In 2021, there is a Douban score of 90's domestic drama "Meritorious", which tells the story of the meritorious characters of the Republic that we are familiar with in the form of a unit drama, of which the first unit drama "Li Yannian" tells the story of the Volunteer Army's entry into the Korean War.
Although this is not the focus of our discussion today, we found an interesting phenomenon, and that is the ** of the Volunteer Army.
At the time of the film, attentive viewers may find that there are many types of volunteers, including the United States, Britain and China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and even the Hanyang-made rifles of the last century, which can be said to be quite confusing.
Why, then, is the ** of the Volunteer Army so confused? Let's explore why.
This historical background seems to be unknown to many people. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, Lao Chiang launched a civil war, and at that time, Lao Chiang was rich and well-equipped, with Thomson in the United States and Stern in the United Kingdom, and even only needed to move a little, and there were aircraft and artillery to provide support for it.
At that time, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) was poor and white, and the troops stationed in the northeast were seriously short of bullets, but it was in this predicament that the PLA staged a perfect counterattack.
The reason was that Chiang Kai-shek's civil war was unpopular, and many anti-Japanese troops were deeply disgusted by the civil war. What made the people even more angry was that Chiang Kai-shek also incorporated many former Japanese troops into his own troops.
Lao Chiang's tenacity in fighting the civil war made many troops lose confidence in him, and the People's Liberation Army attacked fiercely, causing many troops to defect or be annihilated. As a result, the PLA gained a large number of other countries' armies, including as many as 160,000 light machine guns.
It turned out that due to the generosity of the transport brigade commander, the PLA had a variety of equipment, and in order to solve this problem, the PLA decided to implement standardization. However, the outbreak of the Korean War disrupted this plan, and the assistance of the American army caused the North Korean army to suffer heavy losses, and the war burned to the Yalu River.
The outbreak of the Korean War caused the squadron to rush into battle and confront the US military, which was known as the "strongest blue star" at that time. Due to the different equipment, logistics are under great pressure.
Therefore, immediately after the end of the war, the Chinese People's Liberation Army began the process of standardization.