General He Bingyan is known as He Bold, during the Liberation War, in March 1947, the Kuomintang army launched a key attack on Yan'an, after the People's Liberation Army took the initiative to withdraw from Yan'an, at Qinghua, the Northwest Field Army was preparing to ambush an enemy brigade, General He Bingyan held a combat meeting at the Headquarters in Nishino, on the way back to the column, he disguised himself as a rich businessman, rode a red-headed mule forward, on the road encountered a group of Kuomintang security forces to set up card checks, he calmly trained the soldiers of the security team, with a few retinue plainclothes guards. Calmly walking through the checkpoint, he came to a hillside, threw down the red-headed mule and went over the hill, and when the Kuomintang soldiers woke up and hurried to the hillside, they saw a big red mule grazing there, but the person disappeared. Gotta bring the mule back to the errands? After He Bingyan returned to the column headquarters, he immediately deployed to participate in the Battle of Thanh Hoa Ande, eliminating an enemy brigade.
After Peng Zong knew that he had ventured through the enemy's card, he patted him on the shoulder lovingly and said, "You are really the He Bold of our Northwest Field Army." ”
Some people in the military mistakenly said that He Bingyan was He Long's nephew, and after historical data confirmed that it was a rumor, He Long was from Hunan, and He Bingyan was from Liu Jiachang, the ninth district of Songzi City, Hubei Province. They are just people of the He clan.
On February 5, 1913, He Bingyan was born in Songzi City, Hubei Province, he lost his mother at the age of nine, herded cattle for others at the age of 11, and successively learned a variety of crafts such as smithing, pig killing, and iron fighting. The fight was uneven, and when he was young, he gathered a group of friends around him.
In the spring of 1929, when the team led by He Long passed through his hometown, he and his father both joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by He Long, and in June, he actively joined the Communist Party of China.
In November 1935, he served as the commander of the Fifth Division of the Red Second Army, led his troops to participate in the Long March, and was wounded for the sixth time in the Battle of Wawutang in December, in the absence of anesthetics and painkillers, the doctor sawed off his right arm with a saw of logging, he endured pain, biting a towel in his mouth, after the operation was done, his right arm was sawn off, and the towel he bit in his mouth was also chewed, which shows what kind of will he used to endure great pain and complete this operation.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was appointed commander of the 716th Regiment of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, leading his troops to advance into the areas of Ningwu and Shenchi at the northern end of the Tongpu Railway, and launching a guerrilla war behind enemy lines.
In November 1944, he was ordered to lead hundreds of cadres south to the Honghu area to open up anti-Japanese base areas, and in August 1945, on the journey to the south, he joined the troops led by Li Xiannian of the Central Plains Military Region, formed the Jianghan Military Region, and served as the commander.
On April 27, 1947, in order to defend the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao of Yan'an, He Bingyan was transferred to northern Shaanxi to fight against the Kuomintang army, serving as the deputy commander of the first column of the Northwest Field Army, and in October as the commander of the first column of the Northwest Field Army, leading the troops to carry out a round-robin battle in northern Shaanxi against the southern part of the Kuomintang army Huzong, and participated in many battles organized by the Northwest Field Army.
In February 1948, in the Battle of Yichuan, the decisive command post unit captured Wazi Street, blocked the gap that the friendly neighboring troops could not close in time, ensured the total victory of the battle, and eliminated the troops led by Liu Jie, commander of the Kuomintang Reorganized 29th Army.
In January 1949, he served as the commander of the First Army of the First Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, led his troops to participate in the nationwide strategic counteroffensive, Lianke Sanyuan, Qishan, Longxian, Tai'an and other places, and then marched into Qinghai, in September, after the liberation of Qinghai, he also served as the commander of the Qinghai Military Region, because of physical reasons, he could not work on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and in 1952, under the recommendation of commander He Long of the Southwest Military Region, he was transferred to the Southwest Military Region as deputy commander and commander of the Sichuan Military Region, and director of the Sichuan Provincial Sports Committee.
In May 1955, he became the commander of the Chengdu Military Region, and in September 1955, He Bingyan was awarded the rank of founding general as a quasi-corps, and the burden on General He Bingyan was even heavier.
When the Kuomintang retreated in Chengdu, it left behind quite a few enemy elements, who often colluded with bandits and gangs to launch attacks and harass the people's power; He Bingyan led the work of suppressing bandits and opposing hegemony; he often went deep into the front line of the troops to guide the suppression of bandits, effectively cracking down on the arrogance of bandits and gangsters in undermining social stability.
Once, when the general was inspecting the work in the urban area of Chengdu, when he came to the street of Kuanzhai Lane, he happened to encounter a gang of gangsters who were being robbed by enemy special elements using shops along the street, and the general ordered them to stop the robbery and stop their criminal activities, but this gang did not buy it, they relied on a large number of people, did not listen to the general's warning, continued to commit evil crimes, the general took out his gun, killed a robbery gangster on the spot, shouted loudly: Who wants to do evil here, my gun does not have long eyes, put down the butcher knife, stand on the ground to become a Buddha, continue to commit evil. It will not be spared.
After the gangsters listened, they obediently stopped the looting behavior, and then did not stop, the general could really drill another hole in them, even their lives could not be saved, obediently surrendered, at this time the public security forces that heard the news rushed to arrive and arrested all the gangsters.
After interrogation, these gangsters confessed the criminal facts of the enemy and special elements inciting them to loot shops and create social chaos; the public security forces quickly dispatched and, in accordance with the list of confessions of the gangsters, they arrested a number of enemy special elements; General He Bingyan instructed that several leaders of the enemy special forces who committed the most heinous crimes be shot and shot in public, which greatly shocked the bandits around Chengdu City and effectively dealt a blow to their arrogance. Ending the career of bandits, abandoning evil and following good, and planting land from good, the social situation gradually became unstable.
On July 1, 1960, General He Bingyan, due to the many diseases left in the war years, he did not bear the invasion of the disease, died young, the Chengdu Military Region held a solemn memorial service for him, General He Long also personally came to attend his funeral, he was buried in the Mopanshan Cemetery in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, after his death, General He Long commented on him: "He Bingyan is a well-tested and excellent commander of the People's Liberation Army, who struggled hard in the war years, was brave and tenacious, and repeatedly overcame hardships. In the war years, he was never afraid of death, he was a pioneer, charged forward, retreated in the rear, and took a burning stick into his hand as a machine gun.Chinese ”
Marshal Peng Dehuai once said: "Comrade He Bingyan is a rectum, and when he fights, he never gives a single discount, does not talk about a little condition, and no matter how difficult it is, he can take it down; he is a good comrade of our party and an excellent commander of our army." ”