In the latter stage of the blockade battle, Wang Liudou fought very bravely, giving full play to the maximum power of the Czech machine gun, and sometimes the terrain hindered him, so he picked up the machine gun and stood up straight and shot; As soon as the enemy fled, he hung up the machine gun strap and chased and strafed while holding the machine gun, which made the devil scream.

After the war, the battalion instructor went to the first company, and heard that Wang Liudou performed very well in the battle, and his machine gun barrel was red, and he did not stop firing. The instructor found Wang Keqin and wanted to encourage him, but as soon as he met, he grabbed the instructor's hand and muttered: "Instructor, I can't stand you, I can't stop the instructor and the company commander, I can't stop ......" He cried. "I can't help but feel sorry for the comrades who were killed or injured when I started the charge......"

The instructor was about to ask what was going on, but he timidly said, "I'm confused." I'm determined to do a good job on our side. However, before this battle, I muttered in my heart that I was afraid that I would not be able to defeat them. Until the bugle sounded, I was still thinking nonsense......"

Hmm, that's what happened. The instructor encouraged him: "You deserve to be a 'machine gunner'!" made the first contribution to fighting devils! ”

"The little devil said that the communist army was fighting, and all the prisoners were in the way. Today, I realized that they were all rumors. His face was flushed, and his lips trembled: "As soon as the gun rang out, the squad leader, platoon leader, company commander, and instructor all took the lead in rushing, and my heart skipped a beat." In this way, how can we lose the battle! ……”

The instructor talked to him a lot that day, about the past, about the present, and about the future. He finally assured the instructor: "Instructor, the human heart is made of flesh, and I want to be a new man!" These words come from the bottom of my heart.

Since then, Wang Liudou has shown great courage in every battle. With a machine gun, he successively destroyed 232 Japanese puppet soldiers of the enemy, and made a total of 9 military exploits. He also won the honorary title of first-class enemy killing hero of the Sixth Division of the Jinchaji Military Region of our army, and gradually grew into a heroic soldier of the Eighth Route Army with both wisdom and bravery.

Last winter in the town of Hekou, one day, a grievance meeting of the new soldiers of the first company was held in the courtyard of a row. Many people rushed to be the first to vomit bitterness. One sat down crying. One stood up again. They have accused the Japanese devils of harming their hometown and relatives, and the landlords and bullies who follow the Japanese devils have bullied and oppressed them. Someone's parents were killed. Some people's wives have been insulted, and some people have been forced to ruin their families......

A sea of blood and hatred, and a series of tragic experiences, make people's hearts cry. Soon, as the grievances deepened, he began to talk about the tragic situation of the people in the mountains in the famine years when the devil had not yet come to the Central Plains, and there was a cry on and off the stage. At first, Wang Liudou looked around and disagreed. However, with the crying of the venue, his eyes also turned red. When the deputy company commander complained that his father was forced to death by the landlord and his mother begged for food. Wang Keqin couldn't lift his head.

This grievance will open from morning to night. The accusations at the venue were like a great river of bitter water, surging endlessly. The complaint will continue the following day. The instructor went late because he had something to do in the camp. As soon as I walked into the venue. I saw a big man standing on the stage, it was none other than Wang Liudou. He sobbed, his face streaked with tears, and said a few words, pulling up the corners of his clothes to wipe his red and swollen eyes. He cried and cried, and he spoke for two hours alone, pouring out all the bitter water that had been accumulated in his heart for more than 20 years. Only then did the battalion know his background in detail.

After the meeting ended, the instructor asked the cadres of the first company how they mobilized Wang Keqin. They said that after the meeting yesterday, this guy returned to his class, did not eat food, did not take off his clothes, and fell asleep on the bunk with his head covered. The deputy company commander thought he was sick and called the hygienist to see him. asked him why he didn't eat, and suddenly, he stuck his head out of the quilt, threw himself into the arms of the deputy company commander and cried loudly, saying: "Deputy company commander, I am the same as you, I also have suffering!" Let me speak tomorrow, if I don't talk about it, I won't be able to eat......" As soon as the meeting was announced today, he ran to the stage.

After the grievance campaign, Wang Keqin had a great change, and he no longer talked nonsense behind the backs of the new soldiers who joined the army. He began to approach the squad leader and get close to the party members. The squad leader asked him to teach everyone how to use machine guns, and he no longer put on the rack of "machine gun masters" and patiently taught everyone.

However, sometimes he often patted the machine gun and sighed to people: "On our side, there are too few things to play here, and a little more, and then there are artillery, tanks, and planes, then ......." The squad leader and veteran comrades talked to him that fighting a war does not only depend on weapons, but first and foremost on conscious people. Besides, today we have fewer machine guns, tomorrow we will have more. Now we don't have tanks, planes, and there will be later.

The comrades also told him stories about the Red Army and the Eighth Route Army. He listened, narrowing his eyes and smiling innocently. It was not until this time that Wang Liudou finally completely understood that the Eighth Route Army was the army of the toiling masses themselves. Although the equipment of this army was not good and life was very difficult, everyone was not afraid of difficulties and sacrifices in order to defeat Japanese imperialism, and they were able to win the full support of the people.

At this time, he mentally solved the ideological knots of why the Eighth Route Army was able to defeat the superior little Japanese devils with inferior equipment, and was determined to do a good job in the Eighth Route Army.

Since then, I heard that Wang Keqin has changed greatly: he loves to talk and laugh, he rushes to work and learn culture when he is stationed, he doesn't lower his machine gun when he is marching, and he also helps others carry backpacks and rice bags...... The squad was replenished with new fighters, and the squad leader instructed him to help. He taught the new fighters how to use machine guns, told them about his changes in thinking, and raised the consciousness of the new fighters with his own words. Every time the instructor went to the company, he always talked to him.

One day, he suddenly asked the instructor: "Instructor, you say, can a person like me be a ** member?" Wu Xiaoxian only knew that he had made rapid progress since the grievance movement, but he didn't expect him to have such a lofty demand. The instructor clasped his hand and said, "Comrade Wang Liudou, you will definitely be able to become a member of the ** in the future." He also told him to study hard and overcome his shortcomings. He nodded in response, and finally said: "I have been in the army of the Kuomintang and the puppet army for a long time, it is a stinky puddle, I still have many shortcomings, I have a strong personality, and I must ......improve it in the future."

In June 1943, Wang Keqin was promoted to squad leader, and in October he joined our party and was promoted to platoon commander.

This time, after the merger of the two divisions and the new-style rectification and army rectification movement, Deputy Political Commissar Gao and the cadres of the original Sixth Division all felt that Wang Liudou's model was very typical and of great representative significance, because in the troops of our Eighth Route Army, there are no longer a few puppet soldiers and recalcitrant soldiers who have accepted and reformed them! And transforming these people in the old army and the puppet army into combat heroes and party members like Wang Liudou also has a strong educational significance for those peasant children recruited from the base area!

It is a heart-attacking tactic used against devils, and psychological warfare is used to break the morale and fighting spirit of devils, which can play a role that guns can't play, and it is also a heart-attacking and punishing of the soldiers in our own team! It is not easy to transform and unite the majority of non-party personages who have an anti-Japanese consciousness by using such leftist screening methods as in the past, and only by using this kind of ideological and political work can we unite all kinds of people into our ranks, and can the anti-Japanese contingent grow day by day?

It can be said that establishing a typical example of Wang Liudou is also an important significance for our party and our army to mature! It is precisely this new-style rectification and army rectification movement that began at the end of 43 and the beginning of 44 that the whole party and the whole army have been reborn and truly turned into a melting pot!

Looking at our party and our army at that time from the perspective of people now, they will wonder like the little devils and the Kuomintang army, the opponents of the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army back then, why can the Eighth Route Army absorb the puppet army and the stubborn army and quickly become soldiers, why did the Kuomintang soldiers captured on the battlefield become brave PLA soldiers in a few days?

The secret is that this army can make soldiers of any kind and background, feel their importance, and awaken their humanity that has been suppressed by society and suffering! Fight for yourself, this is what the little devils and the Kuomintang army have not taught them! The Eighth Road and the People's Liberation Army taught them to fight for their future!

With this secret, the Eighth Route Army can not win the world!