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In August 1947, Shajiadian...

Battle of Yanqing...

In February 1948, the battle of Yichuan.

Liu Kan, commander of the Reorganized 29th Army, found that the road ahead was very suspicious. The vanguard reconnaissance unit had discovered a small amount of G Army harassment, and although the number was small, its combat quality was like a regular army.However, Hu Zongnan once again showed a mind-stopping operation, still asking the army to "advance rapidly along the Luoyi Highway according to the original plan", but was surrounded by Xi Ye in one fell swoop. On March 3, Liu Kan's army collapsed and committed suicide with a grenade.For the first time since our army moved to northern Shaanxi, it eliminated the reorganized army of the national army. At this time, it was less than a year since our army abandoned Yan'an.

After the battle, Ye Ting, the deputy commander of Xiye, sat in a jeep and passed by our soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield.

"This is where Liu Kan committed suicide," said the staff officer.

Ye Ting did not speak, but patted the driver, stopped the jeep, and stared at the blackened loess for a moment.

"My family lives in Huangtu Gaopo—oh—"

"The wind blows over the slopes,"

"Whether it's from the northwest or the southeast,"

"It's all my songs, my songs"

On the top of the slope, a little soldier sang happily to the sky.He carried a Browning BAR on his shoulder, double magazines on his body, and an American M1911A1 pistol on his waist.

"My family lives on the Loess High Slope"

"The sun passed over the slope"

"Basking my arms in the light of my cave"

"And my cows follow me"

These four lines were sung by Ye Ting in the car.

After singing, Ye Ting suddenly laughed, "Tang Hua, a little eccentric, what song did he write? It's just like two sentences back and forth, but it's like brainwashing. Now it's all right, the whole field army will shout this song , even I, a Cantonese, have moved to the Loess High Slope!"

"The loss of a division in Yichuan is not only the biggest setback for the national army to suppress bandits, but also a meaningless sacrifice. Good generals were killed in battle, the entire army was wiped out, mourning and mourning, how can you feel it?!"

Late at night in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek wrote a diary in grief and indignation.

……

In September 1948, north of Dali.

The dense fog in the early morning has not yet dissipated, and two figures appeared on the high ground, each looking ahead with their own binoculars.

西野第1、第2、第3、第4、第6、第7纵队将近8万人马，已全部运动到位。

"Hu Zongnan's five mobile divisions, and the last two remaining, are all here. Eliminate them, and the national army will usher in a total collapse in the northwest battlefield. This is the last battle in northern Shaanxi!" Mr. Peng said.

"Annihilating the enemies of Dali and Pucheng, Tongguan was completely opened in front of us. Tongguan... yes, this is the last battle in northern Shaanxi!" Ye Ting said.

"Commander Ye"

"Commander Peng"

"We will command this battle together," Mr. Peng said.

The commander of the Eighth Route Army/No.18 Group Army and the commander of the New Fourth Army clasped their hands tightly.

Chapter 2, the fast forward key of time ([-])

Fast forward two: The work of China Resources

July 1949, Shanghai Oriental Hotel.

Mr. Dong Bi, Mr. Chen, Commander Chen and several guards were at the entrance of the hotel. Seeing Qin Bangli approaching from a distance, they greeted him.

"Comrade Qin Bangli, are you here to report on work or visit relatives? What are you doing with so many things?" Commander Chen said.

"Aren't I reporting to the two chiefs?" Qin Bangli said with a smile, "These are the contents of the report."

Walking into the meeting room, Qin Bangli put down the two large bags he was carrying, then untied the messenger bag, and then unloaded the heavy backpack on his back.

"I walked for a long time with big and small bags on a hot day, let's drink some water first." Elder Dong lifted the teapot.Qin Bangli waved his hand to indicate no need, took out a grass-green translucent plastic bottle from his backpack, unscrewed the cap with a snap, and drank a couple of gulps.

"This is Huarun's iced green tea," Qin Bangli shook the bottle in his hand.

"This is iced black tea. This is mint iced tea. This is oolong tea. This is black plum soup. This is Prunella vulgaris herbal tea. This is white flower snake herbal water... Two chiefs, come and taste it." Qin Bangli Bottle after bottle, plastic bottles were taken out of the bag one after another, placed on the conference table, and two bottles were handed over to Mr. Dong and Commander Chen.

Elder Dong opened the iced black tea and took a sip carefully.

Commander Chen calmly pushed the white snake grass water aside, and reached out to pick up the ebony soup. (I went to Laoshan after the Shandong Field Army liberated Qingdao, so don’t try to trick me.)

"These products are called soft drinks in China Resources' product line," said Qin Bangli. "The first developed iced black tea and iced green tea have established brand effects and sold the most. Now they have opened up markets in more than a dozen regions of the Commonwealth. Others were launched a little later, but sales are also growing rapidly now. Tang Hua also asked us to investigate...market share, especially compared with Coca-Cola's sales data. I don't know why we compare it with Coca-Cola. However, in the Philippines, Malaysia, India, our shipments have surpassed Coca-Cola."

Elder Dong and Commander Chen tasted the drink and found it to be very good.

"The sales volume of the three regions has surpassed that of Coca-Cola, so this soft drink must have made a lot of money." Commander Chen said.

"Yes, but the drink with the highest profit is not the drink, but this." Qin Bangli opened another bag, took out several small plastic bags from the bag and put them on the table. "This one is called Latiao."

Elder Dong opened the package, took out two spicy sticks and put them in his mouth. "This is spicy strips? It looks red, but it doesn't taste spicy."

"Ah... no, no," Qin Bangli found out that Mr. Dong took the mildly spicy version, "This is the slightly spicy version, prepared for Guangdong and Nanyang areas that are not used to spicy food. This package is the medium spicy version, which is special. Spicy version."

Elder Dong and Commander Chen smoked two extra spicy sticks to taste. "It tastes just right."

"Also," Qin Bangli continued to take out the small plastic bag from the bag...

"It can't be done, hiccup, it's hot," Mr. Dong finished, and quickly picked up the iced black tea to drink.

Commander Chen said with a smile on the side: "Look, Hubei people are not as good at eating spicy food as Sichuan people?" After speaking, he also threw a piece of Mexican candy into his mouth.

……

"In short, the current product structure of China Resources is like this," Qin Bangli said. "The big business is divided into three parts: cargo export agency, manufacturing, and local retail in Hong Kong and Guangdong. Manufacturing is currently the largest business of China Resources, and it is specifically divided into plastic products. , food, industrial semi-finished products, small electromechanical products... In 1948, China Resources' annual profit exceeded 1000 million US dollars for the first time, and the figure reached 1420 million. In 1949, it continued to maintain ultra-rapid growth, with a total profit of 1060 million US dollars in the first half of the year, the world's largest It should not be a problem if the annual profit exceeds 2000 million U.S. dollars. In this way, we can achieve and complete the task assigned by Tang Hua to China Resources one year in advance. Among the profits in 1948, a total of 600 million U.S. dollars was spent on underground work and front-line support. The expenditure was only 22 U.S. dollars, all of which were used to rescue the arrested Kuomintang comrades. The remaining nearly 800 million U.S. dollars in profits were all invested in expanding production and brand promotion. For 400 million, Tang Hua supports our party’s underground work, supports the front line with 300 million US dollars, and our support for the Kuomintang’s 11 US dollars..."

The conference table was almost filled with Qin Bangli.A pile of snacks, a pile of drinks, a pile of plastic products - in fact, China Resources' current plastic processing plant does not produce many products for direct sale, but mainly provides semi-finished products such as beverage bottle packaging bags for other products of China Resources.There are also some small items that cannot be classified.The backpacks, messenger bags and handbags used to bring these things are also one of the products that Qin Bangli brought to report.The eyes of the three were dazzling, as if they had moved the street stall into the Oriental Hotel.

"Xiao Qin, you may be the richest person in our party now. You Huarun have done an excellent job, thank you for your hard work." Commander Chen nodded with satisfaction after listening to the report.

"Actually, Lianhe Bank's old business—the export profit has not reached 200 million U.S. dollars a year, and Tang Hua fiddled with other profits," Qin Bangli said, "China Resources is now an industrial trust, not a commercial bank.  … ...Our comrades in the enemy industry department, now our daily work has become to guard factories and warehouses."

Qin Bangli recalled that in Hong Kong, those old soldiers and old spies who were transferred from Guangdong and Hainan all turned into vests, led wolf dogs, held wooden sticks, and some of them had a Browning HP hidden in their clothes. The warehouse security guard couldn't help laughing.

Commander Chen took out a cigarette case.Qin Bangli quickly picked up a small plastic box from the table, and ignited it with a "snap".

"This is?" "Gas lighters. Gasoline lighters on the market now cost at least 5 dollars a piece, and the more attractive ones start at 10 dollars. The shipping price of the disposable gas lighters we produce is only 20 cents, and we Get a gross profit of 10 cents."