Ding Bingquan

Ding Bingquan

Ding Bingquan (1899-1940), the Han nationality, was born in Yunmeng, Hubei Province. Commander of the 197th division of the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, commander of the Changsha garrison, and lieutenant general of the national revolutionary army.

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He graduated from the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy.

He took part in the eastern expedition and put down the Yang Liu rebellion.

In July 1926, he went to his hometown Yunmeng to organize the BIE Dong army to cooperate with the Northern Dynasty and served as the commander in chief.

Later, the biedong army was reorganized into the supplementary battalion of the National Revolutionary Army, also known as the first spy battalion of the general headquarters of the national revolutionary army.

Soon after, the battalion expanded into the third regiment of the garrison, and served as the head of the regiment to participate in the Longtan battle.

Later, he served as the head of the 66th regiment of the 22nd division.

In 1928, he took part in the second Northern Expedition, and in the winter of 1928, he joined the Army University for the first period of training. During the period, he was ordered to be Zhengzhou military Commissioner and Xianghe "bandit suppression" commander.

After graduating from the Army University, he served as the chief of staff of the Security Department of Hubei Province in August 1932, and was promoted to the chief of staff in 1934. He also served as the commander of the "clean up" campaign in Eastern Hubei Province and the deputy commander of security in Hubei Province, and participated in the "encirclement and suppression" of the Red Army in the revolutionary base areas of Hubei, Henan and Anhui.

He joined the special training class of Army University in 1936.

In January 1938, he was ordered to form the army's 197th division, and served as commander of the lieutenant general and commander of the Changsha garrison. Incorporated into the ninth theater sequence, he served as the road guard of Changsha railway section. In October, he transferred to Nantong mountain in Hubei Province and took Jiugong Mountain as a stronghold to fight with the Japanese army at the border of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces. In the second Changsha war, he led the division to intercept and escape the enemy in Pingjiang, captured the Japanese ammunition, had a lot of baggage, and killed hundreds of the enemy. He has participated in the battle of Wuhan, the guerrilla war in southern Hubei and the battle of Nanchang.

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In November 1938, he served concurrently as the commander of the Hubei merchant guerrilla area. He fought against the Japanese army in Sixin, Daye, Echeng, Tongshan of Hubei Province, Ruichang and Wuning of Jiangxi Province for more than 100 times, killing 2300 enemy troops.

In May 1939, the Japanese army "mopped up" the southern Hubei area and led the troops to fight with the enemy for more than ten days and nights. At that time, Ding fell ill from heatstroke and insisted on commanding the battle. Xue Yue, commander of the theater commander, and his colleagues advised him to go to the rear for medical treatment. "In the face of national crisis, as a soldier, he should stick to his post and fight to the death to resist the enemy," Ding said

He died in Wuning, Jiangxi Province on January 25, 1940.