The situation facing the Baath Party's revolutionary base in Ludong is quite complicated. [No pop-ups]

In addition to facing the serious and fierce land contradictions in the region, which were already on the verge of eruption, the Denglai region was located on the edge of the area of all-out military struggle between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Jurchen regime. The Baath Party must also face a possible military threat from the post-Kim Jurchen side.

In addition, because Shandong was relatively close to Beijing, the ruling center of the Ming Dynasty, the Ludong base area also had to face possible contradictions and conflicts between the Ludong base area and the central government of the Ming Dynasty.

Under these circumstances, the work of military construction, the work of the agrarian revolution, the work of farm construction, and the work of industrial construction must go hand in hand. This has put tremendous pressure on the newly established party committee of the Ludong base area.

Fortunately, Wang Shuhui sat in Dengzhou Mansion and effectively led and supported the construction of the Ludong base area.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, especially in Shandong, serious natural disasters, high land rents, and rampant usury have forced the people in Shandong very seriously. Dissatisfaction and anger are brewing among the masses of the people, and it only takes a little flame to ignite the whole of Shandong.

Although Xu Hongru's Wenxiangjiao uprising had only been suppressed for seven or eight years, various small-scale anti-rent and anti-tax activities still occurred from time to time in various parts of Shandong.

The first step in the revolutionary work of the Baath Party in the Ludong region was to disarm the armed forces of the Ming Dynasty throughout the Denglai region.

Although the revival army of the Ludong Military Region had only four battalions of regular troops and eight battalions of production and construction troops, with only those four battalions of 2,000 regular troops, the Ludong Military Region disarmed the two field troops of the Ming Dynasty in Dengzhou Town and Laizhou Town within a week.

Speaking of which, Liu Zeqing is also a good fate. When the Fuxing Army surrounded the military camp in Dengzhou Town, Liu Zeqing had already risen from the position of Denglai general to the high position of deputy commander-in-chief of Shandong. The new commander of the Dengzhou battalion, the new general of Denglai, was surrounded by the revival army before he was familiar with the troops.

The new commander of the Dengzhou battalion was dazed and led more than 200 of his own soldiers to resist the revival army without understanding the situation, and after that, he and his more than 200 well-ridden soldiers were torn apart by the machine guns of the revival army at an extremely rapid speed.

He provided a good negative teaching material for the soldiers and officers of the entire Dengzhou battalion, which was less than three thousand. In the subsequent process of disarming the Dengzhou battalion by the Renaissance Army, more than 2,000 soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion became prisoners of the Renaissance Army very obediently.

In the subsequent work of disarming the Laizhou battalion, a large number of Laizhou battalion soldiers who did not know the truth were coerced by Zhou Benshun, the commander of the Laizhou battalion, to carry out relatively fierce armed resistance to the revival army on duty. In the low-intensity armed conflict against the Baath Army, the soldiers of the Laizhou battalion were very unfortunate to suffer nearly half of the casualties.

Immediately after disarming all the Ming field forces in the Denglai area, the Revival Army began liquidation in the concentration camp where the Denglai soldiers were held.

The liquidation work is a policy formulated by the Political Department of the Ludong Military Region of the Fuxing Army in order to solve the problem that more and more Ming army prisoners may be captured in the future. Specifically, the liquidation work was to carry out a great liquidation of Ming army officers among the Ming army prisoners.

In this work, the political work cadres of the Renaissance Army will use all kinds of necessary means to induce them to confess to various crimes such as eating empty salaries, collecting black money, embezzling military salaries, withholding and misappropriating military funds, and so on in the course of trying Ming army officers. In the process, the political work cadres would mobilize and mobilize the ordinary soldiers of the captured Ming army, expose and criticize the various crimes of the Ming army officers, and finally punish these Ming army officers.

After going through such a systematic process, the reckoning army will turn the captured Ming army who are willing to join the revival army into a reserve force for production and construction. For those Ming prisoners who were unwilling to join the Renaissance Army, and those who participated in the offensive against the Renaissance Army, they were sent home with economic subsidies after receiving three months of labor reform. Prisoners of the Ming army who did not participate in the offensive and revival army operations were immediately discharged with travel expenses.

However, in the course of the implementation of this policy, these prisoners were generally reluctant to return home and continue to live in poverty after a few days of living as prisoners of the Ba'ath Army. The vast majority of the Ming prisoners who demanded a revolution with the Baath Party were taken prisoner. The Ming prisoners who did not participate in the attack on the Renaissance Army and were unwilling to join the Renaissance Army strongly demanded the same treatment as the prisoners of labor reform.

A grassroots instructor in the Ba'ath Army wrote in his diary:

"Whether it is the masses in the eastern part of Ludong or the ordinary captured soldiers of the Ming army, their revolutionary enthusiasm is very high. Their revolutionary stance was very firm. This morning, a captured soldier of the Ming Army, who had just finished listening to my propaganda on our party's land policy, told me that the landlord Lao Cai in his hometown, Daxindian Town, was particularly reactionary and must be the revolutionary object of our Baath Party. He was very strongly demanding to join the Baath Party, to show us the way, to get rid of the life of the landlord Lao Cai. ”

"Yesterday, when the dean's head teacher told me that because the level of agricultural production in Shandong is relatively low, the local land conflict is more serious than that in Hubei, I didn't quite understand. After communicating with the captured Ming soldiers of our class today, I learned that the annual yield of wheat grown on one acre of good land here in Shandong is less than 150 catties. I calculated this way, because I can only grow one crop a year, and the people of Shandong have less than 40 catties of harvest per mu of land in a year under the condition of seven layers of rent. ”

"From this point of view, it is easier to understand the high revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses in Shandong."

After the 5,000 soldiers of the two battalions of Denglai were eliminated, there were 5,000 more production and construction soldiers in the Ludong base area who were enthusiastic about the revolution and were very supportive of the Baath Party.

After that, a production and construction corps of 5,500 people was formed, with a battalion of veteran production and construction troops as the backbone. Subsequently, under the leadership of a battalion of regular troops of the Fuxing Army, the Ludong No. 1 Production and Construction Corps immediately incorporated and renovated the local guard post in the Denglai area after a month of training.

By the end of April 1629, the land and personnel of the local guard offices in the entire Dengju and Laiju districts were taken over by the Baath Army.

At the same time, 30,000 local soldiers recruited by the Ludong Military Region of the Baath Party in the region also completed their recruit training.

With 3,000 veterans as the backbone and 30,000 new soldiers as the base, the agrarian revolution work of the Baath Party in Ludong began in earnest in April 1629