Born as a major generalwas a military commander, and only three people were promoted to the commander of the Third Field Army.
In the historical chapter of 1949, the East China Field Army turned into the third field army with outstanding strength, ranking at the top of the five major field armies, and assembled an astonishing 15 strong brigades under its command.
In contrast, the Fourth Field Army, known as a million-strong army, only has 12 main armies, and their establishment is more dense, each main force contains an average of four divisions, and the ace army has reached the size of 60,000 troops.
However, the uniqueness of the 3rd Field Army lies in its elite tactics, where each main force is not large and bloated, but consists of three divisions. Even with the main force, the number of an army maintains an efficient establishment of about 30,000 people.
The non-main force is a little more compact, with a single corps numbering about 25,000 men, which shows its strategic flexibility and concentration of combat effectiveness.
In the history of the Liberation War, the Third Field Army was like a heroic monument, led by 15 brave main army commanders. These include Teng Haiqing of the 21st Army, Sun Jixian of the 22nd Army, and Tao Yong of the 23rd Army, known for his tough guy image, and Wu Huawen, the legendary rebel general, who fought in the Northwest Army and the ** Puppet Army, and was ultimately loyal to the People's Army.
The Seventh Corps, where these four generals belonged, especially the 21st and 23rd armies, was the main force in the field army. Wang Bicheng of the 24th Army, Cheng Jun of the 25th Army, and Zhang Renchu of the 26th Army, as fierce generals of the Eighth Corps, their achievements are brilliant, and they are rare fierce generals in the Third Field Army, have accumulated rich experience in actual combat, and are real ace commanders.
And General He Jifeng is unique, as an outstanding representative of the hidden front, known as the "** general". At a critical moment, he led his troops to revolt and threw himself into the arms of the people, demonstrating his firm belief in the revolutionary cause.
In the lineup of the Third Field Army, the 20th Army led by Liu Fei and the 27th Army led by Nie Fengzhi are undoubtedly the twin stars of the Ninth Corps.
And General Zhang Kexia, as the commander of the 33rd Army, is a loyal soldier of the hidden front, as early as 1929, he hid behind enemy lines, and held on to his secret identity until December 8, 1948, resolutely returning to the embrace of the motherland.
Although the 10th Corps (the 28th, 29th, and 31st Armies under the command of Zhu Shaoqing, Hu Bingyun, and Zhou Zhijian) may have been slightly inferior to the Ninth Corps as a whole, they played a key role in the war of liberation, especially through the liberation of Fujian, which contributed to the liberation of all of China.
Their contributions, from a strategic point of view, are also indispensable.
In the Third Field Army during the Liberation War, these 15 heroic generals fought side by side, and although they held the same position, their paths to promotion after the founding of the People's Republic of China were different.
Except for the three rebel generals who did not participate in the evaluation, the remaining 12 army commanders were awarded the honor of lieutenant general or major general. Surprisingly, among these generals who have won military ranks, only three have been promoted to the commander of the Grand Military Region, they are: General Teng Haiqing is in charge of Inner Mongolia and guards the north of the country; General Wang Bicheng sat in Yunnan to defend the southwestern border; General Nie Fengzhi was stationed in Nanjing, guarding important places in the southeast.
This shows that although the Third Field Army has a large number of talented people, the proportion of people who become commanders of large military regions is quite rare.