After nearly ten days of ideological education, the Sichuan army rarely resisted Wang Jiuling's troops. The two armies often joked together.
In the past few days, Wang Jiuling's subordinates have been telling these Sichuan soldiers about national justice. Although they didn't understand it at first, the veterans from Shanghai took turns telling these Sichuan soldiers about the independent regiment's deeds in the Shanghai Anti-Japanese War. Although there were versions that had been circulated before, it was through the mouths of the people involved that they told them.
The effect was completely different. The Sichuan Army no longer thought it was a storyteller, nor did they just think it was fun and just listen to it.
Two or three days later, the Sichuan Army felt happy every time they heard where and how the Independent Regiment was killing the Japs. The following people cheered. When they heard that there were no planes, the Sichuan Army could only hide and wait for the Japs to rush up.
When they rushed into the trenches and fought against the Japs, or there were not enough manpower and there were too many Japs, they could only hold bombs and fight with the Japs. Even the veterans of the independent regiment cried, and their emotions infected the Sichuan soldiers below. Many of them
Tears filled people's eyes. It felt as if they were fighting with the Japanese at that time. It was their brothers who rushed into the Japanese crowd with explosives and grenades, connecting many Japanese soldiers and being blown to pieces.
Although each veteran talked about the same content, about the Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, everyone was in a different position, and they had different thoughts in their hearts at the time, so what they said and expressed were also different.
These things are also instilled in the officers of the Sichuan Army. These officers above the battalion commander level all graduated from Baoding Military Academy, so they know more principles than the top soldiers, but they have more ideas, so many things need to be mastered slowly.
Transformation
After listening to the story for almost ten days, Wang Jiuling also saw the reaction of the Sichuan army on the spot. Other officers also reported the information they obtained to Wang Jiuling. Wang Jiuling analyzed it and had to admire **. In fact, this kind of ideological education is what they
I invented it. I used it today and it is really easy to use. Once a thought takes root in the mind, it is difficult to get rid of it. Just like a pyramid scheme, when that kind of fallacy takes over people's minds, even if someone saves you,
Next time you will run back by yourself. I have seen people like this. They are crazy if they want to get rich.
Seeing that the effect was very good, Wang Jiuling started his plan to win over people. Now there are about 20,000 people in the Sichuan army. Wang Jiuling plans to hold a speech of 4,000 people in batches at a time to let them join Wang Jiuling's army.
This was Wang Jiuling's first time giving a speech to 4,000 people. In his previous life, he was very shy when speaking in a class with dozens of people.
Wang Jiuling held a loudspeaker in his hand and spoke to more than 4,000 Sichuan troops in the audience: "Brothers of the Sichuan army, I am Wang Jiuling, the highest officer who has been telling you stories these days. In your previous army, my position was Liu Wenhui.
"As soon as Wang Jiuling spoke, there was a murmur among the following. The previous hearsay, plus the fact that for the past ten days, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment have been saying Wang Jiuling such and such every day, it is strange that they are not familiar with it.
Wang Jiuling signaled the people below to be quiet, and soon the people below became quiet. Wang Jiuling continued: "These days, you have heard many soldiers from the independent regiment telling stories about our resistance against Japan in Shanghai, but today I am not here to tell you.
How we resisted the Japanese there, today I will only talk about why we are always beaten at our doorstep."
Looking at the silence below, Wang Jiuling was very satisfied with the effect, and then said: "Before I speak, I want to ask everyone, those of you who are relatively wealthy, please stand up for a moment?" Wang Jiuling gestured to them with his hands as he spoke.
He stood up. No one stood up for a long time. Wang Jiuling said again: "Then please let me have a good meal. I have been without food for half a year. If you think your family's life is difficult, stand up and let me see." Wang Jiuling
Just after I finished speaking, a group of people stood up and no one was seen sitting down.
"Very good, everyone, sit down! I just saw that all of you said that your family is very poor, and no one thinks that your family's life is not bad. But brothers, have you ever thought about why you are in the ground every day throughout the year?
You work, but you are hungry for half the year, and you are forced to serve as a soldier. Some of your family members have even starved to death, or some of your relatives, friends or neighbors have starved to death. Why?"
"Today I tell you, it is because of foreigners, because foreigners do all kinds of evil in our country. They collude with profiteers, or compradors, to exploit you wantonly, and they are afraid that China will not be in chaos, so they support those who are ambitious but have great ambitions and incompetent talents.
Warlords launch wars wantonly, fighting this today and fighting that tomorrow, but war requires arms. Where do the arms come from? Of course they are bought from foreigners. Do they cost money to buy? Where does the money for warlords come from?
You don’t need to think about it, you know that of course it is collected from the common people. I think you know better than me how many kinds of taxes your family has to pay every year. How much do these taxes add up to each year? After collecting the original rent from the landlord, you
They can barely survive, but they have no money and are like you taxing them and killing them if they don’t pay. Do you think you still have a way to survive? The answer is yes, no.”
After Wang Jiuling had just finished analyzing why they were poor, he asked again: "Can you get the full amount of money on time every month? Or if you haven't been owed money yet, stand up and let me see!" Wang Jiuling looked at it.
There is no one there, and the people below are also looking around.
"I just saw that none of you get enough money on time every month, but your family may be waiting for you to pay wages to subsidize your family, or the government may force you to pay various taxes, and
Your superiors did not give you any money at this time, or they kept most of it privately and kept it as a spoiled concubine, while your family was beaten up by the people he sent again and again, forcing you to pay taxes.
Have any of you had such an experience? Please stand up!" Wang Jiuling made a gesture.
The reaction was slower this time, perhaps because they were sad. First some people stood up, then a group of people stood up, and then all of them stood up.
This time Wang Jiuling did not let them sit down, but said to them: "Brothers, I have just analyzed that the source of your suffering lies in foreigners, that is, foreigners, and those warlords who are willing to be the lackeys of foreign devils. Now they are willing to
Those who have joined us and who have paid enough money on time every month should stand at my right hand. Those who want to go home, stand there and don't move."
Soon, the Sichuan Army, who had been sleeping so excited during this period, suddenly stood on the right side of Wang Jiuling. There were only more than 100 people left on the field. Of these more than 100 people, Wang Jiuling did not intend to let them go yet, but Wang Jiuling was going to go now.
Capturing Sichuan will require a lot of people to build roads. Food and accommodation will be provided, and salaries will be paid to ensure that these guys stay put.
The following speeches had similar effects. At last count, 16,000 people participated in Wang Jiuling's troops. Most of the remaining people were wounded. Those who were not wounded no longer thought about escaping.
I was very moved when I saw Wang Jiuling and others taking the initiative to help treat the wounded Sichuan soldiers who were originally enemies. They each vowed not to run away, and they took the initiative to do whatever work was required.
With the addition of so many troops, Wang Jiuling naturally wanted to expand his army, and the Sichuan army's weapons captured last time were basically all made in Hanyang. Suddenly, Wang Jiuling's troops had the largest number of weapons made in Hanyang. In order to avoid chaos in logistics during the war, Wang Jiuling
All m1916 legal rifles were transferred to Huang Peiyao, and his troops were organized into a division. However, his division had a total of 10,000 people, because Wang Jiuling did not want hundreds or thousands of m1916s to be placed in the warehouse.
For other troops, Huang Peiyao immediately took away 8,000 men, leaving 8,000 men. Wang Jiuling also reorganized Sun Chuanling and Yu Han's troops into two divisions, but adding their original men, each division now only has 6,000 men.
The men and rifles were all replaced by Hanyang-made rifles, but they had no complaints. Wang Jiuling was very satisfied with such subordinates. Zhang Wenhao and Xia Xiaoxi also knew that they had just arrived, and Wang Jiuling had equipped them with many light and heavy machine guns and a small number of artillery pieces.
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The fifty sniper scopes Wang Jiuling purchased from Rousseau also arrived. Each division was allocated fifteen scopes. Except for Huang Peiyao's division, which was mounted on an M1916, the others were all mounted on Mauser rifles brought back from the Shanghai battlefield.
, and the two groups of Xia Xiaoxi and Zhang Wenhao almost started fighting over this treasure...