During the war years, in those passionate years, Huang Yongsheng's main bosses totaled three, they were Luo Ronghuan, Lin Biao, and Nie Rongzhen. These three outstanding commanders of the people's army were all awarded the rank of marshal of the republic after the founding of the country.
Marshal Luo Ronghuan was Huang Yongsheng's first leader in the revolutionary ranks. In June 1927, when Huang Yongsheng joined the Hubei Chongyang Peasant Self-Defense Army, Luo Ronghuan was a commissioner of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the main leader of the Hubei Chongyang and Tongcheng Peasant Self-Defense Army, and one of the main leaders of the Chongtong Uprising.
After the failure of the Chongtong Uprising, Luo Ronghuan led more than a hundred remnants to Xiushui in Jiangxi, and in September of the same year, he participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by the chairman, including Huang Yongsheng, who was not yet 17 years old at the time.
From September 29 to October 3, 1927, in the famous "Three Bays Reorganization" in Sanwan Village, Yongxin County, Jiangxi Province, 17-year-old Huang Yongsheng was promoted from a soldier to the leader of the special agent company of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the 1st Army, and Luo Ronghuan was the party representative of the company at that time.
After the "Three Bays Reorganization", the Red Army went up to Jinggangshan, and Luo Ronghuan was appointed as the party representative of the 31st Regiment Battalion of the 11th Division of the Red Fourth Army, at which time Huang Yongsheng became a platoon leader of the battalion.
Huang Yongsheng is tall, fierce and brave in battle, good at thinking, and flexible in his head. In early 1929, when the Red Fourth Army moved to gannan and western Fujian, it was frantically surrounded by Liu Shiyi's troops of the Kuomintang Independent 7th Division.
At this time, the Red Army contingent, which had been exhausted all day, was already in the predicament of hunger and cold, lack of food and ammunition, and Huang Yongsheng, then a platoon commander, did not want to leave, and on behalf of the soldiers' committee, he made a suggestion to Luo Ronghuan: "Anyway, if you can't escape, you might as well fight with them, what are you afraid of?" ”
After Luo Ronghuan asked his superiors for instructions, the superiors accepted the proposal made by the Soldiers' Committee represented by Huang Yongsheng, and on February 10, the Red Army set up an ambush in Dabaidi and completely annihilated the 1st Regiment of the Independent 7th Division of the Kuomintang.
In this battle, Xiao Zhiping, the commander of the enemy regiment, captured and wounded more than 800 enemy troops, surrendered more than 800 guns, and even captured thousands of kilograms of grain, oil, firewood, rice, and other daily necessities.
Zhu De, commander of the Red Fourth Army, called this battle "Let the Red Army have a big fat year in a beautiful way!" ”
The chairman even improvised and wrote a majestic poem - "Red orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, who holds the color to practice the air dance." ”
But Huang Yongsheng's personality is also very distinct, and the advantages and disadvantages are particularly prominent. For this reason, he was often severely criticized by Luo Ronghuan.
In early 1928, the Red Army captured Suichuan, and Huang Yongsheng led a platoon to collect grain and raise funds. Because the Red Army still had no mass base in the local area and the policy was not in place, the local people went to the mountains to hide. Huang Yongsheng's temper came up, and in a fit of rage, he set the houses of several gentry on fire...
This move had a very bad impact, and Huang Yongsheng was seriously criticized by Luo Ronghuan, the camp party representative, and almost became the object of serious military discipline.
A year later, Huang Yongsheng was promoted to company commander because of his bravery in battle, but his grumpy and arrogant temper still did not change. A liberation fighter in Company took the people's thatch at night to make beds to keep out the cold.
When Huang Yongsheng inspected the shop, he saw that he slapped this soldier twice without saying a word, and for this reason he was once again severely criticized by Luo Ronghuan, the representative of the camp party, and Huang Yongsheng was almost demoted back to continue to be the squad leader...
Luo Ronghuan's criticism of his subordinates is very severe, but Luo Rongheng is a wise man who is very good at doing ideological and political work, and the critics pay attention to strategy, are not right about things, are serious and caring, so that Huang Yongsheng, who has been criticized many times, is convinced, and there is never a gap between the two.
From the Chongtong Peasant Self-Defense Army uprising to the Red Army period, Huang Yongsheng followed Luo Ronghuan for a long time. During the Liberation War, he had been serving as a column commander and commander in Dongye (Siye) under Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan, and the relationship between the superior and subordinate levels was harmonious, and the work was excellently coordinated.
In December 1963, Marshal Luo Ronghuan died of illness, and Huang Yongsheng, who was then the commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, wrote a lot of memorial articles for this purpose, remembering the revolutionary years of following Luo Ronghuan in the southern conquest of the northern war.
From the time of Huang Yongsheng's youth, Marshal Luo Ronghuan was his mentor and leader on the road to revolution.
For Huang Yongsheng, the level of Marshal Luo Ronghuan's ideological and political work was unsurpassed. As for military attainment and combat command, it is none other than Marshal Lin Biao, who is also the first person Huang Yongsheng admires in the army.
When Huang Yongsheng was only a platoon commander of the Red Fourth Army, Lin Biao was already the commander of the Red First Column. Although Lin Biao at this time is unlikely to know Huang Yongsheng, he must have heard of a grassroots platoon leader named Huang Yongsheng.
In May 1933, the Red Army was reorganized in Fujita, Jiangxi, and the Red 66th Division was reorganized into the Red 3rd Regiment of the Red 1st Division of the Red First Army, with Huang Yongsheng as the regimental commander and Deng Hua as the political commissar. The commander of the Red First Army was Lin Biao, and the political commissar was Nie Rongzhen.
On the long march road, in the face of the heavy encirclement of the Kuomintang army, the heroic and good Red First Army rushed all the way to seize the pass. When the Red Army arrived at Anshun Field, there were still 360 miles away from the Luding Bridge, and if the Central Red Army could not cross the Dadu River smoothly, it was bound to repeat the tragedy of Shi Dakai, the wing king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom...
Most of the existing military history materials have skipped the fact that in fact, one unit first reached the east bank of the Dadu River, effectively responding to the Red Army troops on the west bank to capture the Luding Bridge. The first force to arrive on the other side was Huang Yongsheng commanding the Red 3rd Regiment.
On the evening of May 24, 1935, Yang Dezhi led the red 1st regiment of the vanguard to Anshun field, and 18 brave soldiers of the 2nd company of the red 1st regiment crossed the Dadu River with a small wooden boat and successfully occupied the other side of the river.
But with these few small wooden boats in tatters, it was impossible for all the Red Army on the west bank to cross the river. Therefore, the commander of Lin Biao's army immediately made a decision and issued an order: Huang Yongsheng was ordered to lead the Red 3 Regiment that had crossed the river to rush to Luding City at night, while the troops on the west bank who had not yet crossed the river quickly rushed to luding bridge, and the red army on both sides of the river launched a two-sided attack and must take the Luding bridge!
Huang Yongsheng led the Red 3rd Regiment to run 360 miles for two days and three nights, and in the early morning of May 29, five companies of the vanguard troops rushed to Luding City, and immediately threw themselves into battle without resting, and launched a fierce street battle with the enemy troops defending the city, effectively containing a large number of enemy troops in Luding City, and supporting the Red Army troops on the west bank to seize the Luding Bridge.
When 22 soldiers of the Red 4th Regiment huang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu on the west bank climbed from the iron cable of the bridge to attack the enemy troops on the east bank, the red 3rd regiment just killed a bloody road from Luding City, passed through the city, and launched an attack on the defending enemy of the bridgehead on the east bank.
At about 4 p.m., the Red 4th Regiment successfully arrived at the east bank of the Dadu River and met the Victorious Division of the Red 3rd Regiment, which was fighting in the direction of the bridgehead on the east bank. In this battle known as the "Flying Capture of Luding Bridge", the Red 3 Regiment led by Huang Yongsheng played a key role, but this feat of the Red 3 Regiment was not known for a long time.
During the Liberation War, Huang Yongsheng had been serving as a column commander and commander in the Northeast Field Army (Siye). He participated in all the battles to liberate the northeast.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, someone asked Huang Yongsheng: Who do you admire the most in your life?
Huang Yongsheng didn't even think about it, and casually said, "Lin Zong, it's coolest to fight with him." ”
Marshal Nie Rongzhen was Huang Yongsheng's old leader for many years, and Nie Rongzhen's time of leading Huang Yongsheng was even longer than Marshal Lin Biao and Marshal Luo Ronghuan.
In 1932, when Nie Rongzhen was the political commissar of the Red First Army, Huang Yongsheng was the commander of the Red 66th Division.
After the Red Army's Long March arrived in Shaanxi, Nie Rongzhen was the political commissar of the first column of the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment, and Huang Yongsheng at this time was the commander of the third brigade of the first column of the Shaanxi-Gansu detachment.
On July 1, 1937, when Huang Yongsheng, who had graduated from the University of the Red Army, succeeded Yang Dezhi, who had gone to study at the Red Army University, as the commander of the Red 2nd Division of the Red First Army, Nie Rongzhen was still the political commissar of the Red First Army.
In August 1937, when the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, when Nie Rongzhen was the political commissar of the 115th Division, Huang Yongsheng was the commander of the 685th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division.
On March 2, 1938, after Lin Biao, commander of the 115th Division, was mistakenly wounded by the sentries of the Jin Sui Army, according to the instructions of the central authorities, one of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, led by Nie Rongzhen, marched east with more than 3,000 independent regiments, cavalry battalions and teaching teams to establish the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, the first anti-Japanese base area in North China.
The Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region was commanded and politically chaired by Nie Rongzhen, and Huang Yongsheng at this time was the deputy commander of the Third Sub-district of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region.
The political commissar of the Third Sub-district of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region was Wang Ping, the later founding general, and the commander was Chen Manyuan, and Huang Yongsheng was the deputy of both of them, serving as deputy commanders.
Huang Yongsheng's untamed temper was naturally exposed again at this moment. He did not look down on Chen Manyuan at all, saying that Chen Manyuan could not fight a war, nor could military training, and often gave Chen Manyuan problems in terms of combat plans and work coordination, and relations were very stiff...
In order to stabilize the team, Commander Nie Rongzhen personally went to the third sub-district. Considering that Chen Manyuan was a political cadre, it was indeed not appropriate to serve as the commander of the third sub-district under the current severe situation of the struggle against the enemy, Nie Rongzhen transferred Chen Manyuan to Xiao Ke's department as chief of staff, and let Huang Yongsheng succeed Chen Manyuan and promote him to commander.
If Huang Yongsheng could not fight a war, Commander Nie Rongzhen would not be transferred to the main post at all, and Huang Yongsheng, who was a deputy, would be promoted to the main post. In this way, Huang Yongsheng and Wang Ping worked together until 1944.
It is true that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huang Yongsheng did take the wrong path, planted a big heel fight, and also caused major damage to the party and the country, as well as the people's army...
However, it is undeniable that Huang Yongsheng, who joined the revolution before the age of 17 in June 1927, fought bloody battles for national independence and the cause of the people's liberation, fought in the southern conquest of the northern war, and stubbornly struggled for more than 20 years, made great contributions to the people in the first half of his life, and was really growing up from the rain of bullets and bullets, and was a rare member of our army's war years who was a brave and good warrior!