In 1947, the war of liberation was in full swing. With the continuous expansion of the combat effectiveness of our People's Liberation Army troops, a large number of Kuomintang prisoners of war were accepted. However, because these 2.8 million ** soldiers have not received the long-term education of our party and do not have a sufficient understanding of the purpose of joining the army to fight, some abnormal phenomena have emerged, such as more than 1,500 soldiers as deserters, which has had a huge impact on the internal unity and combat effectiveness of our army. In order to deal with this problem, ** and *** put forward a new army reorganization movement in the form of "three investigations of grievances" as the main form. The new army reorganization movement was spearheaded by the Northwest Field Army under the command of ***.
In this process, as a grassroots worker, he sorted out many problems in the ideological dynamics of fighters, such as gangs, mutual contempt caused by different backgrounds, and the inability of new and old fighters to integrate. He found a soldier named Lu Xinli, a former soldier of Hu Zongnan's army, who had a withdrawn personality and would make strange actions in the middle of the night, which had already attracted the attention of ***. Once, when he left the camp with a small baggage, he was mistakenly thought to be running away by the instructor who checked the bed, but in fact, Lu Xinli went down the slope of the back mountain and took out the tablets of his relatives to cry. It turned out that Lu Xinli had parents and younger sisters at home, and because of poverty, his parents died early.
He planned to take care of his underage sister to grow up, but he was forcibly arrested by the Kuomintang to serve as a soldier, and he joined the army for many years, and there has been no news of his sister, living a lonely and lonely life. Under the instructions of ***, Lu Xinli's team held a grievance meeting. Lu Xinli told his grief and anger and suffering over the years, which resonated with many captured Kuomintang soldiers. After all, in the old society, the poor were burdened with a painful past. Time flies, coupled with the ** and bewitchment of the Kuomintang authorities, the originally hot-blooded young people gradually lose their enthusiasm for life, become numb, and even mess around like a walking corpse. The Northwest Field Army sang the story of Lu Xinli, and more and more captured soldiers opened their hearts and told their sad past.
Our party's advanced thinking has resolved the hostility in their hearts. After all, we are all from poor people, carrying guns to protect the people, fighting against the rule of **, and it is clear at a glance who is representing whose interests. As the process of complaining continues, more and more people are being persuaded. Next, our army continued to carry out the "three checks," that is, to check class, work, and fighting spirit. Now that the reason for exploitation and oppression has been found, how should these former soldiers behave after returning to the people's army?Their hatred should be transformed into a dynamic force for the class struggle. Although the people's army was poorly equipped and undertrained, everyone was full of confidence, because the direction of advance was bright, and the support of the masses wherever they went was sincere, and this was a treatment that the Kuomintang army could not think of.
I am a soldier, from the common people. Bloodshed and sacrifice are ultimately to save the world. Through the enhancement of ideological understanding, the combat effectiveness and cohesion of the troops have been enhanced to an unprecedented extent. Many captured soldiers blurted out the slogan "Down with Chiang Kai-shek" after revolutionary-themed film and television works such as "The White-Haired Girl" and "Blood and Tears", realizing the transformation process from following the crowd to clarifying revolutionary aspirations. In April 1949, our army fought bloodily and conquered Nanjing's "** Mansion". When the red flag of victory was planted on the roof of the building, at least half of the PLA soldiers standing below were soldiers of the Kuomintang 96th Army who had been captured in the battle to liberate Jinan.
From the stubborn ace troops to the courageous liberation of the reactionary capital, the reorganized 35th Army has created a miracle in the work of recruiting and transforming prisoners. ** In the later stages of the Liberation War, through appropriate transformation and transformation, a large number of defectors and prisoners were integrated into the upsurge of people's liberation. Such a situation has played a positive role in enhancing the strength of our army and reducing unnecessary losses. It should be said that it is the foresight and broad-mindedness of the great leader that has created such a win-win situation.