<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > introduction</h1>
On September 30, 1959, the Great Hall of the People was illuminated, and china's state leaders and representatives from all walks of life celebrated the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. During the toast, Zhu De walked up to a burly man dressed in the clothes of a major general, and while toasting, he smiled and said: "Battalion commander, remember me not, you have handed over my gun", the general suddenly blushed, became shy, and stuttered for half a day unable to say a complete sentence. In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Premier Zhou, who was on the side, quickly opened his mouth: "Boss, you can't remember revenge, as the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other!" Mr. Zhu smiled and said, "It's not a revenge, I remember a good battalion commander." ”
The ridiculed general was Yuan Yelie, who was then serving as a deputy staff officer of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, and his personality was the same as his name, and he was as strong as fire. As for the incident that Mr. Zhu ridiculed him, it occurred in the Nanchang Uprising, when he mistakenly took Mr. Zhu as a prisoner and arrested him, and also shot him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Tianzi protégés to the revolution</h1>
In 1899, Yuan Yelie was born in Dongkou County, Hunan Province, his real name was YanLie. At the age of 12, he was successfully admitted to the Hunan First Normal School, which happened to be the head of the school at that time, and Yuan Yelie was deeply inspired to hear Mao Zedong's speech on the revolution of the Communist Manifesto and the explanation of the Great Powers. This enabled him to come into contact with Marxism at a young age and actively participate in various Marxist research societies, which directly contributed to his devotion to the revolution.
In 1924, after graduating from Hunan Normal School, Yuan Yelie went to Guangzhou alone and was admitted to the Guijun Officer School. During his time at school, he participated in the "Mars Society" founded by the Communist Party organization. In May 1925, Yuan Yelie mobilized more than 200 students to revolt, defected to the Whampoa Military Academy, and was assigned to work in the political department of the Whampoa Military Academy. Two months later, Yuan Yelie joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of Nie Rongzhen, and after joining the party, Yuan Yelie was transferred to the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy as an instructor, and was later assigned to Ye Ting's independent regiment as a company commander and participated in the Northern Expedition.
During the battle, he led his troops to occupy Wuchang for his outstanding performance. After the war, he was promoted to battalion commander and led the troops to garrison Wuhan. In May 1927, Yuan Yelie attended the Fifth National Congress of the Communist Party, and the Nanchang Uprising broke out not long after the meeting. After the outbreak of the Nanchang Uprising, Yuan Yelie served as a battalion commander in the Yeting Independent Regiment, responsible for the defense of the eastern city of Nanchang, and the defensive task was to set up barricades to prevent the enemy from escaping from here.
Suddenly, an officer in his 40s wearing nationalist clothes rushed over on horseback, and Yuan Yelie shouted when he saw it: "Stop! When the officer saw that someone was blocking him, he turned over and dismounted, and as soon as he came down, he was disarmed by Yuan Yelie and his party, and was taken to the cell as a prisoner. After a while, the signal soldier rushed to report to him: "Zhou Enlai just sent a message saying that the officer they arrested was Zhu De. Yuan Yelie hurriedly ran to the cell to "plead guilty", and Zhu De said with a smile in Sichuan dialect: "I didn't expect that your vigilance was quite high." Yuan Yelie also laughed awkwardly after hearing this.
In the battles that followed the Nanchang Uprising, Yuan Yelie used a battalion of troops to defeat a regiment of the enemy Zhu Peide and made a great contribution. After the uprising, after organizational discussion, it was decided to send Yuan Yelie to work in the local area. In November of the same year, Yuan Yelie was assigned to Longzhou, Guangxi, to serve as the commander of the first battalion of the Guangxi Garrison, and incidentally as the chief of staff. In February 1930, the Longzhou Uprising was successful, and the Eighth Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was established here, and Yuan Yilie was successfully promoted from battalion commander to chief of staff of the first column of the Eighth Army and secretary of the party branch.
In October, Yuan Yelie's team was attacked by the enemy during the strategic transfer to Jiangxi, and unfortunately he was wounded. Next, he obeyed the organization's arrangement and went to Shanghai Hospital under the pseudonym Yuan Yingwu to heal his injuries. In May 1931, while recuperating from his wounds, a group of British people suddenly stormed his home and arrested him and Gui Yangzhi, who was studying party documents.
In prison, the enemy inflicted inhumane confessions on them, electrocution, waterboarding, and tiger stools, but they did not give in and did not reveal their true identities. In the end, the police had no choice but to sentence Yuan Yelie to 5 years in prison for "endangering the Republic of China". After his release from prison, the Kuomintang Commissioner for Shanghai spoke with Yuan Yelie and forced him to write a letter of repentance. Yuan Yelie replied firmly: "I am not a Communist Party, and I have nothing to regret." And refused to write a letter of repentance.
As a result, Yuan Yingwu was sent to the Suzhou Provincial Academy of Reflection for reflection on the grounds that the Shanghai Kuomintang "refused to admit to joining the Communist Party and had no remorse." In the Reflection Institute, every time Yuan Yelie listened to lectures and participated in reading meetings, he criticized some of their contents that fooled and poisoned the people's hearts; after a long struggle with the staff in the hospital, the hospital finally had no choice but to write him a volunteer letter of "abandoning business and farming" and releasing him from the reflection institute.
<H1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > captured lieutenant general alumni during the Liberation War</h1>
After being released from prison after hardships, Yuan Yelie found an organization by all means, and after review, he once again had contact with the party, and his name was restored to Yuan Yelie. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, relations between the Kuomintang and the Communists eased, and he was sent to shi yousan's unit of the Nationalist army as the secretary of the underground working committee. In 1939, he returned to the base area and served as vice president of the Shandong Military and Political Cadre College. In 1942, during the most difficult period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as a staff officer in the Qinghe Military Region, engaging in guerrilla warfare with the enemy in the rear.
At the beginning of 1946, the Anti-Japanese War was victorious, and Yuan Yelie also became the acting commander of the Bohai Naval Region, and together with the political commissar, disarmed the puppet army in Dezhou, Shandong. Later, with the intervention of the United States, the Chinese Communists and the Kuomintang negotiated an armistice agreement, and the representative sent by the Chinese side was Yuan Yelie, and the representative sent by the Nationalist army was Lieutenant General Wang Jixiang, a graduate of the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. Eventually, the two sides agreed to implement the armistice in Texas and signed the agreement.
Wang Jixiang
At the banquet to celebrate the agreement, Wang Jixiang drank a few glasses of wine and began to get carried away, talking about how he graduated from the fifth term of Huangpu, how he followed Chiang Kai-shek's southern expedition to the northern war, and Chiang Kai-shek was still a fellow countryman, and served in the south of Huzong, a boast. Yuan Yelie, on the other hand, raised his glass with a confucian style and said: "Please join us in toasting the Whampoa Military Academy during the Northern Expedition and toast to Lieutenant General Wang," an old classmate." Wang Jixiang was suddenly stunned, he did not expect that the "Tu BaLu" in front of him was also a graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy.
He narrowed his emotions for a moment and asked: "Commander Yuan, I didn't expect that you are also a student of Huangpu", at this time, the political commissar of the Bohai Naval Region who was standing nearby added: "Commander Yuan is not only a student of Huangpu, but also a cadre of Huangpu", Wang Jixiang suddenly said with embarrassment: "Commander Yuan, there are many disrespects, please forgive me more." ”
In late May 1946, the Nationalist forces brazenly tore up the armistice and launched an offensive against the Communists, and civil war broke out. Yuan Yelie received the order to liberate Dezhou, and under the attack of the Bohai Naval Region, he only took 4 days to invade Dezhou and capture Wang Jixiang's troops, and Wang Jixiang became the first lieutenant general to be captured by the communist army. After this battle, Yuan Yelie went to the 7th Division of the Shandong People's Liberation Army as a division commander to fight. Later, in the Battle of Huaihai, he successively served as the commander of the Bohai Column and the commander of the Jinan and Xuzhou garrisons.
After the founding of New China, Yuan Yelie successively served as chief of staff, deputy commander, and commander in the navy, and with the efforts of his party, he realized the construction of China's navy from scratch. They built outstanding units such as the "Ruijin Ship" and the "Toumen Mountain Hero Ship" while fighting, and made a lot of contributions to the subsequent liberation of our country. By 1955, our East China Navy was able to achieve triad operations of sea, land and air.
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In this year's grand award, Yuan Yelie was also awarded the rank of rear admiral, and many people at that time felt that his rank was low. Because when Yuan Yelie was the deputy commander of the Navy, Chen Yi said to the commander of the Navy, Tao Yong (Lieutenant General): "Comrade Tao Yong, when you were herding cattle in your hometown, Yuan Yelie was already a cadre of the Nanchang Uprising. ”
But Yuan Yelie did not think so, and whenever people mentioned this matter to him, he replied: "I only have one idea when I join the revolution, that is, between saving the country, the people and the danger, I am ready to give my life at any time. ”
References: "Huangpu General Yuan Yelie", "Yuan Yelie"