-Chen Geng

[ Introduction ]

Chen Geng, formerly known as Shu Kang, was born in Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province in 193 in a poor old family. When he was a child, he went to Dongshan School. Before he finished high school, he became a soldier in the old army. Four years later, he was promoted to a staff sergeant. He was deeply disgusted with the darkness and melee of warlord troops. At the age of 18, he left the team to work as a clerk in the railway. In his spare time, he went to Hunan self-study university hosted by Mao Zedong, where he accepted revolutionary ideas and joined the * * * production party in 1922.

at the end of p>1923, Chen Geng was sent by the party organization to join the Jiangwu School in Guangdong, and then entered the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy in the following summer. He graduated as a company commander at the end of the year and joined the Eastern Expedition in 1925. He was famous among the students in Whampoa for his meritorious military service. After that, he went to the Far East of the Soviet Union to study security work and riot experience, and returned to China in early 1927 to serve as a spy battalion commander in Wuhan and command the workers' picket. In late July of the same year, he accompanied Zhou Enlai to Nanchang and served as a security task in the uprising.

After the Nanchang Uprising, Chen Geng, who was injured, sneaked back to Shanghai and went to the Central Special Branch to take charge of intelligence work after his recovery. In the spring of 1931, when Gu Shunzhang, the head of the Special Branch, was in a critical moment of rebellion, he helped Zhou Enlai to evacuate the central organs quickly, and then went to the base areas of Hubei, Henan and Anhui to serve as the head and division commander of the Red Army. The following year, he was injured in the leg again and went back to Shanghai for treatment in disguise. When he recovered, he went to the cinema and was arrested by a traitor. He refused Chiang Kai-shek's surrender and escaped from Nanjing and entered the Central Soviet Area.

during the long March, he served as the head of the cadres' regiment and the division commander of Red First Division.

during his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Chen Geng served as the brigade commander of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and defeated the Japanese aggressors with flexible guerrilla warfare. The Japanese army was extremely angry. During the "mopping-up", the slogan "Specially fight the 386 Brigade" was posted outside the armored vehicle. Colonel Carlson, the American military attache in China, praised "the 386 Brigade is the best brigade in China" when he visited southeastern Shanxi. In the autumn of 1943, Chen Geng annihilated the Japanese "Imperial Army Watching Regiment" in one fell swoop while directing the anti-"mopping-up" in Taiyue Mountain area, killing Major General Naoko Hattori and six major generals. At the "Seventh Congress" of China's * * * Production Party, Chen Geng was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee. During the War of Liberation, he led Chen Xie's regiment to triumph all the way from southwest Shanxi to Yunnan.

in p>195, he went to Vietnam as a representative of the Central Committee, and was entrusted by Ho Chi Minh to command the border battle and defeat the French invaders. The following year, he went to North Korea to be the deputy commander of the Volunteers, and he also acted as the commander when Peng Dehuai left his post. Volunteers can repeatedly defeat the American army with the most advanced technology and equipment, but they are limited in their desire to expand their victory, which greatly stimulates him. Chen Geng believes that colleges and universities should be established in China as soon as possible to train military scientific and technological talents. In the summer of 1952, he returned to Harbin, presided over the establishment of the Academy of Military Engineering and served as the president. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general.

after the mid-195s, Chen Geng served as deputy chief of staff, in charge of national defense science and technology, and still served as the president of Harbin Military Industry. Under his leadership, "Harbin Military Industry" became the largest military academy in the Far East after only four or five years. Qian Xuesen said: "This is also a miracle in the world."

in March p>1961, Chen Geng died in Shanghai.

In his eulogy, the Central Committee called him an "outstanding military genius".

Marshal Chen Yi once praised: "He is like a glass, clear and transparent from the inside out. Comrade Chen Geng is a cannon of our party. "