Chapter 35 Chapter 35 The Last Battle

December 1949 to January 1950 Chongqing Chengdu Chongqing, Zengjiayan, an ordinary building.The headquarters of the Second Field Army set up the Great Southwest here - the stall of the last battle in mainland China. In the mountain city of the "accompanying capital", there were originally many buildings to choose from, gorgeous, elegant, majestic, and quiet... But Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping chose Zengjiayan, which is located on Zhongshan 4th Road.No one asked them why, because everyone knows that Zeng Jiayan once lived in Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Lin Boqu, Ye Jianying... It was the main office of the CCP delegation and the Eighth Route Army Office in Chongqing.

That day, Li Da led Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping into Zengjiayan's war room, pointed to the empty hall and the maps of Sichuan, Kang, and Sichuan and Yunnan regions hung on the walls of the hall, and said: "The office conditions here are indeed a bit rough." Deng Xiaoping went straight to Walking to the long table in the middle of the hall, he sat down firmly: "Simplicity is a bit shabby, but we are finally home." "Yes. We have a stable office when we get home." Liu Bocheng smiled As he spoke, he went to the map, inspected the situation of the enemy and us and the list of Hu Zongnan's troops that had just been drawn, and nodded with satisfaction, "From now on, we can sit here firmly and fight Chiang Kai-shek and Hu Zongnan for the final battle."

Deng Xiaoping flipped through the "Battle Diary" on the table, and couldn't help feeling a little emotional: "From Nanjing, to Shanghai, and then to Chongqing——Chiang Kai-shek is always like this. We came, and he left. He was very generous. It seems that the next One step against Chengdu, he can only do the same!" "Then we have no choice but to be polite." Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping looked at each other with a smile, turned and pointed to the map and said, "After Chiang Kai-shek fled to Chengdu, he formulated a so-called 'West Sichuan Battle' plan. The troops retreating to the west guarded the Minjiang River and the Tuojiang River, and delayed our advance to Chengdu in the front to cover the southern part of Hu Zongnan's retreat to the south; Fleeing towards Xikang and Yunnan. At present, on the western Sichuan plain centered on Chengdu, there are hundreds of thousands of remnant and defeated KMT soldiers, and there are more than a dozen of them with numbers above Bingtuan waiting for us to eat."

Deng Xiaoping lit a cigarette: "According to the plans of Chiang Kai-shek and Hu Zongnan and the geographical conditions in western Sichuan, there are two roads for Hu Zongnan to retreat to Yunnan in the next step: one is from Chengdu via Xinjin, Leshan, and Yibin; the other is from Chengdu via Qionglai and Ya'an." , Xichang. At present, the road to Yunnan via Yibin has been cut off by our army, and he has only one way to retreat to Xichang. This determines the direction of our operations." Liu Bocheng: "In order not to cause Hu Zong to flee to Yunnan and other countries in the south and endanger the future, our armies from all walks of life must move forward quickly with the current situation, seize key places such as Leshan, Dayi, and Qionglai, and cut off the enemy's retreat."

Deng Xiaoping: "We must once again issue admonitions to the military and political personnel of the Kuomintang, and strive for them to stand on the side of the people at the last moment." On December 6th, Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Zhang Jichun, and Li Da jointly issued the order "Chengdu Plain Encirclement and Annihilation War": "Desperately fight the final battle!" "Seizing the enemy is victory!" "Never let the enemy escape!" After receiving the order, the Third and Fifth Corps blew up and down the slogan of the decisive battle. On December 8th, according to the deployment of the field division and the head of the corps, regardless of the extreme fatigue of more than a month of continuous combat, the troops trekked mountains and rivers, day and night, and launched a brave attack on the enemy in western Sichuan.

The 16th Army of the Fifth Corps set out from Naxi and marched towards Leshan in three routes. After eight days of continuous pursuit and combat, they forcibly crossed the Minjiang River on the 16th and captured Leshan, Emei, Jiajiang, and Hongya; , Neijiang attacked Pengshan, all the way, liberated Renshou, Pengshan and Qionglai, and its vanguard continued to pursue westward along the Chuankang Highway on the 17th; the Tenth Army attacked Qingshen and Meishan from Zigong and Rongxian, and After annihilating the headquarters of the 17th Army of the Kuomintang along the Minjiang River, they crossed the Minjiang River at dawn on the 17th, and then captured Meishan, Danling, and Pujiang; Xinjin and Shuangliu were advancing in the direction of Xinjin and Shuangliu; the Eighteenth Army advanced from Qianwei to Leshan, and on the 21st it entered the Leshan, Meishan, and Jiajiang areas...

By December 21, all the units of the Second Field Army had arrived at the designated positions and completed the first phase of the Chengdu Campaign, which was to form a compression and encirclement of the Kuomintang troops on the Chengdu Plain from the east, west, and south. At the same time, the large net to the north was pulled over by the Eighteenth Corps of the First Field Army led by He Long and Li Jingquan. In mid-November, when the Second Field Army broke through the Kuomintang's Sichuan-Hunan-Hubei and Eastern Guizhou defense lines, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Hu Zongnan Group in the Qinling area to retreat southward urgently.According to the instructions of the Central Military Commission, the 18th Corps adopted the flexible and ingenious combat policy of not pressing the enemy too hard to avoid its accelerated shrinking towards Yunnan and Kang; The tail enemy followed up.

On November 27, the Second Field Army approached Chongqing.In order to coordinate the marching action, the Central Military Commission decided to order the Eighteenth Corps to speed up its southward march.On the same day, He Long and Li Jingquan ordered the 18th Corps and other parts to cross the Qinling Mountains in the east, middle, and west, and went south quickly. They wiped out more than 80,000 troops from Hu Zongnan's rear tail on the way, and arrived in Jiangyou, Mianyang, and Baba on the 21st. Middle line.At this point, an encirclement circle was formed to encircle and wipe out the hundreds of thousands of remnants of the Kuomintang army, and Hu Zongnan's troops had become the shackles in the urn.

At the same time, a powerful political offensive was also launched. On November 21, when the Second Field Army launched an attack in depth, in order to completely disintegrate the enemy and isolate a very small number of diehards, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping issued four pieces of advice to the military and political personnel of the Southwest Kuomintang in the form of notices: The remnants of the Kuomintang are now approaching the stage of final annihilation after the People's Liberation Army has inflicted successive annihilation strikes in East China, Central China, South China, and Northwest China... Jiang, Li, Bai, Yan and other remnant enemies attempted to clean up the remaining forces and retreated to Kangxi The plans for China, Yunnan, and Guangxi border are not allowed by reality, and our army will cut off all their retreat routes.Jiang, Li, Bai, Yan, etc. advocated the so-called "US aid" and "counter-offensive", and the so-called "the third world war is coming, and everything awaits the third world war" are the dreams of the enemy, and their purpose is purely imperialism Zhang Mu, in order to deceive the subordinates who are still being driven by him, so that he will enter the grave with them.

You should be aware of this situation and quickly choose the path you should take.The army was ordered to march into the Southwest this time, with the mission of resolutely overthrowing the Kuomintang's reactionary rule in the Southwest and liberating 70 million people in the Southwest.However, for the military and political personnel of the Southwest Kuomintang, a copy of the "Common Program of the People's Political Consultative Conference" and the purpose of Chairman Mao and Commander-in-Chief Zhu's "Eight Chapters" will give them the opportunity to reform their mistakes, make meritorious deeds and redeem their crimes. I would like to advise the following four things:

1. The Kuomintang army should immediately stop resisting and sabotaging, and wait for reorganization.Those who stop resisting and wait for reorganization, regardless of whether they belong to the central department or local departments, will be treated equally, designated station, temporarily maintain the status quo, and then carry out reorganization according to the method of the People's Liberation Army; all officers and soldiers will be recruited according to rank.Those who are willing to lay down their weapons will be recruited separately or repatriated.Those who quickly leave the counter-revolutionary camp and cooperate with the People's Liberation Army in combat will be rewarded for their merits.If you wish to do so, feel free to send representatives to approach the nearby PLA. 2. Political, economic, cultural, and educational personnel in Kuomintang government agencies should immediately protect the property, equipment, and files of the original agencies and schools, and wait for their acceptance.Regardless of whether they are senior, middle or low-level personnel, the army has a leniency policy, and they are recruited or appropriately placed.Appropriate rewards will be given to those who have made merit in receiving them; those who destroy them will be punished. 3. KMT secret agents should immediately correct their mistakes and stop doing evil.Anyone who is willing to turn over a new leaf and stop doing evil can be treated with leniency without blaming the past.Although he has done a lot of evil in the past, I hope those who repent will be given the opportunity to make meritorious deeds and redeem themselves.Those who persist in their obsession and continue to do evil will not escape the people's justice. 4. Township security personnel shall immediately maintain local order and perform errands for the People's Liberation Army under the instructions of the People's Liberation Army.The meritorious are rewarded, and the guilty are punished. It is the unanimous desire of the people of the whole country for the military and political personnel of the Southwest Kuomintang to enter into peaceful construction as soon as possible and repair the wounds of years of war.You should not increase your sins in vain by resisting needlessly.If you can wake up immediately and turn to the light, it is not too late, and there is still a chance to repent to the people.If it is delayed again, it will never be forgiven by the people, and it will suffer the consequences it deserves.Continuing reaction and turning back immediately, darkness and light, death and life, two paths are before you.Don't hesitate, look forward to making an early decision. A heavy political shell exploded over the southwest. The Art of War says: "Soldiers who subdue others without fighting are those who are good at what they do." Liu Deng's "Four Advice" greatly shocked the already extremely fragile psychological defense line of the Kuomintang military and political personnel, and promoted the quick decision of the Kuomintang military and political personnel who had already wavered and were wavering.As a result, scenes of thrilling live dramas were staged in the treacherous Southwest—— On December 9, Liu Wenhui, chairman of the Xikang Province of the Kuomintang, Deng Xihou and Pan Wenhua, the deputy chiefs of the Southwest Chief Executive Office, led their troops to announce uprisings in Ya'an, Pengxian and other places respectively; on the same day, Lu Han, chairman of the Kuomintang Yunnan Province, announced an uprising in Kunming , broke away from the Kuomintang and accepted the leadership of the Central People's Government; on December 10, Wang Boxun, the deputy commander of the 19th Corps of the Kuomintang Army, refused to be promoted to the commander of the Corps, and resolutely led the rest of the 48th and 89th armies to declare an uprising in Pu'an, Guizhou; On February 11, Guo Rugui, commander of the 72nd Army of the Kuomintang, led an uprising of more than 10,000 people in Yibin, Sichuan. Immediately afterwards—— Dong Zongheng, deputy director of the Sichuan, Shanxi and Suiwei Department of the Kuomintang, led the Sixteenth Corps to revolt in Guanghan; Luo Guangwen, commander of the 15th Corps of the Kuomintang, led an uprising in Peng County; Chen Kefei, commander of the 20th Corps of the Kuomintang, led an uprising in Peng County; Pei Changhui led an uprising in Deyang; Li Zhen, commander of the 18th Corps of the Kuomintang, led an uprising in Jianyang... For a time, waves of uprisings and surrenders surged one after another, and live dramas of abandoning the dark and turning to the bright were brilliant.Under the powerful military strikes and political offensives of the People's Liberation Army, the last line of defense that the Kuomintang relied on on the mainland collapsed like an avalanche. "Jing Guo, come with me for a walk." On the Whampoa Building of the Chengdu Central Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek stood by the window, gazing for a long time at the last mainland city in his hands through the bleak early winter rain. "Father, it's still raining outside..." Jiang Jingguo was afraid that his father would catch a cold, so he persuaded softly, "Let's take a car." Chiang Kai-shek was already arranging his clothes. "Where are you going?" "I want to... go to Chengdu again." "It's not safe outside, father." Jiang Jingguo has never cared for his father like he does now.Over the past year, the country's affairs have declined day by day, but the relationship between their father and son has reached an unprecedented level of mutual dependence. Chiang Ching-kuo's worries were not superfluous.In just a few days from Chongqing to Chengdu, dangers abounded around the military academy.Chiang Kai-shek was in shock every day, and had been in danger many times.First, the personal guard went to the toilet, put the pistol belt on the partition, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.The school and the security forces dug three feet into the ground and searched for a whole day without success. There were several gunshots that night, and another strange "fire escape" incident occurred.Then, one after another, a mortar secretly installed by the underground party of the Communist Army was found in a thatched shed outside the wall of the military academy. The muzzle was precisely aimed at the Whampoa Building where Chiang Kai-shek stayed! ... Outside the window, the drizzle was misty.There is a sliver of light passing through a crack in the cloud at the extreme eye, flickering and flickering. "Father..." Jiang Jingguo walked up to his father and tried to persuade him. Having just bid farewell to Chongqing, but also to bid farewell to Chengdu, the boundless nostalgia made the stubborn Chiang Kai-shek even more stubborn.As he said that, he strode downstairs and walked into the endless night rain. Jiang Jingguo hurriedly picked up his father's black cloak that was both warm and bulletproof, and hurriedly made arrangements while chasing down the stairs. A group of three Buick cars had just started, and Chiang Kai-shek said: "First, go around the military academy." The car turned around urgently, and the harsh sound of braking cut through the rain and fog outside the car window. Chiang Kai-shek sat upright with his eyes slightly closed, not looking at everything outside the car window. He is too familiar with this Central Military Academy, known as the "Second Whampoa".Since retreating to the rear after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, every time he came to Chengdu, he stayed here, so he didn't have to open his eyes, he knew where the car was passing by. The Whampoa Building behind him was the place where he deployed his decisive battle plan for the last time on the mainland. That day, as soon as he arrived in Chengdu from Chongqing, he held an emergency combat meeting in the lobby on the first floor.At the meeting, Hu Zongnan once again suggested to him "abandon Chengdu and withdraw to defend Xichang". After hearing this, he slapped the table and reprimanded: "Chengdu must stick to it! From now on, those who withdraw from Xichang will be punished to shake the morale of the army!" " In fact, he said these words to Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou and other local powerful factions and those generals of the miscellaneous army.When he gave up Chongqing, he was soberly aware that Chengdu would be hard to save. He could only adopt the plan proposed by Hu Zongnan and Song Xilian, which he had rejected a few months ago, that is, to withdraw Hu Zongnan's main force to Xichang.The reason why he did not make this plan public was not to save his own face, but to cover up his goal of "killing three birds with one stone" with the high-profile decisive battle of "defending Chengdu to the death".That is: first, to cast a smoke screen to deceive others, to ensure the smooth withdrawal of the direct descendants of Hu Zongnan to Xichang in order to preserve their strength, and to deal with the Communist Party for a long time; The remnants of the troops who came out of the battle entangled with the People's Liberation Army to cover Hu Zongnan's troops and calmly deploy them in Xichang; third, to stabilize the local power faction, and when Hu Zongnan officially retreated westward, completely lifted Liu Wenhui and Deng Xihou's military power, reorganized their troops, and eliminated the armies and armpits. trouble. In order to realize this secret plan, he went around the Whampoa building to meet people from all walks of life, frequently changing their faces and methods, and doing superficial things like vowing to live and die with Chengdu. In the small living room of Huangpu Building, he summoned Chen Kefei, the commander of the 20th Corps who had fled to Chengdu from the defeat in eastern Sichuan.He didn't reproach him, didn't pursue him in the slightest. Instead, he encouraged him and ordered him to take in and command Song Xilian's troops, which had been dispersed by the Communist army, to participate in the decisive battle in Chengdu.This made Chen Kefei, who was in constant panic and worried that he would be a scapegoat, so excited that he burst into tears. He stood at attention and said, "I will never let down the principal's trust, and I vow to fight the Communist Army to the end!" In his office in Huangpu Building, he held the hand of Li Zhen, the commander of the 18th Corps, and grabbed the plank of the ship as if before he died.The Eighteenth Corps was the main force in the south of Hu Zong. It withdrew from Qinling to Chengdu at the critical moment when western Sichuan was worrying that there were no soldiers available.Hearing the news, he naturally regarded Li Zhen as a loyal and brave confidant, and entrusted Li Zhen with the important task of evacuating Xichang. He planned to entertain Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, and Pan Wenhua in the banquet hall of Huangpu Building, but they declined the invitation several times with various excuses.He became angry and scolded: "Don't say I invited him, even if I die, they should come to the funeral!" After scolding, he became more alert to these powerful factions in these places, and his determination to get rid of them became even greater. . He only noticed that people like Liu Wenhui and Deng Xihou had a heart of rebellion, but he didn't expect that half a month later, people like Chen Kefei and Li Zhen would also rebel and defect to the Communist Party. The car drove down Wudan Mountain and entered the open plain.Chiang Kai-shek knew that he had come to the military academy playground where there had been many military parades.Suddenly, his brows were furrowed, and his face was darkened. In August, he paraded here.A tank was rumbling forward amidst his attention, but it just happened to be in front of the reviewing stand, and suddenly turned off; after a lot of effort, it was still only black smoke and could not go any further, so several trucks had to be used to remove it. The behemoth will be dragged out.This time he came to Chengdu, in order to avoid bad luck, and to use his reputation to improve the morale of the troops and stabilize the hearts of the people, he held a more grand military parade here. This is his last military parade on the mainland.Unexpectedly, in this last military parade, there was another scene that made him even more embarrassing. It was around nine o'clock in the morning on December 5th, and the thick fog typical of winter in western Sichuan had not yet dissipated.More than 2,000 teachers, students, officers and soldiers of the military academy had already stood in a square formation, filling the playground in a dusty manner.He was dressed in a military uniform and a black cloak, and walked slowly to the center of the reviewing stand, with his back erect and his majestic right hand wearing a white glove.Immediately, colorful flags fluttered, military music blared, and shouts of "serve the party and country, defend Chengdu to the death" exploded from all directions on the playground like thunder.At that moment, his heart trembled, and his self-confidence swelled up like a hot air balloon.He felt that he was still very strong, and he was even deeply moved by the program he directed. At ten o'clock sharp, the military parade officially began.As the military band played the national anthem, the blue sky, white sun and red flag rose slowly in the solemn salute of the audience. Suddenly, something unexpected happened.When the flag was about to climb to the top of the flagpole, there was a snap, and the flag rope of the traction pulley broke.Immediately afterwards, the flag that had been fluttering in the wind was like a wounded big bird, struggling and falling to the ground... For a moment, the solemn scene appeared comical because of the loss of sanctity, and the solemn crowd was stunned by the comical appearance. At that moment, his eyes were dark, and his saluting right hand seemed to be in a "tug-of-war" struggle with the brim of the hat on his head, unable to put it down or lift it up, just hanging in the air.It wasn't until the frantic flag bearers reconnected the flag rope that his stiff right hand slowly dropped as the flag was raised in a hurry. But at that moment, his ears were surprisingly sensitive, and he could distinguish the whispers in people's hearts from the noise of the silence and the noise of the noise: "The omen is not good." The same playground, two military parades, one tank flameout, one national flag falling to the ground, is it a coincidence or intentional?Is it the arrangement of God, or the devil?Could it be that this is really a harbinger of the end of life and the collapse of the building? ... Chiang Kai-shek didn't dare to think about it anymore, he sighed deeply, let out the depression choked in his chest, and said to Chiang Ching-kuo: "Let's go, Ching-kuo, let's go to Chengdu and see Wangjiang Tower." The convoy drove out from the gate of the military academy, along the city road, from the north gate, east gate, and south gate to the central district of Chengdu to inspect Chengdu for a week, and then went straight to Wangjiang Tower through the west gate. Chongli Pavilion of Wangjiang Tower stands on the bank of the Jinjiang River, surrounded by green bamboos and as secluded as the sea. It is one of the oldest buildings in Chengdu.Jiang Jingguo understood his father's feelings. He chose to come here at this time, not to relax, nor simply to pay tribute to the past, but to express his sorrow for the scene and express his anger at the history.There is a famous long couplet on Chongli Pavilion, which was written by Zhong Yunfang, a native of the Qing Dynasty.Chiang Kai-shek stood under the long couplet for a long time, seeming to read his mood at the moment. Several floors alone support the east peak, and are connected to the remote mountains near the water, for a picture book: gathering snow on Congling Ridge, scattering white river smoke, drying Danjingxia, and dyeing blue and gray fog.Sometimes poets hang on to ancient times, and sometimes warriors raise their eyebrows.Poor flower pistils drifting away, buried the treasure mirror of the boudoir long ago; the loquat is lonely, leaving the green wild fragrance grave empty.I have mixed feelings about this, laughing like a butterfly, always intoxicated in dreamland!Try shouting from the top, ask, ask, ask, this half of Jiangyue, who belongs to it? The Xichuan bureau has been changed many times in the millennium, and the novels are full of masterpieces, adorned with heroes: the dragon leaps up the hill, the phoenix perishes in front of the slope, the tiger lies down in the gate, and the frog screams at the bottom of the well.Suddenly the iron horse and the golden sword, and suddenly the silver sheng and jade flute.It's better to have long songs and short poems, throwing away some leisure and hatred; winding corridors and corridors, to endure the wind and rain.Sighing and frowning, there is no return in the world, the hozen jumped to death, and finally fell into the trap of heaven and earth!And look up to the dangerous ladder, look, look, look, that piece of cloud is my sky! Frustrated and embarrassed, Chiang Kai-shek was moved by the swan song in the couplets, and tears rolled in his eyes like dry wells, and then gurgled. "Ask who owns this half of the river moon? Look at that piece of cloud is my sky!..." Chiang Kai-shek repeated the couplets, tears streaming down his face. Seeing his father being so sad, Jiang Jingguo's eyes turned red, and he softly persuaded: "The past is like smoke. Whether it's gold and iron horses, martial arts or martial arts, it's all about woodcutters' dreams and fisherman's gossip. Don't be too sad, take it too seriously." "No. These are not the words of fishermen and woodcutters, but the words of sages and sages!" Chiang Kai-shek wiped away his tears, and the block in his chest was also released, "I have half a river in western Sichuan, and I have a piece of sky in Taiwan. Why should I be sad? Absolutely Shouting, overlooking the dangerous ladder, I was shocked by the majesty of the ancient sages! Jingguo, we have indeed reached the time to try our best to survive from adversity." Jiang Jingguo nodded, once again he was shocked by his father who could never figure it out: "Yes, father. I really appreciate the sentence in the couplet, 'Thousands of things have changed the Xichuan Bureau'. The vicissitudes of the world, the desperate Life not only lacks the ancients, but also the present and the future.” "You're right. When we drove Mao Zedong out of Ruijin back then, he had only 30,000 horses left. He was short of food and clothing, and ran out of ammunition. He was chasing after me, and he was almost desperate. But now... alas. Mao Zedong is very powerful and worthy of our study!" Chiang Kai-shek narrowed his eyes in pain, looking at the empty rainy sky. When Jiang Jingguo saw his father talking about sad things again, he hurriedly comforted him: "Mao Zedong's ability to get out of the desperate situation is certainly worthy of our study. But if the generals of the Sichuan Army hadn't refused to use their lives in order to preserve their strength, he would not have been able to climb over the snow-capped mountains and walk across the grassland; and we , and will never fall short!" Chiang Kai-shek remained silent for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes; "Never forgetting the past is the teacher of the future. Jingguo, I want to hear your opinion on something." "Father, please speak." "Look, Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, and Pan Wenhua, the local emperors, will they go one step further than the generals of the Sichuan army and collude with the Communist Party?" "It's possible." Jiang Jingguo thought for a while and replied, "The so-called united front run by the Communist Party is pervasive. Besides, we have received secret reports many times, saying that Liu, Deng, and Pan acted secretly, and they seemed to have frequent contacts with the Communist Party and plotted against them." signs of..." "Once the Sichuan army defected, Chengdu would be in danger. We must get ahead of the Communist Party and get rid of these troubles!" Chiang Kai-shek made his final determination. "Report!" As if to confirm that Chiang Kai-shek's determination was correct, Yu Jishi, the director of military affairs, ran up the Wangjiang tower panting, pinching a telegram in his hand, his expression extremely nervous. Chiang Kai-shek took a look at the telegram, hissed like a toothache, and said dejectedly: "Jing Guo, we are one step too late..." Jiang Jingguo hurriedly took the telegram.The telegram was jointly signed by Gu Zhutong and Hu Zongnan, saying that Liu, Deng, and Pan had announced the uprising an hour ago... On the way back to the military academy, passing by Zaozi Lane in the suburbs of Chengdu, Chiang Kai-shek insisted on getting out of the car and going to visit Dai Jitao's tomb.Dai Jitao, like Chen Bulei, is one of the well-known "literate courage" in the Kuomintang.He also saw that the Kuomintang was gone, and he followed in the footsteps of Chen Bulei with the sadness of being unable to turn the tide. Three months after Chen Bulei committed suicide, he took a large dose of sleeping pills and died in this deep alley. ". The drizzle was still falling, the cold wind was still blowing, and the car stopped at the entrance of Zaozi Alley. Chiang Kai-shek refused the support of Jiang Jingguo and the chief guard, and walked slowly towards the cemetery. Looking at his father's slightly bowed back; thinking of the undead with a thin body and a thin face, wearing a light gray robe, a pair of shallow cloth shoes, and speaking Sichuan Chengdu dialect, Jiang Jingguo felt desolate in his heart. The cemetery has arrived. An ordinary mound, covered with weeds and vines.In front of the mound, there is a stone tablet with the characters "Tomb of Dai Gong Jitao", which shed tears under the blow of cold wind and rain. Standing in front of the tomb, Chiang Kai-shek mourned silently: "Ji Tao, you must rest in peace... Zhongzheng is sorry for you!..." Chiang Kai-shek choked up and muttered to himself. After a long time, he suddenly bent down, scooped up a handful of dark soil from the Chengdu Plain in front of the tomb, and said to the tombstone, "Ji Tao, Zhongzheng bids farewell to you..." After finishing speaking, he took out his handkerchief, carefully wrapped the handful of soil scooped up from the mainland, turned around and walked towards the car.His steps were so heavy, and he walked so reluctantly that every step he took made Jiang Jingguo feel the pain of parting from life and death.At this moment, Jiang Jingguo really understood that his father insisted on coming here not only to pay tribute to Dai Jitao, but also to bid a final farewell to Chengdu and the mainland... The next morning, the inspirational club in Chengdu Commercial Street was crowded with people. Chiang Kai-shek, who had always lived in reclusive life and hated reporters, held a grand press conference here. The hundreds of reporters who came here after hearing the news were very surprised. They couldn’t figure out why Chiang Kai-shek, who was at the end of his life, made such a publicity, so they asked questions one after another: “Excuse me, chairman, the Communist army has divided into two groups to form a pincer attack on Chengdu, and it is getting worse day by day. Does this mean that the government’s plan for a decisive battle in western Sichuan has been abandoned or failed?” "At this extremely critical moment, what is the chairman's strategy?" "It is said that since yesterday, the Communist army suddenly stopped attacking the city. Did the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reach an agreement so that the scene of the peaceful liberation of Peiping would be repeated in Chengdu?" "Liu, Deng, and Pan announced their defection yesterday. Is this a sign of the peaceful liberation of Chengdu?"... Chiang Kai-shek turned a deaf ear to all questions, no matter whether they were "harsh" or "excessive", he would not criticize or pay attention to them, until the reporters lost interest in asking questions, he coughed lightly and announced a shocking news: "Everyone , I hereby solemnly announce that Chiang Kai-shek will leave Rongcheng for Taiwan in the near future to preside over the Academy of Revolutionary Practice..." The audience was silent, only Chiang Kai-shek's calm and low voice was hovering. "I have said long ago that the Communist Party cannot defeat us. We are the ones who defeat us. In 1936, it was Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng who launched the Xi'an Incident that brought the Communist Party back to life; during the eight-year war of resistance, it was the Japanese who helped the Communist Party. In the past four years of fighting chaos and founding the country, there have been many unscrupulous people in the party-state camp who are ungrateful for profit, greedy for life and afraid of death. Not to mention, there are Lu Han from Yunnan, Liu Wenhui and Deng Xihou from Sichuan. , Pan Wenhua, and Guo Rugui...they betrayed the party and state!" Chiang Kai-shek's voice grew shrill with pain and anger. "Needless to say, it was precisely because of their mutiny that our well-planned 'West Sichuan Decisive Battle' aborted! It was also because of their mutiny that we finally realized that to defeat the Communist Party, we must establish a A team of cadres who are officials and support the Three People's Principles all their lives! Because our party has lost its soul, we must rebuild the Kuomintang!... For this reason, we established a revolutionary practice college in Caoshan, Taipei, and I presided over the school administration. cadres need to be sent to study and train in turn. Whether this college can be run well is related to whether the party-state can be revitalized, and whether the country can win the war against chaos and save the country. Rely on Chairman Wang Lingji. Ladies and gentlemen," Chiang Kai-shek said here, he changed the subject, "Although the situation is difficult now, the government is not helpless. Please remember what I said during the War of Resistance, the sacrifice is not at the last moment , never talk about sacrifice lightly; failure is not at the last moment, never talk about failure lightly. If Chengdu is not guaranteed, we still have the anti-communist base in Xichang. As long as we persist for another three months, the whole mainland and even the whole world will turn around. Therefore , I once again solemnly tell you that there are many facts in history that turned the tide after a narrow escape. As time goes by, the facts will eventually prove that a country that has infiltrated and inherited the historical and cultural traditions of the Chinese nation for thousands of years The Kuomintang will surely win the final victory!" Finally, Yu Jishi, the chief of the Military Affairs Bureau, shouted in a very timely manner: "The meeting is adjourned!" Chiang Kai-shek's last press conference on the mainland is over. The gunfire and gunpowder of the PLA's attack have already drifted heavily into this splendid city known for its blooming hibiscus. On December 10, Chiang Kai-shek rejected someone's suggestion to ask him to leave the military academy through a secret passage excavated temporarily for his safety, and said solemnly: "I came in through the main entrance, and I will also go out through the main entrance!" Get dressed up and go down the Whampoa Building. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the "Sino-American" special plane took off at Chengdu Phoenix Mountain Airport, and Chiang Kai-shek, who was "sad in heart", left his last station on the mainland and flew towards the tiny island across the mountains and seas. Four hours later, Chiang Kai-shek looked down from the porthole of the plane again, and only the vast East China Sea poured into his eyes, and the mainland was no longer visible. On December 27, the Battle of Chengdu ended in victory. On December 30, the People's Liberation Army held a grand entry ceremony in Chengdu. Three days later, on January 2, 1950, Mao Zedong issued instructions to march into Tibet. On January 6, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping decided that the 18th Army of the Second Field would be responsible for the task of liberating Tibet. Since then, the Second Field Army - this heroic army that has wiped out 2.3 million Kuomintang troops in the People's Liberation War and made great contributions to the great and magnificent People's Revolutionary War and the birth of New China; From the Taihang Mountains in the Northwest Plateau to the Dabie Mountains, from the Dabie Mountains to the Southwest, the invincible force sang battle songs and climbed the Himalayas!