Snipers have exerted great power in the encirclement and suppression war, whether it is to solve the stubborn resistance of the militia group, or to drive the fleeing militia into the encirclement and annihilate, the accurate strike ability has given the enemy fatal damage. The mode of war constructed by the modern concept of war is not at all understandable to the militia groups that still believe that the collective release of guns can greatly intimidate the other side. When the sudden rise of modernization took place before our eyes, the militia and Cai Yuanpei reacted exactly the same, they did not understand neither the purpose of the People's Party's actions nor the process of the People's Party's actions. The only thing the militia can do is to fight a battle that is messy for the militia, and then accept the fate of being killed or captured.

There were more than 900 backbone members of the 40 or so militia groups in western Zhejiang, and more than 3,000 cannon fodder personnel with all kinds of mixed rice or cannon fodder personnel, and they were all quickly wiped out under the fierce attack of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. The price paid by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was five dead and seventy-eight wounded.

The troops will not be ecstatic at all because of such a "victory". The rest of the work was not easy at all, as the troops interrogated all the captured personnel separately, each of the massacres in which they participated. The confessor took the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to find the slaughter sites everywhere. After investigation and excavation, the places of mass murder and burial of corpses were discovered.

When the class struggle turns into a class war, the tragic situation can only be described as outrageous. Either the skulls were broken, or the heads were cut off, or the sternum was completely pierced by bullets from front to back, and the broken tips of guns could still be seen in the remains of some people. Different weapons create different injuries. Each burial ground meant a massacre, and the fact that several kinds of people who had died of different injuries were buried in some of the pits proves that the killings were carried out not just once, but many times.

As combat specialists, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was able to distinguish these differences very clearly. After excavations of the burial sites, some of the massacres that those involved in the killings did not dare to speak out were also uncovered. But these people know that if their crimes are revealed, they will surely die. No matter how the comrades in the army interrogate them, many of them will never talk about their own evil deeds and will flatly deny the revelations of others.

If the perpetrator refuses to admit the account, he can only ask someone else. However, the mass work has encountered great trouble, and most of the remaining ordinary people in western Zhejiang are not peasant union activists. To be more precise, the activists of the peasant associations and even the common people who joined the peasant associations were completely killed. For these people, the relationship with the landlords, gentry and militias was more intimate. They refused to come forward and reveal what was going on.

The comrades in western Zhejiang were actually limited in what they could help, and the grassroots comrades of the western branch of the Liberation Society suffered heavy casualties, and all members in many areas were killed. The local information they provide is very effective, but in terms of details, more precisely, household registration statistics, it is much worse. This problem was not resolved until the comrades who conquered Hangzhou copied out a large number of household registration documents from western Zhejiang, which were taken away from western Zhejiang.

It was a file of the local situation produced by the West Zhejiang Branch, including the population, the detailed household registration and identity of each village. Almost half of the names on these files have been ticked off by the red pen. The note below reads "Execution"!

Seeing with their own eyes the dossier they had worked so hard to make, as well as the shocking execution instructions on it, the comrades in western Zhejiang burst into tears. The cadres of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not have any Zhejiang, and even so, everyone's eyes were red after seeing such a dossier. It was the whole family whose names were removed, and all men, women, and children were spared. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army would never boast of its own merits in executing the landlords after participating in the public trial, after all, it was murder, and even if it did not feel justified when it killed those wicked people, it would never be happy in its heart. Now all the guilt in the hearts of the comrades is swept away, and the incomparable hatred for the enemy fills the chest.

However, it was the records of the land that were of great help to the work, and after comparing them, the troops found the real reasons for the silence of the people who did not join the militias. Each of these families owns land that was not their own. After the landlords and gentry commanded the militia to massacre the people who joined the peasant association, they pretended to give a part of the land of the original peasant union members to the "more honest" people. Even if there is no life in their hands, the people cannot expose others in order to keep their land. Once the local order is restored to the situation before the 412 incident, it means that the peasants who have been given the land will lose the land.

"These bastards!" The cadres of the army were angry because of this very reasonable explanation, and this time the anger was directed at the people who were silent, "Do they think that if they don't say anything, we won't be able to find out?" ”

Seeing that the situation was not right, the political commissars hurriedly persuaded the agitated cadres, "No matter what happens, we in the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army cannot treat the people as our enemies." ”

"The people? We treat them as people, and they don't think we are our own people! Where is it like the people in what they do? The cadres almost burst into a scolding session.

After all, political commissars are political commissars, and they have to talk about politics at all times, especially at such critical moments. "Without investigation, there is no right to speak, so let's figure out the problem first!"

With the land and household registration situation, surveys have been launched in various parts of western Zhejiang. For example, in Wujialing, the troops questioned four families of civilians who had occupied the good land of the slain people.

Seeing the comrades of the army telling the details of the situation, and knowing that they could not get through by pretending to be deaf and dumb, those people who had been using the excuse of "I can't remember clearly" and "I was so scared that I hid at home and didn't dare to go out" finally opened their mouths in panic, "Sir, you don't know, I didn't grab this land, I bought it!" ”

It turned out that the landlords and gentry did not distribute the land to the people for free, but after killing the local people, they robbed the people of the land, and then sold the land to other people at different prices. And to the people who had money to buy it, they took money. The people who had no money to buy land also wanted to buy land, so they asked the people to write down IOUs.

The local people were afraid of the force of these counter-revolutionaries, and they themselves were too weak to admit that they had acquired someone else's land. The people do not want to lose their land because there is no need to admit it. The money to buy these lands was something they had worked hard to accumulate. As for borrowing money from the landlords and gentry to buy land, it may not be able to be repaid in a few years or more than ten years.

After figuring out the facts, a solution began to be discussed in the troops.

A considerable number of comrades are extremely angry at these inaction, "You don't have to be polite to these people!" Just confiscate their illegally acquired land! ”

More than seventy percent of the comrades who hold such an attitude are in the party committees. Let the counter-revolutionary landlords and gentry pay their blood debts and blood naturally no longer need to be discussed. The indifference of the bystanders is certainly not a capital crime, and the comrades do not want to let them go easily at all.

The opinions formed by this idea were handed to the top, and soon the central authorities transferred Anhui Governor Li Shouxian to the post of secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial CPC Committee and governor of Zhejiang Province.

At the party committee meeting, Li Shouxian calmly said to the angry comrades: "Do the comrades think that the land sale that took place in western Zhejiang after the 412 Massacre is a revolutionary issue or a legal issue? ”

"Of course it's a revolutionary question!" He Jinwu, commander of the 15th Group Army, immediately said angrily.

"Can you tell me why?" Li Shouxian asked calmly.

"How can it be a legal issue for those people to occupy the land of the peasant association?" He Jinwu said angrily.

Li Shouxian was still calm, and he asked, "Then how do you prove that these people have seized these lands from the peasant association?" ”

He Jinwu was silent, this matter really cannot be proven.

Li Shouxian said: "As far as I can see, the people who bought land basically have land deeds and documents. At that time, the political power in western Zhejiang had collapsed, and the counter-revolutionaries had already seized power in western Zhejiang, and the action of the masses to buy land from them was a legal issue in any way. ”

As soon as Li Shouxian's voice fell, He Jinwu took the case, and he said angrily: "Bullshit legal issues! Aren't these people trying to take advantage? Can they buy so much land at the price they pay for in normal times? I'm afraid that I can't buy a third of the land! If you don't brand them as counter-revolutionary accomplices, you will cheapen them, and this is still a legal problem? Is it reasonable for them to do something? ”

Not only He Jinwu, but most of the comrades of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, or the comrades of the Party Committee of the army, looked at Li Shouxian angrily. Even comrades with less intense attitudes looked at Li Shouxian with reproach in their eyes.

Li Shouxian was able to fully understand the emotions of his comrades, and he himself did not have any favorable feelings for these people who took advantage of them. But Li Shouxian has understood very well in his long-term work that truth and emotion seem to be contrary most of the time. What is reasonable may not be able to match feelings. Looking at the indignant comrades around him, Li Shouxian was not angry, he suddenly remembered what Shang Yuan had said to him.

How to deal with the darkness, cruelty, and shamelessness in society, how to break free from these darkness, cruelty, and shamelessness, and how to eradicate all injustice with a firm attitude is a very severe test for the revolutionaries participating in the people's revolution. A person who devotes himself to the people's revolution may be motivated by hatred and the passion for justice, but his ultimate attitude should be beyond hatred and justice. Justice is a social emotion, and the most fundamental spiritual force for engaging in the people's revolution must come from communist ideals, especially in line with materialism and the basic principles of communism.

After pausing for a moment to ease the excitement and antagonism in the conference room, Li Shouxian stood up. Because he was in the middle of the conference table, Li Shouxian was behind the party flag hanging on the wall, and he said in a clear voice: "Comrades, I would like to ask you a question now, do you think that the masses' purchase of land is not a legal issue, and seek truth from facts?" ”