That night, the entire Chinese people were sleepless all night.This is unique in the history of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.We'd like to remember this moment, despite all the incidents that later proved it to be a bad omen. August 15, 1945... Oh no, Mr. Patrick Jay Hurley, the US ambassador to China, took out his pocket watch, and the time had already pointed to 1:35 in the morning.With an optimistic and proud mood, he abandoned his car and walked on foot, walking on the undulating streets near Yuzhong District, Chongqing, breathing in the cool and gunpowder-smelling air of the mountain city, and subconsciously turned the calendar to "16".

Since the Japanese government accepted the "Potsdam Declaration" on August 10, the foreign envoys stationed in Chongqing, the accompanying capital, have hardly had a good night's sleep.Until Emperor Hirohito issued the "Edict" on August 14, the world was full of texts and telegrams for several days, but Hurley was very busy.First, the governments of China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union agreed to announce various regulations in Chongqing, Washington, London, and Moscow at the same time. On behalf of the four countries, the Secretary of State Bernas of the United States sent a note to Japan via Switzerland that "the Japanese army should immediately stop military operations" and specifically instructed the formal surrender steps. .Immediately afterwards, MacArthur broadcast to Tokyo in the name of the supreme commander of the Allied forces, and established a radio communication link, ordering the Japanese army to "stop firing immediately", and the Allied forces were also ordered to cease fire on all battlefields.

At 19:00 Washington time on August 14, US President Truman held a press conference and announced that he accepted the unconditional surrender of the Japanese army.At the same time, Prime Minister Attlee's speech was broadcast in London, the speech of Molotov, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union was broadcast in Moscow, and the speech of President Chiang Kai-shek was broadcast in Chongqing. At 7:00 on August 15, Chongqing time, the governments of China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union officially issued announcements around the world.At noon that day, radio signals around the world carried the voice of Emperor Hirohito feebly reading the "edict" of unconditional surrender.

Hurley, who was excited for most of the night, returned to the residence tiredly, and drank a glass of brandy habitually, making him even less sleepy.He couldn't help pacing back and forth in the room, and his cowhide boots slammed on the wooden floor, making a bang bang sound, like the sound of victory cannons on the front line, and like the celebratory drums on the street.Hurley pushed open the latticed glass window, and the unfathomable night sky rushed towards his face, and the carnival of the entire mountain city could still be faintly heard, a sense of history that had never been felt in his heart.He turned back and opened the thick sheepskin notebook, eagerly expecting to write down something.

At that time, compared with the red Yan'an far in the northwest, the government of Chongqing, the accompanying capital, obviously had undisguised conceit.However, after the Japanese government announced its acceptance of the "Potsdam Proclamation" to the Allied Powers, the firecrackers and gongs and drums that the common people celebrated were the same.Hurley witnessed the colorful lanterns on the long street, and saw Chinese officials and soldiers mixed among merchants and boatmen, all in robes, jackets, suits and leather shoes running around telling each other. The big businessmen also danced and danced there.People's eyes are radiant, and the eyebrows seem to be painted with thick oil paint.

Being in the ocean of joy, Hurley couldn't help being infected.Just like when he visited Yan'an years ago, he danced the Indian military training dance on a whim in front of his Chinese host.Burned by his almost naive passion, he twisted his body frantically, and even shouted loudly in the dialect of the Taok people, "Yah, yah".Whether as the personal representative of former President Roosevelt or as the newly appointed US envoy to China, Hurley at this moment has a firmer belief in "solving the Chinese problem".He felt that this was where he surpassed Stilwell, Marshall, Wedemeyer and others, and this good feeling seemed to be in his hands vividly when he arrived in Yan'an in the early winter of last year.

It was November 7, 1944. Accompanied by Secretary Smith, Hurley's plane landed in front of a field in Yan'an without any risk.Yellow smoke filled the porthole so vaguely that Hurley couldn't see who was greeting him.Colonel Barrett, the leader of the American observation team in Yan'an known as the "Dixie Mission", didn't know who the visitor was beforehand, so he was a little vague when he briefed Zhou Enlai for the first time.When the U.S. military aircraft with obvious signs appeared buzzing over the high loess slope, Zhou Enlai asked Bao Ruide who the distinguished guest was, and Bao spread his hands in a daze.Fortunately, Zhou Enlai was careful.When Hurley poked his head out from the exit of the engine room, he saw the figures of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Ye Jianying and other leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China beside Colonel Barrett.They squeezed into the dilapidated car that was used as an ambulance, and drove loudly to the "Dixie Mission" station.

When we met for the first time, there was nothing to say after the greetings.Although Colonel Borrett is a Chinese hand, but as a school-level officer, due to the presence of the unfamiliar General Hurley, it is difficult for him to speak beyond diplomatic rhetoric.There was a brief silence in the bumpy car.At the moment of unbearable, suddenly a mule stood in front of the car.The driver Xiao Zhao hurriedly braked, and the guest of honor in the car leaned forward and back together.Xiao Zhao was sweating profusely and found a branch to drive the mule away, who knew that the animal was very stubborn, and it would not give face to drive it left and right.The impatient Hurley couldn't hold back anymore, so he gesticulated in the car and shouted: "Hit again, hit again, hit harder, hit that side..."

Mao Zedong smiled, speaking with a strong Hunan accent, and said slowly: "I never imagined that General Hurley is also very good at driving mules." "I was a cowboy when I was young, so I know a little bit about livestock." Hurley looked a little childish. "Oh——" Mao Zedong seemed to be interested, "I used to herd sheep. Look at our hillsides, which are now bare. It's spring, and grass will grow when there is a little rain in the sunny place. The sheep don't have to worry about food." Hurley stretched his neck along Mao Zedong's fingers, and cast his eyes on the ditch not far away.

Zhou Enlai took up the conversation: "The ravine here is arranged by God. It will fill with water when it rains heavily, and sometimes there will be mountain torrents, and it will dry up again if it doesn't rain." Hurley continued: "...in Oklahoma, the forty-sixth state of the United States, you can judge when fish schools will go upstream..." Colonel Borrett finally seized the opportunity and made full use of it during the translation process, and the atmosphere was lively. Until the "Dixie Mission" stationed, everyone drank tea happily and continued to chat.

The first impression Mao Zedong and the CCP leadership gave to Ambassador Hurley gradually expanded like this.It even made Hurley feel a little inexplicable confidence in successfully grasping the red power of the CCP.Over the past year, the U.S. government and opposition parties have raised more and more complaints and dissatisfaction with regard to the deteriorating anti-Japanese performance of the Kuomintang army on the issue of aid to China. However, the good news that the CCP’s armed forces behind enemy lines and the U.S. Air Force cooperated in the war of resistance is increasing day by day.Various sources of information show that the senior CCP commander who wears a gray sackcloth jacket all day long and used to herd sheep has become more and more powerful in waving his arms, and American diplomats need to pay special attention. For a period of time, it even became Hurley's secretive guiding ideology.However, at the end of this turbulent year, the situation soon took a "quite unpredictable" turning point. It was only two months before Hurley’s trip to Yan’an. On January 11, 1945, at the Yalta Palace on the coast of the Crimea Peninsula in the Soviet Union, American President Roosevelt, British President Churchill, and Soviet People’s Committee Chairman Stalin ignored China’s wishes. , Abandoning the presence of the Chinese leader, secretly signed the "Yalta Agreement" including the following three items: 1. The southern part of Sakhalin Island and all adjacent islands that were historically Chinese territory were ceded to the Soviet Union; 2. The internationalization of China's Dalian Port, The Soviet Union has superior rights in Hong Kong and leases Lushun Port as a naval base; 3. The Middle East and South Manchuria Railways leading to Dalian are jointly operated by the Soviet Union and China, and the superior rights and interests of the Soviet Union are guaranteed. In addition, of course, it also includes a series of content that is detrimental to China's interests, such as the independence of Outer Mongolia.If he did not agree, Stalin refused to send troops to the Northeast.Roosevelt, the loyal friend in Chiang Kai-shek's fantasy, betrayed his allies at the critical moment. He had nothing to do except "shock" and "anger".Hurley's shadow remains in all diplomatic mediation. No matter how he feels about it personally, his principle will never change-fight for the interests of Americans. This is a world of unreasonable power.On the negotiating table between the United States and the Soviet Union, the political situation in China, both an ally of the victorious country, turned out to be a bargaining chip.Hurley already knew the truth in his heart, and even Hu Qiuyuan, the deputy editor-in-chief of the small "Central Daily", dared to face his majesty, slapped the table and shouted: "I have the right to speak for China's affairs, to the United States, which claims to be an ally of China. The representative speaks about the opinions of the Chinese..." and wrote "Senate Hu Qiuyuan's Statement on the Sino-Soviet Negotiations", it is conceivable that neither Chiang Kai-shek nor Mao Zedong had the slightest hesitation on the major issues of right and wrong in national interests.The rest is the balance of interests and the choice of interests between the Soviets and the Americans.It had been a long-cherished wish for many years for the Soviets to send troops to defeat the Japanese, but they chose to do what they liked by threatening to harm China's interests.All the Americans wanted was an obedient China, and the half-truthy Christian Chiang Kai-shek was the perfect candidate. Patrick Jay Hurley went from "supporting Jiang Rong and the Communist Party" to "supporting Chiang Kai-shek against the Communist Party" logically. On April 2, 1945, Hurley made a public speech in Washington, claiming to fully support the Chiang Kai-shek regime, indicating that the United States would never provide arms to the CCP, because "as long as there are still strong armed parties and warlords opposing the Kuomintang government , China cannot have political unity".Earlier, he also telegraphed Secretary of State Cordell Hull: The entire strategy of the CCP indicated that it wanted to overthrow the Kuomintang rule and obtain "one-party dictatorship over China."This is of course Roosevelt's attitude.When Chiang Kai-shek was "deeply gratified" by the scenery of Huangshan's official residence in Chongqing in late spring, Yan'an categorically announced that the US observation team would not be allowed to send personnel to the front, especially they were not allowed to enter the CCP's base area.The Xinhua News Agency commentary also clearly pointed out that Hurley and Chiang Kai-shek played a double act, "laying down the landmines of China's large-scale civil war." While the Americans made their position clear, Stalin also made up his mind.This can be seen from the sudden replacement of the ambassador to China by the Soviet Union. The development of the situation is beyond the scope of Chiang Kai-shek's vigilance.Originally, Lao Jiang always believed: "As long as the United States does not support or protect the CCP, the Soviet Union will never dare to use force to help the CCP. Therefore, I will be able to settle the issue of the CCP." By May 28, 1945 , Stalin also reached a consensus with the US special envoy Hopkins again. Stalin made it clear that he would do everything possible to promote the unification of China under the leadership of Chairman Chiang, and specifically stated that no leader of the CCP has enough power to unify China.Stalin even made an oath to Chiang Kai-shek: "We will not support them (the CCP), we will not help them, and we do not intend to do so... We have provided assistance to Chiang Kai-shek in the past, and this will continue to be the case in the future. If it is necessary to assist China, then This aid will be provided to the Chiang Kai-shek government.” Stalin promised not to provide arms to the CCP very positively, thinking that the Kuomintang government’s efforts to merge the army and establish a unified national regime were “perfectly legitimate wishes, because the country should have one army and one government. ". However, in June, Chiang Kai-shek, who smelled a strange smell, had to summon the Russian ambassador Petrov three times in a row to repeat the Lenin era's China policy, hoping that Sino-Soviet exchanges could be based on this, and even promised: " If Britain can keep Hong Kong, the Soviet Union should also be able to keep Lushun.” This kind of diplomatic response can be described as extremely soft.The reason why Chiang Kai-shek cared so much about Stalin's "friendship" was very clear. Seizing the Soviet Union grasped the key to containing the CCP's "confidential trouble".Although Stalin repeatedly stated that national interests had nothing to do with ideology, and that "the Soviet Union has nothing to do with these 'communists'", in fact, the spiritual connection between the Yan'an Soviet regime and the Soviet Bolsheviks cannot be ignored anyway.The Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1928 was simply held in Moscow.More importantly, another ray of light that cannot be underestimated has been projected from the hearts of the people of this country. The Chinese Communist Party has begun to grow like a sprout that has broken ground on the political arena at home and abroad. On April 23, 1945, the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in the Yangjialing Auditorium in Yan'an after six years of deliberation and preparation.The 50-day meeting allowed Mao Zedong to enter the vision of the top leaders of the Soviet Union like a star, and became the leader of the people in China who could challenge Chiang Kai-shek.This also surprised all US officials on China affairs.Ambassador Hurley was no exception. He had never expected that the Chinese man with poor clothes and poor food that he met in Yan'an Tuyao half a year ago would have such a powerful situation. Although Mao Zedong's voice was calm and restrained, political observers all over the world could feel the resolute force.Regardless of whether it is made public or not, he will definitely solve the post-war problems with a revolutionary war, and eventually overthrow Chiang Kai-shek and establish a new communist state power.During the eight-year war of resistance, while Chiang Kai-shek tried his best to purge the dissidents of the Kuomintang warlords, Yan'an quietly expanded to 900,000 soldiers relying on the vast base area behind the enemy, and there were more than 2 million militiamen. More than ten thousand party members.Therefore, Mao Zedong can proudly assert that the Chinese Communist Party "has become the focus of the Chinese people's resistance to Japan and national salvation, the focus of the Chinese people's liberation, and the focus of defeating the aggressors and building a new China."He announced the establishment of a "democratic and interim coalition government", which formed a tendency to fight against the Nationalist government, which made the Jiang family dynasty feel "terrified and uneasy". It was only a matter of time before Chiang Kai-shek and Stalin completely turned against each other.However, Mao Zedong always insisted on the concept of self-reliance and sufficient food and clothing, hoping to have foreign aid but not relying on foreign aid. Apart from maintaining the authority of the Communist International, Stalin could do nothing about him.All of a sudden, China's political situation became complicated and confusing, and the whole country was buzzing with peace talks. At least in front of various media, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong were expressing their harmonious and beautiful wishes.This made Major General Hurley start to itch again.In fact, when he was still serving as the personal representative of the US President in China, he had been making wishful thinking efforts: on the one hand, he was careful to prevent the Chinese government from collapsing, and urged the Chinese military to continue to fight against the Japanese army; Military institutions and the US embassy in Chongqing maintain good and friendly relations with the Chinese government.He has repeated such diplomatic rhetoric as "maintaining the consolidation of the Chinese government" and "maintaining the leadership of Generalissimo Chiang" many times. The day of victory was long overdue, but inspiring nonetheless.At this moment of worldwide celebration, Hurley's greatest wish is to use American spirit and will to combine the two Chinese brands into one.His specific goal has been locked: let Chongqing and Yan'an shake hands. It is a pity that Patrick Jay Hurley, an American politician in military uniform, will never understand China.In those days when he was embracing his Chinese allies with joy, everything that was going to happen in the ancient land under his feet was actually happening quietly. Perhaps Hurley paid too much attention to the expectations of the new President Truman, and forgot the advice of General Stilwell when he left office.It was a year before China and Japan launched an all-out competition on the North China, East China, South China, and Yunnan-Burma lines. General Stilwell insisted on telling Hurley that Chiang Kai-shek's front line was not in North China, East China, South China, or Yunnan. Burmese line, but in the silent Great Northwest.Stilwell reminded Hurley to pay attention to studying Chen Cheng and Hu Zongnan.He regarded this research as a key to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek. "Especially Hu Zongnan, known as the 'Northwest King', he is the barometer of the Chiang Group and a blockbuster that Chiang himself has deliberately stockpiled." This is Stilwell at the farewell dinner with Hull Lihong said something from the bottom of her heart when she clinked glasses with her neck.It's a pity that at the time, Hurley only listened to it as a piece of Xintianyou, and didn't take it too seriously.And it now appears that General Stilwell was serious. Indeed, if Hurley had been an observant statesman, or a "China hand," as some of his colleagues tout it, he could not have failed to notice the strange changes in the role of Hu Tsung-nan throughout China's war of resistance .During the eight years, Hu Zongnan stayed in Guanzhong without moving an inch, but he changed three theaters successively.First, the tenth war zone with Jiang Dingwen as the commander-in-chief, and then the eighth war zone with Zhu Shaoliang as the commander-in-chief. These two people have high names but low authority. No complaints.This gave Hu Zongnan seven years of peace to manage his Guanzhong hegemony. Beginning in April 1944, the Japanese Army's "Operation Plan No. 1" was put into practice, and by the beginning of December, a 2,400-kilometer-long continental line of communication had been opened from north to south.This strategic channel passes through Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi and up to Vietnam.The Japanese army deployed a mere 500,000 troops into such a vast area, causing the Kuomintang army, which is said to have a strength of 6 million, to lose about 700,000 troops.After the war, China lost 146 large and small cities, occupied 200,000 square kilometers of land, 7 aviation bases, and 36 airports. At least 6 million people were enslaved by the Japanese army! In this fiasco, which was called "the last jump of the Japanese invaders" by Chinese historians, Tang Enbo was second to none to win the first prize.General Tang was the deputy commander-in-chief of the first war zone and was known as the "King of the Central Plains".Although his 400,000 army "fighted hard" in front of Okamura Ningji's 150,000 elite soldiers, he did not make an inch of success. Directly under the headquarters, they were surrounded and disarmed by the local team in an earthen village. Even Tang's guards were forced to "hand in all their guns", and Tang himself escaped by disguised as a cook.But for more than a month, Tang Enbo lost 38 cities in the Central Plains, and the whole of Henan fell.The Japanese who tasted the sweetness climbed up the Longhai Line and swaggered westward.In just a few days, the striker arrived in Shanzhou. Immediately, Tongguan was in a hurry and Xi'an was shaken. In fact, the Japanese were just a tentative offensive, and their original intention was to open up the north-south continental line.But Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to be careless.On the one hand, he sent Chen Cheng to Xi'an to take charge of the military administration, and on the other hand, he ordered Hu Zongnan to come out of Tongguan to meet the Japanese invaders.This brought Hu Zongnan, who had never fought the Japanese army head-on, an excellent opportunity to gain fame easily.Soon, the "Great Victory in Western Henan" was hyped by the official media.As Tang Enbo, who was wiped out by the whole army, was dealt with, Hu Zongnan replaced him confidently and became the deputy commander of the first theater.Soon, Chen Cheng, who was also the commander-in-chief of the war zone, was ordered to replace He Yingqin as the minister of military affairs, so Hu Zongnan, a young man from Huangpu, logically began to act as the commander-in-chief of the first war zone. "King of the Northwest" Hu Zongnan's official career, even many low-level officers of the Kuomintang can tell the truth about it, and everyone can clearly see what he has both "the right time, the right place and the right people".Hurley, who is known as a "China hand", has also heard about this point but turned a deaf ear to it.Later, he admitted that he "didn't pay enough attention" to Hu Zongnan.The American uncle said he was a "China hand", but he didn't know anything about it. He didn't understand the meaning of what people said about Hu Zongnan, and he didn't understand the inevitable connection between Hu Zongnan's promotion and Chiang Kai-shek's major policies.He only knew that Hu Zongnan Guanzhong's hundreds of thousands of troops were Chiang Kai-shek's strategic reserves deployed in the depths of the country, but he didn't realize the aggressive atmosphere that Red Yan'an, which was a stone's throw away, breathed every day.Chiang Kai-shek deliberately let Hu Zongnan sit in the gate without showing his dew, in fact, he was always weakening the opportunities for the development of the Communist Party.It can be said that Hu is a piece of worry hidden in Jiang's stomach. Even if Hurley has a sky-high IQ, how can he hold back the deep political pulse of the Chinese?During this sleepless night full of flowers, the imaginative Ambassador Hurley absolutely did not expect that Hu Zongnan, who had always been "not noticed enough" by him, had already surfaced. The Chunyao area, which is less than a hundred miles north of Xi'an, has continuous mountains and towering passes, known as the "Gateway of Guanzhong".Guanzhong Hu Jun and the CCP’s Shan-Gan-Ning-Jin-Sui Joint Defense Army set up defenses in this area, and they lived in peace for eight years.However, on a clear and dewy dawn half a month ago, the tranquility of the past was suddenly lost here.The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army of the Guanzhong Division stationed on the commanding heights of Mount Yetai were still in their dreams, and dozens of shells from the Fifth Division of the KMT's Temporary Division and the Second Cavalry Division fell from the sky.The rumble of cannons gave solid proof to Hu Jun's clamor for more than a week about "anti-communist first, anti-Japanese second", "attack the border areas, and kill the Communist Party".However, the Eighth Route Army on the Yetai Mountain position received the order: stick to the position and never attack. For three days in a row, although the entire Yetai Mountain was full of smoke and flames, Hu Jun's infantry still could not advance half a step.Hu Zongnan stared at the frontline battle report contemptuously, with a mocking smile on his lips.At this time, it was only a few days before he was formally appointed as the commander-in-chief of the first war zone, and he was in a state of satisfaction, and he didn't take a "chicken feather hill" in his eyes at all. The "old man" has already ordered nine divisions to be dispatched from the front lines in Henan and eastern Shaanxi. On the line of Yi, lay a long formation.As long as he wants to, he can advance one hundred and eighty kilometers north in half a day, and he is afraid that he will not be able to take down the little Yetai Mountain? "Two divisions are not enough, add another division to push up the reserve third division of the 16th Army." Hu Zongnan was not in a hurry. At this time, Zhu De and Peng Dehuai, in the name of the commander-in-chief and deputy commander of the Eighteenth Army, also sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek and Hu Zongnan, reaffirming the Eighth Route Army's position of taking the overall situation into consideration and exposing Chiang Kai-shek's plot to create an anti-communist civil war.Zeng Wanzhong, the deputy commander of the war zone, said thoughtfully at the side: "It's the climax of the Anti-Japanese War, will the action make a big fuss..." Hu Zongnan didn't like this very well.He turned his back to Zeng Wanzhong, and immediately interrupted Zeng's words: "What are you afraid of? With the support of the old man, besides, my military adviser is famous, and the Communist Party has brought it upon themselves!" Hu Zongnan's "teacher is famous" refers to the so-called "Chunhua Incident" that happened not long ago.It was still a month ago that Liang Ganqiao's Department of the Hu Army stationed in Chunhua, outside the south gate of the border area, fought against Li Jingmou's Department under Zhu Shaozhou due to internal strife.At the same time, Liang Ganqiao's garrison battalion commander Liu Wenhua and some soldiers mutinied and surrendered to the troops stationed in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.In addition, a platoon of Hu Jun who was stationed in the bunker in Fangli Town, Chunhua also mutinied and surrendered.Hu Zongnan insisted that this was the result of the single-handed planning of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, so he asked the teacher to blame him.No matter how much Zhu De and Peng Dehuai demanded "investigate and stop", it will not help.Hu Zongnan, who became the commander-in-chief, had an astonishingly tempered temper, and he was simply furious.It doesn't count that the three divisions were pushed to the tiny place of Yetai Mountain. There are still a large number of troops with unknown numbers gathered at the key points of the Kuomintang army's garrison around Xi'an, Yaoxian, and Xingping. The situation has become so serious that it cannot be reconciled.Authorities in Yan'an, Xinhua News Agency, have even referred to Hu Zongnan's behavior of "mobilizing troops from the anti-Japanese front line to oppose his compatriots" as "a heinous crime". The new Fourth Brigade, the First Teaching Brigade, the Second Brigade, and the 358th Brigade, which was preparing to cross the Yellow River east to the front line, were also ordered to reinforce Guanzhong.Commander Zhang Zongxun and political commissar Xi Zhongxun, who unified the command of this self-defense battle, whipped their horses day and night. Yetai Mountain has become a thorn in the fingertips of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. Hu Zongnan used the human sea tactics to gnaw for a few days without seeing any movement, and again mobilized a large number of field artillery, mountain artillery, mortars, and rockets made in the United States to cover Yetai Mountain again in fireworks. The defenders of Yetai Mountain began to counterattack.The battle lasted for a week.By the evening of July 27, the Eighth Route Army stationed at Yetai Mountain voluntarily withdrew from its position in order to avoid unnecessary losses.Hu Zongnan finally succeeded, and then his appetite was whetted. The strength of six divisions and three regiments was still insufficient. They not only surrounded Yetai Mountain, but also pushed forward to the border of the border area, occupying the front line of Huangling and Luochuan. Hu Zongnan's arrogance can be seen from this.He didn't understand that Mount Yetai was no longer a mountain, but a symbol of will.It is okay to ask the Eighth Route Army to give up a position, but it is absolutely impossible to give up the will to fight. On August 8, 1945, on the eve of the Japanese government's begging and surrender note, China's Kuomintang and Communist armies tore their faces on this small hill.The Eighth Route Army, which had been working hard, was irritated and began to organize a large-scale counterattack.Yan'an made up his mind not to take advantage of Hu Zongnan and get used to his bad habits, no matter what the price was, he had to win this trick.Two days later, Hu Jun, whose feet were still warm, couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly withdrew from Yetai Mountain.This was regarded as the final contest of friction and anti-friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party during the Anti-Japanese War. In fact, it had predicted Hu Zongnan's inevitable doom in the future Northwest competition. The good news of the Yetaishan counterattack entered Yan'an at the same time as the good news of the Japanese army's surrender. Most of the current affairs news in Yan'an came directly from the front line.Entering 1945, the death knell of the Japanese has been ringing frequently. As early as the beginning of the new year, the U.S. military announced the occupation of Wright Island. Japan suffered a crushing defeat in the Pacific battlefield. Not to mention that the navy was almost wiped out, and the casualties of the ground troops alone were as high as 70,000. More than a month later, the bloody battle on Iwo Jima was horrific again. Except for 216 prisoners of more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers guarding the island, all the rest were wiped out; by March 24, Okinawa Island, the last avant-garde fortress of the Japanese army, was also smashed by the US military. The bottom was turned upside down, 110,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, and 200,000 islanders were killed in the sea of ​​fire.Afterwards, U.S. planes flew over Japan, and important industrial cities such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, and Osaka were turned into ruins and scorched earth one after another amidst the roar of the U.S. military's "Super Sky Fortress". At the same time, Nazi Germany couldn't stand it anymore, and announced its unconditional surrender on May 8.The United States, Britain, and China issued the "Potsdam Proclamation" in the form of a declaration in July, warning Japan that if it did not lay down its arms, catastrophe would be imminent.However, how can the red-eyed war madmen stop their pace?As a result, two mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki rose into the sky.For the Japanese people, this is a devastating disaster that needs to be remembered for thousands of years: in Hiroshima City with a population of 320,000, 78,150 people were killed immediately, and 5,100 people were injured or missing. The whole world is tremblingly remembering the time at 8:15 on August 6, 1945, when the sunny and sweltering Hiroshima suddenly lost all noise and only breath remained.It was not until the next day that people heard the voice of US President Truman floating slowly from the other side of the ocean: "This is an atomic bomb, and what it controls is the basic force of the universe..." Just when Truman’s bloody warning was rushed to the Japanese emperor, millions of Soviet troops also gathered from Shuangchengzi in the Far East to Siberia’s Chita line, attacking the Japanese Kwantung Army that had been rampant in Northeast China for several years... During the past six months, the Chinese Communist Party has firmly grasped every opportunity. Mao Zedong was not in an easy mood.Although history is confirming his great theory about the three stages of the Anti-Japanese War one by one, the difficulties and twists that follow will make his voyage stand the most critical test.Mao was superhuman in that he had no other entry in his lexicon but unwavering political conviction.This determines that in a game of current affairs, he can always move out of every piece calmly, without losing his direction or appearing as a waste piece. At this time, with his hands behind his back, Mao Zedong calmly sorted out his thoughts in the cave dwelling in Yan'an Zaoyuan that had been eroded by wind and rain.On the one hand, he called Stalin to welcome the Soviet Union's participation in the war; on the other hand, he issued a statement, declaring that the anti-Japanese armed forces in the liberated areas would launch "the last battle against the Japanese invaders."According to Mao Zedong's request, the anti-Japanese frontline troops under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, "under all possible conditions, carry out extensive attacks against all aggressors and their lackeys who are unwilling to surrender, annihilate the forces of these enemies, seize their arms and assets, Vigorously expand the liberated areas and shrink the occupied areas."Obviously, this is the final sprint of an eight-year marathon. At midnight on August 10, everything happened calmly as Mao Zedong expected.Zhu De issued Order No. 1 in the name of Yan'an headquarters, calmly.The order requires any anti-Japanese armed forces in the liberated areas to send an ultimatum to the enemies and commanding agencies on the traffic arteries in nearby cities and towns in accordance with the provisions of the "Potsdam Proclamation", and limit them to hand over all their armed forces to our combat troops within a certain period of time. Followed by a reasonable celebration.Zhu and Mao each walked around the table and clasped their hands together.This immediately reminded the veterans present of the meeting in Jinggangshan.Someone brought some wine in two large teapots. Mao Zedong took a sip and said, "That's all, let's satisfy our cravings with a bowl of braised pork!" Everyone laughed happily. This sentiment immediately spread throughout Yan'an, the border regions and even the liberated areas across the country. The eight-year backlog is too heavy, and everyone has a volcano in their hearts.In Yan'an City that night, red flags were flying all over the mountains and plains.When Japan publicly announced its unconditional surrender on August 15, the carnival in the city reached its peak.Blackboard newspapers and wall newspapers everywhere reported the good news with eye-catching headlines. Parades from all directions rushed to the city center together. White sheep belly handkerchiefs and military uniforms and military caps were thrown into the sky, and the wrinkles on the faces of fellow fruit sellers were stretched , grabbed the red dates in the basket, and threw them to passers-by who had never met before, "This is the 'Victory Fruit', everyone is free to eat."Yangko, slogans and laughter, actually drowned out the noisy gongs and drums, suona, firecrackers and fireworks in unison.The honored soldiers leaned on crutches and were surrounded by people, "The blood was not shed in vain! Our blood was not shed in vain!" They waved their arms excitedly and shouted loudly.Huge portraits of Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Zhu De, shaded by the red light of torches, floated slowly with the flow of people in the parade.The poets burst into tears, and they wrote: "...the blood is boiling, and people have forgotten the fatigue of working all day..." The cadres of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission all joined the ranks of carnival, and even the unsmiling deputy commander-in-chief , Peng Dehuai, Chief of the General Staff of the Central Military Commission, also stepped on the drums and performed Yangko.He was grinning happily, but he was very strict in his control, letting the joy in his heart seep out of his eyes bit by bit. We now know that this victory was not a flower at the finish line.It is a milestone in the history of Chinese revolution, and joy alone is not enough.But at that time, no one carefully understood this point from Peng Dehuai's strong and restrained laughter.