The only lieutenant general of the deputy rank, although the most senior, was the one who was the most injured in the war, he was General Yang Xiushan.
General Yang Xiushan, a native of Qiuyang County, Hubei Province, had very bad family conditions, and when he was a child, he was dropped out of school after not studying for two years, because he could not afford to pay the tuition, and later he herded cattle for the landlord. It can be eaten with mixed mouths.
In 1930, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army experienced Qiuyang County, and many young men who did not have enough to eat went to the army, and Yang Xiushan also became a Red Army, when he was incorporated into the 2nd Squadron of the Red 6th Army. Yang Xiushan, who was a soldier, was very deadly when he fought, and he rushed to the front in every battle, so he later became the most injured lieutenant general.
And his first injury was shortly after he joined the army, because this battle was fought too fiercely, Yang Xiushan, who had just entered the battlefield, lacked combat experience, and only knew how to rush forward, and as a result, he was forcibly hit in the leg by the enemy, but fortunately did not hit the upper body. In this way, Yang Xiushan was carried off the battlefield by the health soldiers, and after the war, his platoon leader looked at the Red Army hospital to see him, saying that your boy was like a stunned young man, only to rush forward.
In the subsequent Battle of Chenjiahe, Yang Xiushan was the political commissar of the 11th Regiment. As a leader, it is even more important to take the lead in the charge, so that the soldiers under them are more desperate and play a crucial role in the final victory of the battle. As soon as the gun sounded, Yang Xiushan rushed faster than the warrior, and as a result, he was hit in the left shoulder.
Shortly after the medical treatment, Yang Xiushan again threw himself into the battle of Chestnut Garden, and this time He Ren and his men took advantage of the unfamiliar conditions of the 85th Division to fight an ambush and annihilate the enemy in the movement. This time Yang Xiushan led the 11th regiment to fight an ambush, did not expect an enemy shell to hit, fortunately Yang Xiushan did not sacrifice, but was seriously injured, at that time due to poor conditions, so Yang Xiushan's body still had several fragments that were not taken out.
Later, in the battle of Liujia in Yunnan, General Yang Xiushan was injured again, but at this time, due to the urgency of the battle, he asked the doctor to give him a casual hug, and gave him a little hemostatic medicine, so General Yang Xiushan was thrown into the battlefield again.
Bringing his wounds to the battlefield, which made General Yang Xiushan's injuries more serious, at that time the regiment commander asked him to go down for treatment, but General Yang Xiushan said that he would not go to the battlefield at all. He said that he would fight with his brothers in battle, and if I left at this time, I would not be worthy of the Red Army.
After several battles, the Red Army repelled the enemy army, and just as it was cleaning up the battlefield, a bullet flew over and hit Yang Xiushan, who fell on the spot and was immediately carried down by the soldiers for rescue. Fortunately, the rescue was timely, and Yang Xiushan only retrieved a life.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Xiushan led his troops into the Loufu and Jingle areas of Shanxi to carry out guerrilla warfare in the anti-Japanese base areas in the northwest, and successively participated in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the recapture of the seven counties of northern Jin, and the towns of Chenzhuang and Miyu.
In the Liberation War, he led his troops to the Great Northwest and successively participated in the battles of Zhongyang, Qinghua, Yangmahe, Panlong, Longdong, Yulin, Shajiadian, Yichuan, Yuncheng, Wazijie, Baoji, Yongfeng, Libei, Fumei and Hexi.
When the PLA first implemented the rank system in 1955, General Yang Xiushan also became the only lieutenant general of the deputy rank.
In his later years, the old general Yang Xiushan often felt a headache, and later his children took him to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor was shocked, and even found several pieces of shrapnel in the old general's head! At that time, his children suggested that the shrapnel be removed, but the doctor said that the old general was too old to do surgery, so the shrapnel accompanied the old general Yang Xiushan.
Until the death of General Yang Xiushan in 2002, after the body was cremated, several pieces of shrapnel were like metal balls the size of red beans, showing everyone's eyes, and the people present cried.
This also tells General Yang Xiushan an unusual story, telling the world that the will of the Red Army soldiers can overcome all hardships and hardships.
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