In ancient China, in order to maximize the combat effectiveness of the army, the court often divided the army into two parts. As in the Qing Dynasty, the frontier was an elite eight banners, and the interior was a green camp of straw bags.
The frontier army has to defend against the enemy, so it has good weapons and sufficient pay; The mainland army is only responsible for maintaining stability, with serious long-term shortage, low military pay and poor training.
Today, many modern countries are the same. For example, Russia is a professional soldier who goes abroad to fight; Those who serve in China are conscripts. They will go home after two years. It has nothing to do with them if the war in the front is too tight.
In fact, only 400000 of Russia's most elite troops will be put into Ukraine after the outbreak of the Russian Ukrainian war in 2022. Only a few are stationed in Chechnya and the Far East, and will not move until the time of emergency.
After six months of war, in the autumn of 2022, the Kremlin finally transferred the 58th Group Army, the pillar of the sky in southern Russia, to the front line of Russia and Ukraine, which shows the great pressure of the Russian Ukrainian war on Russia.
The 58th Army Group is an important part of the Russian army. Its position is just like that of the Back Wei Army in the Yuejia Army. If you want to take stock of the world's top 10 ace troops, Russia's 58th Army Group is definitely on the list.
This force was born in the 1990s, and was established by the Kremlin specifically to calm the civil unrest in Chechnya. Later, the 58 Group Army did not disappoint people's expectations, turned the tide in the second Chechen war, and protected the national unity.
Since then, the 58 Group Army has been stationed in the Caucasus. In 2008, the Russian Georgian War broke out, and the 58 Group Army crossed the Caucasus to attack Georgia, and the battle was settled in five days, which made the world stand out.
This time, the 58 Group Army entered the Russian Ukrainian battlefield. Its mission is to fight with the Ukrainian army in "Zaporoge" on the front line of Donbas and attack mercenaries from various countries.
So, what is the actual combat strength of the "58 Group Army" that has been in the army for 18 years? What was its outstanding performance in the Russian Ukrainian war?
1、 Honor No.: 58 Group Army
The Russian army is known as the "Federal Armed Forces". At present, there are 1 million active service personnel, as well as logistics and civilian personnel as many as the number of active service personnel. Russia has only 140 million people and 1 million troops, which is hard to support.
In the Russian army, the largest is the air and space army, followed by the army. Among them, there are more than a dozen army groups in the Army, with about 400000 active soldiers, distributed in the east, west, south and north military regions.
Among the four military regions, the southern military region has the most opportunities for actual combat and the most military achievements of its troops. The military region governs the 49th and 58th group armies. The 58th group army was born in 1995, but this name appeared as early as the Soviet German War.
In November 1941, the Soviet Union was at a critical juncture. The German army ate nearly 3 million Soviet troops, and there were almost no soldiers available in the eastern part of the Soviet Union. So the Soviet Union recruited troops in the rear, the 58th Army Group was formed in Siberia, and quickly went to Europe to assist in the war.
In the next two years, this force was cancelled and re established for many times. It participated in the Soviet defense in Transcaucasia. It fought with the German Southern Group Army Group in Krasla Nordar, South Russia, and recaptured the city from the German army.
In 1943, the unit was reorganized and transferred to the reserve team of the Soviet army's headquarters as a whole, becoming a backup force in the fight against Ukraine. From that year to 1995, the designation of the 58th Army Group remained silent in the Soviet Union and Russia.
Until 1995, under the pressure of the Chechen War, the Kremlin established the 58th Army Group in the Caucasus, to commemorate the Red Army's meritorious troops who fought in the Caucasus and pacified the local rebellion.
The 58th Army Group was revived in the summer of 1995, when the Russian army suffered a humiliating failure in Chechnya. The Russian army's attack in 1994 was blocked by the Chechen armed forces, unable to gnaw at the south of Chechnya, and could only defend in the capital Grozny and other big cities of Chechnya.
It is obvious that the 58th Group Army is destined to accept orders in a crisis, and it will also bring glorious results to Russia.
At this time, the Russian army and the Chechen army were all red eyed. A large number of civilians were killed in the war. Even the prisoners of war who raised their hands to surrender could hardly be guaranteed to survive. The reputation of the Russian army at home and abroad fell to a low point.
The Russian government knows that the first war between Russia and Chechnya has failed by this time.
In view of the plight of the front line, President Yeltsin was very angry. He asked the military leaders to take responsibility for the defeat, and quickly tried to turn the situation around so as not to affect his re-election election.
Subsequently, the Russian army expanded the 58th Army Group with the 42nd Army in the Caucasus as the main body. The goal of this force was to break away from the stereotype of empty pay, disorderly command and poor quality of soldiers of the Russian army at that time, to create an elite force to solve the Chechen problem in the future.
At the beginning of the establishment of the 58th Group Army, it maintained a strength of more than 60000 people, and its combat strength was mainly infantry, engineering, land aviation and artillery. Because the Caucasus was mountainous, it was difficult for armored forces to deploy, so there were fewer tank forces.
In the early days, the main force of the 58th Group Army was the 19th, 136th and 205th motorized infantry divisions, which were supported by two artillery brigades and an air defense brigade. It is obvious that this army was born for the purpose of fighting hard in mountainous areas.
