Yang Chengwu

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Yang Chengwu (19 14-2004), also known as Yang Nengjun. Senior general of China People's Liberation Army. 1955 was awarded the rank of general. He has won the first-class Bayi Medal, the first-class Independent Freedom Medal and the first-class Liberation Medal.

Vice Chairman of the Sixth National Committee of China People's Political Consultative Conference.

Fujian Changting people. /kloc-joined the China * * * youth league in 0/928. 1929 Participated in peasant riots in western Fujian, joined the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants, and served as the secretary of the Third Road Command of the Red Army in western Fujian and the squadron leader of the propaganda team. /kloc-joined the China * * * production party in 0/930. He used to be the director of the third column of the fourth army of the Red Army Corps, the secretary of the twelfth division, the political commissar of the company, the political commissar of the teaching brigade, the political commissar of the 32nd regiment of the Red Eleventh Division, the political commissar of the fourth regiment of the Red Second Division, and the political commissar of the Red First Division. Participated in the first to fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" and the 25,000-mile long March in the central revolutionary base area. During the Long March, he led his troops to capture the Luding Bridge, cross the snowy mountains and grassland, break through the natural barrier Lazikou, and successfully completed the avant-garde tasks assigned by his superiors. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as the head of the independent regiment of the No.115 Division of the Eighth Route Army, the commander and political commissar of the independent first division, and the commander and political commissar of the first division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. Leading his troops to participate in the Pingxingguan battle and the Hundred Regiments War. He commanded the famous battle of Huangtuling and killed Lieutenant General Abe, the supreme commander of the Japanese army "Mongolian Garrison". Later, he served as the first prefectural party committee secretary of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region and the commander of the Jizhong Military Region. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, he served as commander of Jizhong column of the first field army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, commander and political commissar of the third column of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, second political commissar of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army, and member of C.O. of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. Organized and commanded the Battle of Qingfengdian, the Battle of Shijiazhuang, and the Battle of Northern Pinghan. /kloc-after 0/948, he served as commander of the third corps and the twentieth corps of the North China Field Army. Organized and commanded the Suiyuan campaign and led his troops to participate in the Peiping-Tianjin campaign. Attended the first plenary session of China People's Political Consultative Conference. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as commander of Tianjin Garrison and deputy commander and commander of Beijing-Tianjin Garrison. He used to be a member of the Standing Committee of Beijing Municipal Committee, Tianjin Municipal Committee and Central North China Bureau. Participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and served as commander of the 20th Corps of Chinese people's Volunteer Army. He led his troops to participate in the summer and autumn defense campaign on the eastern front of Korea, and won the first-class medal of freedom and independence of the Democratic People of Korea and the first-class honorary medal of meritorious service as a fighting hero. 1952 years later, he served as Chief of Staff and Party Secretary of North China Military Region, Deputy Commander and Commander of Beijing-Tianjin Garrison, Commander of Beijing Military Region and Commander of People's Liberation Army air defence forces. Deputy Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army, First Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of the General Office of the Military Commission. Acting Chief of Staff, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission and Deputy Secretary-General. Deputy Chief of Staff and Commander of Fuzhou Military Region. Participated in organizing and commanding the 1958 shelling of Kinmen, 1959 Tibetan counter-insurgency operation, 1960 to 196 1 year China-Myanmar border guard operation, 1962 Sino-Indian border self-defense counterattack operation and the anti-Japanese war that began in the mid-1960s. 1955, he was awarded the rank of general, the 1st Class August 1st Medal, the 1st Class Medal of Independence and Freedom, and the 1st Class Medal of Liberation. 1June 1983 to1March 1988 served as vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and director of the Cultural Research Committee. 1988 was awarded the first-class red star medal. He is an alternate member of the Eighth Central Committee of CPC Central Committee and the 11th and 12th Central Committee. Member of the first, second and third sessions of the National Defense Commission of the People's Republic of China. He is the author of Memoirs of Yang Chengwu and Selected Works of Yang Chengwu Military Affairs.

He died on February 14, 2004.

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Yang Chengwu, 19 14 years 10 was born in Zhangwupu, Changting County, Fujian Province (now Xuancheng Township). General Yang's old house is in Xiashe Village, and now it has become the former residence of the general. ), an ordinary farmer's family. At the age of 6, I went to school and studied in a private school in the village. At the age of 9, I transferred from private school to Huilongwei Church Primary School in Shanghang County, and later transferred to Changting County No.1 Primary School. After graduation, I was admitted to Changting Provincial No.7 Middle School. Here, I began to come into contact with the vigorous revolutionary wave.

During the Agrarian Revolution, Yang Chengwu embarked on a revolutionary journey. 1929 1 month, Yang Chengwu participated in the local armed riots in the ancient city of western Fujian. The riot team was later organized as the Third Route Army of the Red Army in western Fujian, and/kloc-0 was incorporated into the third column of the Fourth Army of the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants in March, 930. In the same year, he joined the China * * * production party.

From 193 1 year, Yang Chengwu served as secretary of the 12th Division of Gongsijun, political commissar of the company and political commissar of the teaching brigade. Participated in all previous struggles against "encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area. In the third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression", the Secretary-General of the General Office of the Political Committee of the 12th Red Division was appointed as the Political Committee of the 32nd Regiment of the 11th Division. In the battle of Xianrenqiao, Yang Chengwu's 32nd regiment, without a leader, successfully completed the combat mission and seized a large number of enemy weapons and equipment, which not only strengthened the equipment of its own troops, but also supported the brothers' troops, and played an important role in crushing the enemy's fourth "encirclement and suppression". At that time, Nie Rongzhen, the political commissar of the Legion, was called "the political commissar of the model regiment".

On the way to the Long March, Yang Chengwu served as the political commissar of the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division of the Red Army Corps, and led the troops as avant-garde tasks with the head of the regiment, Geng Biao. In order to protect the Central Column and the Ninth Army Corps, and prevent Guangdong warlords from occupying Lechang on the Guangdong-Han line in advance to attack and intercept the Red Army, the Fourth Regiment braved heavy rain, stepped on muddy roads, and attacked overnight, quickly seizing the commanding heights of Jiufeng Mountain on the Guangdong-Han roadside. After a day of fierce fighting, it completed the cover task and smashed the third line of defense painstakingly arranged by the enemy on both sides of Hunan and Guangdong. The Red Fourth Regiment took part in the battle of Xiangjiang River. In the border war, the troops fought bravely and suffered serious casualties. Yang Chengwu was shot and injured in the leg during the battle. At the end of 1934, the warriors who commanded the Red Fourth Regiment broke through the natural barrier of Wujiang River and shattered the enemy's dream of intercepting the Red Army.

1935 In May, Yang Chengwu and Wang Kaixiang, the head of the regiment, led the Red Fourth Regiment to fly to capture the Luding Bridge, once again defeating the enemy's encirclement and interception, turning the tide and saving the day; In order to reach Luding Bridge according to the time instructed by the head of the regiment, the Red Fourth Regiment made a miracle of marching day and night 120 km in the case of high mountains and dangerous roads and being blocked by enemies along the way. After arriving at Luding Bridge, the officers and men of the Red Fourth Regiment, regardless of the fatigue of continuous marching, composed of 22 selected commandos. Under the leadership of captain Liao Dazhu, they braved the bullets from the other side of the enemy, stepped on the swaying iron rope and crossed the Luding Bridge, so that thousands of Red Army troops crossed the natural barrier Dadu River from the Luding Bridge.

1September, 935, the Red Army's Long March reached Lazikou, a natural barrier. At that time, the Red Army had Yang Tusi's cavalry on the left and Hu Zongnan's main force on the right. There is only one road to resist Japan in the north, Lazikou, and the important task of breaking through Lazikou once again falls on the shoulders of the avant-garde Red Fourth Regiment. Lazikou cliff towering, two mountains sandwiched between sceneries, the front charge road is narrow, and the enemy has formed a tight barrage, which is very unfavorable to the Red Army's troops. Yang Chengwu, the political commissar of the regiment, and Wang Kaixiang, the head of the regiment, mobilized the officers and men of the regiment, concentrated all the leggings of the regiment and twisted them into several long ropes. The circuitous troops led by Colonel Wang climbed up from the side of the cliff and made a detour to the enemy's side and back. Yang Chengwu commanded the troops in the front, strengthened the frontal attack firepower, and finally broke through the natural barrier with the concerted efforts of all the officers and men of the Gongsi regiment. The battle of Lazikou was one of the rare hard battles on the way to the Long March, and it was also a surprise victory. This battle, played the prestige of the Red Army, and showed the hard-core spirit of the Red Army soldiers who are both intelligent and brave, not afraid of suffering and not afraid of death.

1935 1 1 month. After the Red Army's Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, Yang Chengwu led the Red Fourth Regiment to participate in the battle of Zhiluo Town. In the battle of Zhiluo Town, the Red Fourth Regiment played very bravely. More than 700 people in the whole regiment carried forward the glorious tradition of the four regiments' heroic charge, seized the important positions of the enemy, successfully completed the task, and made great achievements in annihilating the enemy. After the victory of the battle of Zhiluo Town, the troops were reorganized, and Yang Chengwu was transferred from the Red First Division to the Red Army University to study.

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After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Yang Chengwu, as the first student of "Red University", graduated ahead of schedule and went to the anti-Japanese front. Yang Chengwu served as the division commander of Gongyi Normal University. The Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants is the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and Yang Chengwu is the head of the independent regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. He has long insisted on the anti-Japanese struggle in North China. In the Battle of Pingxingguan, Yang Chengwu led an independent regiment to boldly go deep into the enemy's rear, inserted it into Yaozhan area in a concealed way, cut off the enemy's highway transportation lines, and stopped several times the Japanese reinforcements, thus buying time for the brothers to annihilate the Japanese troops in Pingxingguan. Later, the independent regiment grew from 1700 to more than 7,000, and was expanded into the independent first division of the Eighth Route Army by order of the Eighth Route Army headquarters, with Yang Chengwu as the teacher. In the meantime, he led his troops to recover seven cities including Laiyuan, Guangling and Yuxian.

19391/month, in the battle of Huangtuling, Yang Chengwu commanded his troops to spread out at night, used a headland in the mountains in the north of Taihang Mountain, surrounded the Japanese army into the second brigade without the enemy's knowledge, and compressed it in a ditch about two or three miles long and only a few hundred meters wide to annihilate the Japanese army. In the battle, Lieutenant General Abe, commander of the Japanese army, was killed. Abe is a senior general who has been lost since the Japanese invasion of China. The Central Committee, the Eighth Route Army headquarters, friendly forces, anti-Japanese groups and celebrities all over the country have called to congratulate the victory in the battle in Huangtuling.

In the later period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Yang Chengwu served as commander and political commissar of the First Military Division of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and commander of Jizhong Military Region, and led troops to participate in the "Five-way Confrontation" and the Hundred Regiments War against the Japanese. After the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Yang Chengwu led the main force of the seventh, eighth and ninth divisions in Jizhong and a * * *1/regiment of the sixth and tenth districts to form the Jizhong column, with Yang Chengwu as the commander.

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At the beginning of the War of Liberation, Yang Chengwu served as the commander of the third column of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. 1947 In May, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army established a new leading organ, with Yang Dezhi as the commander of the field army, Luo Ruiqing as the political commissar, and Yang Chengwu as the second political commissar. They led the field army across North China, fought hard and won many exciting victories.

The battle of Qingfengdian wiped out the main force of the Kuomintang army10.4 million people in one fell swoop, and together with the northern line's aid to wipe out the Kuomintang army10.8 million people, it became a key to reverse the war situation in North China. Paved the way for the subsequent Shijiazhuang campaign.

In the Battle of Shijiazhuang, more than 24,000 people were annihilated in the 32nd Division of the Kuomintang Army, the Artillery Battalion of the Third Army, the 9th and 10th Security Corps, the Police Corps and the Home Returning Corps. The victory of this campaign completely connected Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan two liberated areas, which created more favorable conditions for developing economy and supporting the national war of liberation. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China gave a special telegram award, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu called this campaign "a precedent for seizing big cities". In the 25-day battle of Zhangjiakou, Yang Chengwu's regiment * * * annihilated more than 65,000 enemies and captured 13 enemy generals, while only 2,900 people were killed or injured, and fought a big annihilation war at a small cost. In addition, he also led his troops to participate in the Pingsui Campaign, the Baobei Campaign and the Zhengtai Campaign, and participated in the command of the Qingcang Campaign.

1948 1 1 month, in order to meet the needs of the development of the war situation, the main forces in North China were reorganized into three corps, with Yang Chengwu as the commander of the third corps and then as the commander of the twentieth corps. In the process of the liberation of North China, Yang Chengwu always commanded troops to fight at the front line, led troops into Suiyuan, and after the liberation of Jining and Baotou, he returned to Li to participate in the Battle of Peiping and Tianjin. When attacking Taiyuan City in the second stage of Taiyuan Campaign, Yang Chengwu commanded troops, and adopted the tactics of interspersed and divided first, and then concentrated his forces to wipe out the enemy, thus successfully completing the combat mission.

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After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yang Chengwu served as chief of staff of the North China Military Region, commander of the Tianjin Garrison, deputy commander of the Beijing-Tianjin Garrison, and member of the North China Bureau of the Central Committee.

During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, Yang Chengwu served as the commander of the 20th Corps of Chinese people's Volunteer Army. After entering the DPRK, the first round of combat was to counter the exploratory attack of the United Nations Army and the "special mixed detachment combat test". During the battle, the 20th Corps kept groping and summed up a lot of experience in tactics and command, which enabled the 20th Corps to turn to combat under the condition of modernization during its long campaign. The Battle of Wendeng Chuan was a glorious page in the history of the 20th Corps, which smashed the attack supported by tanks and coordinated by steps, tanks, air and artillery with inferior equipment.

In the Battle of Yuefeng Mountain, the US military launched a fierce offensive in the west of the North Han River for three consecutive days, and the 20th Corps relied on the established positions to defend itself. Their defense lines were never broken by enemy tanks, planes and artillery, and they successfully smashed the enemy's all-round attack. The 67th Army wiped out more than * * * people1.7,000 people in three days, which severely damaged the 7th Division of the US Army invading the DPRK and created the highest monthly enemy count in the Korean battlefield. Yang Chengwu has won two first-class medals of freedom and independence awarded by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

1952 After returning to China, Yang Chengwu successively served as chief of staff, deputy commander and chief of staff of North China Military Region, and commander of Beijing-Tianjin garrison. 1955 served as commander of the Beijing Military Region, 1959 served as deputy chief of staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1966 served as acting chief of staff of the PLA, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission and deputy secretary-general of the Central Military Commission. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was framed and persecuted by the counter-revolutionary groups of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing. 1977 Member of the Central Military Commission and Commander of Fuzhou Military Region.

Yang Chengwu is a member of the First, Second and Third National Defense Committees of the People's Republic of China, an alternate member of the Eighth Central Committee of the China Production Party, an alternate member of the Eleventh and Twelfth Central Committees, and a vice chairman of the Sixth National Committee of the China People's Political Consultative Conference.

Yang Chengwu 1955 was awarded the rank of general. He has won the first-class Bayi Medal, the first-class Independent Freedom Medal and the first-class Liberation Medal. 1July, 988 won the first-class Red Star Meritorious Medal.

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On February 4, 2004/KLOC-0 17: 35, Yang Chengwu died in Beijing at the age of 90. In memory of General Yang, Changting people built General Square in Luohanling (only ten meters away from the Qu Qiubai Martyrs Monument on the west side), and made a bust of General Yang in the square. Right in front of the pedestal of the statue, Comrade Liu Huaqing, former vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, personally wrote the five characters "General Yang Chengwu". In May 2008, the Olympic torch relay passed through Yang Chengwu General Square.

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Comrade Yang Chengwu's life is a life of revolution, a life of fighting, and a life of selfless dedication to the Party and the people. His death has caused our party to lose a good party member, the army to lose a good general, the people to lose a good son and the democratic parties and patriots to lose a good friend, which is a great loss for the party, the country and the army. His lofty moral character and revolutionary spirit of unremitting struggle are always worth learning, and his revolutionary achievements will always be recorded in the history of the Chinese nation!

Comrade Yang Chengwu is immortal!