At the time of the official establishment of Jinzhou City, Zhang Zuolin's troops also gathered in the barracks and began to carry out a unified change, and at the same time, there were also political cadres assigned by the Military Commission to Zhang Zuolin's troops, who also officially took office.

Although Zhang Zuolin's troops have now been upgraded to regimental establishments, from soldiers to officers, they were all recruited and promoted by Zhang Zuolin, and the People's Army did not interfere. The Central Military Commission only dispatched political cadres to Zhang Zuolin's troops. Of course, Zhang Zuolin can't refuse this; first, all the units of the People's Army are like this, and they all have political work cadres, and they are not only aimed at Zhang Zuolin's troops, and naturally they are no exception; second, Bi Jing is Zhang Zuolin's initiative to join the People's Army, so naturally he must respect the rules and regulations of the People's Army, not to mention that Zhang Zuolin now has no capital to bargain with the People's Army.

Although Zhang Zuolin didn't know what a political cadre was, he understood one thing: these people were actually the supervisors sent by the People's Army to his ranks. Zhang Zuolin can also understand that if he is the person in charge of the People's Army, it will be the same, but this number is a little too much, he is now only a mere regiment, less than 3,000 people, and more than a dozen people have been sent from the company level, is it necessary to have so many people? However, even if it is the rules of the People's Army, Zhang Zuolin is not easy to say anything, in addition, he still has some confidence in his team, after all, this is the team he pulled up single-handedly, almost all the officers at all levels are either Zhang Zuolin's old brothers, or Zhang Zuolin was promoted, and most of the soldiers are Zhang Zuolin's fellow villagers, so Zhang Zuolin is still quite confident in the control of this army.

As a matter of fact, in addition to the normal establishment and personnel arrangements of the People's Army, the East China Military Commission and the Central Military Commission dispatched political work cadres to Zhang Zuolin's troops, and another important goal was to take Zhang Zuolin's troops as an experiment to see how strong the political work cadres that the Central Military Commission had spent more than six years training were.

Zhang Zuolin was the first team to surrender to East China with the whole team, and there had never been one before. Both East China and the Central Military Commission attach great importance to it, because in the future battle to unify the whole country, there will certainly be an uprising in front of the formation of the army, or take the initiative to surrender to East China, so how to deal with these troops is one of the problems that the People's Army will face in the future.

The army of this era has a very distinct commonality, that is, the commander has a great influence on this army, and even basically the commander's private army, such as Zhang Zuolin's army, which is basically the case, but it is obviously impossible for East China to accept the existence of this kind of army in the people's army, and all the army's allegiance should be to the country or the country, not the individual, so it is necessary to transform such an army, and Zhang Zuolin's army can be used as a test field to accumulate corresponding experience.

However, there is considerable controversy in the Central Military Commission about the specific methods of transformation. Some people suggested that Zhang Zuolin's troops should be split up and then distributed to other units; others believed that Zhang Zuolin's troops should be mixed with sand and gradually replace the soldiers in Zhang Zuolin's troops with soldiers trained by the People's Army; and still others advocated that political work cadres should be allowed to do the work.

In the end, the Central Military Commission decided to first adopt the method of working with political work cadres; although the previous suggestion was easier, it was only suitable in peacetime, but now it is in wartime, and this practice will damage the combat effectiveness of the army, and in addition, the Central Military Commission also wants to see how much energy political work cadres have.

The veterans of the People's Army are adhering to the traditions of the old time and space, attach great importance to the political education of the army, and regard it as the most powerful guarantee to ensure the combat effectiveness of the People's Army, its loyalty to the people's army, and its excellent work style. Therefore, from the time the People's Army was formed, it paid attention to the training of political work cadres, and after the establishment of the People's Army in East China, it set up political work cadres in the army according to the standard of building branches on the company, and paid attention to and discovered political work cadres while training the army's combat effectiveness.

Now that the People's Army has been in existence for six years, it has also trained a number of political cadres and ways and means of conducting political education for the army, and is playing a very important role in the People's Army. In a sense, it is even more difficult to train a qualified political cadre than a qualified military commander, because a military commander only needs to have the corresponding military knowledge and actual combat experience, and the political work cadres must first have a certain amount of cultural knowledge, not only to be able to read and calculate, but also to be able to write, otherwise it will be difficult to do political work, and this is quite difficult, and the literacy rate of Bi Jing's era is not high; secondly, political work cadres must have a good understanding of East China It is necessary to understand what kind of country East China intends to build China into, and the People's Army is fighting for, otherwise it is impossible to conduct good political education for soldiers; in addition, political work cadres must also have a certain degree of organizational and communication skills, and it is best to have some theatrical performance ability.

However, up to now, the political work cadres of the People's Army are mainly recruited soldiers, and the work is relatively easy to do. However, in the old time and space, a large part of the political work of the patriarchs was directed against the enemy troops who were captured, surrendered, surrendered, and revolted, and the results were quite remarkable. Therefore, this time, I will use Zhang Zuolin's troops to train and test the quality of the political work cadres trained by the People's Army.

This time, the political commissar of Zhang Zuolin's army is called Li Jianzhou, and he mainly accepts this task, because in the old time and space, he likes to listen to Mr. Shan's commentary, and he has heard Mr. Shan's masterpiece more than ten times based on Zhang Zuolin's life experience adaptation of the commentary "Heroes in Troubled Times", and almost he can draw a gourd and say it again, so he is also quite interested in Zhang Zuolin, so when selecting the political commissar of Zhang Zuolin's army, he took the initiative to sign up, took this position, and swore to take on the responsibility, and he must transform Zhang Zuolin into a qualified revolutionary soldier.

Of course, this was an important battle fought by the political work cadres of the People's Army, so it was necessary to concentrate on the elite troops and strong generals, and the political work cadres of the company battalions were all outstanding personnel drawn from the KPA units left behind in Shandong, and they also made a special trip to conduct a five-day training.

In addition to his own work, Qin Zheng specially formulated three working principles for them based on his many years of experience in military and political work, the first of which is that they must go deep into the grassroots, mingle with ordinary soldiers, eat and live together, and not be high up and treat themselves as commanders just because the other party's defection troops are superior, let alone look down on them because they are bandits, but should treat them as their own people as equals and communicate. This is the basis for the work of political work cadres, and only in this way can political work cadres be recognized by ordinary soldiers, and can ordinary soldiers go to them and express their ideas, which will also make it easier for political work cadres to carry out their work.

The second is that it is necessary to properly handle the relationship with the military commander, so that he must pay attention to safeguarding the authority of the military commander and must not interfere with military command. In fact, the contradiction between political cadres and military commanders is also a problem that existed in the old time and space. Because most of the military governors have some problems, because they are military commanders who can fight and can fight, almost all of them have a lot of problems. If it is not handled well, it will be extremely easy to cause contradictions between the military and the government, which will affect the combat effectiveness of the armed forces and, in serious cases, will lead to splitting the armed forces. Therefore, it is very important to maintain the authority of the military commander, and without the support of the military commander, it is impossible for the political work cadres to do a good job, and the army is used to fight wars, and if the army cannot win a war, no matter how good the politics are, it is useless. In addition, among the political work cadres, although there are not many people with considerable military ability, Bi Jing, the highest military command of the army, is the military commander, and there can never be two commanders in an army, and in terms of military command, political work cadres must obey the military commander.

The third is that the major principles must be adhered to to the end, without the slightest concession, but the scale can be flexibly grasped. The so-called major principle here refers to the system and discipline formulated by the People's Army. No, these systems and disciplines cannot be mechanically enforced, and some of them have no room for retreat, such as plundering the people, greedy for ink, indiscriminately killing innocents, and fleeing from battle. For example, in principle, it is forbidden for a commander to beat or scold a soldier in the People's Army, but in practice, it is almost impossible for the army not to use foul language, and it is also a common occurrence for the military to start a fight if they are in a hurry; in addition, although a battle plan is drawn up before the war, the battlefield changes rapidly, and the military commander will often respond in violation of the battle plan according to the actual situation on the battlefield, and this is also reasonable. However, how to grasp these scales can only depend on personal experience and judgment.

Qin Zheng believes that as long as these three principles are done well, there will be no major problems in the political work of Zhang Zuolin's troops.

After Zhang Zuolin's troops were assembled, they first announced that political work cadres at all levels had taken up their posts, and Zhang Zuolin also welcomed the arrival of these people, and Li Jianzhou also spoke on behalf of all political work cadres, at least the atmosphere at the scene was still very harmonious.

The next thing is to change the weapons, each soldier is issued a tactical vest, a Type 01 rifle, a bayonet, a marching water bottle and a marching backpack, all weapons are brand new, rifles and bayonets are wrapped in oiled paper and unsealed in person, because the military uniform has already been issued, this time there is none. In addition, each squad is equipped with 4 sapper shovels and 2 grenadiers, of course, all the members of the class have to take turns to learn how to use the grenadiers, and all the weapons used by the soldiers in the past are handed in and destroyed in a unified manner.

Machine gunners and artillerymen receive equipment as a group, and of course they have to undergo considerable training to master the use of these weapons. In addition, the cavalry units received enough horses. Zhang Zuolin's troops were finally equipped with all the equipment, and those who had many dissatisfaction with the People's Army before had nothing to say this time.