Among the many founding generals of the mainland, General Chen Geng is undoubtedly the most legendary, because he can write and fight, but why has his position not been expected since the founding of New China?
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Chen Geng's legendary career
Chen Geng was able to write and use martial arts during the revolutionary war years, or he was very comprehensive! How legendary is his military career? He held important positions in both the Red First and Fourth Fronts. As a division commander in the Red Fourth Front, and even as chief of staff of the Red Fourth Front, he suffered a serious leg injury during a battle and had to go to Shanghai for treatment and was arrested, but in prison, in the face of the temptation of Houlu, a high-ranking Kuomintang official, Chen Geng maintained his lofty and firm revolutionary beliefs and was later rescued from prison.
After being released from prison, he joined the Red Army and served as the head of the cadre regiment, don't look at Chen Geng was only the regimental commander at that time, that is more important than the commander, the cadre regiment as the name suggests is to manage cadres, and also served as the principal of the Red Army infantry school. In the Battle of Tucheng during the Long March, he led the cadre regiment to fight and charge all the way, killed from the flanks, defeated the attack of the Kuomintang army, and covered the safe withdrawal of the main force of the Red Army from the battle. The great man praised Chen Geng for being a military commander.
It can be said that Chen Geng in the military career is very comprehensive, can be literate, and even worked as a secret agent, in Shanghai Special Branch, Shanghai Beach once left chen geng flying cornice walking wall story, maybe the story of this cornice walking wall is a bit exaggerated, but Chen Geng really knows martial arts, legs and feet kung fu.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army was unexpectedly ambushed again and again at Shentou Ridge, causing the Japanese army to lose its armor and armor, for which the Japanese army played the slogan of "specially fighting the 386 Brigade", which can be seen from the side how outstanding Chen Geng was in resisting the Japanese army.
During the Liberation War, Chen Geng's column (also known as Chen Geng's corps) was independent from Liu Deng's army for a long time, acted alone, and for a long time as a strategic mobile force of the Central Military Commission, fought a series of victorious battles in western Henan, and established a base area in western Henan, which well covered Liu Deng's army to leap thousands of miles into Dabie Mountain.
In the Battle of Huaihai, Chen Geng's column returned to the battle sequence of the Central Plains Field Army and played a crucial role in the encirclement and annihilation of the "Huang Wei Corps": it defeated the breakthrough operations of the Huang Wei Corps many times, for which Chen Geng creatively invented the method of "digging trenches and trenches" to block the enemy layer by layer, and to encircle the Huang Wei Corps breakthrough through the continuous "underground Great Wall". This method was later brought by Chen Geng to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and successfully evolved into tunnel warfare, the famous Battle of Shangganling, which was the use of tunnel warfare.
In the war to liberate southern and southwestern China from the south, Chen Geng's corps first followed Siye's troops all the way south secretly south along the Beijing-Guangzhou railway, and together with Deng Hua's fifteenth corps liberated Guangzhou, at a critical moment, Chen Geng proposed that the troops should take advantage of the victory to pursue, along western Guangdong and Wuzhou, into Guangxi and Yunnan to carry out a strategic counter-encirclement of the last remnants of the Kuomintang army. Chen Geng's move was too risky, but the great man agreed to Chen Geng's tactics at a crucial moment, and finally Chen Geng's army went down to Guangxi, liberated all of Yunnan, and broke the enemy's idea of entering Burma.
It can be said that Chen Geng made great contributions to the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Victory in the War of Liberation. Chen Geng has a characteristic that wherever there is a gunshot, he runs wherever he goes, and is affectionately called "war maniac" by his comrades-in-arms. He participated in the Northern Expedition, the Ten Years' Agrarian Revolutionary War, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and Chen Geng contributed to the victory of these wars, ranking fourth among the ten generals of the Republic.
However, why has General Chen Geng's position not been as good as expected since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the highest position is only the deputy chief of the People's Liberation Army.
Why? The important point is that General Chen Geng's health has always been bad, the general has been moving to the north and south of the great river, years of fatigue dragged down the general's body, and the long-term conquest made the general too late to recuperate. The general's leg injury has never been cured, and whenever the weather changes or the humid climate, Chen Geng's leg injury will faintly hurt.
When General Chen Geng was the principal of the Kazakh military industry, in order to let those old experts have heating and heating in winter, he deliberately took the lead in letting out the heated buildings for the old experts to live, which invisibly aggravated the condition of General Chen Geng's legs.
Another point is that General Chen Geng sat in the enemy's prison in the mid-1930s and was severely tortured by the enemy in prison, although General Chen Geng did not die, but the enemy's torture left the general with certain sequelae. In addition, the general suffered from severe coronary heart disease and heart disease, and coupled with continuous conquests, the general's body could not be rested and recovered in time.
The reason for General Chen Geng's health was that his position after the founding of New China was not as good as expected, and the long-term continuous fatigue battle was also a major reason for General Chen Geng's heart disease.
In 1957, General Chen Geng, who was still working, was sent to the hospital for emergency rescue due to a sudden heart attack, and after the doctors' full rescue, he barely managed to retrieve a life.
However, Chen Geng still could not put down his work, and in 1958, taking advantage of his relatively stable condition, he disregarded the opposition of his family and doctors and went to the southeast coast to conduct military investigations.
Chen Geng's popularity is very good
It is worth mentioning that Chen Geng's popularity is very good, he has many friends, and once saved Premier Zhou's life in the meadow. In Chen Geng's eyes, Premier Zhou is a good leader and a good superior, and even more a good brother and a good comrade-in-arms, and the friendship between them is very deep. The strange thing is that Chen Geng is most afraid of Peng Zong, but Peng Geng has never scolded Chen Geng, but Chen Geng often jokes with Peng Zong, especially on the night of Peng Zong's wedding, Chen Geng secretly exchanged the water in Peng Zong's bowl for wine, and as a result, Peng Zong found out, Chen Geng smiled and said to Peng Zong: Peng Zong, you are too unauthentic, the wedding wine is not drunk, change it to water, you are too disrespectful to our bride.
During the time when Su Yu was criticized, almost no one was willing to visit Su Yu, but Chen Geng did not believe in that set, but often went to Su Yu's house to find Su Yu for tea. In the midst of the small talk between the two of them, Chen Geng smiled and said to Su Yu: In the past and the present, there have been two kinds of people who are susceptible to the suspicion of their superiors, and the officials are getting smaller and smaller: the first is that the battle achievements are very large, and the so-called meritorious master is talking about this kind of person; the second is that he does not quite cater to the thoughts of his superiors. Often these two kinds of people are most susceptible to the suspicion of the superiors, these two kinds of you Su Yu brother are occupied, where is not the suspicion of the superiors?
Chen Geng glanced at Su Yu and said, "Commander Su, can you see that I can listen to such an analysis?" Su Yu smiled and said, "Those who know me, Chen Gengye!"
In February 1961, Chen Geng was tired from work and his old illness recurred. The central government asked Chen Geng to go to Shanghai for recuperation, and in the process of recuperation, General Chen Geng did not forget to work, he may have realized that his time was short, and on March 7, Chen Geng began to write a "Summary of Combat Experience" with illness. The original plan was to write a total of 6 articles: "Preface", "Combat Preparation", "Attack", "Defense", "Pursuit", and "Transfer". However, after the completion of the preamble, Chen Geng suffered a heart attack and died of a heart attack in Shanghai at 8:45 a.m. on March 16.
After the death of General Chen Geng, Su Yuwen cried bitterly, and Li Kenong threw away his wine glass when he learned about it, saying that it would not be interesting to drink in the future, Li Kenong and Chen Geng knew each other when they were in Shanghai Teke, and formed a deep friendship. The news of Chen Geng's death surprised Premier Zhou, who was presiding over the meeting in Guangzhou, and he ended the meeting halfway and rushed back to Beijing to attend Chen Geng's memorial service and protect the spirit of General Chen Geng!