AdmiralWhen you return to your hometown, don't take the big road, take the small road?
After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 1953, the Volunteer Army did not immediately withdraw to China, but left a large number of troops stationed north of the 38th parallel. On the one hand, they were vigilant to prevent the United States from tearing up the armistice agreement and invading the north again; On the other hand, they are also committed to helping North Korea develop infrastructure and contribute to supporting and consolidating the friendship of the red camp.
At this time, the commander of the Volunteer Army had been replaced by General Peng to General Yang Yong, and his life experience was full of legends.
Yang Yong, originally from Hunan, had participated in a peasant uprising in the late Qing Dynasty, but in order to avoid reprisals from the government, Yang Yong ran to a small town hundreds of miles away overnight, and rented a restaurant with his wife with the remaining money to make ends meet.
Yang Yong studied in a private school at the age of 8 and entered a Western-style school at the age of 13.
In 1927, Chairman ** led the team of the Autumn Harvest Uprising to Yang Yong's hometown to propagate the red ideology and call on everyone to join the people's armed forces and fight for freedom and democracy.
Yang Yong was moved by the chairman's speech and immediately found Luo Shuai, who was in charge of recruitment, and applied to join the army. However, when Luo Shuai asked Yang Yong's age, he replied that he was 14 years old, and Luo Shuai touched his head, saying that 14 years old was too young to join the army.
Yang Yong did not give up his revolutionary enthusiasm because of difficulties, and he was determined to join the Red Army again. After a month of training, he was assigned to the Red 8th Army as a propaganda officer. When he learned the news of his father's death, he was heartbroken, but because of his busy military affairs, he could not go home to mourn, so he could only kowtow in the direction of his home to express his grief.
During the Anti-Japanese War, he served as a regiment commander under Lin Shuai, responsible for defending the rear of the northwest and preventing the Japanese army from advancing westward. In 1938, in the face of the situation that the enemy was outnumbered, Lin Shuai calmly analyzed the battle situation and decided to break it into pieces, interspersed with the enemy's rear to attack its supply lines, so as to cut off the enemy's supplies**, force the enemy to stop the offensive, and successfully resolve the crisis.
After receiving the order, Yang Yong quickly deployed his troops, divided into three parts to cover each other, and advanced eastward, successfully disrupting the enemy's rear. The Japanese troops on the front line began to waver because they had no supplies for two consecutive weeks.
In order to avoid surprises, the commander ordered the entire line to retreat. However, Yang Yong refused to let go of the enemy easily, and he led his troops to set up ambushes along the way to harass the enemy, causing a lot of casualties.
During the War of Liberation, Yang Yong served as a column commander in Liu Shuai's troops, participated in many siege battles and breakthrough battles, and his army was invincible in Jin, Henan, Hubei and Anhui.
By the end of 1948, he led his troops to assist friendly forces in Huaihai to successfully defeat 800,000 enemy troops, achieving a decisive victory, and from then on the Kuomintang power began to decline.
In mid-1949, Yang Yong led his army south, first conquering Anhui and then turning to the southwest. When passing through Xiangbei, he suddenly remembered that he had not seen his blood relatives for more than 20 years, so he sent a reconnaissance officer to his hometown to inquire in advance to see if his mother was still alive.
The reconnaissance officer returned to tell him that his mother was in good health and still alive. So Yang Yong decided to go home to visit, comfort his mother's longing, and at the same time do his filial piety. According to the customs of the hometown, anyone with status will beat gongs and drums to welcome them when they return home.
But this custom has feudal overtones and does not conform to the values of the Communists, so Yang Yong chose to take a small path so as not to alarm the villagers. When his mother saw him, she burst into tears and kept muttering, "It's good to be back."
Five days later, Yang Yong reluctantly left home and returned to the army to continue to contribute to the revolution. Before leaving, his mother told him to be careful and to go home after the victory of the revolution.
In 1953, Yang Yong went to North Korea to confront the United **, and took over as the leader of the Volunteer Army in 1954, and did not step down until the disbandment of the Volunteer Army in 1958.
In 1977, he was appointed Deputy General Staff of the People's Liberation Army and Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission. Two years later, he retired due to illness. He died in 1983 at the age of 70.
Yang Yong was a brave general, after decades of battlefield battles, won a hundred battles, and rarely met the enemy, so that the enemy army was terrified, and even the Japanese commanders were amazed by his outstanding military talent, he fought bravely and wittily.
It is worth mentioning that since returning from the Korean War, Yang Yong took his mother to his side, so that she could enjoy her old age and enjoy the joy of family, this filial piety is admirable and worthy of our learning and emulation!