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PLA 51st Army

The 51st Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was adapted from the 19th Corps of the Kuomintang Army in the Heshengqiao and Jinkou Uprisings south of Wuhan during the Liberation War.

At the beginning of 1949, in order to completely overthrow the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, the CPC Central Committee decided on February 11 that Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, Su Yu, and Tan Zhenlin should form the general front committee, commanding 1.2 million of its affiliated troops to conduct cross-river operations between Hankou and Jiangyin.. On April 20, the battle of crossing the river started, and the second and third field troops first crossed the Yangtze River in East China and liberated Nanjing in one fell swoop.

From May 12 to June 2, the People's Liberation Army successively captured Shanghai, Nanchang, Wuhan and other places. The Kuomintang army Bai Chongxi Group withdrew south. Zhang Zhen, the deputy chief of the Central China Military and Political Department of the Kuomintang and the chairman of the Henan Provincial Government and the commander of the 19th Corps of the Kuomintang Army, had the chance to belong to the 128th Army Headquarters and the 312th, 313th, 314th, and 309th Divisions. More than 20,000 people. Uprising in Heshengqiao and Jinkou south of Wuchang, Hubei.

In June, the uprising troops moved to Hanchuan County, Hubei Province. In July, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China issued an order to restructure the Uprising Army into the 51st Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, Zhang Zhen as the commander, Yang Chunpu as the political commissar, Li Renlin as the deputy commander, Yang Huanmin as the deputy political commissioner, and Wang Kang as the chief of staff. Luo Tong served as director of the political department. The 309th and 312th divisions of the Uprising were the 211th division, Yu Jingtang was the division head, and Leng Yuguang was the political commissar; the 313th and 314th divisions were the 212th division, and Bao Rufeng was the division chief, and Yang Jin was the political division.

There were more than 8,100 people in the army. Under the formation of the Fourth Field Army Engineer Command. On September 24, 1950, the 51st Army Headquarters was reorganized into the Central South Military Region Air Force Leadership Organization, and its affiliated forces were merged with the Hubei Military Region. The 211th Division and the Huanggang Army Division were combined into the Huanggang Army Division and the 211th Division; the 212th Division and the University The Yejun Division was co-edited as the Daye Army Division and the 212th Division, and the 51st Army was revoked.