Chapter 036: The Outbreak of Contradictions
Mu Cheng's worries are not unfounded, the Datong Party at this time was not as good as the Datong Party ten years later, at least on the surface, the Datong Party was still the weakest of the many forces at this time, although the People's Party's Chang Kaishen could not make the order of the five provinces, but it was still the nominal supreme leader of the country.
In terms of strength, it is not comparable to the other party, although the real society is turbulent, but it has not yet reached the point where inflation is as inflationary ten years later, and it is impossible to live if you don't stand up to fight, so it is impossible to be like ten years later, "no one is invincible", anyway, the soldier turned around and became a liberation fighter.
Relatively speaking, at this time, the main soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army were still from various good families in the base areas, and the proportion of surrendered troops was not large, so there was always a long period of ideological education after the troops were recruited and surrendered.
If it was placed in the past, those who were willing to submit were left behind, and those who were unwilling to submit were let home. However, now the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army has suffered too many losses in troops after the Long March, resulting in a serious shortage of personnel, and the northwest region has always been vast and sparsely populated, and there is not so much manpower to replenish, so it attaches great importance to these surrenders, and there are a large number of officers and soldiers in the northeast, and using their homesickness to cooperate with patriotic education is the best source of manpower at present.
Since the end of the Battle of Wuqi Town, the low-level officers and soldiers of the 3rd and 6th Divisions of the Northeast Army have collectively lived a comfortable life after the surrender, changed into brand-new military uniforms, and not only had a full meal three times a day, but also had meat, and even in order to take care of them, the central government also prepared pork stewed vermicelli and other home-cooked dishes in the Northeast for them, which made them grateful.
Dressed in brand new clothes and eating delicious meals, the officers and soldiers couldn't believe it was real for a moment anyway.
Legend has it that the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is not so poor that it is not even equipped with military uniforms, and even filling their stomachs is a problem.
At a time when most armies only had a light set of military uniforms, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army turned out to be a three-piece set inside and outside, and the innermost set was called thermal underwear, which was not only comfortable to pass on, but also very warm.
In the middle is a new military uniform called camouflage training uniform, colorful and very fancy, but a little farther away is not easy to find, as if it is integrated with the earth, and is laughingly called "invisibility clothing" by soldiers.
The outermost one is a military coat, which is also camouflage, thick and warm, cold and frostproof, and it doesn't feel much to stand in the cold wind.
In addition, there are gloves, military boots, and helmets, all of which are unseen things, and the workers' and peasants' Red Army of the turtles suddenly became the royal family holding Jinwu, which made the officers and soldiers all kinds of envy and jealousy for a while.
However, they soon became happy, and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army really adhered to the same standard of officers and soldiers, and uniformly changed the uniforms of the officers and soldiers anyway.
Anyway, the officers and soldiers never dared to imagine such a good day of eating and drinking, and most of the time it was a good day that passed less than three days, and they were driven by other warlord forces to a place where birds don't pull.
It's just that although the days are comfortable, the daily ideological education is very annoying, anyway, most of the officers and soldiers are old fritters, only the slogan of returning to the northeast can make the officers and soldiers of the northeast military system excited for a while, and the people of the three horse departments in the northwest don't feel it at all, they just blindly follow the political workers to applaud, as for how good, most of them basically don't know.
In the first three days, the officers and men only received ideological education, but later, in addition to ideological education, they were required to participate in labor every day, which was called labor education.
Ideological education is inherently tiresome, and labor education has even more irritated the morale of the officers and men anyway; if it had not been for the fact that the workers, peasants, and Red Army, regardless of the officers and men, were participating in labor, many people would have made a fuss on the spot.
In their hearts, Lao Yuzi is a righteous army anyway, not a captured captive, and they can't be treated in the way of a captive.
However, when they saw the Red Army cadres taking the lead in labor, they were not only ashamed of their work, but also proud of their work, and in the end they had to suppress the dissatisfaction in their hearts and obediently participate in the work.
After such a period of time, in addition to daily ideological education, the officers and men had to help the common people in the town carry water and chop wood, clean the yards, and sometimes help renovate dilapidated houses and help with farm work in the fields.
Although the officers and soldiers of the former Ma Peiqing Regiment were resentful, they were reluctant to have a good life of being full three times a day, and the amount of labor was not large, so they were happy to have such a good thing.
Anyway, the officers and soldiers of the Northeast didn't think so, and the reason why they did it anyway was that they listened to the song "On the Songhua River" and aroused their homesickness, which made the hidden feelings burst out in an instant, and then the Red Army Working Group persuaded them to surrender, and they quickly decided to go anyway.
Anyway, after that, most of the officers and soldiers in the Northeast have put life and death aside, and only think about fighting back to the Northeast to wash away this shame. Unexpectedly, after defecting to the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, there was no sign of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army returning to the Northeast, and although they were entertained with good food and drink, every day was either ideological education or labor education, and no matter how good their patience was, they would be worn dry, and I couldn't help but wonder if the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was fooling them.
Just when the atmosphere of dissatisfaction accumulated to a certain extent, anyway, the officers and soldiers and the Tuyu bandits who were later incorporated were sent to District 5450 to participate in the construction of the road, and a small number of former Northeast officers and soldiers broke out at this time, but they had no guns and no courage in their hands, and finally appeared in the form of a boycott.
At this time, Li Keji was discussing issues related to highway construction with Mu Cheng and a few people who knew a little about construction projects, and when he heard that some of the former officers and soldiers in the northeast had actually started a boycott, everyone couldn't help but change color.
If it were an ordinary striker, Li Keji and Mu Cheng would definitely not have such a reaction, but when the strikers were a group of old fritters who had come out of the war, they had to be cautious, and if they were not careful, it would have a great impact, and if one of them hid a gun, the trouble would be even greater.
Because Li Keji's thinking is still in the state of "no one in the world is universal", wishful thinking that since the officers and soldiers of the Northeast have been corrected, they will completely stand on the side of the Datong Party, and he does not care at all about the concerns that Mu Cheng initially raised with him, but he did not expect that the officers and soldiers of the Northeast would make a strike so soon.
Hurriedly rushed to the scene, there were already political work cadres trying to persuade the officers and soldiers in the northeast who had dismissed the workers, these political workers were all cadres sent by the central government to control the officers and soldiers anyway, from the very beginning, the central authorities took into account the possible situation, and also knew that there were no professional political workers, and Mu Cheng and Li Keji were afraid that they would not be able to control these veterans.
When Li Keji and the others arrived, the political workers seemed to have been persuaded for a long time, but the effect was not very obvious, and the officers and men of the Northeast who had been boycotted were almost indifferent, and when the political workers finished their last sentence, a tall soldier who seemed to be a representative of the boycott workers spread out his voice like a broken gong before shouting: "Our brothers of the Northeast Army have come to join you Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to fight devils, not to be your laborers!"
Hum...... In order to persuade us to do it anyway, how nice your kind words were! What to stop the civil war and go north to resist Japan, the brothers of the Northeast Army should stand together with the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, jointly protest against Chang Kaishen's one-man dictatorship, and call on the people of the whole country to go north to resist Japan and fight back to the Northeast together!
Bah...... It's all his mother's deceitful nonsense, the brothers of the 3rd and 6th divisions were fooled by you, saying that they would lead us back to the northeast together. But now, apart from some empty talk and ideological education every day, we are treated as laborers in the Northeast Army, and we are transferred wherever there is work, and we are completely treated as prisoners of defeat.
We are not prisoners, we are rebels anyway, we are going to fight back to the northeast......"
"Fight back to the Northeast ......"
"Fight back to the Northeast ......"
"Fight back to the Northeast ......"
In the face of the agitated officers and men of the Northeast, the political workers have always felt that they have made mistakes in their work, and they have not even noticed the changes in the mood of the officers and men in the Northeast, which has made things the way they are now.
Seeing such a situation, Li Keji knew that if he allowed his development to expand gradually, the consequences would be unimaginable, and the working methods of that political worker were also quite dogmatic.
In Li Keji's view, the strong feelings of the officers and men of the Northeast who had dismissed the workers and workers who wanted to fight back to the Northeast were not fake, and although they complained a little about the delay in the movement of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, they were not enough to ignore reality and blindly demand that they be sent back to the Northeast.
Therefore, the node should be that these soldiers do not want to work, and at the same time they are extremely eager to fight back to the northeast, because of strategic reasons, it is impossible for the workers' and peasants' Red Army to fight devils across several provinces, and it is impossible for Yan Xishan in Shanxi and the 29th Army in Hebei to let the workers' and peasants' Red Army go over, so these soldiers and oilers have shifted the contradiction to that they want to fight back to the northeast, but the workers' and peasants' Red Army "deliberately" does not let them fight back to the northeast.
After figuring out the node, Li Keji knew very well that laziness has always been one of human nature, and being able to get something for nothing is the ideal that most people dream of, and people will always find all kinds of excuses for themselves in order to avoid labor.
In order to take care of these officers and soldiers anyway, the central authorities did not deduct a single point in their treatment, and their work was much easier than that of the Red Army soldiers.
After the ridicule, Li Keji walked over the crowd to the Northeast officers and soldiers who had dismissed the workers, holding the hand-held megaphone that had just been transmitted to the carry-on satchel when no one was paying attention, and shouted with full anger: "Brothers of the Northeast Army, I can understand your feelings of wanting to fight back to your hometown, but I have a question for you, how are the brothers of the Northeast Army going to fight back?" ”
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