In the downtown area of Nanjing, there is a garden courtyard of Western-style buildings surrounded by red brick walls, which is the liaison office of the Soviet Union in Nanjing. The main body of the courtyard of the www.biquge.info of the Pen "Fun" Pavilion is a three-story flat-roofed building with a reinforced concrete structure, which is the office building of the liaison office, and a two-story building behind the office building is a dormitory building.

On the second floor of the office building, in the second room at the east end of the staircase, is the office of the head of the liaison office, and at the door of the office stands a tall young guard, wearing a large cap, a yellow tweed uniform, a brown leather belt around his waist, black leather boots, and a wide horizontal bar embroidered with the rank of sergeant on his epaulette. In the office, there is a oak wood floor on the floor, surrounded by a more than one-meter-high oak wall skirt, and on the east wall hangs a rectangular glass frame with a colorful portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wearing a gray marshal uniform. Underneath the portrait, four tin safes are placed against the wall. In front of the safe is an oak writing desk and an oak high-back chair, with two single sofas and an oak coffee table on one side in front of the desk, and a couch and an oak coffee table on the opposite side. To the south of the office are two glass windows.

On this day, the head of the liaison office, Gusev, a middle-aged man with a stout body with a wide chin and a dark brown gabardine suit, was sitting at his desk looking at a document, and when the doorbell rang, he said, "Please come in." ”

A slender young woman with peugeot features, blonde hair and shawl, wearing a light blue gabardine suit and long brown high-heeled leather boots, walked in, holding the shoulder strap of her satchel in one hand and a gray women's mink coat in the other, she was Vera Dumanova, a journalist for the Soviet News Agency.

"Hello, Comrade Director." Dumanova greeted as soon as she came in.

"Hello, Comrade Visa, is there something wrong?" Gusev stopped looking and looked up, shouting Vera's nickname.

Vera hung her coat on a hanger in the corner and walked to the desk, although there were only two of them in the room, but out of the vigilance peculiar to Soviet diplomats, she still whispered: "I was shopping with Vasya and Shula in Xinjiekou in Nanjing today, and a Chinese young man in civilian clothes approached me and said that he was a staff officer of the 42nd Group Army of the Chinese National Army, and that he had handed me a letter written by General Hu Tengxiao in accordance with the dispatch of their commander, General Hu Tengxiao, and hoped that I would forward the letter to General Hu's teacher. Marshal Vasilevsky, the current chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of our country, also said that if the Soviet government is willing to help General Hu, it can contact General Wei Youzhai, deputy commander of the 42nd Group Army, General Hu's representative. General Wei has been in Nanjing these days, staying in the No. 3 Guest House of the Ministry of National Defense, nominally looking for the Ministry of Defense to replenish supplies for the 42nd Group Army, but in fact on behalf of General Hu, preparing to contact the Soviet government. ”

As she spoke, Vera opened the black leather satchel she was carrying over her shoulder, pulled out a leather envelope and handed it to Gusev.

Gusev took the envelope and found that it was sealed, and on it was written in Russian "To Marshal Vasilevsky".

Gusev tore open the envelope and took out a folded piece of stationery and a black-and-white photograph. He opened the letter, and it was written in Russian, and it read-

Dear teacher, Comrade Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasilevsky,

I am one of your former Chinese students, Konstantin Hu, whose Chinese name is Hu Tengxiao.

I remember that in 1925, when I was studying at the Kiev Military Academy, you came to the military academy as a part-time instructor to give a lesson to our Chinese students, and the course was a collaborative tactic, although the class lasted only three weeks, but I was deeply impressed by your profound knowledge, excellent lecturing skills, and extremely infectious art of conversation. Later, our Chinese classmates went to the army for apprenticeship, and it happened to be the 142nd regiment of which you were the commander. During the apprenticeship, I had the privilege to have more contact with you, as a leading cadre, but you are very modest, friendly, very kind and cordial to people, without a little leadership. Anyone who made a mistake during our apprenticeship, your tone of criticism was so soft and kind, never rude and violent, and your noble character has made me unforgettable. I remember that at the end of our probationary period, when you saw us off, you shook our hand and said that your motherland is being oppressed by imperialism and the domestic opposition, and you must use the military skills you have learned to devote yourself to the great cause of liberating the motherland. In the future, the victory of the Chinese revolution will depend on you people.

Since returning to China, I have always kept in mind your entrustment and devoted myself to the cause of the liberation of the people of the motherland. However, for well-known complex reasons, this ideal has never had the right opportunity to be realized. Now that this opportunity has come, the people of the Huanghuai region have a strong desire for peace and democracy. I want to strive for the victory of the people's revolution in the Huang-Huai-Hai region first. If conditions permit, the revolution in other parts of China will be promoted to respond to victory one after another. If the conditions do not permit, I will respect the wishes of the people of Huang Huaihai and take the lead in establishing a truly Bolshevik people's republic in accordance with the great revolutionary leader Lenin and Stalin.

However, there are still many practical difficulties in establishing such a people's republic in the Huang-Huai-Hai region with my current strength alone. Therefore, I sincerely ask the teacher and convey to the great revolutionary leader, Generalissimo Stalin, that for the liberation of the Huanghuaihai people, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet government want to assist the people's revolution in Mongolia and Xinjiang in the same way that they want to assist the people's revolution in Mongolia and Xinjiang, and provide the necessary internationalist assistance to the Huanghuaihai people engaged in the Bolshevik revolutionary cause. If the revolution of the Huang Huaihai people succeeds, it will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the great Soviet people.

Over the past 20 years, the Soviet people have devoted a great deal of effort to the cause of the Chinese revolution, and many Soviet revolutionaries have sacrificed their precious lives for this cause. But this great sacrifice of the Soviet people was in danger of being cut off. The Kuomintang is well known for its stubborn anti-Soviet nature, and they are now increasingly close to US imperialism, and once the KMT takes full control of China, they will be even more frantically anti-Soviet than before, even five octaves higher than the European and American imperialist countries. The current rulers of the Communist Party of China are once again trying their best to squeeze out the healthy forces within the party represented by Comrade Wang Ming who have returned from the Soviet Union, are deviating more and more from the correct track of Marxism-Leninism, and are sliding into the abyss of nationalism. In order to prevent China from turning into an imperialist and reactionary and nationalist force that endangers the Soviet Union's forward base, the Soviet side should take the necessary actions to quickly stop the danger of the Soviet Union's 20 years of hard work being lost. Aiding the revolutionary cause of the people of Huang Huaihai is undoubtedly one of the necessary actions.

I sincerely hope that the Soviet Government will assist the people of Huang Huaihai in their revolutionary cause at an early date.

Sincerely, I salute you, and at the same time the great leader, Generalissimo Stalin, and the great Soviet people,

Hold your hand tightly

Your student Konstantin Hu

Gusev put down the letter and looked at the photo, which showed a group photo of several men wearing the uniforms of the Soviet Red Army before World War II, and one in the middle looked like a Soviet, and on either side were two Chinese. The photographic paper of the photograph is very white, and the colors of the picture are clear, and it is obvious that it has been newly developed. On the back of the photograph is a line in handwritten Russian: "The first person on the left of Marshal Vasilevsky is me, Konstantin Hu." ”

Gusev put down the photograph and picked up a red telephone on the table, which was the internal phone of the liaison office, and he shook the knob and said: "Pick up Martov for me, Alexander Ivanovich?" Come to me right now. ”

A few minutes later, a tall man in a gray serge suit, he was in his thirties, with heavy eyebrows and big ears, he was Martov. His open position was assistant to the director of the liaison office, in fact, he was a colonel of the General Directorate of Reconnaissance of the General Staff of the USSR Red Army, responsible for the external intelligence work of the liaison office.