Li Tianyou

Li Tianyou

Li Tianyou (January 8, 1914 - September 27, 1970) was born in Lingui, Guangxi. He joined the GUI army in 1928. He joined the Communist Party of China in October 1929. The founding General of the people's Republic of China. He once served as member of the CPC Central Committee, member of the National Defense Commission, and deputy chief of the general staff of the Chinese people's Liberation Army.

In 1955, he was awarded the first-class Medal of freedom and the first-class Medal of liberation.

Life of the characters

Early experience

Born in Gaopo village, liutangxu, Lingui County, Guangxi on January 8, 1914, with five brothers and sisters, ranking the third. When I was a child, I studied in a private school for two years. Later, I went with my parents to sell firewood and bamboo utensils. I worked as an apprentice in a rice noodle shop in Guilin. The poverty of his family made Li Tianyou want to run away from home and find his way at a young age.

Agrarian Revolution

In June 1928, Li Tianyou signed up in Guilin to join the army of Li Mingrui, the general of the northern expedition, as an orderly. In October 1929, after Li Mingrui failed to fight against Chiang Kai Shek, Li Tianyou resolutely turned to the Communist Party. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1929 and took part in the Baise uprising in the same year. On October 6, 1929, a rebellion broke out in Nanning military academy. It turned out that Yu zuobe and Li Mingrui, who were in charge of Guangxi, sent a telegram to fight against Chiang Kai Shek. As a result, three of their teachers were bribed by Chiang Kai Shek to rebel. Some people incited the students of the teaching corps to vote for Chiang Kai Shek. However, Zhang Yunyi had already made plans, and Li Tianyou actively cooperated with the Communists to smash the enemy's plot and began his revolutionary military career. In the middle of October 1929, Li Tianyou followed the revolutionary team from Nanning to Baise and joined the Communist Party of China on the way. In November 1929, Li Tianyou served as the platoon leader of the machine gun company of jiaodaoying, and took part in the fight to eliminate the third reactionary Guangxi police brigade and collect the guns of the Baise County police station and the nearby militia. On December 11, 1929, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, Zhang Yunyi and Wei Baqun, he launched the Baise uprising and announced the establishment of the seventh army of the Chinese Red Army. Li Tianyou, who was only 15 years old, was appointed deputy commander of the secret service company of the army headquarters. On one day in the middle of December 1929, more than 2000 bandits from Western Guangxi rushed to Baise. There was a great disparity between the enemy and us, and the situation was grim. Without fear, Li Tianyou led the spy company to take part in the battle of guarding the city, and then seized the Highlands outside the city. Close cooperation between the city and the outside smashed the enemy's attack. At the beginning of February 1930, Huang Shaohong, a GUI warlord of the Kuomintang, dispatched more than 4000 people to "encircle and suppress" the right Jiangsu District in an attempt to eliminate the young red seventh army. Li Tianyou followed the main force of the red seventh army to fight in Long'an for five days and nights. He took the lead in charging to seize the commanding heights occupied by the enemy, and insisted on fighting even when his feet were injured. On February 3, 1930, in Meihua village, Ruyuan County, Guangdong Province, the enemy's four regiments came to besiege us. We were outnumbered by the enemy. Our army killed and injured about 1000 enemy soldiers, 6 to 700 of them, and nearly two-thirds of the cadres. In less than half an hour, Li Tianyou took the top of the mountain and ensured the victory of the lotus battle. Li Tianyou was praised as "little tiger company commander" for his heroic spirit of taking the lead and charging ahead. At the end of March 1930, the seventh Red Army decided to fight on the outside line. Before Li Tianyou recovered from his foot injury, he marched with the army to Guizhou. At the beginning of April 1930, Li Tianyou was appointed the commander of the spy company. At the end of April 1930, the seventh red army attacked Rongjiang County, the rear base of Guomindang warlord Wang jialie in Guizhou. Due to the strong city defense and heavy artillery fire, the red army failed to break through the attack for several hours. Li Tianyou selected 12 soldiers to form a commando team with bamboo ladders on his shoulders and iron nails on his body. He jumped out of the trench and rushed through the enemy's firepower network. He opened up a way for the troops to kill and enter the city. He conquered Rongjiang county. The Red Army annihilated more than 600 people, seized a large number of weapons and ammunition, and raised tens of thousands of yuan. In May 1930, Li Tianyou returned to Youjiang with his troops. He took the lead in fighting against a big blockhouse in Ma'anshan. He was wounded for the third time and took part in the battle to recover Baise, Fengyi, Enlong and other counties. In October 1930, the seventh Red Army was ordered to go north. At the end of December 1930, when Wugang county was attacked, the enemy suddenly increased eight regiments, and the seventh red army fought fiercely with the enemy for five days and nights, resulting in serious casualties and a reduction of more than one third of the troops. Li Tianyou was ordered to lead a platoon to resist the pursuit of the enemy and cover the transfer of the head of the army and the military headquarters. In July 1931, the seventh Red Army and the Central Red Army joined forces in Yudu County, Jiangxi Province, and were assigned to the third Red Army. Li Tianyou took part in the third anti "encirclement and suppression" campaign in the central revolutionary base, and then went to Huichang and Xunwu to expand the Red Army. In early February 1932, when he was attacking Ganzhou city wall, Li Tianyou was shot three times. After his recovery, he was promoted to deputy head of the 58th regiment of the seventh Red Army and transferred to Ruijin Red Army school to study as the later head of the regiment. He took part in the fourth anti "encirclement and suppression" battles such as Huangpo and caotaigang. In June 1933, he was the head of the 13th regiment of the 5th division of the third Red Army Corps, and took part in the battles of pengkou and Liancheng in the eastern expedition to Fujian. Li Tianyou commanded the regiment in Xiqin, Nanping County to annihilate the 366 regiment of the 19th Route Army, which is known as the Iron Army of the Kuomintang. He created the Huihuang battle record of one regiment of the Red Army annihilating one main regiment of the enemy in the movement, and won the third Red Star Medal. The regiment was awarded the "model 13th regiment" flag. In January 1934, Li Tianyou was promoted to the commander of the 5th division of the third Red Army Corps. In the fifth anti "encirclement and suppression" battle of gaohunao in Shicheng County, his left hand was injured and he still commanded the whole division to hold its position and beat back the enemy's nine collective charges. In October 1934, during the 25000 Li Long March, Li Tianyou led the red 5th division as the vanguard of the army. He was ordered to fight against the two divisions of the Kuomintang in Guanyang Xinwei, Guangxi. He fought hard for three days and nights and completed the task of covering the central organ column to cross the Xiangjiang River safely. In January 1935, Li Tianyou served as the chief of the combat section of the headquarters of the third Red Army Corps. He assisted the head of the army in actively implementing the new combat policy determined by the Zunyi Meeting. He took part in the battles of capturing Loushanguan, attacking Zunyi City, crossing Chishui and Dadu River. In October 1935, he arrived in Northern Shaanxi. After the battle of Zhiluo Town, he served as deputy commander of the 2nd division and commander of the 4th division of the 1st Red Army. He took part in the western expedition in 1936. In October, Li Tianyou led his troops to take part in the battle of mountain castle, which defeated Hu zongnan's troops of the Kuomintang Central Army, and contributed to ending the last battle of the ten-year civil war.

Counter-Japanese War

In September 1937, Li Tianyou led the whole regiment to take part in the battle of Pingxingguan to annihilate 1000 members of the Japanese Tanigaki division. In 1938, he was the deputy commander of the 343rd brigade. He took part in many battles on Zhengtai Road, annihilated hundreds of Japanese soldiers, and seized hundreds of horses and 200 rifles. In March 1938, acting as the commander of the 343 brigade, he led his troops to fight in the Luliang Mountain Area and took part in opening up the Anti Japanese base in southwest Shanxi. At the end of 1938, he was ordered to study at the Military Academy of vorongzhi in Moscow, the Soviet Union. He returned to Yan'an in the spring of 1944. In 1945, he participated in the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He went to the Soviet Union to study military in 1939.

War of Liberation

In June 1947, he commanded two columns, another division and five artillery battalions to attack Siping, annihilated more than 10000 enemy troops and occupied three fifths of the urban area. After the war, he summed up a set of tactics for tackling key problems and popularized them in the Northeast troops. In May 1948, he commanded three columns and four artillery regiments to attack the Kuomintang garrison in Siping again, annihilating nearly 20000 enemy troops. In September 1948, he led his troops to take part in the Liaoshen campaign and annihilated nearly 30000 enemy troops. In January 1949, in the Pingjin campaign, Li Tianyou served as the commander of the western front of the liberation of Tianjin, commanding 38th and 39th armies, and totally annihilating 130000 Kuomintang troops in Tianjin. After his service, he served as the deputy commander of the 13th corps and led his troops to take part in the battles of crossing the Yangtze River and liberating Hubei, making great contributions to the liberation of the whole country.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China

In 1954, he studied in Nanjing Higher Military Academy. He won the rank of general in 1955. He won the first level of 81 medal, the second level of independent freedom medal and the first level of Liberation Medal. He was awarded the rank of general in 1955. He was awarded the August 1st medal and the Liberation Medal. He is a member of the second and third national defense committees, a deputy to the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and a member of the ninth Central Committee. In 1957, he served as the first deputy commander of Guangzhou Military Region. In January 1958, he served as acting commander of Guangzhou Military Region. In 1962, he served as deputy chief of the general staff of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. He is a deputy to the 7th, 8th and 9th CPC National Congress, member of the 9th CPC Central Committee, member of the Central Military Commission, member of the 1st CPPCC National Committee, member of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd NPC and member of the National Defense Commission. on September 27, 1970, he died of illness in Beijing at the age of 56. The biography of General Li Tianyou was published in January 1994.

Honorary achievements

During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as platoon commander and spy company commander of the seventh army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army, deputy commander and commander of the 68th regiment of the third Red Army, commander and division commander of the 13th regiment of the fifth division of the third Red Army, Commander and division commander of the combat section and the 10th regiment of the headquarters of the third Red Army, deputy commander and division commander of the second division and the fourth division of the first Red Army. Took part in the long march. during the Anti Japanese War, he successively served as the head, deputy commander and acting commander of the 686 regiment of the 343 brigade of the 115th division of the Eighth Route Army. during the war of liberation, he successively served as chief of staff of the North Manchurian military region, commander of Songjiang military region and acting commander of Harbin garrison region, commander of the first column of the Northeast Democratic United Army, commander of the 38th army of the fourth field army, and deputy commander of the 13th Corps. after the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively served as deputy commander of Guangxi military region, commander and principal of military and political Cadre School of Guangxi military region, and the first deputy commander of Guangzhou Military Region

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