<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Lieutenant General Zheng Ti: Founding Colonel, former deputy commander of the Second Artillery Corps, former political commissar of the Railway Guerrillas</h1>
"The sun in the west is about to set, and the Weishan Lake is quiet...", this is the most classic red song in the classic anti-Japanese drama "Railway Guerrilla". Liu Hong in the play is the founder of the railway guerrilla, and the political commissar is Li Zheng, played by the old drama bone Liu Changchun. The railway guerrillas are real, and one of Li Zheng's prototypes is Lieutenant General Zheng Ti, the former deputy commander of the Second Artillery Corps.
Zheng Ti was born in November 1923 in Linyi, Shandong. Although Shandong's location in East China is relatively northern, it has become a strategic location from south to north because of its convenient land and sea transportation. For this reason, Shandong has become a buffer zone for warlords to fight and tug-of-war.
When the All-out War of Resistance broke out in July 1937, Shandong immediately became a key target of the Japanese army. In May 1938, Shandong Province fell. Seeing that Qilu had fallen into the hands of the enemy, Zheng Ti, who was under the age of 15, resolutely decided to join the army and devote himself to the revolutionary cause. After joining the army, Zheng Ti successively studied at the Luyi Cadre School, the Shandong Bank Anti-Japanese Military and Political Cadres School, and the Shandong Luyi School.
After experiencing the test of actual combat, Zheng Ti was able to grow up rapidly and became a battalion-level cadre at a young age. In the autumn of 1944, Zheng Ti was appointed deputy political commissar of the railway guerrillas (then political commissar Zhang Hongyi). In the summer of 1945, after Zhang Hongyi's death, Zheng Ti succeeded him as political commissar and the last political commissar of the railway guerrillas.
The full name of the railway guerrilla is the railway brigade of the Lunan Military Region, and the captain of the brigade, Liu Jinshan, is the prototype character of Liu Hong in "Railway Guerrilla". The flexible movement of the railway guerrillas caused great damage to the branch lines of the Jinpu and Linzao railways, which made the Japanese army both gritted its teeth and was extremely frightened. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, more than 1,000 Japanese troops in Lincheng surrendered to the railway guerrillas, which was the first time in the Eighth Route Army, and was called "Shagou Surrender" in history.
During the period of the Liberation War, Zheng Ti successively served as the chief of the Yanxu section of the Lunan Railway Administration, the chief of the reconnaissance section, the director of the Social Department of the Xuzhou Municipal CPC Committee, the political commissar of the 16th Regiment of the Lunan Military Region, the chief of staff and the chief of the Military Justice Department of the Xuzhou Garrison Headquarters. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zheng Ti successively served as deputy director of the Shandong Coastal Defense Public Security Bureau and deputy commander of the 14th East China Public Security Division. Later, Zheng Ti was ordered to go to Beijing to compile the new Chinese public security army regulations.
No sooner had the ordinance been compiled than the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out. Zheng Ti went to Korea with the east China Military Region's internship group and was retained as the deputy commander of the 70th Division of the 24th Army of the Volunteer Army. In 1955, Zheng Ti was awarded the rank of colonel, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Third Class, and the Liberation Medal of the Second Class, becoming the founding colonel in the annals of history.
By 1978, Zheng Ti was the director of the Science and Technology Department of the Second Artillery Corps and the deputy chief of staff of the Second Artillery Corps. Needless to say, the Second Artillery Corps has been in a state of high secrecy since its inception, and to this day it is also cloaked in a veil of mystery. The Second Artillery Is China's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Force, and it is also a big country card for defending China's core interests.
In 1982, Zheng Ti served as the deputy commander of the Second Artillery Corps, mainly responsible for the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Logistics Department, and successively assisted he Jinheng and Li Xuge in the work of the two commanders. During his tenure, the weapons and equipment of the Second Artillery were upgraded and a large number of high-tech talents were reserved. In September 1988, Zheng Ti was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. In 1993, Zheng Ti retired from his leadership position.