Yang Dezhi (simplified Chinese: 杨得志; traditional Chinese: 楊得志; pinyin: Yáng Dézhì) (January 13, 1911 – October 25, 1994) was a senior military officer in the North China (or 5th) Field Army, a veteran of the Korean War and commander in China during the Sino–Vietnamese War or Third Indochina War, a brief but bloody border war fought in 1979 between the China and the Vietnam. He was a native of Nanyangqiao in Liling County, Hunan.
Read more about Yang Dezhi: Early Life, 1930s, Civil War, Korea, Regional Commands, National Office, The Three Yangs