With the Japanese army still having an absolute advantage in the Kwantung region, it is normal for the two veterans not to want to take this risk. In the Northeast, although the current situation between the Kwantung Army and the Anti-Japanese Alliance is relatively delicate, no matter from that aspect, the Kwantung Army
The army still firmly had the upper hand.
The advancing army, which now concentrates the best of the two major base areas behind enemy lines, and the troops of the Western Manchuria Theater, which has concentrated most of the modern equipment of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, are the best of both armies, and they are the capital for their future fights. Once the losses of the troops are too large, in
It is impossible to recover without a long period of rest.
But will the Japanese army, whose sustained combat capability is far superior to its own, give itself time to rest and breathe? Even if it achieves its strategic goals, once the troops suffer huge losses and their successors are weak, the opened lines of communication will ultimately belong to others. The Japanese army can
When necessary, mobilize reinforcements from other places.
However, whether it is the advancing army or the various base areas within the pass, there is a big gap with the Japanese army in terms of follow-up mobilization. Although the Anti-Japanese Alliance has established a modern military service system and mobilization system, the potential of the soldiers in the entire base area has basically been tapped, and it is no longer able to mobilize
More troops.
There is no modern military service system or mobilization system in either the advancing army or the various base areas within the Pass. The recruitment of additional troops within the Pass relies more on the voluntariness and political mobilization of the people. And in the situation of competing with the puppet army for soldiers
Under the circumstances, the replenishment of troops within the customs was not as easy as later generations publicized.
It’s not just the soldiers who need to eat, the families of the soldiers also need to eat. Compared with the internal troops who don’t even have uniforms, the puppet troops are paid. When they cooperate with the Japanese army in their raids, they can also make a lot of extra money.
.Although most of the money was taken away by the officials, I still have a little bit left.
If you are sent to a place like a checkpoint to defend, you will have a lot of money. At this point, the puppet army is much more attractive to a large part of the people than the troops inside the pass who don't even have enough to eat.
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Moreover, although most of the puppet army's firearms are relatively old except for some elites, they have sufficient ammunition and can maintain supplies. On the battlefield, there are always more guns than ammunition, and they have to wield big blades at every turn to fight against the troops inside the pass.
There was more life protection. There were powerful Japanese troops behind them to rely on. If the dog owner was beaten, he would still have to step forward.
Compared with the internal troops who had no enough food and were killed by the Japanese, the puppet troops, and sometimes even the national troops, they had military pay and uniforms to wear. Although the food was not necessarily that good, it was still possible.
Those who can eat well. And the more puppet troops are directly controlled by the Japanese troops, the better the supply conditions will be.
Although being labeled a traitor does not look good, let alone sounds bad. But for Chinese people in war-torn times, how can they have enough food to feed their families and not care about what looks good or bad? For those puppet soldiers, themselves and their families
Being able to survive is the most important thing.
In terms of competing for soldiers with the puppet army, the Kannai army is far less attractive than others. Moreover, the Chinese have always insisted that good men should not be soldiers. Even if the Japanese bayonet is pressed to the chest, ordinary people will risk their lives at any time to become soldiers.
, it’s not that easy either.
It is not as easy as imagined to mobilize new soldiers and replenish the troops within the customs. Moreover, under the influence of China's deep-rooted rural concept, local troops who stay away from home are far easier to recruit than the main force. For those who
For peasants who cannot read a word, defending their land and resisting the war is far less useful than direct benefits.
In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese burned, killed, and looted, forcing a large number of ordinary people to join the army. However, now, in order to consolidate the occupied areas and speed up the plunder of the resources in the Japanese-occupied areas, the Japanese are more adopting the policy of using China to control China and being gentle.
Some policies made the masses less motivated to serve as soldiers than in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.
Even in the eyes of many people, it’s all about paying food anyway, so it’s not the same for whom. As long as you can save your life, it’s better than anything else. And it’s not just some people who have this idea, but a very large part of the people. In addition, the Japanese and puppets
When the army was raiding, in order to weaken the troops' will to resist, they consciously carried out massacres against subordinates. In addition, the production in the base area itself also required a large amount of manpower, making it difficult to recruit troops in the base area.
Even if they join the army, their first choice is the troops operating in their hometowns. Compared with the main force of mobile operations, the district squads, county brigades, divisional independent regiments and other local armed forces operating in their hometowns are supplementary troops.
It's a little easier than the main force.
But it is precisely this problem of having a strong sense of locality and being unwilling to leave home that many problems will occur more or less after these local armed forces are upgraded to the main force. The most common among them is that it is easy to fight away from home.
Deserters appeared. After the advancing army gave the order to leave the border and fight, more deserters ran away.
And not just one or two, most of the time they run in groups. Unlike Shandong, which has the custom of crossing the Guandong, people in Hebei, Henan, and Shanxi have never thought of crossing the Guandong. Although it is not absolute, it is related to what constitutes Northeast China.
Compared with Shandong Province, which has the main foreign population, except for the Jidong region, there are not many people from the other provinces entering Guandong.
Among the people who entered Guandong in the past dynasties, people from Shandong accounted for 80%. The population proportions of the remaining provinces were much smaller. Especially Shanxi people, except for Shanxi merchants, there were very few people. Although in the administrative planning of later generations,
Although Rehe is not really the Northeast yet, in the eyes of many people, since it is north of Shanhaiguan, it is the Northeast. To go there is to break into Guandong.
Many people are reluctant to leave the country to fight. Being too far away from home is one of the reasons. In addition, in the past, only those who could not make it through the country had a tradition of entering the country. There are also terrifying legends about the Northeast that also occupy a large space.
Reason. This is also an important reason for the wave of deserters in the advancing army.
Compared with the main forces from all over the world, this situation is the most serious for the troops upgraded from local armed forces. Especially for those troops who will be reorganized and headed north after upgrading, this is a top priority. Most local armed forces are relatively simple in composition, mostly
Made up of people from a place.
In such a unit, except for a few senior commanders, all the fellow countrymen from top to bottom, and even the battalion and company cadres, come from the same place. The people around them are all fellow countrymen, which makes it easier to run. Occasionally, a few captured
They were deserters, and even the people guarding them ran away the next day, and the leading cadres appeared and took them with them.
Others would burst into tears when they saw fellow villagers, but in the current advancing army, fellow villagers met fellow villagers and ran together. In the end, the advancing army even stipulated that sentries be kept at night, requiring party members and backbones to lead the team, and no single sentries were allowed to be released, and various helpers and teachers were also formed.
The group, but just like this, couldn't control it. Sometimes the sentry and the sentry ran away together, and the helpers and educators disappeared together.
When forming the advancing army, deserters appeared in almost every unit of these upgraded local armed forces, whether on the way to assemble in northern Shanxi or on the way out of the customs. There was even a battalion upgraded from local armed forces.
From the time when the main force was replenished to the time it was not completely out of the border, when it was assembled in northern Shanxi, only less than one and a half companies were left.
There was even an example of a company, from the company commander, instructor to the ordinary soldiers below, all running back to the old base area. People simply said that since there was a war of resistance and fighting against the Japanese, it would be the same to go home and defend the homeland.
During the war of resistance, I promise not to be a traitor or a traitor to the country.
When the advancing army came out of the border, the phenomenon of deserters became more serious the further north it went. Even old troops and old bones were deserting. When the troops crossed the Great Wall in the eastern Hebei region, a regiment once
The battalion instructor, the groom, the correspondent, six local cadres who were transferred to the Northeast, and a squad of soldiers all ran back.
When the advancing army was about to set off, six new regiments specially formed for the Anti-Japanese Alliance were waiting to leave the front line of the Great Wall. Of the tens of thousands of new soldiers, only more than 6,000 were left. When the new soldiers ran, so did the veterans. When the soldiers ran, so did the cadres.
The issue of deserters became the biggest headache for cadres at all levels on the way to Rehe.
For quite a long period of time, every night when marching and resting, the first thing cadres at all levels said when they met was, "How many more have you run today?" Some newly upgraded troops even asked, "How many men do you have left today?"
How many cadres are left and how many soldiers are left?
The troops were marching forcibly through the high mountains. They had no energy or time to catch these deserters, so they could only take some extreme measures to deal with them. In order to curb this wave of deserters, the political commissar, who had always been easy-going and did not kill people, ordered that the policy towards deserters be changed.
Adjustment.
Instead of being shot on the spot after dragging a gun and escaping, cadres who are caught as deserters will be shot on the spot as long as they are caught. Soldiers will be sent to the logistics department to do hard labor for the first time, and shot on the spot for the second time. Running away with a gun is defection. This is
There is nothing much to say. But this is probably the first time in the history of the customs army that ordinary deserters are punished like this. From this, we can see how bad the situation has deteriorated.
In order to curb the tide of deserters, when leaving the Great Wall, they even shot an old Red Army deputy battalion commander who encouraged the soldiers to escape, as well as three company-level cadres and more than a dozen platoon-level cadres who were captured.
The ancient threat method of first showing the body to the public and placing the corpse on the marching route for all cadres to fight has largely stopped this trend.
There is no other way. The wave of desertions caused by the newly upgraded local armed forces' unwillingness to go out to fight has spread to the old troops and cadres. Some people even shouted that they would rather die in the Taihang Mountains.
, and are unwilling to go to the Northeast. If we don't make up our mind to stop this situation, how many people will be left in the entire army by the time we reach Rehe?
The newly upgraded troops are just that, but most of the people who ran away from the old troops are old bones who have experienced countless wars and fierce battles. There are even many veterans who joined the army in 38 years. Such people have also run away.
It can be seen that the situation at that time was deteriorating. However, although the murderous political commissars were somewhat soft-hearted, the trend of desertion was still not completely eliminated.
After the troops entered Rehe, because the enemy situation was too complicated and serious, leaving the troops was almost a death. Let alone acting alone, it was difficult for even small troops to survive. In addition, the Japanese and puppet troops had tightly blocked the inner and outer Great Wall.
Even if you leave the army and run away, it is difficult to run back. Only then did the desertion trend completely subside.
You can take off your military uniform and throw away your gun. But can your accent be changed? Can the calluses on your hands and the marks from the military cap on your head be removed? If you are caught by the Japanese, you will either be sent to the Northeast to work as a laborer, or
It's a dead end. Rather than this, it's better to stay in the army.
In the words of the gentle political commissar of the advancing army, this is really a test. When the two veterans talked about this matter with Yang Zhen, Yang Zhen could hardly believe his ears. Such was his psychological quality.
It's so good, but it's also jaw-dropping. This is completely different from the history that later generations know.