Geng Biao was a great legend in New China, he was excellent in martial arts, and he made great contributions during the war years, and served as the chief of staff of the Red Army, the deputy brigade commander and deputy political commissar of the main brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and the chief of staff of the Corps of the People's Liberation Army.
According to normal circumstances, it was not difficult to wear the general star in 1955, but Geng Biao did not receive any military rank.
But interestingly, although he did not have a military rank, he later served as the defense minister of the new China and advocated the creation of the mainland's special forces. With so many twists and turns, a truly legendary character has a legendary life.
Not only Geng Biao himself, but his daughter Geng Ying also has a lot of extraordinary, and finally accumulated a certain amount of assets, but it was seized overnight. Like her father, she never thought of giving up!
Geng Biao was born in a martial arts family, and his father Geng Chunan was selected by the Qing court as a guard in the inner country.
If it was in ancient times, their family could live well by opening a martial arts gym, but after the foreigners' strong ships and cannons opened the country, the people's enthusiasm for martial arts was no longer there, and the Geng family's life was tight, and they could only do some hard work.
When he was 13 years old, he entered the Changning Shuikoushan lead-zinc mine as a child laborer, and matured earlier than the average person. At this time, the Communist Party had developed the workers' movement into Changning, and Geng Biao joined it and became a small revolutionary.
Later, the organization was preparing to establish an armed force, and Geng Biao, with his outstanding martial arts, infiltrated the Kuomintang arsenal and secretly transported a batch of guns, which greatly increased the strength of the Red Guards.
Later, after the defeat of the Great Revolution, the reactionaries waved their butcher's knives at the Communists, and Geng Biao went to Liling, Liuyang and other places to carry out guerrilla warfare, and also served as the leader of the guerrillas in Liuling and Li.
In 1930, Geng Biao was ordered to lead the guerrillas to join the Red First Army, and since then he has been fighting in the Central Soviet Region for a long time, and he has been heroic in all the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaigns.
In the difficult Long March, he led the Red Fourth Regiment to be the pioneer, conquering Gupi, fighting Jiufeng Mountain, crossing the Xiaoshui River at night, etc., all the way to the most dangerous situation.
During the bloody battle of the Xiangjiang River, the Red Fourth Regiment resisted 15 regiments of the enemy, and made immortal contributions to the army crossing the river, and Geng Biao's performance in this battle was also extremely eye-catching.
"The first battalion of our regiment was torn apart from the enemy, and the regimental command post, which was originally in the middle of the position, became the front ... I shouted, "Get the sabre!" and led them into a fight. After cleaning up this group of enemies (about a platoon), my whole body was completely bloody, and the smell of blood made me retch. "Such bravery, it's like killing a god.
After the Zunyi Conference, Geng Biao was promoted to chief of staff of the 1st Division of the 1st Red Army, and since then he has formed an indissoluble bond with the position of "chief of staff".
He successively served as Deputy Brigade Commander and Chief of Staff of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, Chief of Staff of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army, and Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the 2nd Corps of the North China Military Region.
Originally, according to his resume, it was not difficult to become a general in 1955, but after the founding of New China, there was a shortage of talents in various fields.
Therefore, Geng Biao left the army and missed the big award. He later worked in the diplomatic service for more than 20 years, rising to the rank of Vice Premier in '78 and then Minister of Defense three years later. Without a military rank, he can become a person in charge of the army, which is also peculiar.
Geng Biao is so outstanding, and his children are also dragons and phoenixes among people.
The eldest daughter, Geng Ying, was born in 1939, and when she was less than a year old, she followed her father around to fight, and at that time Geng Biao would often put her in the pocket of the horse, and after the battle, she would touch the pocket of the horse, and after confirming that Geng Ying was safe and sound, she would continue to lead her troops forward.
It can be said that Geng Ying also grew up on horseback since she was a child, and she unconsciously faced the test of life and death.
Once the battle was very close, Geng Biao handed over the horse to the guards and ran to the front line to command. The guards were worried that the artillery would scare the horses away, and they were also afraid that something would happen to Geng Biao, so they put Xiao Geng Ying in a trench, and then stepped forward to protect Geng Biao.
The battle did not go well, Geng Biao had to order a retreat, and the guards hurriedly went back to bring the horses to cover the retreat of the chief.
After Geng Biao got on the horse, he habitually touched his pocket and found that his daughter was not there, but when he saw the guard's face full of concern for his safety, he didn't want the other party to be in danger, so he didn't say anything.
After walking out of the two miles, the guard remembered this and hurriedly said that he would go back to find it. Geng Biao shook his head and refused, in his heart, the life of a soldier is equally important, and now his daughter is likely to have fallen into the hands of the enemy and can no longer be a guard.
But the guard was very insistent, pulled out his pistol and said that if he didn't let him go, he would immediately cut himself, but there was no way, Geng Biao had to allow him to go back. Fortunately, the guards brought Geng Ying back, and Geng Biao held his daughter for a long time and refused to let go.
Geng Biao kept this incident in his heart, and he didn't tell his daughter in tears until he died.
It was also because of this incident that Geng Biao realized that it was not safe to take his daughter with him, so he sent her to a villager's house in Qingyang, Gansu Province, and waited until she grew up a little before receiving her.
Throughout the war years, Geng Ying had no fixed residence, and she said: I have been in countless first grades. It wasn't until 1950 that my father took off his military uniform and moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and I settled down.
After that, she studied very hard, and in the early 60s of the last century, she was assigned to the Beijing geological team, and after ten years of work, she was transferred to the Beijing pharmaceutical factory as a worker, and spent another 17 years of ordinary time.
Due to the low salary, her eldest daughter has always been placed at her father's house to help raise her. Geng Ying didn't care about this kind of poor life, but her husband was very unhappy, feeling that he didn't get any light, but was restricted everywhere, so he filed for divorce.
Although Geng Ying was sad, she could only accept this result, and since then she has turned her grief into motivation for work and started a more legendary experience.
At that time, the pharmaceutical factory decided to set up a cancer research institute, and Geng Ying wanted to go, but the number of places was limited, and everyone had a similar professional level, so it was difficult to be selected. After thinking about it, she decided to stand out in other ways.
Geng Ying was one of the 5,000 athletes trained by the state in 1958 and was very good at basketball and sprinting. At that time, there were not many entertainment activities, and the factory loved to organize basketball games, and the leaders would go to see them.
So Geng Ying participated in the basketball game as soon as she had it, and with her outstanding performance, she successfully entered the factory team and became the captain, with this advantage, she was successfully selected into the research institute.
At that time, many people were not very optimistic about Geng Ying, after all, she studied in geology school, and she always started working in geology, and suddenly she had to study the most difficult field of medicine, can she handle it?
Geng Ying gave the answer with practical actions, she did experiments at work every day, came home at night to coax the children to sleep, and then read at night without a moment of relaxation. This spirit allowed her to successfully obtain a medical degree.
After the reform and opening up, her father suggested that she could go back to her hometown to see and understand the real life in the countryside. She visited six counties around Liling, and the poor life of the villagers made her very uncomfortable, so she decided to change her career to help her hometown.
Not long after, Geng Ying set up a company in Zhuhai, and after returning to Beijing, she took her business license and said to her father: You have seen everything, but you have definitely never seen this thing.
Geng Biao was very surprised: You can't even count the ten yuan, and you still go to be a legal representative to start a company? Having said that, parents are still willing to let their children try it to see if future generations can make a name for themselves by themselves.
Facts have proved that Geng Ying is still very smart when it comes to business. Three years later, she built a three-story office building and a six-story dormitory in Zhuhai, and everything was going well.
However, in 1986, the central government issued a document prohibiting the children of high-ranking cadres from doing business, and all of Geng Ying's assets were blocked overnight. Geng Ying was very sad about this, but she also accepted the result, and she decided to go to the United States to work hard again.
This choice is as bold as her throwing away her "iron rice bowl" and going to the sea to do business, many friends feel that it is too difficult and persuade her to think about it carefully. Geng Ying replied: Give me three years, if I don't starve to death after three years, I will go sideways in the United States.
After that, she began to go to a foreign country to start a business with difficulty, in an unfamiliar environment, people are very fragile, at the beginning she also collapsed, and also wanted to retreat.
But her unyielding character supported her, allowing her to quickly pack up her emotions and move on.
Later, Geng Ying joined the club founded by US Secretary of Defense Brown, and she began to paint American celebrities in the name of Chinese painters.
There is a small origin here, when she worked in the cancer research institute, she worked as a health doctor, and had a good relationship with the landscape painting master Ya Ming and the master of gongbi painting Wang Shuhui, and got the true inheritance of the other party.
The causes planted before came to bear fruit in the United States, and Geng Ying's paintings were very popular in the United States, and soon became a hot Chinese painter. Every time she changes careers, she can be very successful, this ability is really not something ordinary people have!
Although she has established herself in the United States, Geng Ying has always cherished her motherland and embarked on her journey back to China in 1997. Since then, she has been committed to protecting China's cultural heritage, and in 2017, she established the China Cultural Heritage Foundation with Tao Siliang and others.
Geng Ying said: "We must protect the country that my parents came out of with their legs." And she did!