Liu Zhen, commander of the second vertical, and Wu, political commissar.

Han Xianchu, commander of the 3rd vertical, and Luo Shunchu, political commissar.

Wu Kehua, the fourth division commander, and Mo Wenhua, the political commissar.

Huang Yongsheng, commander of the Sixth Vertical, and Lai Chuanzhu, political commissar.

Seven vertical commander Deng Hua, political commissar Wu Fushan.

Eight vertical commander, political commissar Qiu.

Commander Zhan, political commissar.

Ten vertical commander Liang Xingchu, political commissar Zhou Chiping.

1. During the War of Liberation, in order to meet the needs of large-scale operations, China * * * changed the way that small troops have been fighting guerrilla warfare in North China, East China, Northeast China, Central South and other places, and reorganized the armed forces into a more formal large-scale operational cluster, which is equivalent to the strategic cluster of the People's Army and is a military unit.

2. There are several regiments and armies (at that time, the army was called a column) and several independent divisions. The strength of each field army ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions, covering all the elite main forces of the * * * army. The basic operational idea is to concentrate superior forces to destroy the effective forces of the Kuomintang, with a total of five field armies (of which the North China Field Army has fewer troops and rarely undertakes strategic operational tasks), so many historical materials often only mention four field armies and military and political leaders.

3. The five field armies of China People's Liberation Army (namely, the first field army, the second field army, the third field army, the fourth field army, and the North China field army) were born when our army turned to the strategic counterattack in the Liberation War.

4. 1 948165438+1October1In order to meet the needs of the rapid development of the revolutionary situation and promote the arrival of national liberation more effectively, Mao Zedong and the Central Military Commission issued the "Regulations on Unifying the Organization of the Whole Army and the Military Title", which put forward the idea of reorganizing the national army for the first time in the history of our army.