In the open space at the entrance of Xiaoshui Village, 1,400 Hunan Army captured soldiers were divided into three squares by the Red Army soldiers. 100 people who were willing to join the Red Army stood on the east side, some eating dry food and some drinking water. The middle block was a sign of determination.
Those who did not want to become the Red Army squatted on the ground, surrounded by the sharp bayonets of the Red Army soldiers. On the west side were the prisoners who had just been brought in from the third ambush battle. When Liu Yimin came, the comrades of the teaching team were in this area one by one.
During the mobilization, the artillery company commander Li Chang also led his soldiers to pull people inside, which was a bit noisy.
Seeing Liu Yimin and several regiment leaders coming, the teaching captain Li Yimo and the political commissar Han Qianjin ran over quickly, saluted with a snap, and Li Yimo shouted loudly: "Report to the regiment leader, the political commissar, the teaching team is doing the prisoner transformation work, please."
instruct."
Liu Yimin raised his hand in return and said: "Please rest a moment. Captain Li, how are you doing in transforming prisoners?"
Li Yimo replied: "It is difficult to report to the group leader. The first and second batch have recruited 100 people, and the third batch is doing the work."
Liu Yimin said: "Screen out the enemy officers, lock them in a house, gather the soldiers, and I will tell them."
Li Yimo immediately stood at attention and saluted: "Yes", turned around and shouted: "The teaching team, all the 10th company, will immediately organize the prisoners into a team and accept the instructions from the team leader."
Soon, the soldiers escorted Zhang Liangji and 20 other officers to a private house, and lined up the captured Hunan soldiers. After all the prisoners had stood up and Li Yimo reported, Liu Yimin stood in front of the prisoners: "Everyone is here.
Yes, stand at attention!"
The prisoners of the Hunan Army obeyed the order unconsciously and stood up straight.
Liu Yimin glanced with satisfaction and said, "Take a break! Please sit down."
"Brothers, I am Liu Yimin, the commander of the 18th Red Regiment that annihilated the 16th Hunan Division this time." After a pause. Looking at the shock on the faces of the prisoners, Liu Yimin continued: "That is, our regiment cooperated with the 34th Red Division.
, two regiments of the 24th Gui Division were wiped out at Gulingtou, and one regiment of the Hunan Army was wiped out on the bank of the Xiang River. Today we also wiped out your 16th Hunan Division."
Seeing that the soldiers of the Hunan Army were dumbfounded and silent, Liu Yimin said: "I want to ask a few questions for the brothers. The first question is, if you have thirty acres of land at home and more than two cows, mules, and horses, please raise your hands.
.Leasing land from the landlord’s family does not count.”
No one raised their hands.
"If you have 10 acres of land at home and a cow or a mule or horse, please raise your hand."
No one raised their hands.
"If you have a business at home, please raise your hands."
No one raised their hands.
"If you have read a book or have an education above middle school, please raise your hands."
No one raised their hands.
"If you have a primary school education, please raise your hands."
No one raised their hands.
A prisoner of the Hunan Army shouted loudly: "Sir, don't ask, who is going to be a soldier among those who have land, money and literacy?"
Liu Yimin smiled and said, "What this brother said is right, no one with land, money, or knowledge should be a soldier. Only the poor can be soldiers. The second question I want to ask you is, why are the rich not soldiers and the poor?
Where are the soldiers? Who can tell me?"
No one answered.
Liu Yimin smiled and said: "The brother who just spoke, yes, it's you. Tell me, why do rich people not become soldiers and let poor people become soldiers?"
The soldier stood up and said: "Sir, I can't say, but I know that the rich have good relations with the people in the government. When arresting strong men, they usually don't arrest the rich's children. They just occasionally catch them and they say hello or
Spend some money and let go. If you catch the poor, you have no money and you have to be a strong man."
"What this brother said is right, the rich have a good relationship with the government. In fact, they are not only on good terms, they are actually a group. The National Government is the spokesperson of the rich. Everyone has seen that the township chiefs and security chiefs in your hometown are always around.
They only arrest poor people to serve as soldiers and go to jail. Who has seen them arrest young men from rich families to serve as soldiers and go to jail? My third question is: We are all human beings, why are they rich and we are poor?"
At this time, many people stood up to answer. Some said that rich people have a good life, some said that rich people are capable, and some said that the ancestors of rich people were rich people. It was a mess.
Liu Yimin saw the prisoners talking about each other, and laughed inwardly, coughed, and slowly no one spoke, and began to say: "What everyone said is reasonable, but it is not correct. For example, everyone said that they are rich.
Life is good, so why do poor people have bad lives? You must know that university scholars have long said that all people are born equal. We are all human beings and have the same life. For another example, some people say that rich people are capable. Well, you can think
When we think about it, when we also farm, do the rich farm better or the poor farm better? For example, some people say that the ancestors of the rich are rich, so let’s ask again, the ancestors of the rich
How did your ancestors become rich?"
Another recruit stood up and raised his hand in salute. Liu Yimin returned the salute and said, "Brother, please tell me."
"Sir, I'm thinking about nothing. This society doesn't let the poor get rich. Because if the poor become rich, wouldn't they be able to become officials and masters? Wouldn't the rich not be able to hit them whenever they want?
Just kill him?"
Liu Yimin nodded approvingly: "This brother is right. The fundamental reason is that the social system is unreasonable. People are born equal, so everyone should have land, books, books, and jobs.
We have food to eat. But the current policy of the National Government is that the rich will get richer and the land will be more. Those without money can only suffer poverty, and those without land can only be long-term workers. Is this fair? We are also human beings, and we are also
We must have land, study, and eat. Since Chiang Kai-shek's National Government will not give us land and this social system is so unfair, why don't we overthrow it and establish a society where everyone is equal, everyone has land, and everyone has land?
What about a new society where everyone has food to eat, a book to read, and a job for everyone? My fourth question is, when the National Government seizes us poor people as soldiers, who is it asking us to fight? Which brother can tell us?"
The atmosphere became lively. The soldiers began to talk. Some said they would attack Japan, some said who rebelled and attacked whom, and some directly said they would attack the Red Army.
Liu Yimin said: "What everyone said makes sense. For example, if we attack Japan, the Japanese have occupied our Northeast. We should attack them. This is the duty of soldiers. But why doesn't the Nationalist government send troops to fight? Hundreds of thousands of Northeast
The army withdrew without firing a shot. The Red Army wanted to go north to fight against the Japanese. Instead of fighting the Japanese, you fought against the Red Army. What's the point? Isn't this who fights against the Japanese? Let's talk about who rebels and fights. History
Those who rebelled were poor people, those who served as soldiers were poor, and those who rebelled were also poor. Doesn’t this mean that the poor should fight against the poor? Our Red Army is a team of the poor and represents the interests of the poor. If we fight against the Red Army, we will also fight against the poor. Now everyone
Do you understand? The Nationalist government wants you to serve as soldiers, not to protect our country and beat the rich and bullies, but to let us poor people beat the poor. This kind of thing can only be done by fools. How can we do it?"
After waiting for a while, seeing that the Hunan Army soldiers were all deep in thought, Liu Yimin said again: "Brothers, I want to tell you two secrets. I wonder if you are interested in hearing them?"
Seeing that the prisoners of the Hunan Army were stunned, Liu Yimin said: "The first secret is that a few days ago, we occupied the passage and found millions of silver dollars from the homes of the county magistrate, police chief, and security chief.
Millions of silver dollars. A farmer can't even earn a few silver dollars a year by farming at home. How much money does the military salary of brothers have for a year? A small police chief or security team leader is so rich.
, how much money should your brigade commander, division commander, army commander, and commander have at home? How much money should those senior officials of the National Government have? But only our Red Army can seize it from them, you can't, you are the national army,
You have to protect them. If you dare to go to their house to get a copper plate, they will shoot you. Brothers, stop being this useless national army and follow me to kill all these bad guys and divide their land and money.
, okay? Do you dare to go? If you have the guts, give me a shout!"
"Okay!" The prisoners gave mixed responses.
Liu Yimin went on to say: "The second secret I told you is that 10 days ago, I just joined the Red Army and was promoted from a new recruit to platoon leader, company commander, acting regimental commander, and regimental commander. There are such people in your Hunan Army
How fast is promotion? Is it okay for ordinary soldiers there who want to become officers without giving gifts? Is it okay without a backing? Especially for the Central Army, it doesn’t work if you don’t graduate from Huangpu, if you don’t graduate from the Central Military Academy, and if you don’t come from Zhejiang. Brothers, we are the only ones.
In the Red Army, regardless of your origin, as long as you have the ability and have performed meritorious service, you will soon become a squad leader, platoon leader, or even regimental commander. Think about it, everyone, when our revolution wins and New China is established, at that time, the Red Army
Soldiers are not only generals and officers, but also administrators of national administrative rights. Those who died have their names engraved on the monument and are worshiped by the country every festival. This is the real mark of history; those who were injured and disabled, we
Sanatoriums can be built in scenic places for glorious Red Army soldiers to recuperate. Brothers, when our revolution is successful, every Red Army soldier will be a hero of the people and the country! Brothers, do you think it is good to be a Red Army soldier?"
The prisoners shouted: "Okay!" One prisoner ran directly to Liu Yimin, knelt down, and cried: "Sir, please accept me, I want to become a Red Army and avenge my father and mother!" There was another prisoner!
The prisoner also ran over and said, "Sir, I will join you as a Red Army soldier to beat those bastards!" Han Qianjin, the political commissar of the teaching team, took the opportunity and led the Red Army soldiers to shout "It's glorious to join the Red Army!" "Long live the Red Army!" and other slogans, creating a great atmosphere.
It became heated immediately.
Liu Yimin struck while the iron was hot: "Comrades, you are welcome to join the glorious Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Don't mess around. Just stand still and let the cadres register you. Those who can use machine guns should go to the machine gun company, and those who are artillery should go to the artillery company.
, Those who are engineers should go to the engineer company, those who can ride horses should go to the cavalry company, and those who like to charge into battle should go to the combat camp. Li Yimo, Han Qianjin!"
The two of them stepped out in one step: "Here we come!"
"You should organize the new soldiers into groups according to their personal specialties as soon as possible. Except for those selected from heavy machine gun companies, artillery companies, engineering companies, cavalry companies, and transport teams, the others will be organized into teams of 150 people each."
"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"
Soon, the formation of the captured soldiers was completed, with 120 people from the artillery company, 80 people from the heavy machine gun company, 200 people from the baggage company, 40 people from the engineer company, 30 people from the cavalry company, and 16 medical soldiers.
At the regimental field rescue center, 14 telephone soldiers went to the communications platoon, and the remaining 900 people were organized into 6 teams and were waiting for orders.