Ding Delong

Ding Delong

Ding Delong (1904-1996), born in Youxian County, Hunan Province, graduated from the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy and the fourth phase of special class of Army University, and was a general of the national revolutionary army.

In 1923, he went south to Guangzhou and joined the military and Political Department of Sun Yat Sen's Grand Marshal's office to teach the regiment to study. In November 1924, he joined the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy. After graduation, he served as the platoon commander, company commander and battalion commander of the first division of the first army. He took part in the first eastern expedition, calming the Liu Yang rebellion, the second eastern expedition and the northern expedition.

After 1928, he successively served as commander, brigade commander and division commander, and successively participated in the second Northern Expedition, Jiang GUI war, Jiang Tang war, Central Plains war and "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army. He was a major general of the army on October 22, 1936.

After the outbreak of the Songhu battle in August 1937, he left for Shanghai to take part in the Anti Japanese war. After that, he took part in the battle of Lanfeng and the battle of Wuhan. He has successively served as commander in chief, deputy commander in chief and commander in chief of the group army.

On March 8, 1945, Jin served as a lieutenant general of the army, a senior staff officer of the Military Commission, a general head teacher of the Central Training Corps, and a deputy chief of education. Deputy commander of the cadre training regiment of Xi'an appeasement office, deputy commander of the general appeasement command of Hunan Hubei Jiangxi border region, etc.

He went to Taiwan in 1949. He died in Taiwan in 1996.

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Early experience

Ding Delong, also known as Guanzhou, was born on May 24, 1904 in you County, Hunan Province. In the winter of 1923, when the army's military training school was set up, the Ministry of military and political affairs sent Liu Shufeng to wait for Hunan to recruit students secretly. He enrolled more than 100 people in Changsha, and Ding Delong was one of them. After arriving in Guangdong, he first joined the military administration department of the Grand Marshal's office to teach the regiment's Sergeant company as a trainee soldier. In the spring of 1924, he became a student of the first phase of Jiangwu school. After Cheng Qian became commander-in-chief of the Hubei army, the first and second phases of the students who stayed in the school, instigated by Chen Mingren and Li mo'an, asked to be incorporated into the Huangpu Military Academy. Ding Delong and Zuo Quan went to Liao Zhongkai's home to reflect the situation. In November, Ding Delong and 158 others were incorporated into the sixth team of the first phase of the Huangpu Military Academy.

Military history

After graduating in November 1924, he stayed in the school as a second lieutenant trainee of the adjutant's office of the headquarters of the school. Later, he served as the lieutenant platoon leader of the sixth company of the fourth regiment of the Huangpu Military Academy's training regiment. He took part in the second eastern expedition. He was the first soldier in the battle of Huizhou and was seriously injured. He was sent to Guangzhou Dongshan hospital for treatment. After he was discharged from the hospital, he served as the captain of the fifth company. On September 26, 1927, sun Chuanfang's three divisions crossed the Yangtze River by fog and quickly occupied Qixiashan and Longtan railway station to the east of Nanjing. On September 27, the 22nd division (division commander Tu Sizhong) and the 66th regiment of the first army were attacked by sun's troops in Qixiashan. The situation was tense. Li mo'an, commander of the 65th regiment, sent Ding Delong, commander of the first battalion, to reinforce them and beat back sun's repeated attacks. With the support of reinforcements, Longtan was restored at 5 pm on the 30th. In 1928, he was head of the sixth regiment of the first division of the first army of the national revolutionary army. Later, he took part in the second Northern Expedition and the Jiang GUI war. On December 1, 1929, Tang Shengzhi, the commander-in-chief of the fifth Route Army, electrified against Chiang Kai Shek in Zhengzhou, led the cavalry brigades of Liu Xing, Gong Hao and men bingyue to Zhumadian area along the south of Zhengzhou and Xuchang. The cavalry of the Tang army attacked Chen Cheng's command post of the 11th division, and Ding Delong's Department reinforced the cavalry of the Tang army to repel them. In May 1930, he joined the Central Plains war with the Ministry and was seriously injured. In November, he served as the head of the sixth regiment of the second Brigade (brigade commander Huang Jie) of the first division. In 1931, he was promoted to the commander of the first independent brigade of the first division. In February 1932, more than 2000 people gathered in gangshou hongtaichang and occupied the eastern mountain area of Biyang. Liu Shi, chairman of Henan Province, ordered Ding Delong to lead his troops to suppress the enemy, and the Hongbu retreated to Tongshan and resisted against the danger. Part D was bombarded with mortars, and all Hongbu was wiped out. In July of the same year, the Kuomintang army launched the fourth "encirclement and suppression" against the Hubei Henan Anhui Soviet area. Ding Delong led his troops to fight against the Red Army in Yingshan and Mabu areas. On October 9, Cai Shenxi, an outstanding general of the Red Army, was wounded and killed in the battle in Hekou town of Huang'an (now Hong'an), Hubei Province. In the summer of 1934, Chiang Kai Shek dispatched Ding Delong independent brigade to Guangyuan, Sichuan. Ding Delong despised the Red Army because of his excellent weapons. The Red Army brigade, led by Zeng Guanghui and his deputy commander, attacked dingqibao in Linyuan. The officers and men of the fourth army were afraid to move forward, and they were unable to move forward even though they had shot more than 20 people. After completing the task of attacking Guangyuan, the red army withdrew, and after the Ding brigade suffered heavy losses, it was transferred back to Hanzhong in southern Shaanxi for rectification and replenishment. In January 1935, Ding Delong's independent brigade took over the defense of Sichuan army in Guangyuan and Zhaohua. The brigade headquarters led two regiments to Guangyuan and one regiment to Zhaohua. On the 22nd, the Fourth Front Army of the red army launched the Guangzhao campaign, captured more than 800 enemies and seized more than 600 guns. When the first front army of the red army went northward, Hu zongnan ordered Ding Delong brigade to march westward along the North Bank of the Fujiang River to seize Songpan city. 300 Li from Pingwu to Songpan, most of them were high mountains and valleys, rapids and dangerous shoals, and the main peak of Minshan Mountain crossed between them. Ding Delong brigade and the Red Army walked across the river. The red army fired at Ding brigade, and Ding brigade counterattacked. Hu zongnan ordered him not to entangle with the Red Army and to rush to Songpan regardless of the casualties. In this way, the Ding brigade's advance speed was greatly accelerated. It got rid of the Red Army's attack on the south bank, crossed the upper reaches of the Fujiang River, crossed the xiaoxueshan mountain, and took the lead to enter Songpan. The red army moved northward from Maoergai. At the beginning of 1936, he was promoted to the commander of the 78th division. Soon after, Ding Delong's troops were stationed in Shaanxi Province. Ding served as division commander of the 78th division of the second column (commander Hu zongnan) of the first road (commander in chief Zhu Shaoliang) of the northwest "bandit suppression" general headquarters of the Kuomintang army, and served as major general of the national Revolutionary Army on October 22. On November 20, Ding Delong's troops were stationed in the castle and defeated by his classmate Zuo Quan. After a day of fierce fighting, the Red Army completely annihilated one brigade and two regiments of the division and won the first great victory after the three main forces of the red army joined forces. Ding Delong was dismissed. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Ding Delong, who was wounded in his hometown of you County, was summoned by Chiang Kai Shek to return to the front line with illness to fight against the Japanese invasion. He led his troops to the battles of Songhu, Lanfeng and Wuhan. In 1940, Hu zongnan was not at ease with Tao Zhiyue, commander of the first army, and recommended Tao as deputy commander in chief of the 34th group army. Ding Delong just graduated first in the fourth special class of the Army University. He wanted Ding to take charge of the first army and recommended him to Chiang Kai Shek. On June 15, Chiang Kai Shek appointed Ding Delong as the commander of the first army. On May 25 of the following year, Ding Delong became deputy commander in chief and commander of the 57th army of the 38th group army. He was commander in chief of the 38th group army on June 25, 1942. On April 20, 1944, he was promoted to commander in chief of the 37th group army. On March 8, 1945, Jin served as lieutenant general, senior staff officer of the Military Commission, general head teacher and deputy chief of education of the Central Training Corps. In May of the same year, he was elected as an alternate member of the Sixth Central supervisory committee of the Kuomintang. after the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he served as the deputy director of education of the central training regiment and was in charge of officer training. In the autumn of 1946, he became the deputy head of the cadre training group of Xi'an appeasement office. In May 1949, the 16th appeasement area was reorganized into the 11th corps, with Ding Delong as the deputy commander. On June 12, it was reorganized into the general headquarters of appeasement in the Hunan Hubei Jiangxi border region, and Ding Delong was still the deputy commander. In the winter of 1949, when he went to Taiwan, he served as a general of the "Ministry of national defense" and was trained in the 21st issue of the revolutionary practice research institute. He was replaced as a representative of the workers' group of the "National Assembly" and a member of the "design Commission for the restoration of the mainland". On January 1, 1991, more than 100 retired generals, including Ding Delong and Deng Wenyi, initiated the establishment of the China Huangpu Sihai Tongxin Association. Ding Delong served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Supervisory Commission. On February 24, 1996, he died of illness in Taiwan. He was 92 years old and was buried in the National Army demonstration cemetery in Taipei.

Character works

After his retirement in his later years, Ding Delong devoted himself to studying the philosophy of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. He was good at calligraphy of seal script, official script, regular script, and grass, and had painting skills. He once held a personal calligraphy and painting exhibition in Taipei. In terms of works, such works as Datong Avenue, the principles of the book of changes, the unitary view of mind and matter, the truth of Tao, the unity of man and nature, and the law of natural circulation have been published.

Related events

The battle of Castle

Ding Delong and Zuo Quan went to the army martial arts school in Guangzhou at the same time. In November of the same year, they were transferred to Huangpu Military Academy and enrolled in the first phase of the sixth team. They were both Hunan compatriots and classmates. In November 1935, Ding Delong was promoted to the position of division commander of the 78th division of the second column of the first road of the northwest "bandit suppression" general headquarters, and "encircled and suppressed" the Northern Shaanxi Red Army. On November 20, the Red Army decided to ambush the dingdelong tribe in the mountain castle. Before the war, Zuo Quan wrote a letter to him in the name of his classmates, urging him to put national righteousness first, put an end to the civil war and join hands in resisting Japan, so as to avoid burning jade and stone. Ding Delong turned a deaf ear to the good advice of the left, but wrote back to the left, asking the Red Army to give up class struggle and roll up the Soviet flag. On the 21st, the red army suddenly launched an attack on the dingdelong division, which came out from the east of the mountain castle. Most of them were oppressed in the valley. After a day of fierce fighting, the division completely annihilated one brigade and two regiments, and won the first great victory after the three main forces of the red army joined forces. Later, Ding Delong had to admit that he was completely defeated by his fellow countrymen and classmates in the battle details. He said: the war was "extremely heavy and chaotic" and "about two-thirds of the losses now.". After the battle in the castle, Ding Delong was removed by Chiang Kai Shek.

Mourning incident

After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Ding Delong was appointed as the central training regiment