Ye Ting in the eyes of the famous American journalist Snow, and Ye Ting fought with Ye Ting as Chiang Kai-shek's "point checker".

On the beautiful campus of Peking University, a high-class university in China, on the shore of Weiming Lake, where the sun shines like a cradle of green water, stands a one-meter-high rectangular stone tablet, on which is engraved the name of a big-nosed American: the tomb of Edgar Snow, a good friend of Chinese Min.

Why is a big-nosed American blessed to occupy such a treasure of feng shui? What makes him unique?

The reason is that this American named Snow, who was born into a poor family in Kansas, USA, has visited major cities in China since 1930 and witnessed the turbulent political situation in China. In 1931, after the September 18 incident, Snow saw the Japanese imperialist Kwantung Army shelling Shenyang and occupying Jilin and Heilongjiang, and also experienced the embarrassing scene of Chiang Kai-shek's order for the Northeast Army to "absolutely not resist" and withdraw to Shanhaiguan, and the Songhu War in 1932 and the Rehe War in 1933, Snow also witnessed with his own eyes, which made this thoughtful and "nosy" American young man throw out a series of worried question marks about China's fate from his mind. In 1936, he ventured into danger to reach the Red Army troops who had just gained a foothold in northern Shaanxi for less than a year after the 25,000-mile Long March, and had a long conversation with Mao **, who was eloquent and talented, and after repeated interviews with the Red Army troops and relevant people, he wrote and published a book "Red Star Shines on China" (the Chinese translation was named "Journey to the West" under the cover of publication), showing the world that the way out of the Chinese revolution was in Yan'an, and the future of the Chinese revolution lies in the Red Army troops. Zhou Enlai and a large number of others came out ...... Viet Cong's *** people.

Mao said happily: It was this big-nosed young American who introduced the Red Army, the Communist Party, and the Chinese Revolution to the world for the first time. Edgar Snow was not only a good friend of the Chinese revolution, but also a good friend of the Chinese people.

Snow, a big-nosed American who Mao ** called a good friend of the Chinese revolution and the Chinese people, tracked and interviewed Ye Ting back then.

At this time, Ye Ting, who was reorganizing the New Fourth Army, was so busy that his heels did not touch the ground. Military affairs are complicated, and everything needs to be done.

The issue of the establishment of the New Fourth Army and the appointment of cadres was endlessly disputed with He Yingqin, minister of the Kuomintang Military and Political Department. Finally, the New Fourth Army was approved to be organized into four guerrilla detachments, the first, second, third, and fourth, with Chen Yi, Zhang Dingcheng, Zhang Yunyi, and Gao Jingting serving as commanders of the above four guerrilla detachments. However, Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing did not let go of Xiang Ying's appointment as deputy commander of the New Fourth Army, Zhang Yunyi as chief of staff of the New Fourth Army, and Zhou Zikun as deputy chief of staff of the New Fourth Army. In the end, Ye Ting wrote several sternly worded letters to Chen Cheng, who had been appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as head of the Political Department of the Military Commission, commander of the Sixth Theater and commander-in-chief of the Wuhan garrison, and chairman of Hubei Province, and Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater and in charge of the area where the New Fourth Army was located, after retreating from Shanghai.

However, on the issue of the military expenditure of the New Fourth Army, although Ye Ting spared no effort to run and could be said to have used 18 kinds of martial arts, he increased the original 60,000 yuan to 90,000 yuan as originally scheduled by the Kuomintang Military and Political Department.

"You, you've been grinding off a layer of skin on your mouth for a while." Ye Ting's beloved wife Li Xiuwen looked at her tired husband who came back every day, and said distressedly, with a cloud of worry on her face.

"This is called a good thing and a lot of grinding, who told me to be determined to dedicate myself to the revolution." Ye Ting smiled calmly.

"I'm afraid it won't be too likely for you to go to the Kuomintang side again." Li Xiuwen made Ye Ting a cup of tea, in order to let him lift his spirits and relieve his fatigue. This is also Ye Ting's habit.

Ye Ting took the teacup gratefully, took a few sips, and comforted her: "Where there is a will, there is a way, and everything in the world is done by people." On the one hand, I openly appealed to the Kuomintang for difficulties, and on the other hand, I took time to go to Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao to find old friends to raise some guns and supplies. ”

"I think it's a good idea."

"Then I'll leave today."

"I'm with you."

"That's nature, husband and wife follow!"

"You're just an optimist, seeing that you're busy like this, and you still have the heart to joke." Li Xiuwen's face was like a rainbow.

In this way, Ye Ting and his wife Li Xiuwen first went to Guangzhou to raise some military supplies, and then came to ** non-stop.

Ye Ting had just arrived at the accommodation of **, a tall young American spoke half-baked Chinese, and claimed that his name was Edgar Snow, a special correspondent of the New York "Sun" and London's "Daily Herald", I heard that Ye Ting had visited Yan'an not long ago, met Mao **, and went to Nanjing, met Chiang Kai-shek, and was appointed as the commander of the New Fourth Army according to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and specially came from Guangzhou to interview him.

"Ah, Mr. Snow, I have admired the name for a long time, please be seated." Ye Ting had already heard that an American reporter named Snow had written a book entitled "Red Star Shines on China" after going to Yan'an for an interview, which caused a sensation in the United States of America, and soon the Chinese translation of "A Journey to the West" caused a sensation in the Yan'an revolutionary base area, and also spread in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other Kuomintang-ruled areas. It is rare for a foreign journalist to have such a keen political sense and analytical and foresight skills. Therefore, although Ye Ting was very busy and tired, he still gladly accepted his interview.

"General Ye, I heard that you studied and worked in Berlin, so you must be able to speak German well?"

After the astute Snow sat down, he saw Ye Ting, who was wearing a blue-gray suit shirt, yellow tweed trousers, and a pair of shiny black leather shoes on his feet, holding in his hand his cane, which was said to be poked on the ground as a chair, and pulled out a sharp sword when pressed the mechanism.

"Mr. Snow is indeed a well-known journalist, and even my family has been rummaging around." Ye Ting smiled slightly, "When I was studying at the military academy, I took German as an option, and in Berlin for a few years, German should be said to be no longer an obstacle." Why, Mr. Snow wants me to answer questions in German? ”

"No, no, no, I'm just asking casually, of course General Ye should use Chinese." Snow hurriedly waved his hand, and said in his heart, this Ye Ting is not only a brave general, but also an excellent diplomat, and he is very keen to reflect problems. Because when interviewing foreign journalists, using the Chinese language is not only a matter of etiquette, but more importantly, it represents the dignity of the motherland.

"Then Mr. Snow will ask the straight question." Ye Ting politely made a "please" gesture.

"General Ye, let me ask again, am I the first reporter you to be interviewed in?" Snow asked again, out of professional habit.

"Yes. If it weren't for the fact that I had just called Mr. Snow a well-known journalist, and that you know the value of the first news better than the average reporter. Ye Ting smiled slightly, "Please drink tea." ”

"General Ye, I hope our conversation is open and honest."

"Don't worry, Mr. Snow, whatever you ask, I'll tell you the truth."

"May I ask what is the most difficult thing you find in the reorganization of the New Fourth Army?"

"At present, I feel that the most difficult thing is how to ensure that the officers and men of the New Fourth Army can undertake the task of resisting Japan as soon as possible."

"Do you think that Mr. Chiang Kai-shek will transfer the New Fourth Army to the front line of resistance against Japan?"

"The New Fourth Army was reorganized from the Red Army guerrillas, and its main task was to carry out guerrilla warfare in coordination with the regular revolutionary army.

"Now that many Kuomintang organizations in Nanjing have been transferred to Hankou, it is said that the peaceful air in Hankou is very strong, you have just come from Hankou, what is the actual situation?"

"Now that the Japanese invading army has not only occupied China's three northeastern provinces and a large area of North China, but has recently captured Shanghai and is now about to attack Nanjing; at this time of national crisis, all political parties that are unwilling to be emperors and Chinese with national integrity can only raise their swords and return a tooth for a tooth against the aggressors. Hankou is also the land of China, and the vast majority of the Chinese there are also Chinese with national integrity. Mr. Snow, don't you know that not long ago, Chairman Chiang officially delivered a speech on the War of Resistance to the End? ”

"Then how did you hear that the Japanese side proposed peace conditions?"

"First, these are crocodile tears, and second, Japanese militarism gets carried away. They think that China has become their colony, and the Chinese people will bow their heads and kneel at their feet and be willing to be slaves of the country, this is their wishful thinking, it is a pipe dream! ”

"So, will the Kuomintang and the Communist Party open up a more resolute and comprehensive situation of resistance to the war?"

This is inevitable and unquestionable. Because this is the desire of the people. I think that no one dares to do it and will not go against the tide of history. ”

"Let me take the liberty of asking, you have met Mr. Mao ** in Yan'an, and Mr. Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, which of these two leaders do you think is great?" Snow pushed the question to the extreme, and for a moment the air in the room suddenly seemed to be sprinkled with a layer of dry ice, making people feel cold from the heart.

This question is too political! The answer to the question of how to score will be a big issue related to the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, as well as a big question related to the success or failure of the New Fourth Army.

Moreover, this serious question could no longer be taken seriously by Snow again. Ye Ting said in advance that no matter what Snow asked, he would tell the truth.

Ye Ting really didn't expect Snow to suddenly ask such a very sensitive and extremely serious question, and he couldn't help but be secretly surprised for a while, and he was not lacking in nervousness, but he thought for a while and replied calmly: "It should be said that these two leaders are great. He said and glanced at Snow solemnly, "Mr. Snow, now the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are cooperating to resist Japan together, and the leaders of the common resistance against Japan are not the same greatness, what do you say?" ”

“0K！” Snow happily praised Ye Ting's brilliant answer. Clever but not extreme, the situation is well measured, more or less straightforward and profound, neither blasphemous nor flattering.

Snow later wrote about this interview with Ye Ting, and his evaluation of Ye Ting was: handsome, showing eyebrows. Clever and intellectual, he was both a military strategist who could fight well and an eloquent man with a wealth of philosophical knowledge.

However, if Ye Ting's interview with the famous American journalist Edgar Snow showed his political maturity and astuteness, then Ye Ting showed his righteousness when he verbally challenged Chiang Kai-shek's "point test" executive Luo Zhuoying.

After Ye Ting, with the tenacious spirit of "unbreakable," raised the military funds and guns urgently needed by the New Fourth Army in Guangzhou, **, and Macao, and after handling the military affairs in Nanchang, he went to Yansi Town, Shexian County, southern Anhui, the assembly place of the Red Army guerrillas scattered in the eight southern provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, and Anhui.

It's a confluence of iron streams.

This is a historic strategic shift.

These Red Army guerrillas in the eight southern provinces, in the impoverished areas and in the years of poverty, used backward weapons, relied on the courage of "fear of death and not revolution," and used flexible and mobile guerrilla tactics to fight bloody and desperate battles against the Kuomintang regular army for three years, so that the imposing Kuomintang regular army could not help the guerrillas composed of these ragged and unkempt "grass bandits." On the contrary, during these three years of life and death, the regular Kuomintang troops were either attacked or harassed, or annihilated in whole shifts and platoons, and the Kuomintang regular troops were tossed in panic all day long.

Every time Ye Ting went to a camp of the Red Army guerrillas, he went deep into the squad platoon to visit these emaciated and dark-faced commanders and fighters, and from their rough hands and eyes with clear love and hatred, they were full of a kind of brute bravery, which was a kind of fierceness and tenacity that could not be defeated or dragged down. As long as they are trained strictly and formally and their tactical and technical qualities are improved, they will be like a tiger with wings, and they will not only be extremely heroic.

Now, Chiang Kai-shek knew that the Red Army guerrillas in the eight southern provinces were outnumbered and had few guns, so he came up with an old score to attack them, so he repeated the trick and had to rigidly "check" the New Fourth Army. This vicious bandit method is really unbearable.

Today, in order to "shock" and "shock" the prestige of the Kuomintang officers in front of the officers and men of the reorganized New Fourth Army, and to grow his own ambition, Ye Ting deliberately put on a grass-green general uniform with the rank of lieutenant general, tied a slanted purple cowhide armed belt around his waist, pedaled long black cowhide riding boots, and held his peculiar and mysterious cane, which is rare for ordinary people.

"Look, our army commander, a famous general of the Northern Expedition, this is called majestic."

"But no, look at them, all of them are as fat as balls and as short as Wu Dalang, what are they still angry?"

Sure enough, Ye Ting, commander of the New Fourth Army, had a majestic appearance that added infinite self-esteem and glory to the commanders and fighters of the New Fourth Army, who had been reorganized from the Red Army guerrillas, and increased their own ambition, and extinguished the prestige of the "point inspection" officers.

As soon as the "inspection" ended, Luo Zhuoying smashed her thick lips with a "horn", closed her eyes and shook her head: "All of them are yellow and thin, can these people fight?" ”

"Brother You Qing, don't look at these former Red Army guerrillas who are thin, but their bones are hard. The Japanese haven't been taught yet, and your Brother You Qing has dealt with them for several years, but hasn't you learned enough? Ye Ting smiled and patted Luo Zhuoying's shoulder.

"That's because these guerrillas don't talk about tactics at all."

Luo Zhuoying was a little annoyed.

"Brother You Qing, heroes have always been judged by victory or defeat on the battlefield, and tactics without tactics have reached the point of being superb, right?" Ye Ting was still smiling, which made Luo Zhuoying unable to get angry even if he wanted to.

"The weapons of these troops are too poor! Look, look, what kind of weapons are they, like burning sticks! The green tendons on Luo Zhuoying's neck were violent.

"Brother You Qing, don't you want to think about it, you have been 'suppressing' and 'suppressing' for ten years, the big rake has hugged the small rake and chop, they are drilling ravines, entering dense forests, living in huts, eating chaff vegetables, can you afford foreign guns and foreign cannons?" Ye Ting used witty words to refute Luo Zhuoying's unwarranted pickiness.

"I think these people can only die in vain under the knife of the Japanese!" Luo Zhuoying said a few words viciously.

"Brother You Qing, you won't have heard of it, not long ago, the Eighth Route Army, which relied on millet and rifles, annihilated more than 3,000 people of the main force of the 21st Brigade of the Sakagaki Division, an elite unit of the Japanese army, in one fell swoop at Pingxingguan, destroyed more than 100 military vehicles, seized a large number of weapons and military supplies, played a military prestige, played a national prestige, and stimulated the enthusiasm of the Chinese sons and daughters for the War of Resistance. The Japanese emperor angrily rebuked the commander of the North China Front, Okamura Nintz, for making this day a day of shame for Japan. When Ye Ting said this, he was quite generous, although his voice was not very loud, but it was obvious to refute Luo Zhuoying's malicious slander of the Communist forces.

At this moment, it seemed that there was a "big name" director planning, and suddenly a landslide roar broke out in the ranks of the New Fourth Army:

"The big knife cut off the heads of the devils, brothers in the armed forces of the whole country, the day of the war of resistance has come, the day of the war of resistance has come. There are volunteers in the northeast in front, and people from all over the country in the back, and our Chinese army is marching forward bravely! Look at that enemy and destroy him! Wipe him out! Come on! The big knife slashes at the heads of the devils! Kill! ”

This majestic singing voice swallows mountains and rivers and shocks the world.

Luo Zhuoying was frightened by the song that seemed to hit the shore, and her face immediately turned pale. "Brother You Qing, we will prepare a little thin wine and wash the dust for all the 'checking' officials, please." Ye Ting saw that Luo Zhuoying was such a coward, and although he despised him in his heart, he still seemed very polite on the outside and invited him to the young man's room of the military department for a banquet.

"Please, please." Luo Zhuoying grinned, and a trace of dry and hard smile lines appeared on her face.

"Laughing is worse than crying." Ye Ting glanced at Luo Zhuoying, who was extremely embarrassed, and had a hearty laugh in his heart.