How did Pi Dingjun die?

Pi Dingjun was killed in the exercise.

Pi Dingjun is the founding lieutenant general of People's Republic of China (PRC) and a native of Daijialing, Jinzhai County, Anhui Province. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as the commander of the 24th Army of the People's Liberation Army and the 9th Corps of the Volunteers.

Deputy commanders of Fujian Military Region, Fuzhou Military Region, Lanzhou Military Region and Fuzhou Military Region participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. 1955 was awarded the rank of lieutenant general. 1killed in a military exercise in Fujian on July 7, 976. He is only 62 years old.

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1946 At the beginning of June, Chiang Kai-shek launched a full-scale civil war. About 220,000 Kuomintang troops, centering on Xuanhuadian in Dawu County, Hubei Province, besieged more than 60,000 troops in the Central Plains Military Region in a narrow strip less than100km in Fiona Fang with a population of only over 400,000.

On June 27th, 1946, Pi Dingjun was ordered at a critical moment to stop about 220,000 Kuomintang troops with more than 7,000 troops and cover the main force to break through. Pi Dingjun adopted the plan of "suspected soldiers" and stubbornly blocked it for three consecutive days, covering the main force of the Central Plains Military Region to successfully cross the Pinghan Railway and break through to the west.

Pi Dingjun led his troops to fight alone for 24 hours, crossing the three provinces of Hubei, Henan and Anhui. After 23 battles, I overcame difficulties and obstacles such as mountains, rainstorms and floods, braved the heat and starved, with a journey of 1000 km.

Apart from more than 2,000 people who were separated, injured or killed, they successfully reached the Jiangsu-Anhui Liberated Area with a complete organizational system of 5,000 people in three regiments, creating a successful example of the breakthrough of the Central Plains that shocked China and foreign countries. ?

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