Yang Yong

Yang Yong

Yang Yong (October 28, 1913 - January 6, 1983), formerly known as Yang Shijun, was born in Liuyang County, Hunan Province. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1927. In 1930, he joined the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army. In the same year, he was transferred from the Communist Party of China to the Communist Party of China. During the war of liberation, he served as the commander of the first column of the field army of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan. In the Southwest Shandong campaign, he set a precedent for the field army of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan to attack fortified positions alone and completely annihilate one division and two brigades of the Kuomintang army. During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, he served as deputy commander, chief of staff and commander of the volunteer army. After returning to China, he served as deputy chief of the general staff of the PLA, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission of the CPC and deputy secretary general. He died in Beijing on January 6, 1983 at the age of 70 and was buried in Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.

In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general, the first level of 81 medal, the first level of independence and freedom medal, and the first level of Liberation Medal. One of the famous "Three Yang" of the Communist Party of China.

Life of the characters

Early experience

Yang Yong, formerly known as Shijun, was born on October 28, 1913 in a poor peasant family in Qingjiang, Wenjia City. In 1926, when studying in Liren school, he joined the labor boy scout and served as the team leader.

In 1927, he joined the Communist Youth League. After the "Ma RI incident", the Liuyang agricultural army attacked Changsha, soon lost Jiangxi, Changde and other places, and returned home at the end of the year.

He was admitted to Liuyang County Middle School in 1929.

In the spring of 1930, he dropped out of school because of his father's illness and took part in the work of the Soviet government of the eighth district.

In February 1930, he was selected by the county Party committee to study in the political team of the fifth Red Army camp school in Huangjindong, Pingjiang, where he became a member of the Communist Party of China. After graduation, he was assigned to the Eighth Army of the third Red Army. He successively served as the leader of the propaganda team of the political department, vice political commissar, political commissar, battalion commander, director of the Political Department of the regiment, and director of the Political Department of the division.

In October 1933, he served as political commissar of the 10th regiment of the fourth division of the third Red Army. He took part in the first to fifth anti "encirclement and suppression" operations in the central base area, made meritorious contributions in the xunkou campaign, and won the third Red Star Medal issued by the National Congress of Soviet workers, peasants and soldiers.

He won the third Red Star Medal in 1934. In October of the same year, along with the main force of the first front army of the Red Army in the Long March, they took part in battles in the whole county, Jinsha River, Dadu River, Tucheng, Loushanguan, Sidu Chishui, etc. After arriving in Northern Shaanxi, the third red army was transformed into the second column of the Shaanxi Gansu detachment, and Yang Yong served as political commissar and deputy head of the 686 regiment of the 343 brigade of the 115th division of the Eighth Route Army. In the battle between Pingxingguan and the Japanese army, he successfully completed the crucial task, but unfortunately he was injured. After his recovery, he went to Xiangyuan, Wuxiang and other places to expand more than 3000 troops and set up a supplementary regiment as the head of the regiment.

In September 1935, he served as a political member of the 10th brigade of the 2nd column of Shaanxi Gansu detachment. After arriving in Northern Shaanxi, he served as a political commissar of the 1st and 4th divisions of the 1st corps of the first front army of the Red Army and led his troops to take part in Zhiluo Town, the eastern and Western expeditions, and the battle of shancastle.

the period of Counter-Japanese War

After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Yang Yong served as the deputy head, head and political commissar of the 686 regiment of the 343 brigade of the 115th division of the Eighth Route Army. He led his troops to take part in the battles of Pingxingguan and wuchengjinggou, and won the ambush of Fenli highway.

At the beginning of March 1939, he led the 115th division's eastward detachment from Western Shanxi to darussi, commanding the 686 regiment to win the first battle of Fanba, leading the opening up of the Anti Japanese base area in western Shandong. Later, he served as the commander and political commissar of the independent brigade of the 115th division, the commander of the 343rd brigade and the deputy commander of the Luxi military region, the commander of the 3rd Brigade, the commander of the Luxi military region and the special commissioner of the Luxi military region.

At the beginning of 1941, he and political commissar Su Zhenhua led the third brigade to teach them how to use the tactics of encirclement to fight and help, and won the battle of panxidu. After that, it defeated the Japanese puppet army's "sweeping up" in western Shandong and consolidated the Anti Japanese base area in western Shandong. In July of the same year, he served as deputy commander of Hebei Shandong Henan military region. He soon went to Yan'an and studied in the military academy and the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.

In 1944, he served as deputy commander of Hebei Shandong Henan military region. More than 200 Japanese and puppet strongholds were uprooted in succession, and more than 10000 puppet troops were annihilated. Small guerrilla bases in Southwest Shandong were connected, and a special office and six county governments were established.

In 1945, Nanle, Dongping, Yanggu and other counties were conquered and more than 10000 Japanese troops were annihilated. In September of the same year, he led the troops of the Jin Lu Yu military region to fight back continuously and occupied more than 10 counties such as Changyuan and Tangyin. In November, the seventh column of the Jin Lu Yu military region was established as commander. In the battle to eliminate the remaining Japanese and puppet strongholds, they conquered Juye and other three cities in four days, captured Jining City and annihilated more than 7000 puppet troops.

During the war of Liberation

In April 1946, the Kuomintang publicly tore up the armistice agreement. Yang Yong led the seventh column in the battlefields of Jin, Lu and Yu. In the self-defense counterattack in the bianxu section of Longhai Road, he conquered Dangshan and, together with the three columns, surrounded and annihilated the 181 brigade and a regiment of the Kuomintang. In the three battles of Juye, Dingtao and juanan, he and his brother troops annihilated the third division, the 41st division and the 47th division of the Kuomintang army.

In 1947, he served as the commander of the first column of the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan field army and led his troops to take part in the offensive in Northern Henan. In the Southwest Shandong campaign, he broke through the Yellow River defense line of the Kuomintang army and conquered Yuncheng at one stroke, creating a precedent for the Shanxi Hebei Shandong Henan field army to attack the fortified positions alone and completely annihilate one division and two brigades of the Kuomintang army, and was commended in a circular. Later, he led his troops to march into the Dabie Mountains and organized and directed the gaoshanpu campaign. Because of his outstanding achievements, his troops made a great contribution.

In 1948, he led the army to fight with the Kuomintang troops in beixiangdian, and successfully completed the task of covering the brothers' troops going south to Tongbai mountain. He took part in the Wandong war in May. From June to July, they sniped the northern aid of Hu Lian and other two regiments of the Kuomintang three times in a row, annihilating more than 7000 enemy troops. At the beginning of the Huaihai Campaign in November, Yang Yong annihilated more than 5000 people in the 181st division of the Kuomintang in zhanggongdian area, and captured Mi Wenhe, vice lieutenant general and division commander of the 55th army of the Kuomintang. He fought for nine days and nights in shuangduiji area, annihilating more than 16000 people and capturing nine generals including Wu Shaozhou, deputy commander of the Kuomintang regiment.

In February 1949, he served as the commander of the 5th corps of the second field army, participated in the battle of crossing the Yangtze River, went straight out of the Zhejiang Jiangxi line, and liberated more than 20 towns including Quzhou, Jingdezhen, Shangrao, etc. After entering Southwest China in November and liberating Guizhou, he led the main force of the 5th corps and the 1st division of the 3rd corps to participate in the Chengdu campaign.

After the founding of new China

In January 1950, Yang Yong was concurrently commander of the Guizhou military region and chairman of the provincial people's government. At the end of the year, he joined the advanced Department of the military academy.

After graduating in 1952, he served as the vice president of the PLA General Senior Infantry School and the president of the second senior Infantry School.

In May 1953, he took part in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and served as commander of the 20th corps of the Chinese people's Volunteer Army. He organized the headquarters to participate in the summer counterattack and command the Jincheng campaign. The war played a deterrent role for the United States and South Korea, and made great contributions to the future armistice.

Since the spring of 1954, he has been the deputy commander, chief of staff and commander of the volunteer army.

He returned to China in October 1958 and served successively as commander of Beijing Military Region, deputy chief of general staff of PLA and commander of Beijing Military Region. Guo Xingfu's teaching method was vigorously promoted to improve the military training of the whole military area and enhance the combat effectiveness of the army. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was persecuted by Lin Biao's counter revolutionary group and dismissed from his post. Since 1972, he has been deputy commander of Shenyang Military Region, commander of Xinjiang Military Region, Second Secretary of the Party committee of Xinjiang Autonomous Region and deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of Xinjiang Autonomous Region. He has organized troops to participate in the construction of railway in southern Xinjiang, Tianshan highway and Urumqi petrochemical plant.

Since the summer of 1977, he has been deputy chief of the general staff of the PLA, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission of the CPC and deputy secretary general.

In 1979, he took part in organizing and commanding the border defense forces of the people's Liberation Army to fight back the Sino Vietnamese border self-defense in Guangxi and Yunnan. Yang Yong attached great importance to the overall construction of the armed forces, went deep into grassroots investigation and research, and organized the formulation of a three-year plan for the construction of the armed forces. He is a member of the first to third National Defense Commission, an alternate member of the Eighth CPC Central Committee, a member of the 10th to 12th CPC Central Committee, a secretary of the 12th CPC Central Committee Secretariat, and a member of the fifth NPC Standing Committee.

In 1955, he was awarded the first level of 81 medal, the first level of independence and freedom medal, and the first level of Liberation Medal.

He died in Beijing on January 6, 1983 at the age of 70.

Character contribution

Fighting against the Japanese

At the beginning of 1941, Yang Yong instructed the 3rd Brigade to use the tactics of encirclement to win the battle of panxidu, creating a glorious example of the battle of annihilation in the plain. In April 1944, he returned to Hebei Shandong Henan border region and took part in commanding Dongping, Yanggu and other battles. He has made great contributions to the development of guerrilla warfare in the plain and the opening up and construction of Anti Japanese bases in western Shandong and Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces. （

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Resist US aggression and aid Korea

In April 1953, Yang Yong took part in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, organized the first and second attacks of the summer offensive and won. He also organized and directed the offensive in the area south of Jincheng, captured the deputy division chief of the capital division, the "trump card" of South Korea, and made contributions to forcing the United States to accept the armistice.

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Anecdotes of characters

Five wounds

For the first time, in October 1933, the 14th regiment of the 10th division of the third Red Army met with the Kuomintang troops in xunkou of the Central Soviet area. Yang Yong, then director of the Political Department of the regiment, braved the rain of bullets and took the lead in rushing into the Kuomintang troops. Suddenly, a bullet flew over the center of his head, pierced his scalp and bled. The top of the head also left a permanent memorial - two centimeters long, no longer hairy bullet marks.

The second time, in October 1934, Chiang Kai Shek ordered He Jian, chairman of the KMT Hunan provincial government, to lead 400000 troops to use the Xiangjiang River barrier to block the Red Army's Long March. Yang Yong, then political commissar of the 10th regiment of the fourth division of the Red Army, led his department to carry out the task of covering the central column to cross the river with his brother troops. During the battle, Yang Yong led his troops to fight for two days and nights, his right thigh was hit by shrapnel, and the central column successfully crossed the river. Since then, Yang Yong's

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