Liu Lanfang: Advancing into Northern Jiangsu (32 Chapters)

The anti-Japanese flag battle begins, The army left Boyantai in the east. The heroes of the south are thundering, Come down the mountain to unite and save the nation. In 1940, the great Anti-Japanese War entered its fourth year. This year, on an evening in May, three horses came up the road in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, galloping towards the river from south to north. There were three people sitting immediately, wearing gray cloth military uniforms and wearing the military badge of the New Fourth Army on their left arm. The leader was tall and handsome, with his coat unbuttoned and his arms open, urging his horse and whip forward in a hurry. Who is this person? He is a proletarian revolutionary who is able to fight when he mounts his horse, and writes poems and essays when he dismounts. He is powerful in the north and south of the Yangtze River. He is a proletarian revolutionary of our party and our army. His surname is Chen Mingyi and his courtesy name is Zhonghong. He is currently the commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan Headquarters of the New Fourth Army. A few days ago, the Party Central Committee instructed Chen Yi that the New Fourth Army should develop northward, establish an anti-Japanese base area in northern Jiangsu, join the Eighth Route Army going south, and open up an anti-Japanese battlefield in central and northern China. After receiving the instructions, Chen Yi could have led the team across the river and headed north, but he couldn't! Why?