Ding Silin: "Model Youth League" head

Ding Silin: "Model Youth League" head

Dingjiagang, Xinghua Township Village, Xinghua Township, Hong'an County, Hubei Province, is the hometown of Ding Silin, the head of the 386th Division of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

Ding Silin was born in April 1913 in a poor farmer's family in Dingjiagang, Huang'an (now Hong'an), Hubei. He joined the Communist Party of China in September 1933. Participated in the Red Army in May 1932. He has served as the squad leader, platoon leader, company commander, and battalion commander. After 1934, he served as Chief of Staff of the 274th Regiment of the 93rd Division of the 31st Army of the Fourth Army and the head of the 271st regiment. Participated in the Long March in 1935.

After the outbreak of the National Anti -Japanese War, Ding Silin served as the head of the 772th regiment of the 386th Route 386th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In September 1938, he served as the head of the 386th Brigade. He exercised a new troops into a combatant, combatant, and the fine tradition of our army. In February 1939, in the ambush war in Xiangcheng, Qu Zhouxian County, the entire Japanese army of the Japanese army and the 40s supplemented brigade crushed the conspiracy of the enemy to destroy the south of the Hebei. Due to his outstanding performance, the new 1 regiment was praised by Zhu Dezan, the commander -in -chief of the Eighth Route Army as the "Model Youth League", and was later awarded the glorious title of the "Zhu De Youth Regiment" by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

On July 5, 1939, the 107th Union of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army gathered more than 3,000 people to "sweep" the southern south -south anti -Japanese base area. On the 6th, Ding Silin led the new regiment for two days with the enemy in Yunshan Town. On the 8th, the Japanese army concentrated its troops to launch an attack again. In order to cover the retreat, he took the initiative to block the Japanese army's offense. During the fierce battle, Ding Silin bounced on his head and sacrificed vigorously at the age of 26.

In order to express his grief for Ding Silin, Deng Xiaoping, then the Political Commissar of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, published the article "Mourning Comrade Ding Silin" in the Xinhua Daily (North China Edition), praising him "not only a heroic and flexible commander, but also And from the ten years of struggle, he has trained his loyalty to the nation, loyal to the people of the working, and loyal to the party. At the same time, he is also rich in the spirit of young people, courageous to serve, not afraid of difficulties, and move forward. " Therefore, he trusts at the same level and respects his subordinates. His sacrifice is "a major loss of the whole division." (People's Daily)

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