During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the troops of our army were reorganized many times, and the troops were reorganized many times, laying the foundation for the four major field armies when liberating the battlefield, of which the Northeast Field Army was the most powerful.
In 1945, this army was only more than 200,000 people, but by the time of the Liaoshen Campaign, the main force had reached 700,000, and by the time of the Reorganization into the Fourth Field Army, their size had reached one million.
Military fans have no doubts in their minds, why can the Northeast Field Army rapidly expand to a million in just a few years?
There is one person whose role cannot be ignored, and this person is
Luo Ronghuan
At the Battle of Siping, the Northeast Field Army suffered heavy casualties and lost the battle. The losses of the main column were particularly heavy, and the leaders were anxious not to know how to quickly restore the troops and continue to function.
From ancient times to the present, there are only two ways to expand the army: one is to directly pull the toiling people, prisoners, etc. to force them to join the army, and the other is to encourage the people to join the army. At that time, our army's troops chose to call on poor peasants to actively join the army, but at the same time this would bring about other problems, that is, the peasants did not undergo professional military training, most of the people would be instinctively afraid on the battlefield, and it was easy to have a feeling of retreat in the arduous marching process, and it was easy to desert when the battlefield was transferred.
The presentation of this new concept seems to open up a new continent, but what is
Second-line corps
this?
This is a relative concept is relative to the first-line corps, the first-line corps are professionally trained or have been educated in military schools or march for many years, and the second-line corps is equivalent to a reserve soldier, they do not need to rush to the front to face the rain of bullets, what they need to do every day is to receive training, the soldiers in this corps are all peasants who have been recruited, they do not need to be incorporated into the military region, they need to be considered after training.
It's not all recruit eggs, there are some veterans who have experienced the battlefield, they are responsible for leading these soldiers who have only joined the army to assassinate, shoot and other basic battlefield skills, but not only that, they also need ideological education when learning specific skills, until they can be transferred to the First Army after training.
Practice has proved that this is indeed an effective method, and the second-line corps is directly under the jurisdiction of Luo Ronghuan, and the orders are issued to each military region for their specific implementation.
The program was launched in 1947, but by early 1948, the first phase of training was over.
This reserve regiment turned into 88 independent regiments, with a total of more than 200,000 people, which was a qualitative leap in the history of the Northeast Field Army, which was directly praised by the leadership, and now look at why the original Kuomintang army suffered defeat under our army, not without the reason for the success of the implementation of this plan.
After the end of the first phase of the second-line corps, good results were achieved, and then the second phase was immediately launched, still presided over by Luo Ronghuan. When mobilizing for the second phase, the task was to mobilize 50,000 people, and the direct leaders of Matsue Province felt some difficulty and hesitated when they heard this goal. Mr. Luo directly asked him if he had any difficulties, and the person in charge replied that he had just mobilized 30,000 people, and now it was really difficult to mobilize 50,000 people.
However, Luo Ronghuan was confident, saying that he had learned about the local situation before, that the work of land reform had achieved great results, and that in order to encircle their own land, they would certainly participate enthusiastically, and the 50,000 yuan given was said in light of the actual situation, which was very reasonable. As a result, as Luo Ronghuan expected, there were many people joining the army in Songjiang Province, and it exceeded the planned number of 7,000 people.
The second-line corps carried out three phases before and after this plan, organized more than 180 independent regiments, and directly expanded the army by 420,000 people, such a huge data made everyone who heard the story of this expansion of the army a little surprised. The strength of 420,000 troops is equivalent to more than the strength of the two field armies in the northwest and the central plains, which directly enhances the strength of the northeast field army.
I have to say that there are talented people in the Jiangshan generation, if there are not countless capable people like Luo Ronghuan, how can China develop step by step to the present? The strength of a country must be the common effort of many people behind it.