In 1955, Chairman Mao presided over the huairen hall in Beijing, and the first grand award ceremony of the People's Liberation Army was held, and Chen Geng, then deputy chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army, was awarded the title of founding general.
After the ceremony, Chen Geng went home in a military uniform, and as soon as he entered the door, he was surrounded by Chen Zhifei, Chen Zhiya, Chen Zhijian, Chen Zhishu, and Chen Zhijin, and then he asked Chen Geng happily and curiously: Daddy, what general did you teach?
Chen Geng blurted out directly: Dad is chili sauce. What's going on? The content of this issue is a useful history, decrypting Chen Geng, who was obviously awarded the founding general, why did he go home and tell the children that he was given a "chili sauce"?
Why did Chen Geng say to the child: Dad taught him a chili sauce?
Chen Geng, whose ancestral home is Xiangxiang, Hunan, was born into a family of generals. In 1916, at the age of 13, Chen Geng joined the Xiang Army as a soldier in lu diping, and successively participated in the war against Wu Peifu, the expulsion of Zhang Jingyao, zhao Hengti, and the Battle of Xiang'e.
In 4 years, he conquered the north and made countless achievements, from a small second-class soldier to a sergeant. However, because he was not accustomed to the warlord's behavior of serving the country and oppressing the common people because of his own selfishness, he took the initiative to resign from the military in 1921 and came from Yueyang, Hunan Province, to Changsha, the provincial capital, and enrolled in the revolutionary self-study university founded by Chairman Mao.
The first contact with the advanced patriotic ideas and revolutionary ideas of Marxism-Leninism greatly shocked Chen Geng's heart, and in December 1922, he took the initiative to apply to become a member of the Communist Party of China, and in 1923, he participated in and directly led the migrant workers' strike demonstration of the 27 Massacre in Hunan.
In early June, Chen Geng was officially appointed as an executive member of the Hunan Diplomatic Support Association, but was unfortunately injured in the anti-Japanese struggle and secretly transferred to the Guangzhou Jiaowu School at the end of the same year.
In 1924, when Chiang Kai-shek accepted Sun Yat-sen's order to establish the Whampoa Military Academy in Guangzhou, Chen Geng was admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in May, and after graduation, he participated in the suppression of the rebellion of the Shang Regiment, as well as the great revolutionary crusade and the Northern Expedition.
Xu Tiger, bullets are meat-eating and can kill people
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei conspired to betray Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary concept of "uniting with Russia and the Communist Party to support peasants and workers" and after the failure of the great revolution, Chen Geng followed Premier Zhou, General Ye Ting, General Zhu Laozong, and General He on August 1, launching the Nanchang Uprising that shocked China and foreign countries, and thus opened the great prelude to our party's independent leadership of the democratic revolution.
Unfortunately wounded in the left leg during the battle against Huichang, Chen Geng secretly transferred from Hong Kong to Shanghai in October, and under the pseudonym "Wang Yong" participated in the work of forming the Special Branch led by Premier Zhou, and launched a long-term underground intelligence covert struggle with Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist reactionaries.
By September 1931, Chen Geng was transferred back to the front line as the commander of the Red Army, and in early November, after Marshal Xu Qianqian led the Red Fourth Front, Chen Geng was officially promoted to the post of commander of the Red 12th Division, under the jurisdiction of the Red 34th Regiment, the 35th Regiment, the 36th Regiment, three main regiments, General Xu Shiyou, General Chen Xilian and General Xu Haidong were all able generals under Chen Geng.com.
Among them, Xu Haidong was called "Xu Tiger" because he fought a battle, was not afraid of death, and charged forward, such as a fierce tiger descending the mountain to shock the enemy's guts, so he was called "Xu Tiger", and he was the commander of the 36th Regiment under Chen Geng.
At this time, a sentry who was standing guard suddenly pointed to Xu Haidong's sleeve with a frightened face and said: Commander Xu, are you injured? What about the medics? Quickly bandage the regimental commander. Hey, I Xu Tiger will also get hurt... Xu Haidong looked down and was stunned, it turned out that his sleeve had actually been pierced by a bullet, hit his arm, and now he was bleeding.
However, Xu Haidong just casually wiped it with his hand, and smiled indifferently: It's all right, don't panic, the enemy's bullets are vegetarian, as soon as he touched my Xu Haidong's arm, he was directly scared away by a turn. Speaking, Xu Haidong also used his hands to compare, and the action of the bullet turning and bending made everyone amused.
And Xu Haidong's rumor that the bullet would bend quickly reached Chen Geng's ears, and he couldn't help but raise a trace of anger in his heart, so he sent someone to call Xu Haidong and asked with a sneer: Xu Laohu, listen to the people in your group, two days ago, someone was not ashamed to say that bullet vegetarians would turn around.
Xu Haidong laughed twice: Is it? It's so strange, I haven't heard of it. Chen Geng supported the spectacle frame on the bridge of his nose and looked at him with a straight face: You haven't heard, but I have heard that what bullets eat vegetarians will turn, I tell you, bullets eat meat, can kill people.
Xu Haidong scratched his head in embarrassment and smiled embarrassedly: "Commander, you don't understand what I mean, I mean I've been a man since I was a child, and I haven't died many times." Chen Geng waved his hand impatiently: Xu Haidong, the bullet does not care whether you are a tiger or not, it does not eat vegetarian, you have given me to remember, I do not allow, nor do I approve of you going to war like this.
When Xu Haidong heard this, he still smirked vigorously, and did not take Chen Geng's words to heart at all. Unexpectedly, during a combat mission a few days later, Xu Haidong was hit by a bullet in the thigh and seriously injured.
The doctor quickly treated Xu Haidong's wound, but because of the shortage of medicine materials, there was only one expired anesthetic left in the hospital, Xu Haidong hissed cold air, and said carelessly: You only manage treatment, what is the expired anesthetic? I've been dead several times, and I'm not afraid of pain.
As a result, Xu Haidong really endured severe pain, so that the doctor pulled out the bullet fragments from the bone slit, and Xu Haidong was also fainted in pain. After a while, Xu Haidong limped to the division headquarters to find Chen Geng: Report to the division commander, I want to return to the regiment.
Chen Geng looked at him and asked, "Xu Laohu, now you tell me, do you eat vegetarian or meat?" Commander, I'm going back to the regiment to continue fighting. Xu Haidong repeated his request loudly.
Chen Gengle: You want me to let the tiger return to the mountains, but now that the 36th Regiment has a new regiment leader, how do you go back? Xu Haidong craned his neck and said: The deputy regimental commander can also do it. In this way, Xu Haidong was first arranged to go back to be the deputy commander of the 36th Regiment, and then consider reinstating the officer when his injuries were completely healed.
Later, Xu Haidong led the 36th Regiment to fight many major victories, and the casualties of the troops were very small. Chen Geng began to humorously ridicule him again: After so many vicious battles, you Xu Haidong is still alive, and your life is really great.
Xu Haidong directly climbed up the pole and replied: I said well, the enemy bullets are vegetarian, and when he saw me, he turned around and flew away. If you don't believe it, this time you believe it. Chen Geng couldn't help but be speechless for a while, and then he glanced at Xu Haidong and laughed loudly.
In September 1932, Chen Geng was promoted to chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front because of his repeated achievements in the third and fourth Red Army anti-encirclement and suppression operations, and his status and prestige in the army were second only to that of commander-in-chief Xu Xiangqian.
However, because he was carelessly injured in the battle at Hu Shanzhai in the northwest of Xinji, he was urgently arranged by the party organization to be treated at the Orthopedic Hospital in Shanghai, and during this period, Chen Geng met with the great literary hero Lu Xun twice, telling the story of the Red Army's struggle against Chiang Kai-shek's reactionaries in the revolutionary base area of the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region, and formed a very deep friendship with Lu Xun.
In 1934, after the failure of the Fifth Anti-Encirclement and Suppression Struggle of the Red Army, chen geng was forced to carry out the 25,000-mile northward long march transfer campaign, and Chen Geng was ordered to serve as the head of the cadre regiment of the column of the Central Military Commission.
With the cooperation of Comrade Song Renqian, political commissar, he carried out the task of opening the way for the vanguard, and undertook the heavy task of covering the main army of the Red Army, as well as the chiefs of the headquarters such as Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou, and General Manager Zhu, breaking through the enemy's blockade line and safely retreating and transferring.
Huang Yongsheng opened a restaurant, and Chen Geng ate the "Overlord Meal" without giving money
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, Chen Geng served as the brigade commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and was ordered to follow Marshal Liu Bocheng and Political Commissar Deng, cross the Yellow River in the east, and go to the Taihang Mountains of Shanxi behind the enemy in North China to create an anti-Japanese revolutionary base area.
He successively commanded the troops to fight a flanking attack on Niangzi Pass, a night attack on Changshengkou, an ambush at the village of Qiqi, an ambush at the bottom of the Yellow Cliff, an ambush at Shentouling, an ambush at Xiangtangpu, a chase and annihilation of Changle Village, and an ambush at Xiangchenggu.
After repeatedly sabotaging and smashing the Japanese army's conspiracy to clear the countryside in the anti-Japanese base area in southeastern Jin, he made outstanding military achievements, and after the establishment of the Taiyue Military Region in 1940, he was promoted to commander of the military region.
However, after the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered a protracted tug-of-war, the Japanese army and Chiang Kai-shek's reactionary and stubborn troops imposed an economic blockade on the base areas of the Yan'an Border Region in northern Shaanxi, strictly prohibiting a piece of paper, a pen, and a dollar from entering Yan'an, in an attempt to create panic within our party, government, and army in this way, and to yield to others without a fight.
In order to ensure the self-sufficiency of the base areas, Chairman Mao personally issued an order: Vigorously carry out the production self-help campaign, and all the soldiers and civilians in Yan'an must enthusiastically sign up to actively participate in it. General Huang Yongsheng, who was then the commander of the Jinsui Joint Defense Brigade in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, had a special love for "eating" and was very good at cooking.
Therefore, the two piglets he personally fed grew fat and strong in less than half a year, and they could eat several meals of meat after slaughtering, so they got a "pig raising" elegant name.
Later, Huang Yongsheng also raised funds to open a restaurant in the Yan'an base area, named "Red Star Restaurant", after the opening of the business booming, every day to eat customers in an endless stream, very lively, made a lot of money.
At this time, Chen Geng was suddenly ordered to return to Yan'an for a meeting to report on his duties, and when he heard that his old comrade-in-arms Huang Yongsheng had opened a restaurant, he was very surprised and brought several subordinates to patronize. I didn't expect that after drinking and eating, I didn't have the intention of paying for the bill, obviously I wanted to eat the overlord meal.
Later, when Huang Yongsheng learned that Chen Geng was coming, he hurriedly ran out of the back kitchen to entertain the distinguished guests, laughing and saying: Brigadier Chen is an old revolutionary and a famous anti-Japanese general, how can he take your money? I invited this meal, and in the future, when an old revolutionary like Brigadier Chen comes to dinner, I will not charge any money.
After returning to Yan'an, chen Geng directly gave Huang Yongsheng a good round of propaganda: Everyone went to give Comrade Huang Yongsheng a show, and the restaurant he opened was delicious, and we old revolutionaries did not charge money if we went to dinner.
This is not to say that it is okay, as soon as it is said that every three to five years there are old revolutionary party members who come to eat at the Red Star Restaurant, and Huang Yongsheng is a person who keeps his promises, saying that if he does not accept money, he will not accept money. One after another, although the Red Star Restaurant is every day, the guests are like clouds, but they are all old revolutionaries of the Red Army, and they do not pay money for meals, so they do not have much to pay, and they have to take in some.
In the end, the Red Star Restaurant has been in a state of financial deficit, which makes Huang Yongsheng very distressed, there is really no way, he can only close the restaurant, originally a restaurant opened by the old revolutionary party members of the Red Army, but unexpectedly it was eaten by more old revolutionaries and collapsed, becoming a military talk in the Yan'an base area.
Dad is a Hunan person who loves to eat chili peppers, so he was given chili sauce
After the founding of New China, before the 1955 all-army grand title awarding ceremony began, some party, government, and military cadres suddenly raised their questions at a meeting: Should we give some characteristics of the Chinese nation to the ranks? Chen Geng is the deputy chief of general staff of the People's Liberation Army, who was also invited to attend the meeting, he is humorous and witty, he is a pistachio in the army, as long as he is there, there is absolutely no shortage of laughter.
When they heard that military ranks should also develop national characteristics, they could not hold back their own living treasure nature, and said loudly: Good, this idea is good, then let's plant a big flag behind us, the higher the rank of the people, the more flags will be planted, how mighty is that?
Marshal Ye Jianying, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, immediately laughed after hearing this, and was teased in his seat to lean forward and backward, almost laughing breathlessly. The people present were also amused by Chen Geng's bad idea, and everyone understood that Chen Geng was using this way to express opposition, after all, the military rank is a serious thing, it should be based on simplicity, and everyone will no longer mention this matter after laughing.
Chen Geng was awarded the rank of the fourth great general of the founding of the country at the ceremony, and after the ceremony, Chen Geng wore a military uniform and went home with a red light, and as soon as he entered the door, he was surrounded by Chen Zhifei and Chen Zhijian and other children, and looked up at Chen Geng curiously and asked: Dad, what general did you give?
Chen Geng had been a horse warrior all his life, and he enjoyed the joy of this kind of children's knees, so he couldn't help but tease them: Dad is a chili sauce. The children were very confused: our classmates' fathers were generals, lieutenant generals and major generals, and they had never heard of the rank of chili sauce, so why were you chili sauce?
Chen Geng heard the rumors and said humorously: Because Dad is a Hunan native, we Hunan people like to eat chili peppers, so Dad is chili sauce. The children nodded in confusion.
Although Chen Geng is in a high position and has made great achievements in battle, he is very strict on the issue of educating his children, and he said that he is a chili sauce, in fact, he is teaching the children to be low-key and humble, not to cultivate comparison, and to lose the fine tradition and wind and bone of the revolution.
Chen Geng also often put a sentence on his lips: Compared with those comrades-in-arms who shed their blood and sacrificed their blood for the Chinese revolution, I was able to persist until the victory of the revolution and see the founding of New China, which is already the greatest luck, and now talking about success after the victory of the revolution is a kind of blasphemy against those unsung heroes who sacrificed, and it is a disrespect for the martyrs.