Liu Yongsheng (1904-) was born in Yankeng Village, Nantian Township, Shanghang County, Fujian Province. He was born into a poor peasant family in May of the 30th year of Emperor Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty. He lost his father at the age of 5, begged at the age of 7, worked as a long-term laborer in a rich farmer's house at the age of 10, and became a porter at the age of 15. He has experienced all the sufferings in the world since he was a child.
In the autumn of the 16th year of the Republic of China (1927), Zhang Dingcheng, one of the founders of the Western Fujian Revolutionary Base Area, went to Yankeng to carry out revolutionary activities. Seeing that he was born in poverty, he promoted revolutionary principles to him and inspired him to realize his stage of consciousness. Invite him to join the farmers' association and the "Iron Blood Group". In May of the following year, he joined the Communist Party of China. At the end of June, Zhang Dingcheng led a peasant uprising in Yongding. On July 1, thousands of peasants armed themselves to attack Yongding County. Yongsheng joined the vanguard of the siege. He carried a gun on his shoulder, a hatchet on his waist, carried a ladder, and braved the rain of bullets. He quickly rushed to the base of the west gate city wall, set up a ladder and climbed into the city. He welcomed the peasant armed forces into the city and smashed them. Open prisons and rescue arrested comrades. On the 4th of that month, the first Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Battalion in western Fujian, formed by the rioting peasant armed forces, was established in Jinsha Jingu Temple. Liu Yongsheng was selected as a military traffic officer by the battalion commander Zhang Dingcheng. On May 25, 1929, Zhang Dingcheng led the local Red Army to cooperate with the Fourth Red Army to liberate Yongding County and established the Yongding County Revolutionary Committee. Yongsheng was appointed captain of the county Red Guards.
In March 1932, at the First Congress of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers of Fujian Province held in Tingzhou, he was elected as a member of the Provincial Soviet Executive Committee. In April, he led two companies of the Yongding County Red Guard Regiment and thousands of forward transport teams to support the Red Army's East Route Army led by Mao Zedong in their attack on Zhangzhou. After occupying Zhangzhou, he was ordered to transport a large amount of loot back to the Central Soviet Area. In October, he married Huang Yueying, a female cadre of the Soviet government in Yongding County. In November, the Yongding County Red Guards Regiment was promoted to the Yongding Independent Regiment and served as its leader. Soon, in cooperation with the 100th Regiment of the 12th Red Army, they defeated a battalion of the Guangdong Army of the Kuomintang at the east-west crossing of Shanghang City, and seized many guns and ammunition.
In April 1933, he served as the commander of the 8th Regiment of the 8th Independent Division of the Fujian Provincial Military Region. He was ordered to lead more than 500 people in the regiment to attack the 1st Independent Brigade of the 3rd Army of the Kuomintang Army stationed in Baishawei. A camp. Before the war, he personally led cadres disguised as woodcutter to the front line to find out the enemy's situation. In the middle of the night, he led his troops to cut through the barbed wire fence and deer stockade on the enemy's position, crossed the trench, rushed to the base of the battalion's gun tower, and threw grenades into the gun tower. Conquer this stronghold.
In the spring of 1934, he was transferred to the post of battalion commander of the guard battalion of the Fujian Provincial Military Region. In August, he participated in the most intense defense battle of Liancheng Wenfang (now known as Wenfang) on ??the Central and Southern Front of the Fifth Anti-"Encirclement and Suppression" campaign. During the battle, he was shot in the thigh and was seriously injured. He was sent to the Red Army Hospital in Sidu, Changting for treatment. In October, the main force of the Red Army was forced to leave the revolutionary base areas in southern Jiangxi and western Fujian and begin the Long March. After Liu recovered from his injury, he joined a small team of only 10 people led by Zhang Dingcheng and returned to Hangyong to carry out guerrilla warfare. He served as the commander of the Yongdong guerrillas and the secretary of the Yongding County Committee of the Communist Party of China.
In mid-March 1935, Deng Zihui and Tan Zhenlin led a battalion of the 24th Division of the Red Army to break through the heavy encirclement of the Kuomintang army and came from southern Jiangxi to Dafu Village in Yongding to meet Zhang Dingcheng and convene the Southwest Fujian Party. At a joint meeting of political and military leaders, Yongsheng was called to attend the meeting. After entering the village for a moment, he suddenly discovered that a battalion of the Guangdong Army of the Kuomintang, led by Chen Rongguang's militia, was surrounding the village. At this critical juncture, Liu Changsheng stepped forward and led his commanders to attack, smashing the enemy's conspiracy and turning the situation around. After the battle, Zhang Dingcheng called on the Red Army commanders and soldiers to learn from Liu Yongsheng. In April, the Southwestern Fujian Military and Political Commission was established, with Zhang Dingcheng as chairman, Liu Yongsheng, Deng Zihui, Tan Zhenlin, Fang Fang and others as members. Facing the Kuomintang's eight regular divisions and more than 100,000 troops stationed in western Fujian, he sometimes dispersed the troops into small groups and went deep into the mountain villages to publicize and organize the masses. Production, distribution of food seized from the enemy to the masses, and close ties between the guerrillas and the masses. We persisted in the arduous guerrilla war for three years until the arrival of the second Kuomintang bipartisanship and the Anti-Japanese War of National Liberation.
In May 1938, Liu Yongsheng led the sixth company, the last team of the second detachment of the new Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army adapted from the Red Army guerrillas in southwestern Fujian, to the southern Anhui military headquarters for concentration. After arriving in Jiangshan, Zhejiang, the military department informed him to report to the Nanchang office alone, and asked Xiong Zhaoren and Chen Maohui to take the company to Wannan, and he immediately went to Nanchang.
Zeng Shan, Deputy Secretary and Organization Minister of the Southeast Branch of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, told him in the office that considering that western Fujian is an old revolutionary base area and there will be long and complicated struggles in the future, the organization decided to send him back to western Fujian secretly.
In May 1940, the Special Committee of the Communist Party of China for Southwest Fujian opened a party school in Qingcaiyang, Yongding, and assigned Yongsheng to be responsible for security work. The following year, the special commission sent Yongsheng to Dabujiao, Dabu County, Guangdong to protect the safety of the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China. He and Huang Yueying disguised themselves as migrant workers, planted rice and fed pigs locally, and secretly protected the "Southern Committee" Secretary Fang Fang and others.
In 1942, due to betrayal by traitors, the "Southern Committee" organization was destroyed. After covering Fang Fang and others' safe transfer, he returned to Yongding to open up wasteland and wait for the opportunity.
In the autumn of 1944, the Fujian-Guangdong Border Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to establish a self-defense people’s armed force. In memory of Wang Tao, secretary of the special committee who was killed by the Kuomintang security group, the unit was named "Wang Tao Detachment" and appointed Yongsheng. As the detachment leader.
In the spring of 1945, the Kuomintang's Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Defense Headquarters sent the Heavy Machine Gun Company of the Fujian Provincial Security Regiment to track Wang Tao's detachment to Fengren City in Shanghang and stationed at Tianhou Palace. Yongsheng personally led the detachment's commando team to conduct reconnaissance at Thean Hou Temple in disguise. He selected the fairground period of Fengneng City on April 13 and arranged for 22 commandos to disguise themselves as Chai Fu and pilgrims to attack the machine gun company. In only 5 minutes, the entire machine gun company of the Third Regiment was defeated. Annihilated, heavy machine guns and other guns and ammunition were seized, enriching the detachment's weapons and equipment. Soon, the detachment was changed to the Southern Fujian People's Anti-Japanese Advance Team. Yongsheng led the troops to march to Zhao'an and Raoping on the coast, preparing to establish an anti-Japanese democratic base there. On the way, he was surrounded and attacked by heavy troops from the Second and Third Security Regiments of Fujian Province. Yongsheng was wounded in the battle. , had to leave the team for treatment.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war despite the wishes of the people across the country for peace.
In June 1946, the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Working Committee of the Communist Party of China established the Border Region People's Liberation Army Corps, and Yongsheng was appointed as the commander-in-chief. On October 21, he led the regiment to attack Marijuana Town in Dabu County, Guangdong, destroying the Kuomintang Marijuana District Office, Self-Defense Squadron, and Police Substation, and annihilating the No. 1 Squadron of the Meizhou Security Police Brigade that was pursuing them. Soon, the troops were divided into three groups and destroyed more than 30 Kuomintang district, township and town regimes in remote areas of Meixian District, Dabu, Fengshun, Wuhua, Jiaoling, Xingning and Raoping counties in Meizhou, eastern Guangdong. , opened up three guerrilla base areas in border areas.
On March 2, 1948, he led the regiment to capture Jiaoling County on the border of Fujian and Guangdong after half a day of fierce fighting. He seized more than 300 long and short guns, more than 20,000 rounds of bullets, and destroyed an ordnance warehouse. In August, the First Congress of the Communist Party of China in the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Region was held. Yongsheng was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and the Commander of the Border Region People's Liberation Army Corps. The Corps has 5 detachments with nearly 10,000 troops. Except for county towns and a few large towns in eastern Guangdong, the vast majority of rural areas were liberated by the People's Liberation Army of the Border Region.
On New Year's Day, 1949, the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China issued an order to establish the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Region Column of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Yongsheng was the commander, and together with Political Commissar Wei Jinshui, Deputy Political Commissar Zhu Manping, and Deputy Commander Tie Tie Together with Jian Jian, he commanded the border troops to smash the Kuomintang troops' repeated "clearance campaigns", prompting the Kuomintang military and political personnel in Xingmei and Longyan districts to revolt and achieve peaceful liberation. By the end of October, as the People's Liberation Army successfully moved south, the border troops liberated more than 30 counties and cities in the Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi border area and seized more than 300 light and heavy machine guns, more than 30 artillery pieces, more than 30,000 rifles, and more than 2,000 pistols.
After liberation, he successively served as deputy commander of the Tenth Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, deputy commander of the Fuzhou Military Region and commander of the Fujian Provincial Military Region.
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general. Won the August 1st Medal of Level 2, the Medal of Independence and Freedom of Level 2, and the Medal of Liberation of Level 1.
He transferred to the local government in 1959 and served successively as deputy governor of Fujian Province, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, second secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and deputy director of the Communist Party of China. He was re-elected as a member of the Central Supervisory Commission and elected as a deputy to the first, second, third, fourth and fifth National People's Congress. During his tenure in the army, he often went to island barracks and mountain outposts to check combat readiness. During army training, he also worked hard with the soldiers, becoming their "caring general". When working in the local area, I spend two-thirds of my time every year going to the countryside, farms, and grassroots, working with the people of the old revolutionary base areas, farm workers, etc., and discussing work with grassroots cadres, and never losing sight of being a "public servant of the people" true color.
On January 7, 1984, he died in Fuzhou at the age of 80 due to ineffective treatment for emphysema