Yang Dezhi studied blacksmithing with his father since childhood, and then worked as a worker in Anyuan Coal Mine in Pingxiang, Jiangxi. 1928 Joined the 7th Division of the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants, which was composed of southern Hunan Uprising Armed Forces, and went to Jinggangshan with the troops. In the same year 10 joined China. After the winter of 1930, he participated in the first to fifth counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression" in the Central Soviet Area, won the Red Star Medal awarded by the Central Revolutionary Military Commission for the first time, and took part in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in 195 1, and successively served as commander, deputy commander and volunteer commander of the 19th Corps of Chinese people's Volunteer Army. Command headquarters participated in the fifth campaign, and won the first-class national flag medal of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1, two first-class medals of freedom and independence, 1988, and was awarded the first-class Red Star Meritorious Medal of the People's Liberation Army of China,1994+1October 25th.