On September 27, 1955, at the Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai, the CCP held a ceremony to confer titles on the three armed forces of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.Military ranks are evaluated according to the five elements of position, quality, ability, seniority, and military merit. From marshals to generals to warriors, all were awarded military ranks, medals were awarded.
In 1955, Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall was awarded the ceremony.
At that time, the great man refused the title of generalissimo, and later *** and others also refused to confer the title under the influence of the great man.
However, there is another very special general, who was not selected into the list of founding generals and marshals, and he is our party"Master of martial arts".
* Outstanding military achievements, outstanding ability, once killed four harmful tigers, the tiger also gave *** and ** view. The most important thing is that behind his handsome appearance hides an interesting soul.
*。On August 26, 1909, Geng Biao was born in Yanjiachong, Beixiang, Liling County, Hunan Province.
From this point of view, the general's family has not only the influence of scholarly culture, but also the pride of the chivalrous knights.
* When he was very young, he wandered the rivers and lakes with his father, so he also practiced a good martial arts. **Boxing, knife skills, and light skills are all good, and he can also point to the ability of acupoints.
** when I was young.
So how powerful is his martial arts, according to historical records, the red tassel broadsword commonly used by our army is a tiger and a tiger, and no one can get close to white-knuckle combat. On the battlefield, he can often kill the enemy with his bare hands, and he is extremely effective in combat.
Therefore, the growth of the ** general is more proud than other famous generals, and his personality is also very bold like a chivalrous man, which also makes him feel like a fish in water in getting along with other people.
* The general is not only super strong in martial arts, but according to his lover Zhao Lanxiang, he described:"** is a very versatile talent, belonging to the kind of person who can fight tigers in the mountains, catch fish in the water, negotiate when he goes out, and cook when he comes home. ”
* and his wife Zhao Lanxiang.
In 1926, the enemy hoped to get useful information from **, so several spies were sent to follow up and investigate**.
Geng Biao's anti-reconnaissance ability is very strong, and he discovered the spy tracking, but he pretended not to know. And he regards the spies he tracks as his "little tail", and every day when he has nothing to do, he will count whether these spies are "left behind".
One day, ** found that there was suddenly one less spy to follow, and he observed it for two more days, only to find that there was really one missing. **I inquired and found out that the missing spy was sick and had been recuperating at home.
* I went to the pharmacy to buy medicine to visit the agent, and the agent was so moved that he cried bitterly"The spy thing is simply not done by anyone, no one in the Kuomintang cares about me when I am sick, and your Communist Party even sent someone to visit me in person!”
After taking the medicine sent by **, the agent's condition was quickly controlled. After recovering from his illness, the agent told ** an important piece of information:"**The room was fitted***
**。After telling *** the news, ** really searched the room for *** to obtain this effective information, protecting the safety of *** himself and some confidential conversations.
In the early years, the spies never gave up framing **, but it was precisely with his own arrogance that the spies felt embarrassed if they wanted to harm him.
In October 1934, the Red Army began the Long March, and the commander of the 4th Red Regiment at the time fell ill.
The Long March of the Red Army. Considering the hardships and hardships on the Long March, the organization asked ** to stay in the local area to recuperate and not to participate in the Long March.
But ** was in a hurry, he said"The big army is about to be transferred, how can I, as the commander, give up the big army?”
At the strong request of **, the organization agreed to the transfer of ** with disease.
Geng Biao suffered from malignant dysentery, and his condition was very serious, from once every two days at the beginning to once a day, and then directly developed to multiple times a day.
As we all know, after dysentery comes, it is difficult to walk forward, or even to stand up. But as long as he encounters the enemy, the ruthlessness on his body will burst out.
He took the lead in charging into battle, and in the white-knuckle battle, a red cherry blossom broadsword slashed the enemy on his back, and many times the enemy saw ** coming, and he was so frightened that he hugged his head and ran away.
* and commanders and fighters of the Red Fourth Regiment.
It is conceivable that Geng Biao dragged his seriously ill body on the Long March, and he completely relied on a revolutionary belief to persevere, and the hardships and hardships were simply unimaginable.
After the Red Army successively broke through the three blockade lines of the Kuomintang, the Red Fourth Regiment reached Tiantianwei in Ningyuan County, Yongzhou City.
The day before arriving at Paradise Wei, the Red Army engaged in a vicious battle with the enemy at Jiufeng Mountain.
At that time, the season was the middle of winter, and the march was full of wind and rain, and many people in the Red Army were infected with typhoid fever, and ** not only suffered from dysentery, he also suffered from a cold.
There is a very famous old doctor in Tiantianwei, but he has a very strange temper, and he does not treat people who are not used to him, and he is very kind when he meets those who are suitable.
This old doctor used to practice medicine and treatment in many places, and he often heard the common people say that the Red Army is good and that the Red Army is the great savior of the common people.
* And American journalists.
When the Red Army came to Paradise to recuperate, the old doctor saw that the soldiers were sick, and he prepared a decoction to cure the soldiers' colds and heal the bones of the soldiers who were injured in the bones.
After taking a dose of the decoction, the cold warriors quickly lost their fever.
The old doctor later found out that ** was very sick, and he planned to treat ** first, but ** asked to treat the soldiers first.
Red Army soldiers on the Long March.
I sighed at the love and righteousness of ** and the tenacity of leading the troops to march. That night, the old doctor invited ** to live in his own home, and personally decocted the decoction for ** to take.
At that time, ** admired the old doctor very much, he asked"Old man, I know my own body, I have to do a little more for the revolution, do you have any cruel medicine that can cure my illness at one time?"”
The old doctor laughed"Young man, you are hard to be old, you are a malignant spleen and cold, if you want to be cured, you have to recuperate slowly." Sickness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread!”
* At that time, he wanted to be cured quickly, and he said sincerely to the old doctor"Old man, do you see if I can increase the amount of medicine I use?"I don't have time to take it slowly, the sooner I win, the sooner the people can live a better life. ”
*** during the Red Army
The old doctor was silent for a long time, and he finally sighed and said"Young man, I do have an ancestral secret recipe that can ** your dysentery very quickly, but *** is too big. ”
* Overjoyed and prayed"Old man, I'm not afraid of anything***, you can give me that medicine!."”
The old doctor shook his head, and he sighed and said to **"This medicine is very domineering, after taking it, the toxicity enters the bloodstream, and your hair may fall out at that time. ”
* replied without even thinking about it"Yes!"."Yes!".”
The old doctor still wanted to let ** recuperate slowly, and he persuaded again"Falling out of hair is disfigurement, it will be difficult for you to find a daughter-in-law in the future, this is the sin of cutting off people's incense, I still advise you to think about it more." ”
Seeing the old doctor's serious persuasion, ** patted his chest and said at that time"What's there to be afraid of, as long as I can continue to work in the revolution, I can become a daughter-in-law or not." ”
That night, the old doctor began to prepare herbs for **, and added or subtracted the dosage so that all the hair would not fall out, but the troops rushed to Dao County early the next morning, and the old doctor had no time to decoct the medicine, and ** had already left.
*。Later, the old doctor asked someone to copy a copy of the herbs and prescriptions and give them to **.
You must know that in that era, medicine was more important than life, but the old doctor was able to give it to **, which can be seen that he really loves ** and is extremely supportive of the Red Army.
After drinking the medicine, the malignant dysentery medicine was eliminated, and the patient became more energetic and enterprising on the Long March.
* Later, he participated in the seizure of Loushan Pass, the four crossings of the Chishui River, the capture of the Luding Bridge, and the bloody battle of the Xiangjiang River. On the battlefield, he faced an enemy several times his size, and slashed the enemy's cavalry with a flying knife.
In the smoke of the enemy's artillery fire, he was unstoppable, and in the harsh snow-capped mountains and meadows, he walked strongly. Later, he was nicknamed "Geng Mengzi" by the Red Army soldiers.
In November 1934, the Red Army's Long March reached the Xiangjiang River in Quanzhou and Xing'an. The Kuomintang ruling clique mobilized 400,000 troops to encircle, pursue, and intercept the Red Army on both sides of the Xiang River.
The Battle of Xiangjiang was a battle related to the life and death of the entire Red Army.
Battle of Xiangjiang. On November 25, 1934, the Red Army forcibly crossed the Xiangjiang River between the Jieshou and Fenghuangzui, and Yang Chengwu, the commander of the Fourth Regiment of the Red Army and the political commissar of the Red Army, was responsible for seizing the Jieshou.
On the afternoon of November 27, Geng Biao led the Fourth Regiment of the Red Army to cross the Xiangjiang River and occupy the head of the Jie. It was not until December 1 that all the Red Army columns crossed the Xiang River.
In the Battle of the Xiangjiang River, the Red Army fought valiantly with an enemy several times its size, and finally broke through the fourth blockade line of the Kuomintang Army and thwarted Chiang Kai-shek's plan to annihilate the Red Army east of the Xiangjiang River.
The Battle of Xiangjiang was bombed by the Japanese army.
But the Battle of Xiangjiang was also the most costly battle in the Red Army's Long March. ** 8. After the Red Army crossed the Xiang River, it was 8The number of people from more than 60,000 has dropped sharply to more than 30,000.
In the Battle of Xiangjiang, ** bravely killed the enemy, his clothes were stained red with blood, and the smell of blood soared to the sky, and he held on to the big tree and kept retching.
The Battle of Xiangjiang was the most tragic battle in which the Red Army participated, and until decades passed, ** did not want to recall this battle. This is also the reason why ** never eats Xiangjiang fish.
Many years later, **'s daughter Geng Ying recalled"My father didn't want to mention Xiangjiang, and he didn't allow us to say it. He said that as long as Xiangjiang is mentioned, the voices of countless comrades-in-arms and their souls will appear in his mind. Why don't you eat fish from the Xiangjiang River?Because the water of the Xiangjiang River is red. ”
* and family. On the afternoon of November 27, 1934, the Fourth Regiment of the Red Army successfully occupied Jieshou, and the Quanzhou behind it had been occupied by the enemy.
The Red Fourth Regiment arrived at Jueshan overnight on November 27, and when the troops had just been deployed, Liu Jianxu, commander of the 1st Column of the Kuomintang Western Route Army, ordered planes to bomb Jueshan, followed by hordes of enemy troops.
The enemy's first charge was repelled by the ** command of the Red Fourth Regiment, and Liu Jianxu ordered the planes to throw incendiary bombs in an attempt to burn all the trees on the mountain, and at the same time organized the troops to charge.
Geng Biao's Red Fourth Regiment did not retreat because of an enemy several times its size, but always stuck to its position, making it impossible for Liu Jianxu to push further.
Monument to the Battle of Xiangjiang.
The enemy's charge became more and more violent, and the intelligence given by the superior to ** showed that the enemy army was the strength of 9 regiments, and later learned from the mouth of the prisoner that it was not 9 regiments, but all the strength of the first column under Liu Jianxu, with a total of 15 regiments.
On the same day, the position of the Red Fifth Regiment was lost, and the Red Fourth Regiment fell into a situation of siege on three sides, and the political commissar Yang Chengwu was almost captured alive by the enemy, and was hit in the knee by a stray bullet, bleeding profusely.
All the fortifications of Jueshan were blown up by enemy bombs, and ** did not dare to stay at all when he was commanding, and he was forced to constantly shift positions.
In the end, under the leadership of **, the Red Fourth Regiment dragged the 15 regiments of the Kuomintang Army, and finally after the smooth transfer of the large army, Geng Biao led the Red Fourth Regiment to successfully break through.
Yang Chengwu. Later, Yang Chengwu, the political commissar of the Red Fourth Regiment, recalled"The Kuomintang soldiers fought on the front line with their lives, and the enemy we faced seemed to be endless, and they charged desperately, fighting from long-range shooting to close-range shooting, and then directly to the distance of fighting bayonets. In the white-knuckle battle, ** held his big knife, slashed and fought in the enemy army, after the battle, ** had a lot of blood stains on his clothes, and he kept retching while holding on to the big tree. ”
In 1940, Chiang Kai-shek ordered a large number of troops of about 500,000 people mainly in the south of Hu Zong to blockade the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area.
The Eighth Route Army had to face the enemy's blockade and natural disasters for many years, and the anti-Japanese work in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo was carried out very hard.
Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo large-scale production movement.
Later, under the instructions of the liberated people, the military and people in the liberated areas carried forward the spirit of self-reliance and set off a large-scale production movement in full swing.
**, Ren Bishi and other leading comrades personally opened up the wasteland to grow vegetables and learned Xi spinning.
The reclamation of Nanniwan is the most typical example of the large-scale production movement, and later said when he inspected Nanniwan"Difficulties are not insurmountable monsters, everyone conquers it, it bows its head, everyone is self-reliant, and there is food, clothing, and use. ”
During the large-scale production movement, ** led the troops to a remote mountainous tuntian to open up wasteland. There are many wild beasts in the deep mountains and jungles, which not only spoil the crops, but also harm people and animals.
* Instead of clearing the wasteland first like other troops, they organized troops to hunt.
Geng Biao and his comrades-in-arms.
Over the course of a month, ** and the warriors fought 4 tigers, seven or eight leopards, hundreds of wolves and foxes, and thousands of hares.
They took the hides to the city and sold them to subsidize the military expenses. also sent a tiger to Yan'an for *** and ** to see.
Pointing to the tiger, he quipped with him"Mr. Zhu, can you lift it up?"”
* Tried it, said"No, this big guy is quite heavy, and he has to eat the strength of 'nine cows and two tigers' to move." ”
After the end of the Red Army's Long March, both Xu Shiyou and Xu Shiyou were assigned to the Red Army University in northern Shaanxi to study Xi.
*。General Xu Shiyou used to be a layman in the North Shaolin Temple, and practiced martial arts in the Shaolin Temple for eight years.
After joining the Red Army, Xu Shiyou once said humorously to his comrades:"Wu Song, who fought tigers in Jingyanggang, he studied in Shaolin Temple for six years, and I practiced in Shaolin Temple for eight years, and I was two years longer than him!”
When he was in Shaolin, Xu Shiyou overheard that there was a war outside, and he was very worried about his mother at home, so he proposed to leave Shaolin, but was persuaded by the abbot to stay in Shaolin and become a monk.
Xu Shiyou thought of his mother, he relied on his legs and legs, and he just beat out of the hundred and dozens of people in Shaolin Temple, which shows how high Xu Shiyou's martial arts are.
Xu Shiyou. One day, ** and Xu Shiyou were walking on the playground, Xu Shiyou knew that ** was a martial arts master, so he proposed to have a martial arts competition with **.
At that time, ** said to Xu Shiyou:"South fist and north leg, we may not be able to fight. Besides, fists and feet have no eyes, whoever hits no one is good, you play a set of my own Xi.
Later, Xu Shiyou performed a set of Shaolin boxing in front of ** and won a burst of applause.
Later, this incident was mentioned in the memoirs of **:Xu Shiyou played a set of "Shaolin" style boxing, and his invincible charm complemented his straightforward character. ”
Xu Shiyou boxed.
At the beginning of 1950, it was decided to transfer Comrade ** to work in ***, and the CCP **appointed** as ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden.
It is worth mentioning that ** is the first ambassador sent by New China to Western countries.
Before leaving, **asked*** how to carry out the work of the embassy, **instructed"Diplomatic work is to deal with other countries on behalf of the country, so you should be cautious in everything, ask for more instructions, and don't make your own decisions. Secondly, it is necessary to attach importance to research and summary, and learn to Xi and improve in the course of work. ”
**。An officer in Sweden once asked**："I heard that the ambassador is a general, I wonder how many soldiers you have brought with you?"
* Answer"About 100,000 yuan." ”
When the Swedish officer heard this, he saluted ** and sighed:"You command more than 100,000 people, more than our entire country's army!”
On May 11, 1950, China established diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Denmark, and concurrently served as the Minister of China to the Kingdom of Denmark.
At the beginning of 1951, he was appointed to serve as the Minister of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Finland.
In 1950, he was the ambassador of the People's Republic of China to foreign countries.
Since the People's Republic of China had just been founded, there was not much experience to learn from in the field of diplomacy.
Later, ***instructed** said:"During the diplomatic period, we should pay more attention to learning about the experience of the Nordic countries in economic construction. ”
Because he is also the ambassador of the three countries, Geng Biao's tasks are very busy, and he has to work more than ten hours a day.
During his tenure as Deputy Minister, he performed very well and accumulated a lot of rich diplomatic work experience. Assisted the Vice Premier in handling many foreign-related cases and participated in the drafting of many important diplomatic documents.
*When reporting the progress of diplomatic work to ***, **praise**:"**Dare to tell the truth, reflect the real situation, and be a good ambassador. ”
On June 23, 2000, the 91-year-old veteran revolutionary passed away in Beijing after a legendary life. Later, he was buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.
*。From a ranger to a Red Army general, from a combat hero to a diplomatic ambassador, his life is full of legends and has made great contributions to the victory of the revolutionary cause.
In 2001, Geng Biao's lover Zhao Lanxiang wrote "Remembering My Husband**" with such a paragraph"Whether it is to me or to the people of the country, he will always be loyal, he is a responsible man. ”
Awarded in 1955, according to the award regulations, if you do not work in the army, you cannot participate in the rank assessment, so ** is the only Minister of Defense without a military rank.
This era needs heroes, remember heroes, and never forget the original intention!