After a night's march, the 34th and 18th Red Divisions followed the Red Army with the large forces of the Red Army and finally temporarily escaped the enemy's pursuit, and the troops camped in a small mountain village deep in the mountains.

At that time, whether it was the Red Army or [***], the movement of troops basically depended on foot. It's a little better, after all, their territory is everywhere, the logistics support is relatively reliable, and there are trains, horses, carts and other means of transportation to travel, and the troops are also strong, they can take turns to fight, and the troops rest relatively quickly. However, the Red Army's lone division went on an expedition, far away from the base areas, there were planes bombing in the sky, and there were encirclements and interceptions on the ground, and the troops were in movement and fighting for a long time, and thousands of rivers and mountains were measured by a pair of feet, and the soldiers could not close their eyes for several days and nights, and their legs were already like being filled with lead. Many soldiers fell asleep while walking, and fell crooked on the side of the road, and many people could not get up again, either from exhaustion and fell asleep, or fell into the hands of [***] and Guangxi stubborn. Sometimes even entire squads, platoons, and entire companies of fighters fall behind due to drowsiness. Therefore, after the Battle of Xiangjiang, the Central Revolutionary Military Commission at that time particularly emphasized the containment of stragglers.

The soldiers of the 18th Red Regiment had not slept for several days and nights, and they crossed the Xiangjiang River completely by the stimulus of will and victory, and completed the task of marching for one night. As soon as the order to camp was given, the soldiers collapsed at once, and no one cared whether the clothes on their bodies were wet or not, and no one cared whether the weather was cold or not, nor did they look at whether the ground was flat or not, but just lay down on the ground and fell asleep. Liu Yimin, Cai Zhong, Liu Jianjian, and Li Qing were in a hurry and jumped to their feet, for fear that the soldiers would fall seriously ill when they slept in wet clothes, but even if they shouted and cut their throats, they could not wake up the soldiers. There was no choice but to light the fires one by one, and drag the soldiers to the fire one by one. Fortunately, the new fighters who had been reorganized from the Gui army captives were relatively not so sleepy, and under the leadership of the cadres, who were half organized and half intimidated, they were carried to the fire.

However, after all, the new soldier was captured by the forcibly reorganized Gui army, and his temporary reliable surname was equal to zero. His own Red Army soldiers were tired and unconscious, so Liu Yimin had no choice but to organize the cadres, control the machine guns, and be on duty in shifts. It was not until three hours later that part of the fighters was woken up. Liu Yimin immediately told Chief of Staff Liu Jianli to arrange for the personnel to boil water, let the soldiers who woke up first dry their clothes, drink some hot water, eat some dry food, and arrange a vigilance. Then he fell asleep.

In his sleep, he dreamed that in the auditorium of the National Defense University, a memorial service for Liu Yimin's martyrs was being held, and the director of the school's political department read the eulogy with tears in his eyes, and his parents were supported by his comrades-in-arms, standing on the left side, and his mother's tears could not stop falling like beads of broken threads. Liu Yimin hurriedly said to his mother, I am not dead, I have returned to the era of the Red Army, and I am leading the soldiers on the Long March. But no matter how Liu Yimin said or shouted, it seemed that his mother couldn't hear it at all, and the tears still couldn't stop flowing. Liu Yimin was anxious, stepped forward and grabbed his mother's hand, and shouted loudly: "Mom, I'm not dead, I have traveled to the period of the Red Army's Long March, I just became the acting regiment commander, and I am leading the soldiers on the Long March!" ”

When Liu Yimin woke up, it was already evening, and Director Cai Zhong saw him wake up and said, "Woke up?" ”

Liu Yimin said embarrassedly: "Why is it almost dark, did I sleep for a day?" ”

Cai Zhong said: "You slept for a whole day, and many soldiers also slept for a day, and some of them haven't woken up yet!" ”。

Liu Yimin hurriedly asked: "How is the army?" What's the case no. ”

Cai Zhong replied: "There is no situation now, the troops are resting, Chief of Staff Liu went to the company, and Director Li Qing went to the recruit barracks." When you wake up, the two of us will go together to meet Division Commander Chen, ask where the Red Sixth Division is, see if we can meet the division commander and Commander Peng, and report the situation of the 18th Regiment. ”

Liu Yimin said: "Okay, when I wash my face, let's go to see the troops first, and then go to see Division Commander Chen."

Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong went to the battalions and companies to take a look at them, and the soldiers had recovered well mentally and physically after a day's rest, and the three companies of the first battalion and the two companies of the second battalion, which were mainly reorganized by the 18th regiment, had high morale because of the successive victories, and they could not see the slightest shadow of the disastrous defeat on the Xiangjiang River. Wang Dahu, the commander of the first company, also took Liu Yimin's hand and asked if he could make another enemy and improve his food. The 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion and the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Battalion were scattered from the reorganized units, and the morale of the troops was not high, and they looked like they were in the shadow of a major defeat. Liu Yimin knew that these companies needed to be restored, and the best way was to have a complete victory, so that the psychology and spirit of the soldiers could truly recover.

Several companies of the International Division of the Young Communist Party were very calm, and a good day's sleep allowed these young soldiers to recover quickly in physical strength and spirit, and the replenishment along the Xiangjiang River made them change the weapons in their hands, the bullet bags were full, and the grenade bags were full, as if their combat effectiveness was rising instead of falling. Liu Yimin sighed in his heart that the war was really a training person, a group of 16 or 7-year-old baby soldiers crawled over from the sea of corpses and blood, and their psychology was so calm, thinking of the picture of seeing the little African doll on TV in his time holding an AK rifle and chewing gum in front of the camera, Liu Yimin felt that people's adaptation to the environment was really super strong. Thinking about my experience of traveling through a day is like a dream.

When Liu Yimin arrived at the new barracks, Li Qing, acting director of the regiment's political department and instructor of the new barracks, Hong Chaoyuan, battalion commander, and Chen Dazhong, deputy battalion commander, were gathering the contingent to speak. Liu Yimin listened to it for a while, and it turned out that five recruits, that is, the Gui Army prisoners, had escaped in the morning and were captured. Li Qingzheng said that the Red Army is a revolutionary contingent and that it is glorious to join the Red Army. It seems that Li Qing's level of ideological and political work is not low, and he talks about it in one set, but looking at the expressions of the recruits, we can see that the effect is not very obvious.

Seeing Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong, Hong Chaoyuan asked the recruit team to take a break and ran over with Li Qing and Chen Dazhong. After saluting, Liu Yimin told the three of them that the Gui army had been deeply educated and deceived by reactionary education, and that ordinary educational methods were not sufficient, and that it was necessary to overcome their defense line psychologically, and that they could try to carry out one-on-one heart-to-heart talks, and that cadres and veterans should talk with the recruits separately and get to know their family and ideological situation. After the heart-to-heart talks, we carried out activities to complain about the sufferings brought to us by the Kuomintang reactionaries, the sufferings caused by the warlords' separatism and chaos, the sufferings caused by the exploitation of the landlords, and the sufferings of not being able to read, being illiterate, and being bullied. First the cadres took the lead, then they looked for backbone cadres from among the recruits to complain about their grievances, and finally formed a situation in which people were sincere and benevolent to complain about their grievances, everyone understood the revolutionary truth, and followed the Red Army. In the course of complaining about the grievances, we should pay attention to the hidden backbone elements of the Gui Army among the recruits, who are more politically deceived but have a very strong fighting capacity, and we must make special efforts to win them over as much as possible, so that they will not only join the Red Army, but also join the Red Army in their hearts. If it really can't be converted, it will be handled according to the prisoner policy.

Liu Yimin only cared about himself and talked endlessly, and didn't pay attention to the eyes of Cai Zhong, Li Qing, Hong Chaoyuan and Chen Dazhong when they looked at him, and when he finished speaking, he found that these people's brains were dead. Liu Yimin fed and fed twice, and the three of them came back to their senses. Liu Yimin said: "What are you doing, have you heard what I said, is it wrong?" ”

Li Qing said: "Regiment Commander, what you said is so good, I have been doing ideological and political work for so long, why didn't I think of this idea?" Can I record your words, I want to study not only myself, but also the political work cadres of other battalions and companies. ”

Hong Chaoyuan said: "If this method works, the active surnames of the soldiers will be mobilized all of a sudden, and the soldiers will be well led, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly improved." ”

Cai Zhong said: "This is absolutely a new method for our army's ideological and political work. Tell me, how did you come up with it. ”

Liu Yimin scratched his head and said: "The ancients also paid great attention to communicating with the soldiers when they led the soldiers, such as Yue Fei, etc., and shared weal and woe with the soldiers, but the main thing was to form favors. However, in order to make the army a victorious division, it is necessary to make the whole army have a common goal, such as the war of Yin Shang against Xia Wei recorded in the Tang oath of "Shangshu", the 800 princes of Zhou against the Shang king, and the unification of Qin, the rise of Han Boxing and Tang, and all the later dynasties and all victories, the most important thing is that the soldiers unify their thinking and strive for a goal, so that they can be defeated and fought repeatedly, and the troops can not be dragged down and scattered. Our Red Army is a new type of people's army under the leadership of the party, and our goal is very clear, and what we need to do now is to adopt ways to make the soldiers, especially the newly recruited fighters, have our goals in mind. The heart-to-heart talks I am talking about are commonly used by the Red Army, and I have come up with my own grievances, so you can try boldly, and if it is effective, spread it throughout the regiment, and pay attention to summing up experience. This is also part of our plan to reorganize the 18th regiment. ”

Hong Chaoyuan immediately asked: "Can the head of the regiment tell me about the plan?" ”

Liu Yimin said: "This is just an idea of mine, and we need to discuss it together. There is only one purpose, that is, to cultivate our 18th Regiment into an invincible and invincible lion in a hundred battles. There are three main methods to be used: First, it is necessary to raise morale and enhance the cohesion of the troops through heart-to-heart talks and grievances. Second, it is necessary to use military training to improve the tactical level of the troops. The third is to constantly update equipment and expand the team with victories. Now you will start to act immediately, and in the next few days, I estimate that the higher authorities will consider the fact that our 18th Regiment is a reorganized unit, and will not assign us major combat missions, and the regimental headquarters will not assign tasks to the new barracks if there are major combat missions in a timely manner. You try to make a breakthrough in about 5 days, and then we will mix the new barracks with the old troops, and we can join the battle sequence. ”

Hong Chaoyuan and Chen Dazhong immediately saluted: "Guarantee to complete the task!" ”

Leaving the new barracks, Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong went to find Chen Shuxiang, and on the way, Cai Zhong and Liu Yimin discussed whether to do it together in the first battalion, the second battalion and the third battalion, and Liu Yimin said that they should do it at the same time. Cai Zhong said that he would go back and arrange it.