The Republic of China, the darkest era in Chinese history. On the outside, there are empires that are looking at the tiger and stretching out their claws; there are warlords in the inside, dividing up the territory and fighting, and the people's lives are miserable. In those repressive and difficult times, warlords clearly became a special kind of existence. "Zhumen wine smells of flesh, and there are frozen bones on the road." It is the stereotype that warlords leave us.
But you know what? There was once a warlord prince who took the initiative to demote himself and kill the enemy on the battlefield. After the Liberation War began, he did not flee to Taiwan like other warlords, but led an army uprising to become the People's Liberation Army. He was born in a warlord's family, but his heart was the world of the people. He is Yang Hanlie.
What was the family life of a warlord during the Republic of China era? Is it extravagant and extravagant, inviting fox friends to a big banquet? Or are there a bunch of wives and concubines, raising a bunch of stupid children? Both and no, Janssen told us. Who is Janssen? He was one of the four major warlords of the Sichuan Army, and his birth was generally high until he held great power, and finally fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, living for more than ninety years.
Yang Sen was extravagant in his life, with a large number of wives and concubines, and his twelve daughters-in-law were ridiculed as "the twelve nobles of Yang Fu". According to the life style of other warlords, Yang Sen should feed his sons white and fat, and find a good official position one by one. But this was not the case for Janssen.
Perhaps because his own history of fortune is full of military struggles, Janssen is extremely harsh on his son. As Janssen's sons, they did not have clothes to open their mouths, and some were just academic and military education.
Father Yang's strict tutoring made his sons have great ambitions, completely unlike the rich children who are idle all day. As the second son of Yang Sen, Yang Hanlie accepted Yang Sen's key cultivation.
Yang Hanlie's heroic nature was reflected in middle school, and in 1933, at the age of 14, Yang Hanlie joined the Great Wall Labor Corps to resist the artillery fire of the Great Wall.
After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, Japan repeatedly provoked incidents in mainland China, and wars were sporadically ignited in Kyushu, and the ethnic contradictions between China and Japan deepened day by day. Yang Hanlie saw that the motherland was being trampled by the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders, and he hated the Japanese and was eager to go on the battlefield to kill the enemy.
In 1935, at the age of 16, Yang Hanlie applied to his father to join the army. Janssen was amazed to see his young son have such ambitions. In order to make his son truly baptized by the cannon fire and grow up in the army, Janssen did not seek a high-power position for his son like other warlords, but told him to start from the grassroots level. Yang Hanlie agreed without hesitation.
Yang Hanlie agreed to start from the grassroots and became a second lieutenant probationary staff officer in the staff office of the 133rd Division. Yang Hanlie strictly observed discipline and excellent work style in the army, hated Japanese imperialism and vowed to defend his homeland for the sons and daughters of China.
After the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance in 1937, Yang Hanlie participated in the famous Battle of Songhu. But his position was only a staff officer, and he was not allowed to go to the front at all, and the fire that Yang Hanlie had in his chest to kill the enemy and serve the country had nowhere to burn. He applied to his father to go to the front line to kill the enemy, but Wastsen refused on the grounds that he did not have the qualities of a combat soldier.
Other children of rich families were pampered and used to spend their lives, but Yang Hanlie had a valuable ability to resist setbacks. What if there is no military quality? Of course, he did not give up his faith, but thought of a way - to study at the Central Military Academy. Yang Hanlie did not bother his father, and by his own strength, he was admitted to the 16th session of the Central Military Academy in October 1938 and became a cadet of the cavalry team of the 1st General Brigade.
During the days of studying at the military academy, Yang Hanlie trained hard and seized the time to improve his military qualities, because he knew that the country was in trouble, and there was not much time left for himself. Two years later, he graduated and entered the 20th Army. Learning the lesson of not being able to go to the front to kill the enemy on the front line last time as a staff officer, Janssen voluntarily demoted himself from the rank of lieutenant platoon leader of the search company of the 133rd Division.
The search company was very in line with Yang Hanlie's wishes, because this company needed to go to the forefront of the battlefield to conduct field investigation and work at the risk of gunfire and bullets. The military life of the search company is not only dangerous, but also hard. But Yang Hanlie had no complaints or regrets, and he always felt that killing the enemy on the front line to defend his family and defend the country was the most correct choice he made as a son and daughter of China.
Yang Hanlie's hard work in the army not only won the praise of his father Yang Sen, but also the soldiers of the whole company expressed their admiration for his heroic warriorism. With his combat achievements, Yang Hanlie was soon promoted to captain of the cavalry company of the 20th Army.
In the ensuing anti-Japanese campaign, Yang Hanlie led his army to confront the Japanese twice. Although Yang Hanlie's battles were heroic every time they engaged each other, he almost died several times when the guns and bullets rained down.
Yang Sen wanted to train Yang Hanlie to be a successor, naturally he could not bear to let him die on the battlefield, despite Yang Hanlie's opposition, Yang Sen insisted on transferring Yang Hanlie to the Guizhou Provincial Security Force as the colonel of the teaching regiment.
Later, when the Liberation War broke out, when the Kuomintang troops aimed their guns at their brothers who had just fought side by side, Yang Hanlie was in the rear and never had a head-on confrontation with the People's Liberation Army.
In the War of Liberation, the Kuomintang army was defeated. Yang Sen watched his elite troops almost completely destroyed in the Battle of Jiangfang in April 1949, and when he learned that the general trend was gone, he fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek in a hurry. Before leaving, he entrusted the task of rebuilding the troops to Yang Hanlie and appointed him as the commander of the 20th Army.
Yang Hanlie stayed in the rear for three years, and in this empty window period when he did not go to the front line to kill the enemy, he was more thinking. If it is said that leading the army to fight and driving away the Japanese devils was to protect the Chinese homeland, then what was the purpose of the subsequent liberation war? When he saw his brothers in the Nationalist army who used to fight alongside him, raising their bayonets and aiming them at the Chinese, he didn't understand - he wanted to resist!
Yang Hanlie held the heavy power of the army and decided to revolt and surrender. After his father Yang Sen left, the veteran figures of the army, Jing Jiamu and Xiao Chuanlun, were dissatisfied with the military power being taken over by Yang Hanlie and fled. The 79th Division was Yang Hanlie's consort army, and the newly formed 349th Division and the Independent Division obeyed him.
The objective conditions for the uprising are already in place. Subsequently, Yang Hanlie publicly announced the uprising in Jintang, Sichuan province, as the commander of the 20th Army.
For him, he joined the army to fight at that time in order to Chinese the people, to Chinese the people from the humiliation and oppression of the Japanese invaders; now leading the army to surrender is also for the sake of Chinese the people, so that the people of Chinese will no longer kill each other. He was relieved to hand over the army to the Communist Party for the sake of the people.
Yang Hanlie's uprising greatly promoted the partial liberation of the Sichuan region, and also laid a certain foundation for the liberation of the entire Great Southwest.
After the uprising, Yang Hanlie was appreciated and welcomed by the Chinese Communist Party, and Yang Hanlie became the commander of the People's Liberation Army, and later served as deputy director of the government and vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. When the people's congress system in our country was established, he was also elected as a deputy to the Sixth National People's Congress.
We see that Yang Hanlie, as the prince of the warlord, was not born in anle and died in anglo. Since he was a teenager, he has cherished the world and the people, used his enthusiasm to defend his family and the country, and dedicated a sincere heart to the people.