From 65438 to 0925, Cao Ding returned to his hometown after graduating from Xinmin Middle School and taught in Xiaodianji Primary School. He engaged in revolutionary activities under the guise of teaching, and often publicized the principles of opposing feudal exploitation, land to the tiller and overthrowing foreign powers to farmers in Shouxian, Yingshang and Huoqiu. He is considerate and amiable to the working people. The masses are willing to approach him and discuss with him in an emergency. He always tries his best to solve problems for the masses, who respectfully call him a "bronze 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 is the secretary and Cao Ding is in charge of military work. /kloc-at the end of 0/927, under the leadership of Zhong * * * Shouxian Committee, the first Shouxian District Committee-Zhong * * * Wabu District Committee was established, and Cao Ding was elected as the district party secretary. On June 28th, 1929, the inspector appointed by Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China presided over the fourth party member Congress in Shangdiansi Primary School, and a new county party committee was elected. Cao Ding was elected as the county party secretary. After the re-election, the county authorities moved from Xiaodian to Shouyang College, 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 for armed struggle.
On March 5, 1928, 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 65,438+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 carry out the struggle against taxes and grain. Make use of Memorial Day to carry out extensive publicity, post slogans and notices, collect and print some folk songs and minor tunes, expose the crimes of imperialist aggression and Chiang Kai-shek's traitorous 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, Fang, inspector 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 discuss the establishment of the Central County Committee (Shouxian) in northern Anhui. The meeting decided to mobilize farmers to hold armed riots 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. In the middle of the night of 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 caused Lu Kuihan, the head of the Kuomintang, to escape 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, waiting for another ride. Cao Ding and others think that our actions have been known by 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. Agree to riot as planned, and at the same time revoke Xue Qian's command position, change the action committee to the Red Army Guerrilla Brigade in northern Anhui, and have three squadrons, with Fang Heping (Yi Yun) as the battalion chief and Cao Ding as the political commissar of the brigade, 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. On the morning of the same day, three squadrons arrested more than 10 landlords and gentry in Wabu and nearby areas respectively, and confiscated their guns. The landlord who was not arrested was frightened and forced to hand over his gun. Some landlords sent people to the guerrillas and begged them to "hand over half their guns and not steal 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 landlord spears and more than 30 spears. At the same time, Cao Ding sent people to the countryside near Wabu to mobilize farmers to collect food from landlords. 3 1 in the morning, 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, robbing the landlord of Fangxiaolou of more than 200 stones of grain.
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 ports overnight, occupied three polder areas, and bravely stopped the invading enemy. Although they beat back the enemy's attack several times, a dozen comrades-in-arms died heroically because of the disparity between the enemy and ourselves. At this critical moment, Zhongdian Xiaodian Branch pieced together several guns, dozens of people pretended to be Xiaodian Guild, 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 save his strength. Although the four-day Wabu uprising failed, it opened the prelude to the armed struggle in Shouxian, tempered the cadres and the masses, dealt a blow to the reactionary arrogance of the 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 * * * who was born in 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 county party committee in Shouxian County, and later joined the scattered armed forces after the riots in Wabu, and set up a guerrilla brigade of Shouxian Red Army with about 70 guns, with Cao Ding as the battalion chief, and the central government sent Li Ying to guide guerrilla activities.
After the establishment of the guerrilla brigade, first of all, the struggle to pick up grain was launched in Lingjiaozui. Located in the middle of the lake, the water chestnut mouth is often drowned 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 arouse their enthusiasm for struggle. On the evening of September 22, guerrillas captured Li's soil yard, 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. So a mass meeting was held to expose Li's crimes and make the masses realize that the only way out is to organize and fight. 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 sent a letter asking the guerrillas to go to Huangjiaba to suppress the town and landlord, so as to arouse 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 to Nanshan to find the Red Army. 165438+1On the afternoon of October 2nd, 170 guerrillas marched towards 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 turned a deaf ear to this, opened the granaries of the 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 1000 people attacked from the northwest. At the same time, the Taixian self-defense brigade and the second provincial security corps of the national party spirit also came to surround the guerrilla brigade one after another. Cao Ding and others decided to organize a breakthrough. There was a fierce battle for three hours from afternoon to dusk, and the guerrilla brigade started hand-to-hand combat after the bullets were finished. Cao Ding, who was injured in many places, gritted his teeth and fought with the enemy, shedding his last drop of blood and making a heroic sacrifice. He was 24 years old.