In the autumn of 1927, Chairman Mao led the autumn harvest rebel army to retreat to Wenjia City, Hunan Province, and during the recuperation, Chairman Mao told the local people about the current revolutionary situation. This little stone of ours will one day break Chiang Kai-shek's big water tank! ”
At that time, there was a 14-year-old student and his classmates riding on the wall listening to the chairman's speech, very fascinated, and he was also deeply impressed by the chairman, thinking that the chairman was brilliant, and from then on he began his path of following the chairman, and finally became the founding general, his name was Yang Yong, one of the three famous Yangs in the People's Liberation Army.
During the Red Army period, Yang Yong successively served as the leader and captain of the propaganda team of the Political Department of the Eighth Red Army, the deputy political commissar and political commissar of the company, the battalion commander, the director of the regimental political office, and the director of the division political department.
In October 1933, Yang Yong was transferred to the political commissar of the Tenth Regiment of the Fourth Division of the Third Red Army. During the Battle of Xunkou, Yang Yong made great meritorious contributions and won the Third Class Red Star Medal, and in the following year he was again awarded the Third Class Red Star Medal for his military merits, during the Long March, he accompanied the main force of the Red Army, participated in the battles of Crossing the Jinsha River, Forcibly Crossing the Dadu River, and Crossing the Red Water, and in the Long March Yang Yong can be called a fierce general of the Three Armies of the Yongguan Army. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he served as the political commissar of the 1st Division and the 4th Division of the 1st Army of the Red Army.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Yong served as the political commissar and deputy regimental commander of the 686th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In the battle against the Japanese army at Pingxingguan, he successfully completed the task of attacking the stronghold, but unfortunately was wounded. Later, he went to the rear to recuperate, and when he recovered from his wounds, he was sent to Xiangyuan, Wuxiang and other places to expand his army, and he expanded his army by more than 3,000 people and set up a supplementary regiment, with him as the regimental commander. Since then, he has served as brigade commander of the Independent Brigade of the 115th Division and brigade commander of the 343rd Brigade.
In 1944, Yang Yong served as the deputy commander of the Jiluyu Military Region, commanding the troops to continuously uproot more than 200 Japanese and puppet strongholds, annihilating more than 10,000 puppet troops, connecting various small guerrilla base areas in southwest Lu, and creating a new special office and six county political powers. The following year, he led his troops to conquer the counties of Nanle, Dongping, and Yanggu, and annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese troops. In September of the same year, he led the troops of the Jinluyu Military Region to counterattack continuously, capturing more than 10 counties such as Changyuan and Tangyin. In November, the 7th Column of the Jinluyu Military Region was formed and served as the commander. In the battle to eliminate the remnants of the Japanese pseudo stronghold, in 4 days, Lianke Juye and other 3 cities, and took advantage of the victory to capture Jining City, annihilating more than 7,000 puppet troops.
In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Yang Yong made great achievements in battle, and in the War of Liberation, he was also known as a member of the Erye Tiger General, who threatened the enemy, and in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he served as the deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, and in 1955 General Yang Yong was awarded the rank of general, known as a member of the founding general.
Speaking of his participation in the revolution, General Yang Yong always said that he was impressed by the chairman's great talent and grandeur, and only then did he follow the chairman all his life. General Yang Yong once shocked a foreign marshal with a single shot, giving him an idea of the new Chinese army, and this marshal was Montgomery of Britain.
On May 24, 1960, British Marshal Montgomery visited China, as a soldier, he naturally wanted to go to the Chinese military camp to see, then the commander of the Beijing Military Region, Yang Yong, arranged a welcoming ceremony of the Military Region, the Military Region to conduct a military performance.
On the shooting range, the soldiers held guns and pointed at the flip-flop target in front of them, one shot at a time, the target flipped, and the 9 big characters of "Farewell to the British Military Delegation" were presented in front of people. On the other side, colorful balloons floated in the air, and the soldiers shot and exploded, striding through Yang. Accuracy target: 100 meters away, the gun hit the bullseye, fast and accurate. Grappling and fighting, Ryoma spirit; assassination practice, roaring... All kinds of plays are better than each act.
At that time, General Yang Yong accompanied Montgomery to watch the praise, and suddenly Montgomery offered to look at the soldiers who played. Marshal Montgomery walked among the soldiers, he looked at the forehead of each soldier, and then, from one of the soldiers, took a semi-active rifle, shot in a recumbent position, shot in a row, and then handed the gun to General Yang Yong.
General Yang Yong knew that this was Montgomery testing himself, General Yang Yong was a general who went from the bottom step by step to the leadership position, the marksmanship was natural, he took the gun, did not say a word, violently raised the gun combo, the bullet off target, 9 steel plates fell one after another, Montgomery shouted.
Three days later, when Montgomery held a press conference in Hong Kong, the admiration of General Yang Yong and the People's Liberation Army was overflowing with words, montgomery said: "The skills of Chinese soldiers are profound, at first I felt that they were all officers, when I walked through the infantry, I saw that their foreheads were all shiny, there were no wrinkles, they were all old soldiers..." "The Chinese troops are the best from soldiers to generals, and I want to warn the troops in the world not to compete with the Chinese troops on land." ”
Marshal Montgomery was a famous British marshal during the Second World War, with a high prestige in the West, and his words made people re-examine the People's Liberation Army, including the strength of the People's Liberation Army and the shock brought to him by General Yang Yong's brilliant marksmanship.