In the open space at the entrance of Xiaoshui Village, 1,400 captured soldiers of the Hunan Army were divided into three squares by the Red Army soldiers, and 100 people who were willing to join the Red Army stood in the east, some eating dry food and some drinking water. In the middle piece, those who resolutely did not want to be in the Red Army, were all squatting on the ground, surrounded by the bayonets of the Red Army soldiers. The western patch was the prisoners of the third ambush that had just arrived. When Liu Yimin came, the comrades of the teaching team were mobilizing one by one in this area, and Li Chang, the commander of the artillery company, also led the soldiers to pull people inside, which was a bit chaotic.

Seeing Liu Yimin and several regiment leaders coming, the teaching captain Li Yimo and the political commissar Han Qianjin hurriedly ran over, both snapped and saluted, Li Yimo shouted loudly: "Report to the regiment commander, political commissar, the teaching team is doing the work of converting prisoners, please instruct." ”

Liu Yimin raised his hand and said in return, "Please take a break." Captain Li, how are you doing in transforming the prisoners? ”

Li Yimo replied: "It is difficult to report to the head of the regiment. The first and second batches won 100 people, and the third batch is doing work. ”

Liu Yimin said: "You screen out the enemy officers, lock them up in the house, gather the soldiers, and I will tell them about it." ”

Li Yimo immediately stood up and saluted: "Yes", turned around and shouted: "The teaching team and the 10th company are all there, and the whole team of prisoners will be taken prisoner immediately and instructed by the regiment commander." ”

Soon, the soldiers escorted Zhang Liangji and 20 other officers to a civilian house and lined up the captured Hunan soldiers. After all the captives stood up and Li Yimo reported, Liu Yimin stood in front of the captives: "All of them are there, stand upright!" ”

The Hunan prisoners unconsciously obeyed the order and stood upright.

Liu Yimin glanced at it with satisfaction, "Take a break!" Please be seated. ”

"Brothers, I am Liu Yimin, the commander of the Red Eighteenth Regiment of the 16th Division of the Hunan Annihilation this time." There was a pause. Looking at the shocked faces of the captives, Liu Yimin continued: "That is, our regiment cooperated with the Red 34th Division to eliminate two regiments of the Gui 24th Division at Gulingtou and one regiment of the Hunan Army by the Xiangjiang River. Today, we wiped out your 16th Hunan Division. ”

Seeing that the soldiers of the Hunan army were all demented and did not speak, Liu Yimin said: "Let me ask a few questions to the brothers. The first question is, if you have 30 acres of land and more than two cows, mules, and horses, please raise your hand. Renting land from the landlord's family does not count. ”

No one raised their hand.

"If you have 10 acres of land and a cow or mule or horse, please raise your hand."

No one raised their hand.

"If you have a business at home, please raise your hand."

No one raised their hand.

"If you have read a book or have a secondary school education or above, please raise your hand."

No one raised their hand.

"If you have a primary school education, please raise your hand."

No one raised their hand.

A Hunan prisoner shouted: "Sir, don't ask, who is a soldier with land, money, and literacy?" ”

Liu Yimin smiled, "This brother said well, those who have land, money, and education are not soldiers. Only the poor are soldiers. The second question I have to ask you is, why do the rich not serve as soldiers, but let the poor do as soldiers? Who can tell? ”

No one answered.

Liu Yimin said with a smile: "The brother who spoke just now, yes, it's you, tell me, why don't the rich let the poor be soldiers?" ”

The soldier stood up and said, "Sir, I can't say it well, but I know that the rich have a good relationship with the people in the government, and when they catch the strong men, they generally don't catch the children of the rich people, but occasionally they catch them, and they say hello or spend some money and let them go, and if they catch the poor, they have no money and have to be strong men." ”

"This brother said well, the rich have a good relationship with the government, but in fact, they are not only on good terms, in fact, they are a gang. The national political axe is the spokesman for the rich. Everyone has seen the township chief and the chief of the security guard in your hometown arrest the poor as soldiers and go to prison at every turn, who has ever seen them arrest the young master of the rich man's family to become a soldier and go to prison? My third question is: We are all human beings, why are they rich and we are poor? ”

Many people stood up and answered. Some say that the rich have a good life, some say that the rich are capable, and some say that the ancestors of the rich are the rich. It's a mess, and there's everything to say.

Liu Yimin saw that the captives were talking about it, he laughed secretly in his heart, coughed, saw that no one was talking slowly, and began to say: "What everyone said has some truth, but it is not correct. For example, everyone says that the rich have a good life, so why do the poor have a bad life? You must know that university scholars have long said that all men are created equal, everyone is human, and life is the same. For example, some people say that the rich are capable, so you can think about it, we also go to farming, is it better for the rich to farm or the poor to farm? For example, some people say that the ancestors of the rich are the rich, so let's ask again, how did the ancestors of the rich get rich? ”

Another recruit stood up, raised his hand and saluted, and Liu Yimin returned the salute and said, "You can say this brother." ”

"Sir, I'm thinking it's nothing, it's this society that doesn't make the poor rich. Because if the poor are rich, wouldn't they be able to be officials and masters? Isn't it true that the rich can't fight and kill whenever they want? ”

Liu Yimin nodded approvingly: "This brother is right. The fundamental reason is that the social system is irrational. All people are created equal, so everyone should have land to plant, everyone to read, everyone to work, and everyone to eat. However, the current policy of the national political axe is that the richer the richer, the more land there is, the more land there is, those who have no money can only suffer from poverty, and those who have no land can only carry long-term labor, is this fair? We are also human beings, and we also need land, education, and food. Since Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist axe did not give us land, and this social system was so unfair, why didn't we overthrow it and build a new society in which everyone was equal, everyone had land to grow, everyone to eat, everyone to read, and everyone to work? My fourth question is who the national government is asking us to fight when we are poor people as soldiers? Which brother will tell me? ”

The atmosphere was lively. The soldiers began to discuss, some said that they were fighting the book, some said who rebelled and attacked whom, and some directly said that they were fighting the Red Army.

Liu Yimin said: "What everyone said is very reasonable. For example, when we hit this book, we said that we occupied the northeast, and we should fight them, which is the duty of a soldier. But why didn't the national government send troops to fight it? Hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army troops withdrew without firing a single shot. The Red Army wants to go north to resist the Red Army, and instead of fighting the devils, you will fight the Red Army, what is the reason? Isn't this who fights and beats whom? Let's talk about who rebelled and beat whom, in history, those who rebelled were the poor, it was the poor who became soldiers, and those who rebelled were also poor, isn't this letting the poor fight the poor? Our Red Army is a contingent of the poor, representing the interests of the poor, and fighting the Red Army is also fighting the poor. Now everyone understands, right? The national government axe to arrest you as soldiers, not to protect the family and defend the country, to fight the rich and bully, but to let us poor people fight the poor, this kind of foolish thing, can we do it? ”

After waiting for a while, seeing that the soldiers of the Hunan army had fallen into deep thought, Liu Yimin said again: "Brothers, I want to tell you two secrets, I don't know if you are interested in listening to them?" ”

Seeing that the Hunan army prisoners were all holding their ears, Liu Yimin said: "The first secret is that a few days ago, we occupied the passage and searched millions of silver dollars from the homes of the county magistrate, police chief, and security chief. Millions of silver dollars, a farmer can't even earn a few silver dollars a year from farming at home. How much do the brothers have to pay for a year? A small police chief and security regiment commander are so rich, how much money should your brigade commander, division commander, army commander, and commander have at home? How much money should those big men of the national political axe have? But only we, the Red Army, can take them from them, you can't, you are [***], you have to protect them, if you dare to go to their house and get a copper plate, they will shoot you. Brothers, don't you go with me to kill all these scoundrels, divide their land, and divide their money, okay? Do you dare to go? There is a kind of shouting! ”

"Good!" The captives gave ragged answers.

Liu Yimin then said: "The second secret I told is that 10 days ago, I had just joined the Red Army and was promoted from a recruit to platoon commander, company commander, acting regiment commander, and regiment commander. Do you have such a promotion speed in the Hunan army? Is it okay for you ordinary soldiers there to be officers without giving gifts? Is it okay to have no backend? In particular, the Central Army is not a graduate of Huangpu, a graduate of the Central Military Academy, or a native of Zhejiang. Brothers, only our Red Army, regardless of your background, as long as you have the ability and have made meritorious contributions, you will soon become a squad leader, a platoon leader, or even a regiment commander or division commander. Think about it, when our revolution was victorious and New China was established, at that time, all the soldiers of the Red Army were not only generals and officers, but also managers of the administrative power of the state. The name of the sacrificed is engraved on the monument, and the national worship is said to be celebrated every year, which is the real name left in history; If you are wounded and disabled, we can build sanatoriums in places with good scenery for the glorious Red Army soldiers to recuperate. Brothers, when our revolution succeeds, all the soldiers of the Red Army will be heroes of the people and the country! Brothers, do you think it's good to be a Red Army? ”

The captives shouted: "Good! A prisoner ran directly in front of Liu Yimin, knelt down, and cried and shouted: "Sir, you accept me, I want to be a Red Army and avenge my father!" Another captive also ran over and said, "Sir, I'll be a Red Army with you, and I'll beat those Wang Ba Gai Di!" Han Qianqian, the political commissar of the teaching team, took the opportunity to take the Red Army soldiers and shouted: "Glory to join the Red Army!" "Long live the Red Army!" and other slogans, and the atmosphere became warm.

Liu Yimin struck while the iron was hot: "Comrades, welcome to join the glorious Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Don't mess around, stand still, let the cadres help you register, those who know how to use machine guns go to the machine gun company, those who are artillery go to the artillery company, those who are engineers go to the engineer company, those who can ride horses go to the cavalry company, and those who like to charge into battle go to the combat camp. Li Yimo, Han Qianqian! ”

The two stepped out in one step: "Here!" ”

"You should organize the new soldiers according to their personal specialties as soon as possible, except for those who are selected to go to the heavy machine gun company, artillery company, engineer company, cavalry company, and baggage team, and the others will be formed into a team of every 150 people."

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Soon, the formation of captured soldiers was completed, the artillery company went to 120 people, the heavy machine gun company to 80 people, the baggage team to 200 people, the engineer company to 40 people, the cavalry company to 30 people, 16 medical soldiers to the regimental field ambulance, 14 telephone soldiers to the communication platoon, and the remaining 900 people were formed into 6 teams waiting for orders.