Northwest Years 西北岁月 Episode 22

Long before Shi Yuan met Hu Jingduo, he went to meet Hu Jingtong first. However, Hu Jingtong was loyal to General Deng Baoshan and did not intend to surrender to the Communists like his sixth brother Hu Jingduo. Because Hu Jingduo, Shi Yuan, and Xi Zhongxun were all classmates of Licheng School, they had a deep relationship. Hu Jingduo was very excited when he received the letter written by Xi Zhongxun, and expressed that he would actively cooperate.

Hu Jingduo then wrote back to Xi Zhongxun. His words were sincere and his intention to join the Communist Party was very clear. His only request was that he hoped to join the Communist Party of China before the uprising and asked Xi Zhongxun to be his introducer to join the party. Considering that there has been no contact between Hu Jingduo and Xi Zhongxun for 20 years, everyone is not sure about Hu Jingduo's thoughts as a person, but Xi Zhongxun believes that he is a talent that can stand the test, and he must take risks even if there is no precedent, and even create a precedent if there is no precedent.

In order to cooperate with Hu Jingduo's Hengshan Uprising, Fan Ming decided to take the Bayi Troupe and work as a Qin Opera Troupe. Xi Zhongxun sent the new guard Wu Hanzhu to protect Fan Ming's safety, and then the "Qin Opera Troupe" team came to Hengshan and entered Hu Jingduo's house bustlingly.

Fan Ming met with Hu Jingduo alone and revealed to him that the Party Central Committee had specially approved the party's application. Hu Jingduo was very happy and said that there were many brothers in the team who wanted to join the Communist Party. That night, the Qinqiang opera troupe started lively and Wei Hai suddenly visited. Hu Jingduo quickly asked Fan Ming to hide behind the secret grid. He had a new explanation for his suspicion, and his wife also cooperated with him.

However, Wei Hai did not completely believe it. He invited Liu Qiaocui from the Qinqiang Opera Troupe and deliberately ordered a play "Beheading Qin Ying". Fortunately, Liu Qiaocui could sing this play, and his singing skills were extraordinary, leaving Wei Hai speechless. When the song ended, Wei Hai could not sit down anymore and had to find an excuse to leave. Hu Jingduo noticed that they were suspicious and decided to speed up the uprising.

Nanjing suspected that Hu Jingduo was a complicity and sent Xu Zhijia to meet Deng Baoshan. However, Deng Baoshan, the commander-in-chief of the border region, was convinced that the Hu brothers were human beings and respected them so much that they did not hesitate to fall out with Xu Zhijia. At the same time, Hu Jingduo got rid of the obstacles and discussed with the generals, saying that his eldest brother Hu Jingyi had spent his life with the purpose of "not disturbing the people, truly loving the people, and risking his life to save the country." They also had this as their purpose, thinking that they would get something by driving away the Japanese. Peace, but Chiang Kai-shek launched a civil war, his own people fighting their own people, which violated everyone's original intention, and finally decided to revolt immediately.

Soon, news of Hu Jingduo's uprising and surrender to the Communist Party reached Nanjing, and Chiang Kai-shek ordered Deng Baoshan to find out whether Hu Jingtong was involved in the activities. Hu Jingtong did not want to embarrass the commander, and was willing to go to Nanjing to explain the reason to Chiang Kai-shek in person. Deng Baoshan asked him to wait, thinking that Hu Jingduo's step was not necessarily a mistake, and wanted to wait and see what happens. After the uprising, Hu Jingduo led his troops to Yan'an and was received by Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong praised Hu Jingduo for choosing the right path and pointed a bright direction for Deng Baoshan and Hu Jingtong.

Chiang Kai-shek was very angry because of this and asked Hu Zongnan to seize Yan'an before March next year. Let the whole world, especially Stalin, see that the National Government is capable of solving the CCP problem. Soviet Russia must stop supporting the CCP and cooperate with the National Government. . Hu Zongnan asked Chiang Kai-shek to make every effort to formulate a battle plan, and in the first ten days of the month, he deployed four brigades in southern Shanxi to Shaanxi to prepare for the attack on Yan'an. Mao Zedong took this opportunity to propose the People's Liberation War to the outside world to express the central government's attitude.

Now Mao Zedong and others have deployed a plan to deal with the general offensive launched by Hu Zongnan. The Kuomintang army first bombed with enemy aircraft, and used seven brigades and 15 regiments to coordinate with the aircraft to launch an attack on the Guanzhong Division in five directions from east to west and south. The current situation is that the enemy is outnumbered. Mao Zedong took everyone's suggestions into consideration and changed the joint defense force into a field army, with Zhang Zongxun as the commander, Wang Shitai as the deputy commander, Xi Zhongxun as the political commissar, etc., to organize counterattacks in a timely manner to defend Yan'an.