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Unlike many founding generals born in poor families, General Chen Geng was born in a family of generals in Longdong Township, Xiangxiang City, Hunan Province, Chen Geng's grandfather Chen Yihuai was once a deputy general of the Xiang Army at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a general of Feng Wuxian, and his grandfather was also the first idol of life worshiped by Chen Geng.
Chen Yihuai returned to his hometown after becoming famous, and built a mansion covering an area of more than 1,000 square meters and more than 40 houses in Quanhu Village, Chen Geng grew up carefree in such a favorable environment when he was a teenager, and Chen Geng, the second in the family, was called "Second Young Master" by the servants.
In the big family of the Chen family, in addition to the room where the master lived, there was also a room specially for the long-term workers to live in, and Lu Dongsheng, the love general of He Long, and Lu Dongsheng, who had served as the commander of the Red Second Army, had lived here when he was a child. Lu Dongsheng went to Chen Geng's house to herd cattle at the age of 7, but Chen Geng, as a young master, did not treat Lu Dongsheng as a servant at all, but treated him as a brother, and the two of them also formed a lifelong friendship.
The kindness in chen geng bones is inextricably linked to the educational environment of the Chen family, although the Chen family is a large local family, but it has always been a good charity, in the war years, many people are uprooted, hungry, the Chen family has set aside 3 rooms, for the homeless elderly, orphans and beggars to live, but also for a long time free of charge to provide food and clothing.
Lu Dongsheng was born into a sharecropper family in Shijia'ao, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, with six brothers and sisters, who lived by renting the land of the landlord's family. Facing the days of facing the loess and facing the sky, all year round rely on the sky to eat, because the livelihood is difficult, unable to support a large family, Lu Dongsheng's father had to find another way out, with his eldest son to work in the Anyuan coal mine in Jiangxi, thousands of miles away.
The children of the poor have long been in charge, and Lu Dongsheng, who has just grown to 7 years old, although he is still a child, he must also begin to bear the burden of supporting his family, but what can a 7-year-old child do? The grandmother, who was still quite strong in bones, took the little Lu Dongsheng and walked forty miles to Quanhu Village in Xiangxiang City, where Lu Dongsheng became a cattle herder in Chen Geng's home.
7-year-old Lu Dongsheng was left by his grandmother in the Chen family, where he was not familiar with life, but here, Lu Dongsheng was not scolded and bullied, nor did he feel the desolation under the fence, but he lived happily every day, and even had a little fun, all because he knew a good partner who was only 5 years older than him, the second young master of the Chen family, Chen Geng.
Compared with Lu Dongsheng, who was born in a poor family, Chen Geng was undoubtedly a rich young master born with a golden spoon, but he did not feel that he was superior and superior, and for such a poor child as Lu Dongsheng, Chen Geng's heart was full of sympathy, and Chen Geng also felt empathy for their suffering.
When he was not in school, Chen Geng often went to lu Dongsheng to play with, and Chen Geng not only helped Lu Dongsheng herd cattle and mow grass together, but also became a small teacher, teaching Lu Dongsheng to read and write. Over time, the two people became good friends who talked about everything, and Chen Geng also became the source of Happiness for Lu Dongsheng in the Chen family. Lu Dongsheng did not have the opportunity to go to school and study, and Chen Geng, who was well-informed and knowledgeable, became the object of Lu Dongsheng's greatest admiration.
After Chen Geng was admitted to the Dongshan Higher Primary School, he learned a lot of new ideas and new knowledge that he could not learn in the private school, and as soon as he returned to his hometown, Chen Geng could not wait to tell Lu Dongsheng about these new insights, and slowly Lu Dongsheng's ideological realm also broadened a lot.
The relationship between Chen Geng and Lu Dongsheng has long surpassed the master servant, but is like a brother, in order to send some clothes and daily necessities to Chen Geng who lives in the school, Lu Dongsheng often has to walk more than twenty miles, looking at Lu Dongsheng, who is a servant of the wind and dust, Chen Geng is very distressed.
A seven- or eight-year-old child running back and forth alone on a mountain road of more than twenty miles will inevitably encounter some accidents and dangers. Once, Lu Dongsheng on the way to the school to deliver clothes, encountered a very vicious dog, unfortunately bitten, Lu Dongsheng has been simple and down-to-earth since childhood, although his leg was injured, but also did not turn back to heal the injury, but insisted on limping to the school, to complete the task assigned by the master's family.
When Lu Dongsheng ran all the way to the Dongshan Primary School, the sky was already completely dark, and there was no time to go back to the Chen family, Chen Geng quickly bandaged Lu Dongsheng's wounds, let him stay in the school for one night, and gave him his own clothes, pants and shoes to wear.
However, the innocent friendship between Chen Geng and Lu Dongsheng in their youth only lasted for a short period of two years. In 1916, the 13-year-old Chen Geng also encountered the life problems encountered by many people in that era, his parents set an arranged marriage for Chen Geng, forcing him to marry a woman who was two years older than himself, plus this summer Chen Geng's most respected grandfather also died, which made him even more disheartened, and before graduating from school, Chen Geng ran away from home and enrolled in the Xiang Army as a soldier.
After Chen Geng left home, Lu Dongsheng also lost his dearest brother in the Chen family, things are not human, Lu Dongsheng began to feel an unprecedented sense of loneliness, and it did not take long for Lu Dongsheng to leave the Chen family.
9-year-old Lu Dongsheng continued to start his wandering working years, was sent by his father to a steel mill in Xiangtan County as an apprentice, when the apprenticeship is to learn the art, every day early and greedy, do more than ten hours of work, but can not get a penny of wages. After surviving the 3-year apprenticeship period, the boss saw that Lu Dongsheng was a good worker and deliberately extended the period of graduation and did not let him go. Lu Dongsheng could not stand this anger and left the steel mill to become a porter with great strength in the coal stack.
The boss of the coal stack often withheld the workers' wages, Lu Dongsheng could not see it, with the workers and the boss to fight, the police and the boss colluded, ordered the arrest of Lu Dongsheng, Lu Dongsheng fled back to his hometown, thinking of a new way out. At this time, Lu Dongsheng thought of his childhood playmate Chen Geng, and he might as well follow him and join the army.
In 1925, the 17-year-old Lu Dongsheng joined the Fourth Division of the Xiang Army as a soldier, and it was this decision that gave Lu Dongsheng and Chen Geng the opportunity to meet again and continue their childhood friendship as adults. In his youth, it was Chen Geng who helped Lu Dongsheng, and after the reunion, Lu Dongsheng saved Chen Geng's life by chance, making their master-servant and comrade-in-arms more legendary and moving.
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The reason why Chen Geng threw himself into the pen was because he held the lofty ideal of a rich country and a strong army, he left the old warlords and threw himself into the torrent of revolution, and later he was admitted to the Whampoa Military Academy and became one of the "Whampoa Three Masters".
In 1926, after the outbreak of the Northern Expedition, Lu Dongsheng's Tang Shengzhi Department was reorganized into the Eighth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was later expanded into the Second Front, and in 1927, Chen Geng was sent to the Special Service Battalion of the Second Front Army as a battalion commander and met his childhood partner Lu Dongsheng. When the wine is less than a thousand cups of confidants, when Chen Geng and Lu Dongsheng are reunited, they do not talk about the wine, but fight side by side and share their blood.
Chen Geng and Lu Dongsheng had known each other since childhood, and they knew that Lu Dongsheng's character was down-to-earth and reliable, so they transferred him to the special service battalion as a deputy battalion commander and stationed in Hankou.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek launched a counter-revolutionary coup, and Lu Dongsheng followed Chen Geng to escort Zhou Enlai to Nanchang and participated in the August 1 Nanchang Uprising. When the August sun was scorching, the rebel army was marching in the scorching heat, and Qian Dajun's troops displayed heavy troops at Huichang Mountain in front of Ruijin, blocking the way for the rebel army to advance. At the moment of the first attack, Chen Geng, who was the leader of the teaching regiment in the Third Division of the Twentieth Army, was ordered to lead the team to gnaw the hard bone of Huichang Mountain.
"Thousands of miles of blue clouds and pure heaven, a thousand mountains of wood leaves fall frost red", the mountains and forests are deep, the majestic and rugged Huichang Mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, to capture Huichang Mountain is not easy to talk about, Chen Geng led the troops to occupy a high ground northeast of Huichang City by night, as a stronghold to capture Huichang Mountain.
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Just after dawn, Chen Geng found that the enemy was assembling, decided to preemptively attack the enemy, and ordered a surprise attack on the enemy. But this shout of death alarmed the enemy troops scattered throughout the mountains, and the enemy mobilized four regiments of troops to encircle them. The enemy was outnumbered and the situation was critical, so Chen Geng ordered the battalion commanders to preserve their strength as much as possible and wait for the rescue of the follow-up troops.
However, what was not expected was that the reinforcements delayed the rescue time because they took the wrong road, Chen Geng led the troops from morning to afternoon, always alone, more and more soldiers were killed under the enemy's artillery fire, and some soldiers fainted in the hot sun because they did not enter the water all day.
Chen Geng had to order a retreat, and suddenly, Chen Geng, who was walking behind the line, felt a sharp pain in his leg, and the enemy's bullet hit his left leg, and Lu Dongsheng, as a guard, followed Chen Geng closely behind him, and immediately exclaimed: "No, the regimental commander is injured!" Quickly reached out to help Chen Geng who had fallen to stand up.
But Chen Geng, whose leg bone was broken, not only could not continue to walk, but could not even stand up, in order to avoid the enemy's pursuit, Chen Geng immediately took off his uniform, rolled over, rolled down the hillside, and rolled into a field ditch covered with weeds. In order to protect Chen Geng closely, Lu Dongsheng also rolled down the hillside after him.
Lu Dongsheng crawled to Chen Geng's side and tried to bandage his wounds, but Chen Geng repeatedly waved his hands and ordered Lu Dongsheng to leave quickly, lest the enemy find him when he searched the mountain, But Lu Dongsheng insisted on refusing to flee alone, but said flatly: "If we want to die, we will die together."
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Chen Geng, who had always been alert, frowned, calculated his heart, quickly wiped the blood on his legs on his face, and lay motionless in the ditch, while Lu Dongsheng hid in the nearby grass to observe the situation. Soon the enemy who searched the mountain found Chen Geng lying in the ditch, saw that he was covered in blood, thought he was dead, kicked two feet, cursed "a dead ghost", and flew away.
Chen Geng secretly rejoiced in his heart that his fate was great, he had escaped a disaster, and he was worried that the enemy would go and return, Chen Geng had been lying in the ditch for a long time, and did not let Lu Dong give birth. Not long after, Chen Geng heard the sound of gunfire on the mountain, and guessed that our army must have fought another battle with the enemy, and after about an hour, the gunfire stopped, and another unit came over.
Chen Geng was wondering in his heart, suddenly two soldiers came over, with the butt of the gun to dial him, Chen Geng still held his breath, did not dare to move, and when they walked over, Chen Geng quietly opened his eyes, found that both people were wearing red ties around their necks, excitedly Chen Geng immediately climbed up and shouted: "I am my own person." When the rebel army discovered Chen Geng, Chen Geng said that he was the leader of the Teaching Regiment of the Twentieth Army, and everyone asked him in disbelief: "Who can prove it?" At this time, Lu Dongsheng ran out of the grass and said loudly: "I can testify", and also took out the red tie hidden in his pocket, confirming that the two people were indeed rebels.
At that time, Chen Geng had lost too much blood and was in danger, Lu Dongsheng and his comrades carried Chen Geng to Huichang City on a stretcher, and Zhou Enlai, who was worried, saw that Chen Geng had returned, clasped his hand tightly, and said: "We have been looking for you for a long time, and it really killed people." Fortunately, now that we have returned safely, we are relieved. ”
The story of Lu Dongsheng not abandoning and risking death to rescue his comrades-in-arms was passed down for a time as a beautiful talk. Lu Dongsheng was a man who knew the rewards of the book, he always remembered the careful care of Chen Geng when he was a child, and after accompanying Chen Geng to escape the enemy's search, Lu Dongsheng took on the task of escorting Chen Geng for thousands of miles.
After the rebel army successfully broke through, it was transferred to Fujian, and Lu Dongsheng carried Chen Geng over the Wuyi Mountains along the way to the city of Tingzhou in the southern foothills of the Wuyi Mountains, where Fu Lianyong, president of the Church of England Gospel Hospital, gave Chen Geng leg surgery, and Chen Geng's leg was finally saved.
The troops marched all the way, Lu Dongsheng was worried that Chen Geng could not stand the long-distance bumps, found a boat, down the river from the Ting River, on the way, encountered bandits robbed, Lu Dongsheng crouched in the cabin to shoot the bandits, insisted until the Twenty-fifth Division Commander Zhou Shidi sent reinforcements, and finally beat the bandits away.
After arriving in Guangdong, the mountain road was even more rugged and difficult to travel, He Long persuaded Chen Geng to stay in the local area for treatment, Chen Geng was unwilling to leave the army, Lu Dongsheng stood up and said that no matter how hard he worked, he would carry Chen Geng to his destination. Chen Geng saw Lu Dongsheng, who was carrying a stretcher all the way, sweating heavily, and his heart was very unhappy, saying that he was tired of him, but Lu Dongsheng smiled and in turn comforted Chen Geng not to think too much.
After the troops arrived in Shantou, Chen Geng was admitted to a japanese-run hospital, and Lu Dongsheng followed him to the hospital for nursing. In September, the rebel army withdrew from Shantou, and Zhou Enlai sent someone to deliver a letter to Chen Geng, but the messenger did not find the hospital, and Chen Geng and Lu Dongsheng did not know that the troops had retreated. The streets were already full of Kuomintang troops, and the hospital did not dare to take Chen Geng anymore, so Lu Dongsheng took Chen Geng with the help of a nurse surnamed Li and hid in the workers' homes without being arrested.
After that, Lu Dongsheng took Chen Geng on a steamer to Hong Kong, and when he arrived in Hong Kong, because it was a gunshot wound, the hospital did not dare to take them in for fear of being implicated, and the two people who had no foothold could only wander on the road, and seeing that there was a toilet on the side of the road, Chen Geng let Lu Dongsheng carry him in for a rest.
Chen Geng was optimistic by nature, loved to joke, touching the stomach of the front chest against the back, Chen Geng smiled and said to Lu Dongsheng: "At this time, if only I could have a Western meal to eat!" Lu Dongsheng, who was honest, thought that Chen Geng really wanted to eat Western food, so he ran out and called for a copy, and the person who delivered the food followed Lu Dongsheng to the toilet, only to find that something was wrong, not only did not give Western food to eat, but also scolded the two people in a bad mood, Chen Geng patted Lu Dongsheng's shoulder, laughing.
There was no place to stand in Hong Kong, Lu Dongsheng escorted Chen Geng all the way to Shanghai, where he finally found the party's underground organization and was admitted to Niu Huilin's orthopedic hospital, the Niu brothers were Song Qingling's cousins, Song Qingling heard that Chen Geng was injured, and told his cousin to cure his leg injury.
At that time, Chen Geng was seriously injured because of running all the way, the doctor said that he wanted to amputate, Chen Geng resolutely disagreed, and the Niu brothers did their best to finally pick up Chen Geng's injured leg. At this point, Lu Dongsheng's thousand-mile escort mission was finally successfully completed, and under the introduction of Chen Geng and his wife Wang Genying, Lu Dongsheng joined the Communist Party.
Lu Dongsheng's kindness to himself, Chen Geng often told others, he always said meaningfully, "Without Lu Dongsheng, there would be no me Chen Geng." Since then, Lu Dongsheng and Chen Geng have each embarked on the road of revolution, and Chen Geng, who is still limping, asked for a job assignment, under the pseudonym Wang Yong, to serve as the chief of the central special section intelligence section in Shanghai.
In 1928, Lu Dongsheng escorted He Long back to Xiang'ebian to continue to lead the Red Army struggle, and Lu Dongsheng, who was brave and good at war, was promoted from company commander to battalion commander and regiment commander, and in October 1934, he was appointed as the commander of the 4th Division of the Red 2nd Army. In the Battle of Houping in Hunan in 1935, Lu Dongsheng was wounded in the leg, and since then, like Chen Geng, he has fallen with a leg disability.
Like Chen Geng, Lu Dongsheng had strong and indomitable perseverance, dragging his stumped legs to lead the Red Army across the Jinsha River and successfully completed the Long March. In 1936, Lu Dongsheng and Chen Geng were reunited in Helian Bay for a long time, and the two people hugged each other tightly: "Great, great, we finally came together again!" ”
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Lu Dongsheng was placed in the Soviet Union to recuperate from his illness due to repeated injuries, and later entered the military academy to study and learn Russian. In 1946, Lu Dongsheng was in Harbin to participate in the work of accepting the northeast, and when he encountered several Soviet soldiers on the street blocking the road and robbing him, Lu Dongsheng showed the officer ID card of the Soviet Red Army and criticized the soldiers' behavior fiercely in fluent Russian.
The soldiers were worried that Lu Dongsheng would be punished after the report, and when he turned to leave, he fired a black gun in the back, but unfortunately, Lu Dongsheng, who was only 37 years old, fell in a pool of blood. Although the murderer who shot Lu Dongsheng was later executed according to law, he could never get his young life back.
After Chen Geng heard the bad news of Lu Dongsheng's untimely death, he sighed bitterly, and When He Long learned that Lu Dongsheng's blood had stained Harbin, he smoked one bag after another in frustration. After the founding of New China, when Chen Geng saw He Long, he would always involuntarily talk about Lu Dongsheng: "If he is still alive, at least he must be awarded a general." ”