In April 1941, shortly after the Southern Anhui Incident, Chen Ruiting, commander of the 425th Regiment of the **92nd Army, defected and led his troops to defect to the New Fourth Army. It turned out that Chen Ruiting was an underground party member who joined the party before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. During the Anti-Japanese War, he participated in the Battle of Luxi Heze and the Battle of Wanjialing, and made many meritorious achievements. On the eve of the uprising, Chen Ruiting had already made contact with the New Fourth Army. However, at that time, the strength, equipment and treatment of the first were superior, and the 1st and 3rd battalions under Chen Ruiting wavered in battle, and he only took more than 1,000 people. 
This was not over, and then Chen Ruiting's troops mutinied, and he himself was assassinated and almost killed. On April 23, Zhang Aiping, then the brigade commander of the New Fourth Army and the deputy commander of the 3rd Division, held a welcome meeting on behalf of the military headquarters to reorganize Chen Ruiting's 425th Regiment into an independent brigade of the New Fourth Army. Zhang Aiping was very attentive and noticed that some of the new recruits were not in the right mood, especially a few officers. So Zhang Aiping privately told Chen Ruiting: "With the change of the situation, people who were originally considered reliable may become unreliable, and we must pay special attention to the investigation to prevent accidents." ”
As it turned out, Zhang Aiping's prediction was very accurate. The incident occurred around midnight on April 30. At that time, Chen Ruiting had just slept for a while when he suddenly heard a noise and gunshots outside the door. He immediately got up and went out to inquire, but as soon as he left the room, two bayonets flashing with cold light attacked him. Chen Ruiting's eyes were quick, and he hurriedly used his hand to pull it away. But there were more than two **, several knives stabbed at the same time, and Chen Ruiting was stabbed. When he turned to run back, he was stabbed in the back again and fell to the ground. Four or five people broke into the house and shone a flashlight on Chen Ruiting. Chen Ruiting's mind was racing, he simply closed his eyes and pretended to be dead, and when he fell to the ground, he wiped his blood on his face. One of the assassins said, "It's dead, let's go!"One of them was not at ease, and before leaving, he gave Chen Ruiting another shot. Fortunately, Chen Ruiting's life was big, and the bullet just passed by. 
Chen Ruiting endured the pain and commanded his cronies to control the situation. Those assassins were all Chen Ruiting's subordinates, and they turned back, ready to cut off his head and go back to ask for credit, but they were all captured. It turned out that this mutiny was conspired by a company commander and a political worker under Chen Ruiting, and they contacted more than 20 people to participate, and also dragged Chen Ruiting's regimental adjutant into the water. Not only did someone die in this accident, but the team pulled by Chen Ruiting almost ran away. Thinking of Zhang Aiping's advice, Chen Ruiting regretted that he did not do ideological work for his subordinates in advance, nor did he carefully observe the situation of the troops. Because Chen Ruiting's injuries were very serious, with injuries to his abdomen and back, the organization immediately sent the best doctors to ** for him, and sent people to risk their lives to infiltrate the enemy-occupied area and buy expensive medicines. The head of the New Fourth Army and others came to visit in person, and Mr. Zhu also sent a message of condolence. 
Thanks to Zhang Aiping's quick support, and the medical staff arrived in time, Chen Ruiting was finally saved, and his body gradually **. Chen Ruiting was born as an artilleryman, and once commanded an artillery battle in the Battle of Wanjialing, accurately bombarded the Japanese Miyazaki Wing, and cooperated with friendly forces to annihilate it. **I was very happy to learn about it, and encouraged him to say, we don't have a cannon yet, but there will definitely be a place for you in the future. Subsequently, the organization approved Chen Ruiting's request and asked him to go to the Northern Jiangsu Cadre School to study Xi first. By 1946, as ** said, Chen Ruiting was appointed chief of staff and artillery commander of the New Fourth Army Headquarters. 
However, at that time, Chen Ruiting was still a veritable "commander of the light pole", with neither artillery nor shells, nor troops. Chen Ruiting learned the tone of the chief and said to the new artillery cadets, "There are no guns and no cannons, but we have Chiang Kai-shek, the captain of the transport brigade, and with the development of the war, he will give us the latest American artillery." "In the Lunan Battle in 1947, our army captured a large number of heavy **, and Chen Ruiting's artillery unit suddenly had dozens of American-style howitzers, as well as a number of mountain artillery and mortars. In addition, more than 20 tanks captured were also assigned to Chen Ruiting. On this basis, the East China Field Army's Special Forces Column was subsequently established, with Commander Chen Ruiting commanding artillery, cavalry, engineers, and armored troops. 
In the series of battles that followed, Chen Ruiting's artillery unit exerted tremendous power and played an irreplaceable role in speeding up the victory of the campaign. Chen Ruiting's troops have been rewarded many times. It is also worth mentioning that in the "Purple Quartz" incident in 1949, Chen Ruiting commanded the artillery to fight several British ** ships that refused to leave the Yangtze River, damaged their "Purple Quartz" and "Mate", and severely damaged their flagship "London" cruiser and a frigate, and the British gunboat fled in disgrace. This is a very significant event, and I will not repeat it here. In 1955, Chen Ruiting was awarded the rank of major general. He does not change his simple nature, he has always been indifferent to fame and fortune, and he is praised. As the saying goes, if you don't die in a disaster, you will have a blessing, and General Chen Ruiting lived a very long life, when he died in 2010, he was 104 years old. Reference: "100-year-old founding general Chen Ruiting".