Is Yang Liandi's son Yang Changlin still alive?

In September p>211, "Yang Liandi Company" came to Tianjin, Yang Liandi's hometown, to participate in the construction of Tianjin China Railway International City.

The soldiers originally planned to visit the families of Yang Liandi martyrs immediately after coming to Tianjin, and also went to Yang Liandi Park to pay tribute to the hero statue. However, due to the tight construction period, the company entered a tense construction as soon as it arrived at its destination.

In order to carry forward the spirit of company of heroes, the army made a big slogan on the fence: Yang Liandi, the former unit of the climbing hero, is willing to make contributions to the people of Tianjin.

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Yang Changlin, the eldest son of Yang Liandi

An old man came to the project department on an electric tricycle. As soon as he saw the project manager Li Bifu, he carefully asked, "I heard from a friend that my father's former unit came here for construction."

It turns out that this old gentleman is Yang Changlin, the eldest son of Yang Liandi martyr.

Li Bifu was so guilty that he shook hands with the old gentleman. "I'm sorry, but we should have paid our respects to the old hero and you first."

Yang Changlin shook his head and said to him politely, "Thank you Tieyi Division for training my father. My father's former unit came to Tianjin for construction. I should visit you on behalf of my father."

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Yang Liandi even made a big slogan on the temporary fence

Yang Changlin also told Li Bifu that if he had any difficulties in Tianjin, he would try his best to help.

From then on, Li Bifu and Yang Changlin became close friends. Yang Changlin would come to the project department to visit the comrades of the company whenever he was free. Li Bifu often called to greet him and his family and invited him to preach in the army.

These soldiers who grew up listening to Yang Liandi's heroic stories learned more about the stories behind the martyrs and the heroic families behind Yang Liandi through Yang Changlin's preaching.

Yang Liandi's military career was only three years, and he repaired one bridge after another with his hammer and pliers. Although he was not in the front line, he made great contributions to the liberation of China and North Korea with his extraordinary courage and skills.

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Yang Liandi

Yang Liandi was born in a peasant family in 1919. Since he was 14 years old, he has shouldered the burden of supporting his family and worked as a helper and waiter everywhere. During the Anti-Japanese War, when Tianjin fell, Yang Liandi had to pedal a tricycle to make a living, and later he was arrested by the Japanese puppet army as an electrical worker.

The lives of these poor people in China are not worth a penny in the eyes of the Japanese and traitors. Every time he climbs the high-rise line, Yang Liandi hesitates between life and death, giving his life to work, and he can't get enough food and clothing.

After the liberation of Beicang area, the open space where the Yang family ambushed became the parking lot of the People's Liberation Army. People's Liberation Army soldiers often came to Yang's house to help carry water and sweep the yard, and also taught Yang Liandi how to drive. Yang Liandi decided that the People's Liberation Army was "one of his own" and joined the migrant workers' team with his younger brother, delivering ammunition to the People's Liberation Army soldiers and rescuing the wounded in the hail of bullets.

As a worker, Yang Liandi sincerely thanked the People's Liberation Army for liberating them from their sufferings, and also personally felt the warmth of the revolutionary ranks. He always dreamed of having the opportunity to join the People's Liberation Army. With the support of his family, Yang Liandi and his uncle Yang Wansheng joined the First Bridge Brigade of the First Team of the Railway Corps, working with the army and enjoying the salary system.

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Yang Liandi was at work

The first time he took part in the work was at No.76 Bridge on Beidaihe Railway Line. At that time, there was no large-scale construction equipment, and the construction frequently encountered difficulties. Yang Liandi put forward his own unique construction scheme, which was praised by the company. However, when the No.71 Bridge was being built, Yang Liandi accidentally fell from the 7-meter-high pier, fell to his head and suddenly fainted.

When Yang Liandi woke up, he found that he had been sent to the medical department by the instructor, who personally brought him hot noodle soup to eat. When Yang Liandi was found guilty about his mistakes in his homework, the instructor comforted him: "Don't be sorry, the revolutionary army is our home!"

Yang Liandi, who spent half his life working as a coolie to support his family, was moved to tears.

the next day, he came to the construction site, his head still wrapped in gauze. He didn't listen to how the comrades advised him to go back to rest, saying that he couldn't lie down because he was always thinking about the task.

at the end of the month, in addition to the fixed salary, the organization also gave him more bonuses to show his affirmation of his skills. Yang Liandi refused to accept it. He said to the instructor, "We are from the revolution, not for money!"

In August, Yang Liandi's railway corps received an "impossible task" issued by the Central Military Commission: to repair the No.8 Bridge of Longhai Railway within three months, to support the field army to advance into the northwest, and to chase down the enemies fleeing to the west.

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In the summer of p>1949, Yang Liandi's army undertook the arduous task of repairing No.8 Bridge of Longhai Railway

No.8 Bridge of Longhai Railway was the first Gao Qiao in China at that time. Designed by French and Belgian experts in 1921, it took four years to build. From the Anti-Japanese War to the War of Liberation, the No.8 Bridge was bombed twice by the Kuomintang. Now, if you want to rebuild this bridge, you need to make the pier faces of five bombed piers flush.

Old engineers and Soviet experts visited here for several days and put forward different schemes, but they were always rejected because of the difficulty in purchasing materials and the dangerous terrain.

Yang Liandi boldly put forward the dangerous scheme of "hooking a round hole with a long hook and erecting a single-sided ladder", and joined other 18 comrades in arms to give the group a try. After careful consideration by the Communist Youth League Party Committee, it was adopted.

On September 4th, Yang Liandi was the first to climb to the top, and it took him more than four hours to climb the 45-meter-high pier. The people were beating gongs and drums and cheering "magic soldiers climbing the ladder".

There was a strong wind on the top of the bridge, and the working surface was narrow. The common people also made up a folk song for the soldiers: No.8 top, No.8 top, and fell into a cake. Terminal 8, terminal 8, the bridge is like heaven.

Yang Liandi and his comrades insisted on blasting under the cold wind, cold rain, hot sun and fog, and the cover tool was only a wooden board. At the top of the pier, guns rumbled all day, Yang Liandi's face was blackened, his ears were numb, and he had to avoid the cement blocks that might often be smashed.

After three days and nights of hard work, Yang Liandi finally completed the task perfectly, and the No.8 Bridge was successfully opened to traffic 2 days ahead of schedule, and Yang Liandi was awarded the great title of "Climbing Hero".

A valiant soldier will be born in the pawn army, and the heroic deeds of repairing No.8 Bridge spread all over the country. Yang Liandi was elected as the representative of the National Conference of Model Workers of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers, and met Chairman Mao in Beijing.

Chairman Mao said to him, "As long as a person does good things for the people, the people will never forget him!" This sentence, Yang Liandi has been in mind.

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Tools used by Yang Liandi

After the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea started, Yang Liandi volunteered to join the Volunteers.

It's an arduous war, and it's not just the front-line soldiers who are desperate. American warplanes dropped bombs from time to time, and Yang Liandi and his comrades built a temporary railway bridge across the Yalu River day and night.

due to the temporary blockade of the railway, food and building materials could not be supplied in time, and each person in the company only had three or two pieces of sorghum rice every day, so everyone could only drink thin soup. Yang Liandi miraculously pulled out some biscuit crumbs from his pocket and gave them to everyone.

Yang Liandi was born as a poor worker, and has always preserved the virtues of simplicity and selflessness of the working people. On this March, the comrades threw away the leftover biscuits, and Yang Liandi carefully picked them up after them, blew the dust off them and kept them.

Even if he saw a broken wire rope on the road, he was reluctant to throw it away. The things on his back were already heavy, so he still had to pick it up and put it away.

He cherishes the fruits of people's hard work and cares more for his comrades.

Repairing the railway is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Soldiers are working around the clock. It is absolutely not enough to eat gruel. Yang Liandi climbed to the blockade warily, and luckily found some rotten corn cobs. He rubbed off the remaining corn kernels and cooked them for his comrades to eat. When he was hungry, he put a handful of snow and fried corn to satisfy his hunger.

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Yang Liandi and his comrades are working around the clock to repair the Yalu River temporary bridge

Because they can't eat fresh vegetables at all, many soldiers suffer from night blindness, but most of the railway construction is carried out at night when the enemy is not good at fighting. Yang Liandi ran to the open field alone to find wild vegetables for the soldiers. The plane was above his head. When he heard the sound, he hid in the ditch. When the plane left, he got out and continued to look.

In this way, Yang Liandi brought back several baskets of vegetables, which eased the soldiers' night blindness. The instructor promoted Yang Liandi's method of finding wild vegetables in Quanlian, and the soldiers called this dish a "glorious dish".

Careful Yang Liandi also calculated the law of American bombing, figured out the best construction time, and used the method of "cat and mouse": using the bombing interval, the enemy plane climbed under the bridge along the rope when it came, and resumed work immediately after the enemy plane withdrew.

this heroic unit completed the arduous task ahead of schedule.

Yang Liandi made a request to Hu Zhanfang, the group leader: "I have been a soldier for more than a year. Please organize a test on the battlefield. I must strive to join the * * * production party as soon as possible!"

On March 6th, 1951, after the introduction of Hu Zhanfang, the group leader, Yang Liandi's application was unanimously approved in general party membership meeting, and he became a glorious party member.

Railways and bridges are the most concentrated bombing targets of the US military on the battlefield. The enemy plans to use 8% of its air force to blow up the railway system in northern Korea in an attempt to cut off all supplies from the rear area to the battlefield.

No.3 pier of Qingchuanjiang Bridge was bombarded by the enemy, and the superior ordered it to be repaired within 8 days. Yang Liandi and his comrade-in-arms Ma Deyou went into the water four times for reconnaissance, and the whole company fought all night, and built pier No.3 with more than 7, sleepers and a pontoon bridge.

however, a big flood swept away everyone's efforts, and even the 3-ton steel beam in the middle of the river was washed away one kilometer away.

Yang Liandi often climbs to the top of the mountain by himself during the day, looking at the river and the bridge in front of him, which was bombed by enemy planes and destroyed by floods. He is deeply distressed: the materials saved by the people of the motherland for the frontline soldiers have been transported here through thousands of difficulties, but they can't cross the river and are ruined!

Yang Liandi and his comrades-in-arms never gave up, and successively worked out 11 new methods for building pontoon bridges, which were washed away by floods again and again and pulled themselves together again and again.

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Yang Liandi and his soldiers managed to get close to the pier by using sleepers to row pontoons and iron bucket pontoons.

One day, Yang Liandi was washed into a 6-meter-deep river by the flood, and his comrades immediately searched along the river and rescued him 1 meters away. At that time, he was unconscious and still clutching his pliers.

At this time, comrades-in-arms realized that Yang Liandi, who had been bravely climbing on the river all day, couldn't swim at all. He gave his life to build roads and bridges!

After repeated failures and 3 days and nights of hard struggle, the bridge was finally repaired, and Yang Liandi and his team made contributions again and again.

In the fifth campaign, Yang Liandi's company was given the task of repairing the Longjinjiang Bridge. At that time, the bridge was blown off in the middle and the rails hung from the deck to the river. Yang Liandi climbed the 17-meter-high pier along this rail, risking being bombed by enemy planes at any time, and took down more than 4 bridge sleepers, thus solving the problem that the troops were in urgent need of materials at that time.

Yang Liandi and his comrades received a letter from the motherland, which was a letter of condolence from primary school students. Yang Liandi was very moved, but he couldn't read and write back, so he made a small spoon and knife and prepared to send it back.

It's not enough to make a small gift. It's impossible to express his feelings in words, which makes him determined to learn culture. No matter how busy he is at work, he will seize the rest time to learn to write.

In fact, shortly after entering the DPRK, the superior decided to arrange for Yang Liandi to further study in Soviet military academies. Yang Liandi, who never missed an opportunity for progress, refused. He felt that North Korea needed him more now, and he wanted to think about going to the Soviet Union after the war.

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Yang Liandi was named as a model worker of the Railway Corps and attended the National Congress of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers

In September p>1951, the National Congress of Railway Model Workers was held in Beijing, and Yang Liandi attended as a representative of the model worker. Once again, he met the revered Chairman Mao and got the signed photos of Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu.

When the reporter interviewed Yang Liandi, he was asked if he was afraid on the battlefield. Yang Liandi smiled and shook his head. The reporter praised him as a hero. Yang Liandi said, "I'm not a hero. Don't interview me. Crossing the Yalu River is the same for everyone."

After the meeting, he was allowed to go back to his hometown to promote the spirit of volunteers to his hometown, and he could stay at home for one night. The happy family did not expect that this was the last time Yang Liandi met them.

On March 14th, 1952, Yang Liandi, who had been promoted to vice company commander of technology, returned to the front line of Korea. The first thing when he returned to the army, Yang Liandi reported to the leader of the party group about his study of culture. He had finished learning the fourth volume of the Chinese textbook, but he didn't learn it well by self-examination.

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Medal of Yang Liandi Martyrs

At this time, Bailingchuan Bridge is being bombed by the US military from time to time, and there are an unknown number of time bombs under the bridge. Yang Liandi was knocked down by a ticking time bomb when he just arrived at the survey. After waking up from a coma, he simply bandaged up and returned to the construction site. He and his comrades-in-arms overcame thousands of difficulties and dangers to ensure smooth traffic.

On May 15th, when Yang Liandi was inspecting the Qingchuan River Bridge, he found that a newly-built section of steel beam was displaced by 5cm due to vibration. Yang Liandi and his comrades carried a press to the bridge for correction, and they were hit on the head by a nearby time bomb.

Yang Liandi fell from a height, was stunned by a bomb, and was washed away by a flood. He survived again and again and became a miracle and "magic soldier" in the hearts of his comrades.

But this time, the "magic soldier" didn't wake up. No matter how his comrades cried, Yang Liandi, 33, still closed his eyes tightly.

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On the eve of "August 1st", on the banks of the Qingchuan River where Yang Liandi died, 64 officers and men of the 1st Division and 1st Regiment were all wearing big red flowers, and they were officially named "Yang Liandi Company" and awarded "Chinese people's Volunteer Army First Class Hero".

No.8 Bridge of Longhai Railway was named "Yang Liandi Bridge", and Yang Liandi's urn was buried in Shenyang Martyrs Cemetery in March of the following year, with Huang Jiguang, Qiu Shaoyun and Yang Gensi.

Every comrade of "Yang Liandi Company" has heard these heroic deeds in the first education class after enlisting, and it was only after Yang Changlin grew up that he realized how much contribution his father had made to the motherland in those years when he left home.

Yang Changlin was only 9 years old when his father went home to visit relatives for the last time.

Yang Liandi didn't tell any of his family when he went home, until Yang Changlin's little friend suddenly found him and said, "Your father is talking in the village." He ran to see it.

The place where Yang Liandi preached was actually only 5 meters away from home. When he first saw his father, Yang Changlin was very excited and went straight to the stage to call him "Dad". Yang Liandi ignored his son and asked someone to pull him down.

Yang Changlin was very sad, and immediately ran home to complain, which made the elders at home excited.