He was born as a peasant, served as a qing army standard commander and a bandit leader, and later became a division commander of the Red Army, and was killed
Among the founding generals, Mr. Zhu is older than most people, and he was born in 1886. However, among the senior generals, he was not the oldest, and there was a man who was 7 years older than him, that is, his eldest brother, named Deng Yunting, but he died before the founding of the country.
Deng Yunting was born poor, and when he was a child, his family was poor and had no money to study, but a teaching gentleman in the private school thought that he was a malleable talent, so he did not want money to let him go to a private school.
Deng Yunting was not only good at literature, but also good at kung fu, so he was ready to take the martial arts examination and enter the military circle. Unexpectedly, in 1904, the Qing court abolished the imperial examination system, and then Huang Xing established the Huaxing Association, and Deng Yunting signed up to participate.
At the age of 30, Deng Yunting was admitted to the Yunnan Army Lecture Hall, where Mr. Zhu was also studying, and the two of them met and recognized him as the eldest brother. After graduation, Deng Yunting was assigned to the New Army as an instructor, and later promoted to Biaotong, with a rank similar to that of regimental commander.
Yuan Shikai saw that he had the ability and was ready to let him do things for himself, but unfortunately Deng Yunting did not look up to Yuan Shikai, so he resigned and returned to his hometown. When Deng Yunting walked to Jiufeng Mountain, he rushed out a group of bandits to rob him.
The bandit only needed money, but Deng Yunting said that he did not have any money, and the bandit did not believe that he wanted to search his body, so he beat the bandit down with three fists and two feet. The owner of the cottage felt that he was very skilled, and he wanted to pull Deng Yunting into the company.
Deng Yunting considered that the dry revolution needed a team, so he went to the cottage. After joining the gang, Deng Yunting began to train bandits, and he looked decent. Through his old connections in the army in the past, he gave the bandits a nickname, and suddenly changed from bandits to regular troops.
When the old village lord passed away, Deng Yunting became the new village lord of Jiufeng Mountain, and then the warlords directly from Beiyang took over this bandit army. Tan Yanmin, the leader of the Xiang Army, also admired Deng Yunting and appointed him as the chief of staff of the Ninth Brigade.
After working for a while, Deng Yunting saw that the Xiang army did not want to do the revolution, so he resigned his post and once again ran home to become a peasant. Later, Mr. Zhu led the Nanchang Uprising, and Deng Yunting immediately came to defect after learning about it.
He used his connections to bring in many old troops to join the revolution, and he was also appointed commander of the 7th Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Although Deng Yunting had high prestige in the revolutionary army and was the eldest brother of Zhu Laozong, he was killed anyway.
Deng Yunting was an upright man, and he had offended many people in the past, and the ultra-leftists investigated that he had once been a Qing army standard commander and a bandit leader, so they arrested him and then killed him, when he was only 52 years old.
After Deng Yunting was killed, Mr. Zhu was very angry and denounced the behavior of ultra-leftists. In his later years, whenever he recalled Deng Yunting, Mr. Zhu said that he was sorry for the eldest brother.