would rather be broken than destroyed, even if they were deeply surrounded by the Japanese invaders, none of them surrendered.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek immediately transferred this army from the southwest to the northeast, and some of the 60th Army, which was "not adapted to the water and soil", gradually began to decline.
After all, the Northeast region has always been the world of Chiang Kai-shek's ** army, and the old Chiang did not regard the 60th Army as his own.
And Chen Cheng, Du Yuming and other senior generals were not enthusiastic about the 60th Army, and the military supplies allocated to the 60th Army were extremely ordinary.
In addition, according to Chiang Kai-shek's orders, the 60th Army was divided into 3 divisions and scattered on various borders in the northeast. And Zeng Zesheng, who was the commander of the 60th Army at the time, had less than one battalion under his direct control.
Therefore, when the People's Liberation Army advanced into southern Liaoning, it encouraged the 60th Regiment of the 184th Division of the 551st Army to annihilate our army in less than a month.
Inspired by our party, the 184th Division decided to launch an uprising in Haicheng and took the initiative to accept the reorganization of the People's Liberation Army.
The 60th Army, which had been repeatedly defeated in the Liaoshen Campaign, was so angry that he scolded the 60th Army as a group of rice buckets.
The reason for the successive defeats of the 60th Army was that in addition to the unreasonable military deployment, the more important thing was that the 60th Army simply did not have enough motivation to participate in the war.
Since they were not Chiang Kai-shek's consort troops, the 60th Army, which was able to stand up during the Sino-Japanese War and put life and death on the line, insisted that they could not turn their guns on the Chinese.
Therefore, in the battle against the PLA, the attitude of the 60th Army wavered, and the army commander Zeng Zesheng did not act in full accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, and often disobeyed orders.
After receiving the order to blow up the Fengman Hydropower Station on the Songhua River, Zeng Zesheng was in a dilemma: if the order was carried out, millions of residents around the Songhua River would be wiped out.
Not wanting to be a sinner in history, Zeng Zesheng only asked his subordinates to symbolically drop a few bombs at the hydropower point, and then went back to restore Lao Jiang's life.
Chiang Kai-shek naturally had a fire in his heart, and after the 60th Army was stationed in Changchun, he changed the food of the officers and men of the 60th Army to sorghum rice or soybeans, and the armament was also a pile of broken copper and iron.
The 60th Army, which suffered successive defeats on the front line, was also shamefully ridiculed as the "Bear Army" by the ** Army, and was excluded and discriminated against all the time.
Seeing that the 60th Army was so angry, Zeng Zesheng, as a military commander, struggled incomparably. Continuing to stay in the ** camp, the future of the 60th Army is worrying, Chiang Kai-shek only regards the 60th Army as cannon fodder, and the 60th Army is in danger of being wiped out at any time.
Realizing Chiang Kai-shek's selfishness to exclude dissidents, as well as the attitude of not saving the army, Zeng Zesheng gradually embarked on the road of anti-Chiang uprising.
What is our party's attitude towards the **60 Army?How did the 60th Army break away from Chiang Kai-shek's control?
In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 50th Army, which had been a "miscellaneous bear army" for 18 years, was crowned a god in the first war.
In January 1947, the Kuomintang high-level issued an order to Zeng Zesheng on the grounds that the jurisdiction of Jilin was restricted, requiring the officers and men of the 60th Army to find their own way out and expand their territory.
The 60th Army, which has been completely reduced to an abandoned son, can only lead 50,000 soldiers to transfer to Panshi.
The 60th Army, which still wore the number of **, was fiercely attacked by the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army in 1948, and the number of casualties continued to rise.
In order to preserve his vital forces, Zeng Zesheng could only order a retreat in the direction of Jilin, wandering back and forth between Panshi and the border area of Jilin.
Zeng Zesheng did not dare to attack rashly, and was also blocked by the ** army outside the border of Jilin, so he could only make continuous detours in the middle area.
Although he had asked Lao Chiang for help several times, and Chiang Kai-shek also promised to reinforce as scheduled, everything was a conspiracy of Lao Chiang, and he wanted to use the hands of the People's Liberation Army to logically exterminate this disobedient army.
As early as the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our party had noticed that the 60th Army and other ** who had loose military discipline and no king's law were not fellow travelers at all, and they appreciated this unit very much.
So, as early as July 1947, Zeng Zesheng's old superiors wrote a letter to him, persuading him to recognize the essence of the Kuomintang and take the initiative to break away from the Kuomintang before the outbreak of the civil war.
Although it did not make Zeng Zesheng decide to embark on the road of anti-Chiang, the letter made him waver and gradually realized that Chiang Kai-shek was not trustworthy.
Seeing that Chiang Kai-shek intended to bring down this contingent, in order to save the future of the officers and men of the 60 th Army, our party arranged for some underground workers to go deep into the 60 th Army to understand the real situation of this unit.
After thoroughly understanding the thoughts of the officers and men of the 60 th Army, the underground workers actively conveyed the ideas of our party to Zeng Zesheng, and objectively and calmly analyzed the situation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party at that time with Zeng Zesheng.
Zeng Zesheng, who received the inspiration of our party, finally decided to carry out an anti-Chiang uprising in 1948. At that time, the war situation in the Northeast had completely turned towards our party, and it was also trapped in the three cities of Jinzhou, Shenyang, and Changchun.
On October 13, 1948, Zeng Zesheng took the initiative to contact our party and sent a letter of uprising, asking the People's Liberation Army to cooperate in receiving it.
So, after the secret planning of our party, without Chiang Kai-shek's knowledge, all 360 officers and men left Changchun City at 12 o'clock in the evening of October 17.
The 60th Army, which embarked on the right path, directly contributed to the peaceful liberation of Changchun and made outstanding contributions to the liberation of the entire northeast.
In January 1949, the **60th Army ceased to exist, and the 50th Army of the People's Liberation Army took its place, and the army commander continued to be Zeng Zeshang.
Subsequently, the rejuvenated 50th Army, in cooperation with the 47th Army of the People's Liberation Army, advanced into Sichuan and liberated 8 large cities one after another.
The muzzle of the gun was never aimed at the 50th Army of the Chinese, and he always held his breath in his heart. After rushing to Korea, the 50th Army finally proved to our party that all the officers and men of the 50th Army were iron men.
When withdrawing from the battlefield on the Han River, only 4 companies of the 30,000 soldiers were left, and this war also made the whole army see the strength of the 50th Army.
When Zeng Zesheng reported the military situation to Marshal *** in a disgraced manner, Mr. Peng solemnly bent down and bowed deeply to all the officers and soldiers of the 50th Army.
** also praised the 50th Army for fighting well one after another, and personally met with Zeng Zesheng.
As an army that was once loyal to the Kuomintang, the reason why the 50 th Army was able to perform so brilliantly was because our party gave the 50 th Army a complete "military soul," while the Kuomintang only shaped the "appearance" of the 50 th Army.
It is precisely because of this that even if the 50 th Army is far behind the enemy army in terms of strength and armament, it can still be like a bamboo on the battlefield, reproduce the majesty of the 50 th Army, and become a veritable "heroic army."