Chairman Mao said this in 1944, and the general tiger praised in his words was the famous general Yang Dezhi.

At that time, the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held, and Yang Dezhi, as one of the representatives, rushed to Yan 'an from the army to attend the meeting. Chairman Mao was very happy to learn that Yang Dezhi had come. He purposely left Yang Dezhi for dinner at home. Chairman Mao invited me to dinner, and Yang Dezhi was very excited, which became a glorious moment that Yang Dezhi mentioned many times in his life.

Yes! No matter what age, whether generals or soldiers, or ordinary people, the admiration for Chairman Mao is from the heart. Chairman Mao invited himself to dinner. What an honor! I think no matter who it is, it should be remembered for a lifetime!

Yang Dezhi is also from Hunan. He and Chairman Mao are fellow villagers. He met Chairman Mao during the Jinggangshan period. Yang Dezhi is a blacksmith. He hasn't read too many books. Ever since he first heard Chairman Mao's speech in Jinggangshan, he has been attracted by Chairman Mao's knowledge and thoughts. In his later years, Yang Dezhi regarded Chairman Mao as his most important life mentor.

Yang Dezhi often mentioned Chairman Mao in his later years. He said, "I haven't read many books. Later, whether in life or in war, Chairman Mao was my best teacher. I can become a general from a blacksmith, which is actually the result of Chairman Mao's training! "

General Yang Dezhi's affectionate words are touching. He has made outstanding achievements in his life and experienced hundreds of fierce battles. He is famous all over the world. 1955, Yang Dezhi was awarded the rank of general, ranking first among 57 generals.

This article mainly wants to introduce the important achievements and deeds of General Yang Dezhi in his life. If you have the patience to read it, you should get something.

1935, after the Red Army's Long March arrived in northern Shaanxi, Yang Dezhi was appointed as the deputy commander of the first division of the Red Army Corps. At that time, the political commissar of the division was the famous Xiao Hua. On this day, Xiaohua rushed in to talk to Yang Dezhi.

"It worked! Success! Come here quickly! I want to tell you a great good news! " Xiaohua said loudly at the top of her voice.

"What's the matter! Have you met Chairman Mao? So happy! " Yang Dezhi looked at the map on the table, didn't look up, freely answered Xiao Hua.

"You guessed it! I just came back from meeting the chairman! "

"what! Political commissar Xiao! You are so unfriendly. Why don't you invite me for such a good thing? " Yang Dezhi looked up and said with a little complaining tone.

"Ha ha! Envy it! I'm telling you! I can see Chairman Mao every day in the future! Chairman, he will follow our troops to Jiangxi in the future! "

"really! Xiaohua! Don't think that being an official can be careless! Chairman Mao really wants to come to our army? " Yang Dezhi is a little unbelievable.

"It's true, the chairman just told me himself!"

Yang Dezhi immediately became excited. On the Long March, Chairman Mao was busy with big things and small things. He hasn't seen the chairman for a long time. Great. Chairman Mao lives in the First Division. He can ask the chairman questions every day.

Yang Dezhi immediately asked the people around him: "Is there anything delicious in the army? I want to entertain the chairman for dinner! "

The guards around me are a little puzzled. At that time, the Red Army troops were in short supply, so there was nothing good! He directly replied to Yang Dezhi: "It seems that you can also make a beautiful pot of wowotou to entertain Chairman Mao!"

"what! You treat Chairman Mao with this! You can think about it! " Yang Dezhi is a little worried.

Yang Dezhi continued: "I still have a little salary saved. Go into town and see what's delicious for the chairman to buy! "

Xiaohua quickly agreed: "Lao Yang, a miser, seems that only Chairman Mao can make him generous once!"

Yang Dezhi smiled and said, "Xiao Lao, your boy has gone too far! Last time I invited you to drink Fenjiu, did you forget? "

Xiao Hua said with a smile: "You calculate, that was a year ago!"

Yang Dezhi said helplessly, "No way! Who makes me poor in Lao Yang! "

The guard strolled down the hill and finally found some pears. The people in the town below are also very poor, and there is nothing good to sell him.

At noon that day, Chairman Mao came to Yang Dezhi HQ. Yang Dezhi and Xiao Hua stood at the door to greet Chairman Mao. Chairman Mao kindly waved to them and said, "Yang Dezhi! Long time no see! You and I are still villagers! You fought a lot of evil battles on the Long March, and I have always heard your name! "

Yang Dezhi was a little surprised. This is the first time Chairman Mao has called him by his full name. Before that, Chairman Mao always called him Xiao Yang, and he didn't know if Chairman Mao knew his name. He has always had such a question in his heart.

Yang Dezhi blushed at once and replied, "It's all your command, Chairman! I made a contribution under the command of the chairman! "

Chairman Mao smiled and said, "Don't be modest! You are still good at fighting! "

Xiao Hua hurriedly asked the chairman, "it's time for dinner! Chairman, let's have dinner together! "

A group of people entered the teacher's room, and the table was full of cut pears. Yang Dezhi quickly said, "Chairman! We want to buy a few Jin of meat in town! Unfortunately, the people are also short of materials and can't buy them. These pears are hard to find! "

Chairman Mao waved and said, "Why bother? I'll eat whatever you eat! Just find some Chili powder! "

Yang Dezhi wondered why Chairman Mao wanted Chili powder. He had a bag taken to the chairman.

Chairman Mao mixed Chili powder into pears, which turned red and ate with relish, so that Yang Dezhi and others could taste them.

Yang Dezhi is a little embarrassed. Although he loves spicy food, it always feels a bit strange to mix Chili powder with pears. But he still ate a slice and found it delicious.

During the dinner, Yang Dezhi and Chairman Mao reported a lot of work and asked Chairman Mao many questions about army building. He felt that he could learn too much with Chairman Mao.

That night, Yang Dezhi repeatedly thought about Chairman Mao's praise during the day, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He stayed up all night. In that simple era, Chairman Mao was a bright light in everyone's heart, which could illuminate the way forward.

After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, in the face of Japanese aggression, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party formed an anti-Japanese United front to jointly fight against the Japanese army. The Red Army was also reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, with three divisions under it. Yang Dezhi served as the head of the 685th regiment in 1 15 division, and was later promoted to brigade commander for meritorious service. At that time, the division commander of 1 15 was Lin Biao, and the deputy division commander was Nie. This Eighth Route Army unit is very effective.

Lin Biao fought a big battle in all of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Later, he was injured by friendly forces and went to the Soviet Union for treatment. He missed War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and didn't return to China until the eve of the Liberation War. This war is the famous victory of Pingxingguan.

At that time, the Japanese army assembled more than 5,000 troops from six brigades to invade the Pingxingguan area, hoping to enter Taiyuan, Shanxi. In this context, Chairman the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China instructed to stop the Japanese army and resolutely crack down on the arrogance of the enemy.

After receiving orders from Chairman Mao, Lin Biao did not dare to neglect. He went to Pingxingguan three times to check the terrain, and finally decided to have a big ambush here. Lin Biao made a "pocket tactics" plan to surround and ambush the enemy.

The 685th Regiment led by Yang Dezhi played an important role in the "pocket" of the left wing. As soon as the Japanese army entered the ambush circle, the 686th Regiment took the lead. As soon as the gunfire rang, the 685th regiment led by Yang Dezhi also went into battle. He first ordered the soldiers to concentrate their artillery fire on dozens of trucks in front of the Japanese army to engage in fierce fighting and blow up all the enemy trucks, which could greatly reduce the enemy's mobility.

Later, Yang Dezhi sent some troops to intercept the Japanese army from the left side of Pingxingguan, and cooperated with the frontal troops to attack the enemy. After several resistance, the Japanese army quickly moved to the right of Pingxingguan. At this time, Yang Dezhi ordered the troops to follow up and chase the Japanese army all the way, driving them to the last encirclement on the right side of our army.

The main force of our 687th regiment lies in ambush on the right side of Pingxingguan. When the Japanese army was driven to the right of Pingxingguan, the 687th Regiment also began to attack. A big war came to the decisive battle stage, and our soldiers fought bravely to kill the enemy, and the Japanese army was losing ground.

At this time, the 688th Regiment, as a reserve, also running all the way, divided the Japanese army into several sections. Under such heavy encirclement, the Japanese army could only escape, and our army won a great victory in the whole campaign.

Pingxingguan won a great victory. Our army annihilated the Japanese army 1500 people, shattered the Japanese army's plot to enter Taiyuan, and won the first major victory since the Eighth Route Army's Anti-Japanese War, which greatly inspired our army's anti-Japanese war morale.

When Chairman Mao learned the news of Xing Ping's street closure, he immediately electrified the whole army to award 1 15 Division, and specially named and praised Yang Dezhi and Chen Guang who had made outstanding achievements in this battle. Later, Chairman Mao commented on this victory in On Protracted War. The original text is as follows:

During the War of Liberation, Yang Dezhi served as the commander of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army. Before the attack on Shijiazhuang, Yang Dezhi and Luo Ruiqing Corps had just won the "Qingfengdian Campaign" and wiped out 6,543,800 enemy troops. In this campaign, Yang Dezhi boldly intervened, wiped out the enemy reinforcements from the farthest place, and achieved an important victory by using the method of "resisting the north and attacking the south".

The victory of the Battle of Qingfengdian actually laid a solid foundation for the liberation of Shijiazhuang, because after the victory of Yang Dezhi in the Battle of Qingfengdian, it was equivalent to destroying the most important enemy reinforcements around Shijiazhuang, making Shijiazhuang basically an isolated city.

Whether Shijiazhuang can be liberated has an important influence on the war situation in Hebei. Due to its special geographical location, Shijiazhuang is located at the intersection of Shide, Pinghan and Zheng Tai railways, and is a strategic location in North China.

Before the war began, the Kuomintang troops stationed in Shijiazhuang had already released wild words: "Shijiazhuang is a strong city, and it is no problem to keep it for three years!" Facing the enemy's nonsense, Yang Dezhi said that he didn't take it to heart at all. He wants to tell the enemy with practical actions that your words are worthless, because I, Yang Dezhi, will personally attack Shijiazhuang.

Why did the enemy dare to say "Shijiazhuang can persist for three years"? That's because the Kuomintang has been operating in Shijiazhuang for many years. There are more than 30,000 defenders in the city, and money, food and weapons are sufficient. In addition, the Kuomintang troops reinforce the city defense fortifications in Shijiazhuang every year, so they dare to say so.

There is a kind of person in this world who is born to break all the rules. Yang Dezhi is such a person. Facing the impregnable Shijiazhuang, Yang Dezhi abandoned the general siege method. He wanted to innovate and defeat the enemy at the least cost, so the famous "tunnel blasting tactics" was taken out by Yang Dezhi.

The so-called "tunnel blasting" is a tactic that soldiers take grenades and portable mortars, dig deep pits and rush forward. The greatest advantage of this tactic is that it can disable the enemy's artillery and air power, reduce combat casualties, and can appear unexpectedly in a certain place, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy.

Yang Dezhi used this tactic to attack Shijiazhuang. First, he ordered the artillery to destroy the enemy's power station, because the enemy had already arranged a large number of power grids around Shijiazhuang. After breaking through this defense line, our army's tunnel blasting tactics can be launched.

According to Yang Dezhi's deployment, the troops carried out tunnel operations and advanced to Shijiazhuang interior line layer by layer. They met the enemy's defensive positions and fortifications along the way, and our army concentrated on destroying them with grenades and mortars, and then moved on.

When our army approached the wall of Shijiazhuang, all the troops met along the criss-crossing tunnels, concentrated the most superior forces to attack the weakest place in Shijiazhuang, and suddenly opened a breakthrough. Then soldiers swarmed in, annihilated all the defenders in Shijiazhuang, totaling 30,000 people, and captured Liu Ying, the garrison commander in Shijiazhuang.

Yang Dezhi rode into Shijiazhuang and laughed at the captured Kuomintang enemy. It took only six days to liberate Shijiazhuang, and the enemy's "holding on for three years" became a big joke at this moment.

The victory of the battle of Shijiazhuang created the victory of our army's first siege war and provided valuable experience for our army to liberate more big cities. Yang Dezhi, the main commander of this campaign, was commended by the Party Central Committee for his electricity.

1950, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, and Yang Dezhi led 19 Corps into the Korean battlefield. This unit of Yang Dezhi entered the Korean battlefield for the second time. It's already 195 1 year. At that time, the first four wars had been finished, and after Yang Dezhi arrived, he directly went into the fifth war.

Because of the enemy's strong firepower, Yang Dezhi gave full play to his specialty "tunnel warfare" in Jizhong, which was similar to "tunnel blasting" but more flexible than tunnel blasting. Using this tactic, Yang Dezhi often came to the hinterland of the US military by surprise, and single-handedly destroyed the enemy there, and achieved great results.

Later, Commander Peng praised this tactic invented by Yang Dezhi. He said: "This tactic of Comrade Yang Dezhi is worth popularizing. No matter how powerful the American shells are, they can't drill underground! "

After the fifth battle, our army entered a period of confrontation with the enemy of American imperialism, but Peng's idea at that time was that our army would push near the "38th parallel" to stop the American army, and the American army would block our army behind the flat bag. In view of this situation, Yang Dezhi was once again ordered to annihilate the American troops near the "38th parallel".

This time, Yang Dezhi faced the so-called trump card of the US Army-the enemy of the First Cavalry Division. This unit of the United States Army has a long history. During the American Civil War, this unit made great contributions. In the eyes of Americans, no army on earth can defeat the First Cavalry Division. In fact, Americans are wrong, because there is an army called Chinese people's Volunteer Army and a general named Yang Dezhi.

The team led by Yang Dezhi is the 63rd Army. This detachment has just experienced a big battle, and ammunition and materials are relatively scarce. However, the steely willpower and fearless spirit of China soldiers will always be the greatest weapon to deter the enemy.

In this battle, Yang Dezhi turned his attention to Tieyuan. He thought that the enemy would attack Tieyuan on a large scale, because this place was an important area for our army to store strategic materials, and it was also the connection point between the east and west lines of our army.

Yang Dezhi will arrange the main force in the commanding heights of Tieyuan area, and fight with the 1st 1 Division of American cavalry. In this war, the US military used a large number of howitzers and bombers, and their firepower was very strong. Our army sacrificed a lot in the process of fighting against it, but in order to stick to Tieyuan, Yang Dezhi constantly increased its troops to fight against the American army, and even pushed its headquarters in front of the enemy, so as to boost morale and fight the enemy to the end.

On several commanding heights in Tieyuan, our army launched a tug-of-war with the enemy. Some highlands changed hands several times and were finally held by our army. At the same time, our army suffered heavy casualties, while the American army suffered even greater casualties.

Soon after, the battlefield situation changed. The American army gradually lost its fighting capacity and willpower because of too many casualties, while our army became more and more brave and charged the enemy many times in a row.

The American army was dumbfounded. They have never seen such a powerful army. They think they are the strongest in the world. Now they finally know that the strongest is our soldiers in China.

Under the leadership of Yang Dezhi, our army was on a roll in the final stage, wiped out the first division of American cavalry, and successfully pushed the whole campaign to the vicinity of the "38th parallel".

When we counted the casualties afterwards, we found that many companies had only two or three people left, and some battalions even had less than half a company's strength. Yang Dezhi cried. He felt sorry for his soldiers. Young people died on the battlefield, which one is not the pride of their parents! At this time, Yang Dezhi had only one thought in his heart, and that was to defeat the enemy of American imperialism as soon as possible and let the soldiers go home as soon as possible!

1952, Yang Dezhi participated in the autumn counterattack and summer counterattack. He led the troops to defeat several American ace troops again, and the total number of annihilation reached 15000.

Later, Yang Dezhi took part in the "Jincheng Counter-offensive" that South Korea refused to accept after the American Armistice, which completely laid the foundation for the victory of the whole Korean War.

1955, Yang Dezhi, who had just returned from the Korean battlefield, attended the conferring conference and was awarded the rank of general.

1979, Vietnam made trouble on the border of Yunnan, and invaded the people and troops on the border of Yunnan many times. The CPC Central Committee attached great importance to this and finally decided that Xu and Yang Dezhi would fight against the Vietnamese invaders in two ways. Yang Dezhi was then commander-in-chief of the marked army, and led the army to war. At this time, he was 68 years old. For the sake of the stability of the frontier of the motherland, he was still not afraid of sacrifice and went to the battlefield.

Yang Dezhi led China's modern army to advance layer by layer, winning every battle. At that time, Vietnam illegally occupied many territories in China and illegally occupied most islands in Nansha Islands. Yang Dezhi recovered these places in a short time and wiped out a large number of enemies.

In the whole counterattack against Vietnam, our army's marked army headed by Yang Dezhi achieved the most brilliant results. Yang Dezhi, 68, took command in the town, which shocked the world again and beat back the foreign invaders!

Yang Dezhi, who retired in his later years, often thought of what Chairman Mao had taught him. At this time, Chairman Mao has been dead for many years. Yang Dezhi decided to tell the world about the glorious image of Chairman Mao in his memory and began to write his own memoirs.

This memoir records Yang Dezhi's decades of military career with Chairman Mao, and expresses his gratitude and admiration for Chairman Mao.

Yang Dezhi's guards once said, "In the process of writing his memoirs, General Yang cried many times because he missed Chairman Mao. Sometimes he is silent, tears roll down and he sits there sighing! "

Yang Dezhi is a staunch supporter of Chairman Mao all his life, and he has deep feelings for Chairman Mao!