"The astronaut turned his head to look into the distance" "All the buildings on the earth disappeared without a trace" "Only the Great Wall of China is faintly visible" "The Great Wall" "That is the splendid symbol of this country with ancient civilization of ours" "It's a long text recording the wars of all the generations including the War of Liberation of the Chinese People" "Just four days after the Liaoxi-Shenyang Campaign ended" "The Huai-Hai Campaign started shooting" "Jiang Jieshi was shocked for the victories won by the PLA in the decisive battles in Northeast China and the southern lines" "He attempted to move his 600,000 troops in North China" "To the south by sea" "And throw them into the Huai-Hai battlefields" "Or utilize them in the Changjiang defense line" "Mao Zedong and the Military-Committee of the Central Committee" "Timely ordered the Northeast China Field Army" "To cross the ancient Great Wall" "And cooperated with the PLA in North China in launching the Beiping-Tianjin Campaign" "To pin down Fu Zuoyi group in Tianjin area" "To break them up to besiege them and then annihilate them on the spot" "The Three Great Campaigns of Liaoxi-Shenyang, Huai-Hai and Beiping-Tianjin" "Formed the mainstay of the strategic decisive battles of China's War of Liberation" "After the Beiping-Tianjin Campaign" "Jiang Jieshi lost almost all of his crack troops" "Fundamental shakes happened to the KMT reactionary rule" "I don't know how many times I've toured the imperial Palace" "But I've never come in a rainy weather" "Very luckily I came with General Fu today" "And together we saw the Thousand-Dragon Spraying Water in the Taihe Palace" "That may well be the ever-marvelous spectacle" "To have such a chance to accompany Mr. Ambassador to walk around" "That is my luck" "OK Please" "Mm" "Only when standing on this spot" "Can we really understand" "What Supreme is" "Suppose if I could turn back to my youth" "Me as the US ambassador to China" "Maybe I should have presented my credential in this place" "But it was 355 years after the Taihe Palace had been set up" "Was the United States of America proclaimed its founding" "Please" "General Fu" "Again I'd like to call your attention" "Withdraw the National armies in North China to the coastal areas in Shandong" "The US West Pacific Fleet remains stationed in Qingdao" "Will get in direct contact you, General" "Mr. Ambassador" "I've stated clearly" "I'm merely a local chancellor" "So I'll have to be at Nanjing's command" "Ha..." "Ha... ha... ha..." "My old friend" "Originally I thought you're not good at diplomatic parlance" "It seems I was wrong" "Excuse my poor language..." "Please" "Chairman!" "The Advance Corps of the Northeast China Field Army" "Has arrived in Jidong" "I think we can tell them to take cover pending orders in the area of Yutian, Jixian and Sanhe" "Good" "Thus they can be flexible to move in several directions" "Mainly to menace Beiping" "Central News Agency news transferred from Washington" "The US president Truman" "Ordered the West Pacific Fleet to continue stationing in Qingdao" "And to take steps" "To support the Chinese troops in North China" "It seems the Americans" "Have planned to support Fu Zuoyi directly" "That's good too" "So that Fu Zuoyi can feel secure in the knowledge of his new backing" "We welcome that" "You haven't enjoyed enough Commander-in-Chief Fu?" "Please have some more" "Thanks" "I've eaten my fill" "Having dinner in my house" "Too simple and casual" "Thanks a lot, President!" "This is the highest courteous reception" "Someone says" "To appoint Fu Zuoyi as the Chancellor of Southeast China Military and Administration" "Though a high official in illustrious post" "Actually he becomes a one-man merely normal commander" "He can be only a residing official" "Such talks are really irresponsible" "I intend to move the troops in Beiping and Tianjin area southward" "And join in the Central Plains battlefields" "That serves to show President think deeply and plans carefully" "But it concerns the war situation" "I privately have a little opinion" "Which I dare not hold back" "In my view, to defend Beijing-Tianjin area is the surefire plan" "To retreat in south of the Changjiang River is only partial regime" "If not out of absolute necessity" "We might not withdraw the troops in North China down south" "In Xuzhou-Bengbu battlefields the CCP armies have thrown 2 Field Armies" "If Beiping-Tianjin area fell and the CCP armies in Northeast China drove straight down south" "There will be 3 CCP Field Armies in Xuzhou-Bengbu area" "Yisheng" "Lin Biao's troops have been as many as a million" "Plus Nie Rongzhen's troops in North China" "This pressure" "Whoever to withstand individually" "Is not an easy matter" "I estimate the CCP armies in Northeast China" "Need 3 months of rest and reorganization before enter the Pass" "The hostilities in Beiping-Tianjin area" "Will happen after the beginning of spring of next year" "During the period, we can expand forces of 200,000 to 500,000 men" "To reinforce the arc-shaped position of 60 kilometers of Tianjin and Tanggu improve the pillbox group system in Beipin" "Moreover, we've Commandant Yan in Taiyuan" "To coordinate powerfully" "To deal with Lin Biao and Nie Rongzhen" "Although it'll not be so well-to-do it'll unlikely make President so worried" "Nanyuan Airport, Beiping" "Commander-in-Chief" "Commander-in-Chief" "Commander-in-Chief, how are things going?" "Mr. Jiang arranged all the routes of forces to compel me to submit" "But the consequence is" "I convinced Mr. Jiang" "We've been worrying about you all along" "Frankly speaking" "Mr. Jiang still hates to give up Beiping-Tianjin and the whole North China" "Unexpectedly, he was so liberal" "Personally promised me 3 principles" "Authorized me the full responsibilities of the party administration, military affairs and economy in North China" "Thoroughly over to me including the right of payments of the Central Bank" "I can enlarge the establishment of my troops" "And receive the US aids directly" "I've promised Mr. Jiang" "We'll progressively move to Beiping-Tianjin-Tangshan area and insure Tianjin-Tangshan" "Thus we can have the convenience of offense defense and retreat" "Hi" "Daddy" "You're back home" "Flour rolls" "Mutton blocks" "Daddy" "It is said it always rain in Nanjing" "How are you with your health?" "Fine" "Dongju" "Accompany daddy to sit for a while" "OK" "I'll help myself" "Let's go" "Dongju" "Mm" "You have any familiars over there?" "Where?" "The other side" "During the Anti-Japanese War," "Didn't Daddy have a couple of friends over there?" "Is the familiar reliable?" "You're still young, I'm afraid you were cheated" "Afraid you met the BIS" "Daddy" "I've been 24 years old" "I'd like to telegraph Mao Zedong" "Really" "Let me try" "Mr. Mao Zedong" "I subscribe to the proposition about setting up a coalition government" "Don't use the pen" "Use here to remember" "After Fu Zuoyi came back from Nanjing" "He made adjustment in his force disposition" "From Luanxian County in the east till Caigoubu in the west" "Along the railway of 500 kilometers long" "He deployed the troops in a long line" "Laying his own troops on the west of Beiping" "And the Jiang System Troops laid on the east of Beiping" "We can see that Fu Zuoyi has really given much thought to the matter" "Once the situation is unfavorable" "His own troops can shrink westward" "And the Jiang System Troops can escape by ship through Tanggu" "In the telegraph Fu Zuoyi sent me, he said" "He was willing to hand all the troops of 600,000 under his command over for Mr. Mao to command" "Nonsense of him lf the enemies retreated" "Of course we can get hold of Beiping-Tianjin area without a fight" "But considering the strategic meaning it'll be better to restrain Fu Zuoyi group within Beiping-Tianjin area" "Firstly" "In the Huai-Hai battlefields we can have a free hand to annihilate the enemies without any trouble in the rear" "Secondly" "Without the couple of hundreds of thousands of Fu Zuoyi's troops" "Jiang Jieshi will find it very difficult to organize the Changjiang defense line" "Thus directly enhances his collapse" "We can't keep Fu Zuoyi with only our troops in North China" "So we still decide the Northeast China Field Army to get inside the Pass in advance" "Lin Biao feels the difficulty very large" "He always plans to have a period of rest and reorganization" "Mm" "Yes... yes" "We've just approved their plan of a month of rest and reorganization" "In the area of Huai-Hai they've entered the tense stage" "Enemies in Beiping-Tianjin area may withdraw southward at any moment" "East China Field Army must take action ahead of time" "The sooner the better lf the chance lost, we'll make a mistake" "A historical mistake" "The Northeast China Field Army must get inside the Pass ASAP" "I suggest we order the North China 3rd Corps to stop their attacks temporarily" "So as not to excite Fu Zuoyi to make up his mind to escape" "Mm" "We can also solicit opinions from Comrade Xiangqian" "To hold up his attacks against Taiyuan" "Mm, good!" "After one or two days of preparation" "The Northeast China Field Army will set out entirely" "OK!" "We've settled it then" "Hold up there," "And immediately stop the attacks against Taiyuan" "Telegraph Xu Xiangqian" "Xiangqian!" "Xiangqian!" "And now you can't Xiangqian (meaning "go forward")" "All right" "You see" "We've checked three times without finding any mistakes" "That's OK" "Not expected in my childhood" "I learned a little about abacus and I still remember the way" "Reporting" "Come in, please" "Sister Deng!" "Vice Chairman Zhou" "Come, come up..." "Vice Chairman Zhou" "Here is the sample of RMB money printed in a hurry" "Submit for your approval" "Come, come up" "Sit down, please" "Why not sit down" "Why?" "Quite good!" "I can't see any faults" "I don't have any objections" "Please submit to Chairman and Shaoqi" "No problem to issue on Dec 1st?" "No problem, I've already informed the lower levels" "Starting Dec 1st," "All the original currencies in the liberated areas shall be out of usage" "Vice Chairman Zhou!" "Chairman wants you to his place" "OK" "I'm coming" "Tell Yang Lishan" "To draft a telegraph to Comrade Li Fuchun" "We agree to issue 500,000 silver dollars to Northeast China Field Army" "OK" "Lin, Luo and Liu's telegraph" "Northeast China Field Army started off on 22nd to get inside the Pass" "Moved up the date" "Our previous concept is in Jan to Jun of 1949" "To capture Beiping-Tianjin area" "And now it's moved up to the end of this year or the beginning of next year to solve the problem" "Do you think that is enough?" "I meant to stop the attacks against Taiyuan and Baoding" "Can we keep Fu Zuoyi stay herein?" "I'm also thinking" "The Northeast China Field Army main forces entering inside the Pass can't be kept secret for long" "As soon as Fu Zuoyi finds it" "Very possibly he'll retreat down south from Tanggu recklessly" "I have such a worry" "Order North China Yang Chengwu and Li Tianhuan Corpses to start off from Suidong" "And rapidly besiege Zhangjiakou and Xuanhua" "To attract the enemies in Beiping to reinforce westward" "Yang, Luo Geng Corpses, starting off from Fuping and Quyang" "Simultaneously rush northward" "And the advance corpses of the Northeast China Field Army" "Will stay in Jixian area preparing for occasional throwing" "Cheng Zihua and Huang Zhiyong can command the Beiping-Zhangjiakou battle jointly" "Once Yang and Li besiege Zhangjiakou," "Fu Zuoyi will very possibly send out his 35th Army to raise the siege" "The 35th Army is Fu Zuoyi's outstanding flexible forces" "That'll be the best case" "If we can, on the Beiping-Zhangjiakou line," "Catch hold of more than 16 divisions of Fu Zuoyi's" "Then we've really gained the strategic initiative" "If Fu Zuoyi want to end it through retreat" "Humph!" "I'm afraid it'll be not so easy" "Nov 29th, 1948" "The 3rd Corps of North China Military Region besieged Zhangjiakou" "That started the Beiping-Tianjin Campaign" "Look" "Two years... two whole years" "Me the father came back again" "Go... 121" "121 121" "121" "Black-Tiger!" "Hahahahah..." "Ah..." "Ah..." "You hate to let me go..." "Army Commander!" "You see..." "Commander-in-Chief" "Too short time left to you?" "35th Army is ready to start off at any moment" "Good" "This beast bite the Head of the Post Office yesterday" "Look!" "Just scratched" "If you like, Commander-in-Chief, just take it to play" "Really willing?" "OK!" "As soon as you come back from Zhangjiakou I'll return it right away" "It's impossible for Lin Biao's troops to get inside the Pass in one or two months" "It's merely a part action that the CCP armies attack Zhangjiakou" "I've ordered the 104th Army to move into Huailai" "And the 16th Army into Changping and Nankou" "By this chance" "Defeat Nie Rongzhen's troops first" "And then turn to meet Lin Biao" "You can rest assured, Commander-in-Chief" "Black-Tiger" "Accompany Commander-in-Chief..." "Play for a few days" "Headquarters of the Advance Corps of Northeast China Field Army" "All right" "Commander" "Urgent telegraph from the Mili-Committee" "Now the 35th Army of Fu Zuoyi's has started off westward" "You should start out immediately and strive directly toward Nankou and Huailai" "To coordinate with the 2nd and 3rd Corpses of North China in the annihilation of this enemy" "Telegraph immediately" "To inform all the columns" "OK" "Start out right now" "Out we start!" "Attention!" "Dress right, dress!" "Dress right, Dress!" "Eyes front!" "Attention!" "There's action" "Urgent cable" "Last night the CCP armies captured Miyun suddenly" "What troops of the CCP armies?" "Northeast China Field Army, with caps made of dog skin" "Designation?" "Cheng Zihua and Huang Zhiyong Corps" "The CCP armies are stretching their hand to Beiping" "Attention" "Raise the flag" "At ease!" "Today, I've three matters to declare" "Order the 35th Army to retreat to Beiping immediately" "Army Commander" "Mm" "Why is the Headquarters so anxious to call us back to Beiping?" "Commander-in-Chief is afraid we might suffer losses" "How many goats have you that you're afraid not to put them all into the fold?" "2nd Corps of North China Military Region" "Blocking position of the 12th Brigade" "OK" "Got it" "The 35th Army has broken through the second defense line of the 12th Brigade" "Yang, Luo and Geng's main forces haven't arrived yet" "If you failed blocking, the 35th Army might go back to Beiping" "Telegraph Yang, Luo and Geng to press them" "Vice Chairman Zhou" "Chairman has been standing on the snow land for 2 hours" "And he won't come back despite we've persuaded him so many times" "Chairman" "How good snow!" "Doesn't it arise your poetic inspiration, Chairman?" "Aha" "No... no" "I'll stand together with you, Chairman" "Intentionally in so thin clothes to fool me back, am I right?" "I won't go back." "I'll scold somebody!" "You can do the same as you're back indoors" "What's the problem with Li and Yang's Corpses?" "Turning a deaf ear to the orders of the Mili-Committee" "I want to cut off the contact between Zhangjiakou and Xuanhua" "Lay the troops along both sides of the railway" "Allowing the 35th Army go back and forth freely" "The main forces of Yang Luo and Geng Corpses are marching up day and night" "They're sluggish... too slow if they allowed the 35th Army to run back to Beiping," "I'll hate them all my life" "Also Cheng and Huang Corpses Whoever told them to conquer Miyun with their advance troops?" "So that Fu Zuoyi was alarmed... nonsense" "Better we go back indoors" "I'm not seventy or eighty years old!" "Hurry!" "Keep pace" "Hurry!" "Keep pace" "Reporting!" "Urgent cable from Mili-Commission" "The wordings are very serious" "It seemed Chairman got angry" "Where's Principal" "Where's Principal" "Over there" "Good" "Reporting!" "Principal" "The 35th Army has gone running to Xinbaoan" "Please Staff Officer Gao squat down and speak slowly" "The 35th Army has crossed Xiahuayuan and ran to Xinbaoan" "That's serious!" "Xiahuayuan is only 15 kilometers away from Xinbaoan" "Telegraph the 12th Brigade immediately" "Order them to pay out any cost" "Resolutely block up the 35th Army" "They must persist till the main forces arrive" "Yes" "One moment" "At the same time, telegraph all the columns" "Tell them to quicken their marching speed" "Utilize the vigor of risking the life to forced mach" "For those without telegraph contact" "Ride our horses to inform them respectively" "Yes" "Order the troops..." "Prepare dumplings" "I say, Commander and Commissar" "Shall we send a telegraph" "To explain to Chairman Mao?" "Our situation is sure to get clarified" "At first, we received the telegraph too late" "And we've only two roads to go" "Absolutely too narrow for 8 brigades to go through" "And for the troops are in marching" "The orders cannot be passed through" "Why complain for the difficulties?" "As we capture the 35th Army" "You're well, I'm well, and all is well" "If we let go the 35th Army you can't even find the proper tomb to cry at" "Hey!" "Put on the cotton-padded trousers" "Ouch!" "Ouch!" "Stand up and quickly I'll carry you on my back" "Hurry" "Stand up quickly" "Let's go it'll be quicker to shoulder it in this way" "Youngster!" "Put on the clothes and run by yourself" "Don't fear the cold" "Don't stop." "Everybody!" "Run forward!" "Hold my hand" "Careful!" "Give it to me" "Keep pace" "Hurry" "Our main force's up here!" "Our main force's up here!" "Our main force's up here!" "Our main force's up here!" "Our main force's up here!" "Our main force's up here!" "Our main force's up here!" "Commander" "Reporting!" "Commissar" "Hi!" "Commissar" "You've worked hard" "Chief-of-Staff" "A single brigade of yours blocked up the 35th Army on the Xinbaoan line" "Spared the corps main forces 1 day and 2 nights" "Very great" "Very great" "On the line from Beiping to Suiyuan" "Originally, it was so faraway and silent" "But suddenly it became the focus center of the two supreme commands in Xibaipo and Nanjing" "From Dec 8th to 11th" "Within 3 days" "The 2nd Corps of North China repulsed the enemy converging attacks from both the east and west" "Firmly besieged the 35th Army in the city of Xinbaoan" "The 3rd Corps of North China bravely completed the tight surrounding of Zhangjiakou" "The advance corps of Northeast China Field Army rapidly reached the line between Beiping and Zhangjiakou" "Annihilated the enemy 16th Army and most part of the 104th Army" "For the Beiping-Zhangjiakou line had been in a state of emergency" "Fu Zuoyi was forced to move 3 armies of the Jiang System defending Tanggu in Tianjin to near Beiping" "And hastily moved his General Headquarters to Zhongnanhai of Beiping" "Thus the PLA had not only caught hold of all the troops of Fu Zuoyi System" "But also pinned down all the troops of Jiang Jieshi System" "Thus formed a very favorable situation in Beiping-Tianjin battlefields" "That day, very nearly the 35th Army was to escape back to Beiping" "We scolded the three corpses deadly" "Recalling back, my attitude was a little bad" "So the congratulation telegraph wordings should be warmer" "The case at that time was really tense" "Fu Zuoyi's 104th Army" "Desperately tried to meet the 35th Army" "The distance between the two armies was only 4 kilometers" "Yang, Luo and Geng actually hold out against the enemy attacks front and rear" "I've said early if the sky falls down we've Luo Changzi to withstand it" "Yang Dezhi and Luo Ruiqing's command was quite proper" "Yes" "Sit down" "Enlai" "Yang, Li and Cheng Zihua also commanded well" "All the three corpses performed very well in the fight" "Yes" "In the letter I gave my instructions" "As the first step of the southward retreat action" "We need immediately move the troops in Beiping area" "To Tanggu, Tianjin" "Step Two" "Organize to get on ships ASAP" "It's cold now" "The seaport is going to be frozen" "Yes" "When can you start off?" "Give me two or three days" "What to prepare?" "Start out tomorrow" "Yes" "Cichen!" "If you've fulfilled the task" "You've contributed to the Party-Nation" "I'm sure to do my best" "But" "The CCP armies are besieging the 35th Army in Xinbaoan" "And they're besieging the 11th Corps Headquarters and the 105th Army" "All are initial troops of Fu Zuoyi" "I'm afraid he'll hesitate to discard them" "Let me utter an improper word lf..." "Xu Yongchang didn't tell out his word" "That's the story if the opposite side rapidly wiped off Xinbaoan and Zhangjiakou" "Fu Zuoyi might get a little clear-headed" "And make up his mind to withdraw the troops in Beiping-Tianjin area" "Vice Chairman Zhou" "The 2nd Corps of North China proposed" "To launch general offensive at Xin baoan ASAP" "What's your opinion?" "In the hand of Yang, Luo and Geng, they've 9 divisions" "To wipe off the 35th Army in Xin baoan" "Is sure to have certainty of success" "I think" "The problem doesn't lie on the certainty" "The main forces of Northeast China Field Army have just arrived at Fengrun and Yutian areas" "Temporarily unable to cut off" "The traffics among Beiping, Tianjin and Tanggu" "Unable to control the seaport" "In this case" "If you conquered Xinbaoan and Zhangjiakou" "That equals forcing Fu Zuoyi" "To desperately retreat from the sea" "Answer Yang, Luo and Geng" "OK" "Cannot act" "They should wait for orders" "Chairman!" "Commander-in-Chief" "You didn't complete the attendance in the wedding" "They'll feel unhappy" "Hey" "We've asked for leave from the village head" "Come on..." "Take what you need" "Come on, all of you..." "I have some more" "You see..." "Really..." "So I came back in a hurry" "I know quite well" "After you've dealt with the surrounding" "They can't keep their temper" "Hey" "For now" "The Tanggu Port isn't in its frozen time" "It's warm this year I'm afraid it'll ice up in half a month or 20 days" "Fu Zuoyi to retreat in the direction of Xi'an, Zhengzhou or Xuzhou..." "Or to go westward to Guisui, is not possible if he escapes toward Qingdao" "We can block him down near Jinan" "Now what we fear is..." "He'll get on ships at Tanggu" "We were still talking just now" "We need predict it to the troops" "So..." "It's necessary to lay down hard rules" "Starting today till Dec 25th" "In the two weeks, we besiege Xinbaoan and Zhangjiakou without any attacks" "So that Fu Zuoyi won't feel it easy to get up and go away" "For areas of Beiping, Tianjin, Tanggu and so on" "We only separate them apart strategically" "And won't proceed the surrounding of campaign" "As the whole disposition has been completed" "Attack leisurely, annihilate them individually" "Isolating but no attacks, isolating without surrounding" "We need tell the troops to think it over" "We need telegraph Lin, Luo and Liu" "The main forces of Northeast China Field Army should fear neither fatigues nor depletion of members nor cold nor hunger" "They must penetrate onto their appointed positions" "Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan," "As they received the orders from the Mili-Committee (Military Commission of the Central Party Committee)" "On the one hand, they released news and gave talks and have photo taken" "To create the false impression that the whole armies are celebrating victories and resting" "While on the other hand they urgently mobilized the troops to end their rest immediately" "Starting Nov 23rd, 1948" "Turned out in full force" "Ten foot columns plus and technical troops with total amount of over 700,000 men" "Together with 150,000 war laborers" "Converged into a gigantic iron current" "Vastly and swiftly flew forth" "The advance troops had already reached the Jidong Plains" "While the rearguards were still left behind in Jinzhou and Shenyang" "Kill it quickly Kill it quickly" "Salute!" "Look!" "How come all of these?" "Still chaos by now" "They arrived only minutes ago" "Go on with your work." "Go on..." "What are the locations of all the columns by now?" "On the left route, the 9th Column occupied Tangshan" "The 7th Column reached Beitang" "The 8th Column arrived at Xianghe" "On the middle route, the 6th and 10th Columns are attacking forward toward Langfang and Anding" "The 3rd Column captured Tongxian County" "The 7th Column of North China (Military Region) reached Fengtai and Huangcun" "On the right route, the 11th and 5th Columns are marching toward west suburbs of Beiping from Yang fang and Qinghe" "The rest troops are pending unreported" "The follow-up 1st, 2nd and 12th Columns" "Needn't bypass Lengkou" "Directly pass here" " Shanhaiguan Pass" "I think so" "Commander Lin" "The Mili-Committee required us to get inside the Pass secretly" "We've already spread in front of the enemies" "So we've no secrets to keep" "Order the follow-up troops to go by Shanhaiguan Pass" "Thrust directly to Tianjin and Tanggu" "The Lugouqiao Bridge was built up in the year of 1192" "The Italian traveler had ever lingered on this place" "And admired the grandness of the project and the refinement of the architectural craft very much" "On July 7th, 1937" "The heroic 29th Route Army" "Just at the spot of Lugouqiao" "Fired the first shot against the Japanese Aggression Army" "Commander Nie Rongzhen of North China Military Region" "Hurried to the Beiping-Tianjin Front by Lugouqiao Bridge" "And met with Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan of Northeast China Field Army" "Afterwards, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided on Jan 10th" "That a General Front Committee composed of Lin Biao Luo Ronghuan and Nie Rongzhen be setup" "With Lin Biao as the Secretary" "To command the Beiping-Tianjin Campaign jointly" "Hi!" "Commander Nie" "You've worked hard!" "Hi" "Commander Nie" "Commander Nie" "Yalou" "Commander Nie!" "How are you?" "Please... please" "As you got outside the Pass you had merely no more than 110,000 men" "After so short a time of three years" "You've got nearly a million of troops when you swing back inside the Pass" "No wonder Chairman Mao says" "Lin Biao is nowadays very, very fatty" "Do you think I can get fatty up?" "The 110,000troops we led out of the Pass" "Weren't they chosen from all the liberated areas?" "Commander Nie" "The amount of troops of the Shanxi-Chaha'er-Hebei Border Area put under Northeast China all these years" "Need to calculate carefully to get clarified" "Please" "OK..." "OK" "Please" "Commander Nie!" "It's you!" "Tianjin Suburbs" "Tianjin Garrison Headquarters of the North China Bandit Suppressing Headquarters" "Commander..." "Ah..." "Commander" "Section ChiefLi, what can I do for you?" "Can I have a word with you individually?" "Come on" "Commander" "Please permit me 3 months' leave to go to a doctor back in Shanghai" "Section ChiefLi" "You want to leave Tianjin at this very moment" "If somebody sues you desert on the eve of a battle" "I'll have no way to give you a hand" "I have the medical certificate from the doctor" "You should have been aware" "Several days ago, my chief-of-staff YanJiahao sneaked back to Shanghai privately" "I made a phone call" "Just as he got off the plane at Hongqiao Airport" "He was arrested by the military police" "Yes, I know of that" "But the more I know is" "After phone call from Mao Renfeng YanJiahao was set free for crimeless" "And then had made detour flying to Kunming" "Telegraph!" "Commander" "Yes" "Down his pistol and detain him down" "Send him to Nanjing, bring him to justice" "Hi, MayorDu!" "Please" "Commander!" "MayorDu is here" "Commander Chen" "MayorDu!" "Please" "You've seen everything" "Not yet hearing gunshot" "There occurs someone to sneak away" "Brother Jieshan," "The words I have stated" "And now I'm back here to disturb you again, hope you won't mind" "President sent Li Jinan, Vice Premier of DOD" "To Tianjin with his autograph letter that meant an order" "Irresistible" "Why don't you withdraw to Tanggu according to his order?" "It's simple actually" "Didn't Li Jinan state that he could give you a military title" "Then you can lead the troops to Tanggu?" "Brother Jieshan" "The situation is so so we won't speak in rage-word, OK?" "Chancellor Fu stated very clearly as he moved me here" "Beiping and Tianjin is an organic whole" "To move the troops in Tianjin to Tanggu at this moment" "Doubtlessly it's taking drastic measures to deal with the situation" "Mr. Fu and me are friends of years" "I can't do that" "The 62nd, 92nd and 94th Armies here in Tianjin-Tanggu" "Have all been moved to Beiping area" "How can you hold Tianjin?" "Tianjin will fight till there's no tile unbroken and no land unburned" "Commander-in-Chief" "You want me, Commander-in-Chief?" "Mm" "In the evening, I'll entertain Minister Xu Yongchang" "Everything is arranged ready" "Have you fixed the person going to the other side?" "Cuizhaizhi, Director of the Pingjin Daily newspaperoffice" "I've entertained him" "He promised to be your deputy" "This person has flexibility" "He hasn't any official capacity" "In case it comes out we can still have an excuse to cover it" "Mm" "In addition, I'd like to send Li Bingquan cousin of Section ChiefLi Tengju's, to go as a companion" "He can play the unique role" "I'm only afraid you won't adopt" "Is he a CCP underground personnel?" "Right" "By 17th, the right route columns of Northeast China Field Army already conquered Shijingshan" "Mentougou, Wanshoushan; pressed on toward Deshengmen Gate" "Formed a besiegement around Beiping" "The middle route reached Baodi on 20th after they had conquered Nanfang" "Cutting off the contact between Beiping and Tianjin" "The left route crossed the Haihe River from Junliangcheng on 19th" "And on 20th they conquered Xianshuihu" "Completely cut off the waterway between Tianjin and Tanggu" "For now, Fuzuoyi group" "Has turned from a bird frightened of a bow into a bird in a cage" "Fuzuoyi is not yet so clear-headed" "His negotiation deputy also brought forward that" "We retreat from Nanyuan Airport" "And let off the 35th Army back to Beiping" "And he also proposed to setup a North China Coalition Government and so on" "The distance is too large" "Fuzuoyi also sent me a telegraph" "Stating that he believes my political demeanor" "Is very gentle... sheer nonsense" "If I don't agree with his what North China Coalition Government" "My political demeanor will be not so gentle" "With a gigantic force of one million troops blocking at his gates" "He still dreams to share something with us" "That's truly too romantic!" "He's even sent his wife to Chongqing" "That proves he wants battle" "It seems no discord, no concord" "We'll break off both the ends" "Capture Tanggu and Xinbaoan first" "Xinbaoan 7 o'clock on Dec 22nd, 1948" "What?" "Ho" "Ho" "Understand!" "Mm" "Regiment Commander Wang!" "This is GuJingyun" "Block up with gunny bags" "Even with human bodies, you must block up" "Red Flag?" "The Southeast Corner breached inside first" "Order the artillery to fire fiercely" "02... 02... 01 calling please answer" "01 calling please answer" "02... 02... 01 calling please answer... please answer" "17 o'clock on Dec 22nd" "Commander!" "Commissar" "The local folks assembled by themselves" "To take parting the funeral procession for our martyrs" "zhangjiakou" "The morning of Dec 23rd" "Following the battle plan of the Military-Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China" "The 35th Army in Xinbaoan was annihilated" "Yet they still wouldn't attack zhangjiakou" "Waiting until the 2nd Corps of North China" "Had captured Guisui suddenly with covert activities" "And then the 3rd Corps of North China together with the4th Column of Northeast China Field Army" "Attacked and captured zhangjiakou" "Avoiding the enemies in the Guisui areas would retreat into the Hetao Area" "Or, that would bring difficulties for the complete annihilation of Fuzuoyi troops" "However, on the very day of the destruction of the 35th Army" "Fuzuoyi hurriedly ordered his zhangjiakou defenders to abandon the city" "To break through in direction of Suiyuan" "The PLA General Headquarters decoded Fuzuoyi's telegraph" "Thus consequently started a battle to surround and annihilate the enemies escaped out of zhangjiakou" "Engaged!" "Engaged!" "Engaged!" "Engaged!" "Engaged!" "Engaged!" "Look..." "On Dec 24th, zhangjiakou was liberated" "Getang, JiangJieshi Mansion, Nanjing" "Sir!" "Mr. Sturaden is here" "Mr. Zhongzheng" "First of all I wish you a merry Christmas" "Originally intended to go to Beiping" "To spend the holiday together with the students of the Yanjing University" "But eventually, I decided to get through this night together with you, my old friend" "Thanks" "I also wish you, Mr. Ambassador, a happy holiday it is said, Admiral Fuzuoyi of North China Bandit Suppressing Headquarters" "Intends to promote partial peace, is it true?" "General Fuzuoyi is famous for city defending as is known in China and the world" "He's sure to holdfast to Beiping, to Tianjin and to insure North China" "There's a rumor that General Bai Chongxi sent President a telegraph" "Advocating renewing peace talks with the CP" "I wonder if it's true" "That's no more than a small artifice of Lizongren Bai Chongxi and so on" "To start the peace talk with the CCP they need first to get rid of the obstacles" "That is to say, me the Jiang must get out of my power" "Mr. President!" "I hear" "So many Chinese friends say" "Why doesn't President Jiang push the boat along with the current" "Actively retire from you political life" "Just let Lizongren deal with the CCP" "Excuse me" "If I'm not an old friend of yours" "But only as a diplomatic agent" "I'll never mention such a matter in your face" "I don't feel unexpected" "Hahahahah..." "Now... now..." "Grandpa... grandpa" "Hey!" "Merry Christmas!" "Merry Christmas!" "Merry Christmas!" "OK" "Grandpa, I want that... that..." "Yes, that's it" "Here you are" "Thanks Grandpa" "Thanks Grandpa" "Thanks Grandpa" "Now" "Father" "I've talked with Jiang Jingguo" "Let me bring with your autograph letter to Beiping" "Mm" "Fuzuoyi's trump lies in Xinbaoan and zhangjiakou" "He's lost almost all of them" "He should get a little clearer-headed" "But you shouldn't mention this matter" "Don't make him hurt of your words" "You just invite him to come down south, that'll do" "Yes, Weiguo understands" "On your way back, take another plane" "Leave my Tianxiong special plane in Beiping" "For General Fuzuoyito use" "Yes, Father" "Thanks, Mr. President" "For you allow me to share enjoying the happiness in your family" "Look" "Time now is already 25th" "And tomorrow is the Christmas Day of the Communist Party of China" "Daddy" "Happy birthday to you" "Daddy" "Mother told me to say happy birthday to you" "Yes... yes" "Now... now... now..." "Per the old rules" "You wish daddy happy birthday" "Daddy should give you money" "Should give much, much money" "But I didn't prepared money" "So I'll give you a gift" "Mm?" "What to give you?" "All right." "Look!" "Mm" "It was arid pencil last year" "Was it?" "Mm" "You'll see next year" "Next year" "Sure I'll find my way out" "Thanks Daddy" "Good girl!" "Hey, walk slowly" "Mm!" "OK" "Everything is ready?" "Ready" "Chairman!" "Our revered Lin!" "Enlai, any message from them?" "Not yet" "We only got to know, not long after the ship left Hong Kong" "They met a storm if the ship floats to South Korea or" "The Liuqiu Isles, things will be troublesome" "Ah!" "I've already telegraphed Comrades Fang Fang and Pan Hannian" "Requiring them to investigate" "Here's the name list of the democratic personages from Hong Kong via Dalian to Harbin" "Hey" "The honored god friends of all the routes gather together in Harbin" "Our revered Lin is to start journey tomorrow" "I'd like you, our revered Lin, to bring the draft about convening the New Political Consultative Conference" "To solicit opinions of the gentlemen who have arrived in Harbin" "OK" "So we bother our revered Lin to rush about on the long road" "So many friends came" "It's improper if one of the Central Committee goes to meet them" "I think, as soon as I meet all the gentlemen" "I should lead them into Beiping" "Aha..." "Commander-in-Chief" "Just received broadcasting of the Xuanhua News Agency" "ACCP authoritative person talking about War Criminals" "Listing out 43 so-called Primary Criminals which any compatriot can kill" "First place is Mr. Jiang" "The... the 31st" "The 31stin the list... is..." "It was with the deep impression of the shock on the wide land of China" "That people stepped over the last threshold ofthe40th decade of the 20th century" "JiangJieshi denoted through his New Year Proclamation of year 1949" "He was willing to treat the Communist Party open-heartedly to sue for peace together" "Mao zedong, in his New Year Congratulatory Message," "Demonstrated that Jiang Jieshi suing for peace was an attempt to cure his wound first and then stage a comeback" "Mao zedong declared" "The People's Liberation Army would march to the south of the Changjiang River" "To carry the revolution through to the end" "General Fuzuoyi now understood" "His hope for the Beiping-Tianjin problem to be eliminated naturally within the countrywide peace talk process" "Was merely fantasy" "He had to come back to the reality" "And again he sent two deputies out of the city" "Hold your pace!" "Who are you?" "Jan6th, 1949" "Baishiqiao, west suburb of Beijing" "Enlai" "Try... try..." "What do you think about the taste?" "The... quick-fried mutton with scallions taste a little acid" "I meant Fuzuoyi invented Battlefield Handover" "What do you think about the taste of this expression?" "Ah" "Sit down" "I think this wording is very original" "The so-called Battlefield Handover, for him" "He avoids crossover or surrender and other unacceptable terms" "He's promised to order the KMT troops in Beiping and Tianjin to" "Set entirely out of the cities to accept the peaceful reorganization" "That is a great false of the opposite side" "We might as well accept some of his requirements to facilitate a formal agreement" "Mm" "Considerable" "We won't treat Fuzuoyi as a war criminal" "Offer him appropriate political place" "Allow him to organize 1 or2 armies" "Release all the captured personnel caught in zhangjiakou and Xinbaoan" "OK" "Chairman, you still keep the old trouble" "Wipe off the nearest dish" "Leaving the faraway dish untouched" "So you often move them" "When you finish your moving, I'll have been full" "You..." "OK..." "OK" "Jingshan, Beiqing" "Enlai, one moment" "Let me think it over" "OK" "I'm no win this situation" "Risking three deaths from time to time" "The first death is" "I get into secret contact with the opposite side" "Once the secret is let out" "Jiang Jieshi will put me to death by crime of rebelling" "The second is" "I suddenly made a 180-degree turn" "If any of my subordinates doesn't agree with me" "They may shoot me to death from behind me" "The third is" "The Communist Party might execute me to death as a war criminal" "Set out of the city to reorganize" "As long as the troops in Beiping set out of the city it'll not be up to them" "Fuzuoyi and his retinues" "Unlikely lack of imagination" "Not aware of that" "We should prevent them from playing tricks that" "They might escape by the chance of reorganization" "It's unlikely realistic from the position of Fuzuoyi" "He knows we should have taken strict precautions" "Enlai's analysis is reasonable" "Fuzuoyi always plans to make us go around within the circles drawn by him" "Now we've blocked up all his circles he has to make this choice" "So that he can explain to all the aspects" "I also think so" "Properly satisfy his requirements" "So as possible as we can realize the form of non-bleeding" "Yes, yes" "The battle is in such a situation" "We should be able to find out some other forms" "Bleeding, we've bled too much blood and we've bled enough blood if the opposite side really has sincerity" "We needn't bleed while we carried out the agreement" "That should be called that General Fuzuoyi" "Together with us, created" "Such a special form" "We can call it Beiping Form" "Then we can tell Lin Biao and the others" "They can sign the summary of negotiation" "They need to set a final deadline for Fuzuoyi" "Give him 5 days; restrict him to reply before 12 o'clock at the midnight of Jan 14th" "OK, OK" "We should state clearly" "When the time limit is up we'll start attack against the city" "Definitely not to accept any delay" "To settle it with war is originally much easier" "We've give in apace back" "Me Mao zedong is not a person unwilling to give in" "Commander-in-Chief" "How is the result?" "Here's the negotiation summary" "Really risky!" "If Mr. Zhou hadn't hidden it so well" "As we entered the Deshengmen Gate" "It would have been searched out by the military police inside there" "This time I met Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan Nie Rongzhen and Liu Yalou" "The talks were held in a harmonious atmosphere" "Humph" "What did you bring to them?" "Couldn't it be harmonious?" "I completely handled it on your instructions, Mr. Fu" "Sit down, please!" "Sit down" "Restrict me to reply before the midnight of 14th" "If really we can't get through, I've another way out" "First" "I send public telegraph of peace to all over the country to plead for the people" "Then, I give up military power by myself" "Hand it over to Li Wen, Commander of the 4th Corps, to act" "Commander-in-Chief!" "Then..." "Finally I'll go to Nanjing" "To apologize to Mr. Jiang and wait for his punishment" "The PLA was thrown into the strategically decisive battle with almost no modern industries and only a few modern vehicles" "While whether or not being able to ensure the requirement of the front" "Directly concerned the victory or defeat of the Beiping-Tianjin decisive campaign" "The masses in Northeast and North China were emergently mobilized" "In the vast areas inside and outside the Great Wall" "Organized an orderly front-supporting net" "Ensured waterway of the Daqinghe River" "And the Bei-Ning Railway that was repeatedly destroyed" "And the highways in the war zone clear of obstruction" "Where the troops pushed to" "Where the main artery of transportation supporting the front were beating" "Tianjin Front Headquarters Yangliuqing" "Everybody has been to the front and seen it" "The topography of the Tanggu area is too complex" "Very difficult for the corpses to spread" "We suggested that we transfer to attack Tianjin first" "And the Mili-Committee has approved" "What is it?" "Deputies of the Tianjin City Council" "Have arrived at the Headquarters of the 145th Division in Nanhe" "Tell Division Commander Wang to take them in first" "I'll be present within at the most 20 minutes" "Yes" "So the troops in the direction of Tanggu should retreat a step temporarily" "Hey!" "Staff Officer Li" "Yes" "You tell Divisional Commander Wang to pass onto the deputies of the Council" "Saying I've been out for more than half an hour it'll take me more than one hour to reach there" "Then..." "In war nothing is too deceitful." "Understand?" "Go quickly!" "Yes!" "Attention" "Please, Divisional Commander Wang" "When will General Liu Yalou arrive?" "About over an hour" "We agreed in the previous negotiation" "Before Jan 14th, a formal reply must be made" "Fu Zuoyi delays again and again it seems no discord, no concord" "The Central Committee decided to utilize the Tianjin Form" "To promote the realization of the Beiping Form" "Firstly beat down Tianjin" "Please pay attention" "It's Tianjinwe're to beat" "But Fu Zuoyi will pain in not only this one place" "Chief-of-Staff!" "Hey!" "Reporting!" "Reporting!" "Principal!" "The troops are preparing equipment for crossing the river" "Pay close attention to the time and the quality" "Yes" "We've spent enough time herein and should get back" "Chief-of-Staff" "Ah!" "Chief-of-Staff!" "This is Mr. Xiao, deputy of the Council" "I'm sorry" "Mr. Bai" "I'm sorry" "Mr. Li" "You've worked hard, General Liu!" "Sorry to have kept you all waiting!" "Please!" "Please!" "Please!" "When my car passed" "The folks block the way to bring lawsuits" "Delayed me quite along time" "A large village of over one thousand families" "Was burned up to nothing by Chen Changjie's troops" "Ouch!" "That's really evil deeds... evil..." "Sit down please" "Sit down!" "OK..." "OK..." "OK..." "Sit down" "Please!" "You please..." "Sit down, please, everybody!" "When I passed by Yangliuqing" "I was again delayed for a longtime" "Yangliuqing, the name doesn't fit its reality" "The streets are very rough and narrow" "My car almost failed to drag out" "That embarrassed General Liu!" "You've suffered a lot, General Liu!" "Yes" "Ah..." "Please... you gentlemen," "This time you got out of the city" "Were you approved by Chen Changjie?" "Yes, yes, yes..." "Chen Changjie should have the cardinal principles in mind" "Beiping has been in peace talk with us" "Why can't Tianjin step out the first pace?" "We extend the time limit to four days" "Put down weapons before the noontime of the date of 13th" "Commander!" "Please..." "You should enforce the night defense at the joint parts around this area" "Yes" "Which direction do you judge the CCP army's main attack will be?" "Many signs indicate" "The Headquarters of Liu Yalou's might be set in Yangliuqing" "I think the CCP army's main attack direction is in the southwest" "Scout wrong" "Today, the City Council deputies came back and said it took Liu Yalou more than an hour by car, passing by Yangliuqing" "To meet them" "Then we can calculate" "Liu Yalou's Headquarters" "Is set in Yangcun to the north of Tianjin" "Then you think, Commander..." "Liu Yalou set his Headquarters to the north of the city" "In addition with the CCP armies constantly bomb the north suburbs of the city" "And there are no rivers to separate" "Convenient for movement of large corpses" "I'm sure Liu Yalou has put down the main attack direction" "On the north of the city" "So I think" "Whether we should move the 151st Division" "To the north of the city?" "Once the 151st Division was moved away," "Will it be too hollowing the core area of Jintangqiao?" "I've made up my mind The 151st Division be moved to the north of the city" "Chairman!" "Shangkun!" "Where have you been on business?" "To receive some foreign affairs personnel and organize them" "I invited Comrade Shangkunto go on my behalf" "To tell some requirements and political limits of the Group of Foreign Affairs of the Central Committee" "Which comrades are to work with the foreign affairs in Tianjin?" "Comrades Zhang Hanfu, Huang Hua Zhang Wenjin and Xu Danianto be in charge" "For diplomatic affairs the simple matters are also complex" "I'm afraid you'll have to tell so many principles" "In the policy aspect the Central Committee has made 15 regulations" "Vice Chairman Zhou also added some additional terms" "Mainly, we need enhance the investigation and study" "Properly hold the principles and the flexibility" "Mm, good!" "I'm going" "Hey!" "One moment" "It's good for Comrade Chen Yun's experience in taking over Shenyang appear in the newspaper" "We need transmit it to all the bureaus of the Central Committee" "Please bring a duplicated copy to Huang Jing, Huang Kecheng" "I've prepared one for him" "Shenyang" "Hey, Old master!" "You've worked hard!" "Hi, Principal!" "How are you getting along with the repairing of the locomotive?" "You see in this workshop, all are busy" "Where's director Gao?" "Director Gao is... over there" "Thanks" "Thanks" "Wrench" "Hey, Comrade Chen Yun!" "How are you?" "Let's go..." "Why, if you can't yield locomotives herein?" "Lu Zhengcao cannot work well as the Railway Commander" "Have you exploited all the power of the organizational work and technical forces?" "I've used all available" "It's said the director and the chief engineer haven't taken par tinwork, have they?" "According to the requirement of the Military Control Commission" "Factories should be taken over unvarnished" "The original clerks to work as usual" "However" "There're reports about the director and the chief engineer" "What reports?" "The masses said they're the ministers to three emperors" "The Russian-Ruled Stage the KMT Stage and Puppet Manchurian Stage" "They were always the director and the chief engineer" "Now we're liberated" "When Chongqing was liberated" "Chairman Mao said to Jiang Jieshi" "You don't want us to make up our own kitchen" "Then we'll cooking your kitchen" "Now we've broken the kitchen of the KMT in Shenyang" "You don't feed them" "I'm afraid they will setup their own kitchen" "Principal" "Where're you two going?" "The Northeast Bureau instructed" "They need us to choose two competent cadres to converge in the City Military Control Commission" "Principal" "Where do you send us to?" "To take over Tianjin" "Yes" "See you later, Principal!" "See you!" "Let's go" "To see the director and the chief engineer" "And invite them to work starting today" "Let's go" "Please take a seat, everybody!" "Sit down!" "OK!" "Then..." "I'll come straight to the point" "President Jiang told me to pass on his suggestions" "He hopes the US West Pacific Fleet" "Commander Bagel to send Marine Corps immediately into Tianjin" "It's very convenient to start from the base zone in Qingdao" "Head of the Military Consultant Delegation of the US Garrison" "In what name?" "To protect the US emigrants" "I'm glad to report the requirement of President to Washington" "But I can state definitely that it's impossible" "Why?" "On the 9th of last month, President Truman" "Ever declared that the US army must remain stationed in Qingdao" "And take feasible steps" "To aid any Chinese troops fighting against the CCP armies in North China" "That was a matter of last month" "But today, a month later" "Washington has to draw bigger question mark" "What does it mean to send Marine Corps to defend Tianjin?" "Don't you think such change of going back on your words comes too soon?" "Everybody!" "Please take your seat at the banquet..." "Please" "Brother Yisheng values his history very much" "And Values his moral integrity" "But for you one person my old younger brother" "To destroy this ancient city of a thousand years old into powders" "I'm afraid you'll be unworthy of the fame as a famous general in the Anti-Japanese War" "And become a criminal of the history" "Mm, burn the lamps" "Yisheng, frankly speaking" "Recently I met the CCP underground personnel in Beiping" "Mr. Cui and Mr. Wang, several times" "Both the gentlemen asked me to tell you" "Not to keep any fantasy of any international changes" "The Americans are the best realists" "They'll never do a loosing proposition" "Newspaper says that Washington has set its first defense line" "Along the Taiwan Straits" "Mainland China is far out of the US defense line" "We'll discuss these topics later" "Now we need send out titular personages to go to negotiation" "I'd like to trouble you" "To take the hard journey on behalf of me, OK?" "You value me, Yisheng, I can't offend you" "But you must tell your deadline to me" "I'd like to ask this question only" "Are you going to defend Tianjin?" "I think we'll find away out as long as we hold it firmly" "Songzhuang, Tongxian County, Beiping" "Headquarters of the Beiping-Tianjin Front" "In one word, Tianjin is narrow from north to south and the middle is wasp-waist-shaped" "Proceed a two-pronged assault from east and west to cut the middle" "And separate it into two blocks in the north and south" "Yes, I think that will do" "The general principle settled down," "We plan to use our forces in this way" "We'll concentrate 5 columns of totally 340,000 men" "With the 1stand 2nd Columns to form the west group" "To attack eastward from the west as is the first main attack direction" "Pushing forward from the line of Hepingmen" "With the 7th and 8th Columns to form the east group" "Attacking westward from the east as is the second main attack direction" "To provide powerful cooperation to the east and west main attack directions" "We plan to organize the south group composed of the 9th Column and the 12th Division of the 12th Column" "With the 8th, 2nd and 1st Columns to feint to the north of the city" "The 17th Division of the 6th Column as reserves" "The first step is to converge at Jintangqiao within the urban area" "The artillery and tanks of the Special Column to be placed under command of the east and west directions" "One moment" "As soon as the general offensive starts the artillery shall fire at Chen Changjie's Headquarters" "OK" "The General Offensive Time is set at 10 o'clock on the morning of 14th" "Thus submit upward to the Central Committee" "The Mili-Committee restricted you of3 days, how many do you need?" "I'm not too sure" "Principals of you three" "How about 48 hours" "Good!" "Mm" "In my opinion, 30 hours will be enough" "There is no room for levity in the army" "The force proportion is 3 to 1 comparing me with Chen Changjie" "In my hand, I have the most detailed defense disposition drawing of his" "So we'll report upward to the Mili-Committee, 30 hours" "No, no, no." "We'll still report as 3 days" "I'll take 30 hours to use at the very most" "Only you have so many tricks" "All right." "Report as 3 days upward." "Oh, it's little Liao!" "Sit... sit down" "Today's already the 14th, Chairman" "1 o'clock on Jan 14th, 1949" "Catch" "We'll propose the Eight items for Peace Negotiations" "Demand a price" "For Committee-General Jiang and Li Zongrento think over" "Fu Zuoyi should also think it over" "It's better for him to go a step ahead of the others" "Take to broadcast it out ASAP" "All right" "The Communist Party of China swilling to go to peace talks with Nanjing Government" "And any local governments and military groups of the KMT's" "On base of the following items" "These items are" "First, to punish the war criminals" "Second, to abolish the puppet constitution" "Third, to abolish the puppet legally constituted authority" "Forth, by democratic principles to change all the reactionary troops" "Fire... fire" "Wuliqiao, Tongxian County, Beiping" "There they come" "This is our Section Chief Su" "Hi, how are you" "This is General Zhou" "Hi!" "How are you?" "Please" "Welcome... welcome" "Welcome" "It's too cold." "You must have suffered alot all the way" "I deeply appreciate your kindness to meet me" "I should thank you" "That's all right" "Please!" "Please!" "Please get indoors" "Comrades Lin Biao and Luo Ronghuan stop over for awhile" "They request for forgiveness from you both generals" "Please don't be so polite" "Commandant, please go to the basement" "I'm fooled by Liu Yalou" "Considering movements of the general offensive of the CCP armies" "The general offensive direction should be both east and west" "They're to give us a cut in the middle" "Commandant, come on if the CCP armies cut off Jintangqiao" "Our Then it would... r armies would lose care of each other between the north and the south" "Should we move the 151st Division back to Jintangqiao?" "Too late!" "Too late..." "Come on, Commandant" "The Commander-in-Chief had said he insisted the old principle" "We'll find away out as long as we hold up firmly" "Answer if you hear" "Understand" "Commandant" "Chief-of-Staff Li transmitted orders from Commander-in-Chief" "We'll find away out as long as we hold up firmly" "Before the formal negotiation" "I've something to tell you both" "We've issued orders to attack against Tianjin" "So Tianjinwill not be included in this negotiation" "We've agreed in the summary of the previous negotiation" "Our side would make a reply before the midnight of date 14th" "But now the time limit has not yet been up and your side has taken military actions" "Isn't this... this unreasonable..." "With what both sides have signed" "We should strictly abide by the promises" "We require your side to stop attacks against Tianjin immediately" "Mr. Deng!" "Mr. Zhou" "I think you both should be very clear that" "In the last negotiation we proposed" "The Tianjin defenders should set out of the city, as is not vague a tall" "We cannot follow Mr. Fu and go around" "In the circles drawn by Mr. Fu" "Once again I request your side" "To take back the orders of attacking against Tianjin" "Please don't refer to this question anymore" "Then how long have you planned for your armies to conquer Tianjin?" "Three days" "Excuse me for my frankness" "Don't mention 3 days It's unlikely even in 30 days" "If we fail to conquer the city in 30 days we'll spend 3 months" "Or 3 years if3 months won't do" "We have time" "Turn it around and burn it out" "Follow me" "Come... come on!" "Come in quickly..." "I belong to the Consultative Pickets" "Come on Come" "This way" "I saw you when I was upstairs" "Come on!" "Let me lead your way" "Thanks, master" "Ouch... good" "Hurry... keep pace... keep pace" "Now, you can getup from here." "Quick..." "Setup the artillery" "Shit!" "We'll offer the artillery plus bayonets for you to taste..." "Stop nonsense." "Take aim for me" "Bring me two quilts" "Yes" "Yes" "Fire" "Satisfactory, Squad Leader?" "Verbiage" "Go on for me" "Bomb spot by spot" "Yes" "Hurry and keep pace" "Pay attention to the ground surface, everybody!" "Keep pace!" "Look..." "You've worked hard, PLA men!" "Hey!" "You've worked hard!" "They're welcoming us" "Quiet!" "It is university" "We shouldn't get in" "We should bypass it" "Down, you all!" "Down quickly!" "Yes, yes" "Hi!" "Comrades PLA men we'll show you the way" "No" "This is fighting and not a game" "Little comrade!" "You're not frightened, nor are we." "Yes" "What is it?" "Company Commander!" "What?" "There're two college students," "They want to show us the way" "How can we get to Jintangqiao?" "Go after us" "We're familiar with the tracks" "All right, go..." "Hey... hey, hey..." "Wait... wait for us..." "Bye-bye!" "Bye-bye!" "Careful" "A university?" "Yes!" "Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao both went to middle school in this place" "I know" "Our Principal said, as he made investigations and mobilizations" "When the war ends" "Can I go to middle school in your place?" "OK!" "Welcome..." "Hurry and keep pace" "Hello!" "Hello..." "The CCP armies have fought up to Jintangqiao" "The CCP armies have fought up to Jintangqiao" "Our armies were completely cut apart" "Hello!" "Our armies were completely cut apart" "What's your instruction Commander-in-Chief?" "What's your instruction Commander-in-Chief?" "Answer please if you hear me" "Hello..." "Commander-in Chief!" "What shall we answer Tianjin?" "Still the old word" "Yes" "Commander-in Chief said still with the old word" "Commander-in Chief said still with the old word" "We'll find away out as long as we hold up firmly" "Answer if you hear me" "Answer if you hear me" "Don't move!" "Hands up!" "Hands up!" "General Deng!" "Mr. Zhou!" "Our Principal has arrived" "Go on with the negotiation" "Section Chief Song" "In Tianjin..." "Tianjin battle has ended" "From 10 o'clock yesterday morning" "Till 3 o'clock this afternoon" "Totally 29 hours" "Wiped off all the 130,000 defending troops" "Chen Changjie, Lin Meichou, Liu Yunhan Qiu Zongding and Du Jianshi" "Were captured by our army" "After we conquered Tianjin," "The activities of the Bureaus of investigation and Statistics of the Central Executive" "Committee and that of the Military Council, of the KMT, became madder in Beiping" "Last night, two of our comrades were arrested" "I've been informed" "Any activities of Mr. Fu" "Including the tiny changes in his emotion," "Xibaipo could get to know the next day" "Most half of that depends on you" "You hold a special capacity" "Once there's any emergency" "Your situation will be very dangerous" "I've been prepared in my mind" "Burn out all you books and references and the telephone numbers" "OK" "Commander-in-Chief" "At3 o'clock early this morning" "Two bombs exploded" "What?" "The little daughter of He's" "He Longmei got shocked at that moment" "Mrs. He was most terribly wounded and is in first aid in Xiehe Hospital" "How about Mr. He?" "Wounded in the head, but not so serious" "Zheng Jiemin has stretched out his hand before he arrives here" "This is to execute one as a warning to others" "For people promoting partial peace" "They won't let them off" "Dongnan Airport" "I deeply appreciate your kindness for coming to meet me personally" "I really don't deserve this... don't deserve..." "It was nothing!" "I should do so... should do so..." "President told me to greet Commander-in-Chief and all the generals" "Grateful to President's kindness of concernment" "Please" "Please" "Yisheng!" "You should value the overall situation of the Party-Nation immediately give up North China" "Quickly move the 17th Corps" "To retreat down south" "All the armies of the 1st Group should retreat to Qingdao via Jinan" "All those belonging to the Central Government, should be emergently ferried back to Nanjing by the US fleet led by General Bagel" "You'll take the Chancellor of the Southeast Military-Administration" "Concentrating all our forces to ensure the areas south of the Changjiang River" "Hope you won't delay anymore By Jiang Zhongzheng" "I'll follow the instructions of President" "To study and carry them out" "That's good" "One concern that I'll have to ask you Commander-in-Chief" "There are rumors that somebody went out of the city to talk with the CCP armies" "That's hearsay" "Me myself also never believe them" "If there is any, I'm sure to give punishment" "I'd like to coordinate to make it clarified" "I hope you, Commander-in-Chief could permit me to look into this matter" "Do as you think it proper Vice Minister Zheng" "Looking from the dressing Su Jing is really like a merchant" "We've got the basic agreement" "The specific implemental items" "Your side should appoint specially authorized personnel" "To draft together with our Section Chief Su" "OK" "We'll leave Mr. Zhou in your place" "If you generals have any concerns please refer to him anytime" "Commander Nie" "Ah" "General Deng, to tell you the truth" "I really have no good gift for you" "This is what assigned to me" "As a remembrance" "Thanks very much!" "This should also be considered as a gain of the negotiation" "If we failed the talk" "General Nie, are you going to present me this pair of boot, too?" "That will depend on the case" "General Deng" "Although this is our first interview" "We've become old friends" "But friendship is one thing" "I'll have to state clearly" "Please pass onto General Fu" "Today is 16th" "Before 12 o'clock in the midnight of date 21st" "General Fu must publish the Peaceful Liberation Agreement" "Publicly declare his stand" "Or, our armies will attack against the city immediately" "Originally, the negotiation deputies of Fu Zuoyi's" "Had clearly indicated that Tanggu and Suiyuan should, together with" "Tianjin problem, be solved as an overall case" "After Tianjin was liberated" "The 17th Corps Headquarters and the defending armies quickly withdrew" "That indicates the so-called overall case of theirs was completely a stalling tactic" "Then there might be trouble with the reorganization of the defending troops set out of Beiping?" "Very difficult to judge" "You mean, Chairman..." "Strive for peaceful settlement" "Simultaneously, prepare for attacking the city actively" "Strictly on guard against that the enemies breakthrough and escape by any chance" "The main forces of Northeast Field Army have already made their disposition" "The 2nd and 3rd Corps of North China Military Region are moving toward Beiping" "There should be several considerations on taking over Beiping" "The city-attacking troops should coordinate with each other tightly" "Let's study the corresponding problems together" "Comrade Liu Ren came to the North China Bureau to report his work" "I'll also invite him to be present" "Ah!" "Sit down please!" "Sit down..." "Lin Biao telegraphed us, stating" "They've absolute confidence to capture Beiping" "But we still hope there'll be partial uprising" "Then the progress will be more rapid" "And it'll be more favorable to protect the cultural relics and ancient buildings" "Comrades in Beiping did great work on the 92nd Army" "The 92nd Army got the permission from Hou Jingru Commander of the 17th Corps" "To send some ones and they've got into contact with the 3rd Corps of Northeast China Field Army" "Comrade Xiao Jinguang met them" "The defense zone of this army" "Is from You'anmen Gate via Yongdingmen Gate till Zuo'anmen Gate" "Quite along distance" "As we launch city-attacks" "As long as they give us a path" "That will help greatly" "Yes" "In addition, Commander of the 262nd Division has promised us" "When it captured he'll first open the Andingmen Gate" "To help the PLA enter the city" "The First Team of Armored Troops of Fu Zuoyi's has also made agreement with us" "To cooperate with us in the action at Qianmen Railway Station" "The working Beiping was well done in every aspect" "The enemy situation reporting is also practical and effective" "Quite hard work" "The comrades in charge inside such as Wang Hanbing and CuiYueli are very competent" "Comrade Fu Dongju also played a special role" "The comrade in charge to incite defection" "Is mainly Comrade Wang Su" "The Beiping At last successfully duplicated" "Everybody has seen?" "The Northeast troops also entrusted someone to invite the professor of Qinghua University" "Mr. Liang Shicheng to draw out another map" "Indicating all the locations of the important ancient buildings" "All need to avoid damages" "Mr. Liang is the eldest son of Liang Qichao's" "He's a famous architect" "Learned..." "learned!" "You see, he marked Tangzhesi Temple on this map" "Tangzhesi Temple is far away from Beiping" "Yet he marked it out" "And he added 2 red circles" "Tangzhesi occurred fir stand Beijing City was build up afterwards" "It's proper to have chosen you as the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Beiping" "You're most familiar with Beiping" "So are comrades Yibo and Jianying" "Yibo has ever lived in quite a few prisons in Beiping" "Jianying lived in Beiping for long when he worked for the Military Mediation Section" "But this time, for Jianying it's southerner as northern sheikh" "A Cantonese becoming the mayor of Beiping" "You'll have to put up with it" "As we've captured Guangzhou we'll invite you to be Guangzhou mayor" "Don't run so fast" "The two legs can't afford it" "Although it should be through discussion and consultation among all the different political forces" "But I think" "If we propose that the Capital of New China be set in Beiping" "There won't be anyone against it" "Of course the name of Beiping should be corrected backward" "It's better to call it Beijing" "Yes, quite right" "Pekinese folks hate the corrected name Beiping very much" "Yes, better to call it Beijing" "Better to call it Beijing" "Then things are hard" "Mountain artillery field artillery, howitzers" "Shells don't have eyes after all" "The little red circles on the map" "It would be very serious if we destroyed any of the places" "Maybe Fu Zuoyi should take the historical responsibility" "But the eternal regret left then is irretrievable" "Lin Biao, Luo Ronghuan Nie Rongzhen" "As we've instructed before" "We'll try our best to achieve the Beiping settlement in peace" "While we do our preparing for city-attack" "Well-conceived plans must be made for this city-attack" "We'll make every effort to avoid destroying the imperial Palace" "The several universities and other cultural historic sites with great importance" "Even if it'll take a long delayed time to occupy Beiping" "We'll have to do so patiently" "If each and every troop principal has understood completely" "Which places are attackable" "Which places are not attackable" "Prepare brief brochures for everyone to have a copy" "To be executed strictly as a discipline" "In this connection" "Your headquarters must ensure expedite telephone contact with each of your city-attacking troops" "Put each step of progress during the fight under your command and supervision" "As we've informed you in the telegraph dated 17th last month" "Special attention must be paid on" "The contact with the teaching and administrative staff and the students of Qinghua, Yanjing and other universities" "Discuss together with them about how to decrease losses during the fight" "Every one of you must be very tired after reviewing the capital armies and police with me" "Now you are still willing to take a walk with me" "You've worked hard!" "Enbo!" "President" "Now you've accepted the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the Garrison Headquarters ofNanjing-Shanghai-Hangzhou" "To command wholly the military affairs in Jiangsu Zhejiang, Anhui and the eastern part of Jiangxi" "The Changjiang defense and the maintenance of the capital" "Will all count on you" "I'll do my utmost not to let you down, President" "Originally, I should be together with you with the men in the front together" "To fight the enemy to the bitter end" "But it seems I'll have to leave Nanjing" "Leave the capital I personally established" "And have to leave the site of the grave of our deceased Premier" "In those years when Zeng Guofan fought with the Taiping (Heavenly Kingdom) armies" "As he marched onto Qimen form Jiangxi he was exposed to enemy attacks in all the sides, the situation was extremely serious" "All his assistants persuaded him to retreat" "He said: "This journey is not wrong please don't think about it anymore."" "He hanged a sharp sword of his in the front of his tent to showoff his determination" "If some day Nanjing fell" "I should die at my post" "Die under the gate tower of this Zhonghuamen" "So that I can repay the Premier upward and the nationals downward" "Do you think I must be in deep sorrow at this moment?" "And you believe I must have some unutterable regret?" "No" "What unbearable in my deep mind is I'll die without place for burial" "The Get-Together Section of North China Bandit Suppressing Headquarters" "The actual implemental items for the peaceful settlement of Beiping" "We have approved it" "We hope General Fu could make up your mind early to sign it" "OK." "You can rest assured, deputy Su" "I'm to ask Mr. Fu for instructions right away" "It's me" "Didn't he hang up?" "He's listening" "Then, you just sign on behalf of our side with Mr. Cui" "Daddy" "Now let me read it out again" "implemental Methods of the Agreement on Peaceful Settlement of Beiping Problem" "In order to shorten the war" "And to obtain peace profitable for the people" "So as to ensure the industrial and commercial foundation and cultural relics and historic sites" "And to promote the thorough realization of peace all over the country" "Now we publish the following terms as the results of negotiation between the both parties" "No.1 Armistice starts from ten o'clock in the morning of the 22nd of this month" "No.2 During the transition period, both parties are to send personnel to setup a joint working body" "To handle corresponding military and administrative affairs" "No.3 Troops in the city under level of corps start to move and station out of the city starting date 22nd" "And to carry out reorganization a month later in a appointed place" "That's enough... stop reading" "Hearing the first time is OK" "OK..." "We've heard enough of that" "No need reading anymore" "Why need reading, as we've known early" "Known..." "Then, does everybody agree to the above 18 items and all the attached terms?" "Does everybody agree or not?" "Please express your opinion" "Agree" "Agree Agree Agree" "May I know, have you reported itto President?" "An announcement is to be published through the broadcasting station subsequently" "Nanjingwill get to know" "If we've got defeated in the fight" "I'll recognize no matter how tragic the case is" "But so as it is today, I..." "I really feel..." "How can I be worthy of Headmaster?" "Speaking on the opponent stand" "This is to submit the enemy without fight the best of all good choices" "On our stand" "Having been in this situation as today" "Of course we can't jump to a conclusion that we win" "We must call it a failure" "A personal failure of mine, Fu Zuoyi's," "With the ruin of a single person to exchange the rebirth of everybody herein and the hundreds of thousands of officers and men" "That allows me of no hesitation or disputation" "I'm grateful to those who're willing to stay in Beiping" "Those who want to go, please make it clear" "Then I'll send a plane to carry you back to Nanjing" "I mean what I say" "Thus you can also return the Tianxiong special plane Mr. Jiang reserved for me" "Thanks very much for your lenience Commander-in-Chief!" "Thanks very much, Commander-in-Chief!" "Anybody else?" "Please put-up your hand." "Commander-in-Chief has stated" "You may go as you please" "Yet everybody must act according to all the terms within the agreement" "To ensure no properties to be damaged and no gunshot happen in the troops belonging" "No one to be wounded" "Can you assure me?" "Assure" "Assure Assure Assure Assure Assure" "Then I declare now" "The Agreement on Peaceful Settlement of Beiping Problem is to be issued formally starting today" "Quicken actions!" "There they are... please step aside" "Honglou Building of Beijing University" "Thank you!" "Give me one, grandpa!" "O-Kay..." "When Chairman Mao Zedong entered Beiping" "He must come to take a look in the Fuyousi Temple" "He has ever lived herein for over half a year" "It was the year 1919 when Mr. Mao was here" "It has been 30 years by now" "Give you a little flag" "Yours" "Thank you" "Thanks" "Bye-bye" "See you later" "Elder brothers and sisters here are little flags for you" "Thank you" "See you later, brothers and sisters!" "See you later, brothers and sisters!" "Bye" "Now, a little flag for you" "Come on, plug it herein" "Shopkeeper," "A little flag for you" "Yours, sir!" "Thank you" "Daddy" "Daddy!" "Why are you burning the diaries?" "Several decades," "Page and page is your history" "History..." "let others to write" "Dongju" "Mm" "I want to take off my armor and return to the land" "Back to our old home in Shanxi or some place on bank of the Yellow River" "To find a little village to live in" "Are you willing to go with me?" "Daddy" "I'll accompany you all my life" "Won't leave you wherever you go" "You've been tired... rest early" "Attention" "I'm here to hand over garrison to your troop as ordered" "I'm here to relieve garrison of your troop" "Right face!" "At the double, quick march!" "Jan 31st, 1949" "Fu Zuoyi's General Headquarters and troops under its command wholly set out of the city" "The ancient city of Beiping peacefully gained her rebirth" "Sixty-four days from the very beginning till the end" "The PLA annihilated and reorganized North China KMT troops of 50 divisions" "Of totally over 520,000 men" "Afterwards, Fu Zuoyi accepted the entrustment of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China" "Going around actively for the peaceful settlement of Suiyuan problem" "General Dong Qiwu, Chairman of the KMT Suiyuan Province and Commander of Peace Preservation Corps" "Showed deserved sincerity" "Rose up with his troops on Sep 19th" "Thus Suiyuan was declared liberated peacefully" "With the booming gun-reports in Beiping-Tianjin fronts" "The US Joint Military Consultant Delegation amounted to as many as over 2,000 people, was declared cancelled" "US government officials stated that" "It was a matter well reasoned" "Because the mission of the Military Consultant Delegation had ended" "How are you, Madam?" "Sit down, please" "On the very date that General Fu Zuoyi" "Declared he had accepted the Agreement on Peaceful Settlement of Beiping Problem" "Jiang Jieshi formally announced his declaration of resignation" "Leaving LiZongren a Nanjing Government of disintegration and divided leadership" "Silently went back to Xikou, his native place" "In years 1927 and 1931," "Jiang Jieshi had been twice forced to relinquish power" "Expressing in another way" "He had twice succeeded in utilizing the tactics with retreating order to gain advantages" "This was his third falling out of power" "He believed there would be a third stage of comeback" "He made arrangement for withdrawal to Taiwan on the one hand," "Moved the storage in the Central Bank of gold of920,000taels, and silver and foreign exchanges" "Totalized to more than five hundred million of US$" "Entirely ferried to Taiwan in secret" "On the other hand, in the smokescreen of peace, he quickened the disposition for the Changjiang River defense" "Still strived to keep half of the country in the south of Changjiang" "However, reports said" "Mr. Jiang happy as relieved of his official duties" "Only lingered on among the mountains woods, springs and rocks" "For Mao Zedong and the Supreme Command of PLA" "To cross the natural moat of the Changjiang River has been in their mind much earlier" "Victories of the Three Great Campaigns of Liaoxi-Shenyang, Huai-Hai and Beiping-Tianjin" "Made the historical distance to realize this long-range strategic intention" "Suddenly shortened to as near as a step away" "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided" "The General Front Commission of the Huai-Hai Campaign with Deng Xiaoping as the Secretary" "Should continue exercising the authority to lead the military affairs" "Under the joint command of the General Front Commission" "No.2 Field Army, No.3 Field Army and part ofNo.4 Field Army" "More than a million bold warriors pressed on toward Nanjing as a forbidding strategic point" "And the central territories ruled by the KMT" "The large-scaled Changjiang-Crossing Fight worthy of a historical heroic undertaking, was coming near day after day" "Is the time to cross the River fixed?" "The Mili-Commission decided it on April 13th" "April 13th is right March 16th in the lunar calendar" "There'll be moonlight all through the night" "Under the waxing moon the first echelon cannot take cover" "Thus the suddenness of the battle starting is out of the question" "That's considerable..." "What about this way," "We suggest the Mili-Commission to put off till April 15th as is 18th of the lunar calendar it'll do as long as the first half of the night is dark" "Mm!" "All right" "I'm guilty" "Hey!" "That has passed" "We should say you're meritorious" "Meritorious during the War of Resistance Against Japan" "And now you've rendered outstanding service for the people" "Hi" "Hi" "Please, both of you!" "Please" "Please" "You must have had a tiring journey" "Come on... please" "OK" "You please!" "Have some tea" "Sorry!" "I don't smoke" "OK" "Enlai doesn't have such bad hobby, either" "I won't care about you as I'm smoking" "Yisheng" "In the past, we were separated clearly in the battlefield" "But now we're as intimate as cousins and hard to part" "Mr. Deng is neither a stranger" "You came and stayed in Yan'an for 20 days in the year 1943" "We've got twice of long chat all through the night" "Still remember?" "Remember all my life!" "For that reason the KMT expelled you out of the party" "Please" "Jiang Jieshi plays tricks all his life" "But finally got your brush-off anyhow" "Yisheng" "When the whole country is liberated" "What do you intend to do?" "I need to learn." "When Yisheng governed Suiyuan" "He undertook water conservancy projects and land reclamation and cultivation in the Hetao area" "And was admired by the populace" "Oh" "Just to run a Hetao" "I'm afraid it won't afford Mr. Fu" "Yes, yes" "The national water conservancy affair will have to count on the guidance of Mr. Fu" "Then it's too much of an honor" "Chairman" "Look" "There occurs trouble again with the Changjiang affairs" "That concerns secret" "Unsuitable for me to see" "We'll have to invite you to participate in military affairs in the future" "This secret is actually obviously clear" "You've seen" "Mr. Li Zongren's peace talk deputies flew over here by the same plane with you two" "Now that we've agreed to talk" "That time to cross the River will have to be put off" "We'll cross the Changjiang sooner or later" "If we talked well, the troops would go over there with singing" "If no, they'll go with artillery firing" "Yisheng's daughter is a reporter of the Populate Daily" "She wants to cover news items along with the PLA River-crossing troops" "Mr. Fu has a good daughter" "Still very childish" "No, no" "Fu Dongju, daughter of Mr. Fu's" "A Communist" "Zhang Leiyun, daughter of General Zhang Zhizhong's" "A Communist" "Chen Lian, daughter of Mr. Chen Bulei's" "Also a Communist" "Come to speak of it, it's really unbelievable..." "Xibaipo" "The General Headquarters of both the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the PLA were stationed" "In this small village at the eastern foot of Taihangshan Mountains" "For totally 9 months and 29 days" "Herein, they commanded the world-shaking Three Campaigns of Liaoxi-Shenyang, Huai-Hai and Beiping-Tianjin" "Form March 5thtill 13th of the year 1949" "The second plenary session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China" "Was held in Xibaipo" "This important meeting with historic significance" "Marked the serious war period had already passed" "And the countrywide victory was at hand" "And it marked the work focus of the CCP would be diverted from the countryside into cities" "March 23rd" "The central organs and the PLA Headquarters left this small mountain village" "And moved to Beiping" "Where're we going today?" "I feel we're going to the capital to sit for the imperial examinations" "Hope we can get a good score" "At least to get a pass" "If we fail, we'll have to return to Xibaipo" "I'm afraid we might return to Yan'an" "We won't emulate Li Zicheng" "We must get good score" "Mao Zedong and his comrades-in-arms commanded the gigantic army off our million on the one hand" "To carry out strategic pursuit toward the vast territory of the whole country" "So as to finish off the KMT remnant troops" "And on the other hand they were busy drawing the engineering blueprint of the Great Building of New China that will soon stand tall and upright on the oriental horizon" "After several months of preparation" "The First Full Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference" "During the time from Sep 21sttill 30th of the year 1949" "Was held solemnly in Beiping" "This session, representing the wills of all the nationalities all over the country" "Declared the birth of the People's Republic of China" "The solemn historic time finally reached" "People feel the revolutionary path rough and hard as they look back" "During the four years of the great decisive battle of the two fates of the country" "Only calculating the PLA men 260,000 people died 1.04 million were wounded" "There were far more than that" "Tracing back to the year one thousand eight hundred and forty" "From then on, in order to realize such a great historical turn" "So many and may fine sons and daughters of the Chinese people" "So many and may fine sons and daughters of the Chinese people sacrificed their lives" "They went away, together with their times" "Their figures are projected to the mother earth" "And will exist therein forever" "OK?" "If no more new proposals" "We'll settle them down" "Way of year numbering, national capital, national emblem and national flag are to be submitted to the conference for discussion" "Now please state your views on the national anthem, everybody" "I agree to our reserved Mr. Zhou's idea" "Just adopt March of the Volunteers as the national anthem" "My original system of thought is not worthy of the base" "I'd like to listen to you, everybody" "Only one problem" "Whether or not the word The Chinese Nation is now in the most dangerous situation should be changed" "Mm... some people said this statement is antiquated" "But I think it can stay unchanged" "The revised words" "Forgive me for my frankness!" "None is as suitable as the original ones" "No..." "This song was not composed out" "It is the exclamation of an epoch" "You'll get excited as you sing it'll be misrepresented if we change it casually" "How can we change a perfect construction?" "We can either not to adopt it" "Or adopt with complete original words" "Opinions in our group are completely identical" "Let's listen to Mr. Mao, please" "Yes, that's right" "The Chinese Nation is now in the most dangerous situation" "We cannot say it's out-of-date" "The imperialism and the reactionary powers are still besieging us" "Even in the future there must be such a problem" "In the Second Full Session of the Central Committee, I said," "If we can't achieve actual success in the economic construction" "To make improvement in the people's life" "We cannot persist long" "In the world nowadays" "You're of a capacity of backwardness" "That is Justin the most dangerous situation" "it'll be profitable that we remind the people in the national anthem"