People all know that General Xu Shiyou was the commander of the Nanjing Military Region, but almost no one knows who was the second commander of the Nanjing Military Region after Xu Shiyou, and the second commander was a major general, who was the famous Ding Sheng, who was deeply valued by Lin Zong.
Judging from his rank, Ding Sheng was only a major general, far from general Xu Shiyou, so what ability did he have to take over the post of commander of the Nanjing Military Region? After all, there are many people in the general and lieutenant general, how can it not be his turn to be a major general, what is going on?
In fact, Ding Sheng was first the commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, in December 1973, when the commanders of the eight major military regions were transferred, he was transferred with Xu Shiyou, so that he became the commander of the Nanjing Military Region.
Ding Sheng is a native of Yudu County, Jiangxi, in 1930, at the age of 17, he joined the Red Army, successively served as a squad leader and a company instructor, And Ding Sheng's position during the Red Army period was not high, and the highest was only the political commissar of the 2nd Regiment of the Red 28 Army, but he was very brave and not afraid of sacrifice.
In 1931, the 18-year-old Ding Sheng served as a flag bearer in the 11th Division of the Red 4 army, that is, a flag-raising soldier, which is the highest rate of sacrifice in the army, no matter which unit, the flag-blower will usually be killed first, and the flag-blower will fall as soon as the flag soldier dies, and the effect is self-evident.
In a battle, the leader of Ding Sheng's regiment was sacrificed, he still held the flag to charge, to guide the direction of the troops, until the end of the battle, the flag never fell, after the war comrades praised Ding Sheng's boldness and not afraid of sacrifice, the nickname "Ding Bold" did not go away.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ding Sheng's bravery was once again demonstrated, he served as the regimental political commissar and the brigade commander of the 27th Brigade of the Reliao Column, participated in the encirclement and annihilation of loess ridge, killed the famous Japanese general Abe Norihide, and also participated in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, which was praised by the Japanese army as a "road-keeping nail", which shows his bravery.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, limited by weapons and the strength of the Eighth Route Army, Ding Sheng commanded the largest scale of the battle by one regiment, and during the Liberation War, his military talents were fully demonstrated, and he served as the commander of the 24th Division and the 135th Division of the 45th Army, fighting all the way from the east to the south.
To defend Siping, the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign, as well as the Battle of Crossing the River, Ding Sheng participated in the command and command operations and fought many classic battles, among which the Battle of Hengbao made Ding Sheng famous and shocked the whole army, when Bai Chongxi of the Gui clan arranged 5 armies on the Hengbao Line to wait for work.
Lin Zong did not have a plan, ordered the troops to stand by and look for a breakthrough point and then wait for the opportunity to move, but Ding Sheng, who was the commander of the 135th Division at the time, did not take Bai Chongxi seriously at all, hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops were crushed, how could they be intimidated by the five armies, Ding Sheng ordered to go deep behind the enemy lines without authorization.
Bai Chongxi was worthy of the title of "Little Zhuge Ge", after discovering that Ding Sheng was a lone army, he immediately ordered Ding Sheng's 135th Division to be surrounded and planned to eat it in one bite, it is said that at that time, Lin Zong was ready to hold a memorial service for Ding Sheng, Bai Chongxi did not expect that Ding Sheng was a hard stubble.
The Kuomintang troops could not move Ding Sheng's "hard bones", and the strength of the enemy's 4 divisions was attracted by Ding Sheng, and suddenly the defensive line laid out by Bai Chongxi was shaken, and Lin Zong immediately made a decisive attack on all fronts, giving the enemy a counter-encirclement, plus "the center blossoming", and eating the enemy's 4 divisions in one fell swoop.
In this way, the enemy's defense on the Hengbao Line was completely destroyed, Ding Sheng can be said to have made the first contribution, after the war, Lin Zong was very important to him, in 1950, Ding Sheng entered the Nanjing Military Academy to study, after the war to resist the United States and aid Korea began, Ding Sheng became the commander of the 54th Army of the Volunteer Army.
In 1955, Ding Sheng was awarded the rank of major general and served as the commander of the military region, but due to the influence of some events, he was expelled from the party and died of illness in 1999, and at the memorial service he could only be called "Old Man Ding Sheng".