Yang Dezhi is a famous founding general, he was the main general of the Red Army in the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the commander of the large military region for 25 years, and in his later years served as chief of the General Staff. Although Yang Dezhi was an excellent general, he also experienced some setbacks on the road to growth. In his early military career, he was the subject of major criticism three times. The first time was for killing a migrant worker by mistake and was placed on probation for a month. At that time, he was also a company commander in the **Red Army. The second time was after a major victory in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, because the troops had seized a large amount of strategic materials and could not transport them, they hired local migrant workers to help carry them. The party representative told Yang Dezhi that three migrant workers were unwilling to leave, and Yang Dezhi personally went to negotiate, but was resisted by the migrant workers. The messenger hurried to urge the troops to leave, but the big migrant workers were indifferent and even raised their poles to confront Yang. Yang was furious because he was so bent on ensuring the safety of the migrant workers that they turned a deaf ear to his warnings and refused to evacuate. So, he raised his gun and tried to scare them. However, just as he raised his gun, he forgot that the chamber was loaded.
At that moment, a gunshot rang out, and the bullet hit a tall migrant worker in the abdomen, and he fell on the spot. Yang Dezhi's face was pale, and he rushed to the fallen man without any scruples, shouting loudly: "Comrade, comrade!".However, the tall migrant worker had died of exhaustion. It was a bloody lesson that was remorseful. Yang Dezhi took the initiative to make a deep review to the superior leaders and asked to accept severe punishment. The party committee of the division specially issued a document severely criticizing Yang Dezhi for threatening the masses with **, causing accidental injuries, and committing the mistakes left by the warlords. The party committee of the division decided to place Yang Dezhi on party probation for one month and give him an administrative demerit punishment, and Yang Dezhi accepted this decision without objection. This was the only time he had been punished since he joined the revolution. Later, due to Yang Dezhi's performance, the division party committee revoked this punishment. However, Yang Dezhi can never forgive himself and remember it for the rest of his life. Since then, whenever he fills out the personal registration form, he will mention the revocation of the sanction as a lesson to always remember, to warn himself and accept everyone's scrutiny. The second time, he almost injured *** by mistake At that time, Yang Dezhi had been promoted to the head of the Red First Regiment, and the Red First Regiment was also known as the first regiment in the world.
One day, Yang Dezhi and his subordinates had just climbed halfway up the mountain when they suddenly heard a series of gunfire on the other side of the mountain, but the gunfire stopped abruptly in less than ten minutes. It's weird. Did you encounter an enemy?At this moment, his subordinates rushed to report that Vice Chairman Zhou and the Chief of General Staff were looking for him. Yang Dezhi inquired about the situation, and his subordinates nervously replied that our third battalion army had accidentally injured the column of the Central Military Commission led by Vice Chairman Zhou and Chief of General Staff Liu. It turned out that the third battalion was marching at the forefront, and had already gone down from that side of the mountain, and happened to meet *** and *** and the Military Commission column. At that time, the soldiers of the third battalion were wearing the enemy uniforms that had just been captured, and the military commission column was very vigilant and mistakenly thought that the third battalion was an enemy army, so they first **. The commander of the third battalion immediately lined up to prepare for battle, set up machine guns, and blew the trumpet of the charge. However, when he was about to attack, the commander of the 3rd Battalion found that the other side was not an enemy army, and the other side quickly judged from the charge of the 3rd Battalion that this was his own unit. A misunderstanding came to an abrupt end. How could such a thing happen?In the event of an exchange of fire, the consequences are unimaginable. Yang Dezhi hurriedly reviewed his mistakes to *** and ***.
**Holding his hand, he smiled and said: "Yang Dezhi, you red group is really the first group in the world, and you almost ate us." Although his words were warm, they were harshly criticized, and if Yang Dezhi caused bad consequences, it would be difficult to shirk responsibility. Yang Dezhi felt very embarrassed and speechless. When he wanted to criticize the commander of the third battalion, he was retorted by the commander of the third battalion that they fired first. ** smiled and said: "Look what kind of military uniform are you wearing, we don't shoot yet?".* To Yang Dezhi, he said: "Your third battalion has performed well, with high vigilance and flexibility. * also chimed in: "Yes, after all, it was we who fired first, and it was right for the third battalion to deploy quickly, and you shouldn't criticize him anymore." Yang Dezhi wanted to go to the independent regiment, but he was severely criticized. In 1937, the Eighth Route Army was established, and Yang Dezhi was appointed as the commander of the 685th Regiment. When he was about to go to work, he met several old comrades-in-arms of the former Red First Regiment on the way, and they were all assigned to the independent regiment. Both the Separate Regiment and the 685th Regiment were subordinate to the 115th Division. The independent regiment was adapted from the original Red First Division, and further on, it was the Red First Regiment brought out by Yang Dezhi, which was the old unit led by Yang Dezhi. However, the head of the independent regiment was Yang Chengwu, not Yang Dezhi.
When the old comrades-in-arms heard that Yang Dezhi was going to be the head of the 685th Regiment, they all discussed: "The Independent Regiment is our old red regiment, why don't you come back?"At that time, Yang Dezhi was only 26 years old, and he was quite young, and when he heard this, he felt that it made sense, why not go back to the old army?The old comrades-in-arms are together, and they are more handy in command. So he turned around and went to the deputy division commander *** to make a request, saying that he was willing to go to the independent regiment as the deputy commander, and the commander of the 685th regiment let someone else serve as the commander. **After patiently listening to Yang Dezhi's reasoning, he criticized him very seriously and said: "It's just nonsense!."Let you go to the 685 regiment, this is an order from the headquarters, once the order is given, it must be carried out, the situation is so tense, the troops are waiting for you, you must go to the 685 regiment immediately, there is no room for negotiation at all. Yang Dezhi thought about it calmly, and realized that he was indeed too impulsive, and it was very irrational to make such a request to ***. After saying goodbye to ***, he rushed to the 685th Regiment to take up the post of commander and led the 685th Regiment to the front line to fight bloody battles with the Japanese invaders.