The list of the top ten martial arts masters among the founding generals is as follows: Marshal He Long, General Xu Haidong, Chen Geng, Admiral Xu Shiyou, He Bingyan, Yang Yong, Lieutenant General Qian Jun, Qin Jiwei, Sun Jixian, and Major General Yan Wenbin. Of course, the ranking is not in order, only according to the rank.
However, if the scope is expanded a little more, not limited to the generals who confer the title, then there is another person whose martial arts are higher than theirs.
This person is geng biao, the former minister of national defense.
In fact, Geng Biao's seniority and combat merits can be completely awarded the rank of general; during the Red Army period, Geng Biao was the chief of staff of the 4th Army of the Red Fourth Front, especially during the Long March, he served as the head of the vanguard regiment, fought countless hard battles and vicious battles, and made great contributions to the smooth March of the Red Army' large troops; during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Geng Biao was the deputy brigade commander and deputy political commissar of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army; during the Liberation War, Geng Biao was deputy commander and chief of staff of the 2nd Corps of the North China Military Region. The people with the same qualifications and military achievements as him were basically generals.
So, why wasn't Geng Biao awarded the rank of general? Quite simply, because he was picked up by Zhou Enlai after the founding of the country and became a diplomat. When the rank was awarded in 1955, most of the people who left the army were not awarded the rank. Therefore, Geng Biao later became the minister of defense, and was the only minister of defense without a military rank.
It is not unfounded to say that Geng Biao's martial arts are superior. Among the founding generals, He Laozong, Chen Geng, Yang Yong and others were all born in a martial arts family, and Geng Biao was also born in a martial arts family, but Geng Biao's father was even more powerful.
Geng Biao's father walked the rivers and lakes in his early years and practiced a hard kung fu, and later, by chance, he was selected by the imperial court and prepared to enter the palace as Cixi's bodyguard, and was also given a pair of tiger head double hooks by the emperor. But later, for unknown reasons, Cixi disbanded the guards, and Geng Biao's father returned to his hometown. Those who could be selected by the imperial court to be the bodyguards of Ouchi were certainly not bad in martial arts, and later Geng Biao's father was also known as the "Double Hook Hero".
With such a father, Geng Biao naturally practiced martial arts from a young age, mastered all kinds of martial arts, and became a well-known martial arts master at a young age.
At the age of 17, Geng Biao received a task: to go to the Kuomintang arsenal to steal a batch of guns and organize a revolutionary army. Why send him? Naturally, it is because he is clever and not easy to discover. Geng Biao did live up to expectations and successfully completed the task.
As soon as the person in charge of the county party committee saw that this boy really had ability and a future, he promoted him to be a guerrilla leader. However, the captain was a bit shabby, there were only 7 people in the whole team, all of them were local farmers, and there was only one broken gun in the whole team.
But the 17-year-old Geng Biao didn't think so much, as long as he had his own team, he would fuck the reactionaries!
In October 1934, after the Red Army's Long March began, Geng Biao was appointed as the commander of the Vanguard Regiment, responsible for opening roads in every mountain, building bridges in the water, and if encountering enemy troops, he was the first to rush to the front. Soon, an unprecedented uphill battle came.
At the end of November, Chiang Kai-shek deployed heavy troops on the XiangJiang River to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and the vanguard regiment led by Geng Biao was the first shock force.
Yang Chengwu, political commissar of the Vanguard Regiment, later recalled: "The enemy fell to the ground like sorghum stalks destroyed by a storm, but they repelled a batch, and another batch rushed up, and another batch rushed up." From long-range shooting, to close-range shooting, from shooting to stabbing, smoke and dust rolled, knives flashed, and a shout of killing shook the mountain. ”
In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, geng biao's martial arts practiced since childhood came in handy, holding a large knife in his hand, slashing and killing wildly among the enemy troops, not knowing how many knives were changed, and finally his whole body was covered with the blood plasma of the enemy army, and the smell of blood made him constantly vomit.
This bloody battle on the Xiang River was the most tragic and crucial battle of the Central Red Army in the Long March, and geng biao's regiment alone blocked 15 regiments of the Kuomintang army, and the Red Army was finally able to successfully break through, and Geng Biao's vanguard regiment made great contributions.
The special police force that often appears in film and television dramas was also founded by Geng Biao in that year, and its main tasks were anti-hijacking, anti-terrorism, and anti-riot, which was founded in 1981, when Geng Biao was serving as minister of defense. At that time, Geng Biao's father did not serve as Cixi's bodyguard, and now Geng Biao has established a unit to protect more people.
About Geng Biao, there is also a very famous "Geng Biao Question", which was introduced before in the history inn, and will be repeated again below, such a story is worth all of us to reflect on -
After Geng Biao retired, he once returned to the place where he had fought that year, Qingyang, Gansu. When the local people heard that Geng Biao had returned, they all spontaneously came to visit him, and even many people came to him to react to the situation, hoping that he would uphold justice.
Geng Biao's heart was very complicated, but he was retired at that time, and it was inconvenient to say anything more. Until the day of his departure, Geng Biao looked at the local leaders who had come to see him off and told them a story:
"50 years ago, when our 385th Brigade was stationed here, one of the soldiers in the unit made a serious mistake. The brigade headquarters decided to shoot the soldier to death in accordance with discipline. As we were on the playground preparing to enforce discipline, a large group of ordinary people came to intercede for the soldier. I am determined to enforce discipline. Who knew that even the victim's parents fell to their knees to plead with me, and then the crowd in a playground all fell to their knees, crying and begging to spare the soldier and make him wear the guilt and make meritorious deeds. No matter how much you try to persuade them, you won't get up. Finally, we accepted the pleas of the masses with tears. ”
When Geng Biao said this, he suddenly looked at everyone and raised his voice and asked, "Now I want to ask those of you who are here today, no matter which one, if you do something wrong, will the people still intercede for you?" ”
This is the famous "Geng Biao's Question".