Dong Lang

Dong Lang

Dong Lang (1894.4.24-1932.10), formerly known as Dong Jiazhi, was named Zhongming. Dongjiahe village, Ping'an Township, Jianyang County, Sichuan Province. In 1919, he went to Shanghai, and under the influence of the patriotic and anti imperialist mass struggle, he went to work in the Greater China cotton mill and actively participated in the workers' movement. In 1924, he joined the Communist Party of China in Huangpu Military Academy. He was one of the early leaders of the Red Army.

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During the great revolution, he went to Guangzhou in March 1924 and was admitted to the first phase of Huangpu Military Academy. After graduation, he stayed in school and served as platoon leader of the training regiment. In October, he took part in the fight to pacify the rebellion of the Guangzhou business group. In 1925, he took part in the two eastern expeditions against Chen Jiongming, the warlord, and the war to pacify the rebellion of Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan. In November, he transferred the independent regiment of the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army (later known as Ye Ting independent regiment) as a staff officer, and served as a member of the Party branch secretary Committee and organization director of the independent regiment of the Communist Party of China. In 1926, he took part in such important battles as Tingsi bridge and Hesheng bridge in the northern expedition. In the spring of 1927, he was transferred to the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 70th regiment of the 24th division of the national revolutionary army. In May, he took part in the battle of Shangcai, which defeated Fengjun in Henan Province. After the war, he was promoted to head of the 70th regiment.

During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, in August 1927, he took part in the Nanchang Uprising. On the way to the south, the headquarters took part in the battle in Huichang. After the defeat of the uprising army in Chaoshan, Yan Changyi, the party representative of the 24th division, led more than 1000 troops to Huiyang Zhongdong. Under the leadership of the Dongjiang special committee of the Communist Party of China, the army was reorganized into the 4th regiment of the 2nd division of the workers' and peasants' Revolutionary Army (also known as the 2nd red division), and successively served as the head, division commander and head. At the end of October, with the cooperation of peasants' armed forces, Haifeng and Lufeng counties were captured and the third armed uprising of Haifeng and Lufeng was won. In January 1928, he led the two regiments to attack Zijin and Wuhua, uprooted the armed strongholds of the landlords, carried out the agrarian revolution and expanded the red area. In May, he led the Ministry and the fourth red division to attack Haifeng County. In July, he served as a member of the Military Commission of the Dongjiang special committee of the Communist Party of China. In the winter of the same year, Hai Lufeng was defeated in the struggle. In early 1929, he left Dongjiang and went to Shanghai via Hong Kong. In June, he went to the revolutionary base in Western Hunan and Hubei under the instruction of the CPC Central Committee and served as a member of the front Committee of the CPC in Western Hunan and Hubei, responsible for the work of the military and political training class. In October 1930, he served as the chief of staff of the Red Army and later transferred to the revolutionary base area of Hunan and Hubei. He taught the chief of staff of the 1 Division, the chief of staff of the independent regiment, and the special committee member of the Party of Hunan, Hubei, and Wang Bingnan. In September 1932, he led the Ministry to cover the Hunan Hubei border special commission to break through the encirclement of the enemy forces and arrived at Jiangling and Shagang areas of Honghu revolutionary base in Hubei Province. In October, he was falsely accused of being wrongly killed in the Anti Japanese campaign carried out by "left" opportunists. He was 38 years old.

In May 1954, the Central People's Government of the people's Republic of China issued the "honorary Memorial card for the families of soldiers who died in the revolution" signed by Chairman Mao Zedong. In memory of Dong Lang, a statue of Dong Lang has been built in Longquanyi District and has been moved to the martyrs cemetery of Changsong temple in Longquan. The people of Jianyang and Chengdu will always remember the contributions of the martyrs. His revolutionary deeds are displayed in the exhibition room of Honggong, Haifeng County, Guangdong Province. Zijin County also built a memorial tombstone for it.

join the revolutionary ranks

After the May 4th movement, Dong Lang's thought was improving day by day. In 1920, he left his family and came to Shanghai to work in Shanghai Greater China cotton mill, and began to participate in the workers' movement.

In 1924, Dong Lang was admitted to the Huangpu Military Academy and stayed after graduation. In 1925, with Zhou Enlai the first "eastern expedition".

On June 19, 1925, hundreds of thousands of workers, peasants and soldiers in Guangzhou, in support of the May 30th anti imperialist struggle of the Shanghai people, under the leadership of the CPC Guangdong and Guangxi District Committee and Comrade Zhou Enlai, held a famous strike in Guangdong and Hong Kong. On the 23rd, 100000 workers, peasants and soldiers in various costumes held up their hands to "oppose imperialist aggression!" The banners of "down with the Warlords" and "support the Shanghai People's anti imperialist struggle" held demonstrations against British imperialism on the streets of Guangzhou. Around the front and back of the demonstration, an armed picket team of more than 2000 workers bravely patrolled and safeguarded. Seeing this well-trained, well disciplined and powerful team, those who know it admire Comrade Dong Zhongming (Dong Lang), the instructor of Huangpu Military Academy who trained and organized them and who joined the party in 1923. In view of his outstanding achievements, Dong Zhongming attended the "provincial and Hong Kong strike workers' congress" and won the "Commemorative Medal of provincial and Hong Kong strike workers' congress".

In November 1925, the independent regiment of the Fourth Army of the national revolutionary army was established with Communist Party members, members of the Communist Youth League and students of Huangpu Military Academy as the backbone. Ye Ting served as the head of the independent regiment, and Dong Zhongming, who was renamed Dong Lang, was transferred to the staff of the independent regiment and served as the organization director of the Party branch.

The independent regiment is a regular army directly under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. It is directly under the leadership of the Guangdong and Guangxi Regional Committee and the Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. It directly reports to Zhou Enlai and asks for instructions.

Take part in the Northern Expedition

In May 1926, the independent regiment, as the vanguard of the northern expedition, was ordered to leave Guangdong for the front line of the northern expedition in Hunan.

Dong Lang helped Ye Ting win the battles of you county and Pingjiang, and successively occupied Binyang, Tingsi bridge, Xianning City and Hesheng bridge, opening the last gate of Wuhan.

In October 1926, the Northern Expedition army captured Wuhan and established the national government.

In the spring of 1927, the independent regiment was reorganized into 24 divisions, with Ye Ting as the division commander and Dong Lang as the battalion commander of the first battalion of the 70th regiment. On May 14, the 70th regiment of the 24th division met the Fu Shuang Ying brigade of the Fengxi warlord zhang zuolin in the southwest of Shangcai County, Henan Province. After two days of fierce fighting, the 70th regiment occupied xihongqiao, a strategic place north of Shangcai.

In order to recapture xihongqiao, Fengjun sent the sixth brigade, cavalry regiment and artillery to reinforce. In order to keep his position, Dong Lang led a battalion to fight bravely and took the initiative to attack. Unfortunately, he was shot and injured. But regardless of the pain, he led the soldiers to fight bravely, wiped out the enemy reinforcements, and forced Fu Shuangying to surrender.

As soon as the battle of xihongqiao was over, Dong Lang, who was wounded by gunshot, directed his troops to move forward. Together with his brother's troops, he surrounded the enemy of Shangcai and quickly occupied Shangcai County.

At the beginning of June, when the Northern Expedition army returned to Wuhan, Dong Lang was praised and immediately promoted to head of the 70th regiment.

Nanchang Uprising

On July 25, 1927, Dong Lang led the 70th regiment of the 24th division of the 11th army of the National Revolutionary Army to Nanchang from Jiujiang to prepare for the armed uprising in Nanchang.

At 2:00 p.m. on July 30, Dong Lang was ordered to attend a military secret meeting at the division headquarters. He, together with more than 40 regiment, battalion level officers and division headquarters members of the whole division, listened attentively to Comrade Ye Ting's transmission of the Central Committee's decision that the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were split, and that the only way out was to hold an armed uprising and resist the Kuomintang's policy of massacre. Then, Dong Lang and others carefully studied the operational tasks deployed by chief of staff Xu.

At 2 o'clock in the morning on August 1, "Ba! Ba! Ba!" the clear gunfire across the night sky of Nanchang City, the Nanchang Uprising with great historical significance broke out!

In a flash, the sound of gunfire in Nanchang city was loud and the cry of killing was loud. Dong Lang personally led the main force of the 70th regiment to rush into the enemy constitution barracks in BaiHuaZhou. The sleeping enemy was disarmed before he came to his senses.

At the same time, the former enemy Committee headed by Zhou Enlai led an uprising army of about 30000 people to rush to more than 10000 enemies from all directions. After more than four hours of fierce fighting, the uprising army annihilated five whole regiments and two new regiments, totaling more than 3000 people, and seized more than 5000 rifles.

At about 6:00 on August 1, the red flag of victory was flying high on the five story building of the general headquarters of the uprising. Dong Lang and the uprising soldiers in blue and gray uniforms and red scarves marched bravely in the streets of Nanchang in the light of dawn.

On August 5, according to the original plan of the Central Committee, the uprising army left Nanchang and went south to Guangdong, hoping to restore and develop the revolutionary base in Guangdong and re launch the northern expedition.

As the head of the 70th regiment of the 24th division of the 11th army, Dong Lang led his team to the South with the volunteers. Under the condition of no Porter, less supplies and constant fighting, the army was exhausted, injured and wounded one after another, and the troops were seriously reduced. At this time, Dong Lang not only led his troops to March and fight, but also from time to time, mobilized cadres and backbones to do soldiers' ideological work and stabilize the mood of the troops.

The fire of revolution

On October 3, 1927, the 24th division of the 11th army and the 12th division of the 20th army of the second front army of the National Revolutionary Army, the main force of the uprising army, arrived at Liusha town (now Puning, Guangdong) via Jieyang. The front Committee held an emergency meeting (Liusha meeting) at the temple of heaven after. Although Zhou Enlai was ill and had a high fever, he still conveyed the instructions of the Central Committee. According to the actual situation of the rebel army, he made a decision: concentrate the armed personnel to rectify, and retreat to hailufeng

As soon as the meeting was over, the uprising troops were ambushed by Chen Jitang's 11th division and Xu Jingtang's 13th division in Wushi, Puning. The organs and troops that followed the front committee were also pressed by the enemy in a small basin surrounded by mountains. The situation was extremely critical. Zhou Enlai, with his comrades he long and Ye Ting, calmly took command of the army to meet the enemy. At this critical moment, Dong Lang stepped forward and yelled: "the soldiers of the 70th regiment are rushing out with me! I saw the burly man waving his rifle and commanding the troops to take the lead in attacking the enemy.".

After a fierce battle, the leading organs and the troops stood out and suffered heavy losses. Most of the remaining troops were scattered and lost contact with the head office. What to do? Dong Lang decisively made a decision: according to the spirit of the quicksand conference, collect the remaining units, hold high the banner of righteousness, and move forward to hailufeng.

On the way, Dong Lang severely reprimanded and executed the enemy's persuaders, and led the 24 divisions to collect 1000 soldiers