He was a famous anti-Japanese general in the Navy, and after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was disarmed and returned to the field, and before the liberation of Shanghai, he refused to go to Taiwan. Who is he? And later?
He is the famous admiral of the Navy, Zeng Yiding.
His great-grandfather Zeng Huichun was a jinshi and a cousin of the national hero Lin Zexu; his great-grandfather Zeng Yuanbing and grandfather Zeng Zhao'ao were also jinshi; his maternal grandfather Huang Guangzhou was also a jinshi; his maternal grandfather Huang Guangzhou was also a jinshi; his uncle was Zeng Zongyan, who was the "father of the army in modern China", who was also a jinshi in the ninth year of Qing Guangxu (1883); his father Zeng Zongcheng was a man in the second year of Qing Guangxu (1876); the eldest brother Zeng Yujun was a person who raised people in the twenty-fourth year of Qing Guangxu (1898). Even his brother-in-law Zhang Yuzhe was one of the first academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a famous astronomer.
Zeng Yiding, who was born in such a well-off family, was intelligent and resourceful since childhood, and went to study in the United Kingdom after graduating from Yantai Water Teacher School at the age of 14. After returning to China, he served as the captain of the "Jiangli" ship and the captain of the "Yongjian" ship in his immediate line, and then joined the Anhui department as the chief of staff of the Naval Leadership Department and the captain of the "Hairong" ship, and in 1927 he was attached to the National Revolutionary Army, and served as the commander of the torpedo guerrilla fleet and the commander of the Navy's Second Fleet.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China's weak navy engaged in a fierce naval battle with the Japanese navy on the Yangtze River. Although the enemy is outnumbered, weakness does not mean submission. In the face of the mighty Japanese Navy, the Chinese Navy still showed extraordinary courage.
Zeng Yiding, then commander of the Navy's Second Fleet, led Chu Youjian and other ships to participate in Jiangyin, Madang, Hukou, Huangpu River, and other places to stubbornly block the surface troops of the Japanese army with the tactic of shipwrecks and locking the river, and after the large ships were exhausted, they still insisted on continuing to resist with torpedo boats, mines, and other weapons, posing a considerable threat to the Japanese army.
He served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and was awarded the rank of lieutenant general.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as chief of staff of the General Headquarters of the Navy and participated in the reception of the Japanese and puppet navies. Soon, due to the kuomintang's abolition of the General Headquarters of the Navy and the establishment of the Naval Department headed by Chen Cheng, especially dissatisfied with Chen Cheng's military takeover of the Admiralty, he withdrew from the military circles together with Chen Shaokuan, the commander-in-chief of the Navy, and returned to the field, becoming a Duke of Yu in Shanghai.
On the eve of the liberation of Shanghai, friends persuaded him to leave Shanghai for Taiwan, but Yiding insisted on staying on the mainland and joined our navy, becoming the director of the Naval Research Committee at the level of the main army, and died of illness on November 2, 1957, posthumously recognized as a revolutionary martyr.
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