At the end of 1948, as the general trend of the northeast battlefield had gone, Zheng Dongguo, deputy commander of the Northeast Suppression, broke away from the unit at the juncture of the campaign, and the 60th Army of the Dian Army, which was responsible for defending Changchun, also launched an uprising under the contact of our army, and this unit was later directly reorganized into the 50th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
It took too much effort, the 50th Army was ordered to go south in June 1949, incorporated into the four fields to participate in the Liberation War, and in November belonged to the second field to participate in the Chengdu Campaign, invincible along the way, the number of troops in the Kuomintang army alone reached 2There were as many as 70,000 people, and until the end of the Liberation War, the number of 50 troops had reached 580,000 people, three divisions under it, and in 1950, it also joined the 167th Division adapted from the 20th Corps of the Kuomintang Army, which can be said to be far larger than each unit.
However, after 1950, with the end of the major battles of the Liberation War, the 50th Army later reorganized various institutions, and the number of troops increased from 580,000 dropped to 330,000, and in Hunan and other places to carry out the task of suppressing bandits and production, in fact, if there is no later War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the next fate of the 50th Army should be to be changed into artillery, when the 50th Army was transferred north to the jurisdiction of the Northeast Military Region, it has already handed over all the **, completed the preliminary work of reorganizing artillery.
However, due to the tight war in Korea, the higher authorities transferred the 50 th Army to Korea to participate in the war in order to strengthen the combat strength of our army to resist US aggression and aid Korea; due to the haste of the incident, the officers and men of the 50 th Army at all levels were not psychologically prepared for war, so they were transferred to the Korean battlefield in a vague way.
In the first two battles, the 50th Army fought very badly, of course, this is also related to the fact that the troops mainly participated in the main force to cooperate with the operation, but the repeated defeat of the enemy, so that the troops' anxious mood became more and more serious, Zeng Zesheng also knew in his heart that the combat effectiveness of this army was not like this, and the officers and men of each unit themselves also held back their strength, they themselves belonged to the insurrectionary troops, and the time to participate in the Liberation War was a little late, and they did not establish too many meritorious achievements on the battlefield, so many people vowed to make contributions on the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea.
Therefore, the 50th Army carried out a week-long repair, of course, this repair also strengthened the determination of the 50th Army as a whole to dare to fight and win, on December 31, 1950, the third battle began, the Volunteer Army concentrated the strength of 6 armies, ready to cross the 38th parallel to launch a full-scale attack, the 50th Army in the northern line of the 25th Division of the US Army, only 20 minutes to quickly defeat the enemy, and then advanced to the south of Gaoyang Xianyouli, encountered the British 29th Brigade heavy tank battalion.
After a day and night of fierce fighting, the British tank battalion was wiped out, the battalion is subordinate to the 29th Brigade rifle regiment, is a famous elite unit in the history of the British army, before the war had shouted, this regiment can compete with a division or an army of our army, and this station 50 Army only dispatched a regiment, the front was defeated, and even captured the army's battle flag "Green Tiger Flag", destroyed 31 tanks, it can be said to be a great victory, and the next fourth battle of the Han River blocking battle, the 50th Army with a tenacious attitude, The continuous resistance for 50 days and nights bought time for the withdrawal of the covering troops, and became the most glorious record in the history of the 50th Army.