"It's an honor to meet you, miraculous General Hu, and your exploits remind me of the same Robert Edward Lee of the Civil War." As soon as Snow saw Hu Weidong, he unabashedly praised that for Americans who advocate individual heroism, Hu Weidong's legendary experience is indeed fascinating.

But after hearing this, Hu Weidong shook his head and replied in fluent American English, "Mr. Reporter, your analogy is inappropriate, first, although your American General Li is very military talented, whether it is the Mexican War that invaded the territory of other countries or the Civil War that defended the slavery system, he is fighting for the unjust side, while our Red Army has always fought for the oppressed weak and is the righteous side; Second, Robert Lee had the upper hand at first but eventually failed, while our Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, though very weak at first, would eventually win the victory of the revolution. ”

Zhang Hao frowned when he heard this, and thought, "Others obviously have good intentions, but you deliberately find fault, it's too rude, right?" ”

Snow's face was also a little ugly for a while, but after he lowered his head and thought for a while, he admitted with a sincere face, "The first point is true, and the second point, I wish you success." ”

Hu Weidong couldn't help but be moved, and immediately said sincerely, "Mr. Snow, you are the first Westerner I have met who has no prejudice against the Chinese and the Red Army, but can always have justice and conscience in his heart. ”

"General Hu, can I understand your words as prejudice against us Westerners?" , Snow asked Hu Weidong with a smile, and then his face became more serious, and he said sincerely, "This emotion is understandable, the Western powers have indeed caused great harm to the Chinese people in the past hundred years, even the United States, which has basically not directly invaded China, also has an extremely unfair "Chinese Exclusion Act" at home, but you are already fighting against Japan, which is much stronger than China now, and it is unwise to make too many enemies in this situation."

Hu Weidong was really touched by this, as a Western middle-class (among the pro-China foreign journalists in history, the Snow family is relatively well-off, Snow alone received three incomes at the same time - two newspaper correspondents in China and lecturers at Yenching University. But he was able to exclude the influence of narrow patriotism, and in such a way as to put himself in the shoes of the Chinese people, Snow's strong sense of justice is obvious, and his deep feelings for the Chinese people are beyond doubt. Hu Weidong no longer had the idea of continuing to probe the test, changed his previous attitude that seemed very unpolite, and talked to him with a sincere attitude towards his friends. Snow's remarks also changed Hu Weidong's original decision to immediately recover all the concessions in Tianjin, which made him feel uncomfortable with national feelings, but it prevented China from making enemies on all sides when it was still weak, and at the same time, using the banks of various countries, the Red Army was able to exchange those more cumbersome goods for easy-to-carry pounds, with a total amount of more than 12 million (about $50 million in 36 years and $60 million in 37 years). The weight of the money, which originally cost more than 100 tons to be converted into gold, plummeted to less than 300 catties, and Hu Weidong suddenly felt relieved

Edgar Snow was already a veteran journalist at this time, but after listening to Hu Weidong's account of the previous battles in the past two years, he couldn't help but be deeply shocked and exclaimed, "General Hu, you are really like a god with soldiers!" ”

After hearing this, Hu Weidong shook his head again and again, "No, no, this is all fought hard by the soldiers, I just dare to gamble, and I am just lucky, if you want to talk about the real ability of the soldiers, there is more than one person in the Red Army who is better than me." ”

Edgar Snow laughed when he heard this, "General, you are too modest. ”…,

"No, it's not modesty, I'm telling the truth." , Hu Weidong explained seriously, "My real specialty is the military industry, as for fighting, I can only say that I am open-minded and bold."

"You mean to say that the reason why you have achieved unsurpassed results in these two years is not because your military talents are better than any other Red Army generals, but because you have brought the Red Army what they desperately need, don't you?" , Edgar Snow keenly grasped the main point of Hu Weidong's words.

"Yes, can you imagine? In the past, even the main force of the Red Army, one-third of the soldiers had to pick up broadswords and spears because they could not get guns, and the average rifle was less than 30 rounds of ammunition. And even if the field battle is won, the ammunition that can be captured is extremely limited."

Although Snow didn't understand military affairs, his brain was extremely smart, and he immediately nodded and said, "I understand, after you joined the Red Army, you brought it a lot of novel and effective tactics, and the more cities you conquered, the more you capture, and then the troops developed rapidly, you can fight bigger cities, this is a virtuous circle."

"But the cost of attacking the fortification is also large, and as long as we fail once, we are likely to fall into a vicious circle of 'loss of ammunition - decline in combat power - more difficult to capture - weaker strength', and at that time, time was pressing, and many times we simply did not have time to fully prepare, so we were actually gambling." , Hu Weidong thinks about it now, and is still a little afraid in his heart, "Another gamble is that we often pull the enemy soldiers who have just been captured directly over to fight side by side with us, although our political workers are very good, but the time is too short after all, there is still a lot of risk in the end, if we encounter a defeat, it will be even more so, but fortunately, during that time, we did not lose once"

"It's really risky, but with all due respect, why didn't you choose a more secure approach, General Hu?" , Snow couldn't help but ask when he heard this.

"It's not that I don't take my subordinates and my own lives seriously, but at that time we were under siege, and every enemy was much stronger than us, and if we could not grow quickly, then we would have to be exhausted in the face of the enemy's superior forces, and the villagers would have been poisoned by our lack of ability to protect them. Besides, when the strength is weak, you don't dare to take risks, do you have to wait until you have more money to take risks? ”

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