The day before yesterday, I saw an article on the Internet about General Chen Geng, which meant that General Chen was not worthy of being awarded the title of General, and that even the General was also behind. I will now list to you the seniority and merits of General Chen.
Awarding titles depends on seniority, second, merit, and third, comprehensive balance.
General Chen joined the Communist Party in 1922, earlier than many marshals joined the Communist Party, and in 1927 he participated in the Nanchang Uprising, where he was a battalion commander who was wounded in his left leg during the battle and was transferred to Shanghai for treatment.
From 1928 to mid-1932, he worked in the Shanghai Central Special Branch, engaging in a covert struggle against the Kuomintang reactionaries. In September 1931, he was appointed as the commander of the 318th Regiment of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and later the commander of the 12th Division of the Red Fourth Front, and participated in the third encirclement and suppression operation in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet Region, and was wounded in his right leg during the fourth encirclement and suppression.
In October 1934, he accompanied the Long March of the Central Red Army, served as the leader of the Red Army cadre regiment, and led the cadre regiment to cross the Jinsha River with v and the following year. In December 1935, he became the commander of the First Division of the Red Army, and in 1936 he took part in the Battle of The Hill Castle. In 1937, he was appointed brigade commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and the prestige of General Chen began to spread far. The two ambush battles in Qiquan Village, the Changshengkou Ambush Battle, the Shentouling Ambush Battle, the Xiangtangpu Campaign, and the Changle Village Pursuit Station all played the name of "the first brigade under the heavens".
In 1939, he led his troops to ambush Xiangchenggu and completely annihilated a reinforced squadron of the Japanese army. In 1941, he was appointed commander of the Taiyue Column and opened up the Anti-Japanese Base Area in Southern Yue. In 1942, he commanded troops to besiege Biyuan and put forward the battle slogan of "kill one devil in a day". In the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 129th Division made the greatest contribution to the annihilation of the enemy among the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army, and the 386th Brigade made the greatest contribution to the 129th Division.
He was elected alternate member of the Central Committee at the Seventh National Congress in 1945, and in October he was appointed commander of the Fourth Column. In 1946, when more than 12,000 enemy soldiers were annihilated in the Battle of Tongpu, the Central Military Commission issued a "Circular on the Victory of Chen Geng's Column in Combat" to the heads of all departments of the whole army, highly praising the significance of this victory and Chen Geng's outstanding military command art. In the same year, the Jinnan Campaign was launched, annihilating more than 10,000 enemy troops, and later launched the Fenxiao Campaign, which annihilated more than 16,000 enemy troops.
In July 1947, with Liu Deng's army approaching Dabie Mountain, General Chen Geng led his corps to advance closer to Yushan, crossed the Yellow River, annihilated more than 30,000 enemy personnel, and annihilated more than 10,000 enemy troops in the Pinghan and Longhai victories. In 1948, he coordinated the liberation of Luoyang, and led his troops to participate in the three major victories of Wanxi, Wandong and Jianghan, annihilating more than 110,000 enemy troops. At the end of the year, in coordination with fraternal troops, Zhengzhou was liberated and 120,000 enemy soldiers were annihilated.
On February 14, 1949, he was appointed commander and political commissar of the Fourth Corps of the Second Field Army, liberated Nanchang on May 22, occupied Guangzhou in July, annihilated more than 40,000 enemy fugitives in Guangzhou in October, annihilated the enemy retreating south in December, and cooperated with three corps to annihilate more than 160,000 enemy troops, and the Fourth Corps alone annihilated more than 70,000 enemy troops. During this period, he disobeyed Lin Zong's orders three times and went straight to the central government, and all of them received the consent and support of the great men, showing his strategic and tactical strength, and his reputation was spread.
In 1950, the Southern Yunnan Campaign was launched, annihilating more than 20,000 enemy troops. In 1950, he participated in the War of Resistance against France on the border of Vietnam. In 1951, he was appointed commander and political commissar of the Third Corps of the Chinese Volunteer Army. In 1952, he returned to China to create the Kazakh military industry, which made great contributions to the national defense construction of New China.
In terms of military merit and seniority, there are few who are higher than General Chen, and as far as military merit is concerned, General Chen is only ranked under General Peng, General Lin, Liu Shuai, and General Su. It can even be said that he and General Su have the merits of marshals, what do you think?
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