The First Field Army had five corps and three directly subordinate independent armies. So how did these 3 independent armies come about? Who are the commanders?
In mid-August 1949, Yiye marched into Gansu, Zhou Xiangchu, commander-in-chief of the Gansu Provincial Self-Defense Command of the Kuomintang Army, Sun Boquan, acting commissioner of the Gansu Provincial First Inspectorate and chief of staff of the Security Command, and Chen Shubao, commander of the 173rd Division of the Kuomintang 120th Army, led an uprising in Minxian County on September 11, 1949, and the subordinate unit was reorganized into the 1st Independent Army of Yiye (Northwest), with Zhou Xiang as its commander.
Military commander Zhou Xiangchu, a native of Weiyuan, Gansu, was born in 1895 and graduated from the Baoding Military Academy in his early years. From 1931, he served as a brigade commander and division commander in Chen Cheng's 43rd Division of the Civil Engineering Department, and after participating in the Changsha Battle, he was promoted to lieutenant general of the 87th Army, and later because of his anti-Chiang Kai-shek tendency, he was transferred to the posts of commissioner of the Second Administrative Supervision District of Gansu Province and commander of security, commander-in-chief of the General Headquarters of the Gansu Provincial Self-Defense Army, and later served in Gansu.
In November of the same year, the army was reorganized into the 1st Independent Division of Ichino under the command of the 62nd Army, and marched south with the 18th Corps, and the number of the Independent 1st Army was cancelled.
In late August 1949, Lanzhou was liberated, and in early September of the same year, the 19th Corps of Yiye marched to Ningxia. Ma Dunjing, commander of the 81st Army of the Kuomintang Army stationed in the Zhongwei area of Ningxia, under the military pressure and political struggle of our army, reached a peace agreement with the 19th Corps on September 19, and led the 35th Division and the 294th Division to revolt in Zhongwei County, Ningxia, and the subordinate unit was reorganized into the 2nd Independent Army of Yiye (Northwest), with Ma Dunjing as its commander.
Ma Dunjing, also known as Ma Shujing, a native of Lanzhou Prefecture, Gansu Province, was a member of the MaJia Army in Ningxia, who served as the commander of the 205th Regiment of the 103rd Brigade of the Kuomintang 35th Division, and later as the brigade commander and chief of staff of the 81st Army. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he led the 81st Army to Suixi to resist the War of Resistance, and the military headquarters was stationed in Linhe. In the face of more than 30,000 mechanized enemies who were combined with land and air and infantry and artillery, they were not afraid, and commanded the troops to heroically block the invading Japanese puppet army in the area of Wolf's Mouth, Sixitang, Ula'an Bao, and Wuzhen in Ubud; when the enemy's tanks, armored vehicles, and cars were under the cover of aircraft and artillery and the throwing of poison gas bombs, the horse department was still able to stubbornly resist, give play to the role of old rifles, engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, inflict heavy damage on the enemy, effectively prevent the Japanese puppet army from advancing westward, and smash the Japanese military's operational plan to invade Ningxia and the Great Northwest. And effectively contain the strength of the Japanese army in North China. He later served as a lieutenant general in the 81st Army, and after the uprising, he served as the commander of the independent 2nd Army, and after the founding of New China, he transferred to a local post.
It was later reorganized into the Independent 1st Division of the Ningxia Military Region, and the number of the Independent 2nd Army was abolished.
The Independent 3rd Army was reorganized from the Kuomintang 119th Army that revolted in the Wudu area of Gansu. On December 9, 1949, under the military pressure and political struggle of our army, the Kuomintang 119th Army launched an uprising led by commander Wang Zhiqi and deputy commander Jiang Yuntai, and established the Yiye (Northwest) Independent 3rd Army, with Jiang Yuntai as the commander.
Jiang Yuntai was a native of Dingxi, Gansu Province, born in 1905, graduated from the Longdong Wushu Academy and the Higher Education Class of the Army University, and served as the brigade commander of the Fifth Brigade of Chen Juezhang's department, the deputy commander of the 165th Division of the Kuomintang, the lieutenant general of the Kuomintang 119th Army and the commander of the 244th Division.
In 1950, the independent 3rd Army was abolished, and the subordinate units were incorporated into the units of the Northwest Military Region.
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