Among the Ruyun generals of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, General Yang Yong was one of the famous "Three Yangs" (Yang Yong, Yang Dezhi, and Yang Chengwu). On the Long March, in the great victory of Pingxingguan, in the rumbling artillery of the liberation of the southwest, and on the Korean battlefield filled with gunpowder, General Yang Yong was both wise and brave, and won all battles, and won the love of Chairman Mao Zedong, who praised him many times, calling him "upright and resolute". Yang Yong has fought hundreds of battles in his life, and the five scars on his body that best reflect his heroic nature and the spirit of the word "brave" are on his body. In the tragic revolutionary struggle, Yang Yong was wounded five times.
For the first time, in October 1933, the 14th Regiment of the 10th Division of the 3rd Red Army met the enemy at Xunkou in the Central Soviet District, and both sides were caught off guard. Suddenly, a bullet flew through the center of his head, piercing his scalp and bleeding freely, and he ignored it and continued to charge until the enemy retreated. After the war, Yang Yong was praised by the regiment commander Peng Dehuai, and hung a third-class red star medal on his chest. At the same time, a permanent memorial was left on the top of the head - a two-centimeter-long bullet mark that no longer grew.
In October 1933, Yang Yong served as the director of the Political Department of the 10th Regiment of the 40th Division of the Red Third Army Corps, and participated in the first to fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the central base area. Enemy bullets flew past his scalp, blood from top to bottom, all over his cheeks and neck, and he ignored it completely, and the more he fought harder, the more fierce he became, and finally killed the enemy and fled. In this battle, Yang Yong won the commendation and praise of the corps commander Peng Dehuai, and was awarded the Red Star Medal of the Third Class by the National Congress of Soviet Workers, Peasants and Soldiers. Yang Yong's head has since been marked by a bullet mark that is two centimeters long and will never grow again.
Wounded a second time. The most tragic battle of the Long March was the Battle of Xiangjiang. In this battle, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to complete the battle, waved a large army to pursue from behind, and set up 4 blockade lines in front, and ordered He Jian to lead 400,000 troops to intercept the Xiangjiang River barrier, and strictly ordered that the Red Army should not be exposed to one person and one horse. The military command of the Red Army was still in the hands of the German military adviser Li De, and this foreign religious leader who was full of "foreign ink" talked about military theories, one by one, and would only command blindly when he started a war, and as a result, the Red Army broke into the iron triangle encircled by Chiang Kai-shek.
Whether the Red Army lives or dies, whether it survives or dies, all depends on the bloody and desperate efforts of the officers and men of the Red Army. The task of the 10th Regiment of the 40th Red Division was to cover the crossing of the central column, and Yang Yong, who served as the political commissar, led his troops to sacrifice his life for two days and nights, and repelled the enemy dozens of times his size round after round. After the central column crossed the river, the 10th Regiment sacrificed more than 400 officers and soldiers.
Chiang Kai-shek ordered He Jian, chairman of the Kuomintang Hunan Provincial Government, to lead an army of 400,000 to use the Xiangjiang barrier to form a fourth blockade line to block the Red Army's Long March. In this extremely arduous battle of the Xiangjiang River, Yang Yong, then the political commissar of the 10th Regiment of the Red Fourth Division, led his troops to carry out the important task of covering the central column across the river together with his brother troops. During the battle, regiment commander Shen Shuqing was shot and killed, division chief of staff Du Zhongmei and acting regiment commander died heroically, Yang Yong supported the overall situation, led his troops to fight bloody battles for two days and nights, his right thigh was hit by shrapnel, more than 400 officers and men of the 10th Regiment stained the Xiangjiang River with blood, and the central column successfully crossed the river. Since then, Yang Yong's leg has also left a "Xiangjiang Battle Medal".
The third time, in January 1935, in the Battle of Tucheng on the banks of the Chishui River, Yang Yong, the political commissar of the 10th Regiment, once again led the charge of the team, and the bullet went out from his right cheek into the lip, one in and one out, and Yang Yong lost 6 teeth. At that time, blood was gushing like a spring, and he could not command the battle with his mouth, so he gave orders with a pen, with blood on his face, blood on his hands, blood on his pen, and blood on paper...... Finally passed out in a pool of blood. The bullet socket left on Yang Yong's face was filled by Wu Weiran, the director of Beijing Hospital, more than 30 years later. This wound was the most serious. The battle of Tucheng on the Long March Road is known as the battle with the most luxurious lineup in the history of our army. In this battle, not only will the stars gather, but the "level" of the participants is also the highest. Two generations of the party's leadership core, three presidents of the Republic, one premier of the State Council, five defense ministers, seven of the ten marshals and more than 200 founding generals took part in the battle. General Yang Yong was red-eyed in this battle and led the officers of the 10th Regiment to launch five charges in a row. Due to a mistake in the detective of the enemy's military situation, it was thought that the enemy was only 4 regiments, but in fact the enemy came with 8 brigades and 9 regiments, so all five charges failed. During Yang Yong's fifth charge, the cheek was pierced by a bullet. This time he was wounded, leaving a deep bullet socket on Yang Yong's face.
After the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army (later known as the 18th Group Army), and Yang Yong served as the deputy commander, regiment commander and political commissar of the 686th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and participated in the battles of Pingxingguan and Wuchengjinggou.
Wounded for the fourth time, in September 1937, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army for the first time confronted the 21st Brigade of the Japanese elite Sakagaki Seishiro Division at Pingxingguan, and Yang Yong (actually the political commissar) of the 343rd Brigade (Brigade Commander Chen Guang) of the 686th Regiment (Regiment Commander Li Tianyou) of the 115th Division was once again hung the lottery. According to the battle order, Chen Guang's 343 Brigade was the main ambush force: Yang Dezhi and Deng Hua's 685th Regiment blocked the Japanese troops in front and blocked their southward route; Li Tianyou and Yang Yong's 686 Regiment was charging the enemy head-on. Xu Haidong commanded the 344th Regiment of the 687th Brigade to encircle and divide the Japanese army's rearguard troops in the southwest of Caijiayu and cut off its retreat. At 7 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army had all entered the ambush circle, and Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen decided to issue an attack order to cut the enemy into several sections to destroy it. At the beginning of the ambush, the commanders and fighters of the 686th Regiment shared the same hatred for the enemy, and were not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice. During the battle, Li Tianyou and Yang Yong found that the Japanese army occupied the commanding heights of Laoyeling, posing a threat to our army's attack, so they led their troops to risk death to "go deep into Laoyeling, where the battle was fiercest, to directly command." In order to crush the Japanese counterattack, Yang Yong led the 3rd Battalion to start a white-knuckle battle with the Japanese army, but unfortunately he was shot in the left shoulder and stained his military uniform with blood, and insisted on commanding until the victory of the battle. In the first battle of Pingxingguan, the 115th Division suffered more than 500 casualties, and the 686th Regiment was particularly tragic, and the 9th Company even beat more than a dozen people left. The Pingxingguan ambush annihilated more than 1,000 Japanese troops, shocking both at home and abroad, and Yang Yong's name also resounded in China along with Lin Biao, Nie Rongzhen, Chen Guang, etc.
In the Battle of Pingxingguan, Yang Yong commanded the battle on the fiercest battle of Lao Ye Ling. This battle was the first time that our army had confronted the Japanese army. The Japanese army against the enemy was the 21st Brigade of the elite Sakagaki Division, and the Japanese soldiers of the regiment were all arrogant and domineering, preferring to die rather than surrender. As a commander and soldier, Yang Yong drew his sword and slashed face-to-face with the Japanese army when the Japanese army was frantically grabbing the commanding heights of the Lao Ye Temple. In the white-knuckle battle, Yang Yong's left shoulder was hit by a stray bullet, and the blood flowed like an infusion...... In the first battle of Pingxingguan, more than 1,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, but the 115th Division suffered more than 500 casualties, and the 686th Regiment was particularly tragic, and the 9th Company even beat more than a dozen people left.
After Pingxingguan, after the injury was slightly healed, Yang Yong commanded the troops to ambush a Japanese automobile transport team at Xigongling on the Fenli Highway, annihilating more than 200 Japanese troops and blowing up more than 20 cars. Soon after, the Japanese 108th Brigade was ambushed in the valley near Wangjiachi, annihilating nearly 1,000 Japanese infantry cavalry and killing Major General Yamaguchi, the commander of the Japanese brigade. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, General Yang Yong's proud work was "Luliang Sanjie". These "three victories" were all obtained through ambush warfare in the Luliang area, destroying more than 1,000 enemies and killing Major General Yamaguchi, the commander of the Japanese 108th Brigade.
Wounded for the fifth time, on September 14, 1938, near Xigongling on the Fenyang (Shi) Highway, Yang Yong, who had been promoted to the commander and political commissar of the 686th Regiment, commanded the troops to ambush a Japanese automobile transport team from Fenyang to Lishi, and in less than an hour, more than 200 Japanese troops were annihilated and more than 20 cars full of military supplies were blown up. On September 21, in the valley near Wangjiachi on the Fenli Highway, he commanded the troops to ambush the Japanese 108th Brigade retreating towards Fenyang, and after fierce battles, annihilated nearly 1,000 Japanese infantry cavalry. Lü Liang's victory shocked the Japanese army in North China. After that, the gates of Fenyang were closed, and the enemy burned the corpses for several days, while Yang Yong held a celebration meeting in the Luliang Mountains. In this battle, Yang Yong was slightly wounded again.
In order to thwart the Japanese army, in September 1938, the 115th Division decided to take the initiative to strike at the Japanese army.
At this time, the situation also changed. The Japanese army had suffered several losses under the ambush tactics used by the Eighth Route Army, and had figured out some ways to deal with it, first sending patrols to explore the road, and at the same time building pillboxes at key points to control the main roads. At the same time, this time the target was the Japanese field troops, which were more combative, and it was extremely difficult to completely annihilate them.
In response to these changes, Yang Yong developed new tactics.
After receiving the order, he called Wu Jiade, the commander of the artillery company, and asked him if he was sure that he would quickly knock out a pillbox on the commanding heights opposite the ambush section.
Wu Jiade was full of confidence: Regiment commander, the task of fighting the pillbox has been handed over to me, I have already calculated it, and I will ensure that the three artillery pieces will blow up the pillbox, and when the troops attack, I will blast the pillbox off without waiting for the enemy in the pillbox to react!
With this background, Yang Yong formulated a combat plan according to his own ideas: after the 686th Regiment set up an ambush in Xue Gongling, it first let go of the Japanese search patrol, and then attacked after the convoy entered the ambush circle. At the same time as the sortie, the artillery company was responsible for removing the pillboxes on the heights. As Yang Yong expected, the Japanese patrol took the lead and found no abnormality, and there were pillboxes to provide fire support, so the convoy relaxed its vigilance and drove into the ambush position of the 686th Regiment.
In this battle, more than 200 Japanese soldiers were annihilated and 3 were captured, and it was a complete victory. The Supplementary Regiment also ambushed the radio team of the Xiangyue Regiment Headquarters in Youfangping and cut off the Fenli Highway. After the two battles, the Japanese 108th Brigade was forced to have supply difficulties, and they tried to retreat along the road to Fenyang.
Unable to let the Japanese troops advance westward, Division Commander Chen Guang once again handed over the task to Yang Yong, considering that the 686th Regiment continued to fight and lost a lot of troops, he specially handed over the 2nd Battalion of the 685th Regiment and the special service company of the division headquarters to Yang Yong for command.
This battle was even more difficult, the Japanese army suffered a defeat in the Fenli Highway Company, and its vigilance was greatly enhanced, and this Japanese army was a combat unit under the personal command of the commander of the Yamaguchi Brigade, and it was difficult to completely annihilate it.
Yang Yong thought about it for a long time, and then chose the location of the battle in Wangjiachi. The subordinates raised objections, Wangjiachi is not far southeast of Xue Gongling, and the Japanese army has already suffered losses there, so they must be on great guard against this section of the road, and have already set up a stronghold there, and it will be difficult to choose the Wangjiachi section again.
Yang Yong explained: In the past few times, we have set up ambushes far away from the enemy's stronghold, and the enemy has learned this law. This time the ambush in Wangjiachi is a bit risky tactically, but it can break the law and achieve a surprising victory.
The art of war is cloudy: soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. Yang Yong is determined to make a plan and direct a new play.
On September 20, before dawn, Yang Yong quietly led his troops to hide near Wangjiachi. Near noon, Major General Yamaguchi, the commander of the Japanese brigade, led more than 600 Japanese troops along the road, and they wanted to quickly withdraw to Fenyang without fighting along the way.
In order to meet the retreating mountain pass, the Japanese troops in the Wangjiachi stronghold also sent out to search and reconnoitre, and they went west in the direction of Xue Gongling, because the Japanese army had suffered two losses there.
But this time, the Eighth Route Army was ambushed to the east. Seeing that there was nothing abnormal, Yamaguchi entered the Wangjiachi stronghold for a short rest and continued to set off, and got into the ambush circle.
Yang Yong ambushed the troops of 4 battalions and a company on three sides, and led the 2nd battalion of the 685th Regiment as a reserve to quickly divide the Japanese army into several sections, and after more than two hours of fighting, this Japanese army was basically wiped out, and more than 600 enemies were annihilated.
The 343 Brigade won three battles in Luliang, of which Yang Yong's 686 Regiment participated in two of them as the main force, and Yang Yongyong was famous.
The Japanese army suffered losses continuously, in order to take revenge, organized more than 1,000 troops to counterattack, they met a brigade led by Wei Lihuang, deputy commander of the second theater of operations, near Daning, after a fierce battle between the two sides, Wei Lihuang's troops were defeated and retreated.
The Japanese army refused to give up, and pursued fiercely in the rear, Wei Lihuang's troops were scattered, and the situation was very serious. Wei Lihuang was a general of the national army with a relatively resolute will to resist the war, and his relationship with the Eighth Route Army was also good. After receiving Wei Lihuang's distress signal through the radio, the Eighth Route Army invited Wei Lihuang to the headquarters of the 115th Division, and sent Yang Yong to lead the 686th Regiment to block the Japanese army and respond to the retreat of Wei Lihuang's division.
After studying the terrain, Yang Yong judged that the key point of this mission was the Baierli Pass, and he ordered Fang Guonan, an instructor of the regiment's direct subordinate team, to lead a special service company to quickly seize the favorable terrain to block the Japanese army, so as to gain time, which was a key move.
The special service company was the elite of the whole regiment, and they took the position with astonishing speed and immediately took advantage of the cliffs in front of the position to build fortifications. Again and again, the Japanese tried to pass through here, but they were blocked by the resolute resistance of the special service company. The Japanese army never expected to be blocked here, and the soldiers suffered many casualties, but they were unable to break through the defense line of the special service company.
Wei Lihuang couldn't rest assured in the end, he went to the front-line command post accompanied by Yang Yong, and after carefully observing the battle with a telescope for a long time, he asked Yang Yong a question: "May I ask Regiment Commander Yang, the battle is so fierce, how many regiments of your army are fighting in front?"
Yang Yong replied: "There is only one company of our 686th Regiment. Wei Lihuang thought that Yang Yong was joking: "How can one company withstand the impact of so many Japanese troops!" Yang Yong saw that Wei Lihuang did not believe it, and made a suggestion: "Chief Wei, this is true, I will only send one company." If you don't believe me, wait for them to pull down, and you will know how many people you count. ”
After ensuring that Wei Lihuang's troops retreated to a safe place, Yang Yong gave the order to the special agent company to withdraw from the battle, but he didn't expect Wei Lihuang to really wait there to count the number of people to see what kind of people they were. His staff officers reported to him that the Eighth Route Army that was blocking the attack was indeed only a company, with a total of more than 200 people. Wei Lihuang saw the soldiers participating in the blockade passing in front of him, and listened to the company commander's report to Yang Yong, he was convinced: "Commander Yang, it would be nice if I had a regiment like this company of your army." In order to express his gratitude, Wei Lihuang ordered 100,000 rounds of ammunition to be allocated to the 115th Division for backup.
At the beginning of 1939, the main force of the 115th Fifth Division entered Shandong in the east, and after General Yang Yong led his troops into Shandong, he won the first battle of Fanba, completely annihilating more than 500 people in one main regiment of the puppet army, and then severely damaged the reinforced Japanese army. Shortly thereafter, General Yang Yong was responsible for opening up the Luxi Anti-Japanese Base Area and served as the commander of the Luxi Military Region, and Yang Dezhi, another founding general, was responsible for opening up the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region and was appointed commander of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region. The two were in different military districts. In a battle in Dongming County, Shandong, Yang Dezhi's troops were surrounded deep behind enemy lines, and the brother troops who originally cooperated with him withdrew from the battle in order to protect themselves. Yang Yong knew the news, led his troops to come forward, and handed a message to Yang Dezhi: "Brother Yang, I am here when people leave." I will never withdraw from the battle until we win, we will fight together, we will die together, we will live together. "Fighting side by side with Yang Dezhi's troops, he finally defeated the stubborn enemy.
During the expansion of Erye, Yang Yong was promoted to the commander of the 5th Corps, and Wang Jinshan, the prototype of Li Yunlong, who was known as the "Wang Maniac", served as the deputy commander of the 3rd Corps. Wang Jinshan expressed his dissatisfaction, pointed at Yang Yong in front of Chief Liu Deng and said: "He, why?" Deng Xiaoping only replied: "You may be more brave than Yang Yong in the war, but in other places, he is stronger than you, so you are the deputy commander and he is the commander." General Yang Yong adopted the method of encircling the point to attack reinforcements, and won the victory in the battle of Panxidu, creating a glorious example of the war of annihilation in the plains.
In April 1944, after three years of military Xi in Yan'an, Yang Yong, who was both civil and military, went to the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Anti-Japanese Battlefield again and took office as the deputy commander of the Plains Military Region. In August 1945, the troops of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region formed a three-way army to launch a counteroffensive, and he and Song Renqiang led the Middle Route Army to Lianke Yanjin, Yangwu, and Fengqiu, and formed a situation of encirclement of Kaifeng with the Southern Route Army. After Japan announced its surrender, Yang Yong put forward the opinion of "not opening the seal so as not to trap the main force under the fortified city", which coincided with the subsequent instructions of the Party Central Committee.
On August 20, 1945, Yang Yong took office as the commander of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and immediately led the main force of the military region to form the Eastern Route Army to participate in the Pinghan Campaign, which severely defeated the Kuomintang's civil war attempt. In November of the same year, the troops of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region formed a new field corps, the full name of which was the Seventh Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, with Yang Yong as the commander. Not long after its formation, the members of the unit came from all over the world, and their combat effectiveness was not very strong. At that time, many people were uncertain about whether this unit could fight a tough battle, and they were a little worried. However, Yang Yong was calm and relaxed: "'The soldiers will be transferred with the generals', and the combat effectiveness of the troops is brought out by the cadres and fought by the battles. "On the one hand, he worked hard to build the army, and on the other hand, he led the troops to fight actively. At the beginning of 1946, on the battlefield of Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, the Seventh Column, together with its brother units, destroyed more than 20,000 enemies in Keyuncheng, Juye, Jiaxiang, Jining and other places, and greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the troops. In April 1946, Yang Yong led the Seventh Column to participate in the Battle of Longhai, the Battle of Dingtao, and the Battle of Huaxian, annihilating a large number of enemies and smashing the Kuomintang's plan to occupy Hebei, Shandong, and Henan and open up the Pinghan Road.
On March 16, 1947, the Seventh Column and the returned brother troops were combined into the First Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and Yang Yong continued to serve as the commander. The reason why Yang Yong is excellent in both military and political affairs, has a good command, can control the ever-changing situation on the battlefield, and grasps the initiative in war is that he has a spirit of hard work and tenacity. During his long years, he worked hard to learn Mao Zedong Xi's military thought and conscientiously comprehended the intentions of his superiors. Because he had more contact with Chief Liu Deng and was particularly good at applying Chief Liu Deng's operational command thinking to the campaigns and battles he commanded, he formed a fighting style of resoluteness, flexible command, good offensive and defensive, and heroic and tenacious in his operational command. In July 1947, on the battlefield in southwest Lu, the first column surrounded the enemy in Yuncheng. The enemy was the headquarters of the 55th Division of the Kuomintang Army and two brigades, which were good at positional defense, and were surrounded by bunkers and bunker firing holes. In the face of such a formidable enemy, according to Chief Liu Deng's experience that "the besieging troops must choose a section where the enemy's defense is weak and favorable to us as the main direction of attack, and concentrate their forces and firepower to break through," Yang Yong immediately ordered the 20th Brigade to carry out a main attack on the city at Nanguan; the 1st Brigade to carry out a main attack on the city at Xiguan; the 2nd Brigade to assist the city at Beiguan; the main force of the 19th Brigade to move to Dongguan and be ready to annihilate the enemy in East Turkistan at any time; and after each brigade broke through, it quickly penetrated and cut through the enemy in depth and annihilated him. In a fierce battle overnight, the headquarters of the 55th Division and two entire brigades of the defending enemy were completely annihilated, totaling more than 15,000 people, creating a precedent for a column to attack the fortified position alone and completely annihilating two brigades of the Kuomintang Army, and was commended by the general order of Chief Liu Deng.
After the battle of Yuncheng, Yang Yong commanded the first column to quickly organize a six-battalion battle. Liuyingji was a small village, packed with more than 10,000 enemies. Originally, it was planned to use the first and sixth columns as the main force to encircle and carry out a general attack from the south, north, and west of the six battalions, and completely annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop. Later, Yang Yong considered: "If the enemy is forced to trap the beast, and his troops and firepower are concentrated, I will pay a big price, it is better to take advantage of the enemy's crowding and chaos and trying to break through the siege to lure the enemy into the field to annihilate him." This plan was approved by political commissar Deng Xiaoping. There was a large depression of several square kilometers in the southeast of the Sixth Battalion, and Yang Yong was determined to use the method of "encircling three and one" to open up one side of the net and leave a way to survive as an "escape route" for the enemy. At night, in order to give the enemy a sense of "safety", Yang Yong asked the art troupe, communication battalion, health center and other units directly under the column stationed here to strengthen the control of lights. The desperate enemy, finding that there was still a glimmer of life here, all of them drilled into the "pocket array" prepared by Yang Yong in the middle of the night. A paradigm of sports warfare was created. Therefore, he was commended by the head of the military region and made great contributions.
In August 1947, according to the instructions of the Party Central Committee, the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan field troops began to advance thousands of miles into Dabie Mountain in three routes. Yang Yong said categorically: "We have come over the snow mountains, grasslands, and Luding Bridges, and I don't believe that the Yellow Flood Area and a few rivers will not be able to cross!" Under his leadership, the troops triumphantly passed through several rivers and difficult trails and reached the Dabie Mountains. Under the command of Yang Yong, the first column and the Central Plains Independent Brigade took the western route, and after 22 days of arduous trekking and fierce fighting, they arrived in the Dabie Mountains at the end of August. In October of the same year, the unified organization and command of the Battle of Gaoshanpu. In this battle, the first column annihilated more than 5,700 Kuomintang troops and shot down one Kuomintang military plane at the cost of 9 casualties, "creating favorable conditions for the field army to carry out its strategic development."
At the end of 1948, during the Huaihai Campaign, the Huang Wei Corps, which was besieged by the People's Liberation Army in Shuangduiji, tried to break through and escape after being hit hard. In which direction the enemy is fleeing, the staff commanders began to be inaccurate. One day, just after noon, the two sides of the fierce battle came to a moment's pause. Suddenly, enemy bombers bombed all the way northwest of the positions of the first column, and a line extended to the front of the enemy positions. At this time, Yang Yong and Chief of Staff Pan Yan hid in an air raid trench, and from time to time he observed the targets and positions of the enemy planes, and said to Chief of Staff Pan Yan while observing: "Old Pan, the enemy's intentions are already obvious! Their bombardment of our positions is unconventional, and they are undoubtedly pointing out the marks of escape for their breakthrough troops, and the direction of the enemy planes' bombing is the direction in which Huang Wei wants to escape. According to Yang Yong's judgment, Pan Yan immediately made preparations to prevent the enemy from breaking through and destroying the enemy. Sure enough, the enemy broke through at night in the northwest direction of Shuangduiji. As a result, the fleeing enemy was fiercely blocked by the first column, and the fraternal units closely cooperated and coordinated operations, and finally annihilated more than 120,000 people of the enemy's elite Huang Wei Corps.
In February 1949, Yang Yong took office as the commander of the Fifth Corps of the Second Field Army. On April 21 of the same year, Yang Yong commanded the Fifth Corps to cross the river west of Anqing, and together with his brother troops, broke through the defense line of the Kuomintang army on the Yangtze River, and then was ordered to pursue and annihilate the fleeing enemy. In September of the same year, he was ordered to march to the southwest. At this time, in order to delay the actions of the PLA, the Kuomintang army burned down the bridges and damaged the roads along the way. Under his command, the troops overcame difficulties such as bad weather, muddy roads, obstruction of large rivers, and insufficient supplies, and traveled day and night, lasting more than 100 days, traveling more than 5,370 miles, and after more than 50 battles, with the coordination of the brother corps, they destroyed more than 37,000 enemies, liberated Guiyang City and 21 large and small county towns, and completed the great task of making a detour to Sichuan and participating in the Chengdu Campaign. On December 26 of the same year, he commanded the two armies of the Fifth Corps and the three corps of the Third Corps, and launched the Chengdu Campaign together with his brother troops. Under the powerful offensive of the PLA, the enemy quickly collapsed.
In June 1950, when the Korean War broke out, Yang Yong, then chairman of the Guizhou Provincial People's Government and commander of the Guizhou Military Region, could not bear to be lonely, and he wrote a report to Chiefs Liu, Deng, and He and the Central Military Commission, requesting that he go to Korea to fight the American invaders. His report was not approved for a number of reasons.
In April 1953, Yang Yong finally had the opportunity to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and successively served as the commander of the 20th Corps of the Volunteers, the third deputy commander and chief of staff of the Volunteers, and the commander of the Volunteers. When Yang Yong arrived on the Korean battlefield, all the agenda items of the Korean armistice talks had been agreed, and all that remained was to redraw the military demarcation line and draw up the detailed rules of the armistice agreement. Peng Dehuai, commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers, also returned to North Korea from Beijing to attend the signing ceremony. Peace is coming, and Yang Yong himself thinks, "It's been a trip for nothing, and I haven't been able to fight the Yankees!" Unexpectedly, South Korea's Syngman Rhee said wildly: He opposes any compromise and will fight alone. He instructed the armed abduction of 27,000 Chinese and North Korean prisoners to replenish the South Korean army. As a result, it was difficult to sign an armistice agreement negotiated at Panmunjom, which had been going on for two years, a move that angered the Chinese and North Korean armies. Yang Yong said to political commissar Wang Ping: "Why does the US master want to make peace, but Syngman Rhee continues to fight? What ability does he have to continue fighting? Is he fighting alone? Or does he have another purpose? I am afraid that the United States still has the support behind him." Thinking that the U.S. military might be backed by the back, his motivation came up: to focus on the South Korean army and piggyback on the U.S. military with a little color.
Yang Yong took part in the summer counterattack in North Korea. The counterattacks that preceded the summer counterattack were smaller in scale and consisted mainly of attacks on enemy company platoons. In the second attack of the summer campaign, the volunteers killed and wounded more than 41,000 enemies, gave annihilating blows to the puppet 5th and 8th divisions, and expanded the position area by 58 square kilometers.
The United States, as the leader of the United Nations forces, has already intended to sign an armistice agreement, but South Korean leader Syngman Rhee has still made wild statements, saying that even if he only has South Korean troops, he will continue to fight.
Yang Yong made a careful analysis according to the actual situation, and decided to make a big move, completely beating Rhee until he gave in, and beat him until he begged for mercy. Yang Yong drove 3 group armies, ready to give it a go. Peng Dehuai and Chairman Mao all agreed with Yang Yong's proposal. Chairman Mao's reply to the front line was: The signing of the armistice must be postponed, and when it is appropriate to postpone it, and a decision can only be made depending on the development of the situation, and it is extremely necessary to annihilate more than 10,000 puppet troops. In this way, with the support of leaders at all levels, the number of participating troops reached five armies, and famous generals such as Xu Shiyou, Du Yide, and Li Tianyou were all involved in this battle.
At 10 o'clock in the evening of July 13, 1953, under the order of General Yang Yong, the Battle of Jincheng officially began, and 1,000 artillery pieces of the Volunteer Army were fired at once, and three assault groups of the 20th Corps attacked the enemy's 25-kilometer defensive front. In this battle, the Volunteer Army advanced 192.6 kilometers, annihilated 52,783 enemies, shot down 85 enemy planes, captured one aircraft, 34 tanks, 231 automobiles, 245 artillery pieces and a large amount of ammunition and other trophies, and gave the enemy a fatal blow. As a result of this battle, the Panmunjom Armistice was finally signed. Chinese People's Volunteers withdrew from North Korea one after another.
On October 24, 1958, Yang Yong, commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers, delivered a speech at the Pyongyang Station Square: The last train for the Chinese People's Volunteers to withdraw from North Korea is about to leave. With infinite nostalgia, we bid farewell to our beloved Prime Minister, to the leading comrades of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Government of the Republic of Korea, to our close comrades-in-arms of the People's Army, and to the heroic people of Korea.
On October 25, a train full of flowers and friendship crossed the Yalu River, and Yang Yong led the volunteers to return triumphantly, writing an end to this victorious history.
During the period when the volunteers were stationed in North Korea, Yang Yong organized the volunteers to contribute to the construction of eight reservoirs for North Korea, including Jianlong and Taecheon, irrigation projects such as Pyongnam and Shenghuli, 429,000 meters of embankments, 1,218,000 meters of canals, 4,263 bridges, 881 public places, and 45,000 private houses, and treated 10,000 people with diseases.
At the Pyongyang railway station, 300,000 people, including Kim Il Sung, Choe Yong-kyun and other North Korean leaders, had been awarded the Order of the National Flag by the North Korean Government the day before. Yang Yong is a good hand in internal affairs, but he is by no means only a commander engaged in construction, in today's words, Yang Yong is a compound talent of the military and the civilian sector.
After General Yang Yong's triumphant return to China, he became the commander of the Beijing Military Region. In an exclusive interview, Yang Xiaoping, the son of General Yang Yong, proudly recalled the interesting story of his father's appointment as commander of the Beijing Military Region, saying: In 1960, British Field Marshal Montgomery visited the shooting performance of the Beijing Military Region, and his father was responsible for accompanying him. At the end of the show, Montgomery grabbed a semi-automatic rifle and hit the steel target accurately. My father took the gun with a smile and fired continuously in a standing position, hitting 9 bullets in a row. At a press conference in Hong Kong three days later, Marshal Montgomery said: "The Chinese army is the best from the soldiers to the generals, and I want to tell the armies of the world to never fight the Chinese army on the ground." ”
After Montgomery's talk was published, Chairman Mao once punned on it: "Admiral Yang Yong, Admiral Yang Yong!" In 1964, when Algerian President Ben Bella visited China, he specifically called for a meeting with Yang Yong, who commanded the Battle of Jincheng on the Korean battlefield. Chairman Mao couldn't help but say with high spirits: "Admiral Yang Yong, Admiral Yang Yong! This Yang Yong has gone to Africa!"
On January 6, 1983, Yang Yong died of illness in Beijing at the age of 70. At the memorial meeting for Yang Yong, Yang Shangkun commented on General Yang Yong as follows: "For more than half a century, he has galloped on the battlefield, experienced a hundred battles, was born and died, and made outstanding achievements. He worked hard to learn and Xi and apply Chairman Mao's military thought, governed the army strictly, was able to attack and defend well, excelled in both military and political affairs, and was both wise and brave. ”
