Since the Liberation War began in 1947, the situation between the enemy and us has undergone fundamental changes, and the ranks of the People's Liberation Army have expanded rapidly, but behind this series of successes, there is a key figure who is Mr. Chen.
He invented a simple little method to let the Kuomintang continue to send talents to our army, and this plan that made the great man can't help but clap the case, how to make old Chiang Kai-shek have no choice but to do it, and also asked everyone to explore with Abo the secret of President Chen's victory over the enemy.
On June 26, 1946, the 220,000 troops of the Kuomintang attacked the Liberated Areas of the Central Plains, and a full-scale civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists broke out, and the Kuomintang troops attacked with great force by virtue of their superiority in strength, but at this time our army did not send out the main force to fight, but adopted the strategy of fighting and retreating at the same time, trying to preserve more living forces.
However, after Liu Deng's army advanced into the Dabie Mountains, it directly inserted into the empty areas of Chiang Kai-shek's rear troops, established the Central Plains Liberated Area centered on the Dabie Mountains, and achieved a great turning point from strategic defense to strategic offensive. After the Battle of the Crossing River, it basically declared the demise of Chiang Kai-shek's rule on the mainland.
After the beginning of the War of Liberation, except for the initial period of difficulty, our army was almost overwhelmed, and in the face of Chiang Kai-shek's large army repeatedly won victories, and also won a great victory in the liberation of the whole country. The reason why our army can rarely suffer defeats is inseparable from the contribution of one person, who is our Boss Chen, who turned the enemy into us and transformed the tactics of the prisoners, so that the PLA contingent expanded rapidly. 、
This strategy was originally in the Battle of Menglianggu, where General Su Yu commanded the battle and directly annihilated Zhang Lingfu's integrated 74th Division, in which the Nationalist army had more than 30,000 troops, and after the battle, there were more than 8,000 prisoners. Hua Ye gathered all the prisoners together and prepared to be incorporated into the People's Liberation Army, but he did not expect that all the columns were rushing to get these people.
In fact, this is also because the soldiers of the reorganized 74th Division have received very formal training, their overall quality is very high, and they are still model divisions, so they have become the talents that everyone has robbed. Moreover, in our army's "three major disciplines and eight points of attention," there are clear stipulations that it is forbidden to insult soldiers, so those who are willing to stay are added to the major units. These "liberation fighters" in our army have been influenced by ideology and environment, and they have gradually become no different from other fighters and have become glorious SOLDIER soldiers.
In 1947, on the way to northern Shaanxi, When General Manager Chen was pulled to make a report when passing through the Jinsui Military Region, it turned out that the leaders of Jinsui saw that the Huaye Army was developing very well, and wanted to learn from General Manager Chen.
Seeing that they did not understand their own meaning, Mr. Chen went on to analyze: We used to recruit people from the Liberated Areas to join the army, and although the consciousness of the soldiers recruited in this way was very high, the training was a big trouble. People may not have touched a gun at all before joining the army, and after enlistment, they have to undergo a long period of training, to teach how to aim, how to shoot, how to replenish ammunition, how to throw grenades, how to use bayonets, etc., until they have learned all this, they can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but it is easy to sacrifice after lack of experience.
First of all, these prisoners have been trained in the Kuomintang, and after they are incorporated, they can go directly to the battlefield without teaching them, and some of the better ones can become coaches. Just like in a previous battle, our army pushed the captured International People's Party artillery to the front of the position, aimed at the enemy from the barrel of the cannon and fired the cannon, the captured Kuomintang prisoner said that it could not be fought in this way, listened to his command to pull the mountain cannon to a distance of 6 kilometers from the enemy's position, calculated the distance, calibrated the range, and shot out a cannon to hit the target, and these are what our army lacks.
When Mr. Chen arrived in northern Shaanxi to see the great man, he described these words to the great man again, and he was applauded by the great man's shooting. Mr. Chen's experience in making good use of captives was quickly adopted by the central authorities, and he issued a document pointing out: "For prisoners, except for those who have planted or have infectious diseases, the rest will be retained and supplemented by the People's Liberation Army." ”
Although this policy is very good, what if the prisoners, while fighting, suddenly attack our army against the water?
Just like in the Battle of Lianshui in 1946, more than three hundred soldiers of our army were captured, most of them the 6th column of Wang Bicheng of the Central China Field Army, so Zhang Lingfu let these people work in logistics, transporting grain, transporting cannons, etc. Chiang Kai-shek knew that he could not do this, but Zhang Lingfu did not pay attention to it, and continued to let them do logistical work.
It wasn't until the Battle of Menglianggu began that Zhang Lingfu knew he was very wrong. Since the main force of the 74th Army was in Menglianggu, the heavy artillery unit was arranged at Duozhuang under the mountain, and it was Wang Bicheng's 6 columns that the Platon Army pounced on Duozhuang. As soon as the prisoners saw that their own men had come, they immediately revolted and turned the muzzle of the gun to Meng Lianggu, and then Chiang Kai-shek took this tragic lesson to warn the Various Kuomintang troops.
At a time when the Kuomintang troops were all taking Meng Lianggu as a warning, our army had already begun to carry out class education in view of the fact that most of the prisoners were poor people, first letting them identify with the PLA in their hearts, and then delegating these people to various classes, and there were also clear stipulations that a squad must have a majority of PLA veterans, so as to facilitate the old and bring the new.
In fact, where did the Kuomintang army come from, most ordinary soldiers came from the trap, and this phenomenon was even more obvious in the later stages of the Liberation War, so these prisoners also had a high degree of acceptance of the education of our army. After the distribution was done, it was found that the squad leader not only did not discriminate or abuse, but also gave preferential treatment in many places, and the veterans were also treated the same in terms of meritorious service and salary, and then recalled the unfair treatment they often suffered when they were in the Kuomintang troops, and naturally, these people would not think about the Kuomintang.
In the same battle, leaving aside those soldiers who sacrificed their lives, our army's ranks are getting bigger and bigger, but the Kuomintang is fighting less and less, and they dare not incorporate the prisoners into the troops, so they can only go to arrest Zhuangding again, and after a series of trainings, it will take about half a year to go to the battlefield, and it will be strange that a battle is fought and sent to the People's Liberation Army a lot, so that it is strange that they will not suffer defeat in the battle.
Where, on the other hand, is the most important part of the whole thing? Why was our army able to successfully absorb the Kuomintang prisoners? But it is difficult for the Kuomintang army to absorb the captured fighters of our army? The most crucial place lies in the Kuomintang, and this reason is also the reason for Chiang Kai-shek's ultimate defeat.
That is to say, these so-called "upper classes" have always been in a state of oppression and exploitation for the peasants, ordinary soldiers, the lower classes, whether they want to join the army or not, and whether their lives are in dire straits, and only protect their own interests.
The reason why our People's Liberation Army has always insisted on fighting is to liberate the Chinese masses, and in the ranks of the People's Liberation Army, officers and men are equal, and as long as they have the ability, they can be appreciated. The road knows the horsepower, and the people's hearts are seen for a long time. No matter how much Chiang Kai-shek poured dirty water on the People's Liberation Army, he could find the truth after personal contact.
Thousands of years of history tell us a truth, those who win the hearts and minds of the people win the world, and those who lose the hearts of the people lose the world. The soldiers of the People's Liberation Army have always placed themselves among the people, shared their destiny with the masses of the people, persisted in uniting all forces that can be united, and finally won a great victory in liberating all of China.