General Chen Kang was a subordinate of General Chen Geng, and during the Liberation War, he served as the commander of the 13th Brigade of the Fourth Column of the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Field Army, and followed General Chen Geng on his eastern expedition to the west.
On April 7, 1910, General Chen Kang was born in Guangji County,Hubei Province (now Wuxue City), a very poor family with eight brothers and sisters, and he became a cattle herder when he was seven years old.
In 1927, when the peasant movement in his hometown was in full swing, he actively participated and joined the Red Guards in his village.
In July 1930, the Fourth Column of the Eighth Army in eastern Hubei went to his hometown to carry out activities, and he joined the ranks of the Red Army and fought with the Red Army from then on.
In the ranks of the Red Army, because of his bravery in battle and his determination to fight against the enemy, he first started as a soldier and served as a platoon commander of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of the Tenth Division of the Fourth Army of the Red Fourth Front and a political instructor of the 73rd Division of the 25th Army.
In 1932, he followed the Red Fourth Front into the Western Expedition of Sichuan and served as an instructor and battalion commander of the 31st Military Battalion.
In March 1935, in the Battle of Jialing River, under the direct command of Wang Shusheng, deputy commander of the Fourth Front Army, he led the whole battalion to bravely charge and kill, and in one fell swoop captured the Sword Gate Pass, which the Kuomintang called it a difficult to fly, and made an important contribution to the total victory of the battle.
In May of the same year, he participated in the Long March of the Red Fourth Front, and successively served as the deputy commander of the 75th Regiment of the 25th Division of the Red Ninth Army, the commander of the 80th Regiment of the 27th Division, and the commander of the 276th Regiment of the 91st Division of the Red 31st Army.
After coming to northern Shaanxi, he entered the third phase of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in 1938, he was transferred to the New Fourth Army as the commander of the supplementary battalion.
In January 1939, he was ordered to be transferred to the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and served as a teacher in the camp school, battalion commander and chief instructor.
From November 1940, he served as the deputy commander of the 17th Regiment of the 386th Brigade, the commander of the 772nd Regiment, the deputy commander of the Fourth Military Subdistrict of the Taiyue Military Region, and the acting commander, and led the troops to participate in the Hundred Regiments War and the anti-"sweeping" struggle in Taiyue District.
In the Liberation War, in October 1947, after Liu Deng's army entered Dabie Mountain, in order to hold back the pursuit of the Fifth Corps of the Kuomintang Army, which was fully equipped with American weapons and equipment, and cooperate with Liu Deng's army to leap thousands of miles into Dabie Mountain, Chen Kang, who was then the commander of the 13th Brigade of the Fourth Column of the Central Plains Field Army, was ordered to lead his troops to play the main force of the Fourth Column, and with Li Tiejun, commander of the Kuomintang Fifth Corps, and his 30,000 troops circled around Funiu Mountain in western Henan, under the command of Commander Chen Geng, Chen Kang pulled a large distance, carried out maneuvers with Li Tie's army, and adopted the "morning glory tactic" Exhausted by Li Tiejun's troops, li tiejun's fifth corps was introduced into the encirclement circle arranged by Commander Chen Geng, eliminating more than 20,000 people of Li Tiejun's corps, and even Li Yingcai, chief of staff of Li Tiejun's lieutenant general, was captured.
Li Yingcai sighed: "Half of our army was defeated this time, and the other half was dragged down by Chen Kang's troops. ”
At the end of 1949, Chen Kang, who was the deputy commander of the 13th Army of the Fourth Corps of the Erye Army, led his troops to follow Chen Geng's Fourth Corps to launch a thousand-mile pursuit and annihilation battle against the Kuomintang army, and Chen Kang, deputy commander of the 13th Army, led three main regiments from Nanning, traveled day and night, attacked southern Yunnan lightly, marched 1800 miles in 14 days, divided the troops into two roads, and by surprise, attacked mengzi airport all the way, cut off the air retreat route of the Kuomintang army, and attacked the Yuanjiang railway bridge all the way, cutting off the kuomintang's land retreat.
In coordination with the fraternal troops in fighting for more than 50 consecutive days and nights, more than 27,600 people from the Kuomintang Eighth Army and the 26th Army in Yunnan were annihilated, and Tang Yao, deputy commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Army, and Cao Tiange, commander of the Eighth Army, were captured alive, and the great victory in the Battle of Southern Yunnan was won, and immortal meritorious deeds were made for the liberation of the Chinese people.
In 1952, after Zhou Xihan, the former commander of the 13th Army, was transferred away, Chen Kang took over as the commander of the 13th Army, and in 1956, he served as the deputy commander of the Kunming Military Region and the commander of the Yunnan Provincial Military Region, the acting commander of the Kunming Military Region, and participated in the command of the Sino-Burmese border survey guard operation.
During his tenure as commander of the Yunnan Provincial Military Region, in order to solve the problem of operations in the subtropical jungle area, he led his entourage to wade through mountains and rivers, eat and sleep in the wind, conduct investigations and studies in the field, explore new ways and training methods for fighting in the subtropical jungle area, and effectively maintain the security of the border.
He often went deep into the army to guide the work and educate officers and men at the grass-roots level to establish the idea of taking root in the frontier and make contributions to defending the frontier of the motherland.
Once, when he went down to the troops to inspect the work, the jeep he was riding on was driving on the rugged mountain road, and by noon, the car had been driving for several hours, and everyone was relatively sleepy, and General Chen Kang ordered the car to stop at the side of the national highway to rest.
At this time, a bunch of hooligans came out of the city next to the national highway, they came to the national highway to catch a ride, waited for half a day to see the figure of the bus, saw that there were two military vehicles parked on the national highway, then came to the front of the car, and arbitrarily demanded that the general's car driver and the driver of the guard first road car, Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang, carry them for a while, Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang saw that they were a group of social scoundrels, so they did not take care of them, and these gang of hooligans took the opportunity to make trouble and loudly insulted Xiao Zhang and Xiao Wang.
General Chen Kang, who was resting, heard the scolding and led the guards to rush over, and the general asked, "What are you doing?" Why run to the highway to make trouble? ”
The leader of the rogues looked disdainful and replied, "We are the land snakes in this area, and we just wanted to take your car, and your two drivers are still very cattle, so we will teach them a lesson." ”
The general said, "Didn't you see that this was a military vehicle?" Can military vehicles be taken at will? I warn you! Don't make trouble here, or you won't have good fruit to eat. ”
The goons looked like they didn't buy it, and one of the goons said, "Aren't you just passing by foreign soldiers?" Isn't it just a broken jeep ride on you? You still have to teach us a lesson, in this area we have not yet seen anyone more powerful than us, we have the ability to compete, I still don't believe it, we can't beat a few of you with a dozen people. ”
The general smiled coldly and said, "I see that you have not been beaten, and you bastards are under-beaten." ”
The leader of the rogues said defiantly, "Then try it." ”
The general said, "Okay, you have the ability to come and try it." ”
As soon as the general waved his hand, the guards and fighters could not hold back on the side, and rushed forward to fight with these hooligans.
Although there were only five or six guards, each of them was a ten-year-old and well-trained, and in a few moments, they defeated this gang of goons and hooligans.
The rogue leader saw the situation, picked up a stick from the side and prepared to fight desperately, was crushed by the warrior Xiao Li a Taishan, hit this guy angry Venus, Xiao Li took off the stick, took out the military handcuffs, locked the rogue leader.
The other hooligans looked at it, but they couldn't beat it, so let's run! Caught up by the warriors on three feet and two steps, all in hand.
The general said to this gang of goons, "You gangsters, you don't know what your surname is, so today you will beat off the majesty of your ground snake." ”
After speaking, the general instructed the driver Xiao Wang to go to the nearby police station to notify him to come and deal with it.
The hooligans were dumbfounded, the provocation failed, and they were beaten, which also had to send them to the police station and quickly plead with the general.
The general ignored the gang of hooligans, and after a while, the public security officers of the local police station quickly arrived and took the hooligans away from the scene.
The general said to the soldiers: "Comrades, today's battle is very well fought, which shows that your usual training is not in vain, and it has been tested in actual combat. ”
The guards were so impressed that they said in unison, "Yes." ”