Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 142 The prince and general are kind to each other
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There is something magical about complaining sessions.

No matter how many times a lot of truths are told, not too many people will listen to it, and not too many words will be listened to.

But after complaining, it was different. Every word Li Yan said was in their hearts, and the more they listened, the more willing they were to listen.

Some people have become Li Yan's most loyal supporters before they even wiped away their bitter tears!
but!

This victory is nothing.

This is all peasants. Our party has rich experience in this area. Li Yan, who often participated in the conference of remembering bitterness and thinking sweetly when he was in the army, naturally had no trouble organizing it.

The real difficulty is the next one, that is, the one where the target is officers and soldiers.

Although most of these officers and soldiers were from peasant households, the Song Dynasty mainly implemented the recruitment system.

Once you apply, you will join us for life.

In other words, if you become a soldier at this time, you have to be a soldier for a lifetime.

Therefore, officers and soldiers are different from ordinary peasants, especially the old soldiers, who have completely left the ranks of peasants, and the effect of dealing with them in the same way as dealing with peasants will definitely be greatly reduced.

Therefore, it is necessary to adapt the original experience.

How did it change?
Of course, it has to change from the unfairness they have suffered.

As soon as the first grievance meeting was over, Li Yan held the second meeting.

This time, Li Yan asked Tao Zongwang to speak first, and then asked Zhao Sandan who made all the civilians cry.

really!

The development of the matter was similar to what Li Yan had expected in advance.

Although the thousand soldiers were also poked in the heart, their reaction was far less than those of the civilians.

Seeing this, Li Yan gave Lin Chong a look and signaled Lin Chong to go up.

Lin Chong actually didn't want to go up, he didn't want to talk about that sad past!
But Li Yan spoke, Lin Chong had to come up!

After Lin Chong came to the stage, he looked around and said, "Xiao Ke saw a few familiar faces among you, some of you should know Xiao Ke too, Xiao Ke is Lin Chong, who used to be the spear instructor in the Imperial Army, As for why you came here to fall...to join the Liangshan Army, it starts with the day when Xiao Ke accompanied his wife to the Daxiangguo Temple to offer incense, that day..."

The misfortune that happened to Lin Chong can indeed arouse people's sympathy, especially Lin Chong is still the people around them, but Lin Chong's misfortune is just accidental, and it cannot arouse the widespread resonance of these officers and soldiers.

Therefore, Li Yan miscalculated.

Just when Li Yan frowned and was thinking about how to hold a grievance meeting for officers, soldiers and soldiers, Qiu Yue suddenly said, "Brother, let me try it."

Seeing that Qiu Yue took the initiative to invite Ying, Li Yan, who had nothing to do, said, "Go."

After Qiu Yue replaced Lin Chong, he looked around and said, "You all know that I am the instructor of the 80 Imperial Army, but no one knows that before I came to the Imperial Army, I spent five years in the Western Army. Dozens of games."

Speaking of this, Qiu Yue suddenly tore open his own skirt!

Everyone was shocked when they saw it!
There are dozens of scars on Qiu Yue's body!

Qiu Yue pretended to be calm and said: "During the five years I was in the Western Army, I rushed to the front in every battle. I wanted to use my bravery to win the glory of the family and seal my wife's shadow. I escaped several times, but I have made more than a dozen contributions, but I only became the deputy captain, not even the captain. The leaders above me have all been promoted. I don’t understand why it’s all under the control of the capital. Only when someone wakes me up did I realize where I am. All the credit was shared by the bosses above me. They traded my life for the credit to get promoted and get rich, but they couldn’t even give me a team general. Is this fair? The commander I’m talking about is Zhejia, a young boy He became a conductor at the age of 16, and he was promoted to the capital control in a few years, and he was only 21 years old at that time!" Qiu Yue suddenly slapped his scarred chest fiercely, and shouted extremely unwillingly: "It's because of me. I was not born in Jiangmen, just because I don’t have a backer, so I have to be a soldier for the rest of my life? Going forward for the rest of my life? Listening to orders for the rest of my life?

Qiu Yue's cry filled all the soldiers with righteous indignation:
"That's right, why are we working so hard and have no chance of promotion, but those counselors with backgrounds and backers can continue to be promoted!"

"I don't ask for anything else, I just ask for fairness and give me the credit that belongs to me. It's my life in exchange for it!"

"Princes, generals and ministers... have something to do with it!"

"..."

Seeing that all the emotions of the soldiers were mobilized by Qiu Yue, Li Yan was overjoyed that a breakthrough had been found!

However, Li Yan also knows that they cannot be allowed to complain so wantonly, and must be guided to achieve "oppression→resistance→liberation→gratitude", in order to turn these soldiers into loyal soldiers.

In the three-year liberation war, our army wiped out a total of 5609 million national troops, of which 410 million were captured, and 280 million of the prisoners became our army, accounting for 60.00% to 70.00% of the total number of our army at that time. This is the history of world warfare It is an incredible miracle, and the most important magic weapon that produces this great miracle is the complaining conference.

In the late period of the War of Liberation, the great power of the complaining movement even developed to the point of "capture and make up".

In the Battle of Huaihai, our army suffered heavy casualties. After a brief but soul-touching "trench complaint", many captured soldiers were immediately incorporated into the PLA troops to participate in the battle. Even their names were not remembered by the comrades in the company. sacrificed.

A captured national army commander saw that many soldiers who had not had time to change their national army clothes had already stood in the ranks of the People's Liberation Army and said helplessly: "Isn't this one of your own people beating your own people!"

Some people recalled, "After our army turned into a major counter-offensive, the number of captured soldiers in the army became larger and larger, accounting for more than 80.00% of the soldiers in the company. At that time, it was true that the first two hours were soldiers of the national army, and after two hours they became soldiers. Some of our soldiers died in the battle and became unsung martyrs before they even entered the company's roster. This is a common occurrence."

This is the main reason why Li Yan held a grievance meeting first without doing other important things.

Li Yan organized his speech, and then came to the stage to replace Qiu Yue.

Qiu Yue consciously stood aside to serve as Li Yan's guard, preventing those agitated soldiers from mutinying.

Seeing this from the corner of his eye, Li Yan was filled with emotion!

Don't look at other things, Qiu Yue is not comparable to Ruan Xiaoqi and the others just because of his carefulness.

If it wasn't for worrying that Qiu Yue would be unreliable at critical moments, Li Yan would have wanted Qiu Yue to be his personal bodyguard.

Suppressing distracting thoughts, Li Yan said: "A brother said well just now, the princes and generals are kind to each other, we don't ask for anything else, we only ask for a fairness..."

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(End of this chapter)