In the big history, there are both big people who influence the overall situation and small people who are unknown. For example, Ding Xiao'er, a national army signal soldier in the "Battle of Huaihai in The Great Armageddon".
In the movie, Ding Xiao'er, a communications officer of Qiu Qingquan's 2nd Corps, braved a hail of bullets to connect to a broken telephone line and received a Blue Sky White Sun Medal. After Qiu Qingquan personally awarded him the medal, he asked him how he became a national army. Ding Xiao'er replied, "I was sixteen years old the year before, and I was selling eggs at the station. There was a platoon leader in the car who asked me to lift the basket high, and I tiptoed up, and he twisted me into the car and put a military hat on my head, and I became a national army. ”
The officers and men of the Nationalist army present, including Qiu Qingquan himself, laughed. This shows that in the case of Ding Xiao'er, it is obvious that Zhuang Ding has been arrested. However, the process of Ding Xiao'er's arrest of Zhuang Ding was more dramatic, producing a comedic effect and washing away the blood and tears in the process of catching Zhuang Ding.
One
After the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, the conscription system was adopted. The Nanjing side also initially adopted a conscription system. In 1933, Nanjing promulgated the Military Service Law, which changed the conscription system to a conscription system. There are two types of military service, namely national military service and standing military service. Standing military service is divided into three types: active service, regular service, and renewal service.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the active units of the Nationalist Army suffered a large number of casualties and urgently needed to replenish their troops, so a large-scale conscription was carried out in the rear. This was the first large-scale conscription of the Nationalist army. After the Liberation War in 1946 was fully launched, the Nationalist army continued to rout in various battlefields and once again carried out large-scale conscription. Ding Xiao'er was in the national army, which was obviously the second time.
According to the provisions of the Military Service Law, the principle of conscription in the National Army is "three dings draw one, five ding draw two, and the only son does not conscript". This means that if a family has 3 adult men, then 1 is drawn; if there are 5 adult men, then 2 are drawn; if there is only 1 son, no conscription is given.
This is normal operation, it should be said that there is still a certain humanitarian care, to avoid the withdrawal of all the adult men in a family, so that the family's labor and life will not be greatly affected. However, in practice, the conscription of the Nationalist army has greatly deviated. Rich and powerful people colluded with each other to evade conscription, as stated in the book "War Disaster: Military Disaster": "Rich and powerful landlords and gentry can not only evade military service, but even shelter other families." "Poor people can't afford to do some military service, and even their only son has been conscripted."
In the dialect comedy "Catching Zhuangding", released in December 1963, Wang Baochang, the landlord Li Laotuo and others committed adultery and took the only son of the poor Jiang Guofu as a stand-in for Li Laotuo's son and arrested him as a soldier. Art comes from reality and is higher than reality. "Catching Zhuang Ding" reflects the cruel reality of the National Army's grasp of Zhuang Ding.
Powerful and wealthy families were able to spend a lot of money to evade military service, while families without money and power had to avoid military service by self-mutilation and fleeing to other places. As a result, it is difficult for personnel to collect sufficient numbers of soldiers for military service. In order to complete the conscription task, they adopted the method of pitting and abducting, "randomly grabbing and pulling a pass, and even pulling tourists on the road and those who visit relatives and friends to fill the strong." In an emergency, they even made trouble on the road, and cut off contact between the townships. ("War Disaster: War Disaster")"
Obviously, Ding Xiao'er was forcibly captured by the Nationalist army in this way.
Two
Why use the phrase "catch the strong man"? This is because the conscription process of the national army is quite violent, like the arrest of prisoners.
At the time of conscription, military service personnel often broke into the homes of conscripts in the middle of the night, either breaking through the door or climbing over the wall. After they found Zhuang Ding, they tied them together with ropes, and then sent them from the township to the district and the district to the county, and sent them to the troops layer by layer. In the process of transfer, Zhuang Ding was all tied by a rope to prevent escape, and there were soldiers escorted by live ammunition.
If Zhuang Ding dared to disobey the conscription order, what would happen? The answer is: miserable.
Jiang Menglin's "New Wave" records two stories.
A story says that a Hunan man carrying a cloth burden through the Chong'an River in Guizhou met the team escorting Zhuangding, and was arrested on the spot. This Hunan man resolutely refused to become a soldier, was beaten to death, and was hastily buried on the side of the road. A well-meaning local saw him, fearing that the wild dog would eat him, and reburied him.
A story says: Another team of Hunan merchants was arrested on the way to Guiding County, Guizhou, and several people were arrested, and after the rest fled to Guiding County, they encountered the truck that captured Zhuangding, and all of them caught up with the car and drove towards Guiyang. One of the merchants secretly bribed the escorts and was released. But just as he got out of the car, he was shot dead, and the shooter framed him as a deserter.
Can Zhuang Ding arrive safely at the troops with good manners on the way to escort? inexistent. During the long journey, Zhuang Ding did not have enough to eat, did not wear warm clothes, endured the whipping of the escort, and was easily sick and injured. If the condition and injury are not serious, they can barely walk, and if it is serious, the escort personnel often abandon them on the road and let them fend for themselves. In one place, there was even an instance of 7 seriously ill zhuang dings buried alive.
There is no doubt that the soldiers recruited in this way cannot talk about cohesion and centripetal force. On the battlefield, the escape, surrender, and uprising of the nationalist soldiers abounded. No, even Ding Xiao'er, a communications soldier who won the Order of the Blue Sky and White Sun, after hearing that his family had divided the fields, happily threw himself into the camp of the East China Field Army and became a soldier of the People's Liberation Army.