Chapter 32: Undercurrents are surging
It is really a chore to renovate and educate the old army, and this "engineer of the human soul" is really not good. We must neither reprimand nor let these people go unchecked, and we must not talk about the sore spots, but we must not insult their personality. Speaking has to talk about art, education has to talk about methods, and transformation requires patience. It is necessary to make them clearly understand the reactionary nature of oppressing and exploiting the people by the reactionary reactionaries, and to clearly understand their sins in brutalizing the people in the old army, so that they can change their thinking, concepts, stands, and actions, change their past wrongs, and become new people.
We allow them to plead their arguments, respect their personalities, organize their discussions, let them put down their burdens, say whatever they think in their hearts, start with meetings, do not speak in discussions, and do not put forward opinions in democratic life meetings. Later, when we saw that our cadres were sincere, calm, emotional, and well-intentioned, they gradually eliminated their hostility and vigilance, actively cooperated with the meetings and discussions, regarded us as friends they could trust, and some of them even privately told us their internal information, thus making great progress in our work.
There is a driver, named Zhu Zetan, a native of Chenzhou, graduated from high school, speaks very reservedly, but also a little sophisticated, and often only speaks half of the words. Later, by observing our words and deeds, he finally admired that words counted, so he learned to work, took the lead everywhere, and often reflected to us their internal situation. We called him the group leader, and he did a good job.
By September 1951, both the cities and the countryside were carrying out a campaign to "eliminate bandits and oppose hegemony, reduce rents and surrender detainees," and the higher authorities organized the insurrectionaries to attend various grievance rallies in the rural areas. Hearing the peasants' crying accusations of cruel oppression and exploitation by the landlords and bullies, one by one, one by one, with blood and tears, it was shocking, and it was shocking to see the mountains of grain and property copied from the landlords' homes, and the dazzling sight of all kinds of clothes and cloths alone.
There is a piece of clothing that is resplendent in gold, everyone has never seen it, this dress is worth hundreds of loads of grain, the landlord wears such good clothes, but the peasants are freezing to starvation, in the old days it was really "Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road". There is a landlord in Xiama Village, who owns 1 to 200 acres of good land, herds of cattle and horses, and dumps hundreds of quintals of moldy grain every year into the Gongpan River, and does not give a grain to the peasants. By attending on-site meetings in rural areas, these insurgents were also educated about the evils of exploiting and oppressing the people.
The living reality has greatly educated these insurgents. The school department lost no time in carrying out class education and grievance education, and complained about the oppression and exploitation of the poor by the reactionary, reactionary, and landlord classes. The education on grievances was further deepened, and the insurgents began to relate to the oppression and exploitation they had suffered, and suddenly woke up from their nightmare and recognized the nature of the reactionary reactionaries.
The vast number of soldiers were in a state of great emotion and rose up one after another to accuse the reactionaries and landlords and bullies of all kinds of crimes, especially the mistreatment of the soldiers by the officers of the old army. Some of them want to settle accounts with their superiors, some are so angry that they want to kill their superiors, and some expose the agents of the rebel forces,...... The situation is moving fast and is moving towards our desired goals.
We work day and night among the soldiers, guiding them to learn more and channel their anger on the right track. In order to prevent individual soldiers from acting excessively, they were asked not to go out and report any situation to the team.
The former rebel officer of the two brigades in the western suburbs was well aware of his sins and was afraid that the soldiers would settle accounts with him, and the older the officer, the more panicked he became. The leaders of the team and the members of the teams in each district often report the situation together, collect feedback, and study countermeasures, and often discuss until midnight.
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War broke out, and on September 15, the invading US forces gathered troops from 15 countries to form the so-called "United Nations Army" and landed at Incheon on the west coast of Korea.
On October 19, 1950, a total of 18 divisions of 6 armies of the Volunteer Army crossed the Yalu River from Andong, Changdian estuary and Ji'an to the Korean front, opening the prelude to the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
At this time, rumors arose again in the barracks: what "the third world war has started, the United States has sent troops to Korea, attacked the red, and the free world is coming"; What "to send the insurrectionary troops to Korea as cannon fodder ......". At night, the enemy elements outside the school often set off cold guns, sentry shots, threw hand bullets, and assassinated our staff members outside the school, and even abandoned their bodies outside the wall, and some female comrades disappeared one after another. The frenzied counterattack of the enemy elements inside and outside the school has aroused great attention from the leaders of the troops, and the leaders of the units have taken positive measures to deal with this. It's really quiet and the wind doesn't stop!
One night, the enemy threw a hand* bomb outside the brigade headquarters and exploded, and soon the transformer was blown up, causing a power outage for several nights. It seems that the enemy is engaged in nerve warfare to coordinate with the actions on the Korean battlefield. We have also been on high alert, strengthened our guard posts, strengthened patrols inside and outside the barracks, and constantly exposed the counterrevolutionary conspiracy of the enemy.
The security department of the military district went deep into the soldiers to investigate.
Complete one's misery. One morning, when the whole team came back from a drill, many people suddenly felt stomach pain and vomited after drinking boiling water. Political Commissar Du and Captain Cao were seriously poisoned and immediately sent to the hospital. The Security Department and the Ministry of Health of the Military Region rushed to control the gate, only allowed to enter but not to leave, and immediately organized rescue, investigated the situation, and traced the cause. From the clues, it is speculated that the boiling water may be poisonous, and the cooking class is the focus of the investigation.
There were originally seven people in the cooking class, three of whom were party members, two league members, one veteran, and one was a newly transferred insurrectionist who had behaved well in the grievance education. During the investigation, it was found that the rebel had said to a person with a stomachache: "Drink some liquor and it won't hurt." "The old squad leader didn't drink liquor, and the other two drank some liquor, and the pain was even worse.
Only the insurrectionist in the cooking class did not have a stomachache. The security department immediately talked to this person and searched his residence, and found a flower handkerchief under the bed of the old squad leader, which contained a paper ball, which was sampled and tested, and turned out to be arsenic.
After analysis, everyone believed that the old squad leader was a veteran soldier who had been tested by the revolution for a long time, and the handkerchief under his bed must have been diverted by someone to blame others. A few days later, the case was solved, and the main culprit was the new cook who asked others to drink liquor.
He confessed: He was a spy planted by a spy organization, and he was instructed by a female spy to disguise himself actively, sneak in, spy on our army's intelligence, create rumors, poison, etc., and this poisoning was carried out at her behest. The female spy made him a wish, and when he was poisoned, he fled and rewarded him with many dollars and counterfeit bills. The school department immediately announced this person and the facts of the crime to the insurrectionary troops, which stabilized people's minds, and the person was sent to the military district prison to continue the investigation. It is said that this person was executed during the suppression of the counter-revolutionary movement.
Soon after, a regiment of the 13th Provisional Army, far away from the northern suburbs, suddenly launched a counterrevolutionary riot, killed all the representatives of our army, and organized a flight to the south, which was later surrounded and annihilated by our army, and the bandit leader Jin Shaorong was captured, and it was he who led and planned the uprising. He was executed during the suppression of the counter-revolutionary movement.