There was silence in the division headquarters, Lao Ke listened to Commissar Niu's words, and was silent, so did Commissar Niu, after saying this, he sat on a chair, his face was facing out of the door, panting.
He was very angry that these comrades of the investigation team had blindly determined that Zhou Wu and Ding Ning had seriously violated discipline without careful investigation, and he vaguely felt that the remnants of the Soviet period were coming again.
After all, they had just defected to the New Fourth Army from the Kuomintang troops with the enthusiasm of serving the country and killing devils to resist Japan, but they could not push them out for the sake of this matter, causing heavy losses to the anti-Japanese forces, and making those little devils and puppet soldiers laugh.
Lao Ke stood up and said to Political Commissar Niu: "Comrade Niu Fugui, we understand your previous experience, but our Political Department can't ignore Zhou Wu and Ding Ning's obvious violations of discipline. ” "Our New Fourth Army stresses the equality of officers and soldiers, and we can't just because they have just been thrown over from the Kuomintang troops, so we have to open up the net, and this is not allowed in principle or in the discipline of our New Fourth Army; since I was sent down by the Political Department of the Military Department to investigate this matter, I must be responsible for the results of this investigation."
It seems that Lao Ke is also a very principled old comrade, in his opinion, whether Zhou Wu and they have just defected from the Kuomintang is not the main thing, he is to see whether they have violated the discipline of the New Fourth Army, if they do, then those who should be arrested will still be arrested, and those who should be punished will still be punished, and the investigation will never be terminated because Commissar Niu, the political commissar of the Independent Brigade, loses his temper.
Political Commissar Niu twisted his head, his face turned outward, and he ignored the old comrade Ke of the investigation team not far away, Zhou Wu will definitely make trouble when he sees that it goes on like this, and the matter is indeed caused by himself, so of course he must be responsible for it.
"Comrades of the investigation team, I am fully responsible for this unauthorized transfer of troops, you don't need to investigate any further, just take me back for interrogation, I am the brigade commander of the independent brigade, and I am responsible for this matter."
Zhou Wu wanted to take it on himself, so that the people of these investigation teams would come to the Independent Brigade to entangle Ding Ning and them, and he was not afraid of being wronged, the most important thing was that the Independent Brigade could not be messed up, he was taken away by the investigation team, if Ding Ning had nothing to do, then he could temporarily act as the brigade commander, so that the Independent Brigade would not fall into a leaderless state because their main leaders were isolated and reviewed.
Zhou Wu was too naïve, the main target of the investigation team was Ding Ning, who first decided to take people to Huai'an City to save his father-in-law, Zhou Wu, as the military commander of the independent brigade, has some responsibility, but at most it is the responsibility of poor supervision, if you want to take all the responsibility, I am afraid that you will not be able to deceive those people in the investigation team.
Sure enough, when Zhou Wu proposed that he should bear all the responsibility, Lao Ke said with a straight face: "Comrade Zhou Wu, your thinking of righteousness in the rivers and lakes must be changed, you still think that here in our New Fourth Army is the same as you were in the previous National Army, you must be responsible, this is very clear to us, but Comrade Ding Ning's mistake is even greater, and it must be severely punished in order to ensure the purity and fairness of our team, otherwise it will not be possible to talk about strict discipline in this period." ” As soon as Zhou Wu heard that this old Ke was soft and hard, and he had to deal with Ding Ning, he was anxious, and he didn't care about the promise he had promised to Commissar Niu when he came to the division headquarters just now, that he would never lose his temper and say cruel words, and his voice raised a few degrees, and said: "Then according to your meaning, what do you want to do to us?"
Lao Ke took out a stack of documents from the briefcase he brought with a serious expression, coughed twice, and read out: "In view of the fact that Comrade Ding Ning, deputy brigade commander and chief of staff of the Independent Brigade of the Jiangbei Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Command of the New Fourth Army, has seriously violated discipline by mobilizing the team to take action without the approval of his superiors, so after discussion and decision of the Political Department of the army, Ding Ning will be removed from his own and various positions, isolated and examined, and Comrade Zhou Wu, as the main person in charge of the independent brigade, will allow his subordinates to violate discipline.
Moreover, after receiving the news, most of the troops of the Independent Brigade were dispatched to cooperate with Ding Ning's action, and they were responsible for failing to report what they knew, neglecting supervision, and conniving at violations of discipline. ” When Zhou Wu heard this, he wiped out all of Ding Ning's positions, and he also had to be isolated and examined, didn't he want to arrest him and go to prison, it didn't matter if he was removed from the post of commander of the independent brigade, Ding Ning wanted to be isolated and examined, he couldn't figure it out.
"I ask to see our division commander and political commissar, I have a situation to report to the superiors, I am not satisfied with your handling opinions, I want to appeal to the higher-ups" Zhou Wu felt that they definitely didn't know about these handling opinions, and it was estimated that these people from the Military Political Department did it without the leadership of the Military Department, and that Xia Hanxi must have added a lot of materials to it, taking advantage of this rare opportunity to rectify himself and Ding Ning.
Zhou Wu wanted to find the division commander and political commissar to come forward and prove it to himself.
When Political Commissar Niu heard the results of this handling, he also became angry, and shouted in a loud voice: "You have removed Zhou Wu and Ding Ning from their positions, who will be in charge of the independent brigade, don't tell me that the right person will be sent from above soon, anyway, this is already the case, I am here to express my attitude, I do not agree with this handling opinion of the military political department, in order to express my protest, I decided to resign from the post of political commissar of the independent brigade." ” Lao Ke saw that Commissar Niu also picked on his own and quit doing it, and felt that it would not be easy to do it now, because Commissar Niu had a very high prestige in the Jiangbei Command Headquarters, and because of his own decency and adherence to principles, he had won the trust of the local masses and cadres.
Originally, Lao Ke was ordered to investigate the affairs of this independent brigade, in response to the central government's call for rectification of discipline, the purpose was to cure the disease and save people, not to rectify some people, although Lao Ke was extremely principled, unlike that Xia Hanxi, they had some ulterior motives for Zhou Wu.
So when he saw that Commissar Niu was going to resign in order to protect Zhou Wu, he was shocked, and felt that this matter might have been mistaken, or that it had complicated the already small matter, and he had to investigate it carefully and decide on measures to deal with it after it was conclusive.
"Don't worry, Lao Niu, I understand your current mood, maybe there are incompleteness in the process of investigating this matter, but this handling opinion is a resolution made by the Military Political Department at a meeting, and we can only implement it.
Don't worry, let's check again, if the matter of transferring the team as you said is indeed approved by Senior Commander Li, then we can revoke this wrong decision.
We Communists are above board, we will correct our mistakes, there is nothing to be ashamed of, what do you say?"
As soon as the political commissar Niu heard that there was still a turn for the better, he nodded and said to Zhou Wu and them: "In this case, you have been wronged for a few days, and I will immediately go to the division commander and political commissar to find them. ” Zhou Wu and Ding Ning nodded hurriedly, they were quite grateful to this Niu political commissar in their hearts.
"The political commissar can rest assured that we will resolutely obey the handling of the higher-level organization and will not make trouble.
After you go back to the Independent Brigade, help do the work of the brothers below, and say that we will go to the military headquarters for a meeting, and we will not be able to go back for a while.
The work of the Independent Brigade is under your watch for the time being, and we are sure that our superiors will definitely give us a clear answer, and we always believe in this. ” Seeing that Zhou Wu and Ding Ning's mood had not changed much, Political Commissar Niu let go of most of his heart, and he immediately left the division headquarters, inquired about the whereabouts of the division commander and political commissar from a staff officer, and rode on a fast horse to run 30 kilometers away.
Lao Ke and they are going to take Ding Ning back to the Political Department of the Army, Zhou Wu asked himself to follow, he and Ding Ning have not been separated since they partnered, even when they fought against the little devils in Shanghai and Nanjing, this time Ding Ning is going to be isolated and reviewed, and he is also responsible, he is willing to follow Ding Ning to accept the isolation review until the problem is clear.
Lao Ke had no choice, so he had to take Zhou Wu to take Ding Ning to the military headquarters more than 100 kilometers away, he also felt that things were a little strange at this time, it seemed that Xia Hanxi, who was slapped hard by the fat man, might be exaggerating things, and wanted to take the opportunity to announce his personal vendetta, and ruthlessly slammed Zhou Wu and Ding Ning.
Although he had only met Zhou Wu and Ding Ning twice, he faintly felt in his heart that they could never be the kind of people Xia Hanxi said, and he would believe it a little to say that Zhou Wu had some habits of Kuomintang officers, but if it was like Xia Hanxi complained to the military department that Zhou Wu and they were going to pull out the team to join the little devil to be traitors, Lao Ke didn't believe it very much.
Before he came to the Independent Brigade to investigate, he had a detailed understanding of Zhou Wu and Ding Ning's previous situation, and he did not believe that a Kuomintang soldier whose whole family died at the hands of the little devil would be under the heavy attack of the Kuomintang and the Japanese devils and Wang Puppet Army, and resolutely defected to the command of the New Fourth Army, and then pulled out of the team to join the little devil.
This point could not be understood by any explanation, and he could see from the angry expression of Commissar Niu that this rectification might have gone too far. t1706231537: