During the period of the agrarian revolution, the Red Army was a new type of contingent different from the old army, and the Red Army emphasized the equality of officers and soldiers, did not beat and curse people, and did not punish lower-level soldiers with corporal punishment and corporal punishment. However, everyone also knows that during that period, many officers and fighters of the Red Army revolted from the old army to join the revolution, and it was inevitable that they would carry the warlordistic habits of the old army, so it is undeniable that some companies in the Red Army that were not completely transformed did indeed have the habit of the old army, such as the problem of company and platoon commanders beating and cursing soldiers.
Tang Liang, the founding general, encountered such a situation shortly after joining the Red Army.
Tang Liang joined the Red Army in 1930, and before that he was a member of the Propaganda and Culture Committee of the Township Soviet. Soon after joining the Red Army, he was sent to the Political Training Corps of the Red Army to study, and then assigned to the 2nd Division of the 8th Army of the Third Red Army as the secretary of the party committee, working under the guidance of Political Commissar Peng Xuefeng, learning a lot of experience in political and political work of Political Commissar Peng, and making particularly rapid progress.
One day in January 1931, Peng Xuefeng, the political commissar of the division, called Tang Liang to his room to talk and sent Tang Liang to the 1st Company of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Division to serve as the political commissar. Peng Xuefeng said to Tang Liang: "The political commissar of the original company political commissar has a longer history of working in the army and is more capable than you, that is, he is good at beating people and makes the relationship between officers and soldiers very bad, so it is decided to transfer him to the Political Department, and you will go to the company to become a political commissar, and you must set an example by example, do not beat people, work well, and change the current situation." ”
On the first night after Tang Liang took up his post in the 1st Company of the 6th Regiment of the new unit, he walked out of the company headquarters after dinner and wanted to go everywhere to see what the soldiers of each squad were doing.
When Tang Liang walked to the door of a room, he stopped, and through the door grid, he saw a small oil lamp on the table, and a squad of soldiers gathered around the charcoal fire for warmth, and was talking about something. He dismissed the idea of pushing the door in at once, and listened outside the window to what the warriors were saying.
Only to hear a warrior angrily say, "Go away and take advantage of him, or Lao Tzu will straighten him out when he fights!" ”
Tang Liang could hear that they were talking about the political commissar of the company who had just been transferred. It turned out that the phenomenon of beating people in this company was indeed very serious, and very few officers and men below the commander and deputy platoon commander of the whole company had not been beaten by the former political commissar; the company commander was an old soldier who had worked in the old army for many years, and he often beat people up, and there were many strange arguments and strange methods; a small number of platoon leaders and squad leaders also came from the old army, their warlordistic ideology and habits were very heavy, and under the bad influence of the company commander and political commissar, they often fought with each other and beat the soldiers.
Immediately the soldier retorted: "Then how to do it, not a counter-revolutionary?" ”
"What's the solution?" The beatings of soldiers are not in vain. Some warriors sighed and said.
Immediately another soldier continued, "The new arrival saw that he had a tense face, and he didn't look like a good man..."
Now it's time to talk about yourself... In short, the soldiers were dissatisfied with and complained about the leadership style of the cadres, and they listened to him like a manza and his heart like a knife.
After coming back, Tang Liang couldn't sleep over and over again, what to do?
Since joining the Red Army, he has entered the ideological and political work unit for training and studied the spirit of the Gutian Conference, but only when he arrived in this newly arrived new unit did he truly understand the seriousness of the existence of warlordism ideology in the grass-roots units, which not only directly affected the unity of officers and men and the combat effectiveness of the contingent, but also undermined our party's purpose of building a revolutionary army. He secretly resolved that no matter how great the difficulties, he would correct the phenomenon of the company beating and cursing people.
A few days later, Tang Liang received a document from his superiors, which contained the resolution of the troops to ban beatings and abolish corporal punishment. Giving the company commander a look, he immediately lost his temper, slapped the resolution on the table, and shouted with a flushed face: "The right to beat people is gone!" The company commander is still a fart! Lao Tzu is gone! ”
With regard to this attitude of the company commander, since Tang Liang had just taken up his post at the company level, it was not good to argue with him in person, so he could only patiently tell him that communists must carry out the party's resolutions and subordinates should obey their superiors; second, revolutionary fighters are all class brothers and officers and men are equal to the basic principle.
Although Tang Liang was a company-level political commissar, he was a member of the divisional party committee at the party level; at a meeting of the divisional party committee, Tang Liang talked about the situation in the company at the meeting, and Commissar Peng said, I went to talk to him. As soon as the company commander heard that the political commissar of the division wanted to talk to him, he immediately panicked and immediately said to Tang Liang, "I admit my mistake and will never beat anyone in the future."
Subsequently, Tang Liang took advantage of the heat to strike iron, and he made a public promise at the company meeting that first of all, the company commander and political commissar would never beat anyone, and at the same time carried out a lot of persuasion work against those cadres who loved to beat people, gave full play to the role of the party branch and the soldiers' committee, united the activists in the company, and educated everyone to consciously abide by discipline, thus also reducing the excuse for those cadres who loved to beat people.
Two months later, quanlian completely eliminated the phenomenon of beating people, which was a very remarkable achievement at that time. The company has changed the tense relationship between officers and soldiers in the past and become a model company for implementing the spirit of the Gutian Conference.
A year later, Tang Liang was transferred to the general secretary of the Party Branch of the Seventh Regiment of the Red Second Division, and soon after he was transferred to the director of the Political Office directly under the Red Second Division. In August of the same year, he succeeded him as the political commissar of the Sixth Regiment of the Second Red Division.
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