Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Careful, Careful." As Li talked, a Chinese air force Mustang, humming along in the fading twilight, nosed over and swooped down on a village three mile, east. A few seconds later we heard the sharp chatter of machine guns. "That village is my objective tonight," said Li. "When the sun is down my artillery will open up and then the infantry will move...
When the sun had dropped below the horizon and a white ground mist had crawled slowly up the valley floor along the black line of the Lunghai railroad, Li telephoned an order to his artillery commanders. Within a few minutes two spots in the valley blazed with the flash of cannon fire; tracers from the 37-mm. guns on Li's tanks cut red streaks through the blackness as they arched in a slow trajectory like monstrous lighted clay pigeons. Less frequently the huge muzzle flash of 105-mm. guns ballooned from the plain, hung for an instant, then...
...passed an artillery position. The dark forms of tanks loomed up against the sky. A 105-mm. gun directly in front suddenly cut loose, its red flash silhouetting for an instant the crouched figures of the gun crew. A pungent smell of gunpowder rolled over the jeep. General Li leaned out and said quietly, "Careful, careful, we are passing under your muzzle...
...Li's headquarters were in a mud hut within a mud-walled compound. Outside the door a soldier hunched over a twig fire, drying his cotton shoes. Inside the hut at a table, the commander of Li's Eighth Army bent over a map. Two candles stuck in their own wax at the corners of the table were the only light. Li waved us to seats around the table and called for food...
...Every Night." Shortly after we began eating, an orderly called General Li to the phone. He talked for a moment in a low voice and returned to the table. In the candlelight the lines on his youthful face-he is 44 - had sagged. He stared at his rice bowl, then explained quietly that he had just had word of a radio message from his friend General Huang. "The trap is closing," said Li. "He must have help soon. We must reach him in two days...