Those founding generals who are mainly active in the military field are by no means who dare to rush to the front of the team, who kills more enemies in a battle, and fights more about strategy and the ability to lead troops, and Yang Guofu can be called the founding lieutenant general who can lead the troops the most.
In 1937, the Black Iron Mountain Uprising broke out, and the biggest impact of this uprising was to greatly expand the strength of our army and directly form the Fifth Army of the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. A year later, Yang Guofu came to Shandong, when part of the rebel army was led by the local gentry Ma Yaonan, and Yang Guofu became Ma Yaonan's deputy commander.
At this time, the composition of the troops was extremely complex, in addition to the militia that was fighting against the Japanese, there were progressive students and peasants, and even Kuomintang deserters, and some local "bandit" armed forces. It is difficult to bring such a team into an army that can fight the Japanese army.
However, Yang Guofu was not afraid of difficulties, he first talked all night with Ma Yaonan, who was also co-opted by the Kuomintang, and strengthened his confidence in building the team into a "strong anti-Japanese armed force", and then brought him into the Communist Party in October 1938, and finally became a famous anti-Japanese general, but unfortunately Ma Yaonan died in a breakthrough battle against the Japanese army in 1939.
After Ma Yaonan's death, Yang Guofu succeeded him as commander, and gradually developed this local armed force dominated by luzhong peasants into an invincible main force that could compete with the Japanese army.
After the outbreak of the Liberation War, Yang Guofu led a part of his troops to seize the northeast, and in the face of du Yuming, Chen Cheng, Wei Lihuang and other famous generals of the nationalist army and their AMERICAN weapons and weapons, they were invincible, and later Yang Guofu's troops were known as "tigers attacking the strongholds" and became one of the "five tiger divisions" in the black land.
It is worth mentioning that the part of the soldiers who remained in Shandong was also famous for the whole army under the leadership of the founding general Song Shilun, and this unit was known for its sniper warfare and enjoyed the reputation of "the platoon does not move, it must be 10 columns".
In fact, when Yang Guofu had just entered the northeast, he had also suffered the loss of the famous general Du Yuming, when the firepower of our army was indeed in the ascendant, under the cover of heavy artillery firing, the situation of Yang Guofu's troops was very different from that of Du Yu tomorrow, when he had just traveled a long way to Shanhaiguan, and even some soldiers in the army did not have guns, so he was almost surrounded by Du Yuming's large army.
Yang Guofu, who had preserved the main force, gradually turned around in this situation, when his troops lacked standard bayonets and used self-made thorn cones, because the thorn cones resembled fire rods for stabbing stoves, so the enemy called this unit a "fire brigade" and was famous among the enemy troops.
Yang Guofu can build a group of "scattered" peasant rebels into such brave and tenacious heroic units as the 128th Division and the 28th Army, which shows his ability to lead the troops, so the name of the founding lieutenant general is absolutely deserved.