When Hirohito was making a thunderous display in the royal study, Wang Husheng was also making a thunderous display at the headquarters of the Independent Regiment.
This time Wang Husheng was really angry. Because of his arm injury, he stayed in the field hospital for two days. As a result, a big thing happened in these two days, a big thing that exceeded the limit of Wang Husheng's imagination. Xu Rui actually captured the More than 10,000 Japanese prisoners of war were interrogated, and all those with the blood of Chinese people on their hands were shot.
They were really shot. Wang Husheng later found out that Xu Rui had shot more than five thousand Japanese!
Originally, the Independent Regiment captured 12,000 Japanese, but now, only 7,000 are left!
The large-scale massacre of prisoners of war is horrifying in any era or country. Bai Qi left an eternal infamy for killing 400,000 Zhao army prisoners of war. Wang Husheng can fully imagine that when the news spread, Xu Rui's image He will be smeared by the Japanese media, and those Western media will not let him go.
What's even worse is that not only Xu Rui was affected by the killing of prisoners, but also the police!
The massacre of prisoners of war will have an extremely negative impact on the reputation of the Chinese Communist Party.
"Old Xu, Old Xu, what do you want me to say about you? What do you want me to say about you?" Wang Husheng glared at Xu Rui angrily and said angrily, "I saw a huge victory. , I have already reported to the military headquarters and applied for the expansion of the independent regiment into five detachments. You are about to serve as the commander of the detachment, but now, there is no chance at all!"
"If there's no chance, there's no chance. Anyway, I think it's right." Xu Rui said, "These devils deserve to be killed."
"You, you, you, you." Wang Husheng pointed at Xu Rui and said bitterly, "You killed so easily, but do you know how much loss your behavior has brought to our independent group? Do you know what you are doing? How much loss has this act brought to our Chinese nation? Old Xu, you are really, you are so immature."
Xu Rui stopped talking. He admitted that this move would cause some damage to the reputation of the government, but he still did not think that this behavior was wrong. As a soldier, it is his duty to kill the enemy on the battlefield, and this is correct, so Xu Rui would never shoot these Japanese prisoners of war just because they had shot Chinese soldiers on the battlefield.
But killing innocent Chinese people is another matter.
There is an old saying in China, which goes like this: A man must be killed to pay for his life, and a debt must be repaid for his money.
Since these devils have killed ordinary Chinese people, they must pay the price for their actions. As in history, they only severely punished the evildoers, but the matter of releasing millions of ordinary Japanese prisoners of war stained with Chinese blood back to Japan is absolutely unacceptable. He will not appear in the Dameishan base area led by Xu Rui.
If he could do it over again, Xu Rui would still kill the prisoners without hesitation.
These Japanese prisoners of war deserve to die, so what's wrong with killing them
While the two were talking, He Guangming, Wan Zhongshan and other senior battalion commanders walked in excitedly.
He Guangming shouted excitedly: "Political Commissar, this time one guy from our independent regiment wiped out a Japanese division, and it was also one of the seventeen permanent divisions. The organization should have something to show for the expansion of the independent regiment." There should be no problem with the detachment, has the approval document been issued?"
After speaking, He Guangming saluted Xu Rui with a serious military salute and said loudly: "Report to the commander, He Guangming, commander of the first battalion of the first regiment of the fifth detachment of the New Fourth Army, has come to report to you and ask for your instructions."
Li Hai and Heipi took the opportunity to make noise, and Li Hai shouted: "Old He, are you being hypocritical?"
Heipi also yelled: "You are about to become the leader of the group, why are you so pretentious?"
He Guangming chuckled and said, "Commander, please don't talk nonsense. You haven't even written your horoscope yet."
Although He Guangming said the word "horoscope" without even licking his lips, the look on his face was that of someone else. But it's no wonder they thought so. The independent regiment had won such a big victory this time, and the army It was unreasonable for the Ministry not to provide a detachment. Xu Rui became the commander of the detachment, so they naturally followed the promotion and became the regiment leader.
Seeing He Guangming, Wan Zhongshan, Li Hai and Hei Pi making trouble, Wang Husheng became more and more upset.
Originally, if there hadn't been the killing of prisoners, everyone would have been happy now. But now that something like this has happened, not only is it impossible for the independent regiment to be promoted, but maybe even Xu Rui, the regiment leader, can't be saved, because In ** discipline, merit is merit and demerit, and merit and demerit can never be offset.
Thinking of this, Wang Husheng became even more upset.
"That's enough, shut the hell up!" Wang Husheng couldn't bear it anymore and yelled, "Everyone get out of here! Get out of here!"
He Guangming, Wan Zhongshan, Li Hai, and Hei Pi looked at each other in confusion. Some monks were confused. The political commissar was always gentle and gentle. It was rare to get angry, and it was even rarer to use foul language. What happened today, political commissar? Why is there such a big evil fire? It shouldn't be done. Didn't this just result in a great victory
Looking at He Guangming and the four of them, Wang Husheng became more and more annoyed and shouted again: "I tell you to get out of here quickly, each of your ears is stuffed with donkey hair, get out of here, get out of here, get out of here, get out of here!"
While talking, Wang Husheng stretched out his foot to kick He Guangming.
He Guangming and the four of them hurriedly ran away with their heads in their hands, and soon they were gone.
Xu Rui said: "Old Wang, why are you doing this? How big of a deal is it worthy of such a big fire?"
"How big of a deal is this?" Wang Husheng said, dumbfounded, "Old Xu, this is a big deal!"
"How big can it be?" Xu Rui said suddenly, "The worst case scenario is that if you don't upgrade, you won't be the commander."
"Not the commander?" Wang Husheng snorted, "Not only can you not be the commander, you may not even be the regiment leader!"
"Isn't it possible?" Xu Rui said in shock, "Just because I killed a few Japanese, can the organization remove me from my position?"
"Of course it's okay to kill a few Japanese, but how many did you kill?" Wang Husheng spread his hands and said, "Old Xu, you killed more than five thousand, more than five thousand!"
"What's more than five thousand?" Xu Rui said a little impatiently, and said in a dark voice, "How many people did the little devils kill after they captured Nanjing? More than three hundred thousand! And they were innocent people! To little Japan, We shouldn’t talk about humanitarianism, we should use violence to stop violence, use killing to stop killing, and let them know that the Chinese are not to be messed with!”
"You, this..." Wang Husheng was speechless by Xu Rui.
Wang Husheng suddenly felt that what Xu Rui said made sense, but he had no words to refute.
It took a long time before Wang Husheng came to his senses and said angrily: "You are just making excuses. It is wrong for the little devils to massacre our compatriots in Nanjing. If we also kill prisoners of war, won't we become like them?"
"How can this be the same?" Xu Rui said, "Little Japan came to our Chinese land to kill our compatriots. This is an act of aggression. We kill armed invaders on our own land. This is called defending the motherland. How is this? Can they be confused with each other? Political Commissar, regarding the killing of prisoners, even if you say it to the heavens, I won’t accept it, you won’t accept it, I won’t accept it!”
"Okay, okay, I can't help you." Wang Husheng smiled bitterly, "Just wait for the organization to deal with it."
"I'll wait." Xu Rui said herrily, "I don't believe it. The organization can still shoot me."
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What Xu Rui didn't know was that the heads of the New Fourth Army's military headquarters were already quarreling over how to deal with Xu Rui's matter.
There are two factions of opinions on Xu Rui's treatment, and they are seriously at odds. The faction led by Commander Ye insists that Xu Rui's behavior is not wrong. Those Japs who have killed Chinese civilians are war criminals, and war criminals should be severely punished and shot. This is the fate they deserve, so Xu Rui is not only not at fault, but should be affirmed.
However, the group led by Political Commissar Xiang insisted that Xu Rui made a mistake, and it was a big mistake! Because the party's consistent purpose is to treat prisoners preferentially, Xu Rui killed more than 5,000 prisoners of war without asking for instructions, which is unorganized and undisciplined. Unorganized and undisciplined behavior must be severely punished, otherwise where is the party discipline? Where does military law exist
The two factions had serious disagreements and were at loggerheads, and in the end they had to vote by a show of hands.
In the end, political commissar Xiang's faction won by a narrow margin and decided to punish Xu Rui.
However, there are serious differences in the intensity of punishment. Some people advocate direct removal from office, some advocate the removal of the head of the group and continue to preside over the work of the independent group as acting head, and others insist that a warning within the party is enough. There is absolutely no need to remove him from his post, otherwise it will inevitably chill the grassroots commanders and fighters.
After discussing for a long time, Political Commissar Xiang finally made the final decision, demoting Xu Rui's position from regimental leader to regimental cooking squad leader. The leader of the independent regiment will not be reassigned, and Wang Husheng, the political commissar of the independent regiment, will temporarily serve as a concurrent post. There is also a special addition in the handling opinions. , when did Xu Rui realize his mistake and when was the official reinstated
In fact, the military department's handling is an attitude, and party discipline must not be violated! No matter what position you hold within the party, no matter how much contribution you have made to the party or the country, you cannot violate party discipline. As long as you violate party discipline, you must accept corresponding punishments. There are no exceptions to party discipline and military law!
At the same time, this approach also leaves enough room.
On the surface, Xu Rui's position was wiped out, and he was demoted from the leader to the leader of the cooking team. However, in fact, because no one else was transferred to the Dameishan Independent Regiment, the political commissar Wang Husheng served as the leader of the independent regiment. The subtext is, Xu Rui still has the final say in the independent group, and Xu Rui is actually the acting leader.
The military minister also really took great pains on how to deal with Xu Rui.
After discussing the handling opinions, the next discussion is the issue of awards.
According to the discipline of the Communist Party, a mistake is a mistake, and merit is merit. If you make a mistake, you will be punished, and if you have merit, you will be rewarded.
This time the Dameishan Independent Regiment won the battle, it should be rewarded. Originally, the military headquarters had decided to upgrade the Independent Regiment to five detachments, but this opinion was rejected after it was reported to Yan'an. However, this cannot help but "resourceful and resourceful" "The military ministers quickly came up with a roundabout plan. (To be continued.)