In 1961, Chen Geng died young, and his friend Li Kenong threw his wine glass angrily: Chen Geng was not here, and drinking was tasteless.

On September 2, 1951, Chen Geng, who had longed for him for a long time, finally arrived at the Volunteer Army Headquarters.

In order to recall Chen Geng who was far away in Vietnam, Mr. Zhou and Mr. Peng had been very anxious. In their hearts, it seemed that it would be good to replace anyone except Chen Geng.

Chen Geng’s life is legendary: the Eastern March saved a person’s life, that person was Jiang, the Long March saved the life of Duke Zhou, the Anti-Japanese War battlefield saved Liu Shuai’s life, and he was the leader during the liberation period The Taiyue Corps went to Yan'an to relieve the siege.

Chen Geng’s main task is to assist General Peng in solving the “two problems” of the Volunteer Army: offense or defense? How to attack and defend?

1. Looking at the world, there is no rival

Chen Geng’s participation in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea has been full of twists and turns.

In March 1951, Chen Geng suffered a recurrence of his leg injury when he led the Third Corps into North Korea. He returned to Beijing for treatment, and then moved to Dalian for recuperation. Three months later, he joined the war as the second deputy commander of the Volunteer Army. He arrived at the Third Corps on August 22 and the Volunteer Army Headquarters on September 2.

Mr. Peng was very happy to see Chen Geng and praised him for defeating the Japanese army and the French army, and after defeating the French army and the US army, he defeated the invincible enemy in the world.

At the turn of summer and autumn, the peninsula was hit by heavy rains, and railways and roads were washed away. The U.S. coalition increased its troops in preparation for a new offensive. As Yang Chengwu's 20th Corps arrived at the front line, the total strength of the Volunteer Army was nearly 100 divisions, twice that of the US military. The army is reinforced and the Chairman considers a sixth campaign.

However, Mr. Peng was very hesitant to launch the sixth battle. Deng Hua and others suggested a defensive attack, but did not agree to continue the attack. They used their own shortcomings to attack others' strengths and used defense as an offensive. Deng Hua and others conveyed the chairman's tactical thinking of "cutting off the candy", but it is still unclear how to implement it.

Chen Geng has always been known for his "cunning ideas", so Mr. Peng repeatedly requested Duke Zhou, and finally called Chen Geng to the front line to join the battle.

2. Anti-Japanese, Liberation, and Anti-French

During the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Geng made the Japanese army gnash their teeth with hatred. He wrote the slogan "Specialized to fight the 386th Brigade" on the tank.

Mr. Peng talked about the defensive and offensive problems faced by the Volunteer Army, especially the 20th Corps sent by the Chairman, which could not survive without fighting.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese suffered a lot from the invasion war, the Battle of Guanjianao, and the soil work. In the Battle of Shangdang, the Battle of Huaihai, and the close operations of Zhongye and Huaye, they played a miraculous effect in annihilating the Huangwei Group and the Du Yuming Group. .

President Peng nodded, "promoting peace through war" was the reason why the Chairman launched the Sixth Battle, but how to break through the modern defenses of the Volunteer Army to attack the Allies, and how to ensure the success of the "Washington Offensive" Any results? Using defense instead of offense, how to build a sports defense system?

During the border battle, Chen Geng's troops annihilated more than 8,000 French troops, and the French defense system on the North Vietnam border completely collapsed. Through the three stages of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation and the War of Aid to Vietnam, Chen Geng had profound insights into how to break enemy defenses and how to use defense as offense.

3. You build your wall, I dig mine

In the first five battles, the Volunteer Army wiped out countless enemies, but the enemy force was powerful The aircraft and artillery also caused heavy losses to the volunteers.

After the fifth battle, the Allied forces and the Chinese and North Korean coalition forces reached a relative balance on the 38th Line, and no one can break this balance for the time being.

The Allies' advantage is the navy, air force and powerful firepower, but their weakness is that the soldiers are afraid of death. The advantages of the Volunteer Army lie in the fighting spirit of "not afraid of hardship and death" and the powerful army that has been thoroughly tempered. The bottleneck lies in the relatively backward logistics support system and almost no navy and air force.

Mr. Peng once admired the modern three-dimensional defense systems of the United States and South Korea, especially the very advanced fortifications built by the defense systems.

Chen Geng suggested to Mr. Peng: The chairman said that each should fight his own, he would throw atomic bombs, and we would throw hand grenades. Since our advantage is mobile defense, we must leverage our military's strong and fine tradition of winning in "geotechnical work" and hold a digging competition in the Three Thousand Miles Mountains.

4. "Tunnel War"

5. Preparation for the establishment of Harbin Military Industry

In March 1952, Chen Geng returned to the front line again to replace General Peng. This time, in addition to bringing the chairman's "no-frills" ideas, improvements were also made to the defense system: the 3rd Corps commanded the 38th, 15th, and 63rd Armies, the 20th Corps commanded the 68th, 67th, and 12th Armies, and Pingkang, Jinhua, and Huaiyang The "honeycomb" defense with a length of 220 kilometers and a depth of 20 kilometers shocked the Allies.

In June 1952, Chen Geng was recalled to China and founded the Harbin Military Engineering Institute. One year and three months later, construction began on New China's first comprehensive military engineering college, which Qian Xuesen hailed as a "miracle of the world", comparable to Tsinghua University and Peking University.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the humorous Chen Geng predicted that he would not live to be 60 years old. Before New Year's Eve in 1952, I told my subordinates: You may not think that I am in good health, but I know that I will not live to be 60 years old. On March 16, 1961, Chen Geng died prematurely of myocardial infarction at the age of 58.

Li Kenong, the founding general of the People’s Republic of China, was Chen Geng’s life-and-death friend when he was in Shanghai Special Branch. When he heard the news that his friend had died of illness, Li Kenong threw down his wine glass: "Chen Geng is not here, drinking is tasteless!"

In February 1962, the legendary "King of the Secret Service" and his best friend passed away.