Because the Tiance Army has a brigade establishment, it has established the rank of colonel, and the regiment commander is colonel.

Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and it is impossible for everyone to be a victorious general, so it is impossible to severely punish the officers who lead the troops every time they fail. But the rewards and punishments must be clear, especially this biggest defeat in the history of the Tiance Army, we must give an explanation to all parties and alert everyone.

Wang Yue asked: "Li Zixuan, Wu Zhengchun, Sun Shengjie, do you have any opinions on the punishment of the headquarters?" ”

"Nope!" The three of them said in unison.

The so-called deep love and hatred, Li Zixuan, the commander of the Third Division, is a general that Wang Yue is very optimistic about, educated, intelligent, and loyal to Wang Yue, otherwise it would be impossible for him to independently lead the army to be stationed on the Lushun Peninsula for a long time.

Now that such a big mistake has been made, Wang Yue's big stick fell on him to alert every officer and soldier of the Tiance Army. As for the handling of instructor Wu Zhengchun and chief of staff Sun Shengjie, they were just raised high and gently fell.

There were objective factors in the failure of the first Gaizhou Campaign, that is, the minefields set up by the Qing army were indeed unguardable, and several commanders of the headquarters reached a consensus on this.

The biggest mistake of the 3rd Division was to modify the orders of the headquarters without authorization, and not to act together with the fraternal forces and the navy.

After reading out the handling documents of Li Zixuan and others, Wang Yue said: "In view of the fact that our army lost a lot of weapons in the first Gaizhou Campaign, I have decided to immediately launch the second Gaizhou Campaign in the near future to encircle and suppress the Jiannu army in the Gaizhou area, and recapture these weapons as soon as possible, so as to prevent Jiannu from using these weapons to cause unnecessary losses to our army after they are familiar with it." The General Staff and all the officers present here studied together how to fight the second battle of Gaizhou. ”

After the meeting, Wang Yue said to Chief of Staff Li Zixiong: "Zixiong, after you finish arranging work, go to see Zixuan, see how he feels, and come back to report to me." ”

"The lowly is about to see him." Li Zixiong smiled bitterly: "Commander, is this punishment too heavy?" After all, it is not a crime of war! You demoted him directly from division commander to battalion commander, how did he face his former colleagues? ”

Wang Yue snorted and said, "I know that you are cousins, and the Tiance Army is not allowed to abuse personal feelings!" Meritorious service must be rewarded, and only the Tiance army that has been punished can defeat all enemies. ”

"Ugh! Commander, the humble position is to judge the matter on the facts, without a trace of personal feelings. Li Zixiong said softly: "You really misunderstand the humble position. ”

"Okay, the handling opinion has been issued and cannot be changed." Wang Yue waved his hand and said: "Zixuan has made a lot of contributions to the Tiance Army over the years, I hope he doesn't have emotions, you take the time to appease." ”

……。

The headquarters of the 3rd Division of the Tiance Army.

"Report to Division Commander Wu and Chief of Staff, Li Zixuan was ordered to report for duty, please arrange your duties." Li Zixuan stood up and saluted in front of Wu Zhengchun.

Wu Zhengchun and Sun Shengjie were very embarrassed by Li Zixuan, after all, they were colleagues who had cooperated for several years, and the headquarters suddenly made such a decision, which made them feel a little ashamed.

Why? Because of the first Gaizhou Campaign, the Third Division modified the orders of the headquarters without authorization, and it was decided by the three of them by raising their hands, and judging from the current results, this pot was basically carried by Li Zixuan alone.

And Wu Zhengchun seems to have become the biggest beneficiary, and now he is wearing two positions, although he is an agent, can he not be embarrassed?

"Zixuan, don't do this first." Wu Zhengchun said: "The commander is angry now, after a while, let's go to intercede together, Zixuan will definitely be reinstated, and I will now be in charge of the third division on your behalf." ”

Sun Shengjie also said: "Yes, yes, several other division commanders have always had a good relationship with our division commander, and they will definitely say something for the division commander in private, not to mention that the chief of general staff is still the cousin of the division commander." ”

"Please don't call me division commander, so as not to worry the commander." Li Zixuan said solemnly: "Please ask Senior Commander Wu to arrange a specific position for me, which battalion should I go to report?" ”

"That..." Wu Zhengchun said to Sun Shengjie: "Shengjie, the commander of the third battalion of the fifth regiment was vacant after he died, isn't it...?" ”

Sun Shengjie nodded and said, "That's true, the commander of the third battalion of the fifth regiment is now vacant." ”

"Okay, then I'll report to the third battalion of the fifth regiment." Li Zixuan turned around and left.

"Hey..." Wu Zhengchun shouted in the back, and Li Zixuan disappeared.

Wu Zhengchun and Sun Shengjie looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

……。

The 3rd Division, 5th Regiment, and 3rd Battalion were stationed. The garrison barracks in Dalian were rows of two-story brick and stone buildings, and the third battalion occupied two rows of barracks.

"Brother!" Li Zixiong pushed the door in and said loudly.

Li Zixuan got up from his bunk with a grunt, and saluted Li Zixiong and said, "Li Zixuan, the commander of the third battalion of the third brigade and the fifth regiment of the third division, has seen the chief of the general staff!" ”

Li Zixiong smiled and said, "We talk in private with our own family, so there is no need to be so serious." ”

Saying that, he looked at the environment of the barracks and said to Li Zixuan, "Don't you invite me to sit?" ”

Li Zixuan sighed and said, "You came uninvited, do you want to see your brother's jokes?" As he spoke, he took two teacups and poured boiling water on them in a thermos, washed them, and began to make tea.

Battalion-level officers have their own single rooms, but the gap between the conditions and division-level officers is not small. The battalion commander had his own communicator, and when he arrived at the regiment commander there were guards and orderlies.

Li Zixiong sat down in front of the table by the window and said, "Brother, let's talk in private, what do you think about the commander's punishment decision?" Will there be resentment? ”

"How can there be resentment?" Li Zixuan put down the thermos, closed the lid of the teacup, and said with a long sigh: "The third division has lost so many brothers because of me, it is really unprecedented in my Tiance army, I feel ashamed!" If the commander didn't punish me heavily, my heart would not be comfortable, and I was relieved to hear the commander's punishment decision. Even I think the punishment is light. ”

"It's good that my brother can think like this." Li Zixiong nodded and said: "People are not saints and sages, you have been wronged for a while, I believe it won't be long before the commander will reuse you." ”

Li Zixuan waved his hand and said, "You don't have to comfort me, I know better than anyone how serious the mistake I made this time was." Zixiong, don't worry, I will take this battalion commander as a good person. ”

"Brother, you know, most of the reason why the younger brother was able to be the chief of the general staff of the Tiance Army was not because he was once a classmate with Brother Wang Zhuo, so he was familiar with the Wang brothers in his early years." Li Zixiong said: "In fact, if you want to write a thesis and level, the younger brother is far from the elder brother. The commander has always valued his brother, so you, the battalion commander, will definitely not be able to last long. ”