Speaking of The Yang family general, people will think of Yang Linggong's father and son, who were active on the border between the Song and Liao during the Northern Song Dynasty.
This discipline of father and son is loyal to the liver and righteousness, and the arrogance is soaring through the sky, seven wolves and eight tigers break into Youzhou, and the blood stains the frontier, which has been passed down through the ages.
But that's just a book review.
The real Yang family general in history is not so magnificent.
Yang Linggong had seven sons, and the only people who really died in battle were his eldest son Yang Yanyu, as well as the generals Wang Gui and He Huaipu. He himself was captured in a battle at the mouth of Chen JiaGu and went on a hunger strike for three days.
His remaining six sons were all promoted after the war.
Among them, the second son Yang Yanlang was the deputy envoy of Chongyi, inherited his father's career, guarded the border defense, and became the archetypal figure of "Yang Liulang" in the commentary.
In fact, there is also a Yang family general in contemporary times, who is also full of heroes.
A total of 13 of the fathers, sons, brothers and sisters of the contemporary Yang family generals participated in the revolution, which had a great influence on the Chinese revolution, and among them came a leader at the level of a state-oriented person, that is, Yang Shangkun, who was elected president of the People's Republic of China at the first session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
Yang Shangkun is the fifth oldest in the family, and among the brothers and sisters, he most admires the fourth brother Yang Shangshu.
He has always called the fourth brother "the guide of the revolution in his early years."
He also said that his family had 6 Communists when the Communist Party was underground, which was directly related to the fourth brother.
By the way, Liu Bocheng, one of the ten founding marshals, also called Yang Shangshu his "revolutionary guide"—he officially joined the Communist Party of China in May 1926 through the introduction of Yang Shangshu and Wu Yuzhang.
Among the many brothers and sisters, Yang Shangshu is the most talented, showing extraordinary talents at a very young age, and has a strong will to never return.
When Yang Shangshu was five or six years old, his father Yang Weiqing pointed to his uncle and brothers and said, "This son is a great instrument, and he is also very human." ”
The Yang family has lived in Shuangjiang Town, Tongnan District, Chongqing City for generations, Yang Shangshu has the ambition to save the world and help the poor, to be a pillar of the country, at the age of 15, he left his hometown to Nanjing to join the Jiangsu Officers' Teaching Corps.
In 1916, Yuan Shikai stole the country and stole the fruits of the Xinhai Revolution, and the anti-Yuan struggle arose across the country, and the 18-year-old Yang Shangshu joined the anti-Yuan trend without hesitation.
He went deep into the dangerous land alone, lobbied the commander of the Jiangyin Fort to revolt, leaked the matter, died in the rivers and lakes, and crossed east to Japan.
In Japan, Yang Shangshu came into contact with Marxism, just like an empowerment, a new body and mind.
In 1920, Yang Shangshu returned to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, stayed at No. 24 Niangniangmiao Street, contacted Wu Yuzhang, Xiao Chunu, Yun Daiying, Tong Yongsheng and a group of like-minded people and benevolent people, and founded a proletarian party, the Chinese Youth Communist Party. When the Communist Party of China was founded, Yang Shangshu obeyed the law of returning to the sect, quickly abolished the political party he had personally established, led the members of his own party to join the Communist Party of China, and established and led the first party leading organ in Sichuan.
In the summer of 1926, Yang Shangshu put forward the slogan of "responding to the Northern Expedition and meeting the division of Wuhan", secretly contacted the famous sichuan generals Liu Bocheng and Zhu De, and established the Military Committee of the Chongqing Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China, composed of three of them, and in early December of that year, instigated the magnificent Luzhou and Shunqing uprisings.
Although this uprising failed, it was an important attempt by the Chinese Communists to independently carry out military struggle during the Great Revolution, accumulating valuable experience for the Nanchang Uprising that broke out subsequently.
In March 1927, shortly after the "March 1 Massacre", Yang Shangshu was arrested by the enemy and tortured with cutting off his tongue, beheading his hands, and stripping his eyes, and finally the hero was righteous, at the age of 29.
After Yang Shangshu's sacrifice, his father Yang Huai's white-haired man sent a black-haired person, and he was overwhelmed with grief.
However, the old man understood the great righteousness, and on April 11, 1927, he personally wrote the "Huaili Family Pain Letter", solemnly comforting the spirit of his beloved son Yingling, saying that "the spirit of Erzhi does not die, and the Nine Springs have no hatred!"
Finally, I would like to add that Yang Shangshu is listed as "Yang Mingong" in all historical books, and in 2009 he was awarded "100 Heroic Model Figures who made outstanding contributions to the founding of New China".
Yang Mingong's father's name was Xuanyong (宣永), the character 楫 , "Huaiqing" (淮清) as his name.
When the old man of Huaiqing was young, he donated an official title of "Blue Plume Candidate Inspection", in fact, he had no intention of pursuing a career, and the donation was just to comfort his parents.
He was open-minded, pursued democracy, funded the revolution many times, and actively supported the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle.
In the second year after Yang Mingong's heroic sacrifice, the elderly of Huaiqing raised funds to build the "Tongnan County No. 16 Primary School"; during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he also spent money to build the "Shrine of the Martyrs of the Anti-Japanese War" and actively raised funds to support the War of Resistance.
In his later years, he also established a "Sino-French School" in Daxigou, Chongqing.
I have to say that the old man of Huaiqing is highly respected and can be called a perfect person.
The old man of Huaiqing has a total of 9 sons and 4 daughters, except for the third son who died early, the rest of the sons and daughters are all jackie chans and phoenixes.
The eldest Yang Shangquan Number Sword Qiu, the second elder Yang Shanglin Number Heng Shi, the old fourth Yang Shangshu, the old fifth Yang Shangkun, the old eighth Yang Shanglun, the old nine Yang Shangzhi, the old ten Yang Shangming, the old twelve Yang Shangzheng, are all heroic for a while.
Among them, the old twelve Yang Shangzheng, who lived in the name of Yang Baibing, participated in the Hundred Regiments War and the anti-"sweeping" operation in Taihang District in the summer of 1942 during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression; in the early days of the War of Liberation, he followed Liu Deng's army into the Dabie Mountains, and later performed well in the battles of Huaihai, Crossing the River, and Southwest China, and was an outstanding leader in political work of our army.
Undoubtedly, among these eight brothers, the most accomplished is the old fifth Yang Shangkun.
At the age of 19, Yang Shangkun joined the Communist Party of China with the help of his fourth brother and participated in the preparations for the Uprisings in Luzhou and Shunqing. He was then sent to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow. After returning from his studies, he directly entered Ruijin, Jiangxi, the base area of the Central Revolutionary Region, participated in and commanded the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" operations in the Central Soviet Region, experienced the 25,000-mile Long March, made outstanding contributions in the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War of Liberation, and participated in the preparation of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference and the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China in September 1949. The pinnacle of his career was his election as President of the People's Republic of China at the first session of the Seventh National People's Congress in April 1988.
Of course, the old twelve Yang Baibing is also very remarkable, he is a member of the 14th Politburo of the Central Committee, he has presided over the work of the Central Military Commission, served as the political commissar of the Beijing Military Region, the secretary general of the Central Military Commission and the director of the General Political Department, and was promoted to general in 1988.
In addition, the four sisters of the old sixth Yang Shangpeng, the old seventh Yang Shangyou, the eleventh Yang Shangzhi, and the thirteenth Yang Shuyi are also the female Haojie who do not let the eyebrows be shaved.
Among them, the thirteenth elder Yang Shuyi, in the name of Yang Bailin, her husband was Marshal He Long's nephew and founding lieutenant general Liao Hansheng.
It can be said that the "contemporary Yang family generals" are heroes and heroes.