Chen Geng’s famous sayings

Loyal to the nation, filial to the country

——Chen Geng

[Introduction]

Chen Geng, formerly known as Shu Kang, was born in 1903 in A poor old soldier's family in Xiangxiang County, Hunan. He attended Dongshan Academy when he was a child. Before finishing high school, he joined the old army as a soldier. Four years later, he was promoted to sergeant. He was deeply disgusted by the darkness and fighting among the warlords' troops. When he was 18 years old, he left the army and worked as a clerk on the railway. In his spare time, he attended Hunan Self-Study University sponsored by Mao Zedong, where he accepted revolutionary ideas and joined the Communist Party in 1922.

At the end of 1923, Chen Geng was dispatched by the party organization to go to Guangdong to attend the Martial Arts School. In the following summer, he entered the first phase of the Huangpu Military Academy. He graduated at the end of the year and was appointed company commander. In 1925, he participated in the Eastern Expedition and served in Huangpu for his military exploits. Famous in life. After that, he went to the Far East of the Soviet Union to learn security work and riot experience. In early 1927, he returned to China and served as the spy battalion commander in Wuhan and commanded the workers' picket team. In late July of the same year, he accompanied Zhou Enlai to Nanchang and served as a security guard during the uprising.

After the Nanchang Uprising, the injured Chen Geng sneaked back to Shanghai. After recovering from his injury, he went to the Central Special Branch to take charge of intelligence work. In the spring of 1931, at the critical juncture when Gu Shunzhang, the head of the Special Branch, rebelled, he assisted Zhou Enlai in quickly evacuating the central agencies. He then went to the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area and served as regimental commander and division commander in the Red Army. The following year, he was wounded in the leg again, so he disguised himself and returned to Shanghai for treatment. While recovering, he went to a movie theater and was discovered by traitors and was arrested. He refused Chiang Kai-shek's persuasion to surrender, escaped from Nanjing, and entered the Central Soviet Area.

During the Long March, he served as the leader of the cadre regiment and the commander of the 1st Red Division.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Geng served as the commander of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, defeating the Japanese invaders with flexible guerrilla warfare. The Japanese army was so angry that they posted a slogan on the outside of the armored vehicle "Specially targeting the 386th Brigade" during the "mopping up" campaign. When Colonel Carlson, the US military attache in China, visited southeastern Shanxi, he praised "the 386th Brigade as the best brigade in China." In the autumn of 1943, while commanding the counter-"mopping up" in the Taiyue Mountains, Chen Geng annihilated the Japanese "Imperial Army Observation Group" in one fell swoop, killing Major General Hattori Naomi and six colonels. At the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Chen Geng was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee. During the War of Liberation, he led the Chen-Xie Corps in a triumphant march from southwestern Shanxi to Yunnan.

In 1950, 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 invading army. The following year, he went to North Korea to serve as deputy commander of the Volunteer Army, and became acting commander when Peng Dehuai resigned. He was deeply stimulated by the fact that the Volunteer Army could repeatedly defeat the U.S. military with the most advanced technology and equipment, but was restricted in its attempts to expand its victory. Chen Geng believes that colleges and universities cultivating military scientific and technological talents should be established in China as soon as possible. In the summer of 1952, he returned to Harbin and presided over the establishment of the Military Engineering College and served as its dean. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general.

After the mid-1950s, Chen Geng served as deputy chief of staff, in charge of national defense science and technology, and was still the president of the "Harbin Military Industry". Under his leadership, "Harbin Military Industry" became the largest military academy in the Far East in only four or five years. Qian Xuesen said: "This is also a miracle in the world."

In March 1961, Chen Geng died of illness in Shanghai.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China called him an "outstanding military genius" in its eulogy.

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