In 1979, Deng Gong decided to resign as chief of the general staff of the Central Military Commission because he was too busy with his work
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For the general staff candidates who took over, Nie Shuai was responsible for selecting and recommending them, and after careful consideration, Nie Shuai decided to recommend General Yang Chengwu, who had good strength in all aspects and seniority, to take over. However, deng gong and other central leaders analyzed that Yang Chengwu was not the most suitable candidate for the chief of the general staff, so they rejected Nie Shuai's proposal. So why did Deng Gong and others not agree to Yang Chengwu's succession to the post of General Counselor of the Central Military Commission? Is there any particular reason for this?
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Born in 1914 in Changting, Fujian Province, Yang Chengwu, like many generals during the Chinese Revolution, yang Chengwu also came from a poor peasant family, and was oppressed by local tycoons and inferior gentry landlords since childhood, but he could not eat a few times a full meal when he worked all year round. In the social environment at that time, many people wanted to change the status quo, and the only way to change China was revolution.
(Admiral Yang Chengwu)
In 1929, Yang Chengwu participated in a peasant uprising in western Fujian
In this rebellion, Yang Chengwu showed his command talent for the first time, but also made him firm in his revolutionary belief, although in this riot activity, the peasant troops were quickly suppressed, but also shook the feudal rule that had been held for hundreds of years, making people aware of the strength of the masses, Yang Chengwu also successfully entered the ranks of the Red Army through this activity and began his revolutionary career.
In 1930, Yang Chengwu was incorporated into the Third Column of the Red Fourth Army
He served as a political commissar in the ranks and officially joined the party in the same year. Whether Yang Chengwu had a positive attitude towards work and firmness toward the party, he made many military achievements in the subsequent revolutionary road
Among them, the most famous of the Red Army period should be the Long March period of the capture of Luding Bridge.
General Yang Chengwu represented the campaign: flying to capture the Luding Bridge
At that time, the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in the Central Soviet Region failed, and the Red Army was forced to start the Long March.
Yang Chengwu, who was the political commissar of the regiment at the time, was in his regiment to undertake the pioneering work in the front
In May 1935, the Red Army began the most well-known battle of "crossing the Dadu River", although the Red Army was successful at the beginning, but did not shake off the pursuing enemy behind, in order to get rid of the current bad situation.
The team decided to cross the crossed graben near Anshun Field and reach the opposite shore to resume the battle.
However, when the main force arrived at Anshun Field, it was found that the situation was not optimistic, the river was turbulent, the means of crossing the river were seriously insufficient, and the team was too large, each round trip took more than an hour, and the only few ferries were simply not enough for tens of thousands of troops to successfully reach the other side, even if the enemy did not pursue, it would take about a month for the whole army to pass, not to mention that the time was not enough now, there were chasing troops after the siege, and the enemy in the rear was only a few days away from the large troops. It is simply impossible to cross the river in a short period of time.
For this reason, Chairman Mao and other central leaders decided to divide the troops and cross the river
After crossing the river from Anshun Field, some people went to Luding Bridge, hundreds of miles away, to clear the way for the large troops, and it was Yang Chengwu's unit that was responsible for carrying out this task. In the early morning of May 28, Yang Chengwu's unit received clear instructions to rush to Luding Bridge to seize control, seize the operational opportunity, and clear the obstacle for the large army to cross the river.
This was certainly not an easy task to accomplish, with invisible enemies hidden on all sides, and the fact that the Kuomintang had arrived early to block the Red Army near the bridge, coupled with the tight time and difficult roads, undoubtedly added more obstacles to this mission. In addition, there are also certain problems on the "bridge" of the Flying Luding Bridge. This is not a bridge in the traditional sense of stability, but a chain bridge on a turbulent river, which has no piers itself, and the two sides of the river bank are connected by 13 iron cable suspensions, and one of the roads that is more than 260 meters long will accidentally fall into the turbulent river.
Of course, in normal times, wooden planks were placed on this iron cable bridge for the people on both sides of the strait to march, but at this time the Kuomintang had already arrived at the Luding Bridge and, under the instructions of Chiang Kai-shek, demolished the wooden planks on this bridge. When Yang Chengwu and his party arrived at the Luding Bridge, they were faced with bare iron cables, 9 of which were under their feet, and 4 of which existed as handrails on both sides. In fact, at the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek's order was even more brutal, he asked for the entire bridge to be blown up, but the Kuomintang general Liu Wenhui, who was in charge of this matter, did not do so in order not to arouse the anger of the people, after all, it was an important bridge connecting Sichuan and Tibet, and it was not a small trouble to really blow up.
Of course, on the other hand, this bridge did not attract Liu Wenhui's attention, it was too difficult to cross the river from here, and they had already received the news that the Red Army was hundreds of miles away in Anshun Field, and they did not expect that the Red Army would drag tens of thousands of people to Luding Bridge, but
Liu Wenhui still prepared a large amount of kerosene in advance for arson if necessary.
In the early morning of May 29, Yang Chengwu's team was already ready to seize control of the bridge on the west side of the Luding Bridge, and there were not too many enemies on the other side at that time, Yang Chengwu and others analyzed that it was the best time to seize control of the Luding Bridge, so they immediately decided to form a small detachment of 22 warriors to seize the bridge through the Luding Bridge, and the rest of the people covered with artillery fire in the rear.
Soon the 22 warriors set off, they climbed on the thick iron cable, under the feet is the rushing river, once accidentally life and death are unpredictable, they marched quickly to the opposite bank, at this time the two sides have opened fire to fight, just when these 22 people are approaching the enemy's bridge, the enemy directly ignited the kerosene poured on the iron cable, and the tongue of fire swept towards the warriors in an instant, and the situation was very urgent for a while.
At this critical moment, Yang Chengwu waved his arms on the shore and shouted loudly to the soldiers, and everyone was quickly infected by Yang Chengwu's emotions, bravely marched forward, and finally reached the opposite bank, controlled the enemy on the opposite side, and took control of the east side of the bridge, so that the plan for the luding bridge to compete was successfully completed, and soon after the large troops of the Red Army arrived, successfully reached the opposite bank, and smashed Chiang Kai-shek's plan of attacking the north and attacking the north set up by Chiang Kai-shek on the Dadu River.
Defeat the Japanese general "Flower of Famous Generals"
In 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out, and under the instructions of the Central Committee, Yang Chengwu went to the front line of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
He successively served as the commander of the Independent Regiment of the 115th Division, the commander of the Independent 1st Division and the political commissar, during which he led the team to participate in a series of well-known battles such as the PingxingGuan Victory, the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, and the Loess Ridge Ambush
。 Among them, the Loess Ridge Ambush Battle became a representative campaign during Yang Chengwu's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
In this battle, he killed Lieutenant General Norihide Abe of the Japanese Army, the first senior general to be killed on the anti-Japanese battlefield.
In October 1939, in order to disintegrate the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines and clear the way for the war, the Japanese army arranged a large wave of sweeping operations for the Jin-Cha-Ji region. To this end, an army of more than 20,000 people was specially mobilized to advance toward the anti-Japanese base area of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region, in a vain attempt to annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army that was fighting the War of Resistance here.
In November, Yang Chengwu led his troops to confront the sweeping enemy along the way, annihilating more than 500 enemy troops and capturing a large number of urgently needed weapons and other materials.
Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, the commander of the Japanese regiment in charge of the sweeping operation, was furious when he learned of the defeat and immediately organized his troops to retaliate.
In the early morning of the 4th, Abe Norihide led two brigades totaling more than 1,500 people to march to the area where our army was stationed.
After learning the information, Yang Chengwu decided to set up an ambush in the area of Loess Ridge after careful investigation. Located at the junction of Laiyuan and Yixian, the Loess Ridge area belongs to the Taihang Mountains, a valley about five miles long in the northern region, where the terrain is steep, surrounded by mountains, rich vegetation, easy to hide, and is an excellent location for ambush warfare.
On the night of the 6th, under the arrangement of Yang Chengwu, the soldiers took advantage of the night to go to the canyon area of loess ridge to prepare for a pre-prepared ambush, and another unit directly faced the Japanese who came to attack on the surface according to the predetermined plan, and led them into the canyon to carry out a net.
Soon, the eager Japanese army was caught in our army's strategy of enticing the enemy, and they followed the Eighth Route Army directly into the valley, at this time the enemy was in a deep ditch in a valley about 2 kilometers long and only 100 meters wide, completely unaware that the hills on both sides were full of long-awaited Eighth Route Army soldiers. Immediately Yang Chengwu issued a combat signal, and the battle began instantly, and the enemy did not have the slightest defense.
More than 900 people were killed on the spot
During this period, the soldiers found a group of Japanese officers wearing yellow coats not far away, and immediately launched a fire attack.
The Japanese lieutenant general Norihide Abe was killed on the spot.
After the news reached Japan, many people could not believe that Abe Norihide's famous "mountain warfare expert" was called "the flower of famous generals", and they did not expect to die so hastily. Yang Chengwu also received commendations from the central authorities for this action.
So why did a general like Yang Chengwu, who had seniority and experience in commanding operations, not be called the General Staff in 1979? In fact, this has a lot to do with the character of General Yang Chengwu, who also served as chief of staff under the instructions of the Central Committee in the early years, but it was also during this period that many colleagues, including Deng Gong, discovered that General Yang Chengwu had the problem of "admitting death", which led to his work being easy to drill the tip of the bull's horns, which was not conducive to the smooth development of the work of the General Staff. Therefore, in 1979, when Nie Shuai proposed that Yang Chengwu take over the post of General Staff, many central leaders, including Deng Gong, did not agree to Nie Shuai's proposal.
Lieutenant General Yang Chengwu is an excellent commander of our army and the founding general of New China, and his merits are beyond doubt; as a revolutionary of the older generation, although he did not become a general staff member, he has always maintained a high degree of enthusiasm for work and continued to serve the people in more posts.