The Northeast Field Army, also known as the Fourth Field Army, was the largest, largest, and best-equipped field army in the People's Liberation Army during the Liberation War. The development of this force from just over 100,000 people to a million people took only three years.
During the Liberation War, the Northeast Field Army fought all the way from the Baishan Mountains and Black Water in the northeast to Hainan Island, making great achievements for the establishment of new China. So why is the Northeast Field Army so strong, and how much weapons and equipment did the Northeast Field Army get from the Soviet Army when it first came out?
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the first to enter the northeast was the Zeng Kelin Department of the Sixteenth Military Subdistrict of the Jireliao Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and after Zeng Kelin conquered Shanhaiguan with the assistance of the Soviet army, he first sent four advance companies to Shenyang, and these four advance companies grew to a scale of 4,000 people in a very short period of time. After Zeng Kelin led most of them into Shenyang, the Soviet army handed over to them the Shenyang Arsenal, as well as the arsenals and munitions warehouses in Shenyang, Fushun, Liaoyang, Benxi and other places.
At that time, the largest arsenal handed over by the Soviet army to Zeng Kelin's department was the Sujiatun Arsenal, and Zeng Kelin sent a regiment to pull away 20,000 rifles, more than 1,000 light and heavy machine guns, and 156 various artillery pieces, which not only equipped the troops who left the customs, but also handed over a batch of military materials to other PLA troops, as well as the subsequent troops out of customs. In September 1945, under international pressure, the Soviet army changed its attitude and wanted to recover some of the arsenals, and Zeng Kelin immediately sent people to seize the time to pull the materials of these arsenals, and distributed them to the 359th Brigade, shandong Luzhong troops, Jiaodong troops and the first brigade of Yan'an, and also transported 5 million rounds of bullets and shells to Longkou, Shandong Province.
At that time, Higashino also received an aviation training group of the Japanese army, and received more than 40 fighters of various types of fighters of various types in the fourth training brigade of the Second Air Regiment of the Japanese Army. Later, the Northeast Field Army formed the Northeast Aviation School on the basis of this aviation brigade, and many of the mechanics and flight instructors in it were Japanese.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, after the Anti-Japanese League was driven to the Soviet Union by the Japanese Army, the Soviet Army reorganized the Anti-Japanese Coalition into the Far East International 88th Brigade, and the brigade commander Wasu Baozhong. When the Soviet army attacked the Kwantung Army, the 88 brigade led by Zhou Baozhong was with them, and in the middle of Zhou Baozhong, which returned from the Soviet Union, accepted an arsenal of the Japanese army in Changchun, and transported out 50,000 rifles, more than 2,000 light machine guns, more than 800 heavy machine guns, more than 500 grenade launchers, more than 20 mortars, two mountain guns, and more than 20 million rounds of ammunition. The Zhou Jiamei department stationed in Jinzhou, with the assistance of the Soviet army, disarmed the Japanese puppet army in Jinzhou and obtained more than 80 artillery pieces, 690 machine guns, 13,200 rifles, 350 pistols, more than 100 boxes of shells, and more than 10 million rounds of ammunition.
Of course, after the various departments entered the northeast, the size of the troops expanded very quickly, and the strength of a military sub-district in Zengkelin was expanded to the size of 20,000 people in a short period of time. These units that first left the customs to lay the foundation for the development of the Later Northeast Field Army, which was also the main reason why the later Northeast Field Army was able to develop and grow.