Dong Zhentang was a senior general in the Red Army.
Dong Zhentang was a brigade commander of the 26th Route Army of the Nationalist Army before joining the Red Army, and in 1931 he was transferred by Chiang Kai-shek to Jiangxi to encircle and suppress the Red Army with the 26th Route Army. At the end of the same year, Dong Zhentang, together with Zhao Bosheng, chief of staff of the 26th Route Army, and Ji Zhentong, commander of the 74th Brigade of the 25th Division, launched the famous "Ningdu Uprising", leading more than 17,000 people to join the Red Army.
In January 1937, Dong Zhentang led the Fifth Army to join the Western Expeditionary Army, and it is sad that when he marched west to Gaotai in Gansu, he was surrounded by Ma Bufang, and Dong Zhentang and more than 3,000 Red Army soldiers all died heroically at the age of 42.
For Dong Zhentang's deeds, everyone has heard a little, but Dong Zhentang also has a brother, and everyone may rarely pay attention to it.
Originally, Dong Zhentang had three brothers, the eldest brother was called Dong Shengtang, and the younger brother was called Dong Zhitang. At that time, it was fashionable for students to become soldiers, and the eldest brother Dong Shengtang and he both had the ambition to join the army and serve the country, so they were all admitted to the Baoding Officers' School, one was the eighth stage of the artillery section, and the other was the ninth stage of the artillery section.
Later, due to the warlord melee, Dong Shengtang abandoned his studies to join the 15th Mixed Brigade of the direct warlord Sun Yue as a platoon commander, and later promoted to company commander, and then joined Feng Yuxiang of the Northwest Army with Sun Yue's troops, Dong successively served as the commander of the third battalion of the cavalry regiment of the Third Army of the Nationalist Army, the regimental commander, the chief of staff of Pang Bingxun's department, and after the Northern Expedition, he was transferred to the training department of the Second Army Training Director Department as the colonel of the training section.
At this time, his younger brother Dong Zhentang was already the commander of the 12th Brigade of the 14th Division of the Nationalist Coalition Army, the deputy commander of the division major general, and he was the chief of staff of the division colonel. During the Battle of the Central Plains, Dong Shengtang finally became the commander of the Major General of the Guard Regiment, and due to the defeat of Feng Yuxiang, the troops were reorganized by Song Zheyuan's department and served as the commander of the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the 12th Division of the 3rd Army (29th Army) of the Northeast Border Defense Army.
After the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, Dong Shengtang, who was training troops in Taihang, was worried that his brother's behavior of "throwing red" would affect his promotion, and on the surface he appeared as an "anti-" communist. However, his heart was very contradictory, especially after his brother died tragically at the hands of Ma Bufang, he once closed the door and secretly wept.
After that, Dong Shengtang successively participated in the Great Wall War of Resistance, the Nanyuan War of Resistance, the Linyi War of Resistance and other battles, and successively served as a brigade commander and division commander.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Dong Shengtang successively served as chief of staff of the 40th Army, chief of staff of the reorganized 40th Division, and brigade commander of the 106th Brigade. In October 1947, our Central Plains Field Army launched the Battle of Gaoshanpu, and four of the five regiments commanded by Dong Shengtang were annihilated, and he himself became a prisoner of our army. Later, when our army screened the prisoners, it was only interested in the young and strong, and did not pay much attention to the older ones. When Dong Shengtang saw this, he wore a quilt and pretended to be a sick veteran, and was released and escaped.
Dong Shengtang has a specialty, is good at training troops, and has run cadre training classes and supplementary training regiments in the Nationalist army many times.
Dong Shengtang, who fled back, still served as the brigade commander of the 106th Brigade, began to rebuild the team, because he was good at training troops, and soon promoted to deputy commander of the deputy forty division, full-time training of subordinate officers, and soon trained more than 2,000 backbone forces, so he was promoted to deputy commander of the 40th Army. Later, as the war became worse and worse, he saw that the general trend of the Kuomintang had gone, he was discouraged, and did not want to train troops for the Kuomintang army, so he resigned from the post of deputy commander and returned to Xuzhou to do cloth business.
So, what happened to Dong Shengtang the day after tomorrow?
After the liberation of the country, he surrendered himself to the local Military Control Commission and was lenient. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1950, and after 8 months of study at East China Military and Political University, he served as a military instructor at the Cavalry School, and then because of his expertise in training troops in the whole army, he was transferred to the Army Training Department of the General Staff department of the Central Military Commission as a researcher in the Advanced Research Office, transferred to the profession in October 1952, retired in October 1958, wrote some reminiscences, died on October 7, 1963, at the age of 73, which is a bland end.
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