Chinese People's Liberation Army was born in the fire of war, baptized in the fire of war, and came all the way from the fire of war. Since the day of its birth, after ten years of civil revolutionary war, fourteen years of war of resistance against Japanese aggression, three years of war of liberation, three years of war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and a series of wars of counterattack against the Soviet Union, Vietnam, and India, the people's liberation army of Chinese has grown from small to large, from weak to strong, and has become a mighty division and a division of steel, which has created the glory and pride of the people's army. Chinese the history of the growth of the People's Liberation Army is a magnificent revolutionary history.
In the sequence of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, there are countless strong armies, battle generals are like clouds, and there are ten ace armies recognized in the history of the party and the military.
Predator 13 Corps
The 13th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is a unit with a glorious history, its predecessors are the 31st Army of the Red Fourth Front during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 4th Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region during the Liberation War, the 4th Column of the Central Plains Field Army, and some units of the Western Henan Military Region.
In October 1931, the 73rd Division of the 25th Army of the Red Army was established in Mabu, with the division commander Liu Ying and the political commissar Wu Huanxian under the jurisdiction of the 217th, 218th and 219th Regiments. The 217th Regiment was reorganized from the 31st Regiment of the 11th Division of the 4th Army, whose predecessor was an armed group formed by our Party in the southern part of Shangcheng, Henan in the winter of 1928; The 218th Regiment was reorganized from the 28th Regiment of the 10th Division, formerly known as the Kwangsan Red Guards, which were born after the Jute Uprising of 1928; The 219th Regiment was reorganized from the 34th Regiment of the 12th Division, and its predecessor was the Red 7th Regiment, which was born after the Liuhuo Uprising and the Shangnan Uprising in 1929. After that, the 73rd Division successively participated in the Battle of Shangyan, the Battle of Sujiabu, the Battle of Huangguang, and the Fourth Anti-"National Period".
In October 1932, the 73rd Division was strategically transferred with the Red Fourth Front, and in December it began to participate in the struggle to create a revolutionary base area in Sichuan and Shaanxi. In early July 1933, the 73rd Division was expanded into the 31st Army in the Wangcang area of Sichuan, with Wang Shusheng as the commander, Zhang Guangcai as the political commissar, Li Te as the chief of staff, Huang Chao as the director of the political department, and 7 regiments in the next 3 divisions, with nearly 10,000 people. The headquarters of the former 73rd Division and its three regimental headquarters were expanded into the headquarters of the 31st Army and the divisional headquarters of the 91st, 92nd, and 93rd Divisions.
From January to October 1934, the 31st Army participated in the operation to crush the Six-Way Siege of the Kuomintang Army. In November, the 31st Army was downsized from three divisions to two divisions, the 91st and 93rd.
In January 1935, he participated in the Battle of Guangzhao; From March to April, he participated in the Battle of Jialing River. In May 1935, the 31st Army began the Long March with the Red Fourth Front, due to the interference of Zhang Guotao's wrong route, the 31st Army crossed the meadow three times, repeatedly experienced dangerous situations, overcame countless difficulties and obstacles, and finally won the heroic and tragic Long March in October 1936.
During the period of the agrarian revolutionary battle order, the 31st Army and its predecessor units moved to Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Shanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia and other provinces, participated in 12 battles and hundreds of battles, and together with brother troops, opened up more than 300,000 enemies.
In August 1937, the 31st Army was reorganized into the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with brigade commander Chen Geng, deputy brigade commander Chen Zaidao, chief of staff Li Jukui, and director of the Political Training Office Wang Xinting, under the jurisdiction of the 771st and 772nd regiments, with a total of more than 5,000 brigades. The 771st Regiment was reorganized from the 91st Division, with regimental commander Xu Shenji, deputy regimental commander Han Dongshan, chief of staff Liu Jinxuan, and director of the Political Training Office Huang Zhentang; The 772nd Regiment was reorganized from the 93rd Division, with regimental commander Ye Chenghuan, deputy regimental commander Wang Jinshan, chief of staff Sun Jixian, and director of the Political Training Office Xie Fuzhi.
On September 30, the 386th Brigade crossed the Yellow River with the division headquarters in the east, and by October Zhongdian was deployed in the northeastern Jin region. On the 22nd, the 3rd Battalion of the 772nd Regiment set up an ambush at Changshengkou to kill and wound more than 30 Japanese troops, and won the first victory of the 386th Brigade on the anti-Japanese battlefield. On the 26th and 28th, under the personal command of Liu Bocheng, the 772nd Regiment repeatedly set up an ambush in the village of Qiqi and annihilated more than 400 Japanese troops. On 2 January, the 772nd Regiment annihilated more than 500 enemy troops in the Battle of Huangyan Bottom.
On January 13, 1938, based on the 4th, 6th and 11th Companies of the 772nd Regiment, together with the new corps, the 129th Division Supplementary Regiment was formed in LiaoXian (present-day Zuoquan County), with Han Dongshan as the regimental commander, Ding Xianguo as the political commissar, Yu Lin as the deputy regimental commander, Zhou Xihan as the chief of staff, and Leng Yuguang as the director of the Political Training Office. At the same time, in order to strengthen the party's absolute leadership over the army and restore the system of political commissars, Wang Xinting was appointed as the political commissar of the brigade, Xu Shiyou was appointed as the deputy brigade commander, and Zhang Nansheng and Xiao Yongyin were appointed as the political commissars of the 771st and 772nd regiments. From February to April, the 386th Brigade successively carried out the Changshengkou Ambush Battle, the Shentouling Ambush Battle, the Xiangtangpu Ambush Battle, and the Changle Village Pursuit and Annihilation Battle, killing more than 4,000 Japanese troops and greatly enhancing the military's might. In July, the 771st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment of the Eastern Column formed the Independent Brigade of the 129th Division. The Supplementary Regiment of the 5th Division and the New 1st Regiment (combined by the 1st and 3rd Regiments of the Eastward Column) were assigned to the 386th Brigade, with a total brigade of nearly 8,000 men.
In February 1939, the 386th Brigade participated in the Battle of Xiangcheng Gulu Ambush in Ji'nan, killing more than 250 japanese brigade leaders and below, and after the war, the new 1st Regiment was awarded the honorary title of "Zhu de Youth League". At the end of August, the 3rd Brigade of the Frontier Advance Detachment was incorporated into the 386th Brigade, which was later renamed the 4th Regiment.
In June 1940, the Taiyue Military Region was established, and the leading organ was the 386th Brigade, which was under the jurisdiction of the 1st to 3rd Military Sub-districts. The 386th Brigade was also reorganized, and in addition to the 5772nd Regiment retaining its original name, the new 1st Regiment, the Supplementary Regiment and the 4th Regiment were renamed the 16th, 17th and 18th Regiments, respectively. Beginning in late August, the 386th Brigade participated in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, annihilating more than a thousand Japanese troops.
In 1941, after suffering a heavy blow from the Hundred Regiments War, the Japanese Kou launched a frenzied "sweep" of our anti-Japanese base areas, and the 386th Brigade, which was tasked with mobile combat, adopted flexible and changeable strategies and tactics to crush the iron wall of the Japanese army.
Beginning in April 1942, the 386th Brigade was reorganized, with Wang Jinshan as the brigade commander, Xie Fuzhi as the political commissar, Liu Zhong as the deputy political commissar, Zhou Xihan as the chief of staff, and Zhang Zuyu as the director of the Political Department. Former political commissar Wang Xinting led the 17th and 18th Regiments and the 57th Regiment of the Decisive First Brigade to form a southward detachment and marched towards the Zhongtiao District
In March 1943, the 386th Brigade and the 2nd Military Subdistrict of the Taiyue Military Region, the brigade commander Wang Jinshan and the political commissar Liu Zhong were also the commanders of the military sub-districts and political commissars, respectively, and the number of the 386th Brigade was temporarily cancelled. In September, the 20th Regiment of the Ji'nan Military Region was transferred to the 2nd Military Sub-district. In October, the 16th Regiment was ordered to transfer to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, led by Wang Jinshan himself, to set up an ambush near the village of Hanluo in the east of Hongdong County, Shanxi, on the 24th, and the "field expedition" composed of officers organized by the Kou North China Dispatch Army for the total annihilation of japan included 1 major general brigade commander and 6 wing commanders.
In October 1944, the 772nd Regiment was transferred to the 3rd Military Subdistrict of the Taiyue Military Region, and the Shimin Independent Regiment was reorganized into the 2nd Military Sub-district Basic Cadre Regiment.
In August 1945, the Taiyue Military Region restored the 386th Brigade in accordance with the instructions of the Central Military Commission and Chief Liu Deng, with Liu Zhong as the brigade commander and Zhang Zuliang as the political commissar. It administered the 72nd and 20th regiments, and commanded the Shimin Independent Regiment.
During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 386th Brigade moved to the Jinji-Hebei Luyu region, participated in more than 850 battles, annihilated more than 25,000 Japanese and puppet recalcitrant troops, and made indelible contributions to the independence and liberation of the Chinese nation.
In September 1945, the 386th Brigade took part in the Shangdang Campaign, annihilating more than 7,560 enemy troops.
In October, the troops of the Taiyue Military Region formed the Taiyue Column, which was soon renamed the 4th Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Military Region, with Chen Geng as commander, Xie Fuzhi as political commissar, Han Jun as deputy commander, yang Qiqing as deputy political commissar and director of the political department, and the 10th, 11th, and 13th brigades under its jurisdiction.
The 10th Brigade was renamed from the 386th Brigade, with Zhou Xihan as the brigade commander, Liu Zhong as the political leader, Chu Daming as the deputy brigade commander, and Lei Qiyun as the director of the Political Department under the jurisdiction of the 28th (formerly the 772nd Regiment), the 29th (formerly the 20th Regiment), and the 30th (formerly the Independent Regiment), with nearly 7,000 people in the brigade.
The 11th Brigade was renamed from the 1st Death Brigade, with Brigade Commander Li Chengfang, Political Commissar Liu Youguang, Deputy Brigade Commander Cai Aiqing, and Political Department Director Hu Ronggui under its jurisdiction.
The 13th Brigade was established in late October, with Brigade Commander Chen Kang, Political Commissar Liao Guanxian, Deputy Brigade Commander Li Xifu, Deputy Political Commissar and Political Department Director Zhang Ming, and the 37th Regiment of the Xiage (formerly the 17th Regiment of the 4th Military Subdistrict of the Dayue Military Region), the 38th Regiment of the 38th (formerly the 57th Regiment of the 3rd Military Subdistrict), and the 39th Regiment (the former 2nd Regiment of the 4th Military Subdistrict) with nearly 6,000 men.
In June 1946, the Kuomintang provoked a full-scale civil war. In July, the 4th Column participated in the Battle of Wen (Xi) Xia (County), completely annihilating more than 6,300 people in the 31st Brigade and other units of the Kuomintang Army with American weapons and equipment. In August, he participated in the Battle of Tongpu and conquered ZhaoCheng, annihilating more than 3,000 enemy troops. In September, he participated in the Battle of Lin (Fen) And completely annihilated the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the 1st Division of the Southern Huzong Reorganized Division, known as the "First Brigade of the World", and captured the brigade commander Huang Zhengcheng. From the end of November to the beginning of the following year, the 10th and 13th Brigades participated in the Southwest Jin Campaign, annihilating more than 7,000 Nationalist troops ∫.
In January 1947, the 10th and 13th Brigades of the 4th Column launched the Fenxiao Campaign, annihilating more than 3,600 enemy troops. In April, the 4th Column launched the Jinnan Campaign, annihilating more than 20,000 enemy troops and liberating 25 county seats.
In July, in order to cooperate with our army in northern Shaanxi to break the key offensive of the Kuomintang army and assist the main force of the Luyu Field Army in Jinji to march into Dabie Mountain, the 4th Column, the 9th Column, the 22nd Brigade of the 8th Column, and the 38th Army of the Northwest Democratic Coalition Army, a total of more than 80,000 people, formed the Chen (Geng) Xie (Fuzhi) Group, and on August 23 forcefully crossed the Yellow River and cut off the Longhai Road, forcing the Kuomintang troops attacking northern Shaanxi and tailing Liu Deng's army to withdraw some of their forces to deal with the Chen Xie clique. By the end of November, chen xie group had annihilated more than 50,000 enemy troops, conquered more than 30 county seats, completed the strategic development in the border area of Henan, Shaanxi and Hubei, and established the Yushan-Shaanxi-Hubei Military Region (later renamed the Western Henan Military Region).
In January and February 1948, the 4th Column launched a new-style army reorganization campaign in the Yexian area of Henan Province, centering on grievances and "three investigations" and "three rectifications."
On March 8, Chen Xie's group and the 3rd and 8th columns of the East China Field Army launched the Luoyang Campaign, and on the 14th, they captured Luoyang, annihilating more than 20,000 people of the 206th Division of the Kuomintang Youth Army, and the 28th Regiment captured its division commander Qiu Xingxiang alive.
On May 9, the 4th Column was renamed the 4th Column of the Central Plains Field Army.
In November, the 4th Column participated in the Battle of Huaihai, served several times as a heavy task of blocking the attack, annihilated nearly 10,000 enemy troops, and made great contributions and sacrifices to victory. Taking the 28th Regiment as an example, before the war, the whole regiment had a total of 1635 combatants, and after the war, only 108 were left, and 1527 were reduced, which shows the fierceness of the battle.
In February 1949, in accordance with the "Instructions of the Central Military Commission on Unifying the Organization and Number of The Whole Army", the Central Plains Field Army was renamed the Second Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, under the jurisdiction of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Corps. The 4th Corps was under the jurisdiction of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Armies, and Chen Geng served as commander and political commissar.
On February 21, the 10th and 13th Brigades of the 4th Column of the Central Plains Field Army and some units of the Western Henan Military Region formally formed the 13th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Huangge Village, Yucheng County, Henan Province, with Zhou Xihan as the commander, Liu Youguang as the political commissar, Chen Kang as the deputy commander, Liao Guanxian as the deputy political commissar and director of the political department, and the 37th, 38th, and 39th Divisions under its jurisdiction, with a total of 29,298 troops.
The 37th Division was renamed from the 10th Brigade, with Zhou Xueyi as the division commander, Lei Qiyun as the political commissar, Cui Zhitang (also chief of staff), Zhao Huaqing as the deputy division commander, Liu Deyu as the director of the Political Department, and the 28th, 29th, and 30th Regiments under the jurisdiction of the former 10th Brigade as the 10th Regiment, which were renamed the 109th, 110th, and 111th Regiments in turn.
The 38th Division was renamed Xu Qixiao as division commander from the 13th Brigade, Nan Jingzhi as the political commissar, Wang Changyou and Li Muyu (also chief of staff) as deputy division commanders, Zhang Pixu as the director of the Political Department, the 37th and 38th Regiments under the former 13th Brigade as the 112th and 113th Regiments, and the Nanyang and Yiyang Independent Regiments formed in January 1949 were combined into the 114th Regiment.
The 39th Division was composed of some units of the 6th and 3rd Military Sub-districts of the Western Henan Military Region, with Li Xifu as the division commander, Hou Decai as the political commissar, Zhu Zhaolin as the deputy political commissar, Mao Kai as the chief of staff, Zhang Hook as the director of the political department, the 39th regiment of the 6th Military Sub-district (that is, the 39th Regiment of the former 13th Brigade, transferred to the Yuxi Military Region in November 1947), the 40th (one of the 39th Regiment, the Fifth and Ninth Companies, and the Baihe Brigade were formed in January 1948) The regiment was renamed the 115th and 116th Regiments, and the New 164th Regiment of the 3rd Military Sub-district ( That is, the 164th Regiment of the 55th Division of the 38th Army of the Former Northwest Democratic Coalition Army) was renamed the 117th Regiment.
On April 21, the 13th Army participated in the Battle of Crossing the River, broke through the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, pursued for thousands of miles, liberated dozens of towns such as Pengze, Yiyang, Yingtan, Nanchang, Fengcheng, and Yichun, annihilated more than 13,400 enemy troops, and captured 67 guns of various kinds, 675 light and heavy machine guns, and more than 4,500 long and short guns. In the operation of crossing the river, the 109th Regiment took the lead in breaking through the enemy's river defenses and was awarded the pennant of "Crossing the River to Kill the Enemy and Count One Merit" awarded by the Corps.
At the end of May, according to the instructions of the Central Military Commission, the 13th Army was under the command of the Fourth Field Army along with the 4th Corps and participated in the operation against the Bai Chongxi Group. In October, the 13th Army participated in the operations outside Guangzhou, annihilating more than 4,000 enemy troops.
From November 18 to mid-December, the 13th Army participated in the encirclement and annihilation of Guangdong-Guizhou Border, fighting 28 large and small battles and opening up more than 21,000 enemy troops.
On January 1, 1950, the 13th Army participated in the Battle of Southern Yunnan, which lasted 49 days and nights, fought for 3,000 consecutive miles, fought 14 large and small battles, opened more than 15,000 enemy troops, captured Tang Yao, deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Army and commander of the 8th Corps, and planted the five-star red flag in the southwestern border of the motherland.
In the War of Liberation, the 13th Army and its predecessor troops marched through 10 provinces in Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan, participated in 22 battles and hundreds of battles, annihilated more than 155,400 Kuomintang troops, and made important contributions to the liberation of the Chinese people.
On February 1, 1950, the 13th Army entered Kaiyuan, Yunnan, and established the Southern Yunnan Garrison District, with Zhou Xihan and Liu Youguang serving as the commanders and political commissars of the garrison respectively. It administers the Mengzi Border Defense Zone, the Ning'er Border Defense Zone, and the Wenshan Border Defense Zone. The Mongolian Border Defense Zone was composed of the 38th Division and the 10th Detachment of the Yunnan Guiqian Border Column, with Xu Mouxiao, commander of the 38th Division, and Zhang Pixu, political commissar, concurrently serving as commanders and political commissars; The Ning'er Border Defense Zone consisted of the 39th Division and the 9th Detachment of the Yunnan-Guizhou-Guiqian Border Column, with Li Xifu, commander of the 39th Division, and Hou Decai, political commissar, concurrently serving as the commander and political commissar; The Wenshan Border Defense Area was composed of some cadres directly drawn from the 13th Army and 4 detachments of the Qianbian Column of Yunnan and Guizhou, and Yang Jiang served as commander and political commissar. In addition, the 37th Division transferred some cadres and the 8th Detachment of the Yunnan-Guiqian Border Column to form the Yuxi Military Sub-district.
In March, the 37th Division entered Kunming and served as the city defense guard, and the division commander Zhou Xueyi and the political commissar Lei Qiyun concurrently served as deputy commander and deputy political commissar of the Kunming Garrison Headquarters.
Beginning in April, the 13th Army carried out a large-scale struggle against bandits in southern Yunnan, successively carrying out 2,079 battles, annihilating more than 55,000 bandits.
In 1951, the 13th Army successively dispatched more than 9,600 cadres and fighters to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. At the same time, according to the "Army Establishment Table of the National Defense Forces" promulgated by the Central Military Commission, the 13th Army was renamed the 13th Army of the Army, and it was regularized, modernized, and reorganized, becoming a powerful brigade defending the socialist motherland.
From November 1960 to February 1961, the 13th Army and the yunnan provincial military region launched the China-Myanmar border demarcation guard operation, which dealt a heavy blow to the Kuomintang troops fleeing Burma and accumulated valuable experience for the Chinese People's Liberation Army to fight in tropical jungle areas. In December 1968, the 13th Army was transferred to Chongqing and took over the 54 military camps. In the 1979 self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the army, as the main force on the western front, crossed the Red River by chance, broke through the enemy's deep forward, and successfully completed the task of conquering the important town of Orange Pond in northwest Vietnam.
In 1985, the 13th Army and the 50th Army were formed into the 13th Army Group of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, with its headquarters in Chongqing. The army group belongs to the Class A army group and is a fully mechanized unit. The 13th Group Army is the first-class army that is the best at mountain, plateau and tropical jungle warfare in the whole army, and is known as the fierce tiger in the mountains.
From 1954 to 2008, after the end of the Korean War, the 13th Group Army participated in the Sino-Vietnamese and Sino-Indian wars, cambodian peacekeeping, Haiti peacekeeping, and African peacekeeping, and internally participated in military operations such as the liberation of southwest China (1952), the southwest bandits, the suppression of rebellion in Tibet, and the counterinsurgency in Xinjiang.
The units of the 13th Army have been stationed in Yunnan for a long time, and their main combat tasks are to deter India and Vietnam and prevent unrest in Tibet.
In 2004, when it participated in the first-class mountain combat exercise of the People's Liberation Army, the participating units of the 13th Group Army defeated the troops of other military regions with great superiority, and their skillful mountain warfare method shocked many foreign observers who visited.
In 2006, Major General Wang Xixin, who had grown up from a soldier in the 13th Army, took over as the commander of the group army, and within a year, the whole army's structure and combat capabilities were renewed. During the exercise, they even defeated the participating troops sent by the Banzai Army (that is, the 38th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army), which claimed to be the strongest in the whole army, and shocked the whole army. Later, Major General Wang Xixin was also transferred to the 38th Army as a commander.
In 2008, in the second large-scale mountain combat exercise of the whole army, the 13th Army once again smashed the countermeasure tactics of other military regions specifically for the mountain jungle operations of the 13th Group Army, and defeated the ace troops in the whole army by a large score, once again shaking the military observers of Southeast Asian countries. In the Wenchuan earthquake, the 13th Group Army was all dispatched, and the fastest troops rushed 400 kilometers to the scene in only 3.5 hours, almost reaching zero preparation time, even in the most remote mountainous areas, through the 13th Group Army Army Airdrop, it only took less than 7 hours, and the speed of response was so fast that it shocked observers at home and abroad.
On April 20, 2013, the Ya'an earthquake in Sichuan Province took only 18 minutes for the 13th Army to assemble and depart.
In 2016, it was originally subordinate to the 13th Group Army of the Chengdu Military Region, which was subordinate to the Western Theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
In April 2017, the Central Military Commission decided to reorganize 13 group armies on the basis of the original 18 group armies, named the 71st, 72nd, 73rd, 74th, 75th, 76th, 77th, 78th, 79th, 80th, 81st, 82nd and 83rd Group Armies of the people's liberation army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
The thirteenth army was abolished.