One hundred thousand Eighth Route Army out of customs, less than three years, why can a million male divisions through the Shanhaiguan

After Japan's surrender, the Communist Party of China dispatched 100,000 Eighth Route Army troops from the anti-Japanese base areas, quickly left Shanhaiguan to form the Northeast Democratic United Army, passing through the northeast. While fighting with the nationalist army, the Northeast Democratic United Army grew and grew from a 100,000-strong force to a northeast field army with a million male divisions in less than three years. Why did the Northeast Field Army develop so rapidly?

The strategy is correct and the people support it.

In the early days of the Eighth Route Army's entry into the northeast, the Party Central Committee put forward the strategic principle of "giving way to the big road and developing two compartments," which is actually the northeastern version of the theory of rural encirclement of cities. In accordance with the needs of the situation in the northeast, the party Central Committee demanded that the troops entering the northeast give up the big cities and go to the grass-roots rural areas to carry out land reform and suppress bandits, so as to win the hearts and minds of the people and win the support of the people. Through a series of operations, the enthusiasm of the people's revolution in northeast China was unprecedentedly high, and in order to defend the achievements of the revolution, everyone enthusiastically signed up to join the army, and the people's army grew rapidly.

A decisive battle in the northeast requires a stable rear

When it first entered the northeast, the strength of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army was still very weak, and it was unable to confront the nationalist army. Therefore, our army fought and retreated, retreated to the north of the Songhua River, and recuperated and recuperated. The Songhua River has become a natural barrier for our army to defend against the nationalist army, and the northern Manchurian area north of the Songhua River has become the rear base of our army. After Japan's defeat in the war, China has been repatriating Japanese people back to China, but our army has retained many Japanese technicians in the northeast, including engineers, doctors, nurses, technicians, etc., who have restored the normal operation of strategic facilities such as factories, hospitals, and railways for our army. At that time, the Northeast Field Army had the best logistics system in the whole army, the military factories in Northern Manchuria continuously delivered weapons and ammunition to the front line, and the weapons and equipment of the Nationalist army were completely replenished by the US army, and our army was completely self-sufficient. In addition, the wounded of our army can be transported to the rear hospital for good treatment and rehabilitation. All these conditions have become a reliable guarantee for our army to win the decisive battle in northeast China in the future.

A team of competent cadres

In 1955, the whole army was awarded a large number of titles, and nearly half of the generals were born in Shino. In those years, in order to explore the northeast, the party Central Committee dispatched many cadres with outstanding abilities to the northeast, not only with fierce generals who could fight hard battles, but also with a large number of political work and logistics cadres who could engage in grass-roots mobilization work. These cadres went deep into the rural areas, industrial and mining areas, and enterprises to publicize the party's policies, integrate the industrial resources of the northeast, and build a solid logistics service base. Before the Northeast Strategic Decisive Battle, the Northeast Field Army not only crushed the Nationalist Army in terms of the quantity and quality of strategic materials, but also in terms of material management, Dongye's logistics system was also many times more efficient than that of the Nationalist Army. During the Liaoshen Campaign, more than a million Dongye troops were mobilized on the vast northeast plain, and the logistics system was well run.

Cultured grassroots warriors

The Eighth Route Army was the most cultured Chinese army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The early founders of the Communist Party of China were all cultural people, so after the Communist Party mastered the army, it attached great importance to the cultural education of the soldiers of the army, from the Red Army to the Eighth Route Army, the soldiers in addition to fighting and training is to learn cultural knowledge. At that time, China's illiteracy rate was above 90 percent, while the eighth route army's literacy rate was above 90 percent. Through continuous study and strong political thinking, these soldiers of the Eighth Route Army entered the northeast, each of them became a propagandist and a planter, and later became the backbone of the northeast field army.

The troops are top-down and attach importance to cultivating tactical literacy

At the beginning of the Liberation War, the troops of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army, which suffered the defeat of Siping, withdrew to the Northern Manchuria region for summing up and reorganizing. The headquarters of the Northeast Field Army summed up six major tactical principles, including one point and two sides, three three systems, four groups and one team, three fierce tactics, three situations, three ways of playing, four fast and one slow, and targeted training for commanders at all levels, and commanders at all levels conducted drills in grass-roots units. Through various tactical trainings and drills, the Northeast Field Army has been reborn and its combat effectiveness has been continuously enhanced, becoming the field army with the strongest tactical quality in the PLA. These tactical principles were also gradually popularized in other field armies as the Liberation War progressed.

In the decisive stage of the Liberation War, the Million Heroes Division of the Northeast Field Army fought from Harbin at minus 40 degrees to Hainan Island at 40 degrees above zero, using a sentence from Ding Wei in "Bright Sword": "The People's Liberation Army does not have the Four Wilds that is called the People's Liberation Army." This shows the important position of Siye in the People's Liberation Army.