What Is a Central Force?

The Central Army (zhn yn jn) was a general term for the army that was directly obedient to the Nanjing Central Government during the National Government, but this army was actually obeyed by Jiang Jieshi and controlled directly by it.

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The Kuomintang Central Army is generally divided into the following three levels in terms of its relationship with Chiang:

(1) Whampoa is an army under the command of the general, which is called the Central Army.

(2) Jiang's troops that were continuously collected during the Northern Expedition and previous warlord melees are in the central sequence, but still maintain a relatively independent personnel system. They are called side lines of the Central Army, and they are mostly incorporated Beiyang troops. Many of these forces were annexed and transformed by the Central Straits Forces and became Straits.

(3) He was defeated by Jiang (or other warlords) in the warlord melee and lost his territory. He was incorporated into the central sequence for self-protection, but still maintained a relatively independent personnel system. Different from the previous category, these troops are mostly based on local power. After losing their power, they still maintain inextricable links with the localities, such as the 19th Army of Guangdong and the Guangdong s

The Japanese army conducted a detailed investigation of the Chinese army before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, saying that "the Chinese army has always been a private army of warlords, and its establishment, equipment, quality, and training are not good, and it is inferior and weak as a national defense army." At the same time, the Chinese army controlled by the National Government at that time was divided into three categories: one was the Chiang Kai-shek's puppet army (also known as the direct line of the central government); the second was a central side army adapted from the local army; the third was not under the Chiang Kai-shek system. Local army.

During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Central Army directly attached great importance to the Japanese army.

Throughout the eight-year anti-Japanese war history and report, the Japanese attaches great importance to the Central Army; especially the stalemate period after the Wuhan Battle, the annihilation of the Central Army to combat objectives was even considered "the existence of this army To solve the China problem quickly and peacefully, there is no doubt that we have to seek the fish. " When Okamura was commander of the 11th Army, he even described in his report "11th Army's Operational Experience":

In November 1939, Okamura Ningji once judged in the "Opinions on the Quick Resolution of the Sino-Japanese Incident Operation": "The center of the enemy's anti-Japanese forces is neither the Chinese 400 million people nor the will of the government's important people. Not to mention the 2 million anti-Japanese enemy forces, including some local miscellaneous army, but only the anti-Japanese will of the Central Direct Army with Chiang Kai-shek as the center and young officers in the Huangpu Military Academy system as the main body. As long as the army exists, it will quickly A peaceful settlement is like seeking a fish from the ground. " ^[1]