He was not only a special meritorious hero, but also a first-class combat hero, leading 12 people to raid the enemy regimental headquarters, and ten years after returning to China, he was still a company commander, and Chairman Mao personally interrogated him, but he was promoted to deputy division commander.
After his triumph in the Korean battlefield, Yang Yucai was honored as a heroic model, and later, he gradually fell silent. Silently cultivating at the grassroots level. However, when Chairman Mao of Beidaihe was watching this drama in August 1964, he suddenly remembered that he had received the prototype of the Surprise Attack White Tiger Regiment at the All-Army Heroic Model Conference, and asked the director of the General Political Department who was nearby: Is this person still there, and what position he is holding now.
However, as a result of the investigation, Yang Yucai was stationed in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, with his troops, and his position was deputy company commander of a reconnaissance company of a certain division. The officers of the division's political department were looking for him, and at that time he was leading the soldiers to carry out production training at the production base. At that time, this heroic figure who was nearly 40 years old was leading some small soldiers of the reconnaissance company to practice armed crossing in the bone-chilling river.
Yang Yucai, a special meritorious man, was still a second lieutenant ten years after returning to China, and after Chairman Mao's concern, Yang Yucai, who was ready to change careers, was quickly promoted to company commander, battalion commander, and then deputy regimental commander and deputy chief of staff of the division, until he retired from the post of deputy division commander.
Yang Yucai
Yang Yucai was tall, bold, and experienced in capturing prisoners, so he completed reconnaissance tasks against the enemy many times. Comrades-in-arms affectionately called him "Hercules" and "Little Zhuge Ge", indicating that he had great strength and many ideas. He also has a nickname called "Scud", which indicates that he is moving quickly. In one of the blockades, he led the squad to repel an enemy company. Because of his outstanding record, he was soon promoted to deputy platoon leader of the reconnaissance platoon.
It was also he who led the warriors to end the White Tiger Regiment, the capital that Syngman Rhee used to resist with us, through a surprise attack, completely disintegrated the enemy's fighting spirit, effectively reduced the resistance of the Battle of Jincheng that we launched, and thus laid the foundation for victory in the final battle on the Korean battlefield. Because of this successful surprise attack, Yang Yucai received great honorary titles from the state and North Korea.
Yang Yucai was born in 1926 to a poor peasant family in Dingjunshan Town, Mian County, Shaanxi Province. He lost his mother at an early age, herded cattle for the landlord at the age of seven, and never went to school. At the age of 13, he escaped from his home to avoid catching Zhuang Ding and worked as a child laborer to earn money to supplement his family. In 1948, Yang Father died, he went home to mourn, or was arrested Zhuangding, it was the People's Liberation Army that saved him, after which he chose to join the People's Army, because of his ideological progress, positive performance, the next year he joined the Party. Another year, in June 1951, in order to defend his family and defend the country, he went to fight in Korea.
In October 1951, Yang Yucai was appointed deputy squad leader, and by the second half of 1952, he was already a deputy platoon leader.
In 1953, the Chinese and North Korean forces had already made the United States feel that they could not take advantage of anything, so the warring sides signed the Armistice Agreement. The then President of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, went so far as to sabotage the agreement on the repatriation of prisoners of war just reached in the armistice agreement, and he also had the capital to continue to resist -- the First Regiment of the Capital Division, which can be described as the elite and regular trump card of the Elite of South Korea. Therefore, the regiment is also known as the "White Tiger Regiment", and they have all the new Equipment of the United States.
White Tiger Regiment Flag
In response to Rhee's arrogance, Clarke, then commander-in-chief of the United Nations, said: Since he did not recognize the threat and did not learn enough lessons, let Chinese teach them a good lesson.
Through the analysis of the enemy, our volunteer army believes that the "White Tiger Regiment", as the enemy's ace, is well-equipped, and has laid down heavy defenses, and if it is forcibly broken, it may cause heavy casualties. At the pre-war meeting, it was decided to adopt the strategy of "capturing the thief and capturing the king" and eating the "White Tiger Regiment" first, which not only broke the enemy's barrier, but also boosted morale.
Since it is not appropriate to take it hard, let's make a surprise attack.
Yang Yucai, a deputy platoon commander who combined speed, strength and wisdom and had extensive reconnaissance experience, was selected.
Yang Yucai selected twelve people from the reconnaissance platoon, the others were tall and tall, their noses were high, they put on the captured US military uniforms, and in the blink of an eye, they became "US military advisers", and the identities of the other scouts were the South Korean officers and soldiers escorting the "advisers".
Before the operation, Yang Yucai told the warriors that it was elite to say, but in fact, it was a fake style, and strategically we must despise them, and we must pay attention to it on the battlefield. Be careful when you act.
Under the cover of their comrades-in-arms, the warriors braved the dense fire of the enemy and gradually entered the 415 heights of the "Tiger Pass" according to the predetermined reconnaissance route.
Having penetrated deep into the enemy's hinterland, everything can only be on its own. The cunning enemy is heavily guarded and guarded along the way. How to get into the heart of the "tiger". Yang Yucai and his party must quickly penetrate in the enemy's tight defense, and at the same time, they must try to catch the "tongue", first, to find out their password, and also to know where the "White Tiger Regiment" regiment headquarters is.
The enemy launched another flare, yang Yucai used the bright light to check the team, alertly found that there was one more person in the team, and this guy quickly became a prisoner. It turned out that I was frightened by my fierce artillery fire, and I hid by the ditch earlier, saw the marching team, mistook it for my own people, and followed the team. Of course, we have the enemy's password and the location information of the White Tiger Regiment.
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Having just finished dealing with the captives, the alert raiders heard the rustling of the grass, so we could take the opportunity to give a command, and the scout shouted in Korean: "What?" "The enemy said it was a wandering sentry. Again, the enemy immediately replied "Gulenm", and the scout faced "Oba" in Korean.
In this way, because of the password, it is easy to rub shoulders with the enemy's swimming whistle. The heroic thirteen men were like thirteen sharp arrows, shooting rapidly at the headquarters of the "White Tiger Regiment" in Erqingdong.
The raiders entered the regimental headquarters of the "White Tiger Regiment", but the convoy of a battalion of the enemy capital division's mech regiment blocked the way. Without much consideration, Yang Yucai commanded a surprise attack, taking advantage of the enemy's confusion, not to entangle with them, and the heroic members rushed across the road and directly attacked the regimental headquarters of the "White Tiger Regiment".
The raid team was organized by Yang Yucai into three combat groups, two of which attacked the enemy's guardhouse and conference room. The other group was responsible for attacking the war room of the enemy regimental headquarters. The battle in the guardhouse started first, and Yang Yucai shouted "Fight"! The real battle officially begins. The attack on the guardhouse and conference room met with little resistance and the battle was quickly resolved.
Bao Yue and Li Zhi, the commandos who attacked the war room of the regimental headquarters, heard the order and threw two grenades at the window of the enemy's guardhouse; as the two grenades exploded indoors, the electric lights in the room went out, and the leader of the White Tiger Regiment could not figure out what was going on for a moment. The war room was in a mess, and in the smoke of gunfire, my heroic commando team rushed in like a divine soldier descending from heaven, and a fierce strafing shot made the enemy dizzy, and the urine flowed in fear, and fled in fright. The leader of the enemy mech regiment was killed on the spot. The rest of the enemy is like a headless fly, and has only the choice to surrender.
It took the raiders only ten minutes to settle the battle neatly and crisply. A surprise attack killed 97 enemies and captured 19 enemy military section chiefs. Yang Yucai saw a military flag with a white tiger head and exquisite workmanship hanging in the room, so he ripped it down and took it as a trophy, which was the tiger head flag that Rhee personally awarded to the "White Tiger Regiment.", and Rhee could not have imagined that the white tiger regiment that he was proud of had not yet fought a battle, and even the tiger head flag had become the trophy of the volunteer army.
After destroying the enemy regimental headquarters, the commandos blew up the nearby oil depots and ammunition depots in passing. Explosions came and went. The raid was a complete success. Thus making a great contribution to the final victory of the Jincheng counterattack that laid the foundation for peace. It is worth celebrating that none of our warriors suffered casualties, which is also a miracle in the history of our army's special operations.
Yang Yucai Special Meritorious Service Award Banner
Because of his outstanding merits, Yang Yucai was credited with special merit, and the following year he was awarded the title of first-class combat hero. The raid team was awarded the collective special merit. He was also awarded the Flag of Meritorious Service.
Yang Yucai felt heavy in his heart in the face of the great honor given by the party and the state, and consciously thought of the comrades-in-arms who sacrificed for the country, and his heart was really uneasy, he said that only by working hard to do a good job could he be worthy of the supreme honor and the hero who sacrificed his life for the country.
If the enemy dares to invade again, we must still use the spirit of fighting tigers to fight the invaders for life and death. We fight for the interests of the motherland, and victory will always belong only to us, to the righteous division to which we are invincible.
On April 25, 1999, Yang Yucai came to Beijing again as a member of the British model tour group into Beijing. Because of his old age, coupled with heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and gastrectomy, his body is already very weak. He had planned to go to the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army for a thorough examination, but he did not expect that this hero of the republic, who had frightened the enemy on the battlefield and educated and inspired generations of people, would eventually die of illness due to ineffective medical treatment.