In March 1961, Chen Geng, the founder of China's hidden front, died of a sudden heart attack and was ineffective after rescue. Chen Geng's death made everyone grieve, and Su Yu, who cried incessantly, once fainted because of a serious lack of oxygen in his body. And Li Kenong, who is also Chen Geng's good friend, although he is usually polite and easy-going, after learning the news, he even raised his wine glass and fell fiercely on the ground.
At the same time, General Chen Geng's obituary also reached Guangzhou, and the premier personally called the central government to ask Chen Geng to hold a memorial service after he returned to Beijing. In March 1962, on the eve of the anniversary of Chen Geng's death, Premier Zhou handed three notes to Chen Geng's wife, Fu Ya, and after seeing the words on the note, Fu Ya cried again. So, what exactly did Premier Zhou write on the 3 notes? With Chen Geng's departure, why did Su Yu, Li Kenong, and Premier Zhou behave in such a way?
As the founding fathers who were also awarded the rank of great general in 1955, Chen Geng and Su Yu were friends with Mo Rebellion. In 1947, Su Yu moved from Shandong to the Battlefield of the Central Plains, and together with liu Deng and Chen Xie, he passed through the Central Plains. In December, in order to form a situation of breaking the situation, Chiang Kai-shek secretly gathered a large army to prepare to destroy Liu Deng's army in Dabie Mountain, and then destroyed the other leading troops one by one.
After understanding Chiang Kai-shek's intentions, Su Yu asked Mao Zedong to fight and expressed his hope to cooperate with Liu Deng and his men for a long time to break Chiang Kai-shek's illusions. The chairman immediately acceded to Su Yu's request and dispatched Chen Geng's men and horses to Su Yu's unified command. Under the leadership of Su Yu, our army launched several campaigns successively, annihilating 34,000 people in Chiang Kai-shek's integrated troops and attacking more than 50 important towns. At this point, the two people who had formed a fate since the Nanchang uprising finally met.
Because he had seen it as before, and had heard of Su Yu's name for a long time, Chen Geng said with admiration, "I used to hear how powerful Su Yu was, but now when I see it, it is indeed worthy of the name." Although the two have only been together for more than 20 days, this does not affect the deep friendship between the two in this smoke of blood and fire, and at the same time, the good relationship between the two has also affected their subordinates.
Because of the fruitful results of this war, when cleaning up the battlefield, both armies wanted to give each other the best booty. Among them, Chen Geng's subordinates also said: "We only stopped a little in the front, and the actual credit should be attributed to Comrade Huaye, who made a great effort." However, Su Yu did not give Chen Geng's troops the opportunity to back down, and directly ordered that the officers and men of Huaye be arranged to send the best weapons captured in this war to Chen Geng's troops.
Since they met in 1947, Su Yu and Chen Geng, who met and hated each other late, have maintained a fervent contact. In September 1951, the Central Committee and Chairman Mao transferred Su Yu to serve as deputy general staff officer, in charge of operational matters. Knowing this news, Su Yu immediately recommended Chen Geng and said that Chen Geng was more suitable for this position than himself, but Su Yu failed to do so, because the earlier chairman and the central government had been brewing for a long time, and after many discussions and considerations, they decided to transfer Su Yu to the headquarters. Everyone felt that Su Yu was more suitable, so Premier Zhou rejected Su Yu's proposal.
Shortly after Su Yu entered the General Staff, based on the needs of the state, Su Yu reported to Chairman Mao on the establishment of a high-level military engineering school. However, after the central government approved the proposal, Su Yu was worried about who should be the principal of the school. After thinking about it left and right, Su Yu once again remembered Chen Geng who had served as the president of the Red Army University, and Chen Geng was from the Whampoa Military Academy and was called "Whampoa Sanjie" with others, so he must be able to shoulder this heavy responsibility.
At this time, there were no major wars in the Korean War, so, at su Yu's suggestion, the central government transferred Chen Geng back to China. And Chen Geng did not live up to Su Yu's expectations, starting from scratch to run the Harbin Military Engineering Academy in a similar way, and even Qian Xuesen was quite impressed after seeing it.
In the years of getting along day and night, Chen Geng and Su Yu formed a very deep friendship. At the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission in 1958, because of some factors at that time, Su Yu was wrongly criticized.
Just as the so-called wind and rain were about to fill the building, many people chose to remain silent for this reason, but Chen Geng was under great pressure and issued a few fair words for Su Yu at that time. Among them, some people said that Su Yu would not fight at all, and after this news was known to Chen Geng, he said indignantly, "If Su Yu does not know how to fight at all, then who else in China will, please stand up and let me see!" ”
In 1961, Chen Geng and Su Yu were very weak due to the overwork and illness in their early years, so in February of this year, the two were recuperating together in a Shanghai sanatorium. The two people who were sick often got together to talk about the world and the past, but one day in March, when Chen Geng was writing the "Summary of Combat Experience", he suddenly had a heart attack, and after ineffective rescue, he unfortunately died.
When the news of Chen Geng's death came, Su Yu was very sad, tears fell, and others advised him not to be too sad, but his friend who was still talking and laughing with him yesterday was now dead. This made him how to accept the sudden bad news, because he was too sad to stop the tears, Su Yu had a serious lack of oxygen, and he fainted. But after waking up, Su Yu dragged his weak body and staggered to the hospital to see Chen Geng for the last time.
Along with Chen Geng's obituary, There was Li Kenong, known as the "King of Secret Agents." According to common sense, the nature of Chen Geng and Li Kenong's work is very different, and it should be difficult to get together, but it is like this, Chen Geng and Li Kenong have become confidants of "life and death".
In 1928, Chen Geng and Li Kenong met in Shanghai. During this year, Li Kenong, together with Qian Zhuangfei and others, was assigned by the Central Committee to the Kuomintang Central Bureau to carry out hidden tasks, and the positions held by Li Kenong at that time were under the leadership of the Central Special Branch. Therefore, during this period, Li Kenong was in a single line with Chen Geng.
Soon after, Gu Shunzhang was arrested in Hankou, and knowing a lot of confidential information about our Party, he also exposed all the central organs of our Party in Shanghai when he rebelled. On the same night, the Kuomintang's Wuhan-related organizations sent several secret telegrams in one night, urging Xu Zengen, director of the Central Unification Bureau, to rush to Shanghai immediately and arrest Premier Zhou and all the leaders of the CPC Central Committee in Shanghai.
At the critical moment, Qian Zhuangfei, who was the secretary of Xu Zengen, director of the Central Bureau of The Chinese People's Government, discovered this information, and he immediately asked his son-in-law to rush to Shanghai non-stop overnight and delivered this 100,000 urgent emergency information to Li Kenong.
However, the Shanghai underground party organization was strictly disciplined, and all the superiors and subordinates were in contact at the agreed time and place. However, now that the situation was urgent, Li Kenong must immediately find Chen Geng and ask Comrade Chen Geng to inform Zhou Enlai and the members of the Central Organization.
But this is not the time for Li Kenong and Chen Geng to connect, how to find the mysterious Chen Geng? Li Kenong was in a hurry, used all means, and delayed a lot of time to find Chen Geng and reported the news to Zhou Enlai. At this point, Premier Zhou immediately took action to evacuate the Party Central Committee organs from Shanghai urgently. As soon as the members of our Party organization left, the enemy's hind feet broke into our Party's base area in Shanghai, and the documents burned on the ground were still smoking, and if we slowed down a little, the danger that our Party might face was unimaginable.
In 1947, Chen Geng at that time was ordered to lead his troops together with the two major armies of Liu Deng and Su Yu to launch a counterattack against the Nationalist forces in the Central Plains. Among them, Chen Geng was responsible for leading the troops to negotiate with the Nationalist army around Funiu Mountain. But what Chen Geng didn't know was that while fighting it, the Kuomintang had already detected by radio the location of the radio station where Chen Geng's troops were located. During this period, the Kuomintang troops were ready to gather forces and launch an attack on Chen Geng's troops.
But soon, the CIA's Direction Survey Section led by Li Kenong discovered the anomaly and reported the situation to Premier Zhou, which successfully avoided the danger of Chen Geng being attacked by the Kuomintang because his position was exposed.
After the founding of New China, at that time, Li Kenong and Chen Geng were both serving as deputy chiefs of the general staff, so the two were often together, and the relationship was very good. Not only that, Chen Geng is very good at cooking, and in his spare time, he often invites Li Kenong to his home to eat together.
And because both of them are very fond of drinking, and like-minded, and have spent time in special science, plus Li Kenong has saved Chen Geng twice in a critical moment, so the relationship between the two is naturally deeper than others. Therefore, whenever there is a chance, Li Kenong will come with a bottle of two pots and come with Chen Geng in the courtyard, slowly tasting wine and talking. Sometimes, because of drinking and having fun, the two talk late, and Li Kenong will live in Chen Geng's house, and the next day the two go to work together.
Among them, during Chen Gunong's serious illness and hospitalization, Li Kenong also went to visit him with Su Yu, and after seeing Li Kenong, Chen Geng was very happy and said: "Li Kenong! How did you get hospitalized too! Sure enough, wherever I chen geng goes, your boy will also go! ”
After listening to Chen Geng's words, Li Kenong also said with a smile that he was a lecture. After waiting for Chen Geng's wife, Fu Ya, to leave the ward, Li Kenong quietly took out a bottle of liquor that had been hidden for a long time from his arms. This made Chen Geng, who had been hospitalized for a long time, excited, and then the three of them sat around Chen Geng's bedside, carefully tasting wine and telling the previous stories, and the long-lost laughter and laughter came from the ward.
On March 16, 1961, on this day, Li Kenong suddenly received the news of Chen Geng's death, and when he first heard the news, he was stunned for a long time and did not react, tears overflowed his eyes, and he said unwillingly: "How is this possible?" ”
Before this, Chen Geng was fine, and the person who could still pick up a pen and write was gone. As his old superior, Chen Geng and the two were like-minded, and they had decades of revolutionary friendship, which was a sudden bad news that Li Kenong could not accept.
For Li Kenong, Chen Geng's death was like losing the bell with his teeth. Li Kenong, who had lost his best friend, brought a glass of wine into his mouth as usual during a meal. However, the taste of this wine instantly awakened the friendship between Li Kenong and Chen Geng, and suddenly Li Kenong smashed the wine glass and said bitterly: "Chen Geng is gone, no matter how good the wine is, there is no taste!" ”
Two months before Chen Geng's death, Li Kenong's beloved wife Zhao Ying also died of illness. Zhao Ying's death brought a huge blow to Li Kenong, and as he grew older, Li Kenong was seriously ill at that time, but he insisted on seeing Chen Geng for the last time despite his family's repeated persuasion. A few days later, Chen Geng's ashes were about to be sent to Beijing, and Li Kenong, who was reluctant to let his old friend leave, once again dragged the sick body to the airport to pay homage, this time Li Kenong's family did not stop him from going, but silently accompanied him to the airport.
Perhaps because the death of Chen Geng and his wife brought a huge blow to Li Kenong, a year after Chen Geng's death, Li Kenong also died of illness at the age of 63.
Premier Zhou once said that his two favorite intellectuals are two, one is Peng Xuefeng and the other is Chen Geng. When Chen Geng first met Premier Zhou in 1924, he was still studying at the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. Therefore, this experience also made him, after that, always respect Premier Zhou, who was 5 years older than himself, as a division commander, and he was very respectful.
When Chen Geng performed a performance of hungry short people eating long noodles to the crowd, he left a deep impression on Premier Zhou. With the help of Premier Zhou, Chen Geng, who has a talent for acting, became one of the leaders of the "Blood Flower Drama Society" of Premier Zhou's component, and in several performances on stage, Chen Geng's wonderful performances also spread his name throughout the Whampoa Military Academy.
In the two years from 1924 to 1926, under the guidance of Premier Zhou, Chen Geng showed outstanding talent in both politics and other aspects, which made Premier Zhou very pleased. Not only that, after returning from studying in the Soviet Union, Chen Geng participated in the work of the Central Special Branch in accordance with the party's decision, and under the guidance of Premier Zhou, he fought with the enemy wits and courage, saved a large number of members and materials, and punished a large number of enemies.
However, due to the influence of the "left leaning", in 1934 the Central Red Army began the Long March. But when the Red Army was preparing to cross the meadow, Premier Zhou fell ill. With no base to rely on, no reserve supply, and a large number of pursuing soldiers behind him, it is extremely difficult to get sick.
During this period, Premier Zhou suffered from severe amoebic liver abscess disease, and his fever did not go away for several consecutive days, and he did not eat for five or six days. At this juncture, the comrades who were originally carrying the stretcher also fell ill one after another, and Chen Geng, who heard the news and rushed to the scene, volunteered to serve as the stretcher captain.
Since then, Chen Geng has been closely guarding Premier Zhou on a stretcher, and together with Deng Yingchao and the medical team members, he has carefully taken care of Premier Zhou. However, at high altitudes, the meadows are fraught with danger and the vagaries of the weather sometimes plummet to the point of thunderstorms.
Chen Geng suffered a very serious injury to his legs in his early years and fell disabled, but even so, he always limped to Premier Zhou's stretcher. At that time, Kuomintang planes often appeared suddenly, but no matter what dangerous situations appeared, Chen Geng would desperately protect Premier Zhou in front of him.
After the 25,000-mile Long March, Chen Geng continued to work under the leadership of Premier Zhou and maintained good contacts. On the day of Chen Geng's death, Premier Zhou was attending the enlarged meeting of the Politburo and the Central Work Conference in Guangzhou, and immediately after the work was over, the premier returned to Beijing to pay his respects at Chen Geng Lingtang.
In mid-March 1962, on the eve of the anniversary of Chen Geng's death, Premier Zhou wrote an inscription for Chen Geng's urn "Comrade Chen Geng's Ashes", Premier Zhou wrote many pieces one by one with infinite affection, and selected the best 3 of them to give to Chen Geng's wife Fu Ya, when Fu Ya took these 3 notes with both hands, he could no longer suppress his sadness, and the tears fell again.