In September 1955, the People's Liberation Army implemented the rank system for the first time, and our army, which has experienced decades of hard work, has taken another step toward modernization. This award is not only to reward those who have outstanding military merit and outstanding qualifications, but also to build a command system with clearer powers and responsibilities, which can be described as a feat.
In this award, military rank, military merit, seniority, etc. are all criteria for military rank evaluation, while Yuan Yelie, as the battalion commander at the time of the Nanchang Uprising, was awarded the rank of major general. It turned out that he was arrested by the Kuomintang reactionaries on trumped-up charges and imprisoned for 4 years before being released, and it was these four years that affected his development and ultimately did not award him a higher rank.
Yuan Yelie and Chairman Mao
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1. Red tradition
General Yuan Yelie was born in 1899 in Dongkou County, Hunan Province. At the beginning of the 20th century, the domestic situation was changing, various ideas emerged in an endless stream, fierce conflicts broke out between traditional feudal ideas and emerging revolutionary theories, and the Qing government, which was once proud of the world, had become the end of the crossbow, and the slightest push would collapse.
In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the thousand-year-old feudal monarchy, but the new society that the people expected did not arrive. Warlords fighting around and great powers around are still a difficult hurdle facing the Chinese nation, and the Chinese revolution urgently needs a strong core of leadership.
In 1921, Yuan Yelie was admitted to the Hunan First Normal School, which was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty and became a high-level institution in Hunan Province after several changes, and after the Xinhai Revolution, countless students explored the truth here, including Chairman Mao and Cai Hesen. The two of them are worried about the country and the people, and have been propagating communist ideas in the local area and calling on patriotic young people to devote themselves to serving the country.
2. Honorably join the Party
On that day, Yuan Yelie strolled through the academy as usual, and suddenly heard a burst of impassioned speeches, so he rushed up, and the speaker was Chairman Mao, who was preaching the Communist Manifesto to the students in a strong voice. A few words made Yuan also enlightened, and gradually became a Marxist.
Yue Fei, who is loyal to the country, once wrote in "Manjiang Hong": Mo waits for idleness, white young man's head, empty and sad. Inspired by the Communist Party, Yuan Yelie believed that the country was in trouble and that governing the country could not change the status quo, so he came to Guilin to study military affairs, and then was admitted to Huangpu.
In the early days of Whampoa, when both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were working toward a common goal, he benefited greatly and became an officer in the Secretariat Unit of the Political Department. At that time, Nie Rongzhen was also serving as a secretary in the Political Department, and Yuan Yelie sincerely expressed his admiration to him, and Nie Rongzhen was very touched and introduced him to join the glorious Communist Party.
In November 1925, Yuan Yelie was appointed a company commander of the Ye Ting Independent Regiment. This unit nominally belonged to the National Revolutionary Army, but in fact it was a military force directly led by our Party, and the backbone of the regiment was all party members of our Party.
In 1926, the Ye Ting Independent Regiment went out as the advance team of the Northern Expedition, and Yuan Yelie sacrificed his life and forgot his death in the battle, repeatedly made military achievements, and soon after was promoted to battalion commander. In the later period of the Northern Expedition, lao Chiang betrayed the revolution, and in order to fight back, our party organized the Nanchang uprising, and Yuan Yelie, who was thousands of miles away, led his troops to participate in this operation.
Yuan Yelie
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1. Lead the uprising
In the Nanchang Uprising, Yuan Yelie served as a battalion commander, while Lin Shuai at this time was only a company commander, and Su Yu was only a squad leader of the guard, which showed his deep qualifications. In the early morning of the day of the uprising, Yuan Yelie and his troops secretly moved to the city of Nanchang, and after the signal was issued, their battalion attacked the enemy barracks with lightning speed.
There was an enemy regiment stationed near the barracks, but he was not afraid at all, leading the soldiers to fight to the death, and within 3 hours he completely annihilated the enemy. At this moment, the rest of our army was still fighting fiercely in the city, and Yuan Yelie, in order to prevent the enemy from escaping, set up an ambush at the city gate.
Suddenly, a man dressed in a Kuomintang uniform came on horseback, and Yuan Yelie, seeing that the people who had come were extraordinary, thought that they were high-ranking officials of the enemy, so he ordered someone to hand over his gun and take care of it. After the adjutant and the command reported the matter, he hurried to the scene and said that the person he had just caught was the famous Jude.
Jude
Yuan Yelie was taken aback after hearing this, and immediately went to ask for guilt, but he did not expect that the majestic and majestic President Zhu was full of spring breeze and praised him for his strict military discipline and high vigilance. Because the enemy was outnumbered and outnumbered, after the Nanchang Uprising, our army was forced to move, and Yuan Yelie followed the troops to many places and resolutely fought against the Kuomintang army. In 1931, he was attacked by the enemy in Guangdong, seriously wounded, and went to Shanghai for a period of recuperation.
2, see death as homecoming
Although Shanghai was a public concession at that time, Lao Jiang was also quite influential here. For hidden purposes, Yuan Yelie assumed the pseudonym Yuan Yingwu and took advantage of the period of recuperation to step up the study of party documents. Unexpectedly, one night, the British patrol broke into his house, found some party documents, and involuntarily escorted him to the National Government.
After being imprisoned, Yuan Yelie was tortured by the enemy, but he was unyielding and swore to die without betraying the organization. The enemy became so angry that he used electrocution and a tiger stool in a vain attempt to bring him to his knees, but these tortures could not defeat the staunch communists. The enemy was at a loss, so he casually found a crime and locked him up.
After serving his sentence, the enemy forced him to write a letter of repentance, but Yuan Yelie flatly refused, saying that he was not wrong at all, and did not know what to repent. The enemy managed to transfer him to the introspection and dragged him on for 1 year before releasing him.
After his release from prison, Yuan Yelie wandered around and finally found the organization, and after verification, his tenacious character was recognized by the party and his relationship with the party was restored. After returning to the Party, he was ordered to engage in educational work, pass on the knowledge he learned in Huangpu to young soldiers, and later participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and made great achievements.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was appointed deputy commander of the Navy of the East China Military Region, dedicated to the construction of China's navy. In peacetime, he always maintained a hard-working and simple style, living conditions were very difficult, even his family never enjoyed special treatment, and later he also served as the deputy minister of fisheries.
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Born in Hunan, General Yuan Yelie joined the Communist Party at the call of Chairman Mao and personally led his troops to participate in the Nanchang Uprising. When he was arrested, he was unyielding, swore to die to protect the safety of the organization, and after his release from prison, he did not change his original intention and continued to contribute to the revolutionary cause.
According to his seniority and military rank, it is not an exaggeration to award lieutenant generals. Unfortunately, when he was imprisoned, he was on the Long March of our army, and many generals were during this period of time, and they were entrusted with heavy responsibilities, and he missed this experience, resulting in a slight lack of military merit, before he was awarded the rank of major general, but he was still a righteous people's hero.
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