Article: The poetic world
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"Under the principle of the united front, we should let go of the masses, expand our own collection of supplies...not rely on the Kuomintang to pay, but raise the supply by ourselves."——Chairman Mao sent to Peng Dehuai's telegram
The revolutionary army led by our party has gone from suffering to glory. During the Red Army (domestic revolution), the enemy called our army a group of "beggars"; during the Eighth Route Army (the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression), the enemy called our army "the Eighth Route"; during the People's Liberation Army (the War of Liberation), Chiang Kai-shek said that our army "relied on dozens of Ten thousand broken guns want to win"; during the Volunteer Army (Resisting U.S. Aid Korea), MacArthur said that we were poor and white. "The Chinese never dare to enter North Korea. If they dare to enter the peninsula and face the United Nations army, they will be bloody."...
Chairman Mao When leading the revolution, our army has never been "expensive", and has always "tightened the waist" to live. At the end of 1935, Chairman Mao led the Central Red Army to reach northern Shaanxi through various difficulties and dangers. He cautiously proposed a loan of 2000 oceans to the commander of the Red 25th Army, Xu Haidong. Fortunately, Xu Haidong generalized the majority of the Red 25 Army's assets (a total of 7000 oceans) for 5000. Dayang was handed over to the Central Committee, and the Central Red Army survived a long winter.
Xu Haidong's "sending charcoal in the snow" made Chairman Mao remember for a lifetime. After the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, in order to resist Japan, our army was reorganized and became the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was later renamed the Eighteenth Army of the National Revolutionary Army. According to the agreement signed by the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Chiang Kai-shek should pay the Eighth Route Army military pay and weapons.
On August 25, 1937, in order to allow our army to accept the reorganization conditions, Chiang Kai-shek allocated 300,000 silver dollars to the Eighth Route Army headquarters "generously". (Editor's note: Compared with the military payments to other non-central army, this is simply a beggar. In order to win Zhang Xueliang's northeast change, he gave 2 million yuan to the Northeast Army Dayang). After that, Chiang Kai-shek often owed the Eighth Route Army's military payments, weapons and ammunition, and the expansion of the soldiers and the expanded troops during the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek refused to admit it.
In December 1940, Chiang Kai-shek simply announced that the Eighth Route Army would no longer pay military salaries. As early as the early days of the War of Resistance, Chairman Mao reminded cadres and soldiers at all levels of our army, “Don’t have illusions about the National Government’s payment to the Eighth Route Army, but rely on self-reliance.” To this end, he specifically called Peng Dehuai:
“should be on the united front. Under the principle, let go of mobilizing the masses and expanding one’s own collection of supplies... Don’t rely on the Kuomintang’s payment, but raise the supply yourself.” General
went on the expedition, without military payment
The anti-Japanese armed forces led by our party basically need to raise their own funds. The minds of the commanders were already tacit things. Although the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army raised funds through a variety of methods (Editor’s note: strengthening the economic construction of the anti-Japanese base areas, launching large-scale self-rescue campaigns, mobilizing underground party organizations to raise funds, mobilizing overseas patriotic people to raise funds, and confiscating Japanese and puppet military supplies). Under the influence of the brutal Japanese and puppet army's brutal sweep, the Kuomintang's strict lock-ups, and successive natural disasters, it is still very difficult to support the anti-Japanese situation.
Front-line troops can also relieve tensions through seizures. The Party Central Committee is even poorer. Once Chairman Mao was about to meet a general on the front line. Unfortunately, his only pair of pants was broken and he could not get out of bed. awkward. For this reason, the chief officers of the combat units and the underground party organizations in the enemy-occupied areas tried their best to send funds and materials to the Party Central Committee to ease the difficulties in the rear.
Wang Ping (Editor's note: born in 1907, formerly known as Wang Weiyun, formerly known as Wang Ming) General may not be familiar with this "rule"! In late December 1936, he graduated from the Red Army University. Chairman Mao called him and He Jinnian to prepare for the important task. At his request, Chairman Mao changed his name to Wang Ping and wrote the letter of appointment "Appoint Wang Ping" Political commissar of the 27th Army". When
became the chief officer of the army, Wang Ping realized that it was not easy for the Eighth Route Army to be a “high official”. On one occasion, he was ordered to resist the march and needed to lead his troops to march in the Kuomintang Control Area for 3 days. Before he set off, he found that the entire army’s funding was less than 100 yuan, and the entire army’s rations had to be raised by itself. How could this enable the entire army to pass through the National Control Area safely?
In desperation, Wang Ping plucked up the courage to find Chairman Mao for assistance. He hoped that the central government would provide 3,000 yuan in military pay. Chairman Mao told him "no", and he quickly changed his words and said, "If you don't have 3,000, you can give 2,000!" Chairman Mao listened. After being silent, see Wang PingChairman Mao was embarrassed and asked softly: "You can give us 1,000!" After listening to this, Chairman Mao calmed down and laughed loudly: "I don't have a penny."
Wang Ping bit his head and asked: "So what? Do it?" Chairman Mao said to him: "Then think of a way. One person can't think of two people, two people can't think of three people. If you don't think of it, go to bed and think about it when you sleep."
touched the gray-nosed king Ping returned to the station to relay Chairman Mao's words, and the chief officers of the whole army gathered around and began to think of a solution. Everyone, let me start the discussion. A cadre mentioned in his speech that there is a landlord and bad gentry (Editor’s Note: also the Kuomintang’s UN Security Officer) near the army station (bordering the Kuomintang Control Area). The family is particularly rich. This The landlord went so far as to build Tuweizi to sell grain at high prices, and to build suspension bridges nearby to collect tolls.
When Wang Ping heard this, he thought about it and planned to let the landlord contribute money to support the anti-Japanese war. This kind of landlord was the target to be attacked before the war of resistance, but after the war, it became the target of unity and could not be attacked. How to do? Wang Ping thought hard and came up with a strategy.
He sent someone to take the letter in the name of buying food. When he passed the suspension bridge in front of the landlord’s house, but he could not walk to pay the toll, the landlord ordered his men to shoot and warn. What Wang Ping wanted was the shooting by the landlord. He quickly went to warn the landlord: "We are anti-Japanese armed forces. If you shoot at the anti-Japanese army, you are a traitor, and you are an accomplice of the Japanese!" The landlord was so frightened that he quickly sue Rao, Wang Ping and He Jinnian refused to go to the Kuomintang county magistrate of Futian County and asked the Kuomintang magistrate to deal with the matter seriously. In the end, the Kuomintang county magistrate guarantyed him to punish the bully and the UN Security Director 5000 Dayang and 500 shi of grain. After
raised the army's salary and grain, Wang Ping was very happy. He was excited to report the matter to Chairman Mao, but he did not expect Chairman Mao to turn him into an army: "You can't take all the money away. Didn't you say that 1,000 yuan would do, and the remaining 4,000 will be sent to Yan'an. We don’t have it here either. Where is the money. You can bring as much food as you can, and give the rest to the central government. I will send someone to receive it, okay?”
Wang Ping heard it, and hurriedly explained: “Chairman Mao! 1,000 yuan is too little. Can't you leave us more?" Chairman Mao finally left him 2,000 yuan. In fact, although our party's army is "poor," the most important thing to support this team is "faith." None of the opponents who have fought against our party's revolutionary army dare to look down upon us. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Ping was awarded the rank of general. He served as the chief political officer in five military district-level units for nearly 20 years and became the founding general who served as the political commissar of the military district for the longest time and held the most positions across major units. General Wang Ping passed away on February 8, 1998, at the age of 91!
Many years later, when the U.S. military summed up the experience and lessons of resisting U.S. aggression and aid to Korea, an instructor of West Point Military Academy once pointed out: "The U.S. military is not afraid of the modernization of the Chinese military, but it is afraid of Mao Zedong."
Conclusion
The army is firmly committed to the correct political direction and the party's fundamental principle of commanding guns. People have faith, and military have soul. "Weapons are an important factor in war, but not a decisive factor. It is people, not objects, that determine the outcome of a war."
