Zhu Dingqing’s personal deeds

On December 26, 1949, Zhu Dingqing, commander of the 3rd Corps of the Kuomintang Army, led more than 7,000 troops from the Corps Headquarters and the temporary 8th and 9th Corps to stage an uprising in Jintang County, Sichuan Province.

Zhu Dingqing served as the commander of the 9th Supply Area of ??the Kuomintang Army and chairman of Hubei Province. As the People's Liberation Army marched toward the southwest and the Kuomintang was retreating steadily, Sun Zhen, director of the Sichuan-Hubei Appeasement Office, conveyed to Zhu Dingqing an order from the Kuomintang's Ministry of National Defense to abolish all institutions in the name of Hubei's military and political affairs and change them to the 3rd Corps. , Zhu was appointed commander of the Corps. The Appeasement General Headquarters and the security forces were temporarily organized into the 8th and 9th Corps of the 3rd Corps. Li Langxing was appointed as the temporary commander of the 8th Army, and Yang Da was appointed as the temporary commander of the 9th Army. They were stationed at Longjudi east of Wanxian County and on the west bank of the Yangtze River.

In late November, Sun Zhen ordered the 3rd Corps to serve as Jiangdong defense from the east of Wanxian County to Zhongxian County, and then gradually retreated to the vicinity of Quxian County to fight to the east and prevent the People's Liberation Army from advancing westward. However, the newly formed 3rd Corps was mostly composed of civilian personnel and security teams, and was unable to resist the massive offensive of the People's Liberation Army. Zhu saw the opportunity and ordered all ministries to stop fighting. He immediately withdrew from the Jiang defense line and retreated to Dianjiang and Liangping respectively. He worked all the way without a shift or a company. He surrendered at the slightest contact with the PLA's leading troops. Seeing this situation, Zhu ordered his troops to flee westward, arriving near Xindu County on December 23. After contacting the Kuomintang garrison in Chengdu, we learned that Sun Zhen, Gu Zhutong, Hu Zongnan and others had all escaped. At this time, Zhu summoned Li Chaojun and others to discuss and decided to send someone to Chengdu to contact Wang Zanxu. Peng Kuanggao, deputy commander of the Corps, served as Wang's chief of staff during the Anti-Japanese War. Taking advantage of Peng's relationship with Wang, he was sent to contact him. On the morning of the 25th, Zhu was very anxious as he had not received any response from Peng. Because the Corps was at a strategic location, in order to avoid conflict with the People's Liberation Army advancing along the highway, the troops were ordered to avoid Xindu and move northwest of Jintang, waiting for news from Chengdu. At about 16:00 in the afternoon, when the troops arrived near Jintang Zhao Town, they discovered that there were People's Liberation Army troops advancing towards the area. At this time, Zhu received a report from Yang Da, the temporary commander of the 9th Army: It was better to revolt. After reading the report, Zhu gave instructions: Someone has been sent to Chengdu to contact him. At this time, the leading troops of the 3rd Corps had been discovered by the People's Liberation Army, and the two sides launched a gun battle. The ministry sent the deputy commander of the 1st Battalion to contact the People's Liberation Army and stated that it had sent people to Chengdu to contact the uprising. Yang Da, the temporary commander of the 9th Army, also went to the People's Liberation Army's frontline troops to contact the frontline troops and ordered the troops of the 3rd Army Corps to cease fire immediately, and a gun battle ended.

Facing the situation that the 3rd Corps lacked equipment, had no source of supplies, and the officers and soldiers were tired and resentful, Zhu Dingqing assigned Li Chaojun and deputy division commander Liu Xianglin to rush to Zhao Town to find the 180th Division of the 60th Army of the People's Liberation Army, the division's political commissar Zhang Qishan and Zhu Xiangli, director of the Political Department, received them. Li and Yang expressed to Zhang and Zhu their attitude towards pursuing a peaceful path and the measures that had been taken. Zhu Xiangli immediately praised their righteous deeds and relieved Li and Yang's concerns.

Political Commissar Zhang Qishan and Director Zhu Xiangli asked Li and Yang to tell Zhu Dingqing after they returned: gather the troops near Jintang in Damianpu to await reorganization, and the People's Liberation Army will be responsible for providing living supplies. On the 26th, Li Chaojun and Yang Da brought a letter jointly signed by the commander and political commissar of the 180th Division of the People's Liberation Army to Zhu Dingqing. After Zhu read the review, he immediately ordered the troops to concentrate on Shibantan via Zhaozhen. After the troops arrived at Shibantan, the Corps Headquarters convened a meeting of officers and soldiers, and Zhu announced an army uprising.

After the uprising, the 3rd Corps was concentrated in Shibantan and Damianpu areas, waiting for reorganization. On January 1, 1950, Commander He Long met Zhu Dingqing at his residence. When he learned that Zhu had served as a staff officer under his subordinates, he encouraged him: Just start an uprising and start over. After liberation, Zhu successively served as senior counselor of the Southwest Military Region, librarian of the Hubei Provincial Museum of Culture and History, counselor of the Counselor's Office of the Hubei Provincial Government, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and vice chairman of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Li Chaojun successively served as the teaching team leader and tactics instructor of the Chongqing Artillery School of the People's Liberation Army. Yang Da successively served as a teacher at the Nanjing Military Academy of the People's Liberation Army, director of the Welfare Division of the Shandong Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, and counselor in the Counselor's Office of the Shandong Provincial Government.