Li Lin

Li Lin

Li Lin was born into a paper worker's family. He entered school at the age of eight.

Name: Li Lin gender: male Nationality: Han nationality native place: Pingjiang, Hunan date of birth: 1907 date of sacrifice: 1937 after graduating from Pingjiang xiuye normal school in 1927, he returned to his hometown as a primary school teacher. Under the guidance of the local Communists, they used their spare time to set up night schools and spread revolutionary ideas to the paper workers with the textbook of civilian readers compiled by Li Liuru. In the winter of 1928, he organized the paper workers in Xianzhong area of his county to set up a red guard and used guerrilla tactics to crack down on the reactionary landlords. In March 1930, he joined the Communist Party of China. Later, he entered the camp school of the third Red Army. At the end of 1931, in order to strengthen the party building work of Ningdu uprising army, he was selected as a political instructor in the 14th army of the fifth Red Army. From May 1933 to October 1934, he successively served as the political commissar of the first and second regiments of the general station of the first Red Army, the head and political commissar of the first independent regiment, the political commissar of the 24th red division, the acting political commissar of the sixth division of the third Red Army, and the political commissar of the first division and first regiment of the first Red Army. He took part in the fifth anti "encirclement and suppression" battle in the Central Soviet Area and took part in the long march. During the Long March, in order to inspire the fighting spirit of the whole regiment, they often went deep into the companies and battalions to do in-depth and meticulous political and ideological work, so that the first Red Army regiment maintained its strong fighting capacity and became one of the main regiments of the Central Red Army. He once led the whole regiment to successfully complete arduous combat tasks such as crossing the Dadu River. He also led the advanced people in Mianning to introduce commander Liu Bocheng's blood alliance with Yi leader Xiao Ye danshe, so that the Central Red Army could pass through this minority area smoothly. In September 1935, when he arrived at Hadapu, he was transferred to the Central Military Commission for another assignment. In the autumn of the same year, when the long march arrived in Northern Shaanxi, he was appointed political commissar of the recruits training department of the armed forces mobilization Department of the Central Military Commission and political commissar of the supplementary division (later called the first supplementary Division). In order to expand the ranks of the Red Army and strengthen the construction of local armed forces in the border region, Zhang led the working group to inspect and guide the work in various parts of the border region. In July 1936, he served as acting teacher and political commissar of the first Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia independent division. In 1937, he served as Minister of the military department of Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia Province. Although suffering from serious lung disease and heart disease, he continued to work with the disease. He died in Yan'an in the same year. Yang Dezhi once wrote in his memoirs: "every victory of the red first regiment in the long march embodies his (Li Lin's) painstaking efforts."