On this morning, the sight is very good, a heavy snow has brought the dust and suspended particles in the air to the ground, the sky after the snow looks particularly blue, the air is also very fresh, take a breath with your nose, feel a cool breath through the heart, comfortable.

At this time, there was a buzzing roar from the distant sky, and a black dot came out from between several white clouds, and as the roar approached, the black dot became bigger and bigger, and finally I could see clearly, it turned out to be a twin-engine pot-bellied propeller plane flying over.

The plane did not fly fast or high, but it was certainly outside the range of infantry light weapons, and it kept hovering over Yichuan, Wazijie, and Chakou Mountain, circle after circle, circle after circle, and circled several times in a row, and the plane's engine hummed, as if crying for his dead father, Lao Tzu, but when he saw the smoke of gunpowder dissipate, the battlefield was as silent as death.

In the window seat of the plane sat a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of a Kuomintang general, the muscles on this person's face spasmed nervously from time to time, and from the window he looked at the snow-capped and ravine-crisscrossed earth below, and did not say a word for a long time.

After the plane circled a few times, the man turned around and said softly to the entourage around him: "Sue the crew members, let's go back to Xi'an." ”

After the man finished speaking, he slowly sat up straight, leaned his head on the back of the chair, and slowly closed his eyes after staring at the earth under the wings for a long time.

The plane turned around, turned its nose and flew away into the sky, the roar of the engines getting quieter and quieter, and gradually nothing could be heard.

This man who wore the uniform of a Kuomintang general and came to inspect the battlefield on a plane was none other than the Northwest King of the Kuomintang, the commander of the attack on Yan'an last year, a good student of Chairman Chiang, a graduate of the first phase of Whampoa, an army general, and Commander Hu Zongnan Hu.

In the Battle of Yichuan, General Peng and Political Commissar Xi commanded the Northwest Field Army to fight bravely, and with inferior weapons and equipment, they completely annihilated seven integrated divisions and one brigade of the Kuomintang in one fell swoop, with a total of more than 80,000 people, and won the first great victory after the launch of the new-style army reorganization activities, laying a solid foundation for reversing the situation in the Northwest War.

After a big battle, the mountains and rivers around Wazi Street and the fork were full of enemy corpses, weapons and baggage were thrown all over the mountains, and the mountains and ravines were full of wolves.

When cleaning the battlefield, a fat and small corpse was found near the headquarters of the 29th Army and Corps Headquarters, the body had been blown up by artillery shells, and its face was blurred by flesh and blood, but judging from its appearance and the remaining clothes on its body, it looked like a high-ranking Kuomintang officer.

After receiving the report, Mr. Peng brought some people to the scene and asked the doctor to wipe the blood and soil off the corpse, and then stitch the face with needles and threads.

Mr. Peng carefully studied for a while, and asked several prisoners who knew Liu Kan to come over to identify, and finally confirmed that this was Lieutenant General Liu Kan, the commander and corps commander of the 29th Army of the Kuomintang.

The dignified lieutenant general corps commander died in this big ravine where no people could be seen for dozens of miles, which is pitiful enough, and then the soldiers found the body of Yan Ming, the lieutenant general and division commander of the 90th Division.

Seeing the bodies of the two, Mr. Peng said excitedly to the people at the field army headquarters: "In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, I dealt with this Liu Kan and Yan Ming, but I didn't expect to meet here again ten years later, the officials have become lieutenant generals, and it is not easy, let Hu Zongnan of Xi'an give them a memorial service, no matter what, these two people have also beaten little devils, although Liu Kan and Yan Ming are reactionary, they still have merit in resisting Japan, keep the corpses well, and they can't be hastily disposed of." ”

In accordance with Mr. Peng's order, the troops wrapped the bodies of Liu Kan and Yan Ming, two Kuomintang lieutenant generals and division commanders, in a one-foot and eight-foot home-woven white cloth, and bought two good coffins from the villagers' homes to put the bodies in.

In the countryside in the past, the old people had the habit of building coffins for themselves, but these two plates were all slap thick, and the good coffins were cheap Liu Kan and Yan Ming.

After the Kuomintang troops invaded the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region, because of the inconvenience of transportation, it was very difficult for the troops to supply them, and they wantonly looted everywhere they went, and even worse, they not only snatched all the grain, but also demolished the doors and windows of the villagers' houses and caves to use as firewood, and robbed pigs, horses, cattle, and sheep as they saw them.

And because they are not familiar with the geography of northern Shaanxi, they look for local people everywhere to be their guides, but the local people have been educated for many years, and in the early years, they followed Liu Zhidan and Xie Zichang to make trouble with the Red Army.

This time let the Kuomintang soldiers beat and scolded and even shot the local people, which was in stark contrast to the discipline and behavior of the Eighth Route Army in the past.

Therefore, the local people hated these Kuomintang troops to the core, and called them the White Army, the White Bandits, the Stubborn Army, and the Suffering Army.

Originally, according to the meaning of the people, the corpses of these Kuomintang officers and soldiers killed by the People's Liberation Army were just thrown into the ditch, and the hungry dogs and wolves were gnawed, so that they would not come out to harm people again in the next life, and wanted coffins? There are no doors.

However, the local people still sold two coffins in the face of the head of the Eighth Route Army, loaded these two Kuomintang generals, and not only buried them as tombs, but also put up signs.

Soon after, the Xinhua People's Radio Station in northern Shaanxi, entrusted by the front-line commander of the field army, broadcast the news of Liu Kan and Yan Ming's deaths, and informed their families, relatives, and friends: "The corpse has been buried by our army in the mountainous area of Yangdao Village, west of Yichuan City, and three miles south of the village. ”

A few days later, Liu Kan and Yan Ming's family members sent a letter to the county government in the Yichuan Liberated Area, saying that the People's Liberation Army was a division of benevolence and righteousness and a division of civilization.

Although Hu Zongnan was very embarrassed, in order to appease his subordinates and the families of the deceased, he still had to send someone to return the bodies of Liu Kan and Yan Ming.

Hu Zongnan sent people to Yichuan to pick up the bodies of Liu Kan and Yan Ming, and he personally presided over a grand memorial meeting, at which Hu Zongnan called on the officers and men of the three armies to learn from Liu Kan and Yan Ming, learn from the heroes of the party and the state, learn from the best models, kill themselves to become benevolent, sacrifice their lives for righteousness, and then petitioned Chairman Jiang in Nanjing to posthumously confer the rank of army general on the two of them.

Hu Zongnan suffered a great defeat, not only losing seven divisions and one brigade of more than 80,000 people, but also losing the strategic location of Yichuan, and also losing Liu Kan and Yan Ming, two generals who were very capable of fighting, both of whom had been tempered on the battlefield of resistance against Japan.

From the perspective of the Anti-Japanese War, the two of them are indeed meritorious, which is even recognized by the leaders of the Northwest Field Army under the leadership of **, Mr. Peng and Political Commissar Xi, when Hu Zongnan was in shock, a plane flew over from Nanjing.

The airport in Xi'an and the surrounding roads were all under martial law before the planes arrived, and groups of high-ranking officials and military officers were neatly dressed, with neat military uniforms, shiny leather shoes, and snow-white gloves, and sat in cars to meet them at the airport.

The plane circled over the airport, then lowered its nose and slowly landed on the airport runway, as soon as the plane stopped, a group of heavily armed guards immediately surrounded the plane, and then the staff spread a red carpet under the plane spiral, and then the cabin door opened, and out of several people in tunics.

Behind the men in tunics came a man dressed in a blue-gray robe, carrying a civilization stick, and a bright head on his head.

Who? Who else could make such a big move in China at that time, the president of the Nationalist Government, the generalissimo of the army, navy and air force, who claimed to be a follower and successor of Mr. Zhongshan, the commander of the Chinese battlefield during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Mr. Chiang Kai-shek.

However, these are all called by the Kuomintang, and the officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army still call him Jiang damned, Jiang Bald, Jiang bald, Jiang stubborn, En, and there is also a call called "Captain of the Transport Brigade"

The soldiers often joked, don't keep saying that Chiang Kai-shek is not good, if it weren't for the fact that he asked for so many weapons and ammunition from the United States, what would our PLA do? No matter how powerful you are, you can't beat the world with your bare hands.

Chiang Kai-shek has been completely enraged by Hu Zongnan, and the battle of Yichuan has completely put the battlefield in northern Shaanxi, which he was still very confident in, completely in trouble, ** said that the door of the People's Liberation Army's march to Weibei and Nan has been opened, which is not false at all, and Chiang Kai-shek's whole face was deformed after getting the news that Yichuan was occupied by the People's Liberation Army.

Chiang Kai-shek, who stepped off the plane with a gloomy face, didn't even look at Hu Zongnan, who was standing next to the spiral staircase of the plane with his head down, and then got into a black car with a civilized stick in his hand, and the car quickly drove away surrounded by more than a dozen black cars.

They didn't say a word when they met, which has never happened in the relationship between Hu Zongnan and his principal and his principals and students for decades.

Hu Zongnan was stunned for a while, and then immediately walked over as if he remembered something, grabbed a man in a tunic who got off the plane with Chiang Kai-shek, and then said in a low voice: "Brother, did the principal say anything before he came?" Give my brother a thorough **, and I will be grateful in the future. ”

The man in the tunic looked around, only to see that the people around him all turned their heads in amusement, or walked a few steps away from the two of them.