We admire the national heroes who have made selfless dedication to the people in history and who have been famous in history, who stepped forward at a time of national crisis and used their talents and knowledge to save their motherland. Especially during the War of Resistance Against Japan, many heroes Haojie even gave up their lives at all costs in order to defend the country. The hero we want to talk about today is such a person, money and power are not worth mentioning to him, and Guotai Min'an is his only pursuit.
This respectable hero is Fang Dingying. Fang Dingying was born in 1888, he is a native of Xinhua, Hunan, Fang Dingying's family conditions are good, which gives him the opportunity to receive advanced education. Fang Dingying went to Japan to study when he was young, and during his study in Japan, he deeply understood the importance of military strength, and also learned a lot of advanced military knowledge from Japan. Fang Dingying, who had read a lot of books, returned to the motherland after completing his studies and cultivated a group of outstanding military talents for the motherland.
Because he had advanced military ideas and unique insights, he was very sensitive to revolutionary war, and the signs of revolution in China were not obvious at that time, but he had already sensed it in advance, so he quickly carried out support work during the Wuchang Uprising.
After returning to China, Fang Dingying entered the Baoding Army Officer School as an artillery instructor, and during his tenure as an artillery instructor, he deeply felt that his ability was insufficient, so he decided to embark on the road to Japan again to study and absorb more advanced knowledge. His further studies in Japan have deepened his understanding of the military. After returning to China, he soon became Sun Yat-sen's right hand man. Fang Dingying is not only an excellent military educator, but also invincible on the battlefield, and when he followed Sun Yat-sen in his crusade against the warlords, Fang Dingying also made a lot of merit.
In 1924, shortly after the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, Fang Dingying entered the Whampoa Military Academy and concentrated on education. Fang Dingying knew that at the time of national crisis, excellent soldiers are very important, and soldiers need to be trained, so Fang Dingying threw himself into military education without hesitation, and successively served as the lieutenant general, education chief, and acting principal of the Whampoa Military Academy.
Fang Dingying, with his keen sense of military smell, believed that the Whampoa Military Academy must be reformed to cultivate more advanced talents, and many of his opinions were also adopted by Chiang Kai-shek. For example, under the suggestion of Fang Dingying, special forces education was added, many specialties were subdivided, and many specialized military talents were trained.
During the warlord melee, Fang Dingying was heartbroken, and he was eager to lead his troops to the front line to personally defend the motherland and encircle and suppress the warlord forces that split the country. But Chiang Kai-shek refused his request and asked him to concentrate on teaching at the Whampoa Military Academy. Fang Dingying could only pin his heart on the cause of education and train his students to become good soldiers.
Although Fang Dingying had been teaching at the Whampoa Military Academy and was a subordinate of Chiang Kai-shek, he would not blindly obey Chiang Kai-shek's orders, and he had only one goal to fight for, that is, the people. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war in spite of the opposition of the people of the whole country, which discouraged Fang Dingying, who had just seen the dawn of peace, and then Fang Dingying resolutely chose to retire.
In 1949, with the defeat of the Kuomintang and the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, and Fang Dingying did not choose to follow Chiang Kai-shek to flee to Taiwan, he stayed on the mainland and helped Chen Mingren and other generals to revolt peacefully, making outstanding contributions to our party. After the founding of New China, Fang Dingying continued to shine for the people, and successively served as director of the Hunan Department of Justice, member of the National Committee, and deputy to the Hunan People's Congress. In his later years, Fang Dingying was keen on peace and did a lot of work for cross-strait peace, and finally died in 1976 at the age of 88.