127th Combined Arms Brigade (People's Republic of China)

The 127th Combined Arms Brigade is the primary maneuver element of the 82nd Group Army in the Central Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and is its sole infantry division as of present.

The 127th Combined Arms Brigade, formerly the 127th Mechanized Infantry Division, is one of the most famous and best-equipped PLA formations.

The 379th regiment is the famed Ye Ting independent regiment, a nationalist armored train unit that was once commanded by Dr Sun Yat-Sen, with Zhou Enlai as its political commissar, during the Northern Expedition.

The 379th is also the regiment that formed the basis of the forces that fought KMT allies in the victory at the 1935 Battle of Luding Bridge.

[1][2][3][4][5] In 2017, the 380th Regiment of the 127th Mechanized Infantry Division(the Red 2nd Regiment of the Autumn Harvest Uprising) was split off and merged with the 9th Armored Brigade to form the 131st medium Combined Arms Brigade.

As the 1st Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army(中國工農革命軍第一師).

As the 2nd Division, 1st Corps of the Chinese Central Red Army(紅一方面軍第一軍團第二師).

As the 685th Regiment, 343rd Brigade, 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army(八路軍第一一五師第三四三旅第六八五團).

As the 1st Training Brigade, 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army(八路軍第一一五師教導第一旅).

As the 16th Division, 6th Column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army(東北民主聯軍第六縱隊第十六師).