During the Liberation War, the 40th Army under the 12th Corps of the Fourth Field Army was an ace army with both offensive and defensive weapons on the liberation battlefield. Under the leadership of the commander Han Xianchu, the Fortieth Army marched east and west all the way, turning to thousands of miles, from the first northeast battlefield to the North China battlefield, and then south to the central and southern regions, pursuing and annihilating Bai Chongxi's military group. In hengyang, the Baoqing area, with the heavy blows of fraternal troops, this once known as the most powerful local military group.
The 40th Army, under the leadership of commander Han Xianchu, made many military achievements, and pointed directly at the Leizhou Peninsula. Participated in the first naval battle in the history of the Fourth Field Army' war, drove a wooden sailing boat, crossed the Qiongzhou Strait, and cooperated with the Qiongya column to break through the land, sea and air trisolaran defense line painstakingly operated by Xue Yue. After a fierce battle, the heroic 40th Army, the 43rd Army, and the Qiongya Column finally defeated the enemy army, successfully liberated Hainan Island, and won the first victory in the history of our army's war.
The 40th Army, during the liberation war, was an ace unit with a tenacious style and good at fighting hard and vicious battles, and made great achievements in the cause of liberation. Probably everyone in the world knows that Han Xianchu is the commander of this tiger and wolf division, and also the soul of this unit. Then, as the ace of the 40th Army, in addition to General Han Xianchu, which tiger generals have served as the commanders of the army.
General Luo Shunchu was a tiger general in our army during the Liberation War, and he was also a figure of the rank of the elder of the 40th Army. He has been engaged in the work of political commissar of the army, and has also served as the commander of the army, and is a general who can be both military and political. Friends who are probably familiar with history know that the predecessor of the 40th Army was reorganized from the Third Column. Han Xianchu was not the first commander of this column, the first two were served by Cheng Shicai and Zeng Kelin. Luo Shunchu's time as political commissar of the Third Column was earlier than Han Xianchu's. It should be said that Luo Shunchu stayed in the 40th Army longer than Han Xianchu. Although Luo Shunchu was engaged in political commissar work in the third column, he and his commander Han Xianchu were named commander of the whirlwind and the general of the whirlwind tiger.
General Wen Yucheng was the third commander of the 40th Army. After the outbreak of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Wen Yucheng served as the commander of the 40th Army of the People's Volunteer Army. It was the first batch of troops to enter the DPRK to participate in the war, and took the lead in firing the first shot of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and won the victory in the first battle. In the ensuing battle, the 40th Army, led by tiger general Wen Yucheng, went through the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth battles. Become the only ace unit among the volunteer troops to participate in the entire battle.
Xu Guofu and Deng Yue, two generals, had served as division commanders of the main divisions under the 40th Army, and had been capable generals under the 40th Army. It can be said that the 40th Army was able to achieve invincibility on the battlefield, win battles, and gain the reputation of the ace army, and the two generals Xu Guofu and Deng Yue also made important contributions. Because it was they who led the charge on the battlefield and won the reputation of the Whirlwind Army for the 40th Army. Both generals, after the founding of the People's Republic, had the honor of serving as commanders of the 40th Army, the fourth and fifth.
Zeng Yongya is also a famous general from the Fourth Field Army during the Liberation War, who served as the commander of the 136th Division of the 46th Army, the deputy commander of the army, and was a general who experienced hundreds of battles. It has gone through the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. He was also the first general to serve as the commander of the Grand Military Region among the founding major generals, and in 1968 he was appointed commander of the Tibet Military Region. Probably because Zeng Yongya was brave and good at war, he was a tiger general, so he also became the sixth commander of the 40th Army.