On New Year's Day in 1941, one day, Zhang Aiping, commander of the Fourth Corps of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu, suddenly received a notice that he and Liang Xingchu, commander of the Independent Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, rushed to the Yancheng General Headquarters to receive the task.
Zhang Aiping was very happy and said: "I can meet with Mr. Chen again." ”
So, he and Liang Xingchu quickly ran to Yancheng and lived in the guest house of the General Headquarters first.
Unexpectedly, the next day, they encountered Japanese planes coming to bomb Yancheng. Enemy planes flew over and bombed, causing the people in the city to scatter and run. Zhang Aiping and Liang Xingchu were having breakfast, and immediately put down their rice bowls to hide from enemy planes, and the two ran out of the city in one go, hiding next to a grass hut by the Salt River. Unexpectedly, the enemy plane seemed to have taken a fancy to them, and dropped two bombs in the sky above the grass house.
"Boom - boom", the grass house was blown away.
The two of them were unharmed, so they ran and ran, and ran as fast as they could, hiding under the bridge of the Salt River.
At this time, there were already many people under the bridge. Rushing over, Zhang Aiping stood on her feet and saw that Chen Yi and Liu Shaoqi were also under the bridge, and they were still talking and laughing!
Zhang Aiping said: "Mr. Chen, you are faster than running!"
Chen Yi laughed: "Zhang Aiping, you are too timid to see that you are scared by the devil's big iron bird." ”
Liang Xingchu said: "The thatched hut where we were hiding was blown up. ”
Chen Yi smiled and said, "What are you afraid of? The first thing the little devil blew up was the little thatched hut where I hid from the plane." Comrade Hu Qi and I came here, how can you two be scared like this!"
Chen Guanren's "The Great River Goes East: Why They Follow Mao Zedong" and "The Great River Goes East: Why They Rallied Under Mao Zedong's Banner" (one set) written by Chen Guanren and published by the Communist Party History Publishing House of the Communist Party of China account about this incident. The book is the society's annual bestseller, with more than one million copies sold, and is a popular red history bestseller for readers.