An exhumation, a funeral, more violence, and conflict between rival Chinese armies in Red Sorghum

Part/chapter 4 (of 5) in Mo Yan's 1988 novel, Red Sorghum, depicts the funeral for the narrator's grandmother, who was killed by gunshot in a failed attack by the Chinese resistance forces (led by her husband, Commander Yu) on the Japanese occupying army. The catch is that her funeral is taking place 2 years after her death. At this point, Yu is a legendary leader with tremendous number of well-armed soldiers at his command. So the funeral for Yu's late wife/partner (not clear if they ever married) is a show of military strength, not just to the Japanese but to various rival Chinese resistance armies. As with virtually every event in this novel, the funeral becomes a violent shootout w/ many horrific and gory deaths; further, the funeral process begins with the exhumation of the corpse, which is reeking and putrefying - nobody's better than MY at depicting that. While centering on the funeral, this section, as is typical of this novel, ventures onto a few side trips, including Commander Yu's affair with the nubile young servant, named Passion!, while his wife's away tending to the death of her father; they fight violently when she learns of his infidelity on her return - but that seems to be just one passage or trial in their tumultuous relationship (that began when they had a passionate encounter while Yu was transporting her to her husband to be, then was sealed when Yu murdered her new husband and her father-in-law - that just for starters!). MY includes in this section a reflective passage from what I think is 20 years later, with Yu in exile in Japan (I think), looking back on his life, escaping from a prison, making his way back to his home village in Shandong Province. There's also much talk of various alliances between the different Chinese forces, some communist, some nationalist, others such as Yu's apolitical, just either patriotic or opportunist, depending on how you look at things. Toward the end of the section, most of which takes place in 1941, Yu is intrigued by the arguments of a young soldier from another resistance army who argues that what China really needs is a return to the days of an Emperor.