Wang Yaonan, who was awarded the rank of major general after the liberation of New China, the father of China's engineers, was praised as the "king of engineers", his life is a history of the development of China's engineers, he commanded the engineering troops, participated in many important battles, built bridges for the vanguard troops in the water, pioneered mine warfare, tunnel warfare and other tactics, and made indelible contributions to the liberation of New China and the cause of national defense.
On the eve of the Red Army's Long March, he was ordered to build a pontoon bridge for the vanguard of the Long March at the Yudu River in Jiangxi. In the entire strategic transfer of the Long March of the Red Army, he organized and commanded the engineering troops to take the lead, take the lead, build bridges in the river, open roads in every mountain, and open up the way for the vanguard troops, which was praised by Marshal Liu Bocheng as: "As long as he is here, the Red Army has no slope that cannot be crossed." ”
I. Wang Yaonan's Path as a Major General
Born in 1911, a native of Pingxiang, Jiangxi, he was the founding major general of New China and the "King of Engineers". When he was young, his family was poor, he followed his father to work as a coal miner in Anyuan Coal Mine, and from an early age he tasted all the hardships and hardships of the world, and his experience as a miner in Anyuan Coal Mine laid the foundation for him to lead and command the engineering corps in the future.
In September 1927, he participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising and commanded the auxiliary troops of the engineering corps to advance. In February 1929, he built the first bridge of the Red Army in Xiangshui, near Huichang. On the eve of the start of the Long March, he built the first bridge of the Long March on the Yudu River in Jiangxi. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he led the engineering unit to assist the Eighth Route Army in its operations against Japan, and used tunnel warfare and mine warfare tactics to resist the Japanese puppet army.
During the Liberation War, he used tunnel tactics to attack Linfen and other places in the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region. During the Korean War, he was responsible for volunteer air defense and other issues, and used tunnel warfare tactics to fight against the U.S. army. After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he was responsible for the construction and development of the mainland engineer corps. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general of the People's Liberation Army. After his death, he donated his body to a medical career.
Second, Liu Bei led the Red Army to cross the Wu River
Liu Bocheng, born in 1892, is a native of Kaizhou District, Chongqing, and a founding marshal. In his early years, his family was poor, he dropped out of school to work as a farmer, suffered hardships in the world, and later resolved to save the country and the people. In 1911, he followed sun yat-sen, the father of the country. In February 1912, he studied and studied various military management and command theories at the Military Academy in Sichuan, which laid the theoretical foundation for his future command of military campaigns.
In March 1916, when he led the Red Army to capture Fengdu County, he was attacked by a stray bullet in his right eye, and insisted on not using anesthesia during eye surgery, and was praised by doctors as a "military god". In 1923, he participated in the Northern Expedition. In April 1927, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising; subsequently participated in five anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns. During the Long March of the Red Army, he served as chief of the general staff of the Red Army and assisted and organized many battles.
In January 1935, the Central Red Army was forced to cross the Wujiang River due to heavy blockades by the Kuomintang Central Army, Bai Chongxi and other local warlords, at this time Liu Bocheng was appointed chief of the general staff of the Red Army, and he commanded the Red Army to forcibly cross the Wujiang River. As the commander of the engineer battalion, Wang Yaonan stepped forward and undertook the task of building a pontoon bridge for the Red Army to forcibly cross the Wujiang River.
Due to the rapid flow of the Wujiang River and the interception of the enemy army, the vanguard of the Red Army crossed three times on a bamboo raft without success, so Wang Yaonan decided to build a pontoon bridge on the Wujiang River. Due to the inconvenience of communication at that time, Wang Yaonan could only use the banner language to command the soldiers of the engineering battalion to set up bamboo rows in the middle of the river, and the bamboo rows were fixed with screws, and they overcame various difficulties and finally succeeded in erecting the pontoon bridge on the Wu River.
The Red Army braved the enemy's rain of bullets and bullets, the encirclement and interception of aircraft artillery, and the efforts of Wang Yaonan and other sappers and soldiers to successfully cross the Wujiang River, thus winning a favorable situation for the entire strategic transfer of the Red Army's Long March, and Liu Bocheng, chief of staff of the Red Army, greatly commended Wang Yaonan.
Third, he built bridges for the Red Army's Long March
On the eve of the Long March, Chiang Kai-shek's troops surrounded and blocked the Red Army and launched a fierce battle in Shaxian County, and Wang Yaonan used the tactics of the tunnel method to annihilate the enemy troops in Shaxian County, and won a complete victory. Due to the impact of the war situation and the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Red Army was eventually forced to shift strategically and begin the Long March, which he also began with the troops.
The Red Army moved from Jiangxi, and the first river it encountered was the Yudu River, and he led the engineering troops to build bridges for the vanguard troops. The Long March of the Red Army crossed a total of 22 rivers, including the Yudu River, the Xiang River, the Wu River, and the Chishui River. Before and after the Red Army crossed the Red River four times, he commanded the engineering troops to build bridges in the water, which won valuable time for the vanguard troops to cross the river. He was praised by the officers and men of the Red Army as "engineer expert".
During the Long March of the Red Army, he and his engineering units opened up the way forward for the Red Army and gave full play to the vanguard role of the engineers. Liu Bocheng praised Wang Yaonan: "As long as Wang Yaonan is there, the Red Army has no slope that cannot be crossed. It can be said that the emergence of Wang Yaonan's engineering unit began with the Long March.
As the founder of the engineering corps, his engineering corps played a huge contribution in the Long March of the Red Army, without him and the engineering troops under his command, the strategic transfer of the Red Army's Long March could not be successfully completed, and he won valuable time for the strategic transfer of the Red Army's Long March, enabling the Red Army to successfully reach the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia base area and realizing the Red Army's military plan of going north to resist Japan.
4. Summary
Wang Yaonan was a founding major general, a founding father, and the father of the new Chinese engineer corps; he made outstanding contributions to the creation, construction, and development of China's engineer corps; he single-mindedly commanded the engineering troops for the party, the country, and the people, and made the first contribution to the Red Army's Long March by opening up roads in every mountain and building bridges in the face of water. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he organized and commanded mine warfare and tunnel warfare in the anti-Japanese base areas.
After the founding of New China, he was responsible for air defense tasks in the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he continued to devote his energy to the study of engineering corps and the military theories of engineers from advanced foreign countries. He devoted his life's energy to the construction and development of the motherland's engineers and made contributions to the motherland's military and national defense causes.
He made great contributions to the cause of the country's liberation in the southern conquest of the northern war and his life of fighting horses; he sought the welfare of the people's happy life, served the people and the motherland wholeheartedly, fulfilled his duties and loyalties, brought the development of the mainland's engineering corps to a completely new height, and was a good general of the motherland and the people.
As a founding major general, he has a fighting spirit of not fearing difficulties and having the courage to dedicate, and his spirit inspires people born in the era of peace, when they encounter setbacks and fall into adversity in work and life, they must be full of confidence and full of spirit of struggle to overcome difficulties and get out of adversity.