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In the west wing of the backyard of the Cui family's compound, the kerosene lamp on the table of the four immortals in the center of the room suddenly flickered with flames, and Gu Yu, who was standing at the table, put his hands behind his back, lowered his head, and pursed his lips thick and high. He was just forty years old and frowned at this moment, and the wrinkles on his face were dense and deep, like an old man.

Next to the lantern were several leaflets, one of which read in large bold letters, "Wang Jingfang, head of the staff group of the Jianghuai Communist Army Headquarters, urging the communist officers and soldiers to submit to the government." When the main force withdrew from the Jianghuai base area, some units did not withdraw and were isolated behind enemy lines because of the staggered situation of the enemy and us. Gu Yu and Luo Zhiping then instructed them to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines on the spot, contain the enemy, and cooperate with the main forces on the frontal battlefield. After this Wang Jingfang disappeared, Gu Yu began to think that he would organize other scattered people to fight guerrillas behind enemy lines, but he didn't expect him to defect. Now there has been another mutiny of Hu Tengxiao's troops on the Huanghuai side, which will undoubtedly bring tremendous pressure to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that has just met.

Regarding Wang Jingfang's rebellion, Gu Yu was shocked and puzzled at the same time. Wang Jingfang was a native of Sichuan, born in a poor peasant family, in 1933, at the age of 14, he joined the Red Fourth Front Army, and experienced the severe test of the anti-encirclement and suppression struggle, climbing snow-capped mountains and grasslands. In November 1936, after the Long March of the Red Fourth Front Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, he was sent to the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University for further study. In January 1938, he followed a group of Red Army cadres from Yan'an to work in the newly established New Fourth Army, and has been serving under Gu Yu ever since. In the arduous years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he experienced the tests of various harsh struggles, such as advancing behind enemy lines in the south of the Yangtze River, opposing sweeping, encroachment, and purging the countryside. In 1943, he was sent to Yan'an to study. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, he returned to work in the New Fourth Army.

After seeing the leaflet signed by Wang Jingfang, Gu Yu at first thought it was a malicious accusation by the enemy, but after turning on the radio to listen to the broadcast of the Kuomintang radio station, and hearing Wang Jingfang's familiar voice, and the voice of the People's Liberation Army's persuasion to surrender, Gu Yu clenched his fists in annoyance and slammed the table hard.

In his dealings with Wang Jingfang, Wang Jingfang's impression of Gu Yu has always been positive. Introverted and realistic. Be positive and hardworking. He never had any historical question of being arrested and betrayed. Such a person with a pure background, a clean history, and a hard-working man, an out-and-out red imp with good roots, an old revolutionary, who has survived so many hardships and hardships before, how could he withdraw from Jianghuai this time, and such a pure military contraction action could not stand the test, so he would choose to mutiny? Gu Yu couldn't figure this out.

At this time, the door creaked, Luo Zhiping came in, he saw Gu Yu frowning, so he smiled and said, "Lao Gu, your heart is not small, what are you thinking?" ”

Gu Yu looked up at Luo Zhiping, with a weird smile on his face, "I'm thinking, how to take away a lot of money from the Communist Party so that it can slip away." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, it's all a bathhouse, who doesn't know who?" Luo Zhiping smiled and sat down unceremoniously on a Taishi chair, he and Gu Yu are both Hunan natives, they have worked together since the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, and the relationship is very close, there is nothing that cannot be said between them, including words that seem very out of place to outsiders.

Gu Yu stared at Luo Zhiping, "What, don't you believe that I will run away at this time?" ”

Luo Zhiping leaned on the back of the chair and crossed Erlang's legs with a smile, "You are a long-tested old comrade, what difficulties have you not experienced?" After the failure of the Nanchang Uprising, he followed the remnants of the rebel army to fight on the border of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan, and fought guerrillas on the border of Fujian and Zhejiang during the Red Army. This second, you are a student of Lao Jiang and Chen Mosong, if you really want to run, why don't you go to your Principal Jiang and Instructor Chen? They will embrace you with tears in their eyes, do you need to bother to abscond with money? ”

Of course, Luo Zhiping didn't believe what Gu Yu said just now. He knows Gu Yu very well. If Gu Yu defects to the enemy, his conditions are much better than those of many Communist Party cadres, including Wang Jingfang. He has the status of a disciple of Whampoa that many high-ranking Kuomintang generals envy, and this identity is a noble protégé of the Son of Heaven in the Kuomintang, but Gu Yu never thought of going to Principal Chiang and Instructor Chen to join him.

Gu Yu sat on the Taishi chair opposite Luo Zhiping and smiled bitterly, "Thank you for your understanding, I have something to discuss with you." You know, in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, our party and the Kuomintang still maintained a cooperative relationship on the surface, and I met Chen Mosong several times at that time. Because he and I had a teacher-student relationship, I had several correspondence with him before the Southern Anhui Incident. ”

As he spoke, he turned around and picked up a blue cloth bag from the bed and put it on the table, "Here is the letter he gave me and the draft of my reply to him. Because of the circumstances, we were very enthusiastic in our letters. An hour ago, I said to me, the situation is not very good now, you still keep the correspondence between you and Chen Mosong, if others say that you are doing this to leave a way out for yourself to join the enemy in the future, then can you still make it clear? ”

Speaking of this, Gu Yu spread his hands and grimaced, "I don't want to burn the letter from the bottom of my heart, but if it is said that I want to take refuge in Chen Mosong because of this, it will be troublesome." It is said that Xiucai meets Bing, and it is not clear that it is reasonable. Now it's upside down, and I, a soldier, can't tell when I meet Xiucai. After thinking about it, I had to leave it to the organization. ”

Luo Zhiping chuckled, he scratched his head and took the baggage, "That's it, we're burying some supplies, and you're burying this thing together." He squeezed his eyes at Gu Yu again, "If you surrender to the enemy, you can still go without these letters." Besides, what about your letter to Chen Mosong? Also, when you saw Lao Jiang and Chen Mosong as a cadre of our party in the past, you always stood up and saluted, calling Principal Jiang and Instructor Chen, especially when you saw Chen Mosong in Xi'an, which many people know. Chen Mosong has always remembered that meeting, and he said to the officers beside him more than once, you Gu Yu is his student, and he sincerely welcomes you when you return. You and his letters can be burned, but how can this invisible relationship of yours be burned? Some of us like to be suspicious, and that's not good! ”

Gu Yu couldn't help but jump his eyelids when he heard Luo Zhiping talk about the meeting between him and Chen Mosong. That happened in December 1936. After 1936, Gu Yu and others, who insisted on guerrilla warfare in the south, learned some new information one after another by collecting Kuomintang newspapers. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Red Army have reached northern Shaanxi. The Party Central Committee has repeatedly publicly called for an end to the civil war and united resistance against Japan, and has also proposed a second KMT-CCP cooperation with the Kuomintang. Because the Kuomintang newspaper's report on the CPC Central Committee was inevitably worded out of shape, in order to correctly understand and grasp the new policies of the CPC Central Committee, Gu Yu's party organization decided to send Gu Yu to northern Shaanxi to report to the CPC Central Committee for instructions.

In October, Gu Yu took two guards, disguised as Hunan merchants, and secretly went to the northwest. On the morning of December 11, he arrived in Xi'an, and immediately stayed in a small hotel, preparing to secretly go to northern Shaanxi under the escort of the Xi'an underground party in a few days.