On April 2, 1949, under the leadership of Huang Ping, Eugen , Wang Yizhong and others, the Communist Party of China launched the famous "Fourth.2" armed riot under the organization of Jianchuan , overthrew the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang in Jianchuan, and opened the prelude to the armed struggle of the people of all ethnic groups in western Yunnan.
Then the Jianchuan People's Self-Defense Corps (the predecessor of the Seventh Detachment of the Yunnan-Guizhou Column of the People's Liberation Army of China) was established in the county, and various townships also formed self-defense forces (brigades). Yang Benshun, the good son of the Yang Cen people, is an outstanding representative of it.
Low after Yang Benshun joined the Yangcen Self-Defense Force, more than 400 reactionary armed forces "Common Revolutionary Alliance" who flew from Baoshan to Lanping . Through Madeng and Yangcen, they prepared to attack Jianchuan County, in an attempt to kill the new people's regime. The Jianchuan people organized their forces to unite against the enemy. They ambushed them in Yangcen Shigra and Hu Zangqing, whom they must pass, and wiped out the stubborn enemies. In this battle, Yang Benshun unfortunately died at the age of 21.
Yang Benshun, also known as Yang Benrun, was born in 1929 and from Jiangjiadeng Village. On May 19, 1949, he encountered an enemy while performing a mission in Liulian Renhe Village, Yangcen and died heroically to cover his comrades.
In the first, second and third volumes of Yang Cen comprehensive literary and historical materials "Fanghushan", written by Yang Cen branch of Jianchuan Yan'an Spiritual Research Association, the heroic deeds of martyr Yang Benshun are recorded in articles, which is very auspicious and detailed. Comrade Zhang Xiangxian, vice president of the Yangcen Branch, also specially created a revolutionary song "Murder of Martyrs Yang Benshun" (composed by relics), which has been widely sung in the Yangcen area!
