After the Liping Conference, the Central Red Army decided to capture Zunyi, and to capture Zunyi, it must cross the Wujiang River.
Wujiang is the largest river in Guizhou, which has been a natural barrier in northern Qianbei since ancient times, and the geographical situation is very dangerous. The Wujiang River is deep and rapid, and the river flows at a rate of 1.8 meters per second.
The Red First Army was ordered to cross the Wujiang River first, and the contingent responsible for capturing the Wujiang River was the Red Second Division, the division commander Chen Guang, the political commissar Liu Yalou, the Red Second Division was in the forefront, and the Red Fifth Army, which was responsible for the rear guard of the Central Red Army, had already fought fiercely with the enemy, and if it did not cross the Wujiang River as soon as possible, the Chinese revolution would be quite dangerous.
Originally, the first regiment of the first division of the Red First Army was smuggled, but it was unsuccessful, and the task was handed over to the fourth regiment of the Red Second Division, and the commander of the fourth regiment was Geng Biao, who gave the task to the first battalion, and on the night of January 2, 1935, Mao Zhenhua, commander of the third company of the first battalion, led 4 soldiers to smuggle across the river.
However, after crossing the river, for many reasons, Mao Zhenhua could not be contacted with the troops.
The situation was urgent, and the superior ordered the Red Fourth Regiment to organize the team to carry out a forced crossing again, this time the first battalion gave the task to the second company, and the commander of the second company was called Yang Shangkun, who selected the remaining 16 soldiers to forcibly cross the Wujiang River.
Before the battle, he wrapped some commemorative things of commemorative significance since joining the revolution into a small package, wrote down his name and address of his hometown, and handed it to a rejuvenating fellow and said: "If I sacrifice, if I have a chance in the future, please give these things to my family, so that my family can know." ”
Commander Geng Biao instructed Yang Shangkun: "You must be careful! Be calm no matter what the situation is. If the beachhead is taken, it must stubbornly hold its position and must wait until the follow-up troops arrive. ”
Yang Shangkun nodded in agreement.
The battalion commander, Luo Youbao, brought some wine from the chief of the department for them, and everyone shouted in unison: "I wish the comrades victory!" ”
In the darkness of the night, Yang Shangkun and other comrades-in-arms crossed the river on a boat, and when they were about to approach the north bank, the enemy found out and began to shoot, but our army did not fight back.
Crossing the Wu River, Yang Shangkun saw Mao Zhenhua and several people.
Mao Zhenhua said: "After rushing to the north bank last night, the matches and flashlights I carried with me were wet and lost, and because I was too close to the enemy, it was inconvenient to carry out actions to contact the south bank, and the dry food I carried did not dare to eat, for fear that the enemy would hear, here, I was starved and frozen all night." ”
At this time, the enemy also found more than 20 Red Army troops, and they organized a battalion of troops, but they were all repelled by these warriors.
At 9 o'clock, the second echelon began to cross the river, and the sharpshooter Zhao Zhangcheng used 4 shells, all of which hit the enemy crowd.
In the rain of bullets and bullets, more than 50 people of the second echelon successfully crossed the river, so the enemy's attack was somewhat weak, and when our army was in full swing, after all the members of the Red Second Company crossed the river, their morale was greatly increased, and they chased after the enemy's 3 regiments.
After the successful crossing of the Wujiang River, the Second Red Division held a celebration meeting, and Liu Yalou, the political commissar of the division, was entrusted by his superiors to award Yang Shangkun and more than 10 other people the title of "warrior" at the meeting, and gave each of them a set of Lenin clothes, which became yang Shangkun's most precious thing.
Born in 1913, Yang Shangkun was born in 1913, and at the age of 16, Xingguo County began to establish Soviet power, Yang Shangkun threw himself into the revolution, and in 1931, Yang Shangkun officially joined the Red Army.
After that, in all the battles, Yang Shangkun fought bravely, and during the Long March, he was already a company commander of the Red Army.
During the forced crossing of the Wujiang River, Yang Shangkun took the lead in crossing the river and became one of the 17 warriors who forcibly crossed the Wujiang River, and later when the troops arrived at the Dadu River, Yang Shangkun once again led the order to rush along the west bank of the Dadu River to rush to the Luding Bridge and participate in the battle to seize the Luding Bridge.
In 1936, after the three main forces of the Red Army met the division, Yang Shangkun was selected to study at the Red University, and after graduation, he was appointed as the commander of the first regiment, the first division and the first regiment.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Shangkun served as the commander of the first battalion of the Independent Regiment of the 115th Division, and it was Yang Chengwu who was the commander of the Independent Regiment at that time, and the troops later participated in the Battle of Pingxingguan, and after the battle, the 115th Division was divided, and the Independent Regiment was left on the border of Shanxi, Hebei, and Chahar Provinces, following Nie Rongzhen to create the Jin-Cha-Ji base area.
Later, the troops were expanded, from an independent regiment to an independent division, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Shangkun made a big mistake.
In 1939, Yang Shangkun was appointed chief of staff of a regiment of the first sub-district of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, and soon after, he was transferred to the chief of staff of a detachment.
Yuan Biao, head of the reconnaissance section of the first sub-district, also had ideas about revolution at this time, and he and Yang Shangkun hit it off, and the two of them took more than 20 people and wanted to go to Xushui to do it alone, but every time they arrived in Xushui, they were escorted back by the comrades of the militia station.
For this matter to leave the team, the impact is very large.
After the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army learned of this, Peng Dehuai was furious and wanted to shoot Yang Shangkun and others to justice.
Chairman Mao also knew that the military law was unbreakable, but considering Yang Shangkun's contribution to the Red Army in those years, he had a rare opening to speak for Yang Shangkun, and as a result, Chairman Mao saved Yang Shangkun once, but expelled him from the party.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the party organization restored his party membership, and for this matter, he once wrote in his autobiography: "The restoration of my party membership has made me truly realize that the party always cares for and loves a revolutionary comrade and will never abandon it. ”
Since then, Yang Shangkun has successively served as deputy commander and regimental commander of the Jilin City Garrison Headquarters of the Jilin Military Region, and deputy chief of staff of the Northeast and Southbound Cadre Brigade.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yang Shangkun successively served as the commander of the Ganzhou Military Subdistrict in Jiangxi Province, the chief of staff of the Jiangxi Provincial Military District, and in 1955, after comprehensive consideration by the party organization, Yang Shangkun was awarded the rank of colonel.
During the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao came to Jiangxi and asked about Yang Shangkun, and when he learned that Yang Shangkun was idle, he said: "Hasn't his problem been clarified in history?" Under Chairman Mao's concern, Yang Shangkun was completely liberated.
In 1984, Yang Shangkun died at the age of 71.