It is said that after the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Chairman Mao presided over a meeting of the Central Military Commission to discuss the issue of marching into the southwest.
As early as May 23 of that year, Chairman Mao had made clear instructions in a telegram deploying various field armies to march across the country: "Yiye can occupy Lanzhou, Ningxia, and Qinghai before the end of the year, and at that time the troops are divided into two routes: one is led by Peng Dehuai to run the northwest and enters Xinjiang in the spring of the next year; and the other is to lead He Long to operate northern Sichuan, so as to cooperate with Erye to solve the three remains of Guizhou, Sichuan, and Xikang." ”
Therefore, when the People's Liberation Army liberated Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, the central government formed a new Northwest Bureau of the Central Committee, with Peng Dehuai as the first secretary and He Long as the second secretary.
Then, on the issue of marching into the southwest, the central authorities decided on October 13 that He Long, Liu and Deng would be appointed as the secretaries of the Southwest Bureau of the Central Committee, of which He Long would be the third secretary and the commander of the Southwest Military Region.
After the meeting, Chairman Mao consulted He Long and asked, "Which troop do you plan to bring into Sichuan?" ”
He Long's old army was the main force of Yiye, who was liberating a vast area of northwestern China under the command of Peng Dehuai. Proceeding from the overall situation, He Long said, "Wasn't Zhou Shidi's Eighteenth Corps deployed around Qinchuan and Tianshui?" I'll take the Eighteenth Corps into The River!" ”
Chairman Mao smiled satisfactorily, and at the end, he did not forget to ask, "Why don't you consider bringing your own old troops?" ”
He Long said cheerfully: "The army is led by the party, and if I have to bring my own old troops, then I He Long will not look like a party member." ”
On October 18, Chairman Mao officially issued an order to fight from Shaanxi into Sichuan.
He Long's soldiers moved quickly, echoing the Erye army from afar.
The Kuomintang troops, shrinking in the southwest, saw that the general trend was gone and declared an uprising one after another.
In this way, the Eighteenth Corps led by He Long, Li Jingquan and Zhou Shidi was basically bloodless, and entered Chengdu on December 30, 1949.
On January 1, 1950, in a telegram of thanks and support to the strategic areas, Liu and Deng praised He Long, saying that "one of the main reasons why the Southwest Campaign can be completed so quickly is that He Long's action is fast. ”
By mid-March 1950, the People's Liberation Army had liberated the Xichang region, namely the four provinces of Yun, Gui, Sichuan, and Kang, and the liberation of the Chinese mainland had basically ended.
However, in the southwest, as the last liberated region of the mainland, the reactionary remnants are still quite large, and these people are seduced by Chiang Kai-shek, daydreaming, and vainly trying to use this territory as a base for counter-offensive restoration.
In a word, the bandit riots in the southwest were quite rampant.
He Long went to Chongqing to attend the first plenary meeting of the Southwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, which listed the task of suppressing bandits as the first priority in his work.
Subsequently, anti-bandit committees at all levels were established one after another.
The Southwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee also announced five policies for suppressing bandits and ten "Conventions on Self-Defense of the People's Suppression of Bandits," mobilizing the whole people and joining forces to suppress bandits.
In this context, something happened that surprised everyone.
At that time, the Southwest Bureau built a small two-story building at No. 138 Zhongshan 4th Road in Chongqing as Office Housing for He Long.
One day, a young man came to He Long's residence and said, "I am looking for my father He Long."
What the? Is He Long your father?
The guards saw that he was full of nonsense and crazy talk, so they drove him outside.
The young man said solemnly, "My name is Yang Rongzhu, I am Yang Yongqing's brother, and I am also the son of He Long. ”
As soon as the guards heard Yang Yongqing's name, their heads grew bigger.
Yang Yongqing is a giant bandit in western Hunan Province, notorious, fish and flesh people, scourge on one side, up and down the Southwest Military Region who has not heard of this name?
This young man said that he was Yang Yongqing's brother at a time, and then he said that he was he The son of He Long, but was it not nonsense?
The guards drove harder, and the noise became louder.
He Long inside heard the noise and walked out, when he heard that the youth called himself "Yang Rongzhu", he immediately drank the guard, strode over to the meteor, took the young man's hand, and said excitedly: "Rongzhu, are you really Rongzhu?" ”
Then, he looked left and right again, and said with joy: "Grow up, good, good!" ”
That is to say, He Long recognized Yang Rongzhu as the son.
However, Yang Rongzhu's surname is Yang, and he also claims to be the nephew of the giant bandit Yang Yongqing, so how could he be the son of He Long, whose surname is He?
This matter has to start from He Long's early experience.
As for He Long's experience, Lao Qin had written a large number of articles before, including "In order to win Over He Long, Chiang Kai-shek offered extremely attractive conditions, one of which is difficult to resist", "The Yang family will be full of loyal martyrs?" Far from this founding marshal, the marshal's family martyrs reached three figures", "Zhang Guotao mischief, cut off He Long's contact with the central authorities, Ganzi will be a teacher, was seriously warned by He Long", "martial arts family, full of loyal martyrs, brother is a martial artist, his son is a founding marshal, he dedicated himself to the revolution" and so on.
Among them, the article "The Martial Arts Family, Full of Loyal Martyrs, the Brother is a Martial Artist, the Son is the Founding Marshal, and He Dedicates Himself to the Revolution" tells in more detail about He Long's experience in carrying two kitchen knives to make a revolution in his early years and then defecting to Cai Yi to protect the national army.
In the National ProtectorAte, He Long became acquainted with Yang Yudi, who was the outstanding figure of Green Forest.
This Yang Yudi is a native of Zhijiang, Hunan, born in 1895, one year older than He Long.
Yang Yudi has a very good personality, when he was 12 years old, he was not satisfied with his father Yang Defu snubbing his mother Yao Huaying, to teach a lesson to a woman who was secretly friendly with his father, and was viciously retaliated by his father: he was put into a pig cage and sunk to the evil horse pond several miles away.
Fortunately, some people in the clan were not accustomed to Yang Defu's ruthlessness and quietly saved him.
However, Yang Yudi already had a home and could not return, so he had to drift to the end of the world and wander the rivers and lakes.
Because of this unusual experience, Yang Yudi got acquainted with a large number of good men in the green forest and exercised his extraordinary ability to deal with the world.
After joining the National Protectorate Army, he served as a battalion commander in the "Xiangxi Protectorate Army" because of his bravery in battle.
Yang Yudi and He Long were like-minded and admired each other, and the two married Jinlan and formed a life-and-death friendship.
Yang Yudi was a naturally famous general, although he had not read any books, but he used troops and transported troops without a division, and in the warlord melee, he once broke the 16th Mixed Brigade of the Beiyang Army in Pupu Feng Yuxiang, forced the retreat of Liao Xiangyun's department at Yanxi, defeated Wu Jianxue and Zhang Huizhan in Chenzhou, and participated in the expulsion of Zhang Jingyao.
As a result, in 1923 he was promoted to major general brigade commander of the 17th Brigade of the 1st Division of the Hunan Provisional Army, and was ranked among the generals.
Unfortunately, God is jealous of his talents and does not leave his years.
In July 1924, Yang Yudi fell seriously ill and died prematurely at the age of 29.
When Yang Yudi died of illness, there was only one son, Yang Rongzhu, who was only 3 years old at the time.
In the year of Yang Rongzhu's birth, He Long came to drink full moon wine and took the initiative to accept Li Rongzhu as his son.
Before Yang Yudi died, he deliberately entrusted his son to He Long, and asked his nephew Yang Yongqing to take Yang Rongzhu and the leading troops to join He Long.
However, Yang Yongqing reneged on his word.
After he left Zhijiang, he led the troops to develop independently, and his power continued to expand, becoming the "Bandit King of Western Hunan Province" that was extremely popular.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, under the banner of "reviving the Chu and Han Palaces," he openly supported Chiang Kai-shek and secretly harbored the political ambition of "rejuvenating the nation and opening up a new world with great heroes," in a vain attempt to dominate western Hunan and divide one side.
On the eve of the liberation of Zhijiang, Yang Yongqing participated in the "joint military and political conference" held by Bai Chongxi in Zhijiang, and received 10,000 rounds of ammunition, 3,000 pieces of Guangyang and a radio station issued by Bai Chongxi.
Yang Yongqing turned around and set up the "Xiangqian Border Guerrilla General Headquarters", making himself commander-in-chief, claiming to "deal with the PLA to the end."
From October 1949 to the beginning of 1950, he assigned bandits to constantly ambush and attack the People's Liberation Army, militia, and local cadres, becoming a murderous and stubborn die-hard force.
Yang Rongzhu had grown up and did not want to be tied up with Yang Yongqing himself, and heard that his righteous father He Long was the commander of the Southwest Military Region, so he transferred to Chongqing and surrendered to his father.
He Long reunited with the son of a righteous brother, and naturally had endless words.
Finally, Lao Qin added that Yang Yongqing's gang was wiped out by the People's Liberation Army on December 8, 1950, and Yang Yongqing himself was executed on December 26 at the Zhijiang County Stadium.