Among the founding generals who made great achievements in the revolutionary years, there are many ancestors that we usually know very little, but once you understand their deeds, you will definitely be moved by them, such as General You Taizhong. General You Taizhong, who was born in poverty but had not short ambitions, had already participated in revolutionary work as early as the period of the agrarian revolution, and was an excellent military general after that, and even went through the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. It was also because of General You's outstanding military achievements that he was later awarded the rank of major general in 1955.
You Taizhong was born in Henan in 1918, and when he was a child, his family was relatively poor and he was unable to read and write. Therefore, he has developed the habit of thrift and thrift since he was a child, which in the eyes of others, even think that he is a little stingy. The experience of living a hard life in his childhood later had a great impact on him. He joined the revolution early, and in the revolutionary ranks, because of his simple personality and down-to-earth attitude, he not only gained a good popularity, but also allowed him to be promoted later. After several years of revolutionary work, he followed the troops on the Long March, when he was only 17 years old.
Although You Taizhong is young, he can always show maturity that does not match his age in the execution of tasks and battles. He works carefully and carefully, and he has a reserved and calm personality, and his superiors are very relieved to entrust things to him. Later, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was promoted to the position of battalion commander, and then in the battle, You Taizhong won one hard battle after another with his brave and witty performance.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he also participated in other large-scale operations such as the Hundred Regiments War, and his position was changed from battalion commander to regimental commander. After experiencing the baptism of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, You Taizhong grew up rapidly, not only tempering an excellent military quality that suited his position, but also accumulating a lot of rare combat experience, which laid an important foundation for him to play in the Liberation War.
In the Liberation War, You Taizhong continued to make progress and made new achievements. At that time, he was in his prime in his twenties and was a rare young cadre in the army. In 1945, Yu Taizhong was promoted to deputy brigade commander of the 17th Brigade, after which he fought for four years, devoting all his energy and enthusiasm to the Liberation War.
On each battlefield, he tried to complete the tasks assigned to him organizationally, charging again and again on the battlefield full of bullets and bullets. In 1949, You Taizhong was promoted to the commander of the 34th Division under Erye, and soon after the founding of New China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he also participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and went through several battles and made many military achievements. After Returning to China, in order to improve his military quality, he entered the People's Liberation Army Accelerated Middle School in 1953. After 1970, You Taizhong served as commander in several military regions, until later in 1988, he was awarded the rank of general by the Central Committee.
General You is definitely a good hand in fighting, but he has a small problem in his life that is constantly mentioned by colleagues and comrades-in-arms, that is, stinginess. It can be said that at that time, his stinginess was well-known in the military, and he even made a cry and laugh because of it. This happened when he was serving as the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, when he received a notice from his superiors to come to the capital to attend a meeting, and happened to meet his old comrade-in-arms Li Xiannian.
At that time, it was in the canteen, Li Xiannian and he were old comrades-in-arms for many years, and the old friends were naturally very kind to each other, and there was less atmosphere without a bottle of wine when eating. You Taizhong said that he wanted to taste the taste of Maotai, at that time Moutai wine was a luxury, ordinary people could not afford to enjoy, but Li Xiannian was also very happy, and immediately agreed. Subsequently, the waiter served a bottle of Moutai wine, and the two drank it.
However, in the middle of the way, Li Xiannian left temporarily because of something, naturally he forgot to pay, and finally the wine money was also paid by himself. After paying the money, he found that a bottle of Moutai wine actually cost three yuan, which made him very distressed, and three yuan was almost a month's expenditure of ordinary people at that time. Remembering the hard days of the past, he never touched Moutai wine again.
In fact, General You's "stinginess" is not really distressed about money, but people who have come from that bitter era are accustomed to thrift and thrift, which is a virtue. This virtue of thrift and thrift in General You is worth learning from us today.