In June 1985, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, then chairman of the Central Military Commission, the Chinese People's Liberation Army laid off one million people, known in history as the "Million Dollar Disarmament."
In this operation, 11 of the Army's 35 corps were reduced, and the remaining 24 corps were reorganized into 24 army groups.
At the same time, the original eleven major military regions have also been reduced to seven major military regions, and these 24 group armies are deployed in these seven military regions. Where is the Military Department?
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The seven major military regions include the Shenyang Military Region, the Beijing Military Region, the Jinan Military Region, the Nanjing Military Region, the Guangzhou Military Region, the Lanzhou Military Region, and the Chengdu Military Region, and each military region contains different provinces and the number of group armies deployed.
Among them, the Shenyang Military Region, which included the northeast region, deployed five group armies, namely the 16th Group Army stationed in Changchun, the 23rd Group Army stationed in Harbin, the 39th Group Army stationed in Liaoyang, the 40th Group Army in Jinzhou, and the 64th Group Army in Benxi.
The troops located in the Shenyang Military Region are not only numerous, but also have rich combat experience.
Their predecessor units were all veteran units that participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and had experienced many battles of all sizes.
In particular, the 39th and 40th Army Groups, which were once the battle sequence of the Four Fields, made great achievements in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The 24th, 27th, 28th, 63rd, 65th, and 38th Group Armies were stationed in Chengde, Shijiazhuang, Datong, Taiyuan, Zhangjiakou, and Baoding in the Beijing Military Region, respectively.
As a result, the Beijing Military Region became the military region with the largest number of garrisons, which were responsible for defending the territory of the two municipalities directly under beijing and Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Shaanxi, and the junction of northern Inner Mongolia and other countries.
The six armies under the jurisdiction of the Beijing Military Region, whose predecessors were the main forces of the major field armies during the Liberation War, can be described as a large number of elite generals and also undertake more important tasks.
In addition to the Shenyang and Beijing military regions, the Jinan military region is the largest number of group armies deployed.
The 26th, 67th, 20th and 54th are stationed in Weifang, Zibo, Kaifeng and Xinxiang, and are armed forces in Shandong and Henan provinces.
Among them, the 67th Group Army was an old unit in the Jin-Cha-Ji region, which experienced the brutal sweeping of the Japanese puppet army during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and also participated in the main battles of the North China Battlefield in the War of Liberation, with a long history of combat, and was also the backbone of the defense of the Central Plains.
The Nanjing Military Region, which led and commanded the military forces in the five provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, jiangxi and Shanghai, deployed the three units of the 1st, 12th and 31st Group Army.
Its military headquarters are located in three provinces, namely the 1st Group Army in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the 12th Group Army is stationed in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and the 31st Group Army is located in Tong'an County, Fujian Province.
The other three military regions each deployed two army groups.
The 41st and 42nd Group Armies under the jurisdiction of the Guangzhou Military Region are stationed in Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province, and Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, and are responsible for armed defense work in Hubei, Hunan, Hainan, and the Liangguang region.
The Lanzhou Military Region covers the largest area of several military regions, including the five provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, and Xinjiang, and the two group armies stationed are the 21st and 47th group armies, and the army parts are in Baoji City and Xi'an City in Shaanxi Province.
The Chengdu Military Region is located in the southwest of China, and the garrison is the 13th Group Army of Chongqing City and the 14th Group Army of Kunming City, which governs the armed forces in the Yunnan-Guichuan region and Tibet, and is also an important defensive line in the border areas.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > second, the predecessor of the main unit</h1>
As mentioned above, these armies were not created out of thin air, and many of them evolved from the predecessor units or merged different armies.
Many of these predecessor units were established during the War of Liberation and even the War of Resistance Against Japan, and have profound military backgrounds.
The 40th Group Army stationed in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, formerly known as the Third Column of the Northeast Field Army, was praised by the rival Kuomintang as a "whirlwind unit".
During the Liberation War, he participated in the liaoyang and Benxi areas in the northeast battlefield, and later participated in the siping defense war and the four-guarantee Linjiang operation.
In 1946, Han Xianchu became the new commander of this third column, and he formulated a long-distance raid on the enemy's temporary field base east of Kaiyuan and weak troops, attacked it, waited for its main force to come to the rescue, and then set up an ambush halfway and annihilated each one.
This strategy was carried out with the support of its superiors, with amazing results, and thus laid the fighting style of the "whirlwind force", which the enemy who fought said that it was "moving as fast as a whirlwind".
The wind blew until the Liaoshen Campaign in 1948, when the third column, together with the brother troops, fought together to capture Jinzhou, and finally fought in western Liaoning, encircling and annihilating the Liao Yaoxiang Corps of the Kuomintang army, capturing Liao Yaoxiang alive, and making immortal achievements.
The predecessor of the 47th Group Army of the Lanzhou Military Region can be traced back to the Independent 1st Division of the Red Army established in the Xianggan border base area in 1930, and after several changes in its name, it is a veritable veteran unit that once participated in the Long March. 、
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance, the unit did not appear on the frontal battlefield, but became a rear unit supporting the front line and providing food.
At the end of 1940, he was then numbered the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army and was ordered to go to Nanniwan to implement the policy of reclamation of Tuntian.
Three years later, this unit not only achieved self-sufficiency in food and clothing, but also handed over more than 1.5 million kilograms of grain, alleviating the pressure on the combat area and setting an example of the large-scale production movement of the whole army.
The predecessor of the 13th Group Army of the Chengdu Military Region was the 73rd Division of the Red Fourth Front army in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet District during the Agrarian Revolutionary War, and was reorganized into the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Shortly after the Xi'an Incident, the 386th Brigade came to the anti-Japanese front and fought fierce battles with the Japanese army many times.
In 1939, the 386th Brigade again engaged the Japanese army at Xiangchenggu, Weixian County, in the Great Plain of Jiluyu.
This time, they used the calculation to set up a "pocket array" for the Japanese army, and after eight hours of fighting, the 386th Brigade completely annihilated a squadron of the Japanese army.
This dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army in the area, but it boosted the morale of our people and army. The 386th Brigade was thus put on the "blacklist" of the Japanese army.
Later, the Japanese army, which was repeatedly defeated at the hands of the 386th Brigade, even posted a slogan on the tank with the slogan "Specializing in the 386th Brigade", which showed the strength of our army.
Today, this story has also been written into the TV series "Bright Sword", which has become a testimony to the outstanding contribution of the 386th Brigade.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" >3. Why are the Shenyang and Beijing Military Regions strong</h1>
Returning to the deployment of troops in the major military regions, it is not difficult for us to see that the Lanzhou Military Region, which is the largest military region, has only two group armies, while the Beijing and Shenyang military regions each have 6 and 5 group armies.
If the Beijing Military Region shoulders the task of defending the capital, what is the reason for the strong strength of the Shenyang Military Region?
In fact, the core reason for the deployment of many troops in these two military regions can be boiled down to one point: to guard against the Soviet Union.
China and the Soviet Union were friendly neighbors, but in 1958, the relationship between the two countries began to crack, and there were often wars of words at the political level.
In 1960, the Soviet Union ignored the agreement between the two sides and unilaterally withdrew all experts aiding China, resulting in heavy losses in China's scientific research projects.
Coupled with the Soviet Union's partiality and even armed assistance to India on the Sino-Indian border issue, Sino-Soviet relations have made Sino-Soviet relations even worse.
In March 1969, the increasingly bad relations between China and the Soviet Union finally broke out in a firepower conflict.
The Soviet Union, which had long coveted the treasure island, provoked war in the border areas and invaded Chinese territory with its own military strength.
Finally, the Soviet side is still deploying millions of troops on the Sino-Soviet border, which seriously endangers China's national defense and security.
In order to cope with this military threat, China adjusted its strategy, rebuilt five armies, and began to reorganize its armaments to deal with the large-scale Sino-Soviet conflict that may break out.
At that time, the Beijing Military Region, which was still before the million-dollar disarmament, gathered 8 field armies, and the three major military regions of Jinan, Shenyang, and Lanzhou also had deployments, all of which were made to prepare for the Soviet Union.
In the 1980s, the Soviet Union's national strength was gradually exhausted, and it had begun to decline, but it still did not give up its confrontation with our country, and its hostility even increased unabated, always paying close attention to the movement of our northern army.
In addition, the Soviet Union also supported Vietnam to engage our army in firepower on our southern border.
After the completion of the construction of the Seven Military Regions, the 38th Group Army stationed in Baoding, Hebei Province, was also China's first mechanized group army.
After a live-fire exercise, it was regarded as an imaginary enemy by the Soviet 39th Group Army stationed in Mongolia, and then a targeted exercise was carried out, and its intention to suppress our country can be described as "the heart of Sima Zhao, which is well known to passers-by."
Against this background, it is not difficult to understand the large-scale deployment of group armies in the Beijing Military Region and the Shenyang Military Region, which are closest to the Soviet Union.
After all, in the face of the political instability in the Soviet Union, the troops were still closely prepared for war and did not slacken off.
Once war really broke out between China and the Soviet Union, these two regions would inevitably bear the brunt of it, so it was necessary to deploy more troops to garrison.
Fortunately, this state of affairs did not last long, and after the 1990s, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the sudden change in the international situation, the pressure on the Shenyang and Beijing Military Regions was greatly reduced.
A few years later, in order to adapt to the sudden international situation, china proposed a disarmament of half a million in September 1997.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > the follow-up development of military districts and group armies</h1>
Due to the elimination of the Soviet threat, in the 500,000 major disarmament, the 28th Group Army of the Beijing Military Region and the 64th Group Army of the Shenyang Military Region were withdrawn.
In 2003, my country again took the decision to disarm 200,000 people. The 24th and 63rd Group Armies of the Beijing Military Region and the 23rd Group Army of the Shenyang Military Region were included in the disarmament list.
At this point, the group armies deployed in these two major military regions also have three remaining units.
This situation was maintained until 2016, when the changes in the requirements of modern warfare led to the reform of the army, based on the original seven major military regions, to rebuild the five major theaters of war in the east, west, south, north and central regions.
The Eastern Theater was under the same jurisdiction as the former Nanjing Military Region, and the Chengdu and Lanzhou Military Regions were merged into the Western Theater, except for the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Shaanxi.
The Guangzhou Military Region outside Hubei Province and the former Chengdu Military Region's Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces formed the Southern Theater, the three eastern provinces, Inner Mongolia, and Shandong belonged to the Northern Theater, and the remaining provinces belonged to the Central Theater.
After the reform, the theater no longer directly leads and commands the troops, but establishes corresponding theater service organs for unified management.