The legendary 14th Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army

The 14th Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is the one with the shortest organizational existence among the People's Liberation Army Corps. In just three months, the Corps Headquarters was ordered to restructure the Air Force's leading organization. But what is amazing is that the three armies of this Corps have gone through vicissitudes and have been disarmament and reorganization several times. They are still intact to this day. They are the 74th and 75th Group Armies currently affiliated with the southern theater and the 75th Group Army affiliated with the northern theater. 79th Army.

In May 1949, the Fourth Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army issued an order to form the 14th Army based on the Rehe Training Command affiliated to the Northeast Military Region in accordance with the Central Military Commission's order on unifying the organization and unit numbers of the entire army. Corps leadership organization. Liu Yalou serves as the commander, Mo Wenhua serves as the political commissar, Huang Yongsheng serves as the first deputy commander, Liu Zhen serves as the second deputy commander (and commander of the 39th Army), and Wu Faxian serves as the deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department. Under the jurisdiction of the 39th, 41st and 42nd Army. Subsequently, the 14th Corps Headquarters followed the main force of the Four Fields from the Pingjin area to Central and South China, arriving in the Hankou area in June. In August, following the order of the Central Military Commission, Liu Yalou led more than 2,600 people from the Corps and directly affiliated teams to Peiping to merge with the Aviation Bureau of the Central Military Commission to form the leadership organization of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force. The 39th Army was transferred to the 13th Corps, the 41st Army was transferred to the 12th Corps, and the 42nd Army was directly affiliated with the Fourth Field Army. The designation of the 14th Corps existed for just over three months before it was revoked.

On October 25, 1949, the Central Military Commission officially appointed Liu Yalou as Air Force Commander, Xiao Hua, Air Force Political Commissar and Director of the Political Department, and Wang Bingzhang, Commander of the 17th Army of the Second Field Army, as Chief of Staff of the Air Force. On November 11, the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force Command was officially announced.

After the 39th Army was transferred to the Thirteenth Corps, it marched into western Hunan and participated in the Battle of Hengbao. Then it went straight to Liuzhou and liberated Nanning. On December 11, it liberated Zhennanguan on the Sino-Vietnamese border. *** Annihilated more than 34,000 enemies and made important contributions to the complete elimination of the Bai Chongxi Group. In January 1950, the 39th Army was ordered to go north. In July, he went to Liaoyang and Haicheng areas of Liaoning Province and was incorporated into the Northeast Frontier Defense Force. In October, the 39th Army was reorganized into the 39th Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers. Under the leadership of Army Commander Wu Xinquan and Political Commissar Xu Binzhou, the first batch went to North Korea to participate in the war. In the first battle, the 39th Army and the 1st Cavalry Division of the Founding Fathers of the US Army fought in Yunshan Battle, severely damaging the US and South Korean troops, killing, wounding and capturing more than 2,000 enemy soldiers. In the second battle, the 39th Army, together with fraternal forces, regained Pyongyang and the "38th Line" area. In the third battle, the 39th Army captured Seoul and participated in most of the subsequent battles until returning to the motherland before the armistice of the Korean War. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the 39th Army fought more than a thousand times and wiped out more than 40,000 enemies. After the Korean armistice, the 39th Army was stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula for a long time and was responsible for the security mission in the northern part of the motherland. In 1985, the 39th Army was reorganized into a group army, with its military headquarters stationed in Liaoyang, Liaoning Province. It is one of the three rapid response group armies of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Army and is a strategic reserve force. In 2016, the former 39th Group Army of the Shenyang Military Region was transferred to the Northern Theater Army. In April 2017, the 39th Group Army was reorganized into the 79th Group Army.

After the 41st Army was transferred to the 12th Corps, it participated in the Battle of Hengbao and the Battle of Guangxi, assuming the task of frontal assault. In February 1950, it was reorganized into the 15th Corps and transferred from Rongxian County, Guangxi to Huiyang, Tamsui, Gaoyao and other places in Guangdong to suppress bandits, and liberated Nan'ao, Nanpeng and other islands. In January 1951, he moved to the Chaoshan area to defend the coast and repeatedly defeated the Kuomintang's attempts to counterattack and harass the mainland. In 1969, he was transferred to Guangxi, and in 1979, he participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. In 1985, it was reorganized into the 41st Group Army of the Guangzhou Military Region and the military headquarters was stationed in Liuzhou, Guangxi. In 2016, the former 41st Group Army of the Guangzhou Military Region was transferred to the Army of the Southern Theater Command. In April 2017, the 41st Group Army was reorganized into the 75th Group Army, and the military headquarters moved to Kunming, Yunnan.

After the 42nd Army was placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Fourth Field, it was first ordered to participate in the Battle of Western Hubei, and then entered the Eastern Sichuan Campaign under the command of the Second Field. In February 1950, the entire army was transferred to Qiqihar, Heilongjiang to engage in agricultural production and prepare for collective transfer. When the Korean War broke out in June 1950, because the army was the only combat maneuver force in the Northeast at that time, it was included in the first batch of Chinese People's Volunteers to enter the war in North Korea, avoiding the fate of being disbanded. On October 16, 1950, the 42nd Army of the Chinese People's Volunteers, led by Army Commander Wu Ruilin and Political Commissar Zhou Biao, secretly entered North Korea. During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, the army participated in the first to fourth battles, position defense battles in the summer and autumn of 1951, and position consolidation operations in the spring and summer of 1952, annihilating more than 28,000 enemies. After returning to China in November 1952, the 42nd Army was transferred to South China and was responsible for preventing the Kuomintang army from counterattacking the mainland. In 1979, he participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. In 1985, it was reorganized into the 42nd Group Army of the Guangzhou Military Region. The military headquarters was stationed in Huizhou, Guangdong, and was known as the "Lingnan Army". In 2016, the former 42nd Group Army of the Guangzhou Military Region was transferred to the Army of the Southern Theater Command. In April 2017, the 42nd Army was reorganized into the 74th Army.