In 1937, after the Lugou Bridge 77 Incident, the Red Army of Yan'an in northern Shaanxi crossed the Yellow River to resist the Japanese under the instructions of the People's Republic of China, and accepted the reorganization of Chiang Kai-shek's national **, and reorganized into the 18th Group Army, referred to as the Eighth Route Army, under the jurisdiction of the 115th Division, the 120th Division and the 129th Division.
Among them, Marshal ***, former Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, served as the commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. What is extremely puzzling is that when the first leader led the department and reorganized it into the Eighth Route Army, the common people said in a panic after seeing our army: The Kuomintang is coming. What's going on?
The content of this issue is a useful history, decrypting the fact that after the Red Army reorganized the Eighth Route Army, why were the people frightened, thinking that the Kuomintang was coming, and how to solve it after learning about this situation and eliminate the panic of the masses?
After leading the troops to change the Eighth Route Army, why did the people panic?
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party began the second in-depth cooperation, the united front to resist Japan, and the Red Army in Yan'an, northern Shaanxi accepted the reorganization of Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang, and the news of the establishment of the Eighth Route Army spread.
In private, there is often a discussion: After we are reorganized, who will lead the troops? Will the Kuomintang reactionaries take the opportunity to rectify us? Lao Jiang is not a good stubble.
Marshal ***, who served as the commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, also heard some discussions, but did not impose intervention for the time being.
I'd rather go back to farming than wear a military uniform
Have you been unable to figure it out lately? **Straight to the point. The staff nodded and expressed their inner entanglement: Chief, after we change into the Eighth Route Army, who will lead us? Who gave us the order to fight? I heard that Mr. Zhu is only the deputy commander of the second theater.
Will he be set aside by the Kuomintang? Lao Chiang has encircled and suppressed us many times, and after he reorganizes the Red Army this time, will he take the opportunity to rectify us? If that's the case, then we don't agree.
**Looking at his anxious appearance, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head: Little comrade, although we are now nominally reorganized into the Eighth Route Army and obey the command of the Kuomintang, in fact we are still the Red Army, and what we believe in will always be the Communist Party, and we will always be our supreme commander.
If you don't believe me, don't you believe in ***? We are different from Chiang Kai-shek, behind us is the people of the whole country as the backing, Yan'an has the correct leadership, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army has Mr. Zhu and Mr. Peng in command, and I am at the front.
Soon after, Yan'an will also send Political Commissar Deng to our division to guide the work, and it is impossible for him to engage in a conspiracy, and he will never be able to command our Eighth Route Army.
Through this conversation, I also deeply realized that the Red Army's work of reorganizing the Eighth Route Army may not be easy to do, and the most difficult thing to deal with is the soldiers' dissatisfaction with the Red Army and their deep feelings for the Red Army.
Some fighters and even leading cadres have complained to *** more than once: Chief, when we joined the army to make a revolution, it was to fight Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang reactionaries. But now that we're calling around, we've become **.
What is the purpose of this revolution in the end? Lao Jiang encircled and suppressed us five times at the beginning, forcing us to march on the Long March, how many people died in the Battle of Xiangjiang, and how many people died climbing snowy mountains and crossing grasslands? We have lost so much, this is a blood feud, and we cannot go unpaid.
And when the cadres of the logistics department and the Kuomintang uniforms brought by the generals were distributed to the whole army, the dissatisfaction hidden in the hearts of the soldiers immediately broke out, complaining about the sky and sighing for a long time, and the anger of the thunder was endless, and all the officers and soldiers of the 129th Division were in turmoil, and they couldn't turn this corner in their hearts.
On the first night of the official announcement of the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army, in order to appease the emotions of the soldiers, ** personally convened cadres and fighters to personally mobilize and conduct ideological education.
But at this time, a comrade in the headquarters suddenly stood up dissatisfied and interrupted ***'s speech: I don't do it, I'd rather go back to be a farmer and farm, and never wear a ** military uniform, wearing Lao Jiang's blue sky and white hat. The comrades-in-arms next to him hurriedly stopped him, but they didn't expect him to ignore him, and his emotions were even more excited.
Seeing that he was emotionally impulsive, unorganized and undisciplined, and also moved the real fire, he couldn't help but reprimand angrily: You have opinions to raise, but as a soldier, where is your organizational discipline? Comrades, I don't want to wear ** clothes, but now that the enemy is present, the Japanese are coming, it is not the time for us to fight, we must work together to fight against the Japanese invaders.
If the Japanese don't leave for a day, we won't be able to survive, and now we are all going home, who is going to fight against Japan? Who will protect the land and the people? We must attach importance to the overall situation, and we must not ignore the interests of the country and the nation because of our own selfishness.
After the meeting, he instructed the leading cadres of political work at all levels to bring back the troops in batches, to be patiently enlightened, to focus on persuasion and education, and to let everyone understand a truth: Although our Red Army accepted the reorganization and became the Eighth Route Army, it is still the people's soldiers, and in order to save China, we are willing to sacrifice our lives for the people.
And the comrade who was impulsive and shouted that he wanted to go home and farm, after being criticized and educated by the higher-level leaders, slowly calmed down and said embarrassedly: I will not do it if I am really asked to leave the Red Army.
The cockade is white, but the heart is always red
On September 6, 1937, ** in Shiqiao Town, Sanyuan County, Shaanxi, he personally presided over the oath meeting of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army to go to the front line in North China to resist Japan. But the sky is not beautiful, and it actually rained lightly, and several cadres and comrades discussed it, preparing to let the troops go back to stand by first, and then hold it when the rain stopped, and ask *** whether to reschedule? But as soon as the troops walked out of the venue, ** arrived on horseback, he didn't wear a raincoat, he was covered with rain stones, and when he saw people going back, he asked: Why did they go back?
The cadres hesitated for a moment and replied loudly: Report to Senior Commander Liu, now that it is raining heavily, we are thinking, will the pledge meeting be postponed?
**Jumped off the horse and replied without thinking: No, today is the day when our 129th Division swears out, and it must not be changed, and the swearing-in meeting must be held on time. Military personnel, rain or shine, must resolutely carry out the tasks they have set, and they must never change them.
Under the instructions of the first class, the troops returned to the venue, tens of thousands of troops, neatly arranged, motionless like a mountain, unable to see the end at a glance, and then, the first to meet the loud military horn on the rostrum, the atmosphere of the whole venue added a bit of solemnity and solemnity.
At this time, the rain is getting heavier and heavier, ** is 45 years old this year, the staff officer is worried that the chief is in trouble, so he planned to put on a raincoat for him, but was politely refused, and then loudly told all the officers and soldiers standing solemnly below: In the past, I fought Lao Jiang with you, and now we are fighting against Japan together, sharing blessings and difficulties, and we will stay up together when it rains.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, the pledge meeting started on time, and ** began to make an important speech: Comrades, today is the pledge meeting of our 129th Division to go to the front line of resistance against Japan. The voice was so loud that it almost drowned out the howling of the wind and rain.
After many years of hard work, our Communist Party has finally established a national anti-Japanese united front, and now that the Japanese invade our homeland, the country is in danger, and the nation is in danger of life and death, we communists must sacrifice the small for the big and regard the interests of the country and the people as the highest interests.
To point the spearhead of the struggle at Japanese imperialism, in order to resist Japan and save the country, and for the perils of the country and the nation, we need and must bury the hatred of class struggle in our hearts, and sincerely cooperate with the Japanese to resist Japan together, so from today on, we are the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.
** words, infected all the soldiers in the audience, although the rain poured down, but the red star on the heads of tens of thousands of soldiers was washed by the rain to be extremely bright red and dazzling.
Suddenly, the voice of ** was raised by another degree: Comrades, what do you think is the change of hat, it is just a formality, even if you change the hat of the blue sky and white sun, the essence of our Red Army will not change, the fine revolutionary tradition of our Communist Party will not change, and the will and belief in liberating the whole of China will never change.
After speaking, ** took out a military hat decorated with a blue sky and white sun cockade, put it on his head, and then solemnly gave an order: The cockade of this hat is white, but our hearts will always be red, comrades, in order to save the country and the nation, temporarily say goodbye to the Red Army military hat. Now listen to my command and change your hat.
All the officers and men understood that the most urgent task now was to unite to resist Japan, but emotionally, they were indescribably depressed and aggrieved by such a simple act of changing military hats, and many comrades immediately turned red, and tears and rain slid down their cheeks.
But the military order is like a mountain, the military order is below, and the soldier takes obedience to the order as his duty, so everyone is in a silence, and he silently takes off the Red Army hat with a reluctant face, and then carefully puts it into the backpack, and then changes into the ** military hat. The whole process was very quiet, no one spoke, only the crisp sound of rain falling on the ground.
The name of the unit was changed, the clothing was changed, and immediately the Kuomintang came
After leading the Red Army soldiers and reorganizing them into the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, they also aroused the doubts of the local masses, and many ordinary people said in a panic: Now that the name of the unit has been changed and the clothes have been changed, wait, soon the Kuomintang will come, and they will be like those people, arresting strong men, beating and scolding people.
However, after learning of the situation, ** did not rush to defend anything, but continued to ask the soldiers to do good deeds for the people, clean the yard, fetch water and do farm work, without the slightest sign of infringing on the interests of the masses. Moreover, the political work cadres in charge of propaganda and organization in the army often talked with the common people and said to the landlord's sisters-in-law and aunts
The villagers are suspicious of us, we are really anxious, we can't wait to open our chests to show them, whether our hearts are red or black. We are the people's army, and the children of the common people have joined us, do they even have to doubt their own dolls?
After listening to this, a sister-in-law couldn't help but say: I know that you are still the same as before, that day the leaders brought back so many exquisite fabric officer clothes, and did not see you officials wear them, but first followed those child soldiers and masters, it seems that you cadres do not treat those things as good things at all.
The commander Liu who lives in my house is tall, and he is the biggest, but he is still wearing pants full of patches.
And when the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army crossed the Yellow River eastward and went to the front line in North China to resist the Japanese, the houses of the common people who had been borrowed were cleaned and the quilts were folded neatly
You see, you see, can an army like theirs deteriorate? No matter what their names or clothes they wear, they will always be the people's soldiers who serve the poor people.