Tian Jingtang has been enrolled since childhood. After graduating from Baoding Military Academy, he served as an infantry company commander in a warlord unit in Luoyang. After the "September 18th Incident", he returned to his old job and lived a leisurely life. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Shi, the county magistrate of Shanghe County of the Kuomintang, abandoned the south of the city and fled, holding a miscellaneous brand and rising. In the name of "anti-Japanese", Tian contacted his friends, Wang Tongdian, the leader of the county bandits, and Wang, the leader of the pseudo-"self-defense forces", and pulled up the team. 1in the spring of 939, the Japanese army invaded Shanghe City and set up a pseudo-county government. Tian took refuge in the pseudo-county magistrate and served as the "director" in the seven, eight and nine districts. During this period, in the name of "Qing Xiang", he forcibly arrested people at gunpoint and expanded the team. Forcing people to bear the burden per mu? Service, every 13 mu of land to 1 door gun. The masses complained bitterly. In the name of "contacting the Eighth Route Army", he extorted 8,000 yuan from four villagers, including Zhang Qian and Zhan. In the name of searching the Eighth Route Army, they looted Wuzhaizi village and burned houses. Zhao Jingquan and other four villagers were arrested, chopped several knives and knocked down the pigsty. 1940, the pseudo-sheriff was established, and Chu Tian was appointed as the deputy of the brigade and later as the battalion chief. In Yinxiang, Bletilla, Zhan Jia, Longsang Temple, Gao 'an, Shengjia and other villages, strongholds were established one after another, and nearly 1,000 puppet troops were expanded. He was fearless. On the one hand, he was loyal to the Japanese army, on the other hand, he colluded with the Kuomintang in secret and killed revolutionary cadres and the masses. Fan Jiren, the head of the eighth district of the anti-Japanese democratic government, and Pan Xingxiao, the head of the sixth district, were killed and hanged in public in the city. Their tragic situation was terrible. 1September 1943, eight people were shot in Tongjiadaokou village, and one of them, a child aged 15, was not spared. 1in the spring of 945, another 12 people were hacked to death in the north of Shanghe City. At the same time, Tian wantonly plundered ill-gotten wealth, widely bought industries, plundered more than 0/0 hectares of land, bought more than 0/00 tile houses, and opened cloth shops and hotels in the city. There are more than 40 buildings in Beijing, and two luxury houses in Heihuquan West Street in Jinan, which are the richest households in Shanghe.
1945 On the eve of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, Puppet Manchuria bandits assembled on the river in Deping, Linyi and Jiyang counties. At the behest of the Kuomintang, Tian reorganized the pseudo-county guard into a forward team and became a column leader himself. After the Japanese surrendered, Chiang Kai-shek merged with the puppet troops and was incorporated into the fifth war zone, where he served as the commander of the Communist suppression in northern Shandong. The puppet troops and bandits, armed with about 10,000 men, robbed and dug trenches, built bunkers, set up deer camps, set up power grids, strengthened their defense and attempted to attack the city. In September, Yang Guofu, commander of Bohai Military Region, led his troops eastward to annihilate the enemy and puppet troops and westward to Shanghe. Zeng, He Haoju and Xin Guozhi took the Second Army as the teacher and unified their troops to attack Shanghe. Before the general attack, Ye Shangzhi, secretary of the county party committee, invited Wei Mingan, an enlightened gentleman from Zanwei village in the suburbs, to send a letter to Xiao Tian to persuade him to surrender. Tian fantasy reinforcements came, guarding the city for help and refusing to surrender. After the general attack began on September 24, Tian Inverse led the puppet troops to fight back and shouted "Shanghe City is our grave". Fierce fighting to the 26th, break through the east gate, adowa enemy troops on the defensive. Tian was seriously injured. After being captured, he committed suicide by taking poison.