Chapter 14 fourth quarter

During the War of Liberation, Yang Yong was still extremely brave, and he was a famous tiger general of the Second Field Army. In November 1945, the 7th Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army was established, and Yang Yong served as the commander. 7 Zong has 3 brigades with 16,000 people under its jurisdiction.From the end of 1945 to the beginning of 1946, in a short period of four days, Yang Yong led the seven cities of Yuncheng, Juye, and Jiaxiang in the southwest of Crewe, and was commended by Commander Liu Bocheng of the Military Region and Political Commissar Deng Xiaoping.

In April 1946, the Kuomintang publicly tore up the agreement reached in the armistice negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and launched an attack on the Northeast Liberated Areas outside the pass; inside the pass, it actively mobilized troops around the liberated areas to carry out local attacks and encroachment advances.Starting from the end of June, the Kuomintang army launched a full-scale attack on the liberated areas, starting with a large-scale siege of the liberated areas of the Central Plains, and set off a civil war of unprecedented scale. In order to carry out the self-defense war, Yang Yong led the 7th column to fight on the Hebei-Shandong-Henan battlefield under the situation that the strength of the enemy and ourselves was very different.

First of all, he participated in the self-defense counterattack on the Bianxu section of Longhai Road.In the battle, Yang Yong combined mobile warfare with large-scale traffic sabotage warfare, which was the most effective method of combat against the Kuomintang army at the time.Yang Yong led his troops to conquer Dangshan after 13 days of raids, and cooperated with the 3 columns to encircle and wipe out one regiment of the 181st brigade and the 29th brigade of the Kuomintang army.In order to smash the enemy's invasion, in the battles of Dingtao, Juye, and Juannan, we carried forward the fighting spirit of fighting bravely and not being afraid of sacrifice. Together with the brothers, we wiped out the enemy's reorganized 3rd division, one brigade of the division, and one brigade of the 47th division. Then he participated in the Battle of Huaxian, the Battle of Giant Goldfish, and the Battle of Henan and Anhui, wiped out a large number of enemies, shattered the Kuomintang's plan to occupy Hebei, Shandong and Henan, and opened up the Pinghan Road, and effectively cooperated with our troops in Shandong and northern Jiangsu.

In March 1947, the 7th Column and the 1st Column rebuilt from Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei were merged into a new 1st Column, with Yang Yong as the commander and Su Zhenhua as the political commissar. In July 1947, the war situation across the country changed, and the PLA shifted from strategic defense to strategic offensive.The main force of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army took the lead in breaking through the Yellow River defense line at the end of June, which opened the prelude to the strategic counter-offensive. After Yang Yong led the 1st Zong to cross the Yellow River, he surrounded the enemy stationed in Yuncheng as planned, and launched a general offensive at dusk on July 7.Because Yang Yong conducted in-depth reconnaissance before the general offensive, and grasped the enemy's situation, he chose Ximen, where the enemy's defense was weak, as the main attack direction, and adopted the tactics of concentrating troops and breaking through a little firepower first, and then expanding the results of the battle.After a night of attack, two entire brigades of the Kuomintang army were wiped out, more than 8,500 people under the enemy's deputy division commander Li Mingya were captured, and more than 2,000 enemies were killed and wounded.

The victory in the battle of Yuncheng created favorable conditions for the ongoing victory of the Southwest Shandong Campaign. 1 Zong was rewarded by the military order and recorded a great service. When the troops advanced towards the Dabie Mountains, Yang Yong led the 1st Zong and the Central Plains Independent Brigade. After 22 days of long-distance trekking and fierce fighting, they smashed a large number of enemies. Longhai Road, Yellow River flooding area, crossed 8 rivers including Shahe River and Huaihe River, and traveled more than 600 kilometers. At the end of August 1947, it reached the Luoshan area in Henan at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains. In September, Yang Yong commanded the 1st Column to wipe out more than 2,000 people from a regiment of the 58th Division in Zhongpu, west of the mall, and attracted the mobile forces of the Kuomintang Army to the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains, effectively ensuring that the 3rd and 6th Columns were in the south of the Dabie Mountains. The rapid development of western Anhui and eastern Hubei.

Entering October, Yang Yong unified command of the 1st Column, the Central Plains Independent Brigade and the main force of the 6th Column. With the coordination of the 2nd Column and 4th Brigade, he organized an ambush in the Gaoshanpu area of ​​Guangji area and wiped out the 40th KMT Army that was chasing after it. Division headquarters and 3 brigades, with a total of more than 1.26 million people.The victory of this battle has greatly boosted the mood of the soldiers and civilians in the Dabie Mountains, enhanced the confidence of the army in fighting without rear areas and in mountainous areas, solved the problem of winter supplies for the troops, and contributed to the improvement of the struggle situation in the Dabie Mountains and the work of rebuilding the rootland. It played an important role and laid a good foundation for gaining a firm foothold in the Dabie Mountains.

In mid-December, Yang Yong led a team to advance into the Huaixi area north of the Huaihe River and south of the Shahe River, and cooperated with the Yuwansu Military Region to open up more than 10 counties including Xixian, Linquan, and Zhengyang, and established the Henan, Anhui, and Su The fourth division connects the Dabie Mountains and the Henan, Anhui and Soviet areas into one area, expanding the scope of activities in the liberated areas. After the Battle of Huaihai started in 1948, Yang Yong led the 1st Column to wipe out more than 5,000 people from the 181st Division in the Zhanggongdian area, and captured Mi Wenhe, the deputy commander of the 55th Army and the commander of the 181st Division. The offensive, fierce fighting for three days and three nights, delayed the enemy's attack of nearly 120,000 people.Then he participated in the encirclement and annihilation battle, and after nine days and nine nights of fierce fighting, he won the Huaihai Campaign.

In February 1949, Yang Yong was promoted to the commander of the 5th Corps of the People's Liberation Army. In April, he led the Corps to participate in the Battle of Crossing the River and marched to the southwest.In November, Guizhou was liberated, and then fought in Sichuan.At this time, Yang Yong had three armies: the 16th Army, the 17th Army, and the 18th Army. The 17th Army stayed in Guiyang, and the 16th Army and 18th Army entered Sichuan to fight.Both the 16th Army and the 18th Army were troops capable of conscripting and fighting. On the way to Sichuan, they were invincible, and the enemies scattered like birds and beasts.

Yin Fatang, head of the 155th Regiment of the 18th Army, learned during the march that Lieutenant General Song Xilian, director of the Hunan-Hubei Appeasement Office of the Kuomintang, was leading more than 7,000 people to flee.Immediately led his troops to roundabout and blocked the enemy's retreat. After an hour of fierce fighting, more than 4,000 enemies were wiped out.Song Xilian led the remaining personnel to flee to Longchi. Our 139th regiment continued to pursue, and finally caught up with the fleeing enemy and captured Song Xilian alive. Song Xilian was a top student at the Whampoa Military Academy and a mighty general in the Kuomintang army. He fought on the battlefield for more than 20 years, winning more than he lost, but finally became a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army. His frustration can be imagined.He later wrote this recollection:

"After I was captured in Shaping, Dadu River, I was sent to Leshan County with the captive team through Emei. All the way, I thought about it, and all thoughts were lost. When I thought about it, I had never died in the battlefield for decades. Having fallen into such a sad situation today, I feel a burst of pain in my heart..." "When we entered Leshan County with feeble steps, we could see quite a few PLA soldiers standing outside the city gate from a distance, about a company of them. When I and a dozen generals behind me came to them, escorted Our platoon leader asked a dozen of us to stand in front of the company. At this moment, a PLA cadre with a camera on his back appeared in front of the team. When I saw it, I immediately understood that this was to take pictures of us generals. The goal was natural. You should take me as the main target. I was very disgusted in thought and extremely unhappy in my heart. I thought, anyway, if you capture me, it will be hard to survive. Why do you want to take pictures! If you take it to the newspaper and publish it, people will see us People in such a state of embarrassment, the old prestige is gone. If you want to die, you have to die, you must not lose this face!..."

"At around 8 o'clock the next morning, a jeep stopped at the gate and called me to get on the car alone, saying that the commander of the People's Liberation Army wanted to talk to me. When my subordinates heard this, they felt panicked and worried about me. I also Feeling something strange, I silently looked at these subordinates who fought with me through life and death, and felt sour for a while, feeling sorry for them. So, I nodded to everyone, saying goodbye for the last time, and then turned to the courtyard Go to the car at the door." Song Xilian's mood at that time was extremely contradictory. He was afraid of death, but he wanted to show the "backbone" of a soldier who is not afraid of death.With complicated emotions, he got into the car and went to a middle school, where he was led before a very young looking officer.This officer, who looked to be only about thirty years old, was wearing an ordinary soldier's uniform, with a smile on his face.Seeing Song Xilian come in, he put down the document in his hand, pointed to the chair by the table and said, "Please sit down." Song Xilian looked at the other party and guessed his identity.Just when Song Xilian was full of suspicion and thinking wildly, a soldier who poured boiling water said to Song Xilian: "This is the commander Yang Yong of our corps." Song Xilian was taken aback!The smiling "young man" in front of him is actually the famous "brave warrior" Yang Yong! The following is the conversation between Song Xilian and Yang Yong. Yang Yong spoke at this time. He smiled kindly at Song Xilian and said: "General Song, I can tell you frankly that we have studied it when we were in Hunan, and it is not impossible to win your uprising. There are several people, one is you Brother, there are several friends of yours, including one named Duan and one named Liu. They were going to look for you in Enshi, Hubei. But before they could find you, you had brought your troops to We retreated to the west. After that, everyone raced against each other, unable to contact each other, and had to listen to the natural development of the situation." Having said that, Yang Yong paused for a while, and seeing that Song Xilian was listening intently, he continued, "Again, since things are like this now, you don't have to worry about the past! You go ahead Make up your mind, think about how to spend the rest of your life, reform a period, and come to Beijing in the future to see how our Communist Party governs the country after it takes power." Yang Yong talked with Song Xilian for more than an hour, patiently and meticulously explaining the Communist Party's policy on prisoners of war, and asked him to believe in the Communist Party's policy and reform.Finally, when Yang Yong sent him out, he said sincerely: "General Song, our staff is very young and not very sensible, please don't worry about it." As soon as Song Xilian heard this, he knew it was referring to what happened during the photo shoot yesterday. Unexpectedly, such a trivial matter would soon reach the ears of the commander of the corps. He was originally insincere, but Yang Yong checked himself, and Song Xilian felt in his heart I was very moved, and felt that the People's Liberation Army was really amazing. This is Yang Yong. In addition to his bravery, he also has his sincerity, which not only convinces his opponents, but also makes them admire him. After the Chengdu campaign, Yang Yong received a telephone instruction from Deng Xiaoping, the political commissar of the field army, asking him to return to Guizhou to preside over the work. On January 2, 1950, Yang Yong led the staff of the Corps' frontline headquarters and other agencies to set off from Pengshan County, pass through Leshan, Rongchang, and Chongqing, and return to Guizhou.This convoy of more than 20 vehicles was fully loaded with military supplies issued by the Southwest Military Region, and marched concurrently. Yang Yong sat in a black car presented by Chen Xilian, commander of the 3rd Corps, and drove in the middle of the convoy.There was only one platoon of troops serving as guards for this operation, and they were divided into several trucks. Yang Yong has walked the route of the convoy three times, so it can be said that he is very familiar with it. There are many places where he fought bloody battles, such as crossing Chishui River four times, occupying Zunyi City twice, and setting up Loushan Pass. , all the way through the bloody battle.This time it can be said that it was a triumphant song and returned to the dynasty in victory.Passing through towns and garrison troops along the way, they all received them warmly. After the convoy arrived in Zunyi, they learned that Guiyang's military and political circles were about to hold a grand gathering to welcome Commander Yang Yong's triumphant return and provincial chairman Yang Yong to take power.Everyone was very happy to hear that, and they wished to fly back to Guiyang to meet their comrades immediately.On the road early the next day, the convoy picked up speed as soon as it was out of town.But no one expected that they would be ambushed by bandits on a steep road called "San Dao Guai". The situation was very dangerous at that time, with steep rocks on the left side of the road and a deep ditch on the right side.When the car reaches here, it can only slow down and pass one by one.The bandits took advantage of this dangerous situation to carry out their ambush.Relying on their large number of people, the bandits have already occupied a favorable terrain, and their arrogance is very arrogant. The combat staff of the headquarters quickly found out that the bandits who dared to fight openly were members of the "Anti-Communist National Salvation Army Jingqian Advance Headquarters" and were commanded by Song Ze, the deputy division commander of the Kuomintang Army. The mayor of Xinzhan Township, the mayor of Daoba Town, and the leader of the special task force of the "Northern Guizhou Supervision Area".After the People's Liberation Army liberated Guizhou, in order to implement Gu Zhenglun's "contingency plan", he first concealed himself with a gun, and then carried out secret activities to intimidate the masses. He combined 25 bandits in the Zunyi area to form this reactionary armed force.This time, it was Song Ze who heard the news of Yang Yong's return to Guizhou through hidden secret agents, and attempted to make a surprise attack on the Sichuan-Guizhou Highway where he was entrenched, relying on the dangerous terrain to ambush heavy troops. Faced with the sudden appearance of the enemy, Yang Yong looked calm and dealt with it calmly.He has fought many vicious battles on this road and passed through many dangerous passes. He is not worried about bandits.Although the enemy occupies favorable terrain and has an advantage in numbers, as long as they are taken seriously and dealt with calmly, there will be no major problems.Yang Yong instructed to immediately generate electricity for the nearby garrison, and asked the troops to reinforce quickly.As long as the men and horses under him can confront the enemy firmly, the enemy will not dare to come up rashly. At the same time, Yang Yong also considered that the entanglement with the bandits for a long time would delay the welcome meeting in Guiyang and make everyone wait for a long time. He decided to rush out of the enemy's ambush immediately and rush back to Guiyang to attend the meeting. Pan Yan, deputy chief of staff of the Corps, suggested using a small car to attract the enemy's firepower, and asked Commander Yang to switch to a large truck, covered by guards, and forcefully pass through. The target of the bandit was indeed attracted by the black car.The three trucks took the opportunity to drive at full horsepower, and under the cover of dense firepower, they rushed out of the enemy's ambush area. This time he was ambushed by bandits, although there was no danger, it left a deep impression on Yang Yong.He later said: All of this was unexpected, at an unexpected time, at an unexpected place, and withstood an unexpected test. Surviving catastrophe has been many times for Yang Yong. The enemy's bullets can at most pierce a hole in his body, and it is difficult to defeat him.