Chen Geng is a well-known social cow among the founding generals, and Su Yu is the opposite, but the two are inseparable friends and maintain a good personal relationship in private. But in April 1955, Su Yu, who was recuperating in the hospital, received a phone call from Chen Geng.
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Chen Geng on the phone was furious, and asked Su Yu to take good care of his subordinates, the quality was too poor! Not to mention that such accusations were between friends, even the work superiors and subordinates were quite serious, and Su Yu couldn't figure it out, who made his old buddy angry like this?
Chen Geng and Su Yu's friendship
Chen Geng is a legendary figure among the founding generals, his revolutionary qualifications are very old, and he has a high status in both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and he once saved the life of Lao Chiang.
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Chen Geng has always been the pistachio in the revolutionary ranks, Chairman Mao has to say that he is bold, Chen Geng likes to joke, and among the military and political leaders of our party, there are few who have not been joked by Chen Geng.
Of course, in addition to his own personality charm, Chen Geng is also very powerful in revolution, he is not only a general, but also followed Premier Zhou to do special science work, is a typical civil and military all-rounder, which is why these leaders of the Party Central Committee value him so much.
In contrast, Su Yu's own aura is not as much as Chen Geng, Su Yu learned to fight on the battlefield, he gradually formed his own military theory, and became a blockbuster during the Liberation War and became a recognized god of war in the whole army.
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The first acquaintance between Su Yu and Chen Geng also occurred during the Liberation War, Chen Geng had already heard of Su Yu's name, and with his character, he immediately greeted Su Yu warmly when he saw him.
Su Yu had also heard of Chen Geng's name for a long time, although the two had just met, they got along very warmly, and many of their thoughts and opinions were relatively consistent, Su Yu and Chen Geng soon established a good friendship.
This friendship continued until after the founding of New China, when the famous Su Yu became the chief of the general staff of the People's Liberation Army, and Chen Geng happened to be transferred as the deputy chief of the general staff.
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Su Yu was relieved to see that Chen Geng had assisted him, and later he was ill and needed to go to the hospital for recuperation, so he simply handed over everything to Chen Geng.
But the bad thing is in the handover of the work, because the work of the subordinates is not effective, things go wrong, so that Chen Geng is inexplicably responsible, what is going on?
The truth behind it
After receiving a call from Chen Geng to complain, Su Yu hurriedly called someone to find out what was going on, which actually made Chen Geng, who had always been good-tempered, so angry. It turned out that the reason why Chen Geng was so angry was because Mr. Peng had just scolded him for scolding him.
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It is said that Chen Geng was called to the office by Mr. Peng at that time, and he didn't know what was going on, but as soon as he looked at Mr. Peng's face, he knew that it was definitely not good.
As soon as Chen Geng sat down, Mr. Peng took out a report and threw it in front of Chen Geng, questioning Chen Geng:
"That's how the General Staff writes the report? It's completely bullshit, have you ever seen it yourself!"
Chen Geng was also a little stunned when he heard it, because he had never heard of any report during this time, and when he took the report, he had indeed never reviewed it, but it was strange that there was his signature and seal on such a report that Chen Geng had never used at all.
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Mr. Peng was even more angry when he heard Chen Geng's explanation, such a mistake was more serious than not writing the report well, Mr. Peng directly drove Chen Geng away and asked him to clean up the portal by himself.
The more Chen Geng thought about it, the more angry he became, and when he returned to the office to investigate, he realized that it was Su Yu's secretary who stamped Chen Geng's seal without authorization, and he wanted to save time for the leader to review, so he quietly stamped his own seal and submitted it to the superior department.
When Chen Geng heard that such a key department as the General Staff Department had made such a serious disciplinary mistake, he was angry, and thought that Su Yu, who was the leader, should be responsible, so he called Xingshi to ask for the guilt.
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Su Yu also felt very guilty after learning the truth of the matter, his poor discipline of his subordinates caused so much trouble to his old partner, he didn't know how to apologize to Chen Geng for a while.
Unexpectedly, Su Yu hadn't called Chen Geng back, Chen Geng called the phone himself, and took the initiative to say that his tone was too impulsive before, and he wanted to apologize to Su Yu.
When Su Yu heard this, he also hurriedly apologized to Chen Geng, and the two old comrades-in-arms met and laughed at each other, and this matter turned the page. However, Su Yu also promised Chen Geng that he would strictly discipline his subordinates, and the General Staff would never have a similar incident again.
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A true friend at a critical moment
In fact, such unhappiness would not have affected the deep friendship between Chen Geng and Su Yu, and at the critical moment when Su Yu was in trouble, Chen Geng would always help and stop the unfair treatment of Su Yu in time.
In 1958, Su Yu was criticized that Su Yu could not fight. Chen Geng was immediately unhappy after hearing this, and immediately said that who said that Su Yu couldn't fight, and he stood up and let him see, who could fight better than Su Yu?
Chen Geng is not unreasonable, saying that Su Yu, who has won seven battles and seven victories, will not fight is completely blind and talking nonsense, with Chen Geng helping Su Yu to uphold justice, there will be fewer people who criticize Su Yu all of a sudden, and Su Yu's honor will be preserved.
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For this, Su Yu has always been very grateful to Chen Geng. In the later years of Su Yu and Chen Geng, the two had a very close relationship, and after Chen Geng died of illness, Su Yu dragged his sick body and insisted on accompanying his old comrades-in-arms to the last journey.
Su Yu and Chen Geng's personalities are completely opposite, but in the end they became a pair of best friends, and their friendship has also been passed down into a good story, as the two legendary generals of the people's army, this may be the legendary heroes cherish heroes.
Sources:
[1] Chen Geng.People's Daily [Citation date: 2012-09-25]