After the outbreak of the All-Out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Han Fuyu, a second-class general of the Army, was appointed "Deputy Commander of the Fifth Theater and Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Army", so this 3rd Army was where his backbone troops were located. However, among the four armies under the command of the group army, the 51st Army temporarily assigned to his command was the remnants of the Northeast Army, and the commander Yu Xuezhong was also appointed deputy commander-in-chief of the group army, and the other three armies, the 12th Army, the 55th Army, and the 56th Army, were the basic disk of Lao Han, and it was also the military foundation that gradually expanded during his reign in Shandong.
Han Fuyu was appointed commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army in May 1929, and his joint defection with Shi Yousan also marked the beginning of the decline of the military group of the Northwest Army. Lao Han's Third Route Army did not have many troops at that time, under the jurisdiction of two infantry divisions (20th And 29th Division), a cavalry division (1st Cavalry Division) and a mixed brigade (1st Mixed Brigade), which sounded quite frightening, but in fact, the three divisions and one brigade combined had less than 30,000 guns.
In September 1930, Han Fuyu was ordered by The Lord Lu to finally have a large territory of his own, and in the seven years since the outbreak of the War of Resistance, Han Fuyu was desperately searching for the people's fat and people's cream to get money, while recruiting troops to buy horses and recruit bandits to expand the army, and by the outbreak of the War of Resistance, he already had four corps: the 6th Army, the 12th Army, the 55th Army and the 56th Army, of which the divisions under the jurisdiction of the 6th Army were assigned to other armies when the group army was established, so the army became an air number, was soon abolished, and later transferred to the Central Army under the command of Gan Lichu.
Han Fuyu during the Great War of the Central Plains
Among the three corps of Han Fuyu's basic troops, Sun Tongxuan, commander of the 12th Army, had the 20th Division and the 81st Division under his jurisdiction, of which the 20th Division was the sixth regiment of the Third Brigade, the 81st Division was the formation of two brigades and four regiments, and the ten infantry regiments of the whole army plus more than 22,000 directly subordinate units were the main force of lao Han. Cao Fulin, commander of the 55th Army, had the 29th Division and the Pistol Brigade under his command, of which the 29th Division was a three-brigade and six-regiment system, the Pistol Brigade had two regiments (the brigade commander was wu Huawen), and the eight infantry regiments plus the direct subordinate team of the whole army were about 18,000 people.
The 56th Army, Changgu Liangmin, has the 22nd Division and the 74th Division under its jurisdiction, of which the 22nd Division is composed of six regiments of the Third Brigade, the 74th Division is composed of two brigades and four regiments, and there are about 20,000 people in ten infantry regiments of the whole army, in addition to the regimental structure of the group army and the direct subordinate regiments of various armies, with a total of about 40 regiments. Therefore, in addition to the 51st Army of the Northeast Army, the total strength of the three armies and direct subordinate units controlled by Han Fuyu was about 65,000 to 70,000 people, more than double that of the first time he came to Shandong.
The Northeast Army was Yu Xuezhong
Because Shandong was a large province with a population of nearly 40 million at that time, Han Fuyu's troop establishment was relatively full, for example, in the offensive campaign against the Japanese 10th Division in Dezhou, because Lao Han was determined to preserve his strength, in order to cover the withdrawal of his main forces from Shandong and into Henan (Li Zongren was furious), he ordered the 485th Regiment of the 243rd Brigade of the 81st Division to stay behind the city of Dezhou. According to historical data, the regimental commander Chen Yannian still has 1814 troops left below, which is still a figure after a certain number of losses after the months of the War of Resistance, and it can be seen that the number of soldiers in the main regiments of the ROK department is generally more than 2,000.
This is the part of the regular army, Han Fuyu is also the "chairman of Shandong Province" and the power to control the local troops, during the Lu period, he once formed more than 20,000 people in the Four-Way Civil Army, of course, it also belongs to his strength, so the total strength that Old Han can control should be between 85,000 and 90,000 people, not reaching 100,000, but it is not much different. After Han Fuyu's troops finally surrendered to Shandong, only three armies of the regular army were with them, while the nationalist troops that remained in Shandong were basically out of control, and some were absorbed by the later provincial chairman Shen Honglie, and some simply joined the Eighth Route Army.
It should be noted that after the Great War in the Central Plains, the national army underwent a second reorganization and downsizing, and the Nanjing government had very strict control over the numbers, strength, and equipment of various miscellaneous armed forces, so it was not easy for Han Fuyu to have three armies, five divisions, and one brigade. Hanbu was on par with Song Zheyuan's 29th Army stationed in Pingjin, and there were rumors that Han Song had formed a political-military alliance with Liu Xiang in Sichuan, because Han Fuyu was indeed a powerful faction at that time.
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the units of Han Fuyu's 3rd Group Army did resist the enemy in Northern Lubei and retreated to the Yellow River, and it was during this period that the warlords of lao Han were ideologically thinking that the Nanjing side had an attempt to consume miscellaneous troops, so in disregard of the strict orders of Li Zongren and the Military Commission of the Fifth Theater of Operations, they began to avoid battle and preserve their strength, under the pretext that the heavy artillery brigade originally assigned to him under his command was transferred to the Tang Army, and then blindly fled without a fight, and finally they were trapped by Lao Jiang in Kaifeng and then shot and killed in Wuhan.
After Han Fuyu was enforced military law, sun Tongxuan took over as commander-in-chief of the 3rd Army, but the troops were gradually divided and disintegrated by the Nanjing side, of which the 51st Army of the Northeast Army was transferred out and the 56th Army was abolished. After the Battle of Xuzhou in 1938, the 3rd Army was transferred to the command of the First Theater and fought against Japan in the Henan region for a long time, but finally could not escape the old Chiang Kai-shek's consistent means of annexing miscellaneous cards.
On March 14, 1943, the Chongqing Military Commission explicitly abolished the number of the 3rd Army Group, and the troops under its command were assigned to the command of Li Xianzhou's 28th Group Army or directly under the command of the Commander of the First Theater, and at this point, Han Fuyu's former basic units collapsed.