Ye Ting kills horses and the mysterious gate of "Kekaporta".

Dull turned into terror and shrouded the Xu Clan Ancestral Hall.

Ye Ting sat by the fire made by the guards, his eyes were angry, and his face was indignant.

The famous generals of the Northern Expedition in the past are in a very bad mood at the moment.

The whole army is facing annihilation, and as the commander of an army, it is an unforgivable shame!

How can this be explained to the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao? And how do you explain it to the world? More importantly, how can we apologize to the thousands of loyal and brave soldiers of the New Fourth Army who have sacrificed their lives?

Since Ye Ting returned to the motherland ravaged by the Japanese invaders with enthusiasm from an overseas wanderer, he has been bent on leading the athletes of the New Fourth Army to gallop on the vast battlefield of resistance against Japan.

The tragedy of this fiasco was created by Xiang Ying!

This is by no means Ye Ting shirking his responsibility as a military commander. Ye Ting is forty-five years old today, and he has not done a single thing in disguise.

Ye Ting despised Xiang Ying.

Ye Ting couldn't stand Xiang Ying's contempt for him either.

Ye Ting has an opinion on Xiang Ying's dictatorship. Ye Ting was not willing to be this puppet commander with no power. He reported the contradictions with Xiang Ying to the central leading comrades on the basis of the facts, and the merits of the two of them were handed over to the central authorities for adjudication. However, Ye Ting never spread the gap between him and Xiang Ying in front of his subordinates, old classmates of the Kuomintang troops, and even Lao Paoze.

"Don't talk about the shortcomings of people, don't boast about your own strengths, don't expect to repay your kindness, don't forget to be cautious when you receive benefits, hide your heart and then move, slander and talk about mediocrity, vanity is not enough to admire, and don't disobey the ancient commandments." Ye Ting's "Cui's Family Motto", which he was familiar with when he was a child, is always nostalgic and will never be forgotten.

From this point of view, childhood education is very important for establishing a person's sentiments throughout life.

However, Xiang Ying actually left the team regardless of the safety of so many soldiers, what is the difference between this and escaping?

Ye Ting hates deserters the most.

Back then, in the battle to quell the Xia Douyin Rebellion, Ye Ting executed the new soldier who retreated behind the big tree with tears. That's proof.

"Born as a hero, die as a ghost". This is the coordinate of Ye Ting's life.

Unexpectedly, a high-ranking cadre like Xiang Ying also abandoned the team at this harsh moment of nine deaths!

The negative impact of Xiang Ying's departure on the entire army is immeasurable!

It's getting dark. The harsh winter rain came and went, the distant gunfire was tight and sparse, the cold wind carried the rain, whipping the surrounding trees and dead grass, making a whining sound, and the turbid currents on the land, hillsides, and rocks around the ancestral hall. Running in lamentation. The rainy night is dashing, and the cold sky is bleak.

Ye Ting, who was sitting by the fire and smoking and meditating, had thoughts of loneliness and loneliness in his chest from time to time.

I have only been separated from my wife Li Xiuwen for more than a month, why do I feel like a world away now! Ye Ting thought.

"Xiyi, if you really feel uncomfortable, resign, the New Fourth Army is too far away from northern Shaanxi, Chiang Kai-shek doesn't trust you, and Xiang Ying still has you ......" Li Xiuwen's warm and considerate words warmed his cold heart like a heat wave.

"Xiuwen, I'm involuntary now! From the perspective of husband and wife, I owe you and the children so much, it can be said that I am an incompetent husband and father. But since I became the commander of the New Fourth Army, the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao understood me and trusted me so much when I was in Yan'an, I clearly knew that this army commander was not easy to be, and for the sake of the overall situation of resisting Japan, I had to continue to be a confidant. But I never expected that the price paid for this northward move would be so great, maybe what I brought you would be a cross of shame......" Ye Ting was saddened.

When Li Xiuwen left Yunling, in order to avoid seeing the sentimental scene of many people seeing him off, he and Ye Ting set off for Shangrao in the early morning. She transcribed a Tang poem as a parting message to Ye Ting:

Thousands of miles go south,

Three autumn geese fly north.

I don't know what sun and moon,

We have to go with you.

Ye Ting sent Li Xiuwen to Shangrao, and also transcribed a Tang poem as a gift:

wind and smoke accumulation on the river,

The mountains are dark and cloudy.

Send Jun Nanpu outside,

Let's hope how it will be.

A rush of footsteps woke up Ye Ting's sad emotions. A confidential agent sent an urgent telegram.

Ye Ting heard that it was a telegram, stood up suddenly, and his two thick eyebrows were inserted into his sideburns like sharp swords, and his high-spirited demeanor was like a soldier prostrate in the forward position with a bayonet in his hand hearing the horn of the charge.

Such are the special qualities of a good soldier.

Ye Ting stared at it, it was sent to him and Liang Pu by the Central Plains Bureau:

It was very improper for Xiang, Yuan, and Zhou to leave the army without telling them, even if they had mishandled many of them in the past, violating the instructions of the central authorities, resulting in the current difficult situation. I hope that you will do your best to support you, save the situation, make every effort to break through the encirclement and go to southern Jiangsu, and directly order the second detachment to respond.

Ye Ting read the telegram, and once again fixed his eyes on "I hope you will support you and save the crisis", and a tide of excitement was aroused in his chest. Ah, the Central Plains Bureau has made a correct assessment, and this time the unprecedented difficult situation that has led to the current situation is entirely caused by Xiang Ying's "violation of the instructions of the Central Committee." Now it's up to me to "save the crisis", isn't it "ordered to be in danger"? Danger requires the courage and fearlessness of soldiers!

At this moment, Liang Pu took the telegram handed to him by Ye Ting, read it, and resolutely said: "Commander, you should make a bold decision, I firmly support you!" ”

"Okay," Ye Ting glanced at Liang Pu with a hot gaze, and then ordered the staff office to report on the situation of the enemy army. Ye Ting's preliminary understanding of the enemy's troops from the report of the General Staff Office showed that the enemy's 40th Division was behind us, the enemy's 79th and 52nd Divisions were on the left and right flanks behind our flank, the enemy's 144th Division was in front of us, the enemy's 108th Division was on the right flank in front of our flank, and the enemy's new 7th Division was on the left flank in front of our flank. And my first column and third column are still untouchable, Ye Ting's subordinates only have three regiments, the teaching corps and the engineer company can be used as an attack force, and the disparity between the enemy and our forces is too great! Even if our army is ten with one, it will be difficult to confront the enemy!

Ye Ting immediately decided: Throw off the enemy's 144th Division and the enemy's new 7th Division in the direction of Maolin, turn from the northwest to the northeast, advance along the eastern foothills of Dongliu Mountain, and advance in the direction of Shijingkeng, and then cross the Qingyi River through the county seat of Jingxian County and Zhangjiadu, and strive to return to the Tongling and Fanchang areas where the third detachment of the New Fourth Army operates. In conclusion, he said to the officers and men present: "Our New Fourth Army is a revolutionary army with fine traditions. In order to fight Japan and save China, we did not hesitate to go to the soup and fire. But the Kuomintang diehards were despicable and shameless, they did not fight Japan, but only our New Fourth Army. Although there are many enemies and we are outnumbered, we must carry forward the fearless revolutionary spirit and swear to break through the siege in order to preserve the revolutionary fire! ”

So, after dark, the 3rd Regiment and the Teaching Corps withdrew from Gaotan, joined up with the personnel of the military headquarters and the directly subordinate companies, and began a new trek along the eastern foothills of Dongliu Mountain.

However, it seems that God deliberately can't get along with Ye in the dark, when the troops just marched in, a prank pouring rain poured on the heads of the soldiers of the New Fourth Army, it was so dark that they couldn't see their five fingers, and there seemed to be a cauldron made of pig iron on the top of their heads, which made their chests stuffy, and they couldn't see clearly which was the road, which was the ditch, which was the tree, which was the stone, and the soldiers stumbled, walked and stopped, and people shouted and tore the horses, and they could only act separately for a while.

Ye Ting first rode a horse, but did not go far because the slope was steep and difficult to walk, so he had to walk on foot. The guards and adjutant were afraid that Ye Ting would fall into a ravine a few meters deep if he was not careful, and they wanted to help him several times, but he resolutely stopped him and insisted on walking by himself.

The merciless rainy night and the cruel mountain road, like a scoundrel, entangled this tired army, from Gaotan to Shijingkeng, at best, it was only more than ten miles, and it actually walked all night.

Fatigue and a vicious illness tormented every commander and soldier, from generals to soldiers.

Gunshots rang out around the stone pit.

Obviously, there are enemy troops deployed around the stone well pit.

"Transfer to the mountains!" Ye Ting didn't care about fatigue, insisted on climbing a high slope, came to a grass hut, didn't care about taking off his wet clothes, and immediately ordered the operator: "Send a report to northern Shaanxi and the central government!" ”

Supporting four days and nights of battle, now on the verge of despair. All the cadres are ready to die. Please immediately consider the actual situation, whether the Central Committee or Chongqing can negotiate with Chiang, immediately stop the attack on our troops in Anhui, and ensure the safe transfer of the New Fourth Army to Jiangbei and the release of all arrested military personnel in accordance with the original agreement.

After Ye Ting sent a telegram to the Party Central Committee, he immediately ordered the General Staff Office to take stock of the troops.

Not long after, the General Staff Office reported to Ye Ting that except for a few wounded, the troops were still in order. In addition, the Fifth Regiment, the main force of the Third Column, heard that the military headquarters had arrived at Shijingkeng, turned back from Baihukeng, and destroyed a battalion of the enemy's 79th Division when it seized Gaoling Yufeng.

Ye Ting blinked his dry eyes with some joy after hearing this, breathed a sigh of relief from extreme exhaustion, and immediately instructed the General Staff Office: "Inform the Fifth Regiment to quickly occupy the main peak of Dongliushan west of Shijingkeng and all the surrounding heights, and build fortifications to prepare for battle: notify all units and organize them according to the existing combatants." Ye Ting looked at the panting and hungry commanders and fighters passing in front of him, and said in an accentuated tone, "Immediately notify the Political Department to assist the Logistics Department, buy some grain and pigs, sheep and cattle and other domestic animals from the nearby masses, so that the troops can have a full meal and recover their strength as soon as possible, so that they can go all out to break through!" ”

As soon as Ye Ting gave the order, someone from the staff office reported: "Army Commander, Deputy Army Commander Xiang, they are back!" "Oh?" Ye Ting was slightly shocked at first, and then immediately regained his composure, "It's good to come back, let them in." ”

"Commander Ye," Xiang Ying, who was gray-headed and embarrassed, was gone, glanced at Ye Ting timidly, and then hooked his chin, "I'll send a telegram to the central government." Request for sanctions. After saying that, he immediately sent a telegram to the Party Central Committee that was "temporarily shaken", "acted very badly", and "waited for punishment by the Central Committee", and the gray radio waves helplessly carried Xiang Ying's great regret and frustrated guilt, and flew heavily to Yan'an.

Yuan Guoping and Zhou Zikun stood woodenly, their heads drooping in embarrassment, like a defeated rooster who couldn't keep his spirits.

"Let's have a military branch meeting right away!" Rao Shushi was probably too impulsive, regardless of whether Ye Ting was a member of the military branch or not, and accused Xiang Ying in front of Ye Ting: "The reason why nearly 10,000 officers and men of the New Fourth Army are facing the danger of being annihilated by the enemy is that you Xiang Ying is arrogant, self-righteous, rejecting dissidents, and relying on himself to be consistent and right, as well as refusing to carry out the instructions of the central government!" Y-What are you guilty of?! He criticized Xiang Ying like a cannon, with a few green tendons bulging out of his neck, and his brain was scorching.

The atmosphere of the meeting was tense.

Yuan Guoping and Zhou Zikun couldn't hold back the dissatisfaction and grievances in their chests, accusing Xiang Ying and saying: "At the most dangerous moment when the army was in the most dangerous moment, you ignored our dissuasion and had to leave the army to fight some guerrilla warfare, causing us to follow you to make the serious mistake of escaping from the battle, and military discipline is not tolerated!" We ask the military branch and Commander Ye to give us severe punishment! ”

In this way, the already tense atmosphere of the meeting was abruptly injected with a dry and spicy ingredient, as if a match would set the grass shed on fire.

At this moment, Xiang Ying's dark face was dead gray, but there were some heroes who acted like they were good and said: "I am responsible for the defeat and mistakes of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui this time, and I ask the central government to remove all my posts!" ”

"Alright!" Rao Shushi saw Ye Ting's heavy expression, and said eagerly, "Now is not the time to talk about punishment, now that the enemy army is approaching the city, how can we break through the siege, we must come up with a way as soon as possible!" ”

Xiang Ying glanced at Ye Ting: "I'm already poor in donkey skills, everything is decided by Commander Ye, I obey." ”

"Commander Ye, then you decide, right?" Rao Shushi looked at Ye Ting expectantly.

Ye Ting, who had been silent and contemplative, was just about to say something, when someone from the staff office reported: The enemy's 40th, 144th, 79th, 52nd, and 108th divisions have formed a heavy encirclement, and the iron bucket of Shijingkeng, which is 30 square miles away, is expected to launch a general attack on us tomorrow morning. At the same time, Gu Zhutong issued an order to the enemy army to capture Ye Ting alive, and the official was promoted to two levels, and the reward was 100,000 yuan.

When Ye Ting heard this, he stood up angrily, and his eyes were sharp like swords and pointed straight at Zhou Zikun: "This time the northward movement, the troops marched in a chaotic order, and the command was not smooth, mainly because the work of the headquarters was lax, and you, as the deputy chief of staff, should bear the main responsibility." I order you and Comrade Yuan Guoping to immediately convene a meeting of the cadres of the headquarters to clearly explain the seriousness and arduousness of this breakthrough and to have all the cadres of the operational, reconnaissance, and communications departments overnight. As soon as the battle starts, if it is as messy as it used to be, I will ask you first! ”

"Yes!" Zhou Zikun reversed Xiang Ying's obedient style in the past, "clicked" to Ye Ting, and turned away.

"Give me the map!" Ye Ting felt the severity of the situation, his face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, standing in front of the map spread out on the table by the chief of staff, his breathing was short, and his voice became dry and hoarse. He used a red and blue pencil to point to the area around Maolin Donggang Village and Xilifeng, "Is this the area defended by the enemy's 144th Division?" ”

"Yes." The Chief of Staff replied.

"Did you check with the Reconnaissance Section during the calibration?"

"Checked!"

"Good!" Ye Ting saw that the chief of staff answered in the affirmative, and slammed the military map with his fist, "Order the new third regiment and the old third regiment to attack from this area before dawn!" ”

Xiang Ying felt that Ye Ting's punch that fell heavily on the military map was like a sharp axe, breaking through the sky; It was like a blockbuster ** falling on his heart, bombarding his whole body into powder and disappearing.

A fierce battle of a desperate breakthrough and a desperate encirclement began.

At dawn, the stone well pit, the gloomy dark clouds are like black waves, surging and rushing; The pouring rain poured down violently, raising a misty cloud of black smoke that filled the heavens and the earth with terror.

No gunshots could be heard.

Cannons could not be heard.

No enemy troops in sight.

What was heard was the "pounce" of the bayonet entering the chest of the enemy soldier.

I smelled the smell of blood.

What was seen was the tracer of bullets in the darkness.

A rain of bullets broke down a human embankment.

An earthen weir of cannonballs, hands and bullets scorched with corpses.

The sound of gunfire and thunder tore the treacherous night to shreds.

The blood melted with the rain, staining the moldy earth red.

For two days and nights, the enemy and us repeatedly rushed and killed each other in close combat, until the sky was dark, and iron and blood flew sideways.

This is not only a contest of numbers and weapons and equipment, but more importantly, a contest of the will to fight and the indomitable spirit.

As far as the number of troops invested by both the enemy and us is concerned, the enemy is ten or even twenty times as much as ours; The weapons in their hands are also much superior to ours. However, the quality of the battle between the enemy and the enemy is far from being directly proportional.

The enemy forces will not hesitate to fight with us at a heavy cost.

Our army has tried its best to preserve its strength in the spirit of being one hundred and one hundred.

However, the enemy army is constantly reinforcing itself.

Our army is running out of ammunition and food, and if it persists, it will kill itself without a fight.

The blood-dripping sunset was painted on the old face of Ye Ting, who was patrolling our positions under enemy fire, and on the general's uniform that had been torn at some point, as if every sweat pore of his body was bleeding. His old vigorous steps were gone, but he had become like an old man with a dragon clock. Everywhere he looked, wisps of black smoke were still emitting wisps of black smoke from the artemisia grass that had not yet been reduced to ashes, tattered military clothes, broken hats and rags that had been lifted into the air by the air waves hung on the trees that had been bald by artillery fire, and the stumps and broken arms of soldiers who had not had time to clean up were scattered on the craters and fortifications that had been turned over several times by shells.

It was dark again, the temperature dropped sharply, the snowflakes fell like paper money thrown at the funeral, and it didn't take long for the trees to die, and the rocks and the ground were clothed with filial piety clothes, and the heaven and earth were full of slaughter, silence and coldness. The rainy night suddenly turned into a snowy night, and the commanders and fighters of the New Fourth Army trembled so cold that they did not have time to prepare warm clothing, and their upper and lower teeth shook with a "gurgling" sound.

"Commander, we can't go on like this anymore, the difference between the enemy and us is too great!" Although Rao Shushi is not proficient in military affairs, he also feels that it will be difficult to break through if he continues to consume like this. He stared at Ye Ting with a pair of scarlet eyes, looking at Ye Ting eagerly, not knowing what to do.

"You're right." Ye Ting's face has changed shape in a few days, his two cheekbones rise like mountain peaks, his cheeks have become a pair of mountain cols, the beard on his lips and chin is like the fluffy artemisia grass at the foot of the mountain, and the bloodshot eyes have formed a dense web, looking like a prisoner who has endured the pain of prison. He called a telegraph operator and immediately sent a "desperate telegram" to his beloved wife Li Xiuwen, telling his wife that his life was generally difficult to protect due to the siege of the enemy army, and hoped that she would raise her children well so that she could inherit her father's will, and that the only way to redeem his beloved wife's kindness was to redeem it in the next life.

"Chief of Staff!" Ye Ting shouted, like thunder, "Immediately convey my order, all troops will be divided into pieces, and the remaining grain will be ...... Oh, and there is no food, so kill the horses, let the soldiers have a full meal, take advantage of the weak characteristics of the enemy's joints, and attack from all sides, telling everyone that everyone is the spark of the revolution, and if you fight for one, you will retain a revolutionary force! Also, tell the troops to burn all the documents, smash the radio station of the military headquarters first, and burn the passwords! ”

Everyone immediately said: This is the commander of the army is about to break the boat!

The blood of Ye Ting and his war horse fused together to form the soul of the towering Dongliu Mountain, which was injected into the body of the motherland and solidified on the incomparably hard rocks of the Dongliu Mountain.

The commanders and fighters all ate a piece of horse meat with tears in their eyes, and they felt that where the meat was chewed, it was clearly the spirit of the war horse's loyalty and bravery.

The elves of the war horses cast two words in the command center of the brains of the commanders: Rush and kill!

Suddenly, the sky was covered with war clouds, fire snakes flew on the ground, blood and fire jumped and galloped in the mountains and woods, and life was in the flames.

The tide of flames came and went.

After a desperate battle, more than 2,000 iron-blooded soldiers of the New Fourth Army finally broke through the enemy's interception and siege, crossed the river and headed north, and victoriously joined the Eighth Route Army and the Central China General Headquarters of the New Fourth Army in Jiangbei, including a number of senior cadres. They were: Fu Qiutao, commander of the first column. Director of the Political Department Jiang Weiqing; Huang Mars, political commissar of the second column, and Xie Zhongliang, chief of staff; Huang Xuzhou, chief of staff of the Third Column, Yu Lijin, director of the Political Department of the Teaching Corps, and Li Yiyu, secretary general of the Military Department, were among others.

However, Ye Ting's military department broke through the detachment, and after a night of fighting, rushed to Dakang Wangzhuang, where the terrain was dangerous.

"Commander, we'll cover your breakthrough!" Huang Xuzhou, the chief of staff of the third column, who heard that Ye Ting was trapped in the area of Dakang Wangzhuang, led the army special service group to break through the troops to Ye Ting's side, and repeatedly begged Ye Ting to follow them to break through together.

"I won't go with you, I'm the enemy who has a heavy reward to capture, and you take me with your goal...... There are still so many cadres and soldiers who have not broken through, I am the army commander, and I am responsible for it to the end! Ye Ting, whose clothes and hands and feet were tattered and bloodstained, sat firmly on a rock, motionless despite the occasional cannonballs whizzing overhead, and his words were harder than the rock below him.

"Boom", "boom" explosions, intermittent.

The smell of burnt and bloody wind swept through the thatch and trees, tragic, deep, and cruel.

"Thinking of me Ye Ting, half a lifetime of fame, it was ruined!" Ye Ting fell into extremely painful memories.

"Could it be that this Dakang Wangzhuang has really become my Ye Ting's 'Waterloo'? Wouldn't there be a 'Kekaporta' gate? Ye Ting's fierce and boiling mind was filled with thoughts from time to time, and from time to time there were wisps of bright expectations, yearnings and longings.

Waterloo, how similar to the Battle of Waterloo this fiasco is! If Napoleon's victorious army had not encountered a sudden heavy rain (our New Fourth Army in southern Anhui had encountered a near-evil heavy rain for several days during its northward movement); If Napoleon's cavalry did not encounter muddy roads and were blocked (the New Fourth Army, moving north, was not only muddy roads, but also steep mountains and narrow roads, and the rain was heavy and rocky slippery, and it was impossible to see the road at all when breaking through on a rainy night); If Napoleon's troops had not found the wrong guide (the New Fourth Army was not at all familiar with the third route to the north, just like a blind man riding a blind horse, and there had also been a breakthrough and chose the wrong direction); If Napoleon had not misused the mediocre and incompetent general Grouchy for delaying reinforcements at critical moments (if it weren't for the fact that Xiang Ying repeatedly resisted the central government's instructions and did not decide to move north, so that he denied attacking Xingtan after delaying seven hours during the attack on Xingtan), the Battle of Waterloo would have been a different result, and the history of Europe would have been rewritten (if the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui had been without these accidental factors, the defeated army would have become a victorious army, and the defeated army would have become a British commander)!

Ye Ting, who was a top student in the sixth phase of the engineering department of the Baoding Military Academy, still remembered an ancient anecdote example they had studied in the school - the fall of Constantinople.

It was the middle of the fifteenth century, and the Turkish Sultan Mahomet led a large army against the ancient Roman capital of Constantinople. Not only did Mahomeet miraculously transport a fleet of more than seventy warships overnight from one sea to another, close to Constantinople; And a huge cannon with incredible lethality was created, which suddenly bombarded the fortified walls of Constantinople. However, because the fortress of Constantinople was too strong, and the Roman soldiers were brave and brave enough to defend the city, the Turkish soldiers who were besieging the city fell layer by layer in front of the gates and battlements outside the walls. Knowing that Constantinople would be difficult to attack, the brutal Mahomette still ordered his troops to storm it, so that the corpses of the soldiers were raised layer by layer, and the water of the moat turned into blood, shiny red and terrifying. At this time, a miracle occurred. In the inner city wall, there is a small gate called Kekaporta, but the Turks are unbelievably open. Was it the incomprehensible oblivion of the Romans? Or was it a deliberate trap set by the Romans? Turkish soldiers feel that this gate of Kekaporta is too mysterious! "Rush in for me!" With the roar of the tyrant Mahomet, the Turkish soldiers did not dare to slack off and rushed through the door, only to catch the Roman soldiers by surprise. The Roman soldiers thought that the Turkish soldiers had fallen from heaven and were in chaos, leading to the fortuitous fall of the entire Constantinople. Opportunity. If you can't grasp the chance when it appears, you lose the opportunity and make the chance absurd.

And if you can grasp the accident and make it inevitable, the accident will become a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and then the control of the accident will become a famous decision.

This time the New Fourth Army moves north, will there be a gate to the "Kaikapoyun Tower" forgotten by the defenders?

The stone well pit of 30 square miles around it, this sheep's intestine path hidden in trees and ravines, and ...... "luck!" "Suddenly, a cannonball fell not far from Ye Ting, and the sand and soil were lifted into the air, and then crackled and fell, hitting the soft ground and trembling, and also interrupting Ye Ting's reverie." The luck mentality on the battlefield is very terrible for a commander! It can corrode the fighting spirit, sit back and wait for the opportunity, and not be brave enough to forge ahead! For this reason, Ye Ting began to blame himself for the idea of the door of "Keka Porta" that had just appeared.

At this moment, the soldiers of the enemy's 108th Division, who were surrounding the foot of the mountain, shouted to the mountain: "Friends of the New Fourth Army, don't fight, this is all a misunderstanding!" You are welcome to send representatives down the mountain to negotiate, and we will reconcile and fight against Japan together! ”

Lin Zhifu, the enemy minister of the New Fourth Army and a democrat who was with Ye Ting, was upright and gritted his teeth with hatred for the Kuomintang's desire to kill the New Fourth Army. However, after listening to the shouts of the enemy's 108th Division, he felt that this division was the Northeast Army and did not belong to Chiang Kai-shek's descendants, and its division commander Rong Jiwu was an old acquaintance of Ye Ting. So, he had the courage to recommend to Ye Ting: "Commander, you go down the mountain to see Rong Jiwu, and you know the righteousness of resisting Japan and saving the country, maybe ......."

Ye Ting didn't let Lin Zhifu finish speaking, his eyes were fierce and terrifying: "If I don't go, I will go down the mountain easily, won't I fall into the net?" What kind of crime do we have against Japan, let them come and shoot me! ”

"Then I'll take a front stop first and see if the negotiation conditions are met, even if I am killed by them, I will shed the last drop of blood for the resistance against Japan!" Lin Zhifu called his guards and hurried down the mountain.

After a while, the shouting of the enemy's 108th Division became louder: "Please tell Commander Ye that our division commander welcomes Commander Ye to come down the mountain to negotiate!" The conditions proposed by Commander Ye are as good as possible for our division commander! ”

Seeing that the caller did not mention the whereabouts of Lin Zhifu, the chief of staff couldn't help but say: "This is their entrapment!" Commander, let's fight it to the end and break the net! ”

Ye Ting has always adhered to the loyalty and ancient proverb of "I would rather break the jade than be complete", he listened to the words of the chief of staff, and pulled out his pistol openly.

"Slow, I don't agree to fight to the death!" The speaker is Rao Shushi.

"Comrade Rao Shushi, now negotiation is tantamount to surrender." Ye Ting's face turned pale.

"No, the negotiations are about gaining the opportunity to preserve the revolutionary forces!" Rao Shushi said very firmly. "Comrade Rao Shushi, you must know that this hard-won revolutionary army in southern Anhui cannot help it, and it is said that the invading army has nothing to do, but it will be buried under the butcher's knife of friendly troops, and I, as the army commander, cannot shirk my responsibility no matter what! Only by dying can I redeem myself for my mistakes in order to give an account to the Party Central Committee and the tens of thousands of soldiers of the New Fourth Army! Ye Ting's hoarse voice was like crying, but there were no more tears in his dry eyes, and there were only angry fires.

"Commander Ye, of course your integrity is respectable, but you should understand that negotiation is by no means a surrender on the knee, but a strategy to fight against the enemy. Talk about fighting, playing and talking, alternate use, flexible mastery, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, no exception. "Although he lacks military experience, Rao Shushi, who is very strong in theory, has given the stubborn Ye Ting a move and reason," Commander Ye, think about the telegram sent to us by the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao ** on the 12th, clearly pointing out, 'Because the Chongqing negotiations are unreliable, and at the same time we should pay attention to negotiating with the heads of the encircling forces...... 'Commander Ye, isn't it a way of struggle for the Party Central Committee to lose no time in negotiating with the heads of friendly forces? We must no longer disobey the instructions of the central authorities! ”

"Let's stop disobeying the instructions of the central government" This sentence smashed on Ye Ting's heart like a hammer, and he couldn't help but let out a "heh". Since the downhill negotiations are an instruction of the Central Committee, in order to reduce sacrifices, and a way of struggle to preserve cadres, and not to grovel and surrender, then they should be carried out unconditionally! Could it be that the mysterious "Keca Porta" gate will really appear today?

"You give my business card to their division commander first, saying that I will be there later!" Ye Ting took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to the two staff officers of the headquarters, then stepped forward to hold Rao Shushi's hand and said word by word, "If there is no news from me within an hour, you will immediately organize the troops to break through and keep the flame of the revolution!" At the same time, please greet the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao on my behalf, the revolution will definitely succeed! And tell them that I, Ye Ting, have already handed myself over to the Communist Party, and no matter what happens in the future, I will not do anything to be sorry for the Communist Party! ”

The words are like a big river going east, surging and surging for thousands of miles.