 Yang Dezhi established the Ningxia Military Control Committee and Commanded the local Military District as the Civil War drew to a close.The outbreak of hostilities on the Korean peninsula led to Yang's 19th Army being pre-positioned in Shandong, where it was re-equipped with new Russian arms.Yang led the 19th Army, 1st Field Army, to reinforce Peng Dehuai's Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) in Korea in February 1951 as Deputy Commander of the CPV.