A cannon sounded, kicking off the prelude to the Sino-Japanese War, and as a result, we all know that China was defeated and signed a humiliating unequal treaty. However, at that time, the minds of the Chinese people had not yet been opened and liberated, resulting in the weakening of our country's national strength. In this way, the Japanese Kou, who had always had the ambition of a wolf, invaded again, creating the 918 Incident that shocked China and foreign countries. However, the Japanese were not satisfied with the local invasion of China, and wanted to expand the scope of their aggression again and again, and a few years later, they organized the July 7 Incident and launched an all-out war of aggression against China. Faced with the critical moment when the mountains and rivers were broken, a group of thoughtful and fighting people began the road of resistance.
After the establishment of the Anti-Japanese National United Front, the entire Chinese military and people fought with hatred and supported each other, and countless sons and daughters of china joined in the struggle to defend their families and defend the country, and they left a heavy ink pen in Chinese history that can be sung and wept. Countless ancestors have exchanged their bodies for today's peaceful and prosperous world, and General Pi Dingjun, whom we want to introduce today, is one of them.
First, young life is hard
Pi Dingjun was born in 1914 in a poor peasant family in Anhui Province, and from an early age, his family lived in difficulty, lacked food and clothing, and at a young age, he began to bear the burden of the family. Later, when his father died, family life became extremely difficult, and his mother also decided to leave, leaving only him and his grandmother in the family, in order to survive, Pi Dingjun had to work for the landlord, or beg along the street, in short, to fill his stomach.
At the age of 13, Pi Dingjun slowly came into contact with the emerging ideas of the liberation movement, and from then on he joined the movement organized by our party and joined the Communist Party of China two years later. From the beginning of the agrarian revolution period, Pi Dingjun formed an indissoluble relationship with our Party and joined the ranks of the revolution. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively fought with the Japanese army in Taihang, Western Henan and other regions, vowing to defend the motherland's great rivers and mountains to the death. Pi Dingjun fought bravely, and his subordinates were also brave and good at fighting, successfully blocking the enemy on many occasions, making outstanding military achievements, taking the lead in opening up the base area in western Henan, and making great contributions to the fight against the Japanese Kou.
Second, make outstanding military achievements
After years of hardship and hardship, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was finally victorious, and the whole country cheered and rejoiced. However, the civil war broke out, and Chiang Kai-shek wanted to swallow the fruits of victory alone and took the lead in provoking a civil war, which made the masses of the people who had just ended the war miserable, and the generals of our party had no choice but to lead the troops to plunge into the fierce war of liberation again. At that time, the Kuomintang army invaded the Liberated Areas of the Central Plains with heavy troops, and the situation was critical, and in order to cover the retreat of the main force, Pi Dingjun volunteered to break off. Under his leadership, the first brigade under his leadership brilliantly fulfilled the task of protecting the chief and covering the retreat of the army, while also ensuring that the number of casualties of the army was within a controllable range, and retained the military strength for our army.
Because of the miracle created by the Central Plains Breakthrough Campaign, Pi Dingjun was famous in the military region. However, he did not slacken off because of this, and the army under his command won many victories in the subsequent liberation war, and it can be said that he was a very good general.
After the founding of New China, Pi Dingjun was awarded the rank of founding lieutenant general for his merits, which shows his outstanding merits. Later, when the Korean War broke out, he took the initiative to go to Korea and start a new conquest. During the summer counterattack, he actively resisted the US army, participated in the battle in a large number of battles, and recovered the vast area of land, making him a hero who made the US army fearful.
Third, unfortunately, we encountered an air disaster
As China's construction got better and better, the young Pi Dingjun came to the Fuzhou Military Region as deputy commander, and unfortunately died in a 1976 army exercise due to the failure of the aircraft he was riding on. General Pi's life was meritorious and outstanding, and after his death, his ashes were sent by the state to Beijing's Babaoshan for burial.
However, Chinese pays attention to the return of fallen leaves to the roots, under the advice of General Pi's wife Zhang Feng, and the fathers and villagers of the hometown also hope that he can return to his hometown heroically. So 15 years later, General Pi's ashes were moved out of Babaoshan and placed in the martyrs' cemetery in his hometown and the place where the plane crashed. This arrangement of the central authorities, on the one hand, makes General Pi's wife very grateful, and on the other hand, it is also convenient for the local people to commemorate and admire this heroic figure.
General Pi Dingjun's life was magnificent, he made countless achievements on the battlefield, and he was also deeply loved by the local people when he was in the local area, and his spirit and deeds are worth remembering forever!