The North China troops who could not open the situation
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the mainland launched a war of liberation. However, in the War of Liberation, the mainland's North China troops in the Jin-Cha-Ji region were unable to open up the situation for a long time, and basically did not win any major victories. So Marshal Zhu De went to Baoding, Hebei Province, in April 1947 to inspect the North China Army and reform this unit.
The backward foundation of the North China army
After arriving in Baoding, General Manager Zhu quickly realized the reason why the North China troops were slow to open up the situation. The first is poor logistical capacity. In addition to the three eastern provinces, the North China Plain was the first region in China to be invaded by the Japanese army. In the years during the japanese invasion of China in an all-round way, the Japanese army launched round after round of sweeping up the north China region, resulting in serious damage to the north China region, and there was no foundation for either agriculture or industry.
Like the Fourth Field Army, which was in charge of the northeast region, the first thing it did after acquiring the northeast was to resume production in dalian's arsenals. As a result, Shino obtained a large number of weapons and became the most powerful of the four field armies. However, the North China troops did not have such good luck, and after they drove out the Japanese, there was nothing left in North China, and they could only start construction from scratch.
What is even more fatal is that the North China troops do not have much of a mass base in the local area. At that time, many areas in North China were under the direct control of the Japanese army, and our army's revolutionary base areas in North China were fragmented and did not become one until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan. As a result, our army has been unable to establish an effective political power in the vast areas of northern China, and the local people do not understand our army, and their support for our army is not great.
The north China military structure is scattered
In addition, General Manager Zhu also believed that there were more people eating in the North China troops and fewer people fighting wars. Our army's anti-Japanese base areas in north China were often swept up by the Japanese army, and in the state of the Japanese army being strong and our army weak, our army had to be reduced to pieces, so that the garrison in each base area had its own logistics, medical and other units.
As a result, the North China troops appear to be quite numerous, but they are all small units of a guerrilla nature, and there are not many people who actually hold guns in each unit, and a large number of personnel have to be responsible for the logistics and other aspects of their own units. So there is Mr. Zhu's sentence "There are more people who eat, and fewer people who fight."
In comparison, Shino has done a very good job in this regard. Shino has its own arsenal of the whole army, there are logistics, medical care, training and other institutions of the whole army, and the strength of the whole army is integrated, and every organization in the army can play the greatest role on the smallest scale. But the scattered state of the North China army forced them to have a huge number of logistics agencies, even if each logistics agency was very small, but the combined number would be very large.
Therefore, General Manager Zhu carried out reforms in response to this problem, integrated the north China troops, established a unified financial, military, and logistics system in north China, and cut the scale in medical treatment, food, and military supplies to achieve unified command.