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七律, eight lines of seven characters, written in April 1949 after the PLA crossed the Yangtze and took Nanjing, the Nationalist capital. It opens
钟山风雨起苍黄，
百万雄师过大江 'a storm sweeps over Zhongshan; a million brave troops cross the great river' and turns on
宜将剩勇追穷寇，
不可沽名学霸王: finish the war now, and do not spare the enemy for the sake of a good name, as
项羽 did.
