The predecessor of the 50th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers, which made great achievements on the Korean battlefield, was the 60th Army of the Dian Army, and the 60th Army of the Dian Army also made great contributions to the anti-aggression war of the Chinese people during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Many netizens may say that the Dian Army is equipped with a water of French, and the equipment of the Dian Army in real history is actually more miscellaneous (a common problem that cannot be developed and produced by itself), and the equipment is also different in different periods of the Anti-Japanese War, of course, the proportion of French equipment in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War is larger.
The 60th Army of the Yunnan Army was actually formed after the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and was organized into the 60th Army in September 1937, with three infantry divisions under its jurisdiction. The Organizer is different from the Organizer, which is the standard build, while the Organizer is a scaled-down version of the Organizer. There are two kinds of finishing divisions: the horse pulling system and the pack horse system, of which the "horse pulling field artillery division" has 13,390 people per division, the "pack horse mountain artillery division" has 13,903 people per division, and the three infantry divisions of the 60th Army of the Yunnan Army are all "pack horse mountain artillery division".
Each infantry division has 2 infantry brigades (4 infantry regiments), 1 artillery regiment, 1 baggage battalion, 1 engineer battalion, 1 communications battalion, 1 cavalry company, 1 special service company, 1 sanitary team, plus the division headquarters. Due to the serious lack of artillery during the ** period, the finishing divisions of the descendant troops were not fully matched, let alone the finishing divisions of the local troops. Therefore, the divisional artillery regiment is an empty shelf, but in fact it is equipped with artillery at the army level, and the scale is not large, only 1 mountain artillery battalion (equipped with 12 Krupp 75-mm mountain guns, note that it is not a French 75-mm mountain gun).
Each infantry regiment has 3 infantry battalions, 1 mortar company, 1 anti-aircraft machine gun company, plus the regimental headquarters (the regimental headquarters has 1 flag platoon, equipped with 2 French Hatch Chase M1922 8mm light machine guns, and the Yunnan army has a special formation). The mortar battery is equipped with 4 French Bronde M1931 81 mm mortars, and the anti-aircraft machine gun company is equipped with 4 French Hatch Chase M1929 Type 132 mm large-caliber machine gun (air-cooled), this type of machine gun is very powerful, can be used for anti-aircraft air defense or flat fire, can be used against Japanese light tanks and armored vehicles, and also has an effect on improvised fortifications.
Each infantry battalion has 3 infantry companies, 1 machine gun company and battalion headquarters (compared to the descendants, there are no mortar platoons). Among them, the machine gun company is equipped with 6 French Hatch Chase M1914 8mm heavy machine guns (air-cooled), which have very good performance, easy operation and high accuracy. During the Battle of Verdun in 1916, two Hatch Chase M1914 8mm heavy machine guns on a French position fired 150,000 rounds of ammunition on the 10th without any failure.
Each infantry company has three infantry platoons and company headquarters. Each infantry platoon is equipped with two French Hatch Chase M1922 8mm light machine guns, and the company has a total of six light machine guns. It should be noted that the Dian army also purchased a certain number of Belgian Browning FN M1930 Type 792-mm light machine guns were used to equip troops. In addition, in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the rifles equipped by the infantry of the Yunnan Army were French Lebel M1886 8mm mouth, not the official 7 of the domestic Hanyang Factory92 mm rifle. Correct another erroneous information on the Internet about the Yunnan Army equipped with 3 grenadiers per infantry company, the Dian Army did not equip grenadiers in batches in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and the domestic 27-type 50-mm grenadier can't be mass-produced until the middle of the Anti-Japanese War, even if it is purchased from outside, and the French M1937 50-mm grenade launcher can only be equipped in 1939.
In total, the main ** of each infantry division is 16 French Bronde M1931 81mm mortars and 16 French Hatch Chase M1929 Type 132 mm large-caliber machine guns, 72 French Hatch Chase M1914 8 mm heavy machine guns, 228 French Hatch Chase M1922 8 mm light machine guns (4 in the divisional special service company and 2 in the regimental flag protection platoon).
In fact, it is a light infantry division, the number of equipment and firepower is not as good as that of the descendant troops, the finishing division of the descendant troops is also equipped with 1 combat defense artillery company and 2 small artillery companies, the combat defense artillery company is equipped with 6 German-made PAK35 36 37 mm combat defense guns, and the small artillery company is equipped with 6 20 mm guns, and the models are Swiss Erlikon NL CAL60 20 mm machine guns (or Denmark Madsen M1933 35 20 mm machine guns, Swiss Suroton S5-106 20 mm machine guns, etc.). In addition, each infantry battalion also had one more mortar platoon (two 81 82 mm mortars), and each infantry company was equipped with nine light machine guns, which was 50% more than the Dian army.
The 60th Army of the Yunnan Army has about 40,000 people, and there is only one mountain artillery battalion directly under the army, equipped with 12 Krupp 75mm mountain guns, which is too weak in terms of heavy firepower. The light ** aspect is not bad, a water of French equipment, from mortars to light and heavy machine guns, to rifles and even infantry steel helmets. The overall ** equipment is actually inferior to the ** descendant troops, and it is even worse than the Japanese invaders, which is also a big reason for the 60th Army of the Dian Army in the Battle of Taierzhuang!After the Battle of Taierzhuang, the ** replenishment to the 60th Army of the Dian Army was mainly 30 knots 792 mm heavy machine gun, Czech 792mm light machine gun, Hanyang-made 792mm rifles, etc., because the French ** is difficult to replenish in time.