The founding of New China has experienced countless difficulties and dangers, countless soldiers have shed blood and sacrificed, and in the war that has lasted for more than ten years, there have been many touching stories, either tragic or exciting.
Countless heroic souls have used their lives to depict the legendary battle scenes of that year to posterity, and it is precisely because of their former bravery and fearlessness that China has today's peace.
During the war, a large number of outstanding military talents appeared in our army, and it was precisely these outstanding military experts who enabled our army to defeat the enemy under extremely difficult conditions and restore the great rivers and mountains of China.
After the founding of New China, the state remembered the efforts of the soldiers and awarded commendations to a group of very outstanding military experts.
Among them, there is a young but honorable general, in addition to the military merit medal issued by the country, there are two First Class Freedom and Independence Medals issued by North Korea, which became one of the focal points of the award ceremony, and compared with his military merit medal, his performance in the war years is more worthy of people's attention.
1. Resolve to join the army and drive out the Tartars
The general, who attracted much attention at the awarding ceremony, was named Yang Chengwu, and among all the generals who were awarded the title, his age was relatively young, but his combat experience was not inferior to others.
He also made many military achievements with outstanding military talents, and was a general that Mao Zedong loved very much.
He was born just in time for the end of the Qing Dynasty's rule and was replaced by the Republic of China, the country alternated between the old and the new, and everywhere in society there were conflicts and collisions between new systems and old ideas.
In such a social environment, Yang Chengwu's family is a very poor bottom family, life is naturally very difficult, but Yang Chengwu's parents witnessed China's progress from feudalism to modernity, and also understood that learning knowledge can change fate, so they decided to let Yang Chengwu receive education from an early age.
At that time, there were few modern primary schools, Yang Chengwu was sent to private school by his family, although the family was poor, but Yang Chengwu was talented and smart, and his grades were also very good.
Successfully admitted to the middle school, that is, during the middle school period, Yang Chengwu's life trajectory has changed.
When Yang Chengwu was in middle school, his Chinese teacher and English teacher were members of the underground revolutionary party, and under the subtle influence, Yang Chengwu also learned some revolutionary ideas.
Until 1928, under the influence of two teachers, Yang Chengwu, who was only 14 years old, became a member of the Communist Youth League and actively developed classmates with the same ambitions in the school.
In 1929, Yang Chengwu's Chinese teacher decided to form a revolutionary armed force and set up a revolutionary Red Guard, and Yang Chengwu immediately organized a number of aspiring students to give up their studies to join the Red Guards.
However, during the activities of the Red Guards, because the gap between the strength of the enemy and us was too large, the Red Guards had to go to the mountains and forests to carry out guerrilla attacks, but they could only fight and retreat, and the situation was very grim.
Just as the Red Guards were about to be surrounded, Mao Zedong led the Red Fourth Front to come to the rescue, and after a fierce battle, the Red Fourth Front defeated the Kuomintang troops and took advantage of the situation to capture Changting County.
The Red Guards established contact with the Red Fourth Front at this time, and Yang Chengwu was also praised by Mao Zedong, which left a deep impression on Yang Chengwu's heart.
2. Take the lead and forge ahead on the Long March
At that time, after the Red Fourth Front left Changting County, it left some weapons for the Red Guards, and Yang Chengwu relied on these weapons to carry out activities in the surrounding areas and actively expand the Red Guards
Several counties around Changting County also established Red Guards under the influence of the Red Guards.
At this time, in order to unify combat command and coordinate the armed forces, the Red Army reorganized the revolutionary armed forces in various places.
The Red Guards of Changting County, as well as the Red Guards of several surrounding counties, were reorganized into the Third Route Army of the Red Army in western Fujian.
In the process of development, Yang Chengwu has always been full of revolutionary enthusiasm and has won many victories in the operation against the Kuomintang, and under the good situation of the operation, the Red Army in western Fujian has developed rapidly, and soon expanded from a small unit of a few hundred people to a large force of several thousand people, becoming a very combat effective contingent in the western Fujian region.
After a long period of combat tempering, Yang Chengwu also changed from a teenager to an outstanding general who had been in the battlefield for a long time.
With the change of the situation, more than half of the combatants of the Red Army in western Fujian were reorganized into the Red Fourth Front.
Yang Chengwu also became a capable general under Mao Zedong during this period, and he made many military achievements and fought many hard battles, and he was already a little famous in the Red Army.
Because the power of the Red Army made Chiang Kai-shek feel threatened, Chiang Kai-shek disregarded the agreement and raised troops to begin to encircle and suppress the Red Army, causing great losses to the Red Army.
Mao Zedong immediately decided to preserve his revolutionary strength and carry out the Long March, and in this way, Yang Chengwu followed Mao Zedong and began the Long March.
The conditions during the Long March were harsh, and in order to make it easier for the whole team to walk, Yang Chengwu took the initiative to take on the task of opening the way.
Turning over the snowy mountains and crossing the meadows, Yang Chengwu was at the forefront of the team and was responsible for exploring the way.
In addition to exploring the way, but also to collect materials, the task is arduous, but Yang Chengwu did not flinch, everywhere he went, he first carefully observed the terrain, and then explored the way, so as to avoid many accidents.
After a long and arduous Long March, the large troops successfully arrived in northern Shaanxi and completed a military feat.
After the large army arrived safely in northern Shaanxi and established a revolutionary base area in Yan'an, the 25-year-old Yang Chengwu was promoted to the head of the independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army because of his merits, and his performance in the War of Resistance Against Japan was very outstanding.
In a battle, the Independent Regiment encountered the elite troops of the Japanese army Abe Norihide, Yang Chengwu decisively launched a battle, and defeated the Japanese army in one fell swoop, killing Abe Norihide, who had the "Flower of Famous Generals".
3. Fight to the death and not retreat, and defend the iron-blooded honor of our army
The domestic war was won in the unity of the people of the whole country, and after the founding of New China, China entered a new period
。 However, the situation did not stabilize with the end of the civil war, and war broke out in Korea.
For the sake of national security, China organized volunteer troops to go to Korea to support, and Yang Chengwu also led his army to the battlefield and wrote the next immortal legend.
At the beginning of 1951, Yang Chengwu coordinated the Twentieth Army and the Third Army of the Volunteer Army to rush to the Korean Battlefield, at this time, the Volunteer Soldiers had engaged in five large-scale battles with the US Army, and the entire front was basically stable within the 38th Line, and the two armies began a long stage of confrontation.
At this time, Yang Chengwu led a large army to support, which brought great encouragement to the volunteer army, and the soldiers adhered to the principle of not giving up any land and began to fight on the battlefield.
In August 1951, the U.S. military began a summer offensive plan, in a vain attempt to crush the volunteer front and end the war.
However, in the face of the US plan, the volunteers insisted on sticking to the battlefield and carrying out a tactical counterattack with small units.
In just one month, Yang Chengwu commanded troops to counterattack the US army, eliminating 80,000 US troops and capturing countless strategic materials.
The U.S. military failed in the summer offensive, so it launched the autumn offensive plan and attacked with a more ferocious posture.
However, Yang Chengwu still did not flinch, commanding the troops to defend and counterattack, so that the US army never crossed the 38th line.
Yang Chengwu's performance in the Korean battlefield can be called iron-blooded, fully demonstrating the image of a tough man in our army, and his performance has also been commended by the DPRK, and he was also awarded the Order of Freedom and Independence of the First Class.
After the end of the Korean War, Yang Chengwu led his army back to China, and at the subsequent award ceremony,
The 41-year-old Yang Chengwu was awarded the rank of general because of his years of military achievements.