Chapter 49 10. Chen Geng lost his beloved wife

One month after the successful end of the anti-mopping up campaign, on March 8, Brigadier Chen Geng lost his beloved wife Wang Genying forever. When Chen Geng first met Wang Genying, she was still a student at the civilian night school.Her smartness, studiousness and pungentness caught Chen Geng's attention.While Chen Geng was studying at the Whampoa Military Academy, Liao Zhongkai, the leftist leader of the Kuomintang, was assassinated. Under the direct leadership of Zhou Enlai, Chen Geng did not sleep a wink for several days and nights, and found out the murderer.He Xiangning fell in love with Chen Geng's decisiveness, bravery and integrity, and intended to betroth his daughter to him, but Chen Geng politely declined, because Wang Genying had already occupied his heart.

At the end of 1922, Chen Geng, already a member of the Communist Party, went from Hunan to Shanghai to carry out party work.Sometimes, he went to teach in civilian schools.Most of the people who came to the class were workers, and a 17-year-old female worker in a spinning mill caught his attention.This female worker is a well-known worker leader named Wang Genying.During the struggle, she deeply felt that her culture was low, so as soon as the night school was established, she invited her younger sister and a dozen female companions to become the first batch of students in the night school.Chen Geng is from Xiangxiang, and he always talks about "peasant theory", but Wang Genying believes in the power of the "working class".So soon after the class started, she argued with Chen Geng, and the students were divided into two factions, one supported Chen Geng and the other supported Wang Genying.This is also fate, the more the competition, Chen Geng thinks the girl in front of him is cuter.During an argument, on a whim, he tore off a piece of paper from his notebook, wrote "I love you" in a hurry, folded it, pushed it to Wang Genying's desk, and then looked ahead as if nothing had happened.Wang Genying took the note and looked straight at it. There were actually three words like this on the paper. She couldn't help but blushed and her heart was beating wildly. She thought to herself, there is such a bold "teacher" in the world!He didn't want to say anything, so he quietly hid the note.

What Chen Geng didn't expect was that there was an extra manuscript on the wall newspaper the next day, and many people gathered around it, laughing while reading it.Chen Geng also joined in.Seeing this made him so ashamed that he wanted to dig a hole and get into the ground.It turned out that the "manuscript" posted on the wall newspaper was the three-character "love letter" written by Chen Geng to Wang Genying yesterday.Chen Geng is a witty and intelligent person. At this point, he simply did not do anything, and then wrote a few notes to Wang Genying.Wang Genying was also a woman who refused to admit defeat. She took the note without looking at it, spit on it, and slapped it on the wall.Within a few days, the newspapers were covered with "small flags".

That evening, they met on the banks of the Huangpu River. "Mr. Chen, why do you like me, a poor spinner?" Wang Genying asked Chen Geng generously. Chen Geng told the truth: "Sister Xiang, do you recognize him? I went to visit Cai Hesen who was sick that day. His wife introduced you to Jingyu and said that you are a good character, brave and progressive. She wants to train you to become an outstanding student. The women cadres in the village also said that you are not well-educated and asked me to help you more." "You 'help' me like this?" "This is just the first step."

"Next step?" "The next step is to 'Integrate Workers and Peasants'!" In May 1927, after being matched by Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao, Chen Geng and Wang Genying really got married in Wuhan, and the two quilts moved together, and they got married. Not long after the two got married, bad news came: Xia Douyin rebelled!Within a few days, Wang Jingwei secretly ordered He Jian to massacre the revolutionaries, "It is better to kill a thousand people in vain than to let one slip through the net."In an instant, white terror enveloped the three towns of Wuhan.He Jian took a fancy to the new machine guns of Chen Geng's spy battalion machine gun company, so he sent troops to surround Chen Geng's residence and forced him to leave the spy camp alone.At the same time, the picket team of Wuhan workers led by Chen Geng was also ordered to disarm by the Hankou Garrison Commander Li Pinxian.

Wang Genying was ordered to return to Shanghai to engage in the party's underground work. It is difficult to say goodbye when we meet.On the day Wang Genying left, Zhou Enlai came to see him off.They made the last bit of rice and noodles into dry food in the new house, and made Zhou Enlai a plate of his favorite braised lion head.Zhou Enlai said to Chen Geng: "You have found a good daughter-in-law, she is ingenious, don't forget about her." "I can't forget it. Let's meet and miss each other for a quarter of an hour every night." Wang Genying blushed again when he said that.Chen Geng talked and laughed incessantly, in order to conceal his inseparable inseparability.Zhou Enlai listened, and ripples appeared in his heart.Finally, he said emotionally: "I was the one who brought you together, and I am the one who is going to tear you apart now. I can't bear to see you so affectionate. But, what can I do? I want to bring you together. Chen Geng is leaving to fight against Chiang Kai-shek. Genying, hand Chen Geng to me, you can rest assured..."

In this way, Wang Genying sneaked back to Shanghai secretly.Chen Geng went to Jiujiang with Zhou Enlai, and soon, the August 1st Nanchang Uprising broke out in Nanchang.A pair of newlyweds who have just got married are on different sides of the world, struggling for the cause of the nation on the line of life and death. After the failure of the Great Revolution, Chen Geng participated in the Nanchang Uprising.On the way to the south of the uprising troops, Chen Geng served as the battalion commander of He Long's department. He was injured in the battle and went to Shanghai secretly for treatment.Since 1928, Chen Geng has participated in and presided over the intelligence work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. In September 1931, he went to the Hubei, Henan and Anhui revolutionary bases, and successively served as the head and division commander of the 12th Division of the Red Fourth Front Army.He led his troops to participate in the third anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign. In 1932, he secretly went to Shanghai for medical treatment because of a serious injury. Arrested in March 1933, he sternly rejected Chiang Kai-shek's inducement to surrender, and was rescued by the Shanghai Party organization and Soong Ching Ling.

Chen Geng could not stay long in Shanghai, so he left Shanghai for Jiangxi.In December of this year, Wang Genying was also arrested, and was escorted to the "Jiangsu No. 1 Model Prison" in Tiger Bridge, Nanjing, where he was locked up with Shuai Mengqi and Xia Zhixu.She has been in prison for more than 3 years and has been unyielding.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Enlai demanded the release of political prisoners during peace talks with Chiang Kai-shek on behalf of the Communist Party. He and Ye Jianying visited Wang Genying in prison and released her on the spot.Later, Wang Genying followed Zhou En to Xi'an, and rushed to the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army.

When the couple met, Chen Geng wrote in his diary on August 27, 1937: However, no one thought that the husband and wife would finally meet after going through so many hardships and twists and turns, but unfortunately Wang Genying died in the anti-Japanese battlefield in the Northland. It was only half a month after Wang Genying came to the General Political Department of the Eighth Route Army, she received a notice from the organization asking her to study at the Party School of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in Yan'an. "So fast?" Wang Genying was a little sad.But Chen Geng, who has a heavy responsibility, is very calm: "That's fine. We are going to the front line of the Shanxi Anti-Japanese War soon. It is not unreasonable for me, the brigade commander, to always have a wife by my side. You come back early, and try to work in the teacher after graduation. Every now and then We can meet..."

In the autumn of 1938, after studying at the party school, Wang Genying was transferred back to work in the 129th division, and was assigned to the financial and economic cadre party school in the division as an instructor of the political department.At this time, the 386th Brigade was gathering towards this area.Wang Genying was very happy, thinking that he would see his sweetheart again soon. However, no one expected that on March 8, 1939, during an anti-"mopping up", Wang Genying died heroically.On the eve of her sacrifice, her face was covered with blood, and she told the comrades who were going to carry her to break through in a low voice: "Leave me alone, I can't do it, you break through quickly! Please tell Chen Geng, let him destroy the Japanese invaders fiercely, and tell Chen Geng ...Chen Geng..."

On this day, Chen Geng was speaking to the troops, and the correspondent sent a telegram.When he saw it, his whole body was shocked: Wang Genying sacrificed a heroic sacrifice while covering the retreat of his comrades-in-arms!Chen Geng couldn't help crying bitterly at that time, pulled out his pistol suddenly, and fired angry bullets into the sky "bang bang bang".With tears in his eyes, he stood alone in the woods where the snow had not melted for a long time, and wrote 20 words in his diary: "Today is a day I will never forget, and it is also my most painful day!"