Qian Peng lit a cigarette and took a hard puff before continuing: "Lao Ma is experienced in this area, and mobilizing the masses is his old job. He was originally assigned by the democracy movement officer of our division, and before he was assigned to the Ludong Military Division, he had always been the propaganda officer of the division headquarters. ”

"Instead of being promoted from the field army, they are actually more like political work cadres who are military cadres. That's why I chose his generals instead of the other two battalions of political instructors. Lao Ma and I have not been familiar with the division headquarters for more than a day, and we have always slept in the same house. It wasn't until the Ludong Army Division that he sent them apart that I understand his personality and temperament. ”

"Lao Ma is generous and persuasive, although he is not so good at talking, but what he says is more convincing than others. But the biggest drawback is that the combat aspect is a little worse. But there are combat troops who have escorted him and added support, and I want him to go, and he should be able to do it. ”

Speaking of this, Qian Peng paused for a moment and said: "Actually, he, the battalion instructor, was transferred to the Political Department as a deputy director, which is a flat transfer. It's just that the name of the outside world is better. If I had been replaced, I would rather be an instructor in a combat unit than a deputy director who would have worked for his life. ”

Maybe I realized that I had just been here for a short time, and it was not good to get too stiff with the main military and political chief of the regiment. Therefore, Qian Peng explained his meaning quite thoroughly. In fact, he didn't need to explain it so thoroughly, Li Ziyuan had already understood what he meant half of what he said before.

However, Qian Peng did not express the meaning of the other layer, and Li Ziyuan also heard it. Qian Peng also wants to take advantage of this opportunity to train a group of reserve political cadres and political work backbones. However, for the latter point, Li Ziyuan thinks that Qian Peng may be disappointed. Most of the grassroots cadres in the army know the braille after joining the army.

If it weren't for himself and Ma Yongcheng's rigid rules, how many words you must know as a squad leader, and how many words you must know as a platoon leader. As a company commander and instructor, you must not only know some words, but also learn to read maps. In order to teach the cadres and soldiers who were illiterate before joining the army, the current cultural instructors in the regiment do not know how many brain cells have been wasted.

is to teach all the company platoon commanders to identify maps, Wang Jun, who has just taken over this work from He Sanliang, is a little bitter. Fortunately, He Sanliang laid a good foundation for him before, not to mention all the company commanders, even the platoon commanders, all know what is called contour line and what is called anticline.

Of course, teaching the cadres and soldiers of his own army to learn culture is not the unique creativity of Li Ziyuan's department. It is a fine tradition that this army has established since the beginning of the Red Army. The problem is that some things can be learned, and some things are innate. You let a person who was illiterate before joining the army, and that bit of culture was a rough person who learned after enlisting in the army to be a showman.

To do propaganda and agitation work, isn't this to catch ducks on the shelves? Otherwise, the higher the level of political work cadres in the army, the higher the level of education. Even Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, etc., there are not a few famous universities in this era.

On the contrary, on the other hand, the general company political instructors and battalion political instructors were all promoted by veteran cadres of combat units or cadres who enlisted in the army after the Anti-Japanese War. This is in addition to the fact that these intellectuals do not know how to fight, and political cadres below the regimental level have to take over the command of the troops in place of the military commanders who have sacrificed or lost their command ability when needed.

Another reason is that these intellectuals are too valuable to the troops. Not only after the completion of general training, but also in the higher authorities and departments. Even when they go down to the troops, they are generally promoted quite quickly. The political commissar of one of the main regiments of the Third Division was a college student who participated in the revolution in December of 36.

Looking at Ma Yongcheng, it is almost like this. It is rare for the little Red Army of his three or five years to be the commander of the regiment now. This is definitely a rare exception among military cadres. However, there are not a few college students who joined the army before and after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and now serve as political commissars of regiments, directors of political departments of military subdivisions, and even political commissars of military subdivisions.

The reason for this is because intellectuals are so precious. They have the eloquence and literary brilliance that the workers and peasants lack, and in particular, the pen of these high-level intellectuals is also a very important weapon. Generally speaking, it is these intellectual cadres who go down to do mass mobilization work. There are not many of these high-level intellectual cadres fighting in the front-line combat units.

In his own regiment, at least now, the one with the highest education is Ma Yongcheng. Then there are a few young cadres from the military sub-districts, some of whom are high school graduates, and one is a normal graduate. The rest are all secondary school graduates, and there are no cadres with higher academic qualifications. As for the military cadres, they were almost all workers and peasants.

Political work cadres who do mass mobilization work are two different things from political work cadres in combat units. In the army, political work cadres, apart from being an example of doing ideological work, it really makes no sense to kick you in the past, and no one is too much to criticize you.

At most, the superiors criticize you for violating the policy and corporal punishment of the soldiers, everyone is a person who leads the soldiers, and they also understand the difficulties of leading the soldiers, as long as you don't do too much, just criticize two sentences. Just like Li Ziyuan was carrying a belt and wanted to draw his naked chest, no one said that he did something wrong.

But if you can't make sense with the masses, you will try to kick you and don't give you a big offense. In this era, rural people are not very literate, and they still trust intellectuals when they listen to propaganda, or at least they look like intellectuals. At least a fountain pen must be inserted in the pocket of the military uniform, and the mouth must be able to speak the big truth in an easy-to-understand manner.

If you send a group of big people who can't smash a fart with three sticks, can the crowd believe you? Especially in the western plain area of Hubei, it was also an area where the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese puppet army had been tug-of-war for a period of time, and the common people suffered a lot in the retaliation of the Japanese puppet army. To make the people believe you, you have to tell the real truth.

The meaning of Qian Peng's words, Li Ziyuan understood and understood. Therefore, Li Ziyuan nodded happily this time. I was secretly a little funny in my heart, did this Deputy Political Commissar Qian really not know the real situation of the troops below, or did he really pull his arms and do it? However, the latter reason seems to be more sufficient.

Whatever, this is in itself his duty as an acting political commissar, and it is not easy for him to participate too much. Li Ziyuan showed that he had listened to it, so Qian Peng didn't say anything more. As for the follow-up development of this matter, whether it is according to the results imagined by Li Ziyuan, or whether it is like the direction that Qian Peng is preparing to work towards, we can only wait to see the results.

The person is chosen, and the rest is to report. With a list of candidates for a new deputy chief of staff and a new deputy director of the Political Department, Qian Peng personally went to the military region and the military sub-district. And when he went to the military region, he had a particularly long talk with Ma Yongcheng, who was studying at the party school. As for the change of several battalion commanders, this is still a matter within the scope of the military sub-district and Li Ziyuan's own.

Several battalion commanders were in place as soon as He Sanliang finished talking. In fact, it is just from the battalion headquarters of this battalion to the battalion headquarters of that battalion. After the mobilization of several battalion commanders, Li Ziyuan convened a meeting of cadres at and above the company level of the unit. Two disciplines were specifically emphasized, one was mass discipline and the other was training discipline.

The discipline of the masses is aimed at the current phenomenon of a large number of prisoners and soldiers in the puppet army, and Li Ziyuan particularly emphasized it. Li Ziyuan's attitude is very clear, that is, the discipline of the masses is ironclad, and whoever violates the discipline of the masses must not only be held accountable for the fighters themselves, but also for their squad and platoon commanders and political instructors.

When Li Ziyuan mentioned the discipline of the masses, his tone was unusually harsh, and he even did not hesitate to come up with a method of sitting together. It can be seen that he attaches great importance to this matter and his determination to make an example of him. There is no way, there are quite a few captives from the puppet army in the army now. Although the puppet Second Front Army adhered to the tradition of the old Northwest Army, the discipline was also quite strict.

It doesn't mean that these people really won't have any problems. Therefore, in order to prevent it from happening, Li Ziyuan deliberately emphasized discipline again and the corresponding treatment. He even stressed the discipline of mass work, which should be taught every day and every month, and put forward the requirement that the ears should be cocooned.

Political work cadres should have more heart-to-heart talks with the soldiers, and the three major disciplines and the eight points of attention should be written down on paper and pasted in their residences. To be able to open your eyes every morning and see that teaching new soldiers to read and write begins with discipline. At the same time, the troops must guard against arrogance and rashness, and if they cannot win a few battles, they will call themselves a victorious army.

In view of training, Li Ziyuan proposed that everything should be in line with actual combat, everything should be in line with the battlefield, and training should be for battle, not for seeing. And put forward the slogan of sweating more in peacetime and less bloodshed in wartime. During the training, the battalion and company cadres should take the lead and share weal and woe with the soldiers. Political work cadres should carry out political and ideological work on the training ground.

However, during the training, the farm work of clearing the wasteland and producing to save oneself cannot be left behind. This involves the question of whether we can effectively reduce the burden on the people in this year's year of great disasters. Li Ziyuan even put forward a slogan to achieve self-sufficiency in vegetables for wintering this year. We must be self-sufficient in half of next year's grain.

These requirements put forward by Li Ziyuan are quite high requirements for the troops. It is necessary not only to carry out a very large amount of training according to Li Ziyuan's requirements, but also to continue to carry out production labor. However, all the cadres thought that the regiment commander's request was very reasonable, and no one objected.

After the meeting, according to the training outline drawn up by Li Ziyuan, the troops divided the time of each day into three parts. Two-thirds training, one-third farming. As for the recruits who had been mobilized successively in the military sub-districts and localities, Li Ziyuan did not immediately assign them. Instead, they were concentrated at the regiment headquarters and dozens of veterans with good military qualities were transferred for three months of intensive basic training.

The prisoners mobilized by Qian Peng were also concentrated for a month, and the political work cadres organized a month of intensive study before they were uniformly distributed to the troops. It's just a pity that most of the mobilized captives are ordinary infantrymen. As for the artillery, there were less than twenty people in total. The rest were taken away by the divisions and military districts.

The superiors also knew that Li Ziyuan's troops fought in the Jiuding Mountains, which really hurt their vitality. Therefore, during the initiation of Lin Nan, Li Ziyuan's department was not mobilized, and Li Ziyuan's department was given sufficient time to recuperate. And the surrounding Japanese puppet army, maybe the battle of Jiuding Mountain was really scared, and it was also very honest during this time.

When Li Ziyuan drew veterans from various battalions and collected materials from the western plains of Hubei, this old guy basically did not do any harassment when he passed back and forth through Wang Tieshi's defense area. But Li Ziyuan still asked the troops to be careful when passing through the area controlled by the puppet army.