Blazing Fury: A Chronicle of the 24th Army of the People's Liberation Army at War

Author: Peng Xiangtai
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Features: The 24th Army is a heroic unit with a glorious revolutionary history and fine traditions. During the Chinese Revolutionary War, its predecessor units, such as the Red 5th Regiment, Red 24th Division, Red 10th Corps, Red 3rd Regiment, Red 9th Regiment, and the Southern Zhejiang Red Army Advance Corps, fought in eight southern provinces. After the Central Red Army embarked on the Long March, they persisted in the arduous and relentless three-year guerrilla war in the south. When the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out, this southern eight-province Red Army guerrilla unit advanced into the enemy rear in Jiangnan and launched guerrilla warfare against the Japanese, achieving their first victory at Weigang, shattering the myth of the "invincible Imperial Japanese Army." After suffering multiple heavy defeats, the Japanese invaders in China referred to this unit as the "Tiger Unit." During the War of Liberation, they marched to engage in battle at Laiwu, where one division captured or killed over 20,000 enemy soldiers. They swiftly advanced to Duozhuang, encircled and defeated Mengliangguan, and killed the commander of the elite 74th Division, General Zhang Lingfu. They fiercely fought in Yudong, captured the commander of the enemy corps, Zhou Shounian. They fought for control of Huaihai, and together with friendly forces, resisted the repeated assaults of over a hundred thousand enemy soldiers, including two Nationalist army corps and General Jiang Weiguo's armored division. They crossed the Yangtze River and captured the city of Tongling in Jiangnan. During the War of Resistance in Korea, in just 10 months, they captured or killed 37,000 American and South Korean soldiers, making significant contributions to safeguarding their homeland and world peace. In the war years, the soldiers of the 24th Army fought south and north, advancing and retreating, fully demonstrating their heroic spirit of attacking with certainty of victory, their skill in fighting large-scale, tough, and fierce battles, like a whirlwind roaring across the battlefield and a fierce tiger charging into enemy ranks.