Deng Yue joined the Red Army at the age of 12 and was awarded the rank of major general in 1955
Deng Yue, born in 1918, died in April 2000, a native of Dahekan, Yunwushan Village, Shunhe Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province, joined the Communist Party of China in 1936.
In February 1930, at the age of 12, Deng Yue joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In 1931, he joined the Communist Youth League of China. In March 1935, in order to meet the Party Central Committee and the Central Red Army, he forcibly crossed the Jialing River and participated in the Long March of the Red Fourth Front. In 1936, it was transferred from the Communist Youth League to the Communist Party of China. He successively served as a soldier and squad leader of the Red Fourth Army, and a platoon leader of the Guard Platoon of the Red Army University of the Red Fourth Front. In the Red Fourth Front, the Army participated in the first to fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles in the revolutionary base areas of Eyu and Anhui, went west to war, established the Sichuan-Shaanxi base area, and participated in the anti-three-way siege and anti-six-way siege of the Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base area. During the Long March, three times over the snowy mountains and two meadows, the main general division of the Red Army was ushered in northern Shaanxi.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he entered yan'an Anti-Japanese University in 1937 to study, and later served as the captain of the first branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the commander of the cadre battalion. In 1939, he served as deputy chief of staff and chief of staff of the Fourth Military Subdistrict of the Ji'nan Military Region, and deputy commander of the Tenth Regiment of the New Fourth Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. He led his troops to carry out armed struggles behind enemy lines in southeastern Jin and southern Hebei, organized and commanded the battles of Linxian and Linnan, heroically resisted the Japanese Kou, led his troops to participate in the "Hundred Regiments War," participated in the anti-"sweeping" struggle, and smashed the "iron wall encirclement" of the Japanese army on many occasions. In 1944, he entered the Central Party School of Yan'an.
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general and was awarded the Order of August 1, Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom, Second Class, and the Liberation Medal, First Class. He is a deputy to the Fifth National People's Congress and a deputy to the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. In July 1988, he was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Red Star first class.
Deng Yue was promoted to deputy commander of the 40th Army and was awarded the Order of Freedom and Independence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Second Class, and the Order of Freedom and Independence of the First Class.