122 years ago today, February 27, 1903 (February 1, 1903, the lunar calendar) was the birthday of Chen Geng, the outstanding leader of the People's Liberation Army of China. Chen Geng, General Chen Geng, is a China proletarian revolutionary and military strategist, and an outstanding leader of the country and the People's Liberation Army of China. General of the People's Liberation Army of China. His original name was Chen Shukang. Born on February 27, 1903 in Quanhu Village, Longdong Township, Xiangxiang City, Hunan Province. He joined the Hunan Army in 1916. In 1921, he separated from the Hunan Army and worked as a clerk in the Railway Bureau in Changsha. He participated in the patriotic movement and received help from Communists He Shuheng and Guo Liang to accept communist ideas. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1922. In May 1924, he was admitted to the first phase of Whampoa Military Academy. After graduation, he stayed in the school as company commander and deputy captain, and participated in battles such as pacifying the Commercial Group and the Eastern Expedition against Chen Jiongming. In October 1925, during the Second Eastern Expedition, the battle was lost near Huayang, and the rebels chased after them. Chiang Kai-shek, who went to the front line to supervise the battle, panicked and weak. He was afraid of being captured by the rebels and drew his gun and attempted to commit suicide. Chen Geng ignored his personal safety and dragged Chiang out with a strap. In the autumn of 1926, he was sent to study in the Soviet Union and returned to China in early 1927. In August, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising and served as battalion commander of the Helong Army. After failing, he moved from Hong Kong to Shanghai. Since 1928, he has presided over the intelligence work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In September 1931, he went to the Hubei, Henan and Anhui Soviet Area and served as the commander and division commander of the Fourth Front Army of the Workers and Peasants 'Red Army of China. In 1932, he secretly went to Shanghai for medical treatment due to serious injuries. He once introduced to Lu Xun in detail the struggle of the Red Army in Hubei, Henan and Anhui. He was arrested in March 1933 and transferred from Shanghai to Nanchang. Chiang Kai-shek, who was commanding the fourth "encirclement and suppression" campaign in the Central Soviet Area in Nanchang, personally used high officials and generous salaries to persuade surrender. Chen Geng refused sternly with righteousness. After being rescued by the Communist Party of China, Soong Ching Ling and others, he went to the Central Soviet Area and served as the principal of Peng (Pai) and Yang (Yin) Infantry School. He was the head of the cadre regiment during the Long March. He once led a team of the cadre regiment to forcibly occupy the Jiaopingdu Ferry, allowing the First Front Army to successfully cross the Jinsha River. After arriving in northern Shaanxi, he served as the commander of the 1st Division of the 1st Corps and participated in battles such as Zhiluo Town, Eastern Expedition, Western Expedition, and Shanbao. In February 1937, he entered the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study and concurrently served as the captain of the first team. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as commander of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. He led his troops to the Taihang Mountains to participate in the command of Shentouling, Xiangtangpu, Changle Village and other battles, and then fought in northwest Shandong, southern Hebei, and northern Henan. In 1940, he served as commander of the Taiyue Military Region, and the following year, he served as commander of the Taiyue Column. He participated in the leadership of the establishment of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Base Area. In November 1943, he went to Yan 'an and studied at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In June 1945, he was elected as an alternate member of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he led the Taiyue Column (later changed to the Fourth Column of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region) to participate in the Shangdang Campaign. At the beginning of 1946, as a representative of the Communist Party of China, he participated in the three-person group of Linfen and Taiyuan to mediate military conflicts between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and supervise the implementation of the armistice agreement between the two sides. In July 1946, after launching a full-scale civil war, the Kuomintang led the Fourth Column and the Taiyue Military Region troops to fight in southern Shanxi. They successively carried out the battles of Wenxi Xia (County), Tongpu, and Linfen (Fushan), annihilating 30,000 Kuomintang troops, including Hu Zongnan's reorganized First Brigade, known as the "First Division in the World." Later, he led his troops westward, and from November 1946 to January of the following year, he cooperated with his brother troops to launch the battles of Luliang and Fen (Yang) and Xiao (Yi), annihilating more than 20,000 Kuomintang troops. In April 1947, he commanded the offensive in southern Shanxi and wiped out 15000 enemy troops. In August, he and Xie Fuzhi led the main force of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army to forcibly cross the Yellow River, advance into western Henan, open up the Jiefang District of Henan, Shaanxi and Hubei, and cooperate with Liu (Bocheng) Deng (Xiaoping) and Chen (Yi) Su (Yu) Field Army to carry out strategic attacks in the Central Plains region. During the Huaihai Campaign, he led the Fourth Column to work with brother troops to cut off the Jinpu Railway in southwest Xuzhou and participated in the encirclement and annihilation of the Huangwei Corps. In 1949, he served as commander and political commissar of the Fourth Corps of the People's Liberation Army. He led his troops across the Yangtze River and liberated Nanchang. Implementing the strategic policy of long-distance, large detour, and large encirclement, we marched into Guangdong to pursue and annihilate the fleeing enemy, penetrated directly into the Leizhou Peninsula, cut off the sea retreat of Bai Chongxi's troops, and cooperated with our brother troops to carry out the Guangdong-Guangxi border battle, wiping out more than 40,000 enemy troops. At the beginning of 1950, the command post took 14 days and nights to forcibly reach the Yunnan border and annihilate more than 20,000 Kuomintang troops who attempted to flee abroad. In February 1950, he stationed in Kunming and served as deputy commander of the Southwest Military Region, chairman of the Yunnan Province People's Government, and commander of the Yunnan Military Region. In July 1950, he was invited to Vietnam to help the Vietnam military and civilians in the war against France and win the border battle. In 1951, he participated in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and served as deputy commander of the China People's Volunteer Army and commander and political commissar of the Third Corps. He returned to China in June 1952 to prepare and serve as the first president and political commissar of the Military Engineering Academy of the People's Liberation Army to cultivate national defense science and technology talents. In October 1954, he was appointed deputy chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of general. In 1956, he was elected as a member of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In September 1958, he served concurrently as deputy director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission. In September 1959, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. He died in Shanghai on March 16, 1961 due to recurrence of myocardial infarction at the age of 58. Chen Geng, his wife Fu Ya and their children together Chen Geng visited the signal corps equipment exhibition In March 1948, Chen Geng and Chen Shiju were on the front line of the Luoyang Campaign In 1944, Chen Geng and his wife Fu Ya took a photo in Yan 'an