Sun Dianying (1889—1947) was born in Yongcheng (now Dingxinzhuang, Mamu Town, Yongcheng, Henan). Born in the military, 1928 took refuge in the Kuomintang and served as the commander of the twelfth army of the sixth army. He is famous for robbing the Qing Dongling in Malanyu, Hebei Province.
1930 participated in the Central Plains War against Chiang Kai-shek, and was recruited by Zhang Xueliang after failure. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he was appointed commander-in-chief of guerrilla warfare in Jicha and commander of the new Fifth Army. 1943 War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was captured in Henan, and he was transformed into the "commander-in-chief of the suppression army in northern Henan". After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression ended, he fought civil war with Chiang Kai-shek.
1947, during the liberation of Tangyin, Henan Province by the People's Liberation Army, the principal grave robber who had been at large for more than 20 years was finally captured alive by the People's Liberation Army and died in a prisoner of war shelter.
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Sun Dianying plundered two Qing tombs. 1July, 928, Sun Dianying led the 12th Army to the Mashenqiao area in Jixian County, Hebei Province, only twenty or thirty miles away from the Qing Dongling.
It provided convenience for him to rob the tomb. Sun Dianying ordered his eighth division commander Tan Wenjiang to lead a brigade to surround Ma Futian who was stationed in Malanyu at that time. On July 2, the two armies fought fiercely in Malanyu, and Ma Futian was outnumbered and fled.
Tan Wenjiang took the opportunity to lead the troops into Dongling, claiming to conduct military exercises, impose martial law, block the news to the outside world, and inform the people in the mausoleum not to go out. Finally, they spent seven days excavating Ding Dong's mausoleum.
At the same time, Han Dabao, the brigade commander of Sun Dianying's Seventh Brigade, led a regiment, an engineering battalion and a mortar company to the west of Lingqu from Weizigu Mountain Pass, and entered Lingqu to rob Yuling two days later.
After more than a month, this grave robbery case that shocked the world was announced to the world!
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