After the news of the mutiny at the front came, Deng Shicai's eyes suddenly darkened and he almost fainted. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

I forcibly inquired about the specific situation.

He worked in his chair for half an hour before he could get up again.

The mutiny at the front was not serious, it was a brigade that was about to launch an attack on the city of Houston mutinied, and their soldiers thought that it was a waste of death, and they already had two-thirds of the soldiers who were recruits with no combat experience, and the brigade commander was only a sentry commander before launching a strong attack, and the successive promotions were due to the fact that the first three brigade commanders were all killed.

Now the heavy responsibility of attacking the fortification has once again fallen on them, and the patience of these soldiers has reached the limit, they have long complained in private, and they have long been unwilling to fight anymore, but the orders from above are like a reminder, urging them to brave artillery fire and machine guns again and again to rush hopelessly to the enemy's positions.

Although the Ming army had already occupied the enemy's main position, tore a ten-kilometer gap, and opened the road to Houston, but they saw that the Americans had rebuilt the defensive line, did they still have to fill the positions of the Americans with their lives and feed the Americans' machine guns with blood?

Not only did the brigades that received the assault mutiny, but they were joined by five brigades and two integrated divisions that refused to continue the new attack. Zhang Kaishan had already gone to the front line in person, but even he was detained.

This is the reason for Deng Shicai's panic, the soldiers even detained the former enemy commander-in-chief, which is not far from the total collapse.

He pondered for a moment, and immediately went to the front line in person, in front of many front-line officers and soldiers, announced that Zhang Kaishan would be relieved of his post as chief military officer, and now the army was under the direct command of him Deng Shicai, and at the same time told everyone that he began to build positions on the spot and surround the US army, and the front-line soldiers took turns to rest in the rear.

After pacifying the rest of the troops with these orders, he began to deal with the brigade that had seized Zhang Kaishan, which was now out of control, and after announcing these orders himself, they still refused to release Zhang Kaishan, and their soldiers demanded that they go home and that the army allow them to retire.

This is obviously impossible, even if it is false, it cannot be promised to them, and if it is promised to them, will the other armies still want it? Is this battle still fought?

Deng Shicai ignored the persuasion of his own soldiers, insisted on rushing to the front line, and saw that the person in charge of the brigade was an elderly veteran, who had been wounded three times, and was promoted to battalion commander because of merit.

The veteran came to negotiate with Deng Shicai on behalf of all the mutinous soldiers, and he was very resolute, saying that he didn't care about life and death, he was alone, and if he died, he would die, and he had to fight for others to survive. Deng Shicai offered to meet with all the officers above the battalion level, and after a stalemate, the veteran agreed.

"Do you really want to go back?"

Deng Shicai asked with a calm face.

No one answered, their faces were gloomy, and it was obvious that many of them were still wounded, wrapped in gauze and even bandages.

"You are a rebellion, this is treason, have you considered the consequences?"

His words immediately angered the officers, who had already lost their minds.

One by one, they were so angry that they even began to scold the officials for not treating them as human beings, saying that their lives were also fate.

Deng Shicai snapped and escaped, and the pistol slapped on the table.

"Your life is your life, my life is also my life, if you want, take it!"

Although everyone was angry, no one really dared to shoot the chief officer.

Deng Shicai looked at dozens of young officers, his face tense, and his eyes showed a cold light.

"If you die in battle, your parents still have someone to support, and now you are treasonous, not only will they not get a penny of pension, but they will also make people poke their backbones, your father, your mother, your brothers, sisters, they will not be able to raise their heads for the rest of their lives."

Deng Shicai's fierce gaze finally suppressed a group of soldiers who were on the verge of collapse.

The veteran who took the lead snorted coldly: "You don't need to scare everyone, there is no one here who is afraid of death, but I just want to earn a way for others to live." You are an official, your life is expensive, we can't afford it. But you can't scare everyone. ”

The mouth is very hard, but the tone is already a little soft.

Deng Shicai snorted: "You don't have a father and mother, what about them?" Think of your parents, your wives and your children. ”

The veteran saw that the others lowered their heads, and he was a little scared.

"Then what do you want us to do?"

Deng Shicai waved his hand, and the soldiers next to him immediately took out an order, and read it in a cold sweat on his forehead:

"If the rebellion of the 67th Brigade of the 13th Army is found to be true, a total of 34 officers below the brigade commander and above the sentry commander shall all be sent to the Military Judge Advocate General's Office. The brigade number is revoked and will never be rebuilt! ”

The veteran's eyes widened, he couldn't believe that the other party dared to do this, the law did not hold the people accountable, he dared to send everyone to the military justice department, and try them for rebellion, then everyone was a death.

Deng Shicai said: "This is the result of your rebellion. Now you have two ways to go, one is to unload your guns and confess your sins. One is to pick up the table and shoot me, and then stay here and be a bandit. ”

"Lao Tzu has broken you!"

The veteran said angrily, he was about to get the gun on the table, Deng Shicai's guard wanted to step forward to snatch it, but was blocked by Deng Shicai's one hand, but the old soldier still didn't pick up the gun on the table, because another young hand pressed the gun.

"Ercai?"

The veteran looked at his companion suspiciously.

The companion pressed the old soldier's hand with the gun with one hand and shook his head:

"Brother, forget it. I volunteered to join the army, and I have a younger brother who said he would be a soldier when he grew up. My father didn't like being a soldier, because I kept telling my brother that being a soldier to protect the family and defend the country was sacred. I, I-"

The young officer couldn't go on, his face twisted to the side, and tears fell down his eyes.

The veteran sighed: "Okay, Lord Commander, give the big guy a chance." Let me take my brothers to recharge it again, let's take this city and make meritorious deeds! ”

Deng Shicai shook his head: "It's late." Since you don't want to kill me, that's fine. Go and confess your sins, and as your ruler, I confess your sins with you. Whether you live or die, let the emperor decide! ”

After saying that, he waved his hand and left the headquarters.

"Come on, unload your guns!"

Deng Shicai's guards said to the others.

At this time, everyone look at me, I look at you, the young officer took a deep breath, turned his eyes to the sky, let the tears not flow, took out his pistol and still on the table.

Only then did one after another officers unload their guns.

Suddenly a gunshot rang out, and everyone was stunned, seeing the body of a big man slowly falling, and the veteran who took the lead shot himself in the head.

Deng Shicai sighed when he heard the gunshot, he didn't care what happened, but handed Zhang Kaishan a cigarette again.

Zhang Kaishan smoked silently and didn't say a word.

"You should rest for a few days, I am fully responsible for the affairs here, I will write a report to explain it, it has nothing to do with you."

Deng Shicai said that he was explaining to Zhang Kaishan why he wanted to remove the other party from his position.

After Zhang Kaishan finished smoking a cigarette in a dull manner, he sighed: "I will also write a report, and I won't let you resist alone." You've changed, though! ”

After saying that, he threw away the cigarette butt and walked out of the headquarters, out of the place where he had been under house arrest for ten days.

Deng Shicai was speechless for a long time, has he changed?

Yes, he has changed!

He also discovered this, he hated him now, before coming to the United States, he felt that the government had too many civil officials, and even the emperor was too much, which seriously affected the war.

He told the emperor that the military should be confined to the military itself, and that once too many other interests were involved, it would only seriously affect the outcome of the war, and that the war had to be fought with all its might to win.

The emperor took his advice and did not sacrifice military interests and military interests in exchange for other benefits.

But he himself became, more and more like a politician, and even more and more like the emperor.

Politicians and emperors no longer used political interests to coerce the army to take risks or take other actions that went against the reality of the army, but he began to think about politics.

In order to end the war as soon as possible, regardless of the actual situation, he forcibly ordered the army to launch attacks beyond their ability to bear again and again, and pushed soldiers who did not have to die into the grave in vain.

After some troops mutinied, he still forced them to severely punish them to set a rule for other troops, and for this reason he did not even give them the last chance, which was by no means the same as before.

If it was him before, he would at least give these officers one last chance and let them wash their shame with their lives, but now he not only does not give these officers a chance, does not let them attack, but threatens them with their families, where is this like a soldier to do, everywhere is dirty political means.

Deng Shicai really wanted to have a soldier give him a shot just now, so that he didn't have to do this kind of thing to shame the soldiers, but unfortunately those officers were really good officers, even when they mutinied, they were still taking care of their families, which showed that they were at least one person, and they were going to be turned into beasts by this war.

After the officers of the 67th Brigade were arrested, he quickly ordered the dismissal and arrest of two army commanders who refused to carry out the order, more than a dozen brigade commanders, dismissed them on the spot, and informed the whole army of these circumstances, since it was no longer possible to maintain order in the army with honor and dignity, now he had to use the beast method to maintain the army.

What Deng Shicai didn't know was that even the tenacious Chinese soldiers had begun to mutiny, and the situation of the surrounded American troops on the opposite side would definitely not be better than the Chinese army, the Ming army had just begun to mutiny, and the mutiny of the American army had been repeated many times, and now it had entered the verge of collapse, but at this time, the Ming army began to officially shell the Houston city, and it was tantamount to falling a heavy hammer on their fragile military morale.