The founding general of New China, Chen Geng, is known for his distinctive personality, General Chen Geng has traversed the battlefield in his life, experienced countless survival tests, and was captured alive by the enemy during the period, it stands to reason that such a general should not smile, but General Chen Geng is just the opposite, on the battlefield, General Chen Geng has never been soft on the enemy, but in life, Chen Geng is a very humorous person.
Because of his active personality, Chen Geng will have a very good relationship with many founding generals, even if Lin Biao is such an unsociable person, General Chen Geng can have a few words, once Lin Biao held a cadre meeting, at the meeting the generals talked, when it was the turn of General Chen Geng to speak, Chen Geng suddenly smiled and said to the people present: "I have touched Lin Biao's braincase, do you dare?" ”
So, why did General Chen Geng touch Lin Biao's braincase? What interesting things happened between Lin Biao, who has always been unsmiling, and General Chen Geng?
Chen Geng was born in Xiangxiang, Hunan in 1903, after the general, Chen Geng's grandfather was a general of the Xiang Army, so Chen Geng was placed in high hopes by his father since he was a child, when Chen Geng's father hoped that Chen Geng could become a literary master, but Chen Geng, who had the blood of the general, resolutely chose to write from Rong after seeing that the motherland and the people were in dire straits.
At first, Chen Geng joined the Xiang Army, but later dissatisfied with the warlord melee, Chen Geng chose to leave the Xiang Army and went to the Changsha railway department as a clerk, during this period, by chance, Chen Geng came into contact with the Hunan Self-study University initiated by Chairman Mao, and after entering the university, Chen Geng had several heart-to-heart interactions with Chairman Mao, which made him gradually clear about his goal.
In 1924, Chen Geng transferred from Guangzhou Army Martial Arts School to Whampoa Military Academy and became a cadet of the first phase of Whampoa, in Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Geng met many like-minded classmates and teachers, including Premier Zhou, Chen Yannian, Yun Daiying, Nie Rongzhen and others, Chen Geng has a lively personality, and soon became acquainted with these people after entering the school.
When Chen Geng entered Huangpu to study, Premier Zhou was serving as the director of the political department of the Whampoa Military Academy, and once, Chen Geng was doing a non-physical performance for the students, and he was performing noodles and "blind people touching elephants", the scene was very funny, and just when the students were amused by Chen Geng, Premier Zhou suddenly pushed the door and came in.
After seeing the director come in, Chen Geng, who was still joking, suddenly became honest, and then looked at Premier Zhou with a blush, Premier Zhou saw that not only did not criticize Chen Geng for taking the lead in playing, but also felt that Chen Geng had a talent for acting, and then when the Whampoa Military Academy held a cultural performance, Chen Geng would always be arranged by Premier Zhou to perform.
Although the literary performance is just to make people laugh, but Chen Geng attaches great importance to it, and even in a cultural performance, Chen Geng also wore women's clothing, playing the warlord's aunt who the girls are unwilling to perform, because the performance is too expressive, until the end of the performance, the audience did not find that this person was played by Chen Geng.
In the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Geng and Premier Zhou formed a deep friendship, Chen Geng regarded Premier Zhou as a brother like a teacher like a friend, Premier Zhou also liked Chen Geng's lively character very much, and later after the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to transfer people from universities in various places, he quickly created a comprehensive military engineering and technology college of the army, navy and air force, and Chen Geng also "blocked" Premier Zhou at the door of the toilet.
At that time, Premier Zhou was busy with work, was taking time to go to the toilet, who expected that just came out of the toilet, Chen Geng appeared at the door of the toilet, and then smiled and handed the sorted list to Premier Zhou for instructions, seeing this scene, Premier Zhou was angry and funny, and couldn't help but say: "You really have a way, find a toilet to ask me to work, this is your big invention." ”
After graduating from Huangpu, Chen Geng stayed in school as a company commander and deputy captain of the enlisted students, during which Chen Geng participated in two crusades, and also sacrificed his life to rescue Chiang Kai-shek who was in danger during the second crusade, and later when leading the freshman team in Whampoa, Chen Geng met Lin Biao, who was still a freshman.
As we all know, Lin Biao has a withdrawn personality and does not like to communicate with people, even during school, Chen Geng, who was the commander of the infantry company of the Whampoa Military Academy at that time, saw Lin Biao like this, and often communicated with Lin Biao, hoping that Lin Biao could open his heart and play with people more, but Lin Biao's personality is so difficult to change.
Once, in order to let Lin Biao say more, Chen Geng also told a joke during training, which made the trainees laugh at that time, Chen Geng has a lively personality, and said vividly, Rao is Lin Biao such a person who does not like to laugh was also amused by Chen Geng's appearance, seeing this scene Chen Geng immediately touched the back of Lin Biao's head and said that he would laugh more like this in the future.
With this experience, Lin Biao and Chen Geng formed a deep friendship, Lin Biao has a dull personality, Chen Geng often tries to enliven the atmosphere, this friendship has been maintained very well until the founding of the People's Republic of China, so when Lin Biao held a cadre meeting, General Chen Geng could joke at the meeting with a big grin, and Lin Biao was not angry about this.
After coming out of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Geng served as the battalion commander of the 20th Battalion, and also engaged in intelligence collection and counter-espionage work, during which Chen Geng also discovered the Gu Shunzhang incident in time and reported it to Premier Zhou in time.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Geng became the commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division and was ordered to lead his troops to cross the Yellow River eastward, during which Chen Geng successively won victories in Changshengkou, Qigan Village, Guangyang and other battles on the Zhengtai Railway, and then killed and wounded more than 1,500 Japanese soldiers in the battle of Shentou Ridge.
Throughout the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chen Geng smashed the attacks of the Japanese puppet army several times, and also commanded the Qinyuan siege that lasted two and a half years, setting a precedent of mass guerrilla warfare in one fell swoop.
During the Liberation War, Chen Geng and Lin Biao cooperated again, and when Lin Biao led his army to march to Xianggan, Chen Geng found that the march route seemed to be inappropriate, so he proposed improvements to Lin Biao, but Lin Biao did not listen at that time, for the sake of the overall situation, Chen Geng immediately reported the matter to Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao stopped Lin Biao and avoided casualties.
And like this with Lin Biao "singing against the tune", Chen Geng did more than once or twice, later in the pursuit of Yu Hanmou and the launch of the Guangxi campaign, Chen Geng also repeatedly questioned Lin Biao's battle plan, and even resisted the pressure to redeploy troops on the battlefield, although Chen Geng did this seems to have a personal grudge with Lin Biao, but in fact, it is all out of the overall situation, Chen Geng has always been very grinning, true temperament, so for many things to see and do a good job.
In order to consolidate national defense and security, in January 1950, Chen Geng commanded the Southern Yunnan Campaign, leading the 13th Army of the 4th Corps of the Second Field Army and the 38th Army of the Fourth Field Army to pursue and annihilate the remnants of the enemy for thousands of miles, liberating the vast areas of southern and western Yunnan in one fell swoop.
After the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, Chen Geng participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea non-stop, in the Korean battlefield, Chen Geng led the volunteer soldiers to actively deploy and build tunnel fortifications, and together with Mr. Peng formulated coastal defense and in-depth defense plans, the formation of these plans allowed the volunteers to gradually integrate into a whole on the battlefield, and finally let the volunteers win a complete victory on the Korean battlefield.
Chen Geng is good at sports warfare and guerrilla warfare, so in the battlefield Chen Geng moves quickly, often let the enemy not figure out the direction, and after consuming the enemy's living strength, Chen Geng counterattacked again, when fighting in Tucheng, Guizhou, Chen Geng, who was only 32 years old, used such tactics to give the enemy a head-on blow, at that time, even Chairman Mao couldn't help but have an excited look on his face after seeing it, and said: "Chen Gengxing!" You can be a military commander! ”
In 1955, Chen Geng was awarded the rank of general for his outstanding merits, and General Chen Geng's life is quite legendary, whether it was writing in his youth or fighting on the battlefield in his prime, General Chen Geng always put the interests of the motherland first, always remembered Chairman Mao's teachings of "coming from the masses, going to the masses", it is precisely because of such a group of heroes who silently fought for the motherland that he laid a solid foundation for a strong China.