preface:
"If it weren't for Chen Geng making such a fuss, our gang wouldn't have been able to enter Huangpu!"
- Zuo Quan
1
As everyone knows, General Chen Geng is from the Whampoa Military Academy and is extremely popular.
In fact, at first, Chen Geng was examining the Xiang Army Lecture Hall. However, after he entered the school to study for a while, he found that the conditions for running the martial arts hall were average, the teaching method was still the same as that of the warlord, and even the students were not allowed to participate in revolutionary activities.
In this regard, Chen Geng was very dissatisfied.
It just so happened that at the beginning of the next year, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated in the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, and Chen Geng saw that this was not the ideal military school in his mind
Secretly applied for the first phase of Huangpu
。
This matter was soon discovered by the people who lectured on the martial arts hall, and they were even frightened and wanted Chen Geng to dispel the idea of "changing schools", but Chen Geng had already made up his mind, no matter how the other party persuaded, he just wouldn't listen.
The Tang Wu Tang was furious and announced that he would be expelled from his school.
Chen Geng was also angry, and he was expelled, so he simply went to Cheng Qian, Liao Zhongkai, and others, and suggested that they merge the Tangwutang and the Whampoa Military Academy into one school.
If nothing else, in order to study, he dared to go directly to see these Kuomintang bigwigs, which is enough to show that Chen Geng's boldness is not ordinary!
After talking with them, Chen Geng went to Chiang Kai-shek, the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, and said that the students of the Wu Tang were willing to come to the Whampoa Military Academy to study.
Later, the people of the martial arts hall were furious, and it was okay to merge the school, but there was one condition, the condition was:
You can't let this kid Chen Geng enroll!
As a result of this incident, the students of the TangwuTang entered the Whampoa Military Academy, and Chen Geng also successfully joined the Whampoa First Phase II Team under the favor of Chiang Kai-shek.
At that time, those who were transferred from the Tangwu Hall to the Whampoa Military Academy were Zuo Quan and others.
Therefore, later Zuo Quan said more than once that if it were not for Chen Geng making such a fuss, everyone would not have been able to enter Huangpu.
Just rushing this, Chen Geng is the benefactor of the group.
2
At the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Geng was notoriously a good troll, and he had been "pranked" by countless others.
Once, when his superiors inspected the dormitory, Du Yuming had made the bed early in the morning, who knew that as soon as he walked out of the dormitory, Chen Geng quickly messed up his bed.
As a result, Du Yuming was severely criticized by the instructor, and Du Yuming knew that this must be a "good thing" done by Chen Geng, but he was suffering from the fact that he could not find evidence and could not do anything with Chen Geng.
Until after the liberation, Du Yuming and others were pardoned, and Chen Geng specially invited them to dinner.
Talking about this matter, these old classmates still laughed forward and backward.
Speaking of Du Yuming, we have to mention Hu Zongnan.
At the Whampoa Military Academy, Hu Zongnan and Chen Geng each belonged to different societies, and the two factions had different beliefs, often quarreling and talking, and sometimes even using their hands and feet.
Once, Chen Geng and Li Xianzhou got together, Li Xianzhou was tall and tall, and Chen Geng was in a disadvantage for a while, so he had to use a bench as a weapon.
At this moment, Hu Zongnan rushed over and prepared to give Li Xianzhou a handle.
As a result, as soon as Chen Geng saw Hu Zongnan coming, he directly left Li Xianzhou, picked up a stool, and went to chase Hu Zongnan.
Hu Zongnan was so frightened that he turned around and fled, even losing his hat.
However, playing around is playing, and the knowledge that should be learned must be seriously learned.
Before entering the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Geng had been a soldier for several years and had considerable experience in actual combat, and the instructor often asked him to demonstrate to the cadets.
Chen Geng, along with Jiang Xianyun and He Zhihan, was known as the Huangpu Sanjie, and was very popular with his classmates, and Chiang Kai-shek also attached great importance to him.
After graduation, Chiang Kai-shek specially left Chen Geng behind and made him a member of the Whampoa Teaching Group.
Facts have proved that this is a rare wise decision made by Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1925, Chiang Kai-shek personally led an army on a crusade against Chen Jiongming.
Chen Jiongming was defeated again and again, and had to shrink his troops to the Huayang area and build strong fortifications, intending to fight Chiang Kai-shek to the death.
Perhaps because the battle was fought relatively smoothly at the beginning, Chiang Kai-shek personally went to the front line to supervise the battle in order to expand the results of the battle.
Unexpectedly, due to the erroneous estimation of the enemy's main force, not long after Chiang Kai-shek arrived at the front, the war took a sharp turn, and one was careless and was defeated.
Seeing that he was already surrounded by enemy troops, and even the guards around him had no shadow, Chiang Kai-shek jumped to his feet in a hurry, shouting that he wanted to kill Chengren.
Chen Geng first advised him to withdraw quickly, and after finding that Chiang Kai-shek's legs were already weak and he could not walk, he simply threw him on his back, pulled out his legs, and ran.
After this incident, Chiang Kai-shek was grateful and praised everyone for his kindness. Chen Geng was promoted to a staff officer and had free access to Chiang Kai-shek's residence.
Not only that, Chiang Kai-shek also sent many gifts to Chen Geng in order to train this highly valued student into his senior staff.
Just when everyone else thought that Chen Geng's future was bright, Chiang Kai-shek did something that made Chen Geng feel very uncomfortable.
3
Once, Chiang Kai-shek deliberately put a roster on his desk, which contained a list of Huangpu students and responsible persons at all levels, and the roster was opened; Chen Geng took a look and found that the name of each Communist Party member was painted with a red circle on it, and there was a note next to his name:
This person is a member of the Communist Party and must not be allowed to lead troops.
This is clearly a temptation.
Before attending the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Geng had studied at the self-study school advocated by Chairman Mao and joined the Chinese Communist Party not long after.
It is precisely this point that makes Chiang Kai-shek feel angry.
After consulting with Zhou Enlai, Chen Geng offered his resignation to Chiang Kai-shek the next day, saying that he would go home to visit his mother.
Chiang Kai-shek descended the donkey and appointed Chen Geng as the captain of the Whampoa Military Academy's middle school campus
Tang Shengming, who was clamoring to enter the Whampoa Military Academy to study
It was also entrusted to his care.
Speaking of this Tang Shengming, he is not an ordinary person, and his life experience is legendary.
Tang Shengming
Tang Shengming was born into a rich family, and since he was a child, he has lived a life of gold clothes and jade food, and his brother Tang Shengzhi is the most powerful division commander in the Xiang Army, and the Tang family can be said to want money and money, power and power.
When Tang Shengming was studying at the Primary School Attached to the First Division, Chairman Mao was also his teacher.
It is said that Chairman Mao did not help this child cover the quilt in that year.
Tang Shengming was a playboy when he was young, he ate and drank, Tang Shengzhi looked at his brother very tightly, in order not to let his brother go out at night, he simply slept in a room with him.
Tang Shengming's bed was inside, and Tang Shengzhi's was outside.
How could this be difficult for Tang Shengming?
When his brother was asleep, he climbed out from under his brother's bed and came back from under the bed before dawn.
Tang Shengming originally studied at the Hunan DaowuTang, and after graduating, he entered the Xiang Army as a captain's staff officer.
After Tang Shengzhi defected to the Guangdong Revolutionary Army, Tang Shengming, as his brother's personal representative, was stationed in the Guangdong Revolutionary Government.
Not long after, he begged his brother that he wanted to go to the Whampoa Military Academy.
At that time, the Guangzhou government was preparing for the Northern Expedition, and Tang Shengzhi's Hunan was the necessary place for the Northern Expedition, and its status was very important.
Chiang Kai-shek was worried that he did not know how to win over Tang Shengzhi, and when he saw that the other party's brother was going to study at the Whampoa Military Academy, he naturally welcomed him warmly.
In this way, Tang Shengming became a student of the fourth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and the company commander was Chen Geng.
4
No matter where the young master went, he couldn't change his playful nature.
When Tang Shengming was wandering around the school, he found a steam paddle, he quickly sat in it, and waved to his classmates, saying that he would take everyone for a ride.
When Chiang Kai-shek learned that someone had secretly opened a steam paddle, he was furious and scolded Chen Geng and had to ask who dared to be so bold.
Chen Geng said: "The responsibility is on me, it is my lack of discipline. ”
After Chiang Kai-shek learned that this was Tang Shengming's work, he turned his anger into joy and told Chen Geng, "This is the temper of a rich man's son, and the next time he drives a boat, you can follow him." ”
Tang Shengming was a man of temperament, and when he first arrived, he caused Chen Geng to be scolded, and he felt some guilt in his heart.
After spending a long time together, he found that
Chen Geng this person is simply too interesting, the ghost idea stubble out of the stubble, than himself can play.
Tang Shengming admired Chen Geng so much that he simply befriended him and married a brother with a different surname.
At that time, Chiang Kai-shek, in order to win tang Shengzhi over,
Every weekend, a banquet will be held at home to entertain Tang Shengming.
How can you forget the "good brother" Chen Geng when you have good food and drink?
Tang Shengming had to take Chen Geng with him every time, and Chen Geng also went to Chiang Kai-shek's house to "rub rice" on the grounds of "protecting Tang Shengming."
Everyone talked and laughed freely during the banquet, but their hearts had their own calculations.
It was from this period that Tang Shengming began to have close relations with Chen Geng and other Communist Party members.
though
Tang Shengming did not develop into a Communist Party member, but he has always been a good friend of communists
It has provided a lot of help to the Communist Party.
5
In 1926, Chiang Kai-shek created the "Zhongshan Ship Incident" and demanded that the Communists withdraw from the First Army.
At that time, Tang Shengzhi was the commander of the Eighth Army, and Chen Geng and a group of Communists went to work in the Eighth Army through Tang Shengming's connections.
Not long after the Northern Expedition, Chen Geng was sent by the Party Central Committee to study in the Soviet Union, and because it was a secret operation, only Tang Shengming went to the dock to send him off before leaving. The two parted in tears.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek staged a counter-revolutionary coup d'état and massacred Communists.
At this critical juncture of life and death, Tang Shengming personally escorted Chen Geng across the river and sent him safely to Zhou Enlai's secret residence.
This love and righteousness, Chen Geng and Zhou Enlai remembered for a lifetime.
Before the Nanchang uprising, the troops lacked weapons, and Premier Zhou specially wrote to Tang Shengming, hoping that he could support some guns, ammunition and military supplies, and Tang Shengming did not hesitate to immediately load the weapons into the ship and send them to Nanchang.
Later, some of the wounded could not move with the team, and seeing that the enemy army was about to surround them, Tang Shengming once again came to help and transferred the wounded to the wounded soldiers' hospital for treatment.
In September of the same year, Mao Zedong launched the Autumn Harvest Uprising, which lacked guns and ammunition.
Without saying a word, Tang Shengming took more than 300 guns and nearly 10,000 rounds of ammunition directly from the arsenal
Many of these people followed Chairman Mao to Jinggangshan and became the first red army soldiers.
6
Before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chen Geng had gone to Shanghai for medical treatment, and at that time the party's funds were very tight, and after Tang Shengming knew about it, he specially ran to Shanghai, and again sent him money, and then arranged before and after running, which helped a lot.
In 1933, Chen Geng was arrested for being betrayed by traitors, and after Tang Shengming learned of this, he hurriedly asked people to understand the situation, and then passed this news to the CCP organization and tried to rescue him.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chiang Kai-shek sent Tang Shengming to Changde as a garrison commander. Tang Shengming did not like to be nosy and entrusted all big and small matters to his subordinates, but there was only one kind of thing that his subordinates were not allowed to handle casually, that is, cases related to the Communist Party.
Although at that time, the Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated and jointly resisted Japan, Tang Shengming understood very well that these military commanders could not cooperate or not, so,
He explained the words clearly in advance and did not allow his subordinates to arrest people casually
Because of this, in Tang Shengming's years in Changde, there were almost no atrocities of arresting people or committing murder.
One day, the subordinates found that Tang Shengming, who had always been lazy, actually went to the checkpoint himself, and the subordinates were very strange, and when they looked there, they saw Tang Shengming wearing a neat military uniform and constantly looking at the highway.
After a while, a small car came from a distance, and Tang Shengming quickly stepped forward, saluted the people in the car, and then immediately waved his hand for the prosecutors to let him go.
The people in this car did not get off, and Tang Shengming also followed close behind, taking a car to follow the car in front.
Because he personally accompanied the car, the car was not blocked in any way, nor did it go through any registration procedures, and it left smoothly.
Afterwards, the subordinates learned that it was Zhou Enlai who was sitting in the car!
Tang Shengming learned that Teacher Zhou was going to travel by car through Changde and Yuanling to Chongqing, so he personally escorted him out of the country and called the commander of the yuanling garrison to ensure that teacher Zhou passed smoothly.
7
People who send charcoal in the snow are always worthy of being thanked.
In that year, after the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, it lacked clothes and clothes, xu Haidong sent a few thousand yuan to save the emergency, and Chairman Mao remembered his goodness and remembered it for a lifetime.
Chairman Mao naturally will not forget Tang Shengming's every righteous help.
And Tang Shengming, in his contacts with the Communists again and again, has moved closer and closer to the righteous side.
He began to participate in the rebellion against senior Kuomintang generals, and eventually contributed to the peaceful liberation of Hunan.
After that, Tang Shengming first resigned to go to Hong Kong to do business, and later returned to Beijing, where chairman Mao personally received this once mischievous student, and it was said that the chairman was worried that he did not have enough money to spend, and specially gave him a large amount of living expenses.
In 1987, Tang Shengming died in Beijing.
His funeral was held with great solemnity, attended by all the country's leaders.
Throughout Tang Shengming's life, although he is often said to be a playboy, but
He can clearly distinguish between black and white, and always treats people sincerely with a pure heart.
This is invaluable!