As early as mid-March, the People's Army occupied the four provinces and entered the mode of recruitment and expansion, and relatively simple recruit training bases were established in Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces.

There are at least 100 people in a training base and thousands of people. The officers and veterans from the People's Army's combat troops serve as instructors, and the recruits will conduct military training for three months. While conducting military training, the recruits must also conduct ideological education.

There is such a recruit training base in the north of Anfu County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province. In this recruit training base, there are more than 300 recruits receiving military training and ideological education from instructors.

More than 300 new recruits were mainly divided into three situations: one was recruited from the local area, and the other two were captured by the Ming army, but one was in the Ming ruling area and the other was in the People's Army.

Even if there are only three types of troops, it is quite complicated for the People's Army, especially the new recruits captured by the Ming army. No one knows whether there is someone hiding hatred for the People's Army in his heart and waiting for one day to erupt.

Therefore, ideological education for new recruits is the top priority.

There are many veterans of the People's Army in the recruit training base. More than 300 recruits directly form a new recruit battalion. The recruits can serve as the deputy squad leader at most. The officers above the squad leader are the veterans of the People's Army. These veterans of the People's Army and the recruits eat and live together, and they are also the main force in the ideological education of the recruits.

It was dark, there were no electric lights, and I couldn’t waste candles at will. I couldn’t sleep too early, so I sat together and talked in class.

It can be said that the recruits in the recruit training base were basically all the lower class people before joining the army, or the lower class people under the rule of the Ming court. Life is as hard as it is, and everyone has a painful past.

Often, the veteran squad leader starts with his past events. His family is poor and he makes a living by renting landlords. He works hard all year round, but it is difficult to even have enough food. He is bullied by the landlords. He almost starves to death in the disaster year. In order to keep the family alive, he sells his young brothers and sisters and acts as cows and horses for others...

Listening to the squad leader's words, the recruits all felt very aware of it, because the squad leader's experience was similar to their experiences.

After talking about those tragic experiences, the squad leader turned to the life scenes of the arrival of the People's Army:

The People's Army drove the government away, searched the landlord's house, arrested all the landlord's legs, surrounded and suppressed all the bandits in the mountains, and distributed land to all the people, even children. Just relying on farming, everyone can eat enough, and they can sell excess food, buy some cloth to make new clothes, and eat some meat during the Chinese New Year and the holidays.

Listening to the squad leader's words, the recruits felt that this was their dream life? As long as they had enough food and no one bullied them, it was a good day for them. Under the rule of the People's Army, the squad leader's family easily ushered in such a good day.

After talking about his family's life, the squad leader talked about why he joined the People's Army. It was the People's Army that allowed our family to live a good life. The People's Army is our family's great benefactor. The goal of the People's Army is to let all the poor people in the world live a good life. I joined the People's Army to let more people live a good life with others.

The Ming court is the enemy of our People's Army. If the Ming court is not destroyed, our good days may be taken away by the Ming court. The abominable government and the landlords will come back to bully us. We must work together to completely destroy the Ming court and let our good days continue.

The squad leader's words made the recruits have many ideas in their minds. The recruits recruits recruited from the local area were divided into fields before joining the army, and the People's Army drove away the government and landlords. When the autumn harvest was over, the family would not be hungry anymore. Most of them joined the army to obtain more fields, but some of them came to join the army with the intention of repaying their kindness.

A farmer often has more than two sons at home. There is no problem sending one son to join the army to repay his kindness. If there is only one son in the family, he will definitely not send his son to join the army. No matter how strong the People's Army is, people will suffer casualties and injuries when they go to the battlefield. When the only son dies, his blood will be cut off.

These local soldiers saw with their own eyes that the families were divided into fields, while the recruits who were born in the Ming army but were in the People's Army ruled by the People's Army were also imagining the scene of their families dividing their fields. They seemed to have imagined the scene of their families having a happy life.

Only the new recruits who were in the Ming Dynasty ruled region had various expressions on their faces. They longed for their families to live a good life, but their families were still in the Ming Dynasty ruled region and lived a hungry and full life. Now they want the People's Army to destroy the Ming court soon and let their families live a good life.

Compared with the chat-style ideological education of veteran squad leader, the instructors of the recruit training base and the political commissar of the recruits have a broader ideological education of the recruits. They prefer to use the People's Army and the Ming court as the background to talk about the benefits of the People's Army's destruction of the Ming court to poor people. They can also explain some history, various peasant uprisings in history that occurred due to the inaction of the court.

However, most of the recruits don’t know one big word, and they can’t understand it very well. The ideological education of veteran squad leaders is more useful. The gap between squad leaders and new recruits is not big. Everyone can call them brothers, while the level of instructors and political commissars is much higher. No matter how "friendly the people", the recruits will consciously think that this is a high-ranking official and should be respected.

The ideological education of recruits is carried out most of the time at night. If military training is not possible on rainy days, ideological education can be carried out, and it is basically military training during the day.

The new recruits who were captured from the Ming army would feel very strange about the military training of the People's Army. The Ming army had no new recruit training at all. They could simply line up a team and know a few martial arts swords and guns, and even if they were done, the new recruits had to figure out the fighting skills themselves in real battles. It would take a long time for a Ming army to become an elite soldier, and many people would die during this period.

Military training on the People's Army attaches great importance to queue training, marching training, etc. Coordination training can make soldiers obey commands, and marching training can increase the soldiers' physical strength and endurance. Even if they can't win, they can run away, and can also show a great effect when chasing the enemy.

"Sweat more when training, and bleed less when fighting." This is the longest sentence the veterans say, and also tells the recruits that this is what the general said.
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