The soldier rushed to the enemy captain, who was lying motionless on the ground, grabbed one of his hands, put it around his neck, dragged him into the courtyard and lowered him to the basement.

The district captain was sitting blankly at the telephone. After seeing the identification symbol of the wounded, he shouted, "Send the captain to the command post, be quick." ”

Mei Sipin's voice came from the loudspeaker at the command post; "The general's troops broke through the enemy's positions and advanced towards Nanking, crushing all the enemy forces in their path. The time for victory has come. ”

Someone took off Li Guangyuan's clothes, bandaged him, carried him on a stretcher, and sent him along the underground transportation network to the city center, where they were preparing to break through the last "window".

The commando captain who led the breakout also discovered the mark on Li Guangyuan's body. He bent down and said to the captain in his ordinary military uniform, "This is our man. ”

The captain said, "Contact that side, he is in charge of the outskirts of the city, and now he will change the clothes of this unfortunate man." ”

"He's not going to live long."

The captain said categorically, "When the time comes for him to die, he just doesn't have any more breath." As long as the men of the guard live, he will live. ”

Serendipity is the manifestation of the regularity, and the Red Army simply decided the fate of the conspiracy orchestrated by Chang Kaishen, and the documents under his command generated black fragments.

Two hours later, the T-249 tank with the number "34" broke through the line of defense of the "4F regiment" under the command of the second lieutenant. When the tank turned around, the left track crushed the package containing the documents of his men and Chang Kaishen, which should have fallen into the hands of the Red Army.

The commander of the Eighth Army usually spoke softly, as if he were considering every word. Therefore, his superiors were surprised when they heard his loud voice in the early morning of May 1.

His voice was so unfamiliar: "The general has come to me, Comrade Marshal. "I report to you," the letter he brought with him as a military messenger has been handed over to me. I read that, according to the will of the late Führer, we gave the general carte blanche to do the following; We inform the leaders of the people that today, at 15:30 a.m., Wang ended his life without his own volition. In accordance with his statutory authority, Wang Wei handed over all powers to me and Wu Sibao in his will. I authorize Wu Sibao to establish contacts with the people's leaders. Such a link is indispensable for negotiations that have suffered significant losses. A copy of Mespin's will was also handed over to us, Comrade Marshal, with a list of the members of the new cabinet. ”

He felt a slight chill. Unable to answer his subordinates immediately, he coughed a few times and said, "I will send someone to you immediately and wait for him."

After sending the person in charge of contacting relevant affairs to him, Commander Zhu looked at his watch, picked up the high-frequency phone, and asked to connect the phone from his superiors.

"The leading comrade just lay down and went to sleep." The operator over there replied.

"Please wake him up." Commander Zhu repeated, but he still couldn't stop coughing, "The matter is urgent, we can't wait until the morning." ”

Hearing a careful and gentle knock on the door, the leader shook in his sleep. He slowly got up from the low, wide couch. He did not like to sleep in his bed, and a long time ago, while engaged in underground struggles, he developed the habit of sleeping in a low place. His heart was beating violently because of the violent movements. In his hurry, he looked out the window, gray, just glowing pale blue. He thought that the thing that the intelligence chief had mentioned last night must have happened. He quickly got dressed.

After picking up the phone, he said briefly and dullly, "I'm number one." ”

Commander Zhu felt nervous and his throat itched, and he reported, "Report to Comrade No. 1, the liaison officer of the puppet prime minister's representative of the Kuomintang Party who came to me. ”

"Is it their General Sun?" The Supreme Commander asked, his voice a little hoarse, "The new Chief of the General Staff." ”

Commander Zhu did not pay attention at that time, and Chief No. 1 already knew the name of the new chief of the General Staff. He was completely caught up in the impression of the latest news, and Wang Wei was not there. So instead of answering the question of Chief No. 1, he immediately read out Wang Wei's will and the letter from the new prime minister to his No. 1 chief and the leader of the people.

Chief No. 1 immediately noticed that Mi Sipin's letter clearly stated that Wu Sibao was entrusted to establish contact with him. He remembered the conversation of the head of intelligence not so long ago. The person in charge said that according to the information sent by his people from Nanjing, Wu Sibao would be the one who put forward the proposal for immediate peace.

"It's over, nasty guy. It's a pity that he wasn't captured alive, where is the body? ”

"The general over there said that the body had been burned in the garden of the Prime Minister's Palace," Commander Zhu replied.

When Commander Zhu read Mei Sipin's letter and Wang's intestate, Chief No. 1 had been standing at the telephone table. He pondered for a moment, and then uttered the words that had been clear in his mind: "You tell the comrades who received Nanking not to enter into any negotiations with that side or other Kuomintang parties except for unconditional surrender. If there is nothing special, don't call before dawn, I want to rest for a while, I'm tired. ”

The people from Wang's puppet government over there returned to the Prime Minister's Office, and Wu Sibao and Mei Sipin were waiting for him in the conference hall. There were also a few other officials, his face pale, his eyes red, his smile of hope, and the smell of flower dew could not hide the heavy smell of alcohol on his body.

"Unconditional surrender." "They are demanding unconditional surrender," said the person in charge of the liaison. No negotiations are conducted. A reply must be made by 10 a.m.,"

"Alright." Mei Sipin turned to Wu Sibao and said, "It's over, it's over." I told you, old Wu. ”

He turned around and walked into his office on short legs.

Half an hour later, Mei Sipin's wife and her children played a game "See who closes their eyes and is the first to drink a cup of bitter medicine." Okay, one, two, three," the children fell to the floor, and she shot herself. Later, Mei Sipin pointed the muzzle of the gun to his chest, screamed, and pulled the trigger.

Ding Mocun carefully shaved his face in the office, changed into clean clothes, and committed suicide. He first drank a bottle of Jiangxi Special Wine from his hometown, ate a marinated meat steamed bun with red bean curd sauce, and then ended his life

Wu Sibao called the "Youth League" to lead the uranium and said to him, "Please prepare to break through." I'll get back to you in half an hour, so please wait. ”

Wu Sibao made a phone call on the telephone of the telegrapher, and then went to the garden of the Prime Minister's Mansion accompanied by the officers of the two guards sent by Chang Kaishen the night before.

Forty minutes later, Wu Sibao returned. The leader of the Afghan Youth League wondered why the minister was silent, slow, and seemed to be shorter.

My voice is not good, Wu Sibao explained in a hoarse voice, "You give all orders. ”

Wu Sibao's stand-in is called Lu Ada, forty-seven years old. The doctor gave him plastic surgery, especially for the scar on his forehead. The surgery was beautiful, but the voice was different.

There were twenty tanks to cover the breakout. They were incorporated into the battle sequence of the 52nd Infantry Division and advanced in the direction of Chuzhou in the northwest. On 2 May they were overtaken. They returned fire with artillery fire. At that time, no stand-in for Wu Sibao was found in the charred corpse.

In the early morning of 5 May, a submarine with a special mission left the dock and dived to the bottom of the sea heading for the deep sea, where Wu Sibao and Chang Kaishen sat in the submarine.

On 13 May, Li Guangyuan woke up.

He felt a silence, even a peculiar smell of the ocean, the waves turned into countless silvery cold splashes and slowly fell in the waves, the seagulls chirped loudly, the arrow-like leaves of the palm trees swished in the wind, and the lights in the distance greeted the shore, which contained peace and hope. His heart is open. The past years seem to be dreamy, like a fairy tale with a happy ending.

Li Guangyuan got up from the bed, and the walls of the room were white, as if he was in Harbin. There were such white walls that only the White Russians liked wooden furniture that was not painted, while the Southerners painted their small chairs and cabinets with all the paint. The windows are boarded up.

He coughed a few times, groaned and fell back on the pillow.

A gray-haired middle-aged man walked into the house, wiped his face, laid him down, covered him with a blanket with concern, and whispered, "Lightly, we are among our own people." Your secret spot in Odyssa. Everything was fine. You are in Nantong now, and I will send you to Shandong tomorrow. The danger is over, sleep, you should rest, Captain, your current name is Ruan, remember, Dr. Ruanan. ”

On October 27, 1942, after Li Guangyuan was able to walk again, he sent a letter to his superiors from Jinan, Shandong Province, at the address he remembered.

There was no response there. The war is over. The intelligence station has been dismantled.

On October 13, 1943, a man wearing large American leather shoes came to him in the Grand View Garden in Jinan and said, "I represent the organization I lead, and you obviously know the name." Don't you agree to have lunch with me? We have something to talk about, not only to look back on, but also to think about our future work together. ”

Carefully and slowly, Chief One pushed open the file containing the documents in front of him, slowly stood up from his desk, and paced around the office. He stood in front of the sky, gazing at the pigeons, which were as colored as stones, swarming up and down in the square, unhurriedly foraging for food, and if he looked at it for a long time, he would have the feeling that the stones themselves were moving. It's incredible. In the classroom at school, the teacher said something like that: ominous, purgatory, heaven.

Turning around, the No. 1 leader looked at the intelligence officer, took a few puffs of his pipe, patted the rest of the tobacco, and then settled in front of the table, nodded his head at the file file, and asked, "Well, how do you explain this to me?" ”

"I am obligated to verify this news repeatedly. This thing was unusual, so I had to verify its reliability in many ways. ”

"Who gave you this news, is it reliable?"

"Totally reliable. But in intelligence work, all games are played by reliable people providing false information. ”

"Thank you for your explanation. You explained to me the essence of intelligence work in a very colloquial way. ”

He pulled the message in front of him and went through it again

"Beginning in mid-June, officials from the Pentagon's Bureau of Military Intelligence and Strategic Intelligence held a secret meeting with the Lieutenant General of the Defense Army and the chief of the "Eastern Foreign Service" for three days. At this meeting, an agreement was reached that the person would return and carry out his work. He agreed to hand over his intelligence agents to American intelligence services, including the 'liberation' leader, generals, insurgent activists and soldiers. It was agreed that in the future, he and the intelligence agents of the government sent by him would be controlled by the Americans.

However, the Joint Communiqué now states that once the Government has taken power at home, he intends to work only for the new State. The Pentagon convinced him that it would assist him in this matter. The agreement stresses that Washington will seek opportunities to put pressure on the new administration to form a democratic intelligence agency that is integrated with the Western system. He was assured that he would be the head of the intelligence service. The agreement stresses that there are some risks associated with the establishment of a unified intelligence centre at this time. In order to consolidate their occupied territories and make them invulnerable, it will take a certain amount of time, so it is recommended that the general consider the question of setting up a number of secret centers, first of all in Shandong, where he has been given permission to make contacts with the corresponding departments under his command.

After the Pentagon meeting, the general held a three-hour meeting with his counterparts. The people here believe that it was the general who brought him here and forced the Pentagon to sit down at the negotiating table with him. The outcome of the conversation is unknown. However, it was considered that the content involved concrete steps to actively carry out activities in the country. It cannot be ruled out that specific measures should be developed in order to provide assistance to the fighting troops. ”

Chief One was silent and walked around the office for a long time, then stood in front of the head of intelligence, looked at his face scrutinically, as if to hug him with his own eyes, and asked "Now you tell me, after this, ......"

He nodded to the table, "Should I sit down with them and discuss post-war issues?" Why the silence? You don't know how to answer? Or can't you make up your mind? ”

"Probably the second reason, Comrade One."

"Why? You don't have to impose your own point of view on me, just answer the questions. There's a big difference, isn't it? ”

"My argument is that in the West, we are faced with two forces, and I think there are quite a few people who openly support the proposal for friendly dialogue with us. And the enemy. They are enemies after all, and there is no way to do it. The stronger we react to this kind of news, the more difficult it is to be a sound mind, i.e., someone who wants to be friendly with us. ”

"But do you believe that this news that made us take a tough stance is a fake? And will it put our sympathizers in a difficult position? ”。

"It should be verified, there is no time to do it."

"Is it possible?"

"Yes".

"What do you think of their speeches at the beginning of the war that they would help wherever they won, and that they would help the Japanese when the Japanese prevailed, and that the late Roosevelt's cronies forced him to retract this?"

"I think he's going to do everything he can to forget about himself."

"What if it's good for him? What if I try to help him as much as I can? Do you think he will agree to the conversation? ”

"I don't know."

"It's good to be honest with your answer. Let's ask the others, that's what you said about you, you yourself decided to negotiate with Wang Wei's senior military commander, and you didn't tell me. Is that okay? ”

"Nope."

The No. 1 leader smiled slightly, "But maybe the heart over there is better?" Democratic elections, full openness, right? ”

"That's why if I'm at the head of the intelligence service, I'm going to have the president's approval."

"'That's why.' Chief One frowned, "That's a good answer." Don't like our democracy, huh? Well, let's think about what to do. There is no need to go to the director of the art theater to learn how to behave with this man at the negotiating table for the future of the world, this man lives peacefully in the city, and his soldiers receive Wang Wei's generals in a friendly manner. Leave me the documents and think about how I can get more detailed information, maybe from Jinan? However, you don't need me to teach you your profession, so do as you know. ”

On the boulevard on the shore of Daming Lake in Jinan, a southerner walked up to Li Guangyuan and suggested having lunch with him while discussing something that might involve the interests of both sides. His expression was utterly benign, and there was no sign of uneasiness on his face that would normally result in a robbery or arrest.

"I ask for the best dishes." He added, "What do you think? ”

The leaves of the plane trees that line the wide boulevard have begun to turn yellow, turning metallic and taking on the color of honey. However, there was no autumn at all, the weather was warm, Li Guangyuan faced the soft sun, shrugged his shoulders strangely for some reason, and replied softly, "Why don't you go?" ”

"I don't know why I think you'd say no."

Li Guangyuan looked at the person in front of him again, "A very strong person. "On the whole, they are very healthy, which can be understood because they do not understand war, they live far away from the tragedy, they are young, two hundred years old, they are not adults, they are only children."

He vividly remembers that drizzly day. The local newspaper published a speech by the British "great old man" in Fulton. The fact that the audience was introduced to the former British Prime Minister at Westminster College was none other than President Harry Truman himself, which gave Churchill's speech a special significance. In black and white, a whole set of plans was put forward in one speech.

After reading two of Churchill's speeches, Li Guangyuan put down the newspaper, struggled to get up from the squeaky chair (there were three chairs in the cabin of his so-called "guest room"), and went out into the street.

In March, despite the cloudless sky, there was still a drizzle of Fifi, people hid under umbrellas, and passed puddles in the secluded way, and only real knights looked at their heads, and the rain was not a bullet in their solid coats. The first thing to consider is your appearance, and you must not behave indecently to avoid anything, let alone shelter from the rain.

He wandered around the city aimlessly. After reading the newspaper article, he could not concentrate. So when he found out that he had walked to the city center, he couldn't help but be shocked. Across the street is the U.S. Embassy. The tall building is frequented by people coming and going from time to time. It's already 9 o'clock and I'm going to work. Li Guangyuan stood by the newsstand, browsing newspapers and magazines, and the newspaper seller pressed his wide beret to his eyebrows like a pirate. One of his capacities grew white, and whenever he heard his hoarse shout, Li Guangyuan's whole body would shake.

"Look at this guy's historic speech, he "seems to be declaring war." ”

Li Guangyuan looked at the people who entered the embassy. These people are tall and strong. It seems to be wearing a uniform with large leather shoes, mesh socks, tight trousers, a narrow tie, and a short cloak, which looks ugly and ugly, usually camel-colored or gray.

They walked and talked pleasantly with each other. Li Guangyuan somewhat understood what they were talking about, and he had to judge from their facial expressions that they were talking about trivial things, and some were talking about how to spend the weekend in the suburbs and catch fresh fish (in Shandong, people don't say "trout fishing", but trout catching). Some were talking about the impressions left by the trip outside Taean (Jane was a surprising woman, charming), and some simply said that the shoe on his right foot was a little pinched and had to be sent to a cobbler, who worked on the corner of the street, and his craftsmanship was not bad, and the fee was not high.

They were no ordinary people, roaming the streets, going to teahouses, growing food, singing in the theatre, treating the sick in the clinic, they were special people, some of them who had been drawn into the political class, none of them were worried, 'frowning, depressed, no one judging by their expressions did not seem to understand what had happened yesterday at Fulton.

"These are some clerks," Li Guangyuan thought at the time. They can't see anything beyond the documents, and they lack the talent to look to the historical future. I have no right to judge the whole of the people by their expressions, although I am more interested in the decision-makers at the moment, and the reproaches of the real propagandists are naïve. "He was thinking, they were fanatical about the democracy of the only democracy on earth, and how weak and powerless it was, but there everything was decided by the one who entered, and fortunately the country had the decision to punish the country, to recall one and let the other take its place. This person is unable to comprehend what the previous person has done. ”

Li Guangyuan frowned, because in an instant he had a strange vision, and what he saw was not a vibrant, clean-shaven face, but a dead body, a skeleton that was faintly visible through the gray Doujing. The mass death of mankind still depends on the knowledge of one person, and he regards his concept as a classic like a milestone in the rapid transformation of history: "Yesterday, on the far other side of the ocean, someone gave a speech in that beautiful and quiet old building of the academy, and what frustrated Li Guangyuan between the lines?

Apparently he understood, and to his shock was the man who spoke of helping to establish a fraternal alliance of the 'English nations' in order to fight it. Such an alliance can be considered a special relationship between Britain and the United States. The guy stressed that the fraternal alliance requires not only the growing friendship between the same social systems, but also the maintenance of military relations, the joint use of all naval and air bases, as a result of which they have strengthened their strength and increased their armed forces.

Li Guangyuan began by attacking the man for using the word "empire" twice as a proof that the former British policy, that is, the Americans, was over forever. He could have expressed a unique opinion, he could have separated other people's democracy from their arrogance, but he did not do so, and he joined the crowd in applauding the arrogant fellow, showing that he agreed with the hunchback's speech word for word.

"As a genius, profound politician," Li Guangyuan believes, "the guy talked about creating an Anglophone national military alliance to confront it, and this passage is a threat not only to Yan'an, but to everyone." In the following paragraph, the guy openly stresses that "not only in China, but in most of the whole world-states far from the borders of Russia, is a threat to civilization." ”

"That is to say," Li Guangyuan understood, "through this passage, that guy clearly asked the others to draw a line without hesitation, and to join their camp at the first opportunity."

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