On April 27, 2017, with the ministry of national defense spokesman Yang Yujun announced that the army will be reorganized into 13 group armies. At this point Chinese the 70 armies of the People's Liberation Army (missing the 56th, 57th and 59th Armies, replaced by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Armies of the Northwest Independent Army) have all fulfilled their historical missions. In its place were the glorious course of battle belonging to the past, everything from scratch, and a total of 13 heavily armored army groups from the 71st to 83rd Armies.
38th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (1949.3-2017.)
On February 1, 1949, in accordance with the order of the Central Military Commission of November 1, 1948 on the unification of the organization and number of the whole army, the 1st Column of the Northeast Field Army was renamed the 38th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and was subordinate to the Fourth Field Army. Participated in the Korean War. In 1985 Chinese the 38th Army of the People's Liberation Army was reorganized into the 38th Group Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In April 2017, after the military reform, the number was abolished and the new army group was re-formed, and the army had more than 60 years of glorious combat history.
General Li Tianyou, the first commander of the 38th Army
Junior General Liang Xing, commander of the "Long Live Army"
Large-scale military-themed TV series "Crossing the Yalu River"
Stills of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Peng Dehuai
Liang Xingchu and Liu Xiyuan in the TV series "Crossing the Yalu River"
(In no particular order, in order of position)
General Li Tianyou: Former commander (later deputy commander of Guangzhou Military Region, acting commander of Guangzhou Military Region, deputy chief of general staff)
Junior General Liang Xing: Former military commander (later deputy commander of Guangzhou Military Region, commander of Chengdu Military Region)
Major General Jiang Yonghui: Former commander of the 112th Division, chief of staff, and deputy commander. Later, he served as chief of staff of Shenyang Military Region, commander of Shenyang Military Region, commander of Fuzhou Military Region)
Major General Liu Xianquan: Former commander of the 114th Division. Later, he served as political commissar of the Railway Corps, Commander of the Railway Corps, and Deputy Commander of the Jinan Military Region)
Major General Deng Yue: Former military commander (later deputy commander of Shenyang Military Region, deputy commander of Nanjing Military Region)
Lieutenant General Liang Biye: Former political commissar (later deputy political commissar of Jinan Military Region, political commissar of Jinan Military Region, deputy director of the General Political Department, political commissar of academy of military sciences)
Lieutenant General Liu Xiyuan: Former political commissar (deputy political commissar of Lanzhou Military Region, political commissar of Nanjing Military Region)
Major General Wu Dai: Former political commissar (former director of the political department, deputy political commissar, acting political commissar. Later, he served as deputy political commissar and director of the political department of the Beijing Military Region)
Major General Zeng Xianghuang: Former political commissar
Major General Ren Rong: Former political commissar (later deputy political commissar of Chengdu Military Region, deputy political commissar of Wuhan Military Region)
General Cao Lizhongzhong: Former deputy commander and chief of staff (later commander of the Air Force and deputy commander of the Air Force of the Guangzhou Military Region)
Major General Wang Liangtai: Former deputy commander and chief of staff
Major General Lu Shaowu: Former deputy commander
Major General He Dongsheng: Former deputy commander
Major General Guan Songtao: Former chief of staff
Major General Yang Dayi: Former commander of the 112th Division (previously deputy commander of the 112th Division)
Major General Huang Yuliang: Served as political commissar of the 112th Division (later director of the Political Department of the Air Force, political commissar of the Fuzhou Military Region Air Force, and deputy director of the General Political Department)
Major General Tang Qingshan: Former commander of the 113th Division (previously deputy commander of the 113th Division)
Major General Zhao Donghuan: Former commander of the 151st Division
Major General Jiang Tengjiao: Former director of the Political Department of the 151st Division (later political commissar of the Air Force of the Nanjing Military Region)
(In 1955, a total of 20 senior generals served in the 38th Army, including 1 general, 4 lieutenant generals, and 15 major generals.)