The four major field armies on the battlefield of liberation were the main armed forces that defeated the reactionary military groups and liberated the whole country during the revolutionary war years, and they made great achievements for the founding of New China.
The Fourth Field Army, led by the two marshals Lin Luo, is unanimously recognized by everyone as having the largest number of famous generals. The Fourth Field Army not only produced famous generals, but it was also the largest field army, with 1 million soldiers. The second is the Third Field Army led by Chen Su and the others, and this army has produced many famous founding generals.
Further down is the Second Field Army led by Liu and Deng. Although the establishment of this army is not very large, the quality of the famous generals produced is high, and they are all iron-blooded generals who have experienced a hundred battles. The First Field Army, led by General Peng Da, was the smallest field army due to the influence of geographical environment. Later, in order to promote the acceleration of the liberation of the northwest region, the 18th Corps and the 19th Corps on the North China Battlefield were transferred to the First Field Army.
In this way, the military strength of the First Field Army has been greatly increased, from the previous two corps to four corps, and at the same time, many combat-oriented fierce generals have also been added.
Although, there are relatively few famous generals from the first field, and they are not as good as the Fourth Field Army. However, the generals from the first field, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, were not inferior to any field army, and even went to a higher level.
For example, the commander of the four corps of the Fourth Field Army was put into the navy after the founding of the People's Republic of China (he was Xiao Jinguang, the commander of the 12th Corps). Air Force (he is Liu Yalou, commander of the 14th Corps), local construction (he is Cheng Zihua, commander of the 13th Corps), and commander of the Grand Military Region (he is Deng Hua, commander of the 15th Corps).
And two of the commanders of the four major corps from Ichino have become the first commanders of the new arms. Xu Guangda, commander of the Second Corps, is the commander of the armored corps, Wang Zhen, commander of the First Corps, is the commander of the railway corps, Zhou Shidi, commander of the 18th Corps, is the commander of the air defense corps, and Yang Dezhi, commander of the 19th Corps, is the commander of the Jinan Military Region.
In this comparison, the commanders of the four major corps from Yiye have all become the backbone of national defense construction after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
At the same time, in 1955, among the first batch of 12 commanders of the first class of large military regions, four of them were from the First Field Army. In addition to General Yang Dezhi mentioned by the editor above, there is also He Bingyan, commander of the Chengdu Military Region, who is also from the First Field Army during the Liberation War, served as the commander of the First Army, and was the main general on the northwest battlefield during the Liberation Period.
He Bingyan is a well-known one-armed tiger general in the history of our army's war, famous for his courage and good fighting, and has experienced many tough battles and vicious battles in his military career. As a result, he also became the commander of the first class military region with the most wounds. Because of his outstanding achievements, He Bingyan, who was at the level of the Quasi-Corps, was awarded the rank of general in 1955 and served as the commander of the Chengdu Military Region.
The northwestern region, liberated by the First Field Army, was reorganized into two major military regions in 1955. The first is the Lanzhou Military Region, and the second is the Xinjiang Military Region.
The commander of the Lanzhou Military Region is Zhang Dazhi, who is a backbone general of the First Field Army and serves as the commander of the Fourth Army. The commander of the Xinjiang Military Region is Wang Enmao, a founding general who is capable of both military and political affairs. In the stage of strategic pursuit, he followed General Wang Zhen into Xinjiang and jointly liberated Xinjiang, the largest geographical area on the mainland.
In 1954, General Wang Zhen served as the commander of the Railway Corps. In this way, after the establishment of the Xinjiang Military Region, General Wang Enmao became the first commander of the military region.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, four of the first batch of 12 commanders of the first-class military region were from the First Field Army, ranking first in the whole army. Like the Fourth Field Army, which has the largest establishment, the first batch of commanders of the large military region were Deng Hua and Huang Yongsheng.
The Third Field Army was General Xu Shiyou.
The field unit of the North China Military Region is General Yang Chengwu.
The Second Field Army was Chen Zaidao, Zhang Guohua, and Xie Fuzhi. There is also a non-army rank Ulanfu, who in 1955 was the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.