Cao Ding's revolutionary deeds

Cao Ding 1907 was born in Shouxian County, Anhui Province, and Cao Xiaoying was born in Xiaodian. I studied under the famous painter Zhang Shu when I was young. He is diligent and studious, and his grades are excellent. He was admitted to Wuhu Provincial No.5 Middle School with 1922, and then transferred to Nanjing Xinmin Middle School (founded by Anhui expatriates) to study. During his school days, he often read some revolutionary books and periodicals and was exposed to new culture and Marxism. Influenced by the national student movement and workers' movement, Cao Ding's ideological consciousness has been continuously improved, and he is determined to join the revolution and fight for the liberation of the Chinese nation all his life.

From 65438 to 0925, Cao Ding returned to his hometown to teach in Xiaodianji Primary School after graduating from Xinmin Middle School. He engaged in revolutionary activities under the guise of teaching, and often publicized the principle of opposing feudal exploitation, implementing land to the tiller and overthrowing foreign powers to farmers in Shouxian, Yingshang and Huoqiu. He is caring and considerate of the working people and has an amiable attitude. The masses are willing to get close to him and discuss with him in urgent matters. He always tries his best to solve problems for the masses, who respectfully call him a "bronze statue bodhisattva".

That year, Cao Ding joined the China * * * production party.

1926 in may, Cao Ding was sent by the party and went to Wuhan with Cao Guanghua and others to join the revolutionary torrent against imperialism and warlords. After the failure of the Great Revolution, the CPC Anhui Provincial Committee established the CPC Shouxian Temporary Committee in Hankou. Cao Guanghua was appointed secretary and Cao Ding was in charge of military work. At the end of 1927, under the leadership of Zhong * * * Shouxian County Committee, the first district committee of Shouxian County, Zhong * * * Wabu District Committee, was established, and Cao Ding was elected as the district party secretary. On June 28th, Anhui Provincial Party Committee sent inspectors to Shangdiansi Primary School to hold the fourth general party membership meeting in the county, and a new county committee was elected, and Cao Ding was elected as the county party secretary. After the re-election, the county authorities moved from Xiaodian to Shouyang Public School, and Cao Ding presided over the first meeting to study and mobilize the masses to carry out economic and political struggles, and decided to prepare ten guns for each district party committee in order to carry out armed struggle.

1928 On March 5th, the county party committee held an enlarged meeting of responsible comrades and activists at all levels to analyze the situation, discuss future work and make resolutions on political, economic, organizational, propaganda and military work. After the meeting, Cao Ding and the participants quickly conveyed the resolution of the county party committee to party organizations at all levels, and carried out extensive and in-depth revolutionary activities to make the peasant movement flourish. The number of peasant associations has increased from a few to nearly a hundred, and the number of members has increased from more than a hundred to more than 654.38+10,000. At the end of the year, Cao Ding and others held a meeting of 1,000 people in Xiaodian in the name of acting, and led the masses to demonstrate in Xiaodian, Wabu, Dajing, Shangdian and Yangjiamiao, holding high the red flag and shouting slogans such as "Down with the landlord" and "Down with the local tyrants and evil gentry". The revolutionary atmosphere is unprecedentedly high. Cao Ding also led a group of people from the county party committee to actively publicize and mobilize the masses to fight against taxes and save food. Make use of the anniversary to carry out extensive publicity, post slogans and announcements, collect and print some folk songs and minor tunes, expose the crimes of imperialist aggression and Chiang Kai-shek's treason and surrender, and call on soldiers to defect, workers to strike, businessmen to strike, students to strike and poor farm labourers to resist food. During this period, Shouxian, like other counties in northern Anhui, witnessed the continuous development of party organizations and vigorous mass movements.

1931On March 27th, inspector Fang of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting of responsible cadres of Shouxian, Fengtai and Fuyang counties in Shangdian Temple to study and establish the Central County Committee (Shouxian) in northern Anhui. The meeting decided to launch an armed peasant uprising in Wabu area, and set up an action committee, with Cao Ding as the propaganda member of the Central County Committee and secretary of the Wabu riot action committee. Late at night on March 29th, farmers who participated in the riots gathered in Taishan Temple in the north of Wabu from all directions. They put the short guns in their arms, and the long guns were hidden in the straw bundles, waiting for action. However, Xue Qian, who was in charge of military command, did not dare to take action, which led to the escape of Lu Kuihan, the head of the Kuomintang, and missed the opportunity to destroy the reactionary armed forces in one fell swoop. Due to the sudden change of the situation, some people in the riot squad want to disband and go home and wait for another ride. Cao Ding and others think that our actions have been known to the enemy. If I don't attack the enemy, he will kill me. It's better to take the initiative than to wait and die. We can see that the mass base is good, people and guns are concentrated and the demand is urgent. He agreed to riot as planned, and at the same time revoked Xue Qian's command post, and changed the Action Committee to the Red Army Guerrilla Brigade in North Anhui, which has three squadrons, with Fang Heping () as the battalion chief and Cao Ding as the political commissar, directly leading and directing the riot. In the early morning of March 30th, under the leadership of Cao Ding and Fang Heping, mobs flocked to Wabu Street and erected a red flag embroidered with sickles and axes at the gate of Wang Chunyuan Hotel. In the morning, three squadrons arrested more than 10 landlords and gentry in Wabu and nearby areas respectively, and confiscated their guns. The landlords who were not arrested were frightened and forced to hand over their guns. Some landlords sent people to the guerrillas to beg them to "pay half their guns instead of stealing food", but Cao Ding and other comrades resolutely refused. The next day, when the local owner Yang Fucheng saw the guerrillas entering the village, he dared not open the door and paid the gun from the window. In two days, * * * handed over more than 100 landlords' spears and more than 30 spears. At the same time, Cao Ding sent people to the countryside near Wabu to mobilize farmers to go to the landlord's house to collect food. On the morning of 3 1, the granary of the landlord's house in Fangxiaolou was opened, and more than 3,400 farmers came to fetch food. On the way, they shouldered their shoulders and carried them in an endless stream, taking away more than 200 stones of grain from the landlord's house in Fangxiaolou.

The revolutionary action of the Wabu riots shocked the enemy, and the Kuomintang Shouxian self-defense brigade, the Wabu district team and the nearby landlord alliance armed forces jointly rushed to the guerrilla brigade. Cao Ding and Fang Heping led a team to open the gate overnight, occupied three polder areas and bravely stopped the invading enemy. Although they repelled the enemy's attack several times, a dozen comrades died heroically because of the disparity between the enemy and ourselves. At this critical moment, CLP Xiaodian Branch pieced together several guns and dozens of people disguised as Xiaodian Association, and sent messengers to get in touch with Cao Ding twice to make way for the guerrillas to break through. After Cao Ding led his team to break through, he scattered and hid guerrillas and weapons to preserve his strength. Although the four-day Wabu riots failed, they started the armed struggle in Shouxian County, tempered the cadres and the masses, dealt a blow to the reactionary arrogance of landlords and gentry, dispersed some enemy troops, and helped the Red Army in the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Soviet areas to carry out the third counter-campaign against "encirclement and suppression".

In May, Du Yimin, a producer of * * * from party member, entered a Kuomintang unit in Pukou, Nanjing, led the uprising, went from Nanjing to Sanjue Temple in Shouxian County via Bengbu, found the Shouxian County Party Committee, participated in the decentralized armed forces after the Wabu riots, and established the Shouxian Red Army Guerrilla Brigade with about 70 guns, which was sent by Cao Ding as the battalion chief, Li Ying and other central authorities to guide guerrilla activities.

After the establishment of the guerrilla brigade, the struggle of picking up grain was first carried out in Lingjiaozui. Located in the middle of the lake, the water chestnut mouth is often submerged and squeezed by the bully plum, and the people are poor all the year round. Cao Ding has come here many times to publicize the revolutionary truth to the masses and inspire their enthusiasm for struggle. On the evening of September 22, guerrillas occupied Li's mound, killed Li's brothers, seized seven long and short guns, and mobilized more than 500 farmers to rake more than 30,000 kilograms of grain. Then a mass meeting was held to expose Li's crimes and make the masses realize that the only way out is to organize and struggle. Through this struggle, the influence of the party and guerrillas has been expanded and more than 50 guerrillas have been developed.

In June+10, 5438, in order to get rid of the enemy's "pursuit", after asking the CPC Central Committee, it was decided to drive the guerrillas into Dabie Mountain to join the Red Army in the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Soviet areas. The troops moved from Dajing Temple to Fengtai Baitang Temple via Heiniwa. After Huang Zizhen, a party member in the underground of Huangjiaba, arrived at Baitang Temple, he wrote to ask the guerrillas to go to Huangjiaba to suppress Zhen and Huang landlords, so as to inspire the people's fighting spirit. After studying by Cao Ding, Li Ying and Dreamman Tang, secretary of Fengtai County Party Committee, they decided to go to Huangjiaba first, and then go to Nanshan to find the Red Army. 165438+1On the afternoon of October 2nd, 170 guerrillas marched on Huangjiaba with 120 long and short guns. In the early morning of the 3rd, Cao Ding and others led the guerrillas to put up slogans and carry out propaganda and agitation. The local farmers ignored the news and opened the granaries of the two landlords, Zhen and Huang, and held a meeting to distribute food to the masses. However, due to the negligence of the sentry, the landlord Lu Fashan sneaked into Yingshang County to collude with the reactionary armed forces "Red Gun Club", and more than 65,438+10,000 people attacked from the northwest. At the same time, the National Party Style Taixian Self-Defense Brigade and the Second Provincial Security Corps also rushed to surround the guerrilla brigade. Cao Ding and others decided to organize a breakthrough. There was a fierce battle for three hours from afternoon to dusk. After the bullets were finished, the guerrilla brigade launched a hand-to-hand battle. Cao Ding was injured in many places. He gritted his teeth and fought with the enemy, shedding his last drop of blood and making a heroic sacrifice. He was only 24 years old.