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This is the order of battle for Chinese People's Volunteer Army during major periods of hostilities in the Korean War. After the People's Republic of China entered the Korean War in October 1950 by designating the People's Liberation Army (PLA) North East Frontier Force as the People's Volunteer Army (PVA),〔.〕 the PVA spent the next two years and nine months in combat operations and five years and three months in garrison duties. Its last elements did not leave Korea until as late as 1958.〔.〕 During this period, China paid a huge price for its involvement in the Korean War.〔 According to Chinese archives, about 73 percent of Chinese infantry forces, 67 percent of Chinese artillery forces, 100 percent of Chinese armored forces and 52 percent of Chinese air forces were deployed in Korea at one point or another, alongside 600,000 civilian laborers – in total more than three million civilian and military personnel.〔〔.〕 Out of those forces, around 152,000 were killed, 383,500 were wounded, 450,000 were hospitalized, 21,300 were captured and 4,000 were missing. Of the captured 14,190 defected to Taiwan after the ceasefire.〔 China had also consumed 5.6 million tons of war materiel, 399 aircraft and 12,916 vehicles for its war efforts.〔 About a third of the Chinese government's annual budget was spent on the military between 1950–53, totaling 10 billion RMB by the war's end.〔.〕〔Equivalent to 3.3 billion USD. See .〕 All in all, the Korean War was the largest foreign war in Chinese military history, despite the fact that no declaration of war ever existed between China and United Nations forces.〔 For many years, historians found it difficult to provide an accurate order of battle for Chinese troops in Korea because most of the information could only be obtained from prisoner interrogations or captured documents. The constant Chinese troop movements and the reattachment of units between different commands further added to the confusion.〔.〕 By the 1980s, however, a large number of primary documents, memoirs and scholarly works on Chinese involvement in the Korean War began to appear in China, enabling historians to make a more comprehensive and accurate assessment of Chinese military operations during the war.〔.〕 As the term "Corps" does not exist in Chinese military, the term "Army" (军) technically means "Corps" in PLA nomenclature, while the term "Army Group" (集团军 or 兵团) means "Army".〔.〕 For example, the US X Corps is always referred to as the "US 10th Army" (美第10军) among Chinese sources.〔.〕 As such, this article uses the term "Corps" and "Army" to denote Chinese Army and Army Group formations. ==First Phase Campaign (October 25 – November 5, 1950)== Although the Chinese leadership did not make the decision to enter the Korean War until United Nations (UN) forces crossed the 38th Parallel in October 1950,〔〔.〕 it had been preparing for the possibility ever since United States intervened in Korea in June 1950.〔.〕〔.〕 On July 13, 1950 and soon after UN forces entered the Korean War, China's Chairman, Mao Zedong, ordered the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 13th Army—China's strategic reserve stationed in southern China—to form the PLA North East Frontier Force (NEFF) in Manchuria.〔.〕 Aside from the 38th, 39th and 40th Infantry Corps originally belonged to the 13th Army, the NEFF also included the 42nd Infantry Corps, three artillery divisions, one anti-aircraft regiments and three transport regiments—in total more than 250,000 men.〔.〕 On October 19, 1950 and under strict secrecy, the NEFF officially crossed the Yalu River under the name Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA),〔〔.〕 although advance scouting parties had been spotted by UN forces as early as October 13.〔.〕 On October 23, the PLA 50th and 66th Corps were attached to the PVA 13th Army in order to reinforce the defenses at Sinuiju and Chongju area.〔.〕 At the same time, the 13th Army Headquarters was disbanded to increase coordination between PVA Headquarters and its field units.〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chinese People's Volunteer Army order of battle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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