Yang Shangkun wrote an article about recalling General Peng with his old comrades in his later years, "Remembering General Peng", and also wrote an article about recalling: General Peng is truly a person with noble character. It can be seen that Yang Shangkun’s sincere comrade-in-arms relationship with President Peng is little known that during the Red Army period, General Peng once saved Yang Shangkun’s life.
That was during the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression. Due to the wrong combat ideas, the Red Army and the enemy head-on, using positional warfare against positional warfare, resulting in serious losses in the Red Army. At that time, Mr. Peng was the commander of the of the Red Third Army . Yang Shangkun was the political commissar of the Red Third Army. General Peng's command style was to like to put the command post on the front line. In this way, the enemy's planes bombed the Red Third Army's command post. General Peng and Yang Shangkun were looking at the map in the command post. The plane was bombing at a low altitude. Seeing that the enemy's bomb was about to blow into the command post, at a critical moment, General Peng pulled Yang Shangkun out and pounced on Yang Shangkun to block the bullet for him. In this way, General Peng saved Yang Shangkun's life. Yang Shangkun always remembered the life-saving grace of President Peng.
On the way to the Red Army Long March , Yang Shangkun has been assisting General Peng to cover the Central Red Army Central Crossing the Xiangjiang River successfully at the most critical moment of bloody battle. During the Long March, General Peng and Yang Shangkun cooperated closely, and led the Red Third Army to win Loushanguan , four times crossing the Chishui , and climbing the snow-capped mountains through the grassland .
Although there was no intersection between General Peng and Yang Shangkun during the Anti-Japanese War, the two still maintained close contact. During the War of Liberation, General Peng served as the commander of the Northwest Field Army, and Yang Shangkun served as the secretary-general of the Military Commission and the director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee. Once, Yang Shangkun delivered a letter to President Peng under the order of Chairman. After a few simple greetings from the two old comrades, President Peng joked and asked Yang Shangkun: What is the content of the Chairman's letter? Do you know? Yang Shangkun smiled and said: This is a letter written to you by the Chairman, how can I know? After reading the letter, President Peng said: The Chairman asked me to lead the Northwest Field Army, and asked President He to be in charge of the economic construction of the Northwest Base Area and be responsible for the logistics support of the field army.
At the Lushan Conference in 1959, Mr. Peng was wrongly criticized. Yang Shangkun was wrongly criticized for his refusal to criticize Mr. Peng and spoke for him. Although Yang Shangkun did not go to Lushan for a meeting, Yang Shangkun's spirit of valuing affection and righteousness is worth learning. Yang Shangkun was wrongly criticized for refusing to criticize General Peng and was placed under house arrest in a room.
During Yang Shangkun's detention, the rest was fine because Yang Shangkun suffered from severe hypoglycemia and fainted when he was severe. At this time, Yang Shangkun needed to soak a packet of sugar in water to relieve hypoglycemia. Yang Shangkun had to ask the soldiers around him. The soldiers refused to pay attention to Yang Shangkun for fear of violating discipline. Later, a young soldier named Tian Zhenghong took care of Yang Shangkun and promised to bring him a bag of sugar. It was this bag of sugar that saved Yang Shangkun's life. The little soldier Tian Zhenghong then brought him books and newspapers to tell him what was happening outside.
Yang Shangkun has always been grateful for the life-saving grace of Tian Zhenghong, the young soldier. For this reason, he specially copied Tian Zhenghong's hometown address to the back of the book. Later, Tian Zhenghong's help to Yang Shangkun was discovered, and Tian Zhenghong was expelled from the army for violating discipline.
html In the late 170s, Yang Shangkun was rehabilitated, and for this reason he specially found Tian Zhenghong. At that time, Tian Zhenghong worked in the factory. In order to thank Tian Zhenghong for his life-saving grace, Yang Shangkun planned to transfer Tian Zhenghong to Beijing to work, but Tian Zhenghong thought that his hometown was more suitable for him. Tian Zhenghong's wife happened to be sick. For this reason, Yang Shangkun specially brought Tian Zhenghong's wife to Beijing for treatment. Yang Shangkun specially kept the watch he had brought for many years to Tian Zhenghong as a souvenir. This reflects Yang Shangkun's emphasis on love and friendship.
When it comes to Yang Shangkun's emphasis on feelings, he must not mention his feelings for President Peng. For this reason, he wrote books and articles about President Peng with his old comrades in the mid-1980s. In the book "Remembering General Peng", Yang Shangkun personally wrote the preface for the whole book. He and his old comrades such as Huang Kecheng took the lead in setting up a writing team to write the "Full Biography of Peng Dehuai".On the 23rd anniversary of General Peng’s death, Yang Shangkun personally wrote an article to commemorate General Peng: General Peng is truly a person with noble character and an outstanding military strategist.
Yang Shangkun not only values affection and righteousness, but is also willing to help others and seek truth from facts. Su Yu wrote a book called "Su Yu's Collection of Works" in his later years, but it was not published for various reasons. Until the moment Su Yu passed away, the book "Su Yu's Collection of Works" was not published. Half a year after Su Yu's death, Yang Shangkun found Su Yu's wife Chu Qing and said: Comrade Su Yu's publication and distribution are for me. With the help of Yang Shangkun, "Su Yu's Collection of Works" was finally published. "Su Yu's Collection of Works" has received strong resonance among readers as soon as it was launched.
html In the late 280s, the script of the movie " Decisive Battle " was put on the service agenda. Some people think that Lin Biao has made major historical mistakes and do not recommend that Lin Biao be written into the movie. Some people think that using film technology only gives Lin Biao a back or silhouette. For this reason, Yang Shangkun specially found the main creators of the movie "The Great Battle of Liaoshen Battle" to hear their ideas. They said: Chief, we unanimously believe that Lin Biao has made major historical mistakes and believe that he should not be written into the movie.
Yang Shangkun thought for a while and said: We Communists have always advocated that credit is credit, fault is fault, and we should pay attention to seeking truth from facts. Under Yang Shangkun's insistence, Lin Biao was written into the movie "The Battle of Liaoshen", and his role was much better.
In his later years, Yang Shangkun liked to write calligraphy. He recalled the years of the old swords and iron horses in the calligraphy, and was more concerned about the construction of old revolutionary areas and the living conditions of the people in old revolutionary areas.
