According to China's population statistics, there are more than 40 million people surnamed Yang, of which Sichuan is the province with the largest surname Yang, with more than 3.8 million, and it is also a province of ten major generals, but in 1955, the surname Of Yang was awarded to the county of General.
This general surnamed Yang was a Guangyuan man. Sichuan Guangyuan borders Gansu Province and Shaanxi Province to the north; Nanchong City to the south; Mianyang City to the west; Bazhong City to the east; it is on the northern edge of Sichuan, the transition zone from mountains to basins, which is the birthplace of the only female emperor in Chinese history, Wu Zetian, and the core area of the former Sichuan-Shaanxi Su District, which is the capital of the late Red Fourth Front, the main battlefield of the Western War and the starting point of the Long March.
Guangyuan has a rich cultural and natural landscape, of which giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, wildebeest and other national and provincial key protected wild animals up to 76 species, there are two universities are: Sichuan Information Vocational and Technical College, Chuanbei Preschool Normal College, but for Guangyuan in 1955 there is the only founding major general surnamed Yang, it is estimated that many people do not know, Guangyuan has three Founding Generals surnamed Yang, but Yang Guoyu (Yilong County, Sichuan Province), Yang Shirong (Nanchong City, Sichuan Province) two were promoted after 1955, Isn't that weird? Because there are many red cultural attractions in Guangyuan, such as the Ruins of Jianmen Pass, Red Star Park, Cangxi Red Army Ferry, Wangcang Red Army City, etc.
General Yang Dayi
Yang was awarded a total of 20 generals in 1955, including 4 generals, 3 lieutenant generals, and 13 major generals. The only Sichuanese was General Yang Dayi from Guangyuan City. On November 30, 1950, an unprecedented and fierce blockade battle was fought on a mountain called Songbone Peak in western Korea. At that time, the US troops fleeing south blew up the entire mountaintop into a sea of fire, and the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, 112th Division, 38th Army, 38th Army, shouted the slogan of "winning glory for the motherland" and fought to the death with the enemy, leaving only 7 living soldiers in the whole company, and the position remained unchanged. In the Battle of Songkuofeng, it played a role in the prestige of the national prestige and won the reputation of the "Long Live Army" for the Thirty-eighth Army. The writer Wei Wei later wrote a famous newsletter based on this battle deed, "Who is the Most Lovely Person", which included the figure of Yang Dayi, the commander of the 112nd Division of the 38th Army of the Volunteer Army, a legendary figure from Cangxi, Sichuan, and the founding major general.
Cangxi Red Army crossing
Yang Dayi, formerly known as Yang Dayi, was born in 1919 in Cheche Village, Baishan Township, Cangxi County, Guangyuan County, Sichuan Province, attended private school at an early age, joined the 11th Division of the Red Fourth Front Army at the age of 13, and then joined the Communist Youth League, and joined the Party in August 1934. He successively served as a platoon commander, a company instructor, a traffic team leader and a political instructor, and successively participated in the Battle of Yida in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet District, the anti-"Six-Way Siege", the 25,000-mile Long March, and the bloody battle of the Western Route Army in the Hexi Corridor. During the Liberation War, Yang Dayi fought from the White Mountains and Black Water to Zhennanguan on the Sino-Vietnamese border, fighting half of China.
In 1952, Yang Dayi returned to the motherland and was appointed chief of staff, deputy commander and chief of staff of the Forty-second Army the following year; he was awarded the rank of major general in 1956; deputy commander of the Forty-seventh Army in 1960, and president of the Guilin Infantry School at the end of April of the same year; in 1967 he was appointed political commissar and commander of the Hunan Provincial Military Region, deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Revolutionary Committee, and secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee (there was no first reality at that time); in 1975 he was appointed commander of the Liaoning Provincial Military Region. Yang Dayi died in Guangzhou in 1997, and the general's last wish before his death was to return to his hometown and return to Cangxi County, Guangyuan City. On the morning of May 29, 2007, the 10th anniversary of Yang Dayi's death, Yang Dayi's wife Yang Jie, daughter Yang Huifang and others scattered Yang Dayi's ashes into the Jialing River at the site of the Red Army ferry crossing, where he fought before his death, so that the military soul will always guard the Cangshan Stream...
When the title was awarded in 1955, there was only one founding general in Sichuan, namely Yang Dayi, chief of staff of the Forty-second Army. It is worth saying that during the Liberation War, Chen Changjie, a famous anti-Japanese general and a general who won the war of resistance, was captured alive by the 6th company of the second battalion of the 334th Regiment under the command of Yang Dayi, the commander of the 112th Division at the time, and on December 4, 1959, Chen Changjie became one of the first 10 war criminals to receive amnesty and was happily reborn.
Yang Dayi, Yang Jie and their daughter are in Guilin
Hunan is a general province, and Yang Dayi served as the secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee in the 1960s, which shows that he is different from ordinary people. The only founding general surnamed Yang in Sichuan in 1955 was Yang Dayi, now you know?
The picture above is the bronze statue of General Yang Dayi on the stage of the Red Army Ferry Scenic Area in Cangxi County, Sichuan, in the modern history of Guangyuan, Yang Dayi is a monument, not only the pride of Sichuan people, but also one of the representative figures of Guangyuan red culture. In the hearts of more than 3.8 million People surnamed Yang in Sichuan, General Yang Dayi is a familiar and proud name that inspires the next generation to climb the peak!