In June 1935, the Red First and Fourth Fronts met the division in Victory at Maogong, Sichuan. Yang Guofu, who was then the commander of the 270th Regiment of the 9th Division of the 30th Army of the Red Fourth Front, was ordered by the Red Fourth Front, and two other fully loaded regiments, totaling more than 3,700 people, were incorporated into the battle sequence of the Red Front.
The 270th Regiment was organized into the 10th, 11th and 12th Regiments of the 4th Division of the Red 3rd Army, and Yang Guofu was changed from regimental commander to deputy regimental commander of the 10th Regiment of the Red 4th Division.
When crossing the meadow, Yang Guofu led a battalion as the rear guard of the whole division, responsible for the reception work after the break. In the end, Yang Guofu led the rear guard battalion to successfully complete the task, the whole battalion lost only two people, won the praise of the division commander, and his deeds were also published in the Red 3 Army Field Express.
In September of the same year, the Red Army held an enlarged meeting at and above the military level in Russian circles, at which Zhang Guotao's plot to split the Party Central Committee and the Red Army was exposed and condemned, and it was decided that the Red Army would continue its Long March north and open up new base areas. At the same time, in order to streamline the organization and reduce the targets, the central authorities decided to rename the Red Army as the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the Red 1st Army (formerly the Red 1st Army) into the 1st Column, the Red 3rd Army (formerly the Red 3rd Army) to the 2nd Column, and the former Military Commission Column to the 3rd Column.
The 1st Column consisted of 5 brigades and the 2nd Column consisted of 3 brigades, each of which had 4 combat companies and 1 heavy machine gun squad. Yang Guofu was reappointed as the commander of the 2nd Company of the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Column. After the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment arrived in northern Shaanxi, it restored the red 1st Army.9 Soon, the Red 1st Army and the Red 15th Army led by Xu Haidong and Liu Zhidan re-formed the Red Army.
The remnants of the original Red 3 Corps were incorporated into the Red 1 Corps and renamed the Red 4Th Division, with division commander Chen Guang and political commissar Peng Xuefeng. Yang Guofu, who came from the Red Fourth Front, still served as the commander of the 2nd Company of the 10th Regiment of the Red 4th Division, which had revived the number.
The following year, the Red Army University was established, and the 31-year-old "old company commander" Yang Guofu was sent to the Red University for further study.
At the end of the same year, Yang Guofu graduated from the Red University and was appointed as the head of the 12th Regiment of the Red 4th Division, and the political commissar was Huang Kegong, who was "famous and famous".
After the "July 7 Incident", the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and Yang Guofu somehow returned to the "continuing education" of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, which was renamed by the Red University, and became a third-term student of the Red University from the First Stage of the Red University. Yang Guofu, who works hard and complains, cherishes every opportunity to learn. During his time at the school, Yang Guofu continuously improved his military and political qualities and was always ready for battle.
Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared. In March 1938, Yang Guofu, who had just graduated from the Kang Da University, as a Red Army cadre supporting the Anti-Japanese Base Area in Shandong, accompanied Guo Hongtao, secretary of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Party Committee, to Shandong to work, thus beginning Yang Guofu's seven-year guerrilla warfare career in the Qinghe Plain of Shandong.
Fighting on the plains has always been a major problem plaguing the eighth route army troops. Compared with the Japanese army, the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army are inferior, and most of the soldiers are peasants who have just laid down their hoes, and their military quality cannot be compared with that of the Japanese army. Relying on their excellent weapons and equipment and making use of the lines of communication they occupied, the Japanese army constantly carried out rapid encirclement and sweeping of the anti-Japanese forces fighting on the plains, resulting in the anti-Japanese base areas located in the plains, no matter which strategic area they were in, it was difficult to persist for a long time.
After Coming to Shandong, Yang Guofu was appointed deputy commander of the 3rd Detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, and the area of activity of the 3 detachments happened to be on both sides of the Jiaoji Line, bordering Luzhong to the south and the Qinghe Plain to the north. As a result, the Qinghe area has become a throat area connecting Jilubian, Jiaodong and Luzhong, and its strategic position is very important.
At this time, the commander of the 3 detachments was Ma Yaonan, the anti-Japanese hero of Qilu Dadi. When Yang Guofu arrived, the 3 detachments had grown to thousands of people, and due to the lack of training and the complexity of the composition of the personnel, the combat effectiveness was not strong. As soon as Yang Guofu took office, he gave full play to the fighting spirit of the old Red Army, taught by example, and guided the three detachments to carry out active guerrilla warfare in the Qinghe area. At the same time, the reorganization and reorganization work carried out in the troops has significantly improved the combat effectiveness of the three detachments in a short period of time, which has won the trust and admiration of Ma Yaonan.
A year later, Ma Yaonan and Yang Guofu were surrounded by Japanese troops during the anti-sweeping campaign, and Yang Guofu took the initiative to stay behind to cover Ma Yaonan's breakthrough. Ma Yaonan was ambushed by the Japanese army on the way to the transfer after the breakthrough, and he was martyred heroically, and Yang Guofu lost his voice and cried bitterly after hearing the news.
△ Stills of anti-Japanese hero Ma Yaonan
After Ma Yaonan's death, Yang Guofu took over as the commander of the three detachments. At this time, the 3 detachments were in a difficult situation, and the people's hearts were floating. Two regimental commanders defected to the enemy, and even Chen Xing, the political commissar of the 7th Regiment who came from the Long March, surrendered to the Japanese, and the anti-Japanese situation in the Qinghe area took a sharp turn for the worse.
At the moment of crisis, Yang Guofu took up the heavy burden of leading the anti-Japanese struggle in the Qinghe area. On both sides of the Jiaoji Line, Yang Guofu led his troops to engage in a long-term, unremitting, mobile and flexible guerrilla war with the Japanese puppet army.
In the autumn of 1940, the 3rd detachment was reorganized into the 3rd Brigade of the Shandong Column, and Xu Shiyou, who had just arrived in Shandong, was appointed as the commander of the 3rd Brigade, and Yang Guofu was appointed as the deputy brigade commander.
Xu Shiyou, a newcomer, liked to fight big battles and fierce battles, but because he did not understand qinghe's love and enemy situation, he was somewhat anxious to achieve success, and commanded the 3rd Brigade to fight several rout battles in succession, but failed to achieve the expected combat results.
In February of the following year, the Qinghe Military Region dispatched the elite regiments of the 3rd Brigade to form the Qinghe Independent Regiment and accompany Xu Shiyou to Jiaodong to fight against stubbornness. In Jiaodong, Xu Shiyou commanded well, and the stubborn army that fought was holding its head and scurrying, laying the foundation for Commander Xu's great name in Jiaodong.
After the end of the Jiaodong anti-stubborn operation, Xu Shiyou was promoted to chief of staff of the Shandong Column, and the commander of the 3rd Brigade was replaced by Yang Guofu. The period from 1941 to 1942 was the most difficult period of the Chinese War of Resistance. The situation in the six major anti-Japanese base areas in Shandong, led by the Communist Party, is the most sinister in the two military regions of Jilubian and Qinghe, which are located in the plains.
△ Commander Yang Guofu stills
Taking advantage of the lines of communication and the superiority of troop transport, the Japanese army constantly launched a "dragnet" sweep of the two military regions. Xing Furen, commander of the Jilu Border Military Region, was quite anxious to warn Luo Ronghuan, political commissar of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, who was already in charge of Shandong's military work. To this end, Luo Ronghuan deliberately transferred Xing Furen from Jilubian to the 115th Division, and because of the personnel, he set up a post, so that this "rebel leader" who had a certain influence in Jilubian would serve as the director of the Work Department of the Military Region of the Political Department of the 115th Division, in order to show his care, who had thought that this guy would actually send someone to kill Huang Hua, deputy commander of the Jilu Border Military Region, and defect to the enemy after 3 years.
Yang Guofu, who insisted on being in the narrow strip of the Qinghe Plain, was entrusted by Luo Ronghuan with the heavy responsibility of developing northward and opening up the connection between the Qinghe Military Region and the Jilu Border Military Region. Fearless of a strong enemy, Yang Guofu led the 3rd Brigade to actively develop the Yellow River Ancient Road north of the Jiaoji Line and north of the Xiaoqing River, and actively opened up new base areas.
In 1942, the Japanese army once again launched a dragnet sweep of the anti-Japanese base areas in central and northern Shandong, and all the southern areas of the Jiaoji Line of the Qinghe Anti-Japanese Base Area fell, and the area from the north of the road to the Jiaoji Line was also swept away by the enemy and encroached into a guerrilla zone. In such a dangerous situation, Yang Guofu followed the instructions of the Shandong Military Region and divided the troops into pieces and scattered guerrillas.
As the supreme military commander in the Qinghe area, Yang Guofu did not leave the base area like the leaders of some base areas and moved to a safe area on the outer line. He always firmly believed that the guerrilla concept of "not Tibetans in the mountains, but Tibetans in people" has always been adhered to in the Qinghe area. During the most difficult period, Yang Guofu even played the role of a military captain, leading the special agent company around him to play "hide and seek" with the enemy.
The bravery and fearlessness of Commander Yang greatly encouraged the confidence of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in Qinghe in defeating the Japanese Kou, because everyone knows:
Commander Yang always fought side by side with them.
In 1943, the War of Resistance entered its sixth year. In March of the same year, Shandong implemented the unified leadership of the party, and the 115th Division merged with the Shandong Column to form a new Shandong Military Region, with Luo Ronghuan as the commander and political commissar of the Shandong Military Region, and the political commissar and acting division commander of the 115th Division, presiding over the entire Work of the Party, Government, and Army in Shandong.
Yang Guofu was appointed commander of the newly formed Qinghe Military Region, and Jing Xiaocun was appointed secretary of the Qinghe District Cpc Committee and political commissar of the Military Region, with jurisdiction over four sub-districts: Qingdong, Qingxi, Qingzhong, and Ken.
In November of the same year, in order to save the Pacific War and ensure the safety of the Japanese army in china's coastal areas, the Japanese army gathered 28,000 Japanese puppet troops and launched the largest sweep in the Qinghe district in the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, known in history as the "Great Sweep in the Winter of 1943".
During the anti-sweeping operation, Yang Guofu was not afraid of danger, and according to the spirit of Commander Luo Ronghuan's instructions, he launched a "flanging tactic" against the enemy. The enemy advanced, pulled the troops to the enemy-occupied areas, and launched a continuous guerrilla and mobile war against the enemy's weak rear, finally forcing the enemy to hastily end the sweep after 21 days.
In the following year, according to the instructions of the Shandong Military Region, the Qinghe Military Region and the Jilubian Military Region were merged into one to form the Bohai Naval Region, with Yang Guofu as commander, Jing Xiaocun as political commissar, Long Shujin as deputy commander, and Yuan Yelie as chief of staff.
△ General Yang Guofu (front row, left 2)
At this time, the anti-Japanese situation in Shandong underwent a fundamental improvement, and the Japanese army, which was at the end of the road, could only further shrink its troop strength and occupy only key towns, transportation routes, and industrial and mining resource areas, so as to stubbornly resist. Judging the hour and sizing up the situation, Yang Guofu launched successive summer and autumn offensives against the enemy, recovering many towns and villages, thus opening up the connection between the Qinghe District and the Jilu Border Region.
On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally. Yang Guofu led the soldiers and civilians of the Bohai Region to launch a final battle against the towns and rural strongholds occupied by the Japanese puppet army.
In October of the same year, according to the instructions of Commander Luo Ronghuan, Yang Guofu led the Shandong 7th Division formed by the troops of the Bohai Naval Region to embark on a journey to Shanhaiguan, thus bidding farewell to the Shandong Bohai Battlefield, which he had fought bloodily for 7 years.