Chapter 17 end

Walking out of the battlefield full of gunpowder smoke, the author's mood is still difficult to calm down. For the cruelty of war? For the victories of this heroic army? Or is it for the ingenious calculations during the war? neither.Although the end of the text falls on the end of the Korean War, many things are obviously not over there, especially the final destination of this army.As the saying goes, there is no banquet that never ends. The army originally came to this world for war. Although it is impossible to stop the war without the army, the end of the war often heralds a change in the fate of an army.Sometimes, even if the war is not over yet, the drastic changes in the strength of the two sides will have a major impact on the formation and deployment of the army.

The Field Army of the North China Military Region undoubtedly accomplished its historical mission brilliantly.However, as the only strategic mobile unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, it must be mobilized and transferred more than its brothers. It will undoubtedly be more complicated to find out its final destination, but this is often more eye-catching. In fact, at the end of the War of Liberation in 1949, especially after the victory of the Pingjin Campaign, the field armies of the North China Military Region seldom conducted large-scale joint campaigns like the second and third field armies.

In February 1949, Nie Rongzhen, commander and political commissar of the North China Military Region Field Army, became the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In March, the central government issued another order in Xibaipo, and Nie Rongzhen held several positions: deputy chief of staff, commander of the North China Military Region, third secretary of the North China Bureau, director of the Beiping Military Management Committee, and commander of the Pingjin Garrison.From the promotion of coach Nie Rongzhen, it is not difficult to see that the central government has made other arrangements for the North China Field Army.

On April 25th, before the smoke cleared in Taiyuan City, the two pillars of the field army of the North China Military Region, the 18th and 19th Corps, accepted new appointments: they were transferred to the First Field Army under the command of Peng Dehuai to participate in the liberation of the Northwest. Fight thousands of miles.In November of the same year, the Eighteenth Corps was transferred to the Liu Deng Second Field Army series to participate in the Great Southwest Campaign. In 1950, in order to meet the needs of bandit suppression and construction, the 20th Corps, except partly transferred to the special forces sequence, partly transferred to local military regions or public security forces. The 20th Corps ended its historical mission and its designation was revoked.Later, due to the needs of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 20th Corps was rebuilt.It was not until several years after the end of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea that the mission of our army's corps was canceled.

At the beginning of the reorganization of the field army of the North China Military Region, its subordinates had grown to 11 main armies, but these 11 armies unconditionally accepted the unified arrangement of the Central Military Commission due to the development of the situation and the needs of the construction of New China.Their final destination is so different.in: The 61st Army, in the fight against bandits in Sichuan, served concurrently as the Northern Sichuan Military Region in February 1950, and unified the leadership of the troops to fight against the local people's armed forces and the people's bandits. One year later, in March 1951, the 61st Army The 81st Division was transferred to the 60th Army. In July 1952, the designation of the 61st Army was officially revoked.From the 13th Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region to the 13th Column of the North China Military Region, and then to the 61st Army of the 18th Corps, this army has made great contributions to the birth of New China.

The 62nd Army, which came from the 15th Column of the North China Military Region, had a similar destination to the 61st Army. On February 8, 1950, the 62nd Army was ordered to form the Xikang Military Region.In July after the liberation of Xikang, the army began to reorganize, and most of the main force of the army was transferred to the local army. In July 1952, the military headquarters of the 62nd Army was ordered to be reorganized into the Xikang Military Region, and the designation of the 62nd Army bid farewell to the battle order of the People's Liberation Army.The revocation of the designation is regrettable, but it is the inevitable development of history.

Compared with the two armies, the 69th Army and the 70th Army seem to have ended their mission earlier.Before the reorganization, the 69th Army, which was the seventh column of the North China Military Region, had its designation revoked as early as three months after the reorganization—that is, in May 1949.The 206th Division and the 1st Part of the 207th Division were ordered to reorganize into the Independent 205th Division of the North China Military Region, and the 205th Division and the 1st Part of the 207th Division were ordered to form the Independent 206th Division of the North China Military Region.A year later, the designations of the 205th and 206th Independent Divisions were revoked again, and the troops were incorporated into the Air Defense Command of the North China Military Region.

The destinations of the 70th Army and the 69th Army are basically similar. They all eventually appeared in the ranks of special forces and continued to add luster to the military flag. Except for the 61st, 62nd, 69th, and 70th armies mentioned above, which broke away from the field forces earlier, the other seven armies of the North China Military Region field force entered the DPRK successively, and they all experienced the fires of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. baptism.In North Korea, although some of their units suffered some setbacks, they more often than not won victories.Among them, numerous combat heroes and heroic collectives emerged, such as Yang Yucai, the combat hero of the "Surprise Attack on the White Tiger Regiment", and Xie Xiumei, a heroine of the Volunteer Army.They have made great contributions to the motherland and the people.

After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, these seven armies from the North China Military Region Field Army still served in the battle order of the People's Liberation Army and devoted themselves to the construction of New China.In the following years, with the reduction and reorganization of the Chinese People's Liberation Army several times, some of the seven units with the glorious tradition of the North China Military Region were disbanded and some were merged into brother units; some were transferred to special forces; Socialist economic construction.The seeds of this heroic army have been sown in countless places across the country.

In the 1990s, in today's powerful camp of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, there are still old troops of the former North China Military Region Field Army that galloped the battlefields of North China and the whole country 40 to 50 years ago.In a major military exercise in Liaodong Bay in the early 1990s, the troops that the author was stationed in happened to be the 64th Army stationed somewhere in Liaoning.But at this moment, they have developed into the Sixty-fourth Army. From the excellent tactical quality of the army during the exercise and the military discipline of the barracks, I can easily see that this modernized division has a good old tradition.In the Military History Museum, the glorious journey of the old troops for decades is still exciting, exciting and emotional.

The Sixty-Fourth Army is just a microcosm of the field army of the North China Military Region in the 1990s.Several months of research and creation have convinced me that what the Field Army of the North China Military Region has left to future generations is not just a majestic division of the Sixty-Fourth Army or other troops. The indestructible military spirit.A soldier who has been enlightened by this kind of military spirit, no matter whether he is in the army or in a certain corner of the place, that important experience left in his life footprint will accompany him through the final journey of his life. Military history will forever remember a glorious title—the Field Army of the North China Military Region.