"Do we think we can win, so we hastily chose the plan of the Beiyang Army to completely annihilate and attack Qingdao?" Pu Guanshui was the first to understand, and he put forward his own opinions. But this brain-hot plan was first proposed by Pu Guanshui himself, and it still takes a lot of courage to say such things.

There is no way to better explain this instruction for other reasons, and if you think about it carefully, how to annihilate the Beiyang Army attacking Qingdao, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army only thinks that if you fight it, judging from the current situation, the battle is advantageous. This has the flavor of "the defeated army fights first and then seeks victory".

"But you can't just let the Beiyang Army escape, right?" The chief of staff put forward the opinion, "The annihilation of the enemy's living forces is our strategic guidance. ”

"How much combat capability can the Beiyang Army leave in the run? According to the previous plan, wouldn't it be more able to consume the strength of the Beiyang Army by directly attacking Texas, dividing the Beiyang Army into two, and plunging the Beiyang Army into even greater chaos? The commissar had a different view.

Both different options have their characteristics. If the Beiyang Army is allowed to retreat on its own, according to their current virtues, a little pursuit, this large army will become a group of stragglers when it retreats to Beijing, and it will not be able to reconstitute and form combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

Of course, the current plan to annihilate the Beiyang Army can greatly weaken the strength of the Beiyang Army in a short period of time, after all, if this group of Beiyang Army pulls up the city to defend the city, even if the combat effectiveness is not strong, it can cause a lot of trouble. The attack on Jinan also proved this, and a group of panicked Beiyang troops were still able to continue firing at the head of the city.

"In any case, we will analyze the current situation clearly and send a telegram to the central government. And even if we don't destroy the Beiyang Army in Qingdao to the east, we will annihilate those Beiyang Army in the west. After the troops attacked Jinan, they also needed to rest for two days. Pu Guanshui eclecticated his thoughts a little.

After Pu Guanshui's telegram reached the Central Military Commission in Wuhan, Hua Xiongmao also felt that this choice was more tricky. So far, the Northern Campaign has been very smooth, and after the capture of Jinan, a strategic point of the Beiyang Army, the entire strategy has entered a new stage. Although it is not known what the situation of the Beiyang Army in Shandong is, they have a strong city in front of them, and the old nest has also been eliminated. It's only a matter of time before it crashes.

The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had experience in military training and all kinds of military and civilian engineering, but there was one thing that it had no experience at all, and that was the issue of prisoners of war. In just the first few battles, tens of thousands of prisoners of war were captured, and how to deal with these prisoners of war is a big problem. You can't let them go now, and if you don't let them go, you can't keep them locked up forever. If there were no three laws and eight points of attention, the treatment of prisoners would be such an ordinary solution, just not starving to death. How to implement the three major laws and eight points of attention to the issue of prisoners of war is indeed a big problem. What made Hua Xiongmao particularly troublesome was that Chen Ke himself did not have a definite idea of how to solve the POW problem. Hua Xiongmao also supported this, not only Chen Ke was worried about recruiting prisoners of war into the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, but few people in the Military Commission could accept this idea.

Of course, Hua Xiongmao could not make his own decisions about this kind of matter, and the opinions of the Shandong Military Region sparked a lot of controversy at the following meeting of the Central Military Commission. Chen Ke did not attend, after the start of such a large-scale war, economic problems, more precisely, logistical problems, made a big fuss. There were big and small problems in the orders of many factories, and as the head of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, You Wei was under unprecedented pressure. Chen Ke had to come forward to solve these problems himself.

"Chairman Chen, are you still not coming to the meeting?" Logistics Minister Qin Wuan asked.

Hua Xiongmao laughed, "Aren't we against patriarchy, Chairman Chen is an example and values women over men." ”

The comrades knew that Hua Xiongmao liked to pretend to be bad, and if he said bad things about Chen Ke to the end, everyone couldn't complain about anything anymore. Everyone could only laugh back, or shake their heads and smile bitterly, and let this matter go.

"The Shandong Military Region fought well, Comrade Pu Guanshui was not carried away by the victory, and the following plans and reasons were also very sufficient. So whether it is mainly annihilation on the spot, or annihilation in the last move. What about the opinion of the Military Commissary? ”

Everyone looked at each other, in fact, it was not a question of how to annihilate it, anyway, it was to kill the Beiyang Army. It's not that makes people feel embarrassed. Seeing that no one took the initiative to speak, Hua Xiongmao asked, "Comrade Lu Huitian, what do you think?" ”

Lu Huitian has not been transferred to the military and politics now, but Hubei is the most important industrial province of the People's Party, and all industries in the whole of Hubei have been transferred to the military system. Lu Huitian, as secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee, also had to attend the meeting.

As a cadre in charge of the party committee, Lu Huitian naturally considered more government affairs, and he said bluntly: "The Henan side has already spoken, and they feel very difficult to detain so many people. I don't understand military affairs, and I can't say anything about how to fight a war. However, I really can't accept the consumption of precious resources and transportation capacity on prisoners of war. ”

None of the comrades present at the meeting could accept it, so no one raised objections, and Lu Huitian said: "But Chairman Chen is very unsure about reforming prisoners of war. He wasn't sure, and I wasn't confident. Comrade He Zudao, you captured the most prisoners in Jiangxi back then, can you give some advice? ”

Seeing that the ball was kicked at his feet, He Zudao did not shirk, "I can't help it." The idea of prisoners of war and our Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is completely different. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is not only a revolutionary army, but also a people's army. Everyone is not only fighting for themselves, they are also fighting for a bright future, fighting for their hometown fathers. Even if the prisoners of war defected to us, it was purely for their own interests, and I am not optimistic anyway. At present, it is already extremely difficult for the troops to do a good job in their own political work, and I do not agree with such a group of people. ”

After saying this, all the members of the Military Commission nodded yes, and the chief of the General Staff couldn't help but say: "In addition to dedication, our army itself also has a natural status advantage. After they retired, they were also the backbone of the local community. A significant number of them will be recruited directly into the city and become new city residents. I don't support it if a group of captives join such an army with such a distinguished position, and gain an identity that can only be possessed by those who have always been the people's army. The most important thing is that if we recruit these prisoners of war, then we must treat them equally, and we must not discriminate in any way. It's too hard. These people are not Comrade Pu Guanshui, but Comrade Pu Guanshui is the earliest old revolutionary, and he did not choose our People's Party because he was desperate. So I can't agree to take prisoners of war. ”

Hua Xiongmao nodded, although he actually made an article about prisoners of war during the war, but as the Minister of National Defense, Hua Xiongmao naturally could not accept the idea of absorbing prisoners of war to join the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Especially in the current situation, the defeat of Beiyang is almost a sure thing, so these prisoners of war cannot be given any chance.

The logistical pressures were enormous, and attitudes towards prisoners of war were quite consistent, and such non-military considerations could not but dominate strategic judgment. Hua Xiongmao said: "If we look at it from this point of view, we support the strategy of attacking Texas, coercing Beijing, and completely disrupting Beiyang." And after our investigation, most of these Beiyang troops are from Hebei and Shandong, and a considerable part of them are bandits or something. Let them disperse on their own. If the last irons must flee back to Beijing to accompany Yuan Shikai to the funeral, we will fulfill them. ”

This opinion was agreed by all the participants, and the clerk took notes, wrote down the resolution, as well as several main points of the resolution process, as well as the reasons for the resolution, and prepared to submit it to Chen Ke for final review.

After talking about the problem of the north, Hua Xiongmao mentioned the problem of the south, "These Beiyang troops in the south are also desperate, but it has no effect. So far, they haven't even been able to break our borders. Once the problem in the north is solved, we have to solve the problem in the south. This time we are returning to the hometown, and we cannot be polite to those reactionary landlords and gentry. They must be uprooted. This involves a problem of public security warfare, which we did when we were fighting in Anhui, and there is no reason for tolerance in it. This is mainly about ideological work, but also about collecting the crimes of that gang. ”

Hua Xiongmao told the comrades one thing without concealing it, and the People's Party would have a bloody baptism in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong. Now that the traditional old upper class has bared their fangs in 412, all the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army can do is to exterminate these guys.

"There is no problem strategically, the problem is technical." It is impossible for He Zudao to care about killing some people, especially the counter-revolutionaries who have killed the masses, He Zudao will never have the slightest mercy, "The execution of these people still has to be punished, and we are afraid that it will not be so easy to collect evidence of the crimes of this group of guys." ”

Hua Xiongmao said: "The gang of the Restoration Society must not be able to stay, and now everyone in the Liberation Society is not clean in their hands. The landlords who supported Beiyang could not stay. Zhejiang is easy to say, but in Fujian and Guangdong, we really don't have enough information to collect. But after this march, what if they ran away? ”

"At the same time as the land reform, a strict hukou system was implemented. Then there will be a big search, and those who have no identity will be screened after being caught. Although these people could not be identified for a while, there was never a shortage of people in the labor camp. Qin Wuan, the Minister of Logistics, had no doubts about this at all.

The suggestion was quite actionable, and in a burst of laughter, the topic was over.