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During the Liberation War, Dongye, which had more than one million troops, was transformed into Shino in 1949, and the 12 columns under its jurisdiction were also renamed as the army. From the perspective of strength and actual combat strength, the 1.32 million Dongye troops after the Liaoshen Campaign are actually the leaders of the whole army. So which of the 3 columns in the million Dongye army in January 1949 was the strongest overall? Let's take a look at it today. Some sources include the 6 verticals in the top three, but not the three verticals. Therefore, the following is only the author's point of view, for the reader's reference and understanding.
Third place, Higashino Sanshiro. The three columns have achieved outstanding results. At that time, among the main columns of Higashino, the only one that insisted on the south of Matsuha River when the initial situation in the northeast was passive was the three columns. Several other units retreated to Jiangbei. The famous Liaoshen Campaign first attacked the main force of Jinzhou and laid the foundation for victory, and then the 3rd Column became liao Yaoxiang's biggest bitter lord, the 9th Corps, the number one main force of the Nationalist army, was wiped out, and the 3rd Column made the greatest contribution in the Battle of Western Liaoning, including the capture of its main general Liao Yaoxiang. Next, the Dongye army went south, and in 1950, Hainan Island, the southernmost point of China, was mainly laid down by Han Xianchu. After that, General Han led this main army to garrison in the southeast and became an important force deterring Taiwan. Therefore, there is a basis for the three verticals to enter the top three in Higashino.
Second place, Higashino Kazuyuki. The first was the 38th Army, the "Banzai Army" that was later in Korea. Before the 1st column went to Korea, it was a proper second,000, and after the second battle, its status even had a tendency to surpass that of the 2nd column. However, on the whole, it is still recommended to put 1 vertical in the second position. The 1 column is slightly inferior to the 2 column, mainly because things in the northeast are not as strong as the second column. Of course, after crossing the river in 49 years, the 1st column is the longest combat distance in the main force of Dongye, and it hits Yunnan to the southwest, and the 1st column has 60,000 people at its maximum, and the number of troops in Dongye also belongs to the forefront. During the long period of Liang Xing's army, it was the best performing former Dongye team on the Korean battlefield, and there was only one Banzai Army, and even the 2nd Column did not receive such praise. Not only in the history of the war, to this day the 38th Army is still one of the strongest units of our army, and it has been upgraded to a group army.
First place, Higashino 2nd Column. The second column was the later 39th Army. During the Northeast War, the strongest unit of Dongye was not controversial, that is, the second column, but it was not as famous as the Banzai Army during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The 2nd Column has an ace division, which is also the strongest division in Higashino, that is, the 5th Division, which is recognized by Higashinoji, and generally few commanders directly point out which unit is the strongest under its banner, which shows how difficult the status of the 2nd Column and 5th Division is to shake. The biggest feature of the 2 columns is that the hard battles are almost all, but there are few defeats. No matter how ace the troops are, the more battles they fight, they will also lose their defenses, such as the case of a vertical fight and four unevenness. There were more than 59,000 officers and men in the second column going south, and they were not only the strongest in the northeast period, but also had the same outstanding record in the south and into the DPRK later. It is worth mentioning that after the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations in the 1960s, the Second Column was still the number one main force in the strategic defense of the northeast.