As we all know, Chen Geng is a legendary figure, and the direct reason why he is legendary is that when he was young, Chen Geng knew a lot of social figures and they were complex.
Chen Geng is a native of Xiangxiang, Hunan, and is a fellow villager with Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Hunan army.
Relying on this regional relationship, his grandfather Chen Yihuai participated in the Hunan Army formed by Zeng Guofan when he was in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he has accumulated merit for decades to become a second-rank general.
Although there are many generals of the Hunan army in Xiangxiang County, in terms of gradeChen Geng, who was born in this family, also belongs to the ** children of the late Qing Dynasty.
When he was less than 14 years old, Chen Geng followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and enlisted in the Hunan Army, but after a few years of mixing, he found that the Hunan Army, which once crisscrossed half of China, had been reduced to a unit with no fighting spirit and no fighting spirit, and there was no future if he continued to mix.
So at the suggestion of the company commander next door, Chen Geng led a few comrades to get up and make military salaries, if he couldn't succeed, he would go to the company to serve as a soldier.
As a result, the military salary was settled, and Chen Geng also faced retaliation from his superiors.
Chen Geng packed his luggage and prepared to defect to *** The well-informed comrade-in-arms told him that Company Commander Peng had already run away because of the injustice, so you should run away as well.
As the third generation of Hunan Chen Geng, he can't get along in the Hunan army, who can believe this?
Chen Geng, who broke away from the Hunan army, went to work as a worker on the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway in order to make a living, and wanted to study for a while, so he enrolled in a self-study university and met the *** who founded the self-study university
After in-depth exchanges, the two found that Chen Geng had also studied at Dongshan High School, and he turned out to be a junior brother. Chen Geng told *** I entered the school five years later than you, and I often hear your story in school.
So at the age of less than 20, Chen Geng had a good relationship with the future leader and marshal, and accumulated unforgettable feelings.
If you just get acquainted with the Communist Party, it's not really legendary, there are too many such people. The legend of Chen Geng lies in the fact that he can eat well in both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
At the beginning of 1924, Chen Geng took more than a dozen people south to Guangzhou to apply for the Huangpu examination, just like a big brother. At this time, Chen Geng accepted two little brothers - Song Xilian and Li Mo'an.
Twenty years later, Song Xilian and Li Mo'an became the best generals, and Chen Geng was the commander of the PLA Corps.
In 1925, the famous "Save Chiang" incident occurred.
At that time, the Third Division of the Revolutionary Army was near Huayang, surrounded by the troops of the warlord Lin Hu, and the defeat was like a mountain, and even the division commander fled from the battle.
Chiang Kai-shek ordered Chen Geng to convey the order of "no retreat", and he himself stood on the position to command, but it had no effect, and the soldiers were not willing to risk their lives to fight back.
Seeing this, Chen Geng picked up Chiang Kai-shek and ran, saving his life.
Although Chiang Kai-shek later said: "I am fortunate that the prime minister is in the spirit of heaven, and he won by surprise and turned the crisis into safety", he also knew that it was not the first premier who saved his life, but the company commander Chen Geng under his command.
During the Yan'an period, Lu Chishui wanted to use this incident to engage Chen Geng, saying that if he didn't save Chiang Kai-shek, how could there be so many things later?You, Chen Geng, have made a mistake.
Chen Geng directly scolded him: "If I don't save Chiang Kai-shek, then he won't be a martyr?"”
Lu Chishui left speechlessly.
In fact, Chen Geng himself talked about saving Chiang Kai-shek.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he sat at home with his children and chatted, and only told the story of two revolutionary years, one of which was "the Eastern Expedition to Save Chiang", saying how he used his 1.69-meter-69 body to carry 1.8-meter-8 Chiang Kai-shek on his back and walked like flying.
It can be seen that this matter has the weight in Chen Geng's heart.
So until now, there are still netizens ridiculing,When Li Yunlong didn't have the official rifle in his back, the brigade commander was already in the middle of his back.
is equivalent to the age of graduating from college, Chen Geng has such a resume, and it is difficult not to be a legend.
But then again, Chen Geng's ability to have such a rich resume has a great relationship with his personality.
He told his children personallyWhen I was young, I didn't understand anything, so I liked to fight, even if it was a theoretical argument, and it often ended in a fight.
A typical mixed social character, which is exactly the same as Brother Pao**.
People with this character, no matter what era they are in, can easily become a hexagonal warrior who "steps on black and white".
IIChen Geng was the most dazzling star in his youth, but after the armed struggle began, Chen Geng's star was slightly dimmed.
After the success of the "Nanchang Uprising" in July 1927, the troops went south to Guangdong, preparing to occupy the mouth of the sea to receive Soviet aid and carry out the Second Northern Expedition to rebuild China.
When the troops marched to Huichang, Jiangxi, Chen Geng was unfortunately shot in the leg and basically lost his ability to move when he retreated. And ** Qian Dajun's department rushed to chase after him, and Chen Geng faced a life and death crisis.
In desperation, Chen Geng took off his military uniform, rolled into the ditch at the bottom of the mountain, made himself unrecognizable with muddy water and blood, and then held his breath and pretended to be dead, so as to escape the enemy's search and pick up a life.
Three hours later, Ye Ting commanded the troops**, and Chen Geng was found by his comrades, carried into Huichang City on a stretcher, and then sent to the Gospel Hospital in Changting for acceptance**.
The Gospel Hospital is a church hospital, and the director is Fu Lianzhang.
He untied the bandage on Chen Geng's leg, and found that the skin and flesh at the wound had rotted and the white bones were exposed, so he prepared to amputate his leg and save Chen Geng's life at the cost of one leg.
Chen Geng was stunned, Huangpu classmates all knew that "Jiang Xianyun's pen, He Xinhan's mouth, and Chen Geng's leg are no faster", if he amputates his leg, he will be a fart in the future.
He begged Fu Lianzhang not to amputate his leg and to use other methods**, no matter what the cost is, he can bear it.
Chen Geng's words burst into tears, and Fu Lianzhang was very moved when he heard it, so he agreed to Chen Geng's request, and basically kept Chen Geng's leg in the most conservative way, but if he wanted to be completely **, he had to go to the big city to continue**.
After the organization's arrangement, Chen Geng successively moved to Shantou and Hong Kong, and finally arrived in Shanghai in the spring of the following year.
At this time, the "Nanchang Uprising" was a complete failure, the soldiers were scattered and scattered, the leaders at all levels broke through separately, and the revolution suffered a serious setback.
And Chen Geng, who arrived in Shanghai, saw ***
Because after graduating from Huangpu, Chen Geng went to the Soviet Union to receive training in the "Cheka" and belonged to the professional in intelligence, so he was left behind by the newly created "** Special Branch" and let him leave the leadership post of the army and engage in the work of the hidden front.
Revolutionary work does not distinguish between high and low, and the hidden front is also very glorious, but for Chen Geng, this work transfer directly changed the trajectory of fate.
The organization of the hidden front has always been very importantPeople who can't be trusted can't get in at all, but once they join the hidden front, they won't see the light of dayBecome a ** person under Lang Lang Qiankun, and his personal achievements in the future will not be high.
Isn't there a saying that no one knows what we do, and what we do will live on forever.
So this kind of work tends to be more powerful, but lower status.
If he hadn't stayed in Shanghai, but returned to the remnants of the Nanchang Uprising, Chen Geng's future achievements would not only be the commander of the corps, but also a figure comparable to Lin Peng.
It's a pity that creation makes people, and Chen Geng's fate has changed. As a result, after Gu Shunzhang's rebellion in 1931, Chen Geng was sent to work in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet District, only as a regiment leader.
Even though the Red Fourth Front Army was established half a year later and Chen Geng was promoted to division commander, his old friend was already the commander of the Red Third Army that year, and the inconspicuous *** of the first phase of Huangpu was the commander-in-chief of the Front Army, which was two levels higher than Chen Geng.
A few months later, Chen Geng experienced a series of accidents, such as being injured, going to Shanghai, and being tortured, and his body was greatly damaged, and his work was transferred to the **Soviet District.
Because I arrived in the Soviet area, I felt that Chen Geng was easy to use, so I brought it over together.
However, in 1933, the ** Soviet area was no longer a grass-roots period, but a prosperous base where people from all walks of life gathered.
Give him an empty position, then he can't convince the public, let Chen Geng give someone a hand, it doesn't fit his identity. After thinking about it, he could only go to Peng Yang Infantry School to be the principal.
I'm wronged, Principal Chen.
At this time, there is only one year left before the Long March.
It can be said that throughout the Red Army period, Chen Geng was a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and he had done it in **, but he couldn't do it for long, which was particularly embarrassing.
Doing this in youth can increase knowledge and experience and grow into a hexagonal warrior, but if you can't focus on a certain career after work, you may lack accumulation and heritage.
Chen Geng's dazzling star dimmed slightly, and this is the reason.
Originally, he was one of the most senior and capable people, and he should have been in the first echelon of our army's generals, but during the Liberation War, he became a "rising star" general.
* said to ***: "I think that our party has not created many military strategists for more than 20 yearsRecently, Su Yu and Chen Geng have stood out successively, and they have a great future, and they will move forward side by side with Peng Liulin. ”
**Call back: "What I saw was very much, and I totally agree." ”
So what,It is not possible for people to be incapable, but it is also troublesome to have too much ability. If the leader does not appreciate you, there is no future, and if he appreciates you too much, it may delay your future.
3. Even if Chen Geng's development in the Red Army did not go well, he was ridiculed many times on the Kuomintang side. If ordinary people go through Chen Geng's experience, they may even think it is humiliating.
When they were at the Whampoa Military Academy, Song Xilian and Li Mo'an were Chen Geng's little brothers.
Song Xilian was born in 1907, the same age as ** and Su Yu, the youngest student in the first phase of Huangpu, and when he joined the Communist Party in 1925, the introduction to the party was Chen Geng.
Li Mo'an was born in 1904, and he also joined the Communist Party in 1925, and in the same year, when Chen Jiongming was in the Eastern Expedition, he became the regimental party representative of the First Army, and had a very good relationship with the regiment commander.
At that time, Chen Geng, Song Xilian, and Li Mo'an may have felt that the future of the revolution was bright, their personal prospects were immeasurable, and their lives were getting stronger day by day.
But in March 1926, as the contradictions between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party became deeper and deeper, Chiang Kai-shek planned the "Zhongshan Ship Incident" in order to take power, saying that Soviet advisers and the Communist Party wanted to murder him, and then imposed martial law in Guangzhou and demanded that the Communist Party members withdraw from the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
For Whampoa students in the First Army, there are only two options:
Either stay in the Communist Party and withdraw from the First Army to meet the butcher's knife that Chiang Kai-shek may fall. Either quit the Communist Party and stay in the First Army, waiting for the glory and wealth that Chiang Kai-shek will surely send.
This choice does not seem to be very difficult to make.
Li Mo'an was the first to make a statement to quit the Communist Party and resolutely follow President Jiang in the future. Then there was Song Xilian, while making a statement, he also promised not to do anything that would harm the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
Among the three brothers, Chen Geng was the only one who chose to stay and embarked on a revolutionary road with a particularly bright future and a particularly difficult process.
In March 1926, they all thought they were right.
It's been 7 years since we met again.
In 1933, Chen Geng was in Shanghai**, Chiang Kai-shek remembered that Chen Geng was a life-saving benefactor, and he did not dare to kill people easily, in addition, he also thoughtBy luring Chen Geng to surrender, he broke the will of the Red Army generals and united the Whampoa officers.
The subtext is:
Chen Geng, one of the three heroes of Huangpu, surrendered, and the Red Army was nothing more than that, but Jiang was still charming, and the cohesion of the Huangpu department was strong. ”
So Chiang Kai-shek sent Hu Zongnan, Song Xilian, Zheng Dongguo and others from the first phase of Huangpu to Nanjing to pick up Chen Geng's wind and dust, take turns in and out of high-end hotels, and give Chen Geng a good fortune.
Such a scene, can ordinary people stand it?
In terms of status, Hu Zongnan is the lieutenant general and division commander, Song Xilian is the major general brigade commander, and Chen Geng is a prisoner. In terms of identity, Chen Geng was the dragon and phoenix among people when he was studying, and Hu Zongnan and Song Xilian and others were equivalent to scumbags.
Now the dragon and phoenix among the people "achieve nothing", but the scumbags are all proud, it is inevitable that they have a sense of superiority, Song Xilian said to Chen Geng: "You are not in prison, you are here for a vacation in Nanjing." ”
When he said this, Song Xilian's heart was probably hiding a smile. The big brother who was so majestic back then, why is he not angry now?Cut.
Chen Geng's heart may not be as calm as it seems, and it is understandable that he is a little lost.
But no matter who came to persuade him to surrender, Chen Geng refused, even if Chiang Kai-shek came in person, he fled from Shanghai under the rescue of the organization, went to the ** Soviet area to continue the revolution, and became the principal of the Pengyang Infantry School.
In another 1 year, the Red Army began the Long March.
Chen Geng marched with the troops in confusion, not knowing that the revolutionary road ahead was in the first place, and Li Mo'an, who had already been promoted to major general, captured Ruijin.
This is fate's ridicule of Chen Geng.
Fourth, when we bring ourselves into the role of Chen Geng, we can experience Chen Geng's state of mind.
Wholeheartedly pursuing revolutionary ideals, but always being injured and **, even the position is behind the younger generation, for Chen Geng, who has been a big brother since he was a child, this gap is very uncomfortable.
Single-mindedly opposed Chiang Kai-shek**, but can follow Chiang Kai-shek's classmates and friends, all of whom enjoy glory and wealth, can be described as winners in life.
Most people don't have lofty ideals and care more about immediate interests. When we bring in the role of Chen Geng, I am afraid that we will occasionally mutter:
What does China's future have to do with me?Are revolutionary ideals important?If I die, what will happen to my wife and children?”
The more you mutter, the more you will inevitably put it into action.
Therefore, whenever the revolution encountered serious setbacks, there were many traitors and defectors, and the defeat of the Great Revolution in 1927 was one, and the defeat of the Red Army in 1934 was another.
Most of the traitors and defectors we can find now are concentrated in these two time periods, and the fundamental reason lies in thisI couldn't see the future and hope, so I chose the ego.
Come, now close your eyes and ask yourself a question:
What would you do in that environment?
Okay, open your eyes, you've got your own answer, just keep it in your heart, don't say it. Now bring in the role of Chen Geng, and you can experience itI feel desperate after experiencing betrayal again and again, but I still firmly believe in how strong Chen Geng's heart is.
There has never been a natural savior, and there has never been a macho man born from the sky.
The so-called heroes are nothing more than going through one dark moment after another, shaking and hesitating, but in the end they still believe that their choice is correct and the road under their feet is correct, and then walk on with their heads held high.
It doesn't matter whether you can reach the end or not, such a gesture is a hero's medal.
Fifth, the world is like a white cloud and a dog.
In July 1946, shortly after the outbreak of the Liberation War, Chen Geng and Xie Fuzhi's column annihilated a brigade in the south of Huzong in Jinnan, and one month later annihilated the enemy50,000 people, occupying 5 county seats. In another month, Chen Xie's column completely annihilated the elite in the south of Hu Zong, the first brigade in the world.
In just a few months after the start of the war, Chen Geng commanded his troops to win consecutive battles, and used the heads of Hu Zongnan to improve his military achievements.
As a result, the Chen Xie Corps, which was established in July 1947, became the strategic reserve of the ** Military Commission, with a lower status than the field army, but higher than the ordinary corps. ArguablyChen Geng proved his ability with real achievements, and also raised himself from the level of a general to the level of a general.
That's what I said, Chen Geng and Su Yu have stood out one after another, and they have a great future.
After that, Chen Geng commanded the corps to participate in the Huaihai Campaign, and after attacking Jiangxi, he was assigned to the command of Siye**, and the troops were directed at Liangguang and Yunnan.
Although there were differences with the combat line of **, and the lawsuit went to ***, Chen Geng still said to Deputy Commander Guo Tianmin:
The old foundation of our corps is the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Red Fourth Front Army, and the old foundation of the four fields is mainly the **Soviet region, so they should be called the big brother. You and I are humble, let ** let go and command us, don't worry. ”
Public is public and private is private, one yard is one yard, Chen Geng thinks very clearly.
And when Chen Geng was fighting in the southwest, Li Mo'an, who had once glorified his ancestors, had moved to Hong Kong in the face of the irresistible trend of the times.
** Invited them to Beijing to attend the CPPCC meeting, and everyone else went north to attend the meeting, except Li Mo'an, who captured Ruijin and was embarrassed to go to the capital of New China.
Two years later, Li Mo'an emigrated to Argentina.
After the People's Liberation Army crossed the river, Song Xilian led 140,000 troops into Sichuan, and agreed with Hu Zongnan to take troops to Myanmar and establish a ** base.
As a result, in a few months, Song Xilian's 140,000 troops were left with more than 10,000 remnants defeated.
Originally, Song Xilian wanted to learn the spirit of the Red Army's Long March and lead the troops to continue to the border, but just after crossing the Dadu River, he was captured by the People's Liberation Army and imprisoned in the Bai Mansion in Chongqing, and transferred to the Gongdelin War Criminals Management Center five years later.
Hearing that Song Xilian was captured, Chen Geng, who had liberated Yunnan, went to Chongqing Bai Mansion to visit Song Xilian, and the first thing he said when he met was: "Hello." I'm glad to see you're doing well. ”
All the emotions are in this sentence.
In the face of the general trend of the times, the future, position, and money have lost their meaning, and it is right to follow the doctrine of determination.
Let's zoom in a little more, at this time in China, those who were high-spirited during Chen Geng's gloomy period, except for a few people such as Mao Zhou who continued to shine, most of them had already fallen or were about to collapse.
Only Chen Geng is the unchanged Chen Geng.
Because there can be countless generals in this world, but there is only one Chen Geng.