In the autumn of 1962, Ding Sheng, commander of the Fifty-fourth Army, led the 130th Division into Tibet to prepare to participate in the self-defense counterattack against India in the border areas. At that time, they entered Tibet from Sichuan, first by train, then by car, then by horseback, on foot, and after reaching the Sino-Indian border, they established a command post, because the commander was Ding Sheng, so the command post was also called "Ding Zhi".
Most of the members of Ding Sheng's command post were generals of the Fifty-fourth Army, including deputy commander Wei Tongtai and director of the Political Department Lan Yinong. Under the command of "Ding Zhi", the People's Liberation Army won a great victory in Wa nong, defeated the Indian army, and defended national sovereignty and territorial integrity. The protagonist of our story today is one of the members of the Ding Sheng Command Post, and his name is Lan Yinong. So, what is the story of Lan Yinong?
Lan Yinong was born in 1919, a native of Chaling, Hunan, and during his youth, the Japanese army began to invade China, and Lan Yinong also witnessed that period of suffering. In 1938, 19-year-old Lan Yinong joined our party, and he went to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution, to study at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. After graduating from the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, Lan Yinong was assigned to the Eighth Route Army and successively served as the secretary of the Field Political Department and the organizational officer. Beginning in 1942, Lan Yinong entered the guard company of the Field Political Department, and after that, he has been engaged in guard work and witnessed the victory of the War of Resistance.
During the Liberation War, Lan Yinong followed a large army to the northeast region and participated in the battle to liberate the northeast, including the Liaoshen Campaign. After the Northeast Field Army was reorganized into Siye, Lan Yinong joined the Forty-fifth Army, followed the Forty-fifth Army into the customs, participated in large-scale battles such as the Battle of Hengbao and the Suppression of Bandits in Guangxi, and was one of the heroes who created a new China.
After the 45th Army and the Forty-fourth Army merged into the Fifty-fourth Army, Lan Yinong joined the Fifty-fourth Army and served as the director of the political department of the 134th Division. The commander of the Fifty-fourth Army was Ding Sheng, and Lan Yinong also participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea under the leadership of Ding Sheng. After returning from Korea, Lan Yinong was sent to the Military Academy to study, and after graduating from the academy, he was promoted to the director of the political department of the Fifty-fourth Army, and it was also during this position that he followed Ding Sheng, commander of the Fifty-fourth Army, to participate in the self-defense counterattack against India.
Lan Yinong was one of the heroes of the Indian self-defense counterattack, and Ding Sheng established a command post after arriving in the border area, and Lan Yinong was the main commander. Under their command, the People's Liberation Army won a great victory in Wa nong, defeated the Indian army, won the final victory in the self-defense counterattack against India, and safeguarded national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
After this, Lan Yinong successively served as deputy political commissar and political commissar of the Fifty-fourth Army, and in 1969, he was transferred to the Kunming Military Region and served as the deputy political commissar of the Kunming Military Region. For Lan Yinong, who was only 50 years old at the time, had become the deputy political commissar of the military region, and his future prospects were unlimited, but the September 13 incident in 1971 changed his fate.
After the 913 incident, some of the Siye generals were implicated, and during the revolutionary period, Lan Yinong was also a Siye general, and he was still in a high position at the time of the 913 incident. In 1973, Lan Yinong was sent to the factory, where he remained for a total of seven years, until 1980, when the decentralization ended.
In 1983, Lan Yinong made a comeback and continued to serve in the Kunming Military Region. After his comeback, Lan Yinong was appointed as an adviser to the Kunming Military Region, and it is worth mentioning that the Kunming Military Region at that time belonged to the Grand Military Region, which was at the same level as the Nanjing Military Region, the Chengdu Military Region (the Kunming Military Region was later merged into the Chengdu Military Region), and the Guangzhou Military Region. That is to say, after his comeback, Lan Yinong became an adviser to the Grand Military Region.
Advisers of the Grand Military Region are generals at the level of the Grand Military Region, and generally speaking, they enjoy the treatment of the grand military region after retirement. For example, the famous general Wang Jinshan served as deputy chief of staff of the Nanjing Military Region in his later years, and could only enjoy the treatment of military rank; after his death, the leaders promoted him to an adviser to the Nanjing Military Region, and Wang Jinshan's funeral could also be handled according to the leadership of the grand military region.
In his later years, Lan Yinong lived happily in the dry rest house of the Kunming Military Region, and died of illness in 2008 at the age of 89.