Chongqing!

Zeng Jiayan Mansion!

Lin Wei held a telegram in his hand, and gently knocked on the door of Lao Jiang's office, the door was open, usually Lin Wei stood at the door and called for a seat and then went in, but today he didn't.

"Come in!" Lao Jiang glanced up and said casually, he didn't notice Lin Wei's abnormality.

"Chair ......" Lin Wei wanted to speak and stopped, standing in front of Lao Jiang's desk in a restrained and uneasy manner.

"What's the matter, what's the matter, is Hengyang City broken?" Lao Jiang still didn't look up, but he already felt Lin Wei's strangeness.

"It's not!" Lin Wei replied hesitantly: "But, it's not ......"

"But what? Say! Lao Jiang finally stopped the pen in his hand and raised his head.

"Yes, take a seat. Xue Yue of the Ninth Theater sent an urgent telegram, yesterday in the first battle of Hengyang, the commander of the 12th Army Sun Yumin was martyred, the commander of the new 34th Division of the 12th Army Li Tieqian was martyred, the commander of the mechanized brigade Dong Wenbin was martyred, and the head of the guard regiment Lin Yuanping was martyred. ”

With a bang, the pen in Lao Jiang's hand fell to the table, and his spirit suddenly became much more decadent.

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Chongqing.

JoongAng Daily.

The chief reporter, Pantene, was called to the president's office.

"President, are you looking for me?"

"Yes, I have an obituary from the chamberlain's room, you can polish it and publish it on the front page tomorrow morning."

The president's mood was not high, but Pantene didn't care, she thought that this obituary was issued by the government for some senior official who died of old age, and usually when she got such an obituary, no one would be in a good mood.

After hurriedly scanning the contents of the obituary, Pantene only felt that her eyes were black, she stumbled several steps, and almost fell to the ground.

The obituary reads: Sun Yumin, the commander of the 12th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was unfortunately martyred in Hengyang on the evening of August 2, the 33rd year of the Republic of China......

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Chongqing!

Chen Bui Mansion.

Lu Man was teaching Xiao Chujiu to read and write in the hall, and suddenly heard that the street outside the courtyard seemed to be turned upside down, and the people were full of voices and extremely noisy, she was about to take Xiao Chujiu to take a look outside, when the courtyard door suddenly slammed open, Chen Lai ran in from outside the door crying, and when she saw Lu Man, she hesitated for a moment, and finally cried bitterly and said: "Sister Lu Man, my brother-in-law, my brother-in-law is dead!" ”

Lu Man only felt that the sky was spinning, and he was a little unsteady on his feet, and after calming down a little, he asked, "Who told you?" ”

Sun Yumin's previous fraudulent death left a shadow in Lu Man's heart, and she didn't believe it.

"Sister Lu Man, look." Chen Lai handed over a copy of the Central Daily, with a line of bold characters on the front page: "The God of War is martyred, and the coffin will arrive in Chongqing soon"!

Lu Man only felt that there was a hot current churning up in his stomach, his mouth was slightly sweet, and after spurting out a large mouthful of blood, his eyes turned black and he fainted to the ground.

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Northern Shaanxi!

Yan'an!

Minister L walked into Taizu's house with a notice message from the National Hall, and it happened that Zhou Gong was also there, and the two of them seemed to be discussing something important, and when they saw Minister L coming over, they hurriedly asked him to sit down.

"Chief, the Kuomintang is electrified, you can take a look!" Minister L's expression was a little lost.

"It's a pity, God is jealous." Taizu quickly read the telegram, and the content on it was the notification of Sun Yumin's martyrdom and then posthumously awarded the title of general.

"yes, that's a shame!" Zhou Gong also quickly read this report, and said with a sigh: "KL also reported to me that Sun Yumin had submitted an application to join the party, but I didn't expect to sacrifice his life for the country at this time!" ”

"He is a good comrade, although he did not see the day of victory, but his deeds to resist foreign invasion will not be forgotten." Taizu sighed.

"Chief, although Yumin has passed away, but his application to join the party?" Minister L asked.

"Of course, if it weren't for the need to take into account the overall situation of the united front of the Anti-Japanese War, he would have been an excellent member of my hall a long time ago." Zhou Gong said categorically.

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On the night of August 7, 1944, the fifth day after Sun Yumin's martyrdom, Fang Xianjue, the commander of the 10th Army, who was waiting for reinforcements, sent Sun Mingquan, chief of staff, to contact the Japanese army about surrender; After a night of negotiations, in the early morning of the 8th, Fang Xianjue led his command to meet with Zhou Qingxiang, commander of the 3rd Division, Rong Youluo, commander of the 190th Division, Ge Xiancai, commander of the 10th Pre-10th Division, Rao Shaowei, commander of the 54th Division, and Wang Heng, commander of the 139th Division of the 12th Army, at the Catholic Church in the south of the city to meet with the commander of the 68th Division of the Japanese Army, Tsutsu Sanshunan, and formally surrendered. After learning this news, Zhang Xiaohu, who was independently guarding the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, spit out a few mouthfuls of blood and fell unconscious on the position, and the 20th Division broke out of the encirclement under the organization of several backbones and hid in the Tianguang Mountains, and when the 20th Division entered Hengyang City, there were 20,000 people, and when it broke out, only less than 1,000 people remained.

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On August 10, 1947, Lu Man and Ruan Yunxi got married in Beiping, and on September 24 of the same year, the two were arrested on suspicion of being spies for our party. Chu Jiu also lived with Lu Man and Ruan Yunxi, and later became the president of a university in my country. After the elder Chiang stepped down the following year, Chen Bui committed suicide in Nanjing on November 13.

After the liberation, Chen Lai, who had the status of a military commander, had no choice but to marry Shen Chai, who had joined our party, and two years later, he died in childbirth like his sister.

During the War of Liberation, he served as the commander-in-chief of Hainan Defense in the Battle of Hainan Island in 1950, retreated to Taiwan after the defeat of the campaign, was promoted to the rank of first-class general in 1952, and died in Taiwan on May 3, 1998, at the age of 103.

Fang Xianjue, after surrendering to the Japanese army on August 8, he and a group of senior generals were detained by the Japanese army in a Catholic church outside the city. Later, the Japanese army forced Fang Xianjue and others to form the "Xianhe Army", and appointed Fang as the army commander, Wang Heng as the deputy army commander, and Zhou Qingxiang, Ge Xiancai, Rong Youluo, and Rao Shaowei as the commanders of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th divisions respectively. On November 19, Fang Xianjue, who had been imprisoned for three months, escaped from the Japanese army's sphere of influence with the help of Wang Weineng, the puppet commander of Hengyang County's self-defense, and others, and then arrived in Chongqing smoothly under the escort of the 19th Division, and was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the 36th Group Army, which was also his highest position, and he died of illness in Taipei on March 3, 1983.