At the meeting where the left-behind corps officially promulgated the establishment and appointment of cadres, the chairman personally attended the meeting and made a warm speech. The chairman patted the little shoulder and said, "Comrades, when I was in Yan 'an, I relied on this person to eat and watched you stay in the Corps for dinner! Then, he said an interesting sentence: "Xiao Guangjin, I will die in Yan 'an and be buried in Liang Qing." . You should be prepared for this! "
Later, the chairman said: to establish a solid base area, we should rely on heroic troops in front and the left-behind corps in the rear. The army is an indispensable armed force for the survival of the base area, and the task of staying behind should be regarded as equally important as the front line of resisting Japan and saving the country. . . !
Chairman Mao's words pounded Xiao Guangjin and the cadres of the left-behind corps like a heavy hammer; That night, six weighty Chinese characters "Task is more important than life" were written in lowercase as the code of conduct for themselves and the left-behind corps.
The burden on Xiao Guangjin's shoulders is not easy, and he feels a great responsibility. The left-behind corps should not only destroy the bandits in the base areas, but also stick to the defense lines thousands of miles away. The army also has many problems. The left-behind corps is composed of various ministries, and its organization is not perfect and unified, with strong guerrilla habits and lax discipline. Some soldiers have some resistance to adapting troops into the battle sequence of the National Revolutionary Army.
In order to turn the left-behind corps into a first-class force that can't be defeated and dragged down, Xiao Guangjin applied his military theoretical knowledge and operational experience accumulated over the years to the education and training of the troops. Every night, he goes to the chairman to talk about the progress and existing problems of army training; The chairman is also very concerned about the construction of this "body guard" and always puts forward some suggestions after listening to small opinions.
Due to small efforts, the discipline and combat effectiveness of the left-behind corps have been significantly improved. The chairman affirmed their work, but also warned Xiao Guangjin that he could not be satisfied. The chairman said to the novel: "I want more of your left-behind corps, or others will say that your army is like this and cannot be supported by the masses." . . "The chairman gave Xiao the Field Service Corps and the Operational Guidance Outline issued by the Kuomintang, and told him that he must make a set of his own things in the army.
In order to fulfill the chairman's entrustment, Xiao Guangjin personally compiled a pamphlet, covering night training, anti-virus training, the use of light and heavy machine guns, and so on, from general military knowledge to individual tactics. While summarizing and organizing actual combat training, the military technology of the troops has been significantly improved. After this stage, the central leaders and the leaders of the border region government watched the military training performance of the left-behind corps, and almost everyone was extremely satisfied. Only Chairman Mao was dissatisfied. He told Xiao Guangjin that this was just the beginning.
Xiao Guangjin held her breath again and started the next stage of summary and training. At the second meeting of corps chiefs, various drafts for establishing a regular military system were promulgated, including the provisions of the duty system and the outline of the commander's work report. At the military meeting of the left-behind corps, these drafts were gradually improved and developed into internal affairs regulations, discipline regulations and staff work regulations. The establishment of these rules and regulations has greatly promoted the regularization of the army.
Soon, the small left-behind corps fully popularized these systems and principles, held several training courses, trained backbone, grassroots cadres and corps leaders in batches, and conducted various forms of discussions, which pushed military learning to a new climax. This is the good intention of the chairman. His purpose is to build a red force for the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia border region by staying in the "experimental field" of the Corps, and lay the foundation for establishing a regular army and defeating the Japanese aggressors in the future.
Under the guidance and small efforts of the Chairman, the left-behind corps was built into a red powerhouse with excellent style and fierce fighting, which not only successfully completed the important task of defending Yan 'an and the CPC Central Committee, but also actively carried out self-help in production with a gun in one hand and a hoe in the other, thus solving the problem of food shortage in the base areas.
At the beginning of 1939, with the large-scale sweeping and blockade of the base areas by the Japanese army, the troops in the northern Shaanxi border region increased, and serious food problems appeared in Yan' an. The army can only feed on sweet potatoes, potatoes and pumpkins. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/939, Chiang Kai-shek stopped paying salaries and all supplies, including food, clothing, weapons, ammunition, medicines and so on. Beginning of winter is just around the corner, the troops are faced with changing clothes to raise winter food, and the Kuomintang army also imposed a blockade on Yan 'an, and the base camp fell into a double blockade.
Xiao quickly called Gao Gang, secretary of the Party Committee of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and Lin, chairman of the border region, asking for local government support, but it was difficult for local governments and the masses to give much money to support the troops. Trotting around, trying every means, but at present, the most urgent winter clothing problem of the army is still no progress. In desperation, Xiao had to truthfully report the situation to the CPC Central Committee.
A few days later, Chairman Mao called a meeting of Jeremy goldkorn, Lin, and Xiao, heads of the party, government, and army who stayed at the base camp. As soon as Xiao Guangjin entered the door, he saw the chairman squatting by the fire to bake taro. After the chairman greeted everyone to sit down, he began to discuss and solve the current difficulties.
The chairman asked the three of them, "What are we doing in northern Shaanxi?" After asking questions, he looked at three people in turn, pushed the investigation report of Gulin County on the table and asked everyone, "Have you seen these?" Three people nodded their heads.
"Yes, we came to northern Shaanxi, which is revolutionary. Now Japanese imperialism and Kuomintang die-hards are starving us to death and trapping us. What should we do? I think there are three ways: one is that the revolution can't go on, and the other is that we don't have a revolution. Let's disband and go home. Second, unwilling to dissolve, there is no way. Everyone is waiting to starve to death. " The chairman raised his voice and then said, "The third way is to develop production by our own hands and overcome difficulties together."
Xiao Guangjin asked eagerly, "What do you say, Chairman?" Chairman Mao smiled and said to Xiao Guangjin, "Don't soldiers have two hands? Just take a gun in one hand and a hoe in the other. "
Soon, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the slogan "Do it yourself, have plenty of food and clothing" to the party, government, army and people in the whole border region, and a vigorous mass production movement was launched in the Shensi-Gansu-Ningxia border region. The leaders of the Central Committee and all levels set an example and joined the ranks. Soldiers held guns in one hand and hoes in the other.
Chairman Mao and Mr Zhu each opened a piece of land. Mr. Zhu is an agricultural expert. In the first year, the field was full of pumpkins, eggplant and bitter gourd, which made the chairman greedy. The following year, the Chairman invited a fellow villager from Yang Jialing as a consultant, and whenever he was free, he went to the fields to water, fertilize and weed. Soon there were cucumbers, cabbage and loofah, and his favorite red pepper.
The Prime Minister and Comrade Bi Shi returned from Chongqing and the Soviet Union respectively. Each of them opened a piece of land and planted corn and vegetables. This autumn, the central authorities set off another spinning craze. 1942, Yang Jialing launched a challenge, adding spin events to the traditional August 1st Games. As a result of the competition, Premier and Comrade Bi Shi were rated as spinning experts with both quantity and quality, and their yarns were sent to the border industry exhibition for display.
The left-behind corps created brilliant achievements in the mass production movement. From the winter of 1939, the 359 brigade entered Nanniwan, and the 358 brigade entered Fengchuan, big and small, burning wasteland and reclaiming land, and achieving self-sufficiency in one year.
During the period of 1942, the whole border area reclaimed nearly one million mu, which made the cultivated land area in the border area exceed13.8 million mu and the total grain output1840,000 stone. The whole border region consumes grain1620 thousand stone, and the surplus grain is 220 thousand stone. Cotton output 1 730,000 Jin,1cotton cloth 15840 pieces will be produced in September, and the self-sufficiency rate is 73%.
I am proud that the left-behind corps has become the main force of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia mass production movement.
During the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, he led a small team to defend Yan 'an and the CPC Central Committee, exterminate bandits, resist Japanese aggressors, solve the friction with the Kuomintang, and launch a large-scale production movement, which made great achievements. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Xiao was ordered to go to the Northeast as the deputy commander-in-chief and chief of staff of the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces.