The glory of the founding generals is inseparable from their tempering and tempering in the beacon years. From their uniforms, we can see the baptism of war they once experienced.
During the war years, these heroic generals left behind many wonderful stories, such as General Yang Meisheng, who once caused an interesting episode by stopping ***.
As the eldest son in the family, Yang Meisheng had to drop out of school because of his family's poverty after attending private school for two years. As he grew older, he began to take on the burden of the family and worked in a small pharmacy.
However, he knew that in this small pharmacy, it was difficult to realize the value of his life. So, he decided to bravely step out of his comfort zone and seek better development opportunities.
In February 1927, Yang Meisheng embarked on a journey out, and his first stop was the bustling Changsha.
At that time, Changsha was not peaceful, and it was jointly initiated by the Hunan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions and all walks of life"Anti-British marches"。The reason was that not long ago, British sailors injured several workers' pickets, which made Yang Meisheng extremely angry.
He resolutely joined the march, became an activist, and received great attention from the party organization. Because of his outstanding performance, the party organization invited him to transfer to Wuhan and join the Second Front Army Guard Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army.
The guard regiment was directly controlled by the party organization, and its head was Lu Deming, who was an outstanding party member. In working with Lu Deming, Yang Meisheng was deeply fortunate to finally find the revolutionary team he had always wanted to join.
On August 2, 1927, more than 2,000 members of Yang Meisheng's guard regiment, under the leadership of the regiment commander, actively responded to the party's call and went to Nanchang to participate in the uprising. However, for various reasons, they were not able to arrive in time.
When the troops arrived in Fengxin County, they learned that the rebel forces had moved south. As a result, they quickly adjusted their action plan and rested at the junction of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi.
During this period, the Workers' and Peasants' Armed and Guard Regiment of the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border Region was reorganized into the "1st Division of the 1st Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army", and Yang Meisheng was also incorporated into the 1st Regiment as a squad leader, and participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising.
With his firm belief and heroic and fearless spirit, Yang Meisheng made important contributions to the revolutionary cause.
** An order was issued to Wenjia City, Liuyang County, for the assembly of the rebel army. On the evening of September 19, the cadres who participated in the uprising held a meeting in Wenjia City, and as the leader of the guard squad, Yang Meisheng was responsible for the day's vigilance work and stood guard at the door.
The meeting was about to start, and ***, who was wearing a robe, was about to walk into the venue, but was stopped by Yang Meisheng. Although Yang Meisheng had never seen *** before, he still accurately identified the identity of the chairman.
After the chairman introduced himself, Yang Meisheng asked him to wait, and he entered the venue to report the situation to the battalion commander Chen Hao: "Report to the battalion commander!" There is a gentleman named Mao at the door looking for you. ”
Chen Hao understood as soon as he heard it, and immediately walked out of the door quickly and introduced to Yang Meisheng: "This is Commissioner Mao sent by **." When Yang Meisheng heard this, he realized that he might have caused trouble, and quickly apologized to Commissar Mao.
Instead of getting angry, CPPCC National Committee member Mao praised Yang Meisheng's conscientious and responsible spirit and held that he had performed his duties well. After the meeting, in consideration of the safety of Commissar Mao, everyone discussed the need to appoint a guard for him.
Yang Meisheng is a fellow villager of Commissar Mao, and he was a soldier of the guard regiment before, and he was also praised by Commissar Mao. Therefore, it was unanimously decided that Yang Meisheng should serve as the guard of Commissar Mao.
In this way, Yang Meisheng became the first guard beside Commissar Mao.
On 20 September, the rebel forces left Wenjia City and continued their southward advance. However, on the march to Jiangxi, the troops were ambushed by the reactionary army, and hundreds of brave soldiers died heroically.
When the troops arrived in Sanwan Village, Yongxin, Jiangxi, the leaders whom Yang Meisheng deeply respected, made a decision to reorganize: the strength of the troops was reduced from one division to one regiment, and the party branch was established on the basis of the company.
This reorganization is of great significance for the construction of the new troops.
After leaving Sanwan Town, the troops set off for Jinggangshan, thus creating China's first rural revolutionary base area. Soon after, the troops led by ** and the Nanchang uprising troops led by ** successfully joined forces, and the two armies were merged into the Fourth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, with ** as the army commander and ** as the party representative.
In many battles in the past, Yang Meisheng performed prominently and joined the Chinese Communist Party in early August 1928. During the war years, he fought valiantly and was often wounded in battle.
In 1930, Chiang Kai-shek launched the first "encirclement and suppression", Zhang Huizan's troops attacked the area east of Longgang, and Yang Meisheng served as the commander of the 106th Regiment of the 36th Division of the 12th Army and was ordered to cooperate with the main force to fight.
He managed to defeat the troops of 2 brigades of the Kuomintang and capture Zhang Huizan alive, but unfortunately his left arm was hit by a bullet. And Yang Meisheng is also highly trusted by the organization and has carried out many secret missions.
For example, at the end of 1931, Yang Meisheng led a battalion of soldiers to meet the *** returning from Shanghai to the **Soviet area*** However, they met a Kuomintang 1 security regiment on the way, and the two sides immediately exchanged fire.
Yang Meisheng used two companies to divert the Kuomintang army's security forces, while the other company was responsible for escorting *** back to Changting safely.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, ** still remembers Yang Meisheng's heroic deeds vividly, calling him a soldier of "wisdom and bravery". In the Hunan and Jiangxi border areas, Yang Meisheng and regiment commander He Ziyun successfully attacked the Kuomintang army, and on one occasion, they used the tactics of striking east and west to divert the enemy, and then sabotaged the Kuomintang army's communications, while actively doing mass work and successfully disintegrating the enemy's offensive.
His strategy was like "diverting the tiger from the mountain", and sometimes when night fell, he would command the troops to set fire to the mountain, creating the illusion that a large army was retreating, so as to deceive the Kuomintang army.
When the Kuomintang army stepped into the base area, they found that everything was empty, and the local people had accepted the ideological work, resulting in the Kuomintang army not even being able to eat and was exhausted.
During this period of more than two months of hard fighting, Yang Meisheng created a unique history, led the troops to fight many tough and vicious battles, and overcame many difficulties in life.
In 1933, he served as the commander of the 3rd Division of the 1st Red Army, and the stage of heroes was broader, and soon his unit was transferred to the 9th Red Army.
In 1934, in order to cooperate with the anti-Japanese action, it was decided to form the Red Seventh Army. The Red Ninth Army Corps was ordered to escort gunpowder and salt to the site of the "Eastern Front Operation", and Yang Meisheng successfully commanded the materials to ensure that the supplies were safely in place and the operation ended smoothly.
In March 1935, when the guard battalion was marching with the troops, they heard the sound of air raid sirens, and everyone quickly dispersed into the jungle to take refuge. At this time, 3 enemy planes dropped bombs, and several fighters were killed.
Yang Meisheng used it flexibly, seized the gap between the enemy plane's bombs, and ordered 4 machine guns to *** at the same time, successfully shooting down an enemy plane. This feat was highly praised by the head of the Military Commission.
At the end of August 1937, the main force of the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and Yang Meisheng graduated from Kang Da. He was ordered to work in the 115th Division, but due to the deterioration of his physical condition, he could only stay in the 115th Division.
In September, he went to the front with the Eighth Route Army, but he was unable to adapt due to bronchitis**. The organization took good care of him and sent him to the Soviet Union for treatment and study. However, when he arrived in Dihua, Deng Fa, the head of the Eighth Route Army, decided to keep him.
For more than a year, he worked as a faculty member at the Xinjiang Military Academy. Since many of the faculty members are party members, it is also known as the "Second Resistance University".
After Yang Meisheng returned to Yan'an, he resolutely asked to join the front line of the War of Resistance against Japan. Years of experience enabled him to take charge of himself, cooperated with the commander of the fourth detachment, participated in many anti-sweeping struggles during the Anti-Japanese War, consolidated the anti-Japanese base area in Ludong, eliminated a large number of Japanese puppet troops, and achieved remarkable military achievements.
However, an even greater challenge awaited him. It was not until March 1943 that he returned to Yan'an in 11 months, and entered the ** Party School in 1944.
Now, the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression does not make him relax, and greater tests are still ahead.
In June 1946, Chiang Kai-shek reneged on the armistice agreement, pressed the border with heavy troops, and launched an all-out attack on the liberated areas. Under this grim situation, Yang Meisheng was ordered to serve as the acting commander of the Rehe Military Region, and according to the deployment, he fought flexibly according to the deployment, took the initiative to abandon Chengde, carried out defense in the Rehe area, carried out guerrilla warfare, and successfully blocked the enemy's reinforcements to the northeast.
In 1948, Yang Meisheng served as the commander of the Northeast Hejiang Military Region and made great achievements for the liberation of Changchun. Later, he was transferred to the deputy commander of the Ninth Column of the Northeast Field Army, participated in the 46th Army's southward movement, crossed the Yangtze River in 1949, and fought all the way to the outside of Changsha.
After the liberation of Changsha, the 46th Army was stationed in Changsha, a thousand-year-old city.
For Yang Meisheng, Changsha was the starting point of his revolutionary career, where he found his purpose in life, albeit full of hardships and challenges. Today, he once again set foot on the land of Changsha, with his team, after decades of struggle, he has a deep feeling for the city.
And this time, he finally had the opportunity to return to his hometown to visit his mother. However, he did not return home immediately, he was worried about what the scene would be at home, and coupled with the fact that the troops had just entered the city and there were still many things to deal with, he could not leave for the time being.
One day, he and Li Zhongquan, the military political commissar, went to Yijiawan to inspect the warehouse, and accidentally saw an old lady passing by, and his heart trembled, he knew that it was his mother.
It turned out that after he left home, his mother couldn't be quiet, so she begged for food, and now she can't recognize her son who has been away from home for 21 years. So, not long after, Li Zhongquan ordered the driver to pick up Yang's mother, the jeep just stopped, Yang's mother stood still and did not move, the guard said: "Mother-in-law, your son asked us to come to pick you up, he is our deputy commander." ”
The old lady couldn't believe that their poor family could have a child who could be a deputy military commander?
The old lady anxiously asked, "What is my son's name?" After the guard answered, the old lady sat down on the ground in excitement, and the guard hurriedly helped her up and let her sit in the car.
When the old lady got out of the car, Yang Meisheng had been waiting for a long time, and he shouted: "Mom, I'm Xun Meizai!" Then he fell to his knees with tears in his eyes. After completing this major event, Yang Meisheng threw himself into the tense battle again.
At that time, there were still 540,000 bandits are armed, and they occupy some county seats. In November 1949, it was decided to let the 46th Army carry out the task of suppressing bandits and building a government.
The 46th Army quickly entered Hengyang City, Yang Meisheng served as the deputy commander and commander of the Hengyang garrison, Li Zhongquan was the political commissar, and Zhan Caifang was the commander-in-chief. The 20,000 troops quickly completed the encirclement of the bandits, and adopted the tactics of separate attacks and combined attacks to encircle and annihilate more than 10,000 local bandits.
Soon after, 12 bandit leaders were eliminated, and the four county towns and surrounding areas, including the Blue Mountains, were liberated, and the rear was consolidated.
In November 1950, Yang Meisheng shouldered the heavy responsibility of the commander of the 46th Army, and the bandits in southern Hunan have been basically eliminated and a solid foundation has been laid. In 1952, he was appointed deputy commander of the Hunan Military Region, and two years later he was promoted to full commander.
In September 1955, Yang Meisheng was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and was awarded the Order of August 1, the Order of Independence and Freedom, and the Order of Liberation. On January 9, 1978, Yang Meisheng died of lung disease at the General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region at the age of 73.
Yang Meisheng, a loyal and brave general, was a founding lieutenant general who was born as a security guard, and his heroic deeds have been widely recorded and disseminated in publications such as party history and archives.