There is a famous saying in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Sleeping dragon and phoenix chicks, you have to settle the world". Peace General Zhang Zhizhong also once said that if there are two people who complement each other, the world will be successful. What kind of person is so powerful? If you get them, can you really succeed in the world?
General Zhang Zhizhong)
Let's talk about the background first, Zhang Zhizhong, who graduated from the Baoding Military Academy, was deeply respected by Chiang Kai-shek, and served as the captain of the enlisted students of the Huangpu Military Academy and the head of the officer corps.
When the Eastern Expedition began, Zhang Zhizhong led the student soldiers to charge into battle, and two students fought very bravely and made meritorious contributions. They are really rare talents, and the future generations are terrifying, so that Zhang Zhizhong, who cherishes talents, praised: Du Chen Zhizuo, the world's greatest success.
Zhang Zhizhong is not a prophet, but he has a pair of discerning eyes. The two people he fancied later really commanded hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of troops, crisscrossing the battlefield and becoming the war stars of the whole country.
One surnamed Du, named Du Yuming, was born in the first phase of Huangpu. Zhang Zhizhong is from Anhui and Du Yuming is from Shaanxi, and there is no relationship between them. After graduating from the first phase of Huangpu, Du Yuming signed up for the Eastern Expedition.
During the attack on Tamsui, Du Yuming and one of his classmates signed up for the siege death squad, and sure enough, the newborn calves were not afraid of tigers, and they took the lead in climbing to the top of the city under the rain of bullets and bullets from the enemy, and then opened the city gate to meet their troops. The battle was a complete victory.
At that time, Du Yuming was a young man in his early 20s, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he was promoted to commander-in-chief of the group army with his outstanding talent and outstanding military exploits, and during the War of Liberation, he was the commander of the Northeast Security Command, commanding hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops in the Northeast.
Under Chiang Kai-shek, if there are generals who can command large corps to fight, Du Yuming is one. It is a pity that Du Yuming followed the wrong leader and had no talent, but in the end he was defeated by Huaihai and became a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army.
The other surnamed Chen is the famous Chen Geng. Chen Geng was born in 1903, one year older than Du Yuming, he is a native of Hunan, and he is also a first-term student of Huangpu. Chen Geng is known as one of the "Three Heroes of Whampoa", and his reputation in the Whampoa Military Academy is greater than that of Du Yuming.
The Eastern Crusade campaign began, as mentioned earlier, a classmate signed up for the death squad with Du Yuming, and took the lead in climbing the city with him, and that classmate was Chen Geng. They fought side by side back then, but they didn't expect to part ways later.
Du Yuming was a member of the Kuomintang and followed Chiang Kai-shek, and Chen Geng was a member of the Communist Party and followed ***. They are following diametrically opposite paths. During the Liberation War, Chen Geng and Du Yuming were life-and-death opponents on the battlefield.
In the Huaihai War, Chen Geng was the victor and defeated his old classmate Huang Wei, and Du Yuming was the loser and became a prisoner. Although there is one victory and one defeat, it is undeniable that they are all outstanding generals of that era.
If Du Yuming had not followed Chiang Kai-shek, it was estimated that he would have become the founding general, and his achievements would not be inferior to Chen Geng.
The two generals have only been fighting for decades, but they have gathered together again in their later years. Du Yuming was pardoned in 1959, and Chen Geng once accompanied *** to a banquet for those Whampoa students who were amnestied, including Du Yuming. Coincidentally, the old instructor Zhang Zhizhong also came.
As soon as everyone sued and talked about the past, they took a group photo, which was really emotional. It can be seen from ** that Chen Geng and *** are standing in the front row, the second from the right in the front row is Zhang Zhizhong, and Du Yuming is behind Zhang Zhizhong, standing in the second row from the second right.
In fact, when this group photo was taken, Chen Geng's health was already very bad, and he insisted on visiting the Huangpu classmates when he was sick.
Chen Geng died young the next year. When the bad news came, whether it was *** or Zhang Zhizhong, or Du Yuming and others were very sad.
Reference book: "The Biography of Chen Geng").