The 29 th Army under the jurisdiction of the Fuzhou Military Region is a special unit, and its predecessors came from the units brought together by subordinate units of the Guangzhou Military Region, the Jinan Military Region, and the Fuzhou Military Region, and each division has different characteristics and styles.
In December 1973, Tian Shixing was transferred to the commander of the 29th Army, and the political commissar was Liu Tingzhu.
Tian Shixing is a veteran who participated in the revolution in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and from 1938 he participated in the revolution, gradually transferred from a health worker to the front line, serving as a squad leader, platoon leader, company commander, battalion commander and other positions.
During the Liberation War, the Jiaodong Military Region where he was located formed the 13th Column, and the commander Zhou Zhijian was a very capable general. As the saying goes, there are no weak soldiers under a strong general, and the 13th Column is a local unit that has been upgraded, which is far less than other troops in terms of combat experience. However, after its establishment, it took on an important task, and the defense of Jiaodong made the 13th Column greatly trained, and it was a strong attack and a defense, Xu Shiyou had no soldiers to adjust to the 13th Column, and they fought one battle after another with their own bodies.
Under the leadership of Zhou Zhijian, he first fought small battles, improved his combat experience, and was gradually promoted to deputy regiment commander and regiment commander. After the troops arrived in Fujian, he served as the chief of staff of the division. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as deputy division commander and division commander for more than ten years. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of colonel.
It's a pity that in later promotions, he was not promoted to major general.
He entered Fujian in 1949 and has never left since, serving as division commander, chief of staff of the army, and deputy commander of the Fujian Production and Construction Corps. In 1973, he was promoted to commander of the 29th Army.
In the words of Deputy Political Commissar Song Qingwei, he participated in the revolution in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, served in the army and division for a long time, and was promoted. The implication is that seniority should be promoted to a regular military post, after all, it has been more than 20 years from 1951 to 1973 when he was a deputy military post.
However, Song Qingwei, as the deputy political commissar, learned a lot from him, one of which is to seek truth from facts.
At the beginning of 1974, the 92nd Division misloaded the medicine pack when handling the mortar live fire, resulting in close-range casualties. As the army commander, he and deputy political commissar Song Qingwei rushed to deal with it in the rain. Due to the slippery mountain and high road, Commander Tian's car slipped into the ditch halfway, and he took the car to the artillery regiment by Deputy Political Commissar Song. came to the stage to make a speech and said: I overturned the car on the road, I am a piece of shit, I am not qualified to criticize you, let Deputy Political Commissar Song speak.
Commander Tian is realistic, in fact, he doesn't have to say what happened to him on the way, when he said this, he also expressed another meaning, when he overturned because of a mistake, how could he be embarrassed to say about his subordinate troops. If you want to say it, you have to lead by example, and he said everything else with a muddy body, which is also to express another mood.
Deputy Political Commissar Song hoped that everyone would sum up and draw lessons from the accident, and that the meeting was very good and successful because of the military commander's handling of too many things, and other cadres of the army spoke one after another and demanded a review.
Tian Shixing worked in the 29th Army for seven years, and after 1980, he was transferred to the deputy commander of the Fuzhou Military Region, and in 1985, with the streamlining and reform of the army, the Fuzhou Military Region and the Nanjing Military Region were merged, and he retired at the age of 60.