Others show their swords, I show my missiles!

That night, after arranging the pants army to rest, the first battalion stayed on guard. The Second Battalion cleaned the battlefield together with the Jin troops who had surrendered in the morning. As in the morning, the dead soldiers were tried to verify their identities and bury them properly.

If you leave the bones in the wild, wild animals will eat them up overnight.

The next morning, our army distributed vests to the soldiers of the Pants Army.

After getting up, these soldiers came out of the tent, took a few breaths of fresh air, and found that breakfast had been prepared.

"You actually have breakfast?"

"Is it weird to have breakfast? For the past year and a half, we have had three meals a day, and sometimes we even have extra meals in the evening.

Even though you are here, the food reserves are not as much and the varieties are less.

Look at this breakfast, it only has steamed buns, pickles and cornmeal porridge.

In the past, I could at least eat an egg.

We only have over a thousand people in one battalion, and you have over four thousand here at once. We really don’t have that many supplies with us, so we should all make do with what we have. "

"How can this be considered a compromise? We used to eat two meals a day, and we couldn't guarantee three taels of staple food for each meal. Most of the time we just drank vegetable soup.

When we come to your side, not only do you not kill, beat or scold us, but the food you eat is better than you usually do.

I have long heard that your side gives priority to taking prisoners, but today I really saw it! "

"First of all, let me correct you: You are not prisoners. Regardless of whether you came yesterday morning or afternoon, you are considered an uprising.

In addition, our food is no worse than yours. In fact, we don’t treat you specially. You eat whatever we eat.

It’s not like you said: you eat better than us. "

In fact, historically, under our army's preferential treatment policy for prisoners, prisoners were treated better than our army's senior leaders. Often our own soldiers eat rice bran and vegetables, but we give prisoners of war four vegetables and one soup.

That's because productivity has been severely damaged and supplies are severely lacking. To make the prisoners feel warm, they have to save money and give the saved supplies to the prisoners of war.

It's different now. The conditions of our army have improved significantly and the living supplies are abundant. As long as we don't treat them differently, it will be enough to move the prisoners of war.

No matter how good it is, it would be to feed prisoners of war a Manchu-Han banquet every day, which is unnecessary and will also affect the psychology of our own soldiers.

"This is better! They really don't treat us as prisoners of war, but as their own people.

I'm a rough person, and I don't know how to say thank you. In one sentence, we will be your people from now on, sir. We won't say anything to anyone the sir asks us to hit, and we guarantee that none of us will be afraid of death! "

"They are not prisoners of war, they are rebels! It's great that you have such awareness! We also hope to fight side by side with you.

However, I can't decide how to place you. I will take you to the brigade headquarters after dinner. Even if you want to continue to serve as soldiers, you must first go through training.

The days of firing a gun and going to the battlefield are over! "

"Yes, yes, it should be. Those shells yesterday really opened our eyes. Fortunately, you didn't really want to blow us up!"

These cannons have not even been seen by the brothers of Artillery Regiment A! Let alone us.

Let us go to the battlefield at this time. Not only will we not be of help, we will also be a burden! "

The soldier smiled and said:

"Okay, no more gossip. When you finish eating, someone will take you to get individual self-heating rations. It will take a whole day to walk to the brigade headquarters, and you can only eat individual soldier rations at noon."

After breakfast, the pants army and the surrender army joined forces. Let's call them the surrender army for now. A company of soldiers led the way. There were no cars, infantry fighting vehicles or other vehicles, and the entire journey was done on foot. Forty people count as a platoon, and one soldier leads a platoon.

Vehicles will be arranged only for those who are injured and unable to leave.

Before setting off, the surrendering army saw the individual soldier rations mentioned earlier.

A big bag for each person and a bottle of water will solve the lunch problem. The packaging is densely printed with small characters in simplified Chinese.

No matter what's in the bag, just take it if it's given to you. They won't harm you anyway, and you don't have to wait until now if you want to harm yourself.

"Brothers, you can drink all the water before noon. There is a place in the middle to replenish water. That is natural mineral weak alkaline water! It's hot, drink more water. Let's walk more in the morning. It's too hot in the afternoon and we can't walk fast.

Next, in order of the row numbers, let’s go! "

"One row, walk together! One, two, one..."

Each platoon set off one after another.

The platoon leaders on the road also taught the surrendering troops the Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention. Firstly, it will make the journey less boring; secondly, it will provide some ideological education by the way.

After walking for two hours, my mouth was dry even while singing, so I stopped singing. From time to time, the platoon leader would tell a joke to lighten the atmosphere.

There are more than 4,000 surrender troops, escorted by more than 100 people. Aren't you afraid of them escaping?

By the way, with such good treatment, who would run away? Even if he committed a heinous crime, he didn't want to run away.

If you run now, you will definitely not be able to outrun the bullets. Besides, the Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially, so they might be able to save their lives. Even if he is shot in the end, he will have to eat a few full meals first! I have never had such delicious food!

In summer, the sun rises early. Starting from 6 a.m. to around 12 noon, we walked 30 kilometers. Everyone has basically drank all the water.

"Keep on holding on, we'll reach the water replenishment point two kilometers ahead."

I cheered up and walked another two kilometers, and sure enough I came to a good place surrounded by mountains and rivers and shaded by trees. A small waterfall hangs on the edge of the cliff and merges into a small half-moon shaped pool. The water in this pool is crystal clear, especially in summer, which makes people want to take a few sips when they see it.

If it weren't for the war, I would really like to build a house around here, plant two acres of land, and raise some chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep.

It's quite a good life to live like this. It seems that there is plenty of spiritual energy here. Maybe I can cultivate to the golden elixir stage in my lifetime.

"Brothers, take the platoon as a unit and go to the waterhole in order of order number. After returning, the leader of each platoon will teach everyone how to eat.

Rest here at noon and continue marching at three o'clock in the afternoon. "

Do you need to be taught how to eat? Of course! The self-heating food package for individual soldiers contains instructions written in simplified Chinese.

Simplified Chinese characters are not a problem. The problem is that even if it is traditional Chinese characters, less than half of the people do not understand them.

Under the leadership of the platoon leader, everyone unpacked the package and took out the instructions. Most of them could make guesses and take a rough look at it. A few held instructions messy in the wind. I was thinking: "It's terrible to be uneducated! If you can't read, you can't even eat!"

Yan Tuhuang is very stingy, but others are not stingy in education. Under his rule, the literacy rate was much higher than that in other rural areas of China.

The platoon leader first read the instruction manual with selected key points. He also personally led everyone and demonstrated the operation step by step.

This self-heating ration includes 320 grams of fish-flavored diced pork fried rice, 320 grams of black pepper beef fried rice, 20 grams of spicy cabbage and 10 grams of instant drinks.

It's not that rich, and not as delicious as the takeout from 90 years ago. But this is only for emergency use. The emergency principle is usually just enough to eat. You can make some concessions on taste.

Even if it is only used in emergencies, it is still many times better than the food the surrendering soldiers usually eat! Even their two teachers thought it tasted good, except that there was no alcohol.

After finishing the meal, the company commander asked everyone to take their garbage with them. This must be taken all the way to the brigade headquarters and processed by a special garbage disposal station.

After that, I rested for two hours before continuing on the road. I didn't arrive at the brigade headquarters until eight o'clock in the evening.

The dinner was as sumptuous as the night before, no distinction was made.

Since surrendering, the surrendering soldiers feel like they are not prisoners, but like they are here to enjoy the blessings! Gradually, some of the surrendered soldiers developed the feeling that they were close comrades with our soldiers.

As early as 1928, we formulated a policy to treat prisoners as follows: "Prisoners will not be beaten, pockets will not be searched, the injured will be treated, those who are willing to stay will be recruited into the army, and those who are willing to leave will be given travel expenses."

During the Anti-Japanese War, when treating Japanese prisoners of war, our army also required "no indiscriminate killing, no abuse, and no insult to their self-esteem."

Of course, we will treat our Chinese compatriots better.

These surrendering soldiers, the lower-level soldiers, can be given travel expenses according to their own opinions. Those who are willing to go home can be paid with travel expenses; those who are willing to join our army can be incorporated into new corps. Those who are homeless and do not want to join our army can also be given a resettlement allowance and become residents of the liberated areas. They can support their families through their own labor and settle down in the liberated areas.

The treatment of officers is different. They must first undergo intensive education, and then based on the size of their mistakes and their own wishes, they may be released, rehabilitated, or retained.

Deputy Commander Liao and the Commander of the A1002 Division can not only be retained, but can also continue to serve as officers after learning. It's just that the army is no longer the original army.

Only those who commit serious crimes, harm the people, and are stubborn will be shot or imprisoned for reform.