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"The 17-kilometer-long road took three pounds and more than an hour, and although the narrow road was relatively smooth, because of the endless stream of military trucks transporting relief food and medicine to Nanyang and returning, the driver had to be careful to avoid it so as not to slide down the ditch. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoEntering the territory of Nanyang, in addition to military trucks on the road, rickshaws, groups of ragged people pushed or pulled, and all kinds of dilapidated rickshaws tried to drive in the direction of Nanyang.

At our repeated requests, the accompanying central government officials were allowed to stop for interviews, and we got out of the car to ask a few catties of small, yellow-faced and obviously malnourished peasants if they knew that Nanyang was the same as Dengzhou. A food distribution station for disaster relief has been set up, and the village chiefs and security chiefs elected by each village have arrived in Nanyang in advance. As long as the villagers go to Nanyang to find their village chief and security chief, they can receive back the grain distributed to each family free of charge according to the standard of 15 kilograms per capita. Having never tasted disaster as a child, I made the low-level mistake of asking a woman in her fifties why she didn't use a cow-drawn cart instead of her own emaciated shoulders. Mr. Bit, the attaché of the embassy who served as the governor of the country, and the official sent by the Nationalist Government did not convey this sentence to me, and Mr. Bit pointed to the dead trees on both sides of the road that had been peeled off, and asked me in a low voice: The bark has been eaten up as food, can the local farmers still have cattle and horses?"

The car got off the ferry and slowly climbed up to the pier. The ancient and wide city of Nanyang was silently erected in front of us, and on the tall city gates, the beautiful and magnificent heavy eaves gatehouse was well preserved, and there were no sandbag fortifications and machine guns that can be seen everywhere in other war sites in China, and only a few groups of officers and soldiers of the Fifth Army in new camouflage uniforms patrolled the city walls. It is not at all clear that this ancient famous city network in southern Henan has just experienced a large-scale war in which both sides invested 170,000 officers and soldiers.

"Our motorcade was stopped at the city gate by heavily armed and well-dressed gendarmes, and the accompanying officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Central Government and the Jingxiang Garrison Command got out of the car and showed their special passes. Four days ago, we interviewed several military camps in Wuhan, including the instructors of the military academy set up by General Qian Dajun, who was about to leave for the battlefield. Only from the beginning of entering the Fifth Theater of Operations, from the surface of the water to the six places, we had to stop and undergo strict inspections, and the officers and men were very serious and responsible, and the soldiers standing behind the inspecting officers never left their hands of their new automatic rifles."

"I asked Mr. Zhou Yuzhen, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government who accompanied him, on this issue. He told me with a smile a story about being born in ancient China 2,000 years ago: Emperor Wen of Han, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, personally went to the Three Route Army to work and comfort in order to boost morale. He first went to the widow and then to the two military camps in Thorn Gate, both of which did not need to be reported, and saw that the emperor's carriage and horses came to the barracks and took the initiative to let them go, and the two lords were panicked when they greeted them, and they were respectful, and when they sent Emperor Wen away, they also personally led the whole army to the gate of the camp. The emperor arrived at the camp of the famous general Zhou Yafu, which was completely different from the two places he went to first, the general and the guards were stopped outside the camp, and after informing the Son of Heaven that he was coming to condole, the officer of the guard replied: "The general has orders, and the army only listens to the general's orders, not the edicts of the Son of Heaven." When Emperor Wen arrived and sent an envoy to report with his own talisman, General Zhou Yafu ordered the gate to be opened to greet him. The soldiers guarding the camp also solemnly told the emperor's entourage: "The general has an order: no chariots and horses are allowed to gallop in the barracks." The coachman had to control the reins and not let the horse go too fast. The emperor was very emotional, and since then he has reused General Zhou Yafu, who has also become a famous military strategist in the history of Chinese warfare with his outstanding achievements and excellent morals......

"After listening to Mr. Zhou's story, I suddenly understood that General An Yi, the youngest lieutenant general commander of China's Fifth Army Corps, whom we were about to be fortunate enough to meet, has a status in the minds of many people far beyond what we realize."

This is an interview with Frank, a reporter from the US Post, which has been published in many newspapers and magazines in the United States, and the media of various European and American countries have reprinted this excellent long-form battlefield interview, which has been evaluated by the world press as a relatively truthful and objective documentary report reflecting the entire Chinese civil war and reality. Frank wrote down a reflection after each chapter of the series, and the people of the world also saw many things and became familiar with many characters, including An Yi, the commander of the legion who had been promoted to lieutenant general before the age of 25 and commanded tens of thousands of troops to achieve brilliant victories one after another.

It was already 5 o'clock in the afternoon when the press corps entered the front headquarters of the Fifth Army Corps, and all of them were warmly received by the officers and men of the Fifth Army Corps Headquarters, and the Political Department of the Corps vacated two rows of barracks in the west courtyard of the palace for the reporters to stay, and thoughtfully stated that they would send officers and men from the guard regiment to take up the security work during the reporting process, and promised to work in the entire theater. Except for the military restricted zone, journalists are not restricted from going anywhere they want to cover and anyone they want to interview.

What made the reporters feel very fresh was that An Yi, the commander of the corps, did not wear a straight general's uniform or shiny leather shoes, and he was the same as all the officers and men of the Fifth Army Corps, wearing a sturdy cotton camouflage uniform, with high sleeves to reveal strong and powerful arms, and thick-soled military rubber shoes that wrapped the ankle joints on his feet, and there was no new-style gold collar badge that the generals of the Central Army liked to wear on the collar. It is almost the same as the officers and soldiers in the barracks who have all shaved heads, except for the wide armed belt around the waist that is extremely delicate and beautiful, and it is very valuable. Wearing a military pistol imitated by the Jiangnan Arsenal on it, the whole person looks rigorous and pragmatic. Handsome and concise.

A Chinese journalist familiar with An Yi revealed to his counterparts from other countries that this unique special general's belt was captured by General An from General Jiang in the early days of the Northern Expedition. At that time, General An was only a small engineer battalion

The reception dinner held by An Yi was simple and exquisite. The reporters were delighted to see the long-lost toast and the delicious fish, but apart from the fish and the canned pork produced by the Jiangnan conglomerate, there was no other meat, let alone a fine wine that the reporters could enjoy everywhere.

Before dinner, the reporters entrusted Director Zhao, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to ask An Yi for a group interview with An Yi, but An Yi politely declined. But agreed to talk to each other at the tea party after dinner.

Director Zhao and An Yi are old friends, before the outbreak of this large-scale civil war, he and An Yi together as a central envoy to Huangguan and other places to negotiate with the commander of the Northwest Army Feng Yuxiang, the age difference between the two is fifteen years, and their personalities are also very different, but the relationship between them is very good, both of them have the distinctive characteristics of being small, that is, they are rigorous and pragmatic, there are not so many showmanships in the officialdom nowadays, and they are as natural as their own brothers when they meet, and they can solve the things to be done in a few words.

More than 60 Chinese and foreign journalists took a fancy to the young and beautiful American female reporter Kaplan, the reporter of the Central News Agency Ye Qing, and the three reporters of "Ta Kung Pao" and "Oriental News" were old friends of An Yi.

After a relaxed dinner, the reporters who washed off their dusty bodies came to the spacious and solemn conference room of the carved beams and paintings as promised, and the director of the political department of the legion Zhan Zhi introduced to everyone that this place was originally the palace of the Ming Dynasty royal palace.

The reporters were full of interest and looked around. I marveled at the unique architecture and ornaments, but I didn't see a single military-related thing, not even a map.

After greeting one after another, An Yi, who was sitting on the north side of the ten-meter table, glanced at Ye Qing who was sitting in the lower left, just as Ye Qing also looked at An Yi, a pair of charming eyes full of resentment and reproach, An Yi couldn't help but smile slightly, and quickly turned his head, but saw Kaplan's soul-hooking eyes on the right side staring at him affectionately, so he had to nod slightly and turn to Director Zhao beside him to discuss in a low voice, and then announced the start of the symposium.

On behalf of the Fifth Corps, Zhao Rui, the head of the corps, briefly introduced the entire battle, Zhao Rui's Russian is quite good, and his English is also good, but from beginning to end he introduced everyone in Chinese, and the Chinese foreign affairs officer of the central government turned the spine in English, and Zhao Rui finally mentioned the three new divisions formed by the surrender and the 44th division. The victory won by the brigade network in Zhenping, west of Nanyang, to annihilate the enemy's 800 cavalry immediately whetted the appetite of Chinese and foreign reporters.

The British journalist Gun, who had been stationed in China for 11 years, asked Zhao Rui: "May I ask General Zhao, according to my understanding of the Nanyang Campaign, your army not only moves quickly, but also strikes resolutely, and in addition to being well equipped, it seems that it has surpassed any army that is fighting hard in terms of obtaining military intelligence. ”

When they came up, they were faced with the issue of military secrets. Zhao Rui didn't know what to do, he felt that the corners of his clothes were gently pulled, and hurriedly turned to An Yi and An Yi whispered a few words and nodded, and turned to Cannon Les with a smile:

"With the consent of the commander, I am willing to answer your sensitive question, because there are huge differences among the generals of the Northwest Army in terms of beliefs and understanding of social reality, and there are many generals who are unwilling to help the warlords fight the civil war and are unwilling to ignore the starvation and disease of thousands of victims, some of them have a very righteous sense of the Northwest Army generals have contacted us and expressed their unwillingness to fight in the same room to us through various channels, and at the same time have provided us with some important information, therefore, our Fifth Army Corps can gain insight into the enemy situation in the Nanyang Campaign, At the same time, we can completely take over Dengzhou and Nanyang, cities with a long history and many people, so that we can quickly and efficiently carry out the long-awaited disaster relief and relief operations, so that the tens of millions of people in the disaster areas who are in urgent need of assistance can see the hope of survival and can summon up the courage to live strongly

As soon as this remark came out, the whole hall was in an uproar, and Zhao Rui's beautiful words were not important, the important thing was that he almost unmistakably told everyone that we have our own intelligence sources in the Northwest Army. To put it in an easy-to-understand sentence, it is that our Fifth Army has spies among the senior generals of the Northwest Army, so it can fight such a beautiful battle as the Nanyang Campaign.

The revelation of this important situation made Chinese and foreign reporters excited, but they were quite surprised, and the shrewd British senior reporter Cannon Les thought further and more, and Zhao Rui's words were true or false Cannon Les could not judge and could not be sure, but Powers knew that Zhao Rui's words would have a negative impact on the Northwest Army, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of awe and appreciation for Zhao Rui, An Yi and their Fifth Army Corps.

Mouth: During the Qingming Festival, it rained a lot, and the pedestrians on the road wanted to break their souls, so they asked where the restaurant was, and the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. Today is the Qingming Festival, let us cherish the present life while remembering our ancestors. Take a good grasp of your life and don't let yourself have regrets!