Yang Sen, male, was a member of the Communist Party of China. He was born in 1908 and participated in the revolution in 1926. His native place was Xinyang Town, Qian County. He was one of the main leaders of the Northwest Red Army during the Agrarian Revolution and an outstanding general of the Red Army. In his short life, he was injured 7 times. The bullet in his brain was not removed when he died. He made outstanding contributions to the establishment of the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Revolutionary Base of China.
In the spring of 1927, Yang Sen entered Xi'an Zhongshan Military School where Communist Party member Shi Kexuan was the principal and Deng Xiaoping was the director of the political department. While in school, he joined the Communist Party of China. In 1932, the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China sent Yang Sen to northern Shaanxi to join the Shaanxi-Gansu guerrillas of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In 1935, the Shaanxi-Gansu Border Special Committee and the Central Shaanxi Northern Shaanxi Special Committee of the CPC held a meeting to establish the Northwest Working Committee and the Northwest Military Committee of the CPC. Yang Sen was elected as the executive member of the Northwest Working Committee of the CPC, a member of the Northwest Military Committee and the 42nd member of the 26th Red Army. Division Commander. In late November, Yang Sen was assigned to assist Liu Zhidan in forming the 28th Red Army. Later, the Central Military Commission established the Yellow River Guerrilla Division, with Yang Sen as chief of staff.
On January 25, 1936, in accordance with the spirit of the Wayaobao Conference, 20 people including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Liu Zhidan, and Yang Sen jointly issued the "Red Army's Willingness to Jointly Resist Japan with the Northeastern Army to All Soldiers of the Northeastern Army." On April 1, the Central Military Commission reorganized the Yellow River Guerrilla Division into the Red Thirty Army, with Yang Sen as chief of staff. In mid-April, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized troops to press against the Red Army on the east bank of the Yellow River. The Kuomintang Northeastern Army and the Northwest Army in Shaanxi to the west of the Yellow River attempted to block the Yellow River ferry and annihilated the Red Army in one fell swoop in Xi County, Shanxi. Shilou area.
On May 5, 1936, the Central Military Commission issued a telegram of "Armistice, Peace Negotiation, and Unanimous Resistance Against Japan", and the main force of the Red Army crossed the Yellow River westward and returned to northern Shaanxi. Yang Sen was ordered to lead his troops to cover the retreat of the main Red Army. He personally led two companies to occupy the hilltop and block the enemy. After fierce fighting, he successfully completed the mission, but he was surrounded by enemies. He ran out of ammunition and was seriously injured. He died heroically at the age of 28.
Xianyang Daily all-media reporter: Wang Jie/text editing
