There are many ace troops in Siye, such as the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 40th Army, which are among the best, and the 43rd Army is also the main force of The Four Fields. Why? To cite just one example, Liang Xingchu, commander of the "Banzai Army," changed his position after returning from Korea. He was transferred to the commander of the 43rd Army.
Before Liang Xingchu, the commander of the 43rd Army was Wu Kehua, commander of the 41st Army of Dongye, who was stubbornly guarding Tashan; he was replaced by Wu Ruilin, commander of the 42nd Army, who had played a mighty role in Korea; and the commanders of the 38th Army, 41st Army, and 42nd Army were all promoted to the 43rd Army.
However, for a while, the author was quite puzzled, and the main lions like the 43rd Army regrettably did not stay in many disarmaments, and the 127th Division and the 128th Division were also on different sides, and even the military and police departments were different.
In November 1948, the Sixth Column of the Northeast Field Army was renamed the 43rd Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the two main forces under its command, the 16th Division and the 17th Division, were renamed the 127th Division and the 128th Division.
The 43rd Army, like the 38th Army, the 39th Army, the 40th Army, and the 41st Army, was one of the first five columns formed by Dongye, had the foundation of the Nanchang Uprising and the Autumn Harvest Uprising, and was an important descendant of the "Zhumao Red Army", and its status alone was "one head higher" than other fraternal units. The first commander of the Sixth Column was Chen Guang, the acting commander of the 115th Division, and the first commander of the 43rd Army was Hong Xuezhi, the "Six-Star General".
Of Shino's seven first-class main divisions, the 43rd Army monopolized the second (127th Division, 128th Division), only higashino's big brother 38th Army (112th Division, 113th Division) could match, and the other three were divided by the 39th Army (116th Division), the 40th Army (118th Division), and the 41st Army (121st Division).
The 127th Division (Dongye 16th Division) is a "nobleman" of the People's Liberation Army, whose history can be traced back to the Ye Ting Independent Regiment during the Northern Expedition. Later, after many reorganizations, the Red 4th Regiment of the Red 2nd Division, the 685th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the 1st Brigade of the Teaching Brigade, and the 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army have been the absolute main force and the ace of merit of our army for decades, and they have all played by them; they have taken the lead in the Eighth Route Army's march to resist the War of Resistance, and have gone south to support the New Fourth Army after the Anhui Incident.
The history of the 128th Division (Dongye 17th Division) can be traced back to the 7th Division of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. People familiar with military history know that Zeng Kelin of the Jireliao Military Region was the first to break through Shanhaiguan and arrive in the northeast and became the "First Army to Break through Customs"; but the first to engage the Kuomintang army and defend Shanhaiguan was this Shandong 7th Division, which was also known as the "First Army Guarding Customs".
After the Shandong 7th Division broke into the Kanto Region, its name was changed to the 20th Brigade, and in October 1946, it was renamed the 17th Division. Taking advantage of the unique advantages of many coal miners in the army, they carried forward the explosive warfare method to the extreme, and created the tactical principles of "four groups and one team" and one battalion to fight one street. The battle record of the 17th Division needless to say, every time Dongye's battle orders listed an account of "the 17th Division as a reserve", there was also a legend in the army that when attacking Siping, Jinzhou, and Tianjin, the "17th Division of Lin Zong's three adjustments" was circulated.
The Shino Organ's evaluation of the 128th Division was: "It is the most tenacious unit among the field troops in the northeast, and it is the main division of the first class." ”
Another division of the 43rd Army, the 129th Division, previously known as the 21st Brigade and the 1st Brigade of the Rehe Column, was formerly known as the 3 regiments of the Shandong Bohai Naval Region, led by Liu Qiren, deputy commander of the Bohai Naval Region, to the northeast, and the 128th Division was also from the Shandong Bohai Naval Region.
The 43rd Army not only participated in the Northeast Liberation War throughout the whole process, but also participated in the battle to attack the strongholds in Tianjin after the large army entered the pass, and later took on the role of the advance corps to march south, driving thousands of miles, chasing and fighting fiercely, liberating the vast areas of southern Hubei and northern Jiangxi, and then swept through the two guangzhous and liberated Yangcheng. In the end, across the victorious Qiongzhou Strait, heroic units such as the "Pioneer Battalion for Crossing the Sea" emerged, making great contributions to the liberation of Hainan Island, and truly hitting the end of the earth from the White Mountains and Black Water.
In order to defend the mainland, the 43rd Army was absent from the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea throughout the whole process, which has to be said to be a major regret for the 43rd Army.
In 1961, the 43rd Army was revoked for the first time. There is a theory that the reason for the abolition of the 43rd Army was that the head of the 43rd Army, who was in charge of the daily work of the Central Military Commission at that time, wanted to use the 127th Division and the 128th Division directly as the strategic reserve units of the whole army, so the 43rd Army was abolished.
But just seven years later, the 43rd Army was rebuilt again. However, although the 43rd Army is old, the composition of the personnel is completely new, coming from all over the world and from all directions, which has affected the integrity of the military history of the 43rd Army to a certain extent, fortunately, the 127th Division and the 128th Division have returned home to build.
After fighting the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the 43rd Army was organized into a group army on a pilot basis. However, in the 1985 million-dollar disarmament, the 43rd Army was the latest in the army compared with the 20th Army and the 54th Army in Henan, so it was unfortunately out again in this game, and the 43rd Army's number was withdrawn and disappeared, and the 127th Division, one of the two main forces, went to the 54th Group Army, and the 128th Division was directly transformed into an armed police.
After a new round of military reform in 2017, the 127th Division was downsized to the 127th Brigade and transferred to the 82nd Group Army; the 128th Armed Police Division became a mobile eight detachment.
I am quite sorry for such a well-known meritorious unit, not only because the 43rd Army was abolished, but also because the two first-class main divisions were re-kneaded together with the troops who "have no ancestral origins", and even the "mother's family" was changed.
The withdrawal of the 43rd Army is the result of a combination of various reasons, but what the author wants to say is that there is actually a better way for the 43rd Army to be inherited.
Descendants of the Shino 43rd Army
Friends who are familiar with military history know that before the expedition to Korea, the 44th Army and the 45th Army, which also came from Siye, were reorganized into one army, and according to the opinion of Premier Zhou Enlai, the new troops each took the tail number of the two armies and named it the 54th Army, which not only inherited the traditions and bloodlines of the two armies, but also maintained the integrity of the main force to the greatest extent.
Could the 43rd Army also form a new unit along with brother units with closer roots in line with this line of thinking?
Before the 43rd Army was withdrawn, it was stationed near Luoyang, Henan, and near its west was the 47th Army stationed in Shaanxi, also from Siye, formerly known as the Dongye Ten Columns. This 47th Army is also the unit of Li Yannian, the recipient of the "Order of the Republic", and the martyrs of the Luo Sheng Sect in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
The 47th Army belonged to the "nouveau riche in the army", formed late but attacked later, conquered the black land, insisted on defending the Black Mountain and the Great Tiger Mountain, and blocked Liao Yaoxiang's corps; in the two battles of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Linjinjiang, the US 1st Cavalry Division was fought, and handed over beautiful examination papers on the battlefield.
After returning to China, the garrison of the 47th Army was adjusted several times, and later stationed in Shaanxi, until in the new round of military reform, the 47th Group Army Headquarters was abolished.
At that time, Li Yannian was an instructor of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion, 418th Regiment, 140th Division, 47th Army of the Volunteer Army
There are too many ace units in our army, and even the 43rd Army and the 47th Army have been abolished, which is a pity. However, the author sometimes thinks that if we follow the precedent of merging the 44th Army and the 45th Army into the 54th Army, merge the 43rd Army and the 47th Army, two units from the four wildernesses, into one unit, and name each the tail number of the two armies as the 73rd Army, perhaps our army can give birth to a "permanent victorious army" that inherits the red gene and the winning gene!
Such a new unit can be said to be old and new, and the units under its command have the same combat experience and formation experience, which is a feasible choice in terms of the relevance of the war history and the integration of the troops.
If such a 73rd Army can be formed, it will be invincible no matter which military region it is in.