Word: yi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...danger caught North China's Nationalist commander Fu Tso-yi badly off balance. A fortnight ago Communists had pushed up north of the Great Wall west of Tatung. When Fu's troops dashed westward to drive them back, another Communist force from the north came down in their rear to strike the rail line west of Peiping, threatening to sever it completely and cut Fu's army in two. If the Communists succeeded' in this, Peiping, Tientsin and all North China would be lost...
Handsome General Wang Yao-wu, governor of Shantung, had fought a losing battle for more than a year. His troops had struggled against dwindling supplies, semi-starvation, hordes of refugees and crumbling morale. Across the Yellow River, ten miles from Wang's Tsinan headquarters, wily Communist Commander Chen Yi, a strategist and a poet, had set up a "reception house," vigorously spread the word that all hungry Nationalist deserters would be welcome...
Persuasive Mail. Last summer. Chen Yi overran the railroad south of Tsinan. Isolated and besieged, Wang strengthened his defenses. He threw a four-ply line of pillboxes and barbed wire around the outskirts of the city, dug a ten-foot moat. After seeing that the ancient brick wall around the inner city was properly sandbagged, he flew down to Nanking. He asked for one more division-with which, he said, Tsinan could be held. While he pleaded, Chen Yi struck...
...yi, wayaway...
...yi yippee...