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PLA 58th Army

The 58th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was developed by some troops in the Southern Hebei Military Region.

In April 1938, the Southern Jilin Military Region was established, which consisted of the East Advance Column of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Jurisdiction over the 1st to 5th Army divisions. In December, the Dongjin Column and the Jinan Military District were separated. In June 1940, the Southern Hebei Military Region underwent reorganization, governing the new 7th, 8th, 9th Brigade and 1st to 5th Military Divisions (later added the 6th and 7th Military Divisions), and the new 7th and 7th Divisions in 1942. In the 8th, 4th, and 9th Brigade, the organs were merged into the 6th, 3rd, and 4th Army divisions, and the regiments belonged to the division leaders. In October 1943, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters directly under the Ji'nan Military Region. In May 1944, the Southern Jilin Military Region was merged into Jinjiyu, and the designation was still retained. In June 1945, the Southern Jilin Command was established. In October, the Jinan Military Region was restored, governing the 7th to 11th Military Divisions and the independent 4th and 5th Brigade, which belonged to the Jinjiluyuyu Military Region.

In August 1947, in order to meet the needs of strategic offensive, the Jinjiluyu Military Region, with the independent 4th, 5th Brigade and 3 independent regiments of the Southern Hebei Military Region, formed the Jinjiluyu Field Army in Anyang, Henan on September 1. In the 10th column, Wang Hongkun, deputy commander of the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Military Region, also served as commander, Liu Zhijian as political commissar, Kong Qingde as deputy commander, Zhao Ziyang as deputy political commissar, Jing Renqiu as chief of staff, and Zhang Lizhi as director of the political department. Under the jurisdiction of the 28th, 29th and 30th brigades, there were more than 19,000 people. In order to strengthen the combat power of the Central Plains, October 14. The column went south and entered the Dabie Mountains at the end of November to join the main force of the field army.

In order to smash the Kuomintang army’s siege of the Dabie Mountains, expand the base area, and cooperate with Chen Su’s outside operations, the 10th Column crossed the Pinghan Railway from the southern area of Geyang in Henan on December 6 and entered the Tongbai area to create a base area.. On the 13th, the 10th Column was reorganized as Tongbai Military Region in Jiangxi Store, north of Yingshan, Hubei. The leader of the military region, Xu Zirong, was appointed as the first political commissar (not yet in office), and the rest of the 10th column leader also served concurrently. It had the 28th Brigade and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Army divisions composed of the 29th Brigade and the 30th Brigade. On the 14th, the troops launched to the designated area and successively liberated the cities of Tongbai, Zaoyang, Biyang, Tanghe, and Xinye, and quickly opened up the situation of opening the Tongbai base area.

In mid-January 1948, the Tongbai Military Region launched the Battle of Deng County, annihilating about 7,000 people from 11 security regiments. The Wan Fei (the southern abbreviation) western feudal landlords armed with a fatal blow. From June to June, the Tongbai Military Region was changed to the Central Plains Military Region. It had cooperated with the main force of the Central Plains Field Army in the battles of Wanxi and Yuandong, and once again conquered Deng County, making the Tongbai base area increasingly consolidated. In July, it participated in the Battle of Xiangfan, and entered the Gucheng, Nanzhang, and Baokang areas with one, opened the Han (Shui) South base and established the 4th Army Division. Since then, the Tongbai Military Region troops have moved to outside operations, and have cooperated with the Jianghan Military Region forces in the battle of Yingcheng, the battle of the Pinghan Railway and the battle of Fancheng. Following this, the towns of Laohekou, Xiangyang and Zhumadian were liberated again. At this point, the Tongbai Liberated Area was connected with the Western Henan, Southern Shaanxi, and Jianghan Liberated Areas.

In mid-February 1949, according to the order of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China on unifying the organization of the whole army and the number of troops, the three brigades in the Tongbai Military Region formed the 58th Army of the People's Liberation Army, Kong Qingde served as the commander, Fang Zhengping served as the political committee, Yang Xiukun He served as deputy military commander, Zhang Lizhi served as deputy political commissar and director of the political department, and Zhang Xisan served as chief of staff. The 28th Brigade was reorganized as 172 Division, Yang Xiukun as the division head, and Li Fuyao as the political commissar; the 29th Brigade was reorganized as the 173rd Division, Li Dingzhuo was appointed as the chief reason, and Wu Gang was the political commissar; the 30th Brigade was converted into the 174th Division, and He Jilin was the division chief He Yiran was a political commissar. After the establishment of the army, it immediately carried out the task of killing the bandits, clearing up the local reactionary armed forces and other tasks, and cooperating with the Jianghan Military Region troops to launch the Hua (Yuan) West Campaign. In early March, the Henan Military Region was established, and the Tongbai Military Region was revoked. In May, the 172nd Division was transferred to the Hubei Military Region, and the other two divisions were transferred to the Henan Military Region to form a system. The army led the banditry in the western Henan region.

In September, the military department organs merged with the Henan Military Region organs, and the military designation was revoked.