Resume of Commander Pi Dingjun
When mentioning the founding lieutenant general Pi Dingjun, people usually think of his great achievements on the battlefield, but in fact, under the battlefield, Pi Dingjun also left many stories that people talked about. 1943 is the most difficult period in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. At that time, natural disasters such as Japanese and puppet raids, locust plagues and droughts caused Henan to encounter a serious food shortage problem. At that time, Pi Dingjun was the commander of the Seventh Military Division of the Taihang Military Region. To solve this problem, there was only one way, that is, farming by himself. So how did Pi Dingjun command everyone to farm? You can't find him in the command post, because Pi Dingjun circled a piece of land by the river and reclaimed land with the guards. Some people don't understand. Now it's the commander's turn to farm his own land and let the people pay the public grain. Pi Dingjun was not happy when he heard this. He said that as long as we plant one kilo more grain, the people can reduce the burden of one kilo. Then he pointed to the ground under his feet and said that this land belongs to him, and he will be punished if he can't produce food in autumn, but if the land in charge of others can't produce food, the person in charge will have to go hungry honestly. With the demonstration of Pi Dingjun, the grain harvest in the military sub-district was good. This is just a microcosm of Pi Dingjun. It is precisely because he set an example in many things that he won the admiration and love of the soldiers. 1964, Pi Dingjun, deputy commander of Fuzhou Military Region, inspected the troops. After listening to the report, he went to the machine gun company for a turn. It was very hot that day, and Pi Dingjun just walked around sweating, but when he came to the pigsty, he saw an elderly breeder mowing grass in the sun to feed pigs. Pi Dingjun immediately called Song, the political commissar of the army. He asked Song to stand in the sun for an hour instead of the breeder. Song immediately understood the meaning of Pi Dingjun, and quickly let people build a arbor for the breeder. At this point, Pi Dingjun's anger still lingered, and he continued to reprimand Song, saying that officers and men should be consistent and should not be special just because they became officials. Two years later, Pi Dingjun took the cadres of Fuzhou Military Region to work in xiushui county, Jiangxi. At that time, Pi Dingjun was not young, and the county leaders were afraid of his accident, so they offered to let him rest in the county hostel. Pi Dingjun not only disagreed, but also deliberately chose a very remote reunion brigade of Chijiang Commune to live, work and eat sweet potato rice with the locals. In this way, Pi Dingjun became a farmer for half a year. Because he is a farmer, he is very good at farm work. Others didn't expect, this and they are no different, is the famous commander in chief Pi Dingjun.