Yang Chunrong
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The last Chinese to go to Spain to fight in the war was Yang Chunrong. It was already March 14, 1938 when he arrived in Spain. Under the "non-interventionism" of Western countries, the Spanish Republic could not buy arms supplies. It retreated from the inland war all the way to the east coast, fighting with its back to the Mediterranean. It was in urgent need of new blood. Yang Chunrong's arrival was just in time. The International Column immediately assigned him to the 1st Company of the 4th Battalion of the 14th Brigade as an infantryman. At that time, Yang Chunrong was no longer a young man, but a 46-year-old middle-aged man. Before 1938, when people of his age joined the International Brigades, they were usually not assigned as infantrymen, but as ambulance personnel. Just like Zhang Ruishu and Liu Jingtian, who were about the same age as him, after they arrived in Spain from Paris in 1936, they wanted to join the machine gun team, but because they were older, they were not allowed to do so. In the end, they were sent to the health team as stretcher bearers.
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