In the modern history of our country, there is such a force that has rarely won a victory in a "civil war". During Chiang Kai-shek's control of the Nationals, this army was repeatedly defeated on the battlefield.
However, when it was later reorganized into the People's Liberation Army, it broke out with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and also created a miracle of resisting more than 200,000 US troops with tens of thousands of troops on the Korean battlefield, and this force was the Dian Army.
The Dian Army was a local army in Yunnan during the ** period, and it was considered to have a long history. As early as the first year of Guangxu, the Yunnan Governor had begun to form a local army, which was the predecessor of the Yunnan Army.
By the time of the Sino-French War, the Dian army had become a local main force of nearly 6,000 men. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, in order to further strengthen the national defense strength, the Qing Dynasty collected elite troops from all over the country to form a new army, and at the same time, some local troops with relatively strong combat effectiveness were reorganized into regular armies, including the Dian army.
In order to strengthen the combat capability of the Yunnan army, the Qing ** also founded the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall in 1907, and by the time of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Yunnan army had become a well-known local army in the country at that time.
Later, this army fought the ** war with Cai Yi, and also entered Sichuan and Guangdong with other warlords, and has always been the mainstream military force in the southeast corner.
Later, in 1929, the Yunnan army also ushered in their spiritual leader, which was the "King of Yunnan" Long Yun during the national ** period, although the Yunnan army was nominally a military force dominated by the national **, but in fact it had a strong military autonomy, and the national ** has always been obedient to the tune and not to the public.
Until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the whole country united to fight against the Japanese invaders, and the local warlord troops were also forced to accept the ** reorganization, including the Dian army led by Long Yun.
At this time, the main force of the Yunnan Army was reorganized by Chiang Kai-shek into the 60th Army of the Army, which made a lot of achievements during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression - participated in the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Wuhan and other battles.
Every time it fought, the strong-willed Dian army fought bravely to be the first, so the 60th Army suffered heavy losses within a few years of the war. Although Long Yun later formed the New Dian Army in Yunnan on the basis of the 58th Army and the New Third Army, the 60th Army was still the true soul of the Dian Army.
However, it is a pity that after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek ** soon provoked a new war again - the War of Liberation. In order to completely eliminate Long Yun's influence in Yunnan, Chiang Kai-shek directly ordered in 1946 that the 60th Army and the 93rd Army, the two main forces of the Dian Army at that time, should be directly transferred north to the northeast.
However, the two main forces of the Yunnan Army have been repeatedly defeated in the civil war, and even some of the Yunnan Army units have revolted in the whole formation, and they are not willing to listen to Chiang Kai-shek's blind command at all.
Later, the two main forces of the Yunnan Army: the 93rd Army, were basically annihilated by the People's Liberation Army in Jinzhou; The 60th Army revolted in Changchun under the leadership of Zeng Zesheng, and the main force of the Dian Army basically ended up in these two ways.
The 93rd Army, which served the national **, we don't say much, after all, it has been annihilated, but the 60th Army, which is also the main force of the Yunnan Army, has become reborn after being reorganized by the People's Liberation Army.
On January 2, 1949, the 60th Army, the main force of the Dian Army, was officially reorganized into the 50th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and in the following more than a year, this unit participated in the Battle of Western Hubei, the Battle of Sichuan, and the Battle of Chengdu, and made many achievements.
After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 50th Army was listed as the first batch of troops to enter the Korean War. This former main force of the Dian army also proved itself in the Korean battlefield, and participated in the first to fourth battles.
Even the 50th Army once set a record of annihilating the British Royal Heavy Tank Battalion; At the time of the liberation of Seoul, the 50th Army was also one of the first troops to enter the city. On the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the achievements of the 50th Army can be called a miracle in military history.
At the time of the fourth campaign, the United Army was preparing to launch, and the Volunteer Army put forward the strategy of "attacking from the west to the east".
To put it simply, it is to order the troops in the west of the front to block the main force of the United **, and then transfer a few more armies in the east to attack the weak flanks of the United **, so as to fight a beautiful interspersed ** battle.
On the Western Front, there were only two troops responsible for blocking the joint ** offensive, one was the 38th Army, and the other was the 50th Army. Their tens of thousands of troops have to block the joint ** of more than 200,000, and there are also a huge number of US troops, and the pressure is very great.
You must know that at that time, the United States had complete air and sea supremacy, as well as heavy firepower superiority, and we could only use light infantry against the elite mechanized troops of the United States.
However, in the entire fourth battle, the 50th Army fought with its back to the Han River, and held out for more than 50 days in the defensive operations on both sides of the Han River.
At that time, half a month after the start of the war, the 50th Army had already exceeded half of the army, according to the normal situation, if a unit reached 20%, it should lose its combat effectiveness, but the 50th Army was more than half of the number of people, and it was able to fight back and forth with the United States, which was incredible.
In these more than 50 days of defensive battles, the 50th Army annihilated 110,000 joint **, and also killed more than 70 tanks and armored vehicles of the joint **, really holding the defense line with light infantry, and carrying several times the joint ** mechanized troops of their own. This is a very rare record in human history, and the 50th Army can definitely be called the "Iron Army".
However, it is a pity that after the end of the fourth campaign, the 50th Army was unable to fight again because of the heavy situation, so it was transferred back to China for rest. Less than four months after returning to China to recuperate, the 50th Army went to Korea for the second time under the order of ** to continue to fight against the United **.
After that, the 50th Army also assumed the rear garrison duty until April 1955, when it officially ended all military missions in Korea and withdrew to the country.
You must know that the 50th Army was the only one of the first armies to enter the DPRK to fight and revolt from the Kuomintang, but the 50th Army set a record on the frontal battlefield that was difficult for those veteran PLA troops to fight.
* He also gave a high evaluation to this army, which was built on the basis of the Dian army. Even *** said: The 50th Army fought quite well on the Korean battlefield.
This also proves from the side that the Dian army is not without combat effectiveness, but just depends on who they fight and who leads them. When serving the people, they who did not want to fight the civil war did not contribute to their work, but when they really defended the country, the Dian army was also a well-known ace elite.