Tv series "Armageddon" military history consultant Xu Ping
In the popular TV series "Armageddon", there are many commanders of The Kuomintang corps, such as Zheng Dongguo, Liao Yaoxiang, Huang Baitao, Qiu Qingquan, Huang Wei and so on. So, what happened to the regiment of the Kuomintang army? How many people are there in a corps? How many corps participated in the three major battles?
Stills from the TV series "The Great Armageddon": The Kuomintang Xuzhou "Suppression General" held a meeting of commanders and commanders of various corps.
In the War of Liberation, in order to carry out a strategic decisive battle, both the Kuomintang and the Communists formed a number of field regiments. The field corps successively formed by the Kuomintang army were named the First Corps to the Twenty-second Corps, but some corps were abolished due to the reorganization or annihilation of the troops, and then rebuilt and rebuilt many times. For example, there are 5 before and after the First Corps and the Seventh Corps, Tang Enbo, Fan Hanjie, Zheng Dongguo, Chen Mingren, Huang Jie, etc. have all served as the commanders of the First Corps, although the number is the same, but not the same unit. In addition, there are Qinghai Corps and Ningxia Corps, so that a total of more than 50 corps have been formed. But there were only a dozen corps at most during the same period.
Corps are organized according to combat tasks, and are not fixed, ranging from two or three corps (integrated divisions) to as many as four or five corps, with strength ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of troops. For example, the Sixth Corps in Jinzhou only has one army and another division, a total of four divisions; while the Fourth Corps is even more miserable, with only one reorganized Tenth Division with two brigades and four regiments for a long time, with a total of only about 20,000 people, and is ridiculed as "four corps, four regiments." Some corps had as many as five or six corps, such as Tang Enbo's First Corps, which had 6 integrated divisions (equivalent to the army), and Qiu Qingquan's Second Corps, which also had six corps, and liao Yaoxiang's Ninth Corps and Huang Wei's 12th Corps, all had more than 120,000 troops.
Some corps are related to the Army Group, such as the reorganization of the First Army into the First Army in September 1947, the reorganization of the Thirty-second Army into the Integrated Twenty-seventh Army in August 1946, and the reorganization of the Second Army in September 1947. Some corps were reorganized from the Appeasement District, such as the Fourth Sui District into the Eighth Corps during the Battle of Huaihai, and the Ninth Appeasement District into the Sixth Corps.
Corps are usually subordinate to the "Suppression General", the Appeasement Office, the Military and Political Governor's Office, the General Headquarters of the Guards, etc. Before the establishment of the "Suppression General", it was subordinate to each line.
The Corps shall have one commander, one or two deputy commanders and one chief of staff. The commander is generally a lieutenant general, and the deputy commander and chief of staff are generally major generals. But there are exceptions, such as When Hu Lian was the deputy commander of the Twelfth Corps, he was a lieutenant general.
Corps names are usually arranged in ordinal numbers, such as the First Corps and the Twelfth Corps; there are also tasks named, such as the Sweeping Corps, the Garrison Corps, the Mobile Corps, the East Advance Corps, the West Advance Corps, etc.; and there are also named by region, such as the Qinghai Corps, the Liaoxi Corps, etc.
In February 1947, Hu Zongnan mobilized troops to form two corps, the left and right, in an attempt to capture Yan'an, the headquarters of the CPC Central Committee and the People's Liberation Army. The left corps was 4 brigades of the reorganized 29th Army commanded by Liu Jie, and the right corps was 7 brigades of the reorganized 1st Army commanded by Dong Zhao. After successive setbacks, in May 1947, Hu Zongnan redeployed the Nationalist forces attacking the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. With Liu Jie as the commander of the "sweeping corps," he commanded a total of 5 brigades of the reorganized 36th Division and other units to undertake the task of "sweeping" the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region; with Dong Zhao as the commander of the "Garrison Corps," he unified command of the Kuomintang garrison units in various parts of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.
According to Liu Dianwu, deputy chief of staff of the 53rd Army of the Eighth Corps of the Kuomintang, "In order to ensure Jinzhou, open up the Western Liaoning Corridor ... Chiang Kai-shek decided to dispatch five corps of the main force stationed in the Shenyang area to form a mobile corps, under the command of Liao Yaoxiang, commander of the Ninth Corps, to aid Jinzhou in the west, and the rest of the troops in Shenyang to form a garrison corps under the command of Zhou Fucheng, commander of the Eighth Corps, to ensure the safety of the area from Shenyang as the center to Fushun in the east to tieling in the north." This "mobile corps" is also called the "Western Liaoning Corps" or the "Western Advancing Corps".
Wei Lihuang (center), commander-in-chief of the Northeast "Suppression General"; Zhou Fucheng, commander of the Eighth Corps (left), and Zhao Jiajun (right), chief of staff of the Northeast "Suppression General", study the battle plan.
During the Liaoshen Campaign, chiang kai-shek, in order to rescue Jinzhou, formed the "EastWard Advance Corps" with Hou Jingru's Seventeenth Corps as the main force, and Liao Yaoxiang's Ninth Corps as the main force to form the "WestWard Advance Corps", advancing east-west in an attempt to retake Jinzhou.
Many famous generals of the Kuomintang army served as corps commanders, such as Tang Enbo, Du Yuming, Song Xilian, Chen Mingren, Huang Jie, Zheng Dongguo, Qiu Qingquan, Huang Baitao, Huang Wei, Hou Jingru, Liao Yaoxiang, and so on.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Xu Tingyao, the "father of the armored troops" of the Kuomintang, took a group photo with his subordinate "Five Tiger Generals".
(Front row from left: Huang Jie, Xu Tingyao, Du Yuming; back row from left: Liu Jiashu, Zheng Dongguo, Qiu Qingquan.) All five later served as corps commanders. ）
In the three major battles, the regiments of the Kuomintang army participating in the battle were:
Liaoshen Campaign:
Zheng Dongguo 1st Corps (newly organized Seventh Army, 60th Army)
Lu Junquan 6th Corps (93rd Army and 184th Division)
Zhou Fucheng's Eighth Corps (53rd Army, 6th Army)
Liao Yaoxiang Ninth Corps (Newly Organized Third Army, Newly Organized Sixth Army)
Hou Jingru 17th Corps (62nd, 39th, 92nd Corps)
There are 5 corps in total.
During the battle, in order to relieve the siege of Jinzhou, Hou Jingru's 17th Corps was the mainstay, plus the independent 95th Division, together with 4 divisions of the 37th and 54th Armies of Jinxi, a total of 11 divisions formed the "East Advancing Corps", commander Hou Jingru, liao Yaoxiang's Ninth Corps, plus the main forces of the newly organized First Army, the Seventy-first Army, and the Forty-ninth Army, a total of 11 divisions and 3 other cavalry brigades formed the "WestWard Advance Corps", commander Liao Yaoxiang.
Liao Yaoxiang's corps was annihilated
Battle of Huaihai:
Qiu Qingquan's 2nd Corps (5th Army, 70th Army, 72nd Army, 74th Army, 12th Army, 116th Army)
Li Yannian Sixth Corps (formerly the Ninth Appeasement District, the Thirty-ninth Army, the Fifty-fourth Army, the Ninety-sixth Army, the Ninety-ninth Army)
Huang Baitao's Seventh Corps (25th Army, 44th Army, 63rd Army, 64th Army, 100th Army)
Liu Ruming's Eighth Corps (formerly the 4th Sui District, the 55th Army, the 68th Army)
Huang Wei's Twelfth Corps (Tenth Army, Fourteenth Army, Eighteenth Army, Eighty-fifth Army)
Li Mi's 13th Corps (8th Army, 9th Army, 64th Army, 115th Army)
Sun Yuanliang's 16th Corps (41st Army, 47th Army)
There are 7 corps in total, and there are 2 appeasement zones, which are also equivalent to corps:
Zhou Yan 1st Appeasement Zone (4th Army, 21st Army, 51st Army)
Feng Zhi'an Third Appeasement District (59th Army, 77th Army)
Huang Wei (front) and the captured officers and men of the Twelfth Corps
Battle of Pingjin:
Li Wen's Fourth Corps (Sixteenth Army, Ninety-fourth Army)
Shi Jue Ninth Corps (5th Division of the 13th Army)
Sun Lanfeng's 11th Corps (105th Army, 318th Independent Division, Reorganized 5th, 11th, 12th Cavalry Brigades)
Hou Jingru's 17th Corps (62nd Army, 86th Army, 92nd Army)
In addition, the Tianjin Defensive District (Commander of the Tianjin Garrison Headquarters Chen Changjie) has jurisdiction over 130,000 troops of the 86th Army, the 62nd Army, and the 94th Army, which is also equivalent to one corps.
The Fourth and Ninth Corps of the Beiping Defenders went out of the city to be reorganized