Is the 31st Army of the Gui Department in My Special First Battalion real?

It's real. In the sequence of the establishment of the National Revolutionary Army, there have been five 31st armies in history. They are the Yunnan Army, the Beiyang Army, the Northwest Army, the Guiyue Army, and the Youth Army.

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Katsura seriesand the 31st Army, which was composed of one part of each of the Cantonese Department.

The predecessor of the army was a division of Li Zongren of the Gui department. In June 1936, after the failure of the Gui Army and the Chen Jitang Department of the Guangdong Department to launch the "Liangguang Incident" against Chiang, they were forced to accept the incorporation of the Jiang Army, among which, the five divisions under the original jurisdiction of Li Zongren of the Gui Department and the remnants of the 19th Route Army of the Guangdong Department were combined into six divisions, including the 170th Division, the 171st Division, the 172nd Division, the 173rd Division, the 174th Division, and the 175th Division.

In August 1937, after the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 173rd Division, the 174th Division and the 135th Division were combined into the 19th Army in Nanning, and soon after, it was renamed the 31st Army, with Liu Shiyi as the commander and Qin Lianfang as the deputy commander. Under the jurisdiction of the 135th Division, Su Zuxin served as the division commander; the 173rd Division, with He Weizhen as the division commander; The 174th Division, Wang Zanbin served as the division commander. In 1938, the army moved north from Nanning to Xuzhou and was subordinate to the 11th Group Army.

In February of the same year, army commander Liu Shiyi was transferred to the deputy director of the Military Training Department of the National Military Commission, and Wei Yunsong was appointed as the army commander. In May, he participated in the Battle of Xuzhou and served as the defense of the north bank of the Huai River to resist the Japanese army advancing north. After the Battle of Xuzhou, the army was ordered to move to Wuhan and was subordinate to the 21st Group Army of the Fifth Theater.

In August, the army participated in the Battle of Wuhan and assumed the operational mission of defending the key positions in front of Wuhan and the main positions on the periphery of Wuhan. After the Battle of Wuhan, the army was transferred to Guilin, Guangxi for training.

In 1939, the Kuomintang Army adjusted its troop structure, the army was subordinate to the 16th Group Army, the 173rd and 174th divisions were originally under the 84th Army, and the 131st and 188th divisions of the 84th Army were reassigned to the 31st Army. At this time, Wei Yunsong served as the commander, He Weizhen served as the deputy commander, under the jurisdiction of: the 131st Division, He Weizhen concurrently served as the division commander; the 135th Division, Su Zuxin served as the division commander; The 188th Division, Mo Dehong served as the division commander.

In November of the same year, the army was ordered to participate in the Battle of Guinan and was tasked with stopping the Japanese attack. Among them, the 135th Division served as the garrison on the north bank of Nanning and Yongjiang River; The 188th Division assembled as a reserve north of Kunlun Pass. At the beginning of December, one part of the army carried out an attack and combat mission to the Fengfeng Pass to contain the Japanese army, and the other part entered the line of Sitang in the northeast of Nanning to prevent the Japanese army in Nanning from reinforcing Kunlun Pass, so as to cooperate with the main force of the Northern Route Army.

In July 1941, Army Commander Wei Yunsong was dismissed from his post and He Weizhen was promoted to Army Commander. In September, the army was ordered to participate in the Second Battle of Changsha, mainly serving as a diversion operation in the non-main battlefield. In August 1944, the army participated in the Battle of Guiliu and served as a defensive task in the Guilin defensive operation.

In April 1945, the army was reduced, the 131st and 135th divisions under its jurisdiction were reduced, and the 188th division was reassigned to the 46th army.

Yes, the 31st Army of the Gui Department is real. It was a unit of the Chinese Nationalist army, led by Li Zongren, the governor of Guangxi and the number one warlord of the Gui line. During the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, the 31st Army of the Gui Department participated in a series of battles, including the battle of Kunyu Mountain in which the ** troops were besieged, the strategic operation to seize the entire territory of the Central Plains, and the Huaihai Campaign.

The 31st Army of the Gui Department is historically considered one of the more powerful armies of the Chinese Nationalist army.

I have no emotions and beliefs, and I can't judge the truth of historical events. But as far as I know, the 1st Special Battalion is a special force formed by the Chinese Kuomintang in Guilin in the mid-1930s, which is composed of soldiers who are about to be discharged from the army and heroes who have been reported to fight in various places. This unit has a record of playing an important role in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and in dealing with the aggression of the Japanese Shinko.

The Gui army refers to the period when the Kuomintang ruled China, according to the geographical location of each military region, the local troops were organized into a number of local departments (provinces), such as the Gui system, the Fujian system, the Zhejiang system, the Anhui system, and the Annihilation and Hebei system, so as to implement unified command and dispatch and achieve a better united front effect.