Since the 1840s, the people of the Chinese have made great efforts to fight for independence and liberation, and with the help of all justice, China has finally opened a new chapter in history.
Looking back at the past, in China's nearly one hundred years of revolutionary history, communists have left a strong mark, countless outstanding communist party members and progressive elements have shed their blood for the rise of the Chinese nation, and their deeds and spirit have been passed down and remembered by future generations.
In recognition of the heroes who had made great achievements in the long revolutionary years, the Republic held an unprecedented general award in 1955, which gave birth to ten marshals, ten generals and more than a thousand generals. These nearly a thousand generals have been baptized by war and years, calm and solemn.
Among them, there is one person who has always maintained a lively and humorous personality, and he is the famous general Chen Geng.
Since Chen Geng joined the army, he has experienced various dangerous situations, he has repeatedly led his army to harass the Japanese army, and he has also fought with the Kuomintang army with real swords and guns. In that war-torn era, Chen Geng was always different from others, and he used his unique humorous and lively attitude to face his revolutionary cause and military career. Among all the generals of our army, there was only one person, and Chen Geng never dared to joke with him.
General Chen Geng
Chen Geng was born on February 27, 1903 in Quanhu Village, Longdong Township, Xiangxiang City, Hunan Province, his grandfather was once the leader of the Xiang Army, can be described as a family general, Chen Geng himself received a good family education from an early age, under the influence of his grandfather and father, Chen Geng has a sincere heart for the country since childhood.
Chen Geng was very good in his studies from an early age, and was unanimously praised by teachers and students, and during the warlord melee, Chen Geng, who was full of ambition to serve the country, resolutely threw himself into the army and decided to serve the country, and then he gave up his ongoing studies to join the Xiang Army.
After entering the army, Chen Geng accompanied the army to participate in the war against various warlords, during the war he fought bravely, not afraid of life and death, after the war, he was happy in the bitterness, lively and optimistic, and his spirit infected many soldiers. After the warlord melee, Chen Geng left the army to start working in Changsha, he never forgot to study, and in his spare time he studied while engaging in patriotic activities.
In 1922, Chen Geng entered the self-study university founded by the great man, the two met and hated each other late, and under the influence of the great man, he gradually accepted communism and joined our party.
In 1923, Chen Geng was successfully admitted to the Guangzhou Daowu School, and the following year he was transferred to the Huangpu Military Academy to become a cadet of the first phase of Huangpu, after graduation Chen Geng entered the army again and became a company commander, after which he once again followed the army to participate in the Northern Expedition, the Nanchang Uprising and many other battles.
Due to the influence of historical events, the Communists withdrew from the National Revolutionary Army and established their own army, after the establishment of the Red Fourth Front, the heroic and good-fighting Chen Geng was recognized by the central government as the commander of the 12th Division, and in the subsequent counter-encirclement and suppression, Chen Geng and the 12th Division under his command repeatedly made military achievements.
After the defeat of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, Chen Geng followed the Central Red Army to start the Long March, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he led his army to fight against the Japanese army many times, and broke the Japanese in Gansu, Shijiazhuang and other places.
During the Liberation War, Chen Geng had been appointed commander of the Taiyue Column at this time, and in the Taiyue Military Region, Chen Geng led the local military and civilians to smash the enemy's plots many times and successfully guarded the safety of the Taiyue area. In the later stages of the Liberation War, he led his army through many battles, large and small, annihilating more than 100,000 enemy troops and liberating large areas.
Have a classmate meeting with "classmates"
During the Period of the National Revolution, many communists served or studied in Huangpu, and Chen Geng was a student of the First Phase of Huangpu. When he was studying in Whampoa, he not only excelled in all his achievements, but also actively participated in the battle with the National Revolutionary Army.
At that time, he and Jiang Xianyun, He Zhihan and called "Huangpu Sanjie", when he was at the Whampoa Military Academy, he met many classmates, and later due to the breakdown of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communists, the Communists withdrew from the Whampoa Military Academy, for their own ideas, they parted ways, Chen Geng and these classmates were never able to get together well.
After the three major battles, our army has locked in the victory, liberated a large area, and captured a large number of Kuomintang soldiers and generals. Among them, there were quite a few chiang kai-shek's concubines from the Whampoa Military Academy, and after learning the news, Chen Geng took the initiative to go to the war criminals camp, and as a classmate, he invited Song Xilian, Zhong Bin, and Zeng Zhaoqing to hold a classmate meeting.
Later, he followed the instructions of the central authorities and actively guided the war criminals of the same period of the Whampoa Military Academy to undergo reform, and with the help and influence of Chen Geng, du Yuming, Song Xilian and six other senior Kuomintang generals successfully accepted the reform.
Chen Geng's love path
People who know General Chen Geng know that although he was calm and composed when he fought, he maintained a lively and humorous personality in general, and although he was a senior general in our army, Chen Geng would never put up a shelf and get along very well.
In 1937, Chen Geng and his first wife, Wang Genying, formed a bond, and the two had a deep relationship, but because of their working relationship, they had to separate the two places.
One day in 1939, Wang Genying's anti-Japanese garrison was attacked by the Japanese army, she unfortunately died, only 32 years old, Chen Geng was deeply sad after learning the bad news, and his heart has always been thinking of his wife.
In 1943, under the mediation of comrades-in-arms and comrades, he met his second wife, Fu Ya, the two gradually met and fell in love, and married, because Fu Ya's brother was a member of the Kuomintang, the marriage between the two also had a lot of twists and turns, but in the end there were lovers who eventually became dependents, and the experience of the two also made their feelings more profound.
In 1950, the People's Liberation Army officially liberated Kunming, and Chen Geng led the army to settle in Kunming City, which was the former site of the Southwest United University and had a strong anti-war ideology. Local people are full of expectations and curiosity about the PLA, especially some school students, often see students on the street with the PLA patrolling the PLA chattering and asking.
Under the day and night, their relationship with the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army also gradually became closer, and once when Chen Geng and Fu Ya traveled together, they were recognized by the students, and many bold students shouted: Commander, kiss one! Chen Geng smiled and warmly hugged his wife and kissed her, and there was a warm applause around him, until the people of the defense group arrived, and Chen Geng and his wife were able to escape.
After this incident, the commander was approachable, and the good story of the commander's husband and wife's deep affection spread.
The only one who didn't dare to joke
Chen Geng's lively and humorous, joking personality is well known, and he has always maintained this attitude to life throughout his decades of military career. In the National Revolutionary Army, he joked with Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Kuomintang, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, he joked with the great man, Marshal Peng Dehuai, and so on.
And there was only one senior general in our army, Chen Geng, who did not dare to joke, and he was Su Yu. If Chen Geng is known for his lively humor in the military, then Su Yu is known for his rigor and seriousness. In the early years, when Chen Geng and Su Yu first met, Su Yu had criticized his casual style in person, and since then, Chen Geng has never dared to be casual and lively in front of Su Yu, let alone joke with him.
brief summary:
Although Su Yu's rigor and majesty over the years of war made Chen Geng dare not joke with him, it was this rigor and majesty that convinced Chen Geng, although his personalities were far apart, the relationship between the two could be described as very friendly, the two were confidants of each other, and their personal relations were very deep, which could be described as talking about everything.
With different personalities but the same revolutionary concept, Su Yu and Chen Geng, who are also revolutionary generals, will naturally not be hindered by small personalities, and their respective personal charms will eventually make them establish a friendship.
In the long journey of the revolution, countless revolutionary volunteers have established a solid friendship in the long struggle, and this revolutionary comradeship has made them more firm and more sincere, and on the road of struggle for the Chinese nation, they have supported each other and are unswerving.
Today, this revolutionary sentiment of the revolutionary predecessors deserves to be learned and remembered by future generations, and their sincere friendship of constant struggle for the common goal is invaluable, and this is their precious property.