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After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in order to safeguard the results of victory and liberate the entire territory of northeast China as soon as possible, the Eighth Route Army was ordered to march into northeast China and began to receive land in northeast China.
However, at this time, it was the Chongqing negotiations, and both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party wanted to have the bargaining chip of the northeast at the negotiating table, so at the same time as the Eighth Route Army marched, the Kuomintang army also moved to the northeast.
Ye Jianmin
In October 1945, Ye Jianmin, commander of the first column of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, encountered the Kuomintang army in Beizhen, near Jinzhou, Liaoning, and faced with an enemy army seven times his own, Ye Jianmin fought alone without contact with his superior leaders, and finally succeeded in breaking through the siege.
This miraculous breakthrough battle alarmed Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, so Lin Biao offered to meet with this regiment commander. As a result, after the two met, Lin Biao's first words were: "Are you the head of the regiment?" ”
"Report chief, yes!"
Lin Biao said in surprise: "How old are you, so you can become the head of the regiment?" ”
"Report chief, 27 years old."
Lin Biao
Hearing Ye Jianmin's answer, Lin Biao gasped and called out incredulously.
So, where did this Ye Jianmin come from? Why did you become a group leader at the age of 27?
Little Red Army
In fact, if Lin Biao had met Ye Jianmin ten years ago, he would not have been surprised by his age, because many generals in the early revolutions were very young.
For example, during the Long March of the Red Army, Peng Xuefeng, commander of the first echelon of the Central Military Commission column, was 27 years old, and Lin Biao, who was 28 years old at the time, was already the commander of the First Red Army. Other high-ranking cadres such as Luo Ruiqing, Yang Chengwu, Nie Rongzhen, and Luo Rongheng were all in their twenties and thirties, and there was even an 18-year-old commander of the International Division of the Young Communist Party, while Ye Jianmin became the regiment commander at the age of 27.
Peng Xuefeng
However, this was only a special situation in the early stage of the revolution, and after the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were fewer high-ranking cadres in our army in their twenties and thirties. Coupled with Ye Jianmin's extremely youthful face, it didn't feel like he was 27 years old at all, so Lin Biao was so surprised.
However, becoming the head of the regiment at the age of 27 is indeed a very fast promotion speed, how did this head Ye do it?
Ye Jianmin, formerly known as Ye Dachu, was born in 1918 in a peasant family in Zaolin Village, Dawu County, Hubei Province.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "412" counter-revolutionary coup d'état, wantonly massacring communists, and then the Chinese Communist Party held the "87 Conference" in Hankou, Wuhan, which not only corrected Chen Duxiu's rightist opportunist mistakes, but also pointed out the direction of struggle for the party and the people. Moreover, at this meeting, Chairman Mao also put forward for the first time the thesis that "power comes out of the barrel of a gun."
Chairman Mao
Later, under the guidance of the spirit of the "87 Conference," the Chinese Communists led more than 30,000 people in Huang'an and Macheng, Hubei Province, to launch the Jute Uprising, and after waging a hard struggle against the Kuomintang reactionaries, the revolutionary army established the Eyu border Soviet region near Chaishanbao.
Ye Jianmin's hometown of Dawu County is not far from Huang'an and Macheng, so after the establishment of the Eyu Biansu District, Dawu County was also included. Later, Ye Jianmin, who was called by the revolution, joined the village children's group and served as the head of the children's group. This year, Ye Jianmin was only 11 years old.
Two years later, at the age of 13, Ye Jianmin joined the Independent Battalion of Luoshan County of the Red Army and officially became a Red Army soldier. However, Ye Jianmin, who had just joined the army, was thin and small, not as high as the barrel of a gun, and was a veritable "little red army". But it didn't take long for the "little red army" to strengthen his conviction under the baptism of battle, which gradually moved some older people.
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In his first year of joining the Red Army, Ye Jianmin was wounded in a battle, after which he was transferred to a rear hospital to recuperate. It is said that it is a hospital, but it is actually a large town in northeast Hubei, called Guojiahe Town. Due to the lack of medical personnel, medicines, and premises in the early days of the Red Army, all the wounded were actually placed in the homes of the common people.
After Ye Jianmin's parents knew that their son was injured, they couldn't sleep day and night, and after hearing about the location of the Red Army Hospital, Ye's father drove more than 90 miles of mountain road overnight to find Guojiahe Town, and then finally met his thirteen-year-old son.
Ye Jianmin, who was still a child, saw his father, and the strength of the strong pretense was immediately unloaded, and he threw himself into his father's arms and cried. And Father Ye lifted the clothes on his son's body, and also shed tears after seeing the hideous wound.
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However, Ye Jianmin, who had cried a lot, did not leave with his father, who only left him a packet of sunflower seeds, which he loved to eat since childhood, and went home. Ye Jianmin looked at his father's somewhat sloppy back when he left, thinking that he would go home to see if he recovered from his injuries, but who knows, this time it turned out to be goodbye.
Before recovering from his injuries, the rear hospital was suddenly attacked by the enemy, and the teenage Ye Jianmin escaped by hiding in the mountains. However, under the repeated sweeps of the enemy, Ye Jianmin could only hide in the mountains with a few wounded. There was neither medicine nor food in the mountains, so they had to eat wild fruits and vegetables to survive. Several people stayed up on the mountain for three whole months, during which Ye Jianmin's wounds even rotted and grew maggots.
But even such a test, Ye Jianmin was not intimidated to retreat, and when the Red Army came back, Ye Jianmin, who had recovered from his injuries, immediately chose to return to the ranks and returned to the ranks of the Red Army.
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After that, he followed the Red Army to the Jinggangshan base area, during which he participated in countless battles, large and small, and accumulated rich combat experience through three "anti-encirclement and suppression" wars. Therefore, despite his young age, he was promoted to the position of staff officer of the headquarters of the Red XV Army with outstanding ability.
Martyrs of the "resurrection"
In 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out in full force, after which the elite 21st Brigade of the Itagaki Division of the Japanese Army began to invade to the west.
On September 25, the Japanese army moved along the road along the Ming Great Wall towards the Pingxingguan Great Wall Pass, carrying a large number of heavy weights, preparing to launch an invasion of the Shanxi region. The Eighth Route Army, which had learned of the Japanese army's plan of action early, set up an ambush on the 24th and waited for the arrival of the Japanese army near the Great Wall pass of Pingxingguan.
Nie Rongzhen
On the morning of the 25th, under the command of Nie Rongzhen and Lin Biao, the soldiers of the 115th Division launched an attack on the Japanese troops who had already entered the encirclement, and the Japanese troops who did not know how to fight in the mountains crowded on the road and became a live target for the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.
This battle was the famous "Ping-type Guan Dajie" in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Ye Jianmin, who was 19 years old at the time, was serving as a communications staff officer of the 688th Regiment of the 344th Brigade in the 115th Division.
After the victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan, Ye Jianmin followed the troops to Pingshan County, Hebei, but unfortunately, Ye Jianmin was seriously wounded in the battle of Hongzidian in Pingshan County, so he had to temporarily leave the army and transfer to the rear hospital for recuperation.
After more than two months of treatment at the Eighth Route Military Hospital in Gengzhen, Shanxi Province, Ye Jianmin had mostly recovered from his injuries, so he repeatedly asked to return to the army. However, the hospital leaders have not fully recovered from his injuries and have not agreed to discharge.
Ye Jianmin (first from left)
But later, when Ye Jianmin again asked to be discharged and returned to the team, the hospital leader agreed and assigned him a task.
The day before he was discharged from the hospital, the leader found him and said, "Staff Officer Ye, we would like to ask you to complete a task, and the task is to bring back the wounded and sick soldiers of your brigade who can be discharged. ”
Ye Jianmin immediately assured: "Please rest assured, I will definitely send all the wounded and sick back safely." So the next day, they left the hospital.
However, there were more than eighty of these wounded, and their situation was similar to Ye Jianmin, in fact, they were all in a hurry to apply to return to the team before they were injured, so their combat effectiveness was basically greatly reduced.
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Led by Ye Jianmin, the group first reported to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region in Fuping County according to the instructions of the hospital leaders. However, after the Ping-type pass, the Japanese invasion began to intensify, especially in Shanxi. Therefore, on Ye Jianmin's way to report to the military region, as soon as he entered the county seat of Fuping, he saw three Japanese military planes appear overhead, and then a series of bombs were dropped.
Under the bombing of Japanese planes, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region suffered heavy damage, while the wounded led by Ye Jianmin took shelter under Ye Jianmin's command, so there were no casualties after the bombing.
After that, Ye Jianmin and others also helped the military region clean up the bombed house, and after being seen by the leaders of the military region, they were also praised by the leaders of the military region.
However, when Ye Jianmin made his intentions clear, the leader of the military region said: "Your original troops have gone far, you can stay here, I will arrange other things, and ensure that you will also fight if you stay here!" ”
Ye Jianmin
It turned out that this leader of the military region could not help but love talent when he saw that Ye Jianmin and the others were elite backbones who had experienced a hundred battles, and in addition, their troops had gone far away, and the middle was all blocked enemy-occupied areas, and it was impossible to send them there, so he thought of pulling them into the ranks.
Regarding the goodwill of this leader, Ye Jianmin thought for a while: "It doesn't matter if the troops go far, we can chase them ourselves, you can just tell us where the troops are." As for the other comrades, I would like to ask their opinions! ”
After discussing with his comrades-in-arms, Ye Jianmin and the others unanimously hoped to return to the original unit, so Ye Jianmin told the soldiers their wishes. After learning this, the leader of the military region said with regret: "In this case, I can only wish you a smooth journey." However, we have limited conditions here, lack of people and materials, we can't escort you, and the matter of returning to the team has to be led by Staff Officer Ye! ”
Ye Jianmin understood that the next journey would not be easy. Along the way there was a Japanese blockade, and it was difficult to get through, not to mention that they were eighty or so unarmed wounded. Therefore, Ye Jianmin applied for some weapons for self-defense.
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However, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region was indeed difficult, and the application for the last gun was not applied, and each person could only share two grenades. However, the grenade fighters were already very happy, so with the consent of the leadership, they immediately left the military region and rushed to the troop garrisons near Liao County and Wuxiang.
After crossing countless blockade lines along the way, the group finally arrived at the 344th brigade station under the leadership of underground party comrades. After seeing him, brigade commander Xu Haidong smiled and said, "Look, Staff Officer Ye is really good!" Not only did he bring back so many combat backbones, but he also conducted a reconnaissance on the road! Hahaha-"
However, when Ye Jianmin returned to the brigade organ to meet the original chief and comrades-in-arms, everyone was shocked and exclaimed: Our martyrs have been resurrected!
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This reaction of his comrades-in-arms made Ye Jianmin puzzled, until he received a copy of the "List of Anti-Japanese Fallen Martyrs", he learned that after the battle of Hongzidian, the brigade headquarters did not know that he was still alive, so his name had long been on the list of the dead.
North Town breaks through
After returning to the detachment, Ye Jianmin began to serve as the chief of staff of the second detachment of the Jiluyu detachment. In 1938, Ye Jianmin's unit engaged the Japanese army in the southwest area of Lu, won a great victory in the ambush of the Japanese commander of the Japanese army stationed in Cao Prefecture, Konobu, and also captured a "meritorious cannon" given to Kono by the Japanese emperor.
After the "South Anhui Incident" in 1941, Ye Jianmin's unit was reorganized into the 23rd Regiment of the Eighth Brigade of the Third Division of the New Fourth Army, and Ye Jianmin still held the post of regiment chief of staff. In 1943, the 23rd Regiment moved to the Yanfu area of Jiangsu Province, where Ye Jianmin also met his lover Xu Jing, and then married Yi Lin, secretary of the sixth district party committee of Funing County.
Ye Jianmin and Xu Jing
In September 1943, Ye Jianmin took Xu Jing north to resist Japan and served as the deputy commander of the 23rd Regiment of the Binhai Naval District. On the eve of the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Ye Jianmin was promoted to commander of the Fifth Regiment of the Second Division of the Shandong Military Region, when he was only 26 years old.
However, just two months after being promoted, Ye Jianmin received an order to transfer. In October 1945, Ye Jianmin's unit received an order from the central authorities to advance to the northeast as soon as possible. But at this time, his wife Xu Jing had just given birth, and in the choice between country and family, Ye Jianmin chose the former without hesitation. Therefore, he immediately rushed to the military hospital to visit his wife, intending to leave at a glance.
When he arrived at the hospital to see that the mother and child were safe, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then planned to leave.
Xu Jing hurriedly stopped him: "I haven't named the child yet!" ”
Ye Jianmin looked back at the child and thought: "Love the people, love the masses, just call it love the group!" ”
Ye Jianmin with his son
In this way, Ye Jianmin hurriedly chose the name of the child and rushed to the battlefield, leading his troops to the northeast.
In November 1945, the Kuomintang troops had already occupied Jinzhou ahead of schedule and continued to occupy the Gougang south of Beizhen, but Ye Jianmin, who had been heading north, did not know. However, Ye Jianmin knew that the northeast region was currently full of dangers and might encounter the Kuomintang army at any time, so he sent a reconnaissance team in advance to investigate.
One morning, Ye Jianmin received a phone call from a reconnaissance unit, saying that traces of the Nationalist army had been found north of the Gougang and that they were at risk of being surrounded. Before Ye Jianmin could speak, he heard the reconnaissance soldier shout: "Regiment commander, the enemy is coming, we are surrounded!" Then the call was interrupted.
Faced with the situation of being surrounded, Ye Jianmin did not panic at all, and he immediately contacted the division commander and political commissar to verify the situation.
Chen Guang
Division commander Chen Guang told him that there were indeed Nationalist troops surrounding the Gougangzi area, about the strength of one division, but there were two regiments surrounding Beizhen, which should be able to be blocked, so he ordered them to hold Beizhen at least until evening. In the evening, there will be an attack by the main forces of our army, when the encirclement can be undone.
However, the main force of the enemy did not stop at all with two regiments, and on the way of the national army troops to the north, Beizhen bore the brunt and directly turned into an isolated island. But by this time, the telephone line had been cut off, and they could no longer contact the division commander and political commissar, and if they continued to hold on according to the original order, they would probably bury the lives of the entire regiment.
At the critical moment, Ye Jianmin made a decision immediately and decided to lead his troops to break through. He ordered the 1st Battalion to hold the northeast corner of the heights to temporarily block the enemy's footsteps, while the 2nd and 3rd Battalion immediately broke through to the south. After a fierce battle, the Fifth Regiment successfully withdrew from the south gate of Beizhen, and Ye Jianmin's decision saved the lives of thousands of people in the regiment.
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Later, he learned that the enemy forces they faced that night were seven times as strong as theirs, and it was a miracle that they could break out of such a heavy siege.
This breakthrough miracle spread to Lin Biao, commander of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, and Lin Biao invited Ye Jianmin to see him. As a result, when Lin Biao saw this young man with a young face with a young face, he almost couldn't believe it: "You are the head of the regiment? ”
"Report chief, I am Ye Jianmin, the commander of the Fifth Regiment!"
"How old are you to be the head of the regiment?"
"Report chief, 27 years old."
Lin Biao
Lin Biao gasped, he thought that since the Long March of the Red Army, such a young regiment commander had become history, but he did not expect to see it now. So he smiled and nodded: "The future life is terrifying!" You are old troops, you must fight a good battle! ”
And Ye Jianmin did not live up to Lin Biao's instructions, and then he participated in the "Three Down the Jiangnan, Four Guarantees Linjiang" campaign in the northeast region, and successfully defeated the Kuomintang forces in the area south of the Songhua River. After that, he also participated in the battle of the southwest of the country, and traveled all over the north and south of the motherland.
Ye Jianmin (first from left)
Later, in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Luosheng martyr who died to save the Korean teenager was Ye Jianmin's subordinate, and Ye Jianmin was already the commander of the 141st Division of the Chinese People's Volunteers at that time. After Luo Shengjiao's death, he immediately called on the whole division to carry out learning activities for Luo Shengjiao, so that the heroic deeds of the martyrs could be widely disseminated.
In 1955, Ye Jianmin was awarded the rank of major general at the age of 37, and by this time Ye's father had long passed away and his good son was no longer visible. After Guo Jiahe parted at the age of thirteen, Ye Jianmin never saw his father again, and even the child born had time to hold his father in the future, so every time he thought about it, he always brought tears to his eyes.
In 1998, Ye Jianmin died at the age of 80. And his son Ye Aiqun, who also followed in his father's footsteps from Rong Xuguo, appeared in the 98 flood fight and the Wenchuan earthquake.
Ye Jianmin
General Ye Jianmin's life was a life of revolution and a life of fighting. In his 67 years of revolutionary career, General Ye has always had firm faith, and in the cause of liberating the people, he has done his utmost and always put the people in the first place.
Therefore, he is a good example for soldiers, a great hero of the people, and a leader in the cause of liberation. His indomitable revolutionary spirit and heroic deeds are worth remembering and learning from!