Tong Linge

{{Short description|Chinese general (1892–1937)}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2012}} alt=|252x252px|thumb|Tong Linge [[File:Tong Lin'ge School (20240127151636).jpg|thumb|Tong Lin'ge School in Dahongmen Subdistrict, Beijing, honoring the general]] '''Tong Linge''' ({{zh|s=佟麟阁 |t=佟麟閣|first=t|p=Tóng Língé|w=Tung Lin-keh}}; 29 October 1892<ref>{{cite web |url = http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_470bf257010009vi.html |script-title=zh:口述：我的父亲佟麟阁_三联生活周刊_新浪博客 |publisher = Sina |author = Tong Bing (佟兵), son of Tong Lingge |language = Chinese |date = 4 April 2007 |accessdate = 2012-08-12}}</ref> – 28 July 1937) was a Chinese National Revolutionary Army officer who was the deputy commander of the 29th Army during the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and Battle of Beiping–Tianjin during the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=民國近代史 |url=https://digroc.pccu.edu.tw/CNH/Personage/personage.aspx?ID=0000087 |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=digroc.pccu.edu.tw}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography of General Tong Linge - (佟麟阁) - (Tung Lin-keh) (1892 – 1937), China |url=https://generals.dk/general/Tong_Linge/_/China.html |access-date=2025-08-05 |website=generals.dk}}</ref>

==Biography== Of Manchu descent, Tong was born in Gaoyang County, Zhili in 1892. A soldier of the Guominjun, he was recruited by Ji Hongchang to command the 1st Corps of the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army. After the Nationalist government suppressed the anti-Japanese forces operating in China in the early 1930s, he joined Song Zheyuan's 29th Army in 1933. Eventually he became deputy commander of 29th Army. He was killed along with Zhao Dengyu in the fighting around Nanyuan during the Battle of Beiping–Tianjin. The Nationalist government later posthumously promoted him to general.<ref name=":0" />

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