Chapter 584: Agricultural Reclamation Corps

Half an hour later, the tuntian system was implemented in the base area, and the plan of the first brigade of the advance detachment, which was ordered to go out to raise military rations, was decided by several people....With the final plan, it was decided by the commander Liu Hua. The four of them, without having time to take any breaks, once again moved on to the next topic....

Food, the most basic and important strategic material during the war years... With it, the troops will have sufficient support and will be able to develop better. The entire base area will also expand rapidly. Without it, the troops would not only be in danger of running out of food. At the same time, the entire base area will also become disheartened and uncohesive because of the lack of food. When the time comes, maybe without waiting for the enemy's attack, you will lose yourself ....

And this is related to the life and death of the entire base area, and the problem of food has been successfully solved... Of course, if a unit wants to continue to develop on a large scale with the guarantee of food, the next most important thing is the combat effectiveness of the troops.

At this moment, after this great victory, although there were more than 20,000 troops, plus more than 40,000 people, the Manchurian army could be captured by the Eighth Route Army at any time, and the total strength reached more than 60,000 people. However, among the more than 60,000 troops, only 10,000 units have really been systematically trained and have long-term combat experience.......

There are more than 10,000 people, although they bear the number of the Fifth Field Column of the Northeast Field Army. However, almost every main regiment reached only a half-full capacity. As for the heavy weapons of the various units, because of the lack of a large number of technical arms, almost no equipment was carried out ... Such a column, in Liu Hua's heart, is not at all comparable to the main division of the Guannai Field Army...

However, the current troops have sufficient reserve soldiers, plus sufficient supplies and weapons and ammunition support. More importantly, for a long time to come, the base area will not be surrounded and suppressed by the Japanese army, providing a good training place and time for the entire unit.

Under such favorable conditions, the troops were reorganized. Then, for the first time, the entire unit will be trained for a month to become a real jīng sharp unit. This is no surprise, and it has become the second problem that needs to be solved urgently in Liu Hua's mind....

Thinking of this, Commander Liu Hua said to the three people in front of him who had taken a short break for a few minutes.

"Comrades, the issue of food has been completely resolved after everyone's discussion and study. In the course of the future development of the base areas, the plan for implementing the tuntian system has also taken shape. Next, let's work hard a little more, discuss the urgent need for the reorganization of the troops and the training that needs to be carried out after the reorganization of the troops, and then we will rest... What do you think...."

"Commander, is the unit going to be expanded... You know, now our total strength has reached more than 20,000 people. More importantly, among the 40,000 Manchurian soldiers captured by us, at least 20,000 can be mobilized to join our Eighth Route Army in a short period of time? As soon as Liu Hua's words were finished, Commander Zhou Baozhong asked impatiently...

"Expanded... Hehe, Lao Zhou, now in your hands, you already have a whole field column. And the entire field army has only five field columns. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to expand the number. Next, I will read out the troop establishment that I sorted out after a night, and let's discuss it together... If you can, implement it according to this plan...."As he spoke, Liu Hua took out a piece of paper and continued...

|“ Comrades, that's what I think. After the title of the advance detachment was abolished, the unit was directly reorganized into a special operations division directly under the field army, and the division commander Comrade Liu Xiǎo Gang. The whole special operations division has three special operations regiments and a special operations company directly under it... And the establishment of these three special operations regiments was all reorganized in accordance with the model of the previous special operations brigade... After the reorganization, the surplus forces of the original detachment were all used as technical arms, which were supplemented to the regiments and divisions of the Fifth Field Column to form corresponding artillery companies, artillery battalions, and artillery regiments..."

"Yes, Commander, Liu Xiǎo has just guaranteed to complete the task and complete the reorganization of the special division in the shortest possible time. Let the special division become the entire field army, a sharp sword that can be unsheathed at any time..."As soon as Liu Hua's words fell, Liu Xiǎo, who had been promoted to division commander, stood up with a smile on his face and replied confidently..., Seeing the confident smile on Liu Xiǎogang's face in front of him, Commander Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction. Immediately, he set his eyes on Zhou Baozhong, the commander of the fifth column of the field army in front of him, and continued...

"Commander Zhou, I have just said that the expansion of your fifth column is definitely an impossible thing. However, I ask you to select the best soldiers from among the anti-Japanese forces and prisoners who are willing to join the Eighth Route Army within three days, and complete the replenishment of the three main divisions under the column, so as to reach a real state of full strength. However, I would like to remind you that after the reorganization, the unit will become a real field force. Therefore, no matter how you try to dump your troops, the total strength of the troops must not exceed the stipulated 20,000 men....Of course, in the process of reorganizing the troops, if there are any requirements, you can mention them to me and Deputy Commander Yang at any time, and I will try my best to satisfy you.........."

"After the reorganization of the main force is completed, there will be only 40,000 prisoners left....My idea is this: All the prisoners who are willing to join our Eighth Route Army will be equipped with a certain number of veterans and will be reorganized in a unified manner. As for the number of the unit, it is called the field army recruit column, and the commander of the column is Yang Jingyu, deputy commander, who is responsible for the training of these recruits... Of course, the task of the recruit column is not to fight the enemy, but to receive our prisoners after each battle and train them. At any time there will be well-trained recruits to replenish the combat losses of the main forces. Let the main forces remain at full strength at all times..."

"Commander, I'll take this burden next... I believe that as long as this column of recruits slowly forms a pattern. In the near future, our main forces will have an inexhaustible supply of well-trained reservists ... And the combat effectiveness of our main force will always be maintained in the most vigorous state...."Deputy Commander Yang said with deep conviction...

"The prisoners who were willing to join our army were settled, and the rest were those who were not willing to join our army ... According to the results of the discussion just now, these prisoners should all be integrated into the logistics department of our army, and let them join the agricultural army in the base area... So, I mean, in order to facilitate the management of tens of thousands of people, these captives will also be unified and reorganized. After the reorganization, the number of the unit was called the Field Army Reclamation Corps..."

"The Reclamation Corps?" Liu Hua's voice just fell, for this, in his impression, he is a very unfamiliar title of the army. The three of them, staring at a pair of big eyes at the same time, asked in disbelief...

"That's right, it's the Reclamation Corps, which is in charge of the tuntian fields in the base area. If the development is good, breeding livestock can also let them give it a try..."Liu Hua nodded and replied affirmatively...

Of course, this agricultural reclamation corps is not Liu Hua's first creation. Rather, after careful consideration, he thought of it according to the model of the agricultural reclamation corps formed in the territory after the entry of the People's Liberation Army in later generations...

"Commander, what is the specific establishment of this agricultural reclamation corps... In addition, he is in charge of the tuntian in the base area, and the appointment of commanders at all levels is also a very serious problem. After all, no commander was willing to be transferred from the field unit to the logistics department to manage a group of prisoners to conduct the tuntian every day..."After a short period of shock, Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu asked the question in his heart....

"There is no specific establishment of the Reclamation Corps, and when the time comes, the more prisoners in our base areas, the larger the establishment of the Reclamation Corps. My initial idea is that the prisoners in the base area are currently reorganized into a total of seven agricultural divisions. They are the first agricultural division, the second agricultural division, the third agricultural division... The Seventh Agricultural Division. Each reclamation division contained 3,000 prisoners, and had three reclamation regiments, each containing 1,000 prisoners... The commander of the entire Reclamation Corps is concurrently served by me personally...."Seeing that several people nodded thoughtfully, Liu Hua continued...

"As for the selection of commanders at all levels of the entire Agricultural Reclamation Corps, in fact, there are such people in our base areas..."

"Is there such a person in the base? Why didn't I see, Commander, who are these people you are talking about..."After a short period of thought, Commander Zhou Baozhong asked with a puzzled expression...

At the same time, the other two people, including Liu Xiǎo Gang, who was very familiar with Liu Hua, also frowned tightly, looked at the commander in front of him, and waited for a specific answer..., "Comrades, this question of the selection of commanders at all levels of the Agricultural Reclamation Corps is far away, all in front of us, and it is all around us... I'm going to ask you a question now. After each battle, how many wounded did the troops save their lives. But. But for various reasons, they can no longer go to the battlefield, and these soldiers, in the next time, will become a serious burden in the base area...."Liu Hua smiled and asked...

"This question..."For Commander Liu Hua's sudden question, Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer....However, after a short period of thinking, in the previous battles, the casualty data of the troops and the approximate data of the wounded who could not return to the troops slowly appeared in his mind...

"Commander, according to my memory, in all previous battles, at least thirty percent of the wounded, for various reasons, will leave the field units for retirement ... And these disabled soldiers, even if they return to the place, as you say, they will become a burden to the entire base area... Commander, do you mean to let these disabled soldiers return to the army and serve as commanders at all levels of the Reclamation Corps, so that they can continue to use their residual heat? Yang Jingyu suddenly came to his senses and asked with a sudden realization...

"Those who know me, Lao Yang also... That's what I mean... Instead of letting these soldiers go back to the locality, increase the burden on the base area. It's better to let them stay in the army and use their spare heat... At the same time, these disabled soldiers will definitely not have any problems in terms of loyalty and all aspects...."Seeing the deputy commander's reaction, Liu Hua nodded affirmatively and replied...

"Let these veterans, although they are disabled, continue to stay in the army and give full play to their residual heat; lightening the burden on the base areas; Serve as the commander of the Reclamation Corps at all levels, and join the ranks of the Reclamation Army... Okay, okay... Commander, this is a great way to kill three birds with one stone... I don't have any opinion, I completely agree with your idea of forming a farming corps. At the same time, let the wounded soldiers who were injured in previous battles and could not continue to fight serve as commanders at all levels of the Agricultural Reclamation Corps...."Yang Jingyu slapped his thigh violently, applauded repeatedly, and replied affirmatively...

A day later, a notice issued by the field army headquarters was posted in all corners of the base area. The content of the notice was about the base area to use a large number of captured Manchurian soldiers to form a peasant reclamation corps. All retired disabled soldiers in the base areas are required to report to the recruitment offices in various localities in the shortest possible time, and return to the troops, so as to exert their residual enthusiasm for the troops and the revolutionary cause.

For a while, the entire base area was shocked by this notice... Because, in the eyes of the common people, no matter what era it is, the disabled soldiers on the battlefield, if they are lucky, can still get a certain amount of money to go home for the elderly. And most of the disabled soldiers, who went straight back to their hometowns, became beggars... The Eighth Route Army, which he led by his side, was not only responsible for the pension of all disabled soldiers. More importantly, at this moment, these soldiers are to be reassembled to form the so-called Reclamation Corps....

However, what kind of reaction the common people are is not what Liu Hua and others are concerned about, because what they are concerned about is the reaction of the disabled soldiers at all levels distributed throughout the base area... With the content of the notice being disseminated in the shortest possible time. The soldiers, who were lying in their homes, disabled and retired and waiting for death, immediately boiled ...

Because, since he was on the battlefield, he became a so-called waste, retired at home, and waited for the government to help him all day long. These former combat heroes, former soldiers. It can be said that I regret it very much, when I was on the battlefield, why couldn't the enemy's bullets and shells directly take my own life... Let yourself drag a crippled body to survive in this world, and cause a huge financial burden to the base area and your family...

In the face of all kinds of pressure, many disabled soldiers have thought about death... However, the longing and hope for the future of the revolution kept them alive....

And at this moment, a notice from the headquarters made them dusty for a long time, and they had already lost the spirit of previous years, and they moved again... They did not expect that they could drag their crippled bodies back into the army and contribute their residual heat to the revolutionary cause and the entire army...., and the trial was placed in front of their eyes, and the content of the notice was determined. One by one, the disabled soldiers who were at home, waiting for death, immediately showed excitement on their faces....In the company of their families and neighbors, they packed up their simple bags and walked over to the locations of the recruiting offices in various places...

"Zhang Degui, the instructor of the 10th Regiment of the 4th Division of the former Anti-Japanese Federation, was ordered to come to report...... "A soldier who had cut off his right arm, wearing a patched original anti-Japanese army uniform, saluted with his left hand, and said loudly to several cadres and soldiers in the recruitment office in front of him...

"Li Guang, the squad leader of the first company and the third squad of the fifth regiment of the second division of the former Anti-Japanese Federation, came to report...."A young man with a crutch appeared in front of everyone again...

"Zhang Baolian, a soldier of the fourth company of the scattered regiment of the former First Division of the Anti-Japanese Federation, was ordered to come to report...."Another soldier who had bumpy legs and couldn't walk normally, under everyone's gaze, slowly walked in front of everyone and shouted loudly....

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All of a sudden, the recruitment offices in the entire base area immediately sounded the sound of these disabled soldiers and an endless stream of reports... In less than a day, thousands of disabled soldiers in the entire base area went to various places to report...

Although, everyone is very unfamiliar with the name of the unit of the Agricultural Reclamation Corps. However, the excitement of returning to the army still made everyone's faces shrouded in a thick smile....

A few days later, as a large number of disabled soldiers were sent to Baishiling, where the base area was located, the list of commanders at all levels of the Agricultural Reclamation Corps began to slowly form. And with the command staff, plus a huge number of prisoners in the base areas. The First Agricultural Division, the Second Agricultural Division, and the Third Agricultural Division were the three agricultural reclamation divisions formed in the first round. began to go to his own tuntian area under the command of the commander Liu Hua to reclaim a large number of uninhabited fields around the base area....

In this way, the Agricultural Reclamation Corps, which took three days from proposal to final formation, has embarked on the stage of history from today... In the next few years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the three northeastern provinces, this agricultural reclamation corps not only provided a steady stream of grain to the entire base area but also to the entire three northeastern provinces. More importantly, sufficient food has saved countless people in the North China Plain in the process of the great drought in the North China Plain....

Of course, that's all for later... With the farming troops, with their own farming tools, they went to their own reclamation areas... The entire base area immediately fell into the construction in full swing...