As we all know, during the Liberation War, the Kuomintang army was known as five main forces, such as the Eighteenth Army, the Eighteenth Army was the founding force of Chen Cheng's civil engineering department, which was formed by Chen Cheng, from its establishment in the 1930s to the end of the Liberation War, Chen Cheng grasped this unit very tightly, and all the generals who served in the Eighteenth Army were raised by the civil engineering department and pulled up by Chen Cheng's hand, which was a team with a very strong personal color.
Of course, several other units also have their own strengths and weaknesses, but they all have a common characteristic, that is, personal color, for example, when it comes to the Fifth Army, we will think of Du Yuming, think of this leading mechanized unit in modern Chinese history, although the New First Army and the New Sixth Army are elite units that were formed later, such as the predecessor of the New First Army is the Tax Police Corps, which is a private army created by Song Ziwen, although there is also the new 22nd Division of Liao Yaoxiang's Fifth Army (the New Sixth Army was later reorganized on the basis of this department). Sun Liren, the commander of the New First Army, also had a tight grip on this unit.
When it comes to the 74th Army, everyone may think of the reorganization of the Seventy-fourth Division, which was completely destroyed in the Battle of Menglianggu in 1947, which can be said to have caused an uproar in the Kuomintang army system, and Xu Yongchang (then minister of national defense) once wrote in his diary that the loss of the Seventy-fourth Division had a great impact on the military.' At that time, old Chiang Found Wang Yaowu and hoped that Wang Yaowu would come forward to reorganize the Reorganized Seventy-fourth Division, and his words were quite earnest, and after receiving Chiang Kai-shek's letter, Wang Yaowu had no choice but to rebuild with the strength to eat milk.
In addition to appointing the former generals of the Seventy-fourth Army and the generals who broke through in the Battle of Menglianggu to vacant posts, Wang Yaowu also transferred the Second Shandong Garrison Brigade, with this brigade as the backbone to form the 57th Brigade under the Seventy-fourth Division, while the Guangdong Aviation Garrison Brigade was transferred to form the 58th Brigade, and a small number of remnants of the reorganized Seventy-fourth Division and the wounded soldiers formed the 51st Brigade, forming the scale of the two integrated brigades under the command of the department. The rebuilt 58th Brigade of the reorganized Seventy-fourth Division still blocked two columns in Nakano.
In fact, from this process, it can also be seen that the 74th Army or the reorganized Seventy-fourth Division, in fact, Wang Yaowu contributed a little more, whether before or after the reconstruction, otherwise Chiang Kai-shek would not have asked Wang Yaowu to ask him to continue to rebuild the reorganized Seventy-fourth Division.
Some people may ask what happened when the 74th Army guan Yu Ji, in fact, Yu Jishi was the first commander of the 74Th Army, Yu Jishi was a graduate of the Huangpu First Term, his seniority was even older than Wang Yaowu, in the entire sequence of the 74th Army, Yu Jishi's 58th Division was the first unit to be formed, and during sino-German cooperation, it was included in the category of "finishing division" transformation, and all the weapons and equipment were equipped with German weapons, and among all the infantry divisions in the country at that time, the 58th Division should be regarded as an elite unit.
The 74th Army was formed during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to facilitate the coordination of the attack of the troops, under the command of two divisions, the formation of a corps, the 58th Division and Wang Yaowu's 51st Division were combined to form the 74th Army, and by the more senior Yu Ji as the first commander, Wang Yaowu in the 74th Army, the concubine only 51st Division, the predecessor was supplemented by the First Brigade, the department was originally trained to supplement the losses of other troops on the battlefield, because of Wang Yaowu's relationship, the combat effectiveness of the unit was particularly strong, so it later became a separate army.
At the beginning of the formation of the 74th Army, Yu Jishi made great contributions, and he also regarded the 74th Army as his concubine unit, similar to Chen Cheng's compilation of miscellaneous cards to form the Eighteenth Army, which was a reason, plus Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to Yu Jishi, a compatriot of Yu Jishi, who led the 74th Army to make many meritorious achievements in the early stage of the War of Resistance.
It was just that Yu Jishi was arrogant and proud, and full of personality, during the Battle of Wuhan, he had been picky because he looked down on Xue Yue, fortunately, the 74th Army was quite strong at that time, thus saving the decline of the battlefield, so the old Jiang transferred Yu Jishi away from the front line and served as its chief of guard. In 1939, Wang Yaowu, who was born in the 74th Army, replaced Yu Jishi as a military commander, and since then, the entire 74th Army has been deeply influenced by Wang Yaowu's combat style, and is known for his tenacious and daring to fight, but Yu Jishi, as one of the founders of the 74th Army, is unknown.