Ye Ting was born in September 1896 in Huishui Building, Zhoutian Village, Qiuchang District, Huiyang County, Guangdong Province, a peasant family. Father not only rents 1 1 mu farmland, but also grows fruit trees. In addition, he also runs an ancestral Chinese medicine shop, which shows feng shui to others during the slack season. Nevertheless, a family's life is still difficult to maintain. Later, Ye Ting's two little sisters had to be sold to others as child brides. This strongly shocked the young Ye Ting's mind and began to vaguely feel the difference between the rich and the poor.
Ye Ting was smart and studious since childhood. At the age of four, he helped to look after cows at home and recited the philosopher's motto with his brother. 1900 to 10, the Sanzhoutian Uprising led by revolutionary Zheng Shiliang took place in Huizhou. Ye Ting spent most of his childhood and adolescence listening to the revolutionary stories of the uprising heroes told by his elders. 1903, Ye Ting entered Yun Teng private school in the village and studied ancient Chinese with Mr. Ye. Later, this private school was replaced by a new figure, Chen Jingru, who taught students new subjects such as Chinese, arithmetic and geography. During this period, he instructed Ye Ting to read Yue Fei's "The Red River", Wen Tianxiang's "Songs of Benevolence and Righteousness" and Zhang and Zou Rong's works, which made Ye Ting accept the influence and education of nationalism and democracy. This teacher Chen not only made Ye Ting step onto the revolutionary road, but also had a deep teacher-student relationship with Ye Ting. Ye Ting later changed his name, which was given to him by Chen Jingru. It means "people want to go up, leaves want to go up", hoping that students can "stand up and save China".
19 1 1 in the spring of, 15 years old Ye Ting was admitted to Huizhou fuli secondary sericulture school. Influenced by the Guangzhou uprising, he took the lead in braiding and was once in prison. He felt that saving the country should come from the army, so that 19 12 was admitted to Guangdong Army Primary School, and rose to Hubei Army Preparatory School and Baoding Military Academy, the highest military institution in China, step by step in five years. At school, he likes to read the magazine New Youth edited by Chen Duxiu, longing for the light of new ideas in the dark warlord education.
19 17, Ye Ting joined the Guangdong army shortly after returning to Guangdong. 1922 served as the battalion commander of the 2nd battalion of Sun Yat-sen Guard Corps. The following year, Chen Jiongming shelled the presidential palace, and Ye Ting led his men to fight hard for World War I, holding a "flower machine gun" to fight our way out for Soong Ching Ling who was pregnant at that time. 1924, in order to cultivate military talents of the Kuomintang, Sun Yat-sen personally decided to let Ye Ting study in the Soviet Union. He first entered Oriental University, influenced by Li Dazhao, party member and his classmates. The following year, he entered the military academy with Nie and others, where he asked to join the Party and was approved.
/kloc-in the autumn of 0/925, with the consent of Li, the commander of the Fourth Army, the Guangdong District Committee led by * * * established an independent regiment led by the Production Party (initially designated as 34 regiments), and sent Ye Ting, who had just returned to China, as the head.
1926, the northern expedition began. Ye Ting led an independent regiment as a pioneer in the first battle in southern Hunan, winning Lien Chan and capturing Wuchang all the way. He was promoted to major general and served as head of the regiment by the National Government. Subsequently, the regiment was expanded into two divisions, and he served as the division commander of 24 divisions. 1927 during the Nanchang uprising, the troops he led were the main force and went to Hong Kong after being frustrated. In the same year, in 65438+February, the Guangzhou Uprising launched the banner of "Red Army" for the first time, and he served as the commander-in-chief. Two days later, the Guangzhou uprising failed. Ye Ting was improperly punished in organization and criticized after being transferred to Moscow to study. Ye Ting left Western Europe in a fit of pique and broke away from the Party. Ye Ting left the party and went to Germany to study military affairs. Because of the difficulty of life, he opened a restaurant and returned to Macau after five years in Europe. After the Kuomintang leaders learned about it, they gave gifts to win over. Ye Ting refused and took the initiative to find the producer of * * *. 1937 after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he immediately rushed to Yanan. Mao Zedong hosted a reception for him. At the meeting, Ye Ting said excitedly, "Revolution is like climbing a mountain. Many comrades are not afraid of the dangers of mountains and roads, so they keep going up. I climbed halfway up the mountain and turned back for a while, and now I am catching up! "
Entrusted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Ye Ting negotiated with the Kuomintang as a non-party person, and reorganized the Red Army guerrillas in eight southern provinces into the New Fourth Army and served as the commander.
On the anti-Japanese front in southern Anhui, Xiang Ying, deputy commander of the New Fourth Army and secretary of the Southeast Bureau of the Central Committee, looked at Ye Ting from the perspective of non-Party people. The relationship between them was not harmonious, and the Kuomintang took the opportunity to provoke. Mao Zedong has been asking Xiang Ying and others to respect Ye Ting. Zhou Enlai personally persuaded Ye Ting to leave a job for the sake of the tail from wagging the dog. 194 1 year, when the Kuomintang besieged the headquarters of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui, Mao Zedong called and decided that the whole army would be commanded by Ye Ting. Ye Ting was very grateful for the trust of the Central Committee and led a bloody battle. 194 1 Ye Ting was detained in the southern Anhui incident. Later, he was escorted to Shangrao cell, and then locked in a damp cave in Guilin. He refused to get a haircut in protest. More than a year later, Chiang Kai-shek thought that he might be soft-hearted after suffering enough and ordered him to be taken to Chongqing. According to Shen Zui, the head of the military spy at that time, Ye Ting got off the plane with a long beard and an oil lamp in his hand. Others asked why lanterns were carried during the day. Ye Ting replied that it was not clear, and made a bitter satire on the darkness of the Kuomintang.
Ye Ting was sent to the "preferential room" first, and Chiang Kai-shek advised him to "repent" face to face. Chen Cheng also promised to be the deputy commander of the war zone. Ye Ting flatly refused, only demanding the release of the detained New Fourth Army personnel. Chiang Kai-shek became angry from embarrassment and put him in the "Sino-US Cooperation Office" for solitary confinement. Later, Ye Ting was exiled to Enshi, Guilin and other places under the surveillance of special agents. He refused to accept money from the Kuomintang, only borrowed living expenses from his friends, and explained that the * * * production party would pay it back later. A senior Kuomintang official went to the prison to ask him what he wanted to do in the future. Ye Ting said that if I can regain my freedom, "the first thing to do is to apply to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to restore my party membership". When he was released from prison, various theaters of the People's Liberation Army sent congratulatory messages.
The day after he was released from prison, Ye Ting called the Central Committee to ask for joining the Party again, and was approved two days later. 1April 8, 946, when I went to Yan 'an, I was killed because the plane crashed into a mountain in the fog. He was only 50 when he died. Mao Zedong wrote an inscription for him: "It is glorious to die for the people." .