Generally speaking, for some people who are familiar with military knowledge, the formation of the army is divided into corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, and other units, and the establishment of the army is also different, especially when it comes to military units in modern Chinese history, it is a hodgepodge; in the modern revolutionary war, there have also been columns, several route armies, group armies, corps, corps, and so on, and in addition, in the Kuomintang army, there have also been integrated divisions, which are comparable to the establishment of an army.
In fact, what is the strength of the troops? The number of troops under the jurisdiction and the number of troops are measured according to the actual situation on the battlefield, especially for units above the army level, and large-scale battles need to use the corps level, and the number of people will range from 6 to 120,000, and if it is a guerrilla operation, it may only be necessary to have a dozen people, but these dozen or so people will not be able to tell the enemy their own number during the battle, and they may claim to have a company or a battalion.
In fact, the most intuitive embodiment is that in some anti-Japanese war dramas, such as "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong once mentioned that he had 8 battalions in a regiment, which also made some of their old comrades-in-arms very envious, such as Kong Jie and so on, but Ding Wei obviously disagreed, which shows that Ding Wei's troops must be more than this number, and Li Yunlong once gathered tens of thousands of people at once when attacking Ping'an County, which is close to the strength of a division, but it is claimed that there is still only one regiment.
However, Li Yunlong's so-called regiment has 8 battalions, which is unreasonable in the entire history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; theoretically, a regiment is organized according to the three-three system, and the maximum number of battalions under the jurisdiction of the regiment is up, if the number of people is really more, then it will definitely be divided into troops, or a new regiment will be re-established, otherwise how did Li Yunlong's new 1st regiment and Kong Jie's new 2nd regiment come from?
The establishment of the three-three system is based on Chiang Kai-shek's establishment of the ** army, due to the warlord melee in modern history, the establishment of warlord troops in various places is not the same, the Northern Expeditionary Army during the Great Revolution is in accordance with the Soviet Union's establishment method, that is, we are more familiar with the three-three system, in fact, the troops in this period, an army has three divisions, a division has three regiments, and a regiment has three battalions, which are arranged at one time, but due to the failure of the revolution, Chiang Kai-shek has incorporated the warlord armies from all walks of life, and the troop establishment was chaotic for a time. Brigade-sized units began to appear.
After Chiang Kai-shek nominally unified the country, he ordered all units to be reorganized in his way, and later during the Sino-German cooperation period, each unit was basically organized according to the establishment of the German armament division, but even so, the armed establishment of the various warlords was still very chaotic, some divisions were under the jurisdiction of three brigades and six regiments (commonly known as the A division), and some divisions were under the jurisdiction of three regiments (commonly known as the C division), and Chiang Kai-shek was usually extremely harsh on the establishment of the troops that did not belong to him.
At the beginning of the reorganization, the Eighth Route Army had two brigades and four regiments under its jurisdiction, which were organized as Type B troops, and Chiang Kai-shek's idea was also very simple, that is, to send the Eighth Route Army to the battlefield and borrow the hands of the Japanese to destroy our army, but the Eighth Route Army followed the objective principle on the battlefield and harassed the enemy in the form of guerrilla warfare, until 1940, when the frontal battlefield formed a stalemate stage, guerrilla warfare gradually became the mainstream, and it was very inappropriate to use the original regular troops to organize guerrilla warfare.
Therefore, in different periods, although everyone is a regiment, but the number of regiments is not the same according to different levels, and Li Yunlong's regiment originally had three battalions of more than 1,000 people, which belonged to the basic regiment, not the main regiment with more than 3,000 people, and the basic regiment also followed the principle of the three-three system, but the number was insufficient, and the local regiment was only about 500 people, and there were only 5 companies under its jurisdiction. Until the end of the Anti-Japanese War, our army abolished the small regiment and changed it into a battalion, and the troops were successively reorganized into units with regular establishments.