Xu Rui nodded and said: "Lao He, what you said has a certain amount of truth, if it is changed to another time, I will do what you said, I don't care what you did before joining the army, I will not give you time to adapt psychologically, just pull it to the battlefield to fight a battle first, and then say, when the battle is over, the unqualified have been naughty, and the rest are qualified, it may be a little cruel to do so, but for a country and a nation, it is the least cost." ”

Xu Rui is telling the truth, in this regard, it is not China that has done the most excesses, but the Soviet Union.

Take the most brutal defense of Moscow in World War II as an example, due to the serious lack of preparation of the Soviet Red Army before the war, it collapsed in the face of the German blitzkrieg and lost more than 5 million troops, which directly led to the lack of troops in the defense of Moscow.

In the end, no more than 10% of these young people will survive the war!

But it was the young people who survived who quickly grew into elite veterans, supporting the backbone of the Slavic nation at the most difficult moment of the Soviet Union!

At any other time, Xu Rui will do the same.

However, now, Xu Rui must not do this.

Because Feicheng has fallen into a heavy siege, and Xu Rui's forces are limited!

If these precious troops are consumed in the cruel natural elimination, then how should the next battle to defend Feicheng be fought? Who else can be relied on to guard Feicheng?

At that moment, Xu Rui said: "But, Lao He, I can't do this now, if I do it now as you said, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, send these recruits to the battlefield to fight a battle first, then it is completely conceivable that after a battle, it will be good if one of the ten recruits can survive." ”

He Guangming was silent again, in fact, he felt that what Xu Rui said was conservative.

If these recruits from the Central Anhui Advance Brigade are sent to the battlefield now, after a battle, more than five of the hundred recruits will be able to survive in the end, and it will already be burning high incense.

Xu Rui said again: "So I can't do this, because we have limited troops. ”

He Guangming said: "Then what are you going to do?" Could it be that you can train all these recruits who don't know anything into veterans in just a few days? Is this possible? ”

Xu Rui waved his hand and said: "Of course, it is impossible to train these recruits to become veterans in a few days, but it is still possible to help them get rid of the peasant positioning and let them mentally accept the positioning of warriors, as long as these recruits accept the positioning of warriors mentally, their combat effectiveness can be substantially improved!" ”

There is no shortage of precedents in history for the spiritual transformation of the peasants, or the brainwashing.

Among them, the most successful is Han Xin, in the first battle of Jingcheng, Han Xin only had 30,000 rabble against 200,000 Zhao troops, relying on spiritual brainwashing.

Han Xin ordered 30,000 peasants to form a battle against the water, and when the 200,000 Zhao army was killed from the front, the 30,000 peasant army broke out with a strong spiritual belief in order to survive, and this strong spiritual belief was transformed into combat effectiveness, and finally helped them defeat the 200,000 Zhao army.

It is no longer the era of cold weapons, and it is no longer advisable to form a battle against the water.

However, Han Xin's method of spiritually transforming the peasants can be used for reference.

What Han Xin inspired was the belief of 30,000 peasants to survive, but what Xu Rui is doing now is more complicated and more difficult than Han Xin, Xu Rui must first transform these recruits from the national and ethnic levels, make them identify with the nation-state, and then inspire them to fight for the country and the nation.

Although Xu Rui's spiritual transformation is more difficult, if the transformation is successful, the effect will be better!

Xu Rui has reason to believe that if these recruits succeed in their transformation, their combat effectiveness will not be lost to the veterans of the Independent Regiment.

Because history has fully proved that it is not only weapons and equipment that affect the combat effectiveness of an army, not only the level of training, but also the spiritual strength!

"Mentally accept the position of a warrior?" He Guangming didn't understand it a little, but he could understand the basic meaning, so he shook his head and said, "Is it possible?" Just by virtue of Chairman Chiang's broadcast, can these peasants become fighters from a spiritual level? If Chairman Chiang really wants to be so powerful, he will not lose most of China. ”

"It is certainly not enough to rely on Chairman Chiang's radio speech, and it is far from enough." Xu Rui said, "So we have to think of more ways to help these recruits, so that they can accept the position of a warrior from a spiritual level, so that they can become more courageous and aggressive in the face of little devils." ”

"So what are you going to do? Are you going to educate them in the style of a grievance campaign? He Guangming was born in the Northwest Army, although he had not directly fought with the Red Army, but he had also heard many deeds of the Red Army, so he knew the killer weapon of the Red Army to deal with the National Army, and said, "But now the political commissar is not here?" ”

Xu Rui shook his head and said, "Lao He, you will know soon." ”

As soon as the words fell, Sai Hongfu walked in from outside the door and said excitedly: "I just received a telegram from the Central News Agency, in response to the battlefield sound of our Dameishan Radio Station, the Central Radio Station also urgently produced a program, which is called Letters from the Rear, which not only interviewed a large number of citizens and brought various messages to the front-line soldiers, but also found the mothers of two officers and soldiers, and these two mothers had something to say to their sons. ”

"Immediately turn on the signal of the Central Broadcasting Station, and then summon all the officers and soldiers of the Central Anhui Advance Brigade to the square!" After Xu Rui finished speaking, he turned his head and ordered Lei Xiang, "Lei Zi, you take the guard platoon to do a good job of security, especially to make a little movement in all directions, and you can't let the little devil's artillery follow the sound to find the broadcast." ”

"Understood!"

"Yes!"

Sai Hongfu and Lei Xiang said yes and went their separate ways.

Xu Rui turned back to He Guangming and said, "Old He, go, follow me, if everything goes well, your 1st battalion will be able to receive the first batch of reinforcements tonight!" ”

(Dividing Line)

Turn the clock back to two hours ago, Jianghan Road, Wuhan.

An old woman with gray hair trembled and came to the gate of Ta Kung Pao, although the old woman looked tired, and even tired that she could not even stand steadily, but from her decent clothes and calm demeanor when facing the newspaper guards, we can still know that she is from a big family and has seen the world.

The newspaper guard was also a discerning man, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Old lady, who are you looking for?" ”

The old woman leaned against the iron fence of the gate and bent down to breathe for a moment, and then said: "I'm looking for your editor-in-chief, I heard that your Ta Kung Pao is collecting voices from the rear and sending a message to the soldiers of the anti-Japanese war on the front line, and I also have a few words here that I want to give to my son on the front, so I came over and asked your editor-in-chief, can you do me a favor?" ”

"No problem, no problem." The guard agreed and put the old woman's card into the door, "The old lady is invited." ”

The guards have been instructed that all those who come to the newspaper office to send a message to the front-line anti-Japanese soldiers are not allowed to obstruct them, and they must also be politely invited in.

When the guard accompanied the old woman to the recording studio, there was already an old woman sitting inside.

The old woman looked a little ragged in comparison, and the criss-crossing wrinkles on her face were also full of the hardships of life.

At this time, the old woman was holding the microphone and crying: "Six catties, six catties, my mother misses you, my mother misses you, when will you come back, when will you come home, woo woo woo woo......"

The old woman couldn't cry, and the editor squatted next to her and kept comforting.

It took a long time for the old woman to finally stop her grief, and then said: "Six catties, my mother is really reluctant to let you go to the battlefield, but the government said that if you don't go up, they won't go up, our country will die, and those little Japan will go to Wuhan to harm the villagers, so my mother can only send you away ruthlessly, and you don't complain about your mother." ”

"Six pounds, don't worry about your mother, my mother is still strong now, and the government just issued fifty yuan, saying that it was your bonus, and they also said, if, if, if you are not there, they will also pay another five hundred yuan pension, my mother has no worries about food and clothing in this life, don't worry, really don't worry about ......"

"Mother is bitter in my heart, I don't know if I can see you marry a daughter-in-law in this life, have another boy, and pass on the incense of our sixth family, woo woo......"

The six-pound mother was supported by the editor and the little sister.

Another editor came forward and helped the old woman who had just come in to the microphone and asked, "Old lady, what do you want to say?" ”

The old woman straightened her hair in a bun and said, "The old man will say a few words to his son." ”

The editor immediately turned on the gramophone and said, "Old lady, you say, we'll record it for you." ”

"Stones." The old woman said her name, tears were already in the corners of her eyes, and she said in a trembling voice, "Six years ago, you insisted on becoming a soldier, but my mother didn't stop you, and my mother also felt that a manly husband should make a difference, and he couldn't die old and die all his life, but do you know what, how did my mother survive all these years?" ”

"Every time I hear that your 88th Division is on the front line, my mother can't sleep all night."

"Half a year ago, I heard that your 88th Division was wiped out in Nanjing, and your father fell ill directly."

"Your father didn't survive after all, he left two months ago, and your little sister also left, and if you walk with your father back and forth, you can also have a companion on Huangquan Road."

Speaking of this, two crystal tears finally slipped down the old woman's cheeks, and several editors next to her also wept.