The gusts of mountain wind blew, blowing the torches in the hands of the Sui soldiers into the flames.

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Liaodong Army stood there quietly, and not a single one made a sound. Even those Minzhuang craftsmen who have always liked to be babbling are just gathered in the distance at this time, silently watching everything here.

All the people of the 1st Heavy Infantry Brigade of the Pre-Jing Infantry Brigade now knelt on the ground, and all of them did not want to raise their heads. Shame, this is a shame for all officers and men of the heavy infantry brigade.

But for the rest of the soldiers, no one laughed at them, and everyone felt the mood of the heavy infantry soldiers. Well, thinking about their own performance, it's not much better than them, and everyone's mood is very heavy.

Even Li Jie silently watched the scene in front of him, and he also didn't expect all this in front of him at all. He looked at everything in front of him with some disbelief, Chen Kefu actually kicked his most confidant troops, the heavy infantry brigade commanded by his two brothers-in-law, out of the battle sequence of the Northeast Army. What a great courage this is, if it were him, he thought he would never be able to do it.

Li Shimin has been kneeling at the forefront of the heavy infantry brigade, and his face is terrifying at this time. His hands were clenched into fists, and the nails of his fingers were completely pierced into the flesh, and blood flowed out, but he didn't know it at all.

, "General's order, this general will make Li Shimin the commander of the First Heavy Infantry Brigade of the Reserve, with the rank of Brigadier General of the Reserve, and Li Xuanba as the commander of the First Heavy Infantry Brigade with the rank of colonel of the Reserve. The original two regiments of men and horses were replenished in the Minzhuang to replenish the number of today's battle losses, and another 1,000 people were recruited, and the two regiments were changed to three regiments with a total of 6,000 people. Li Shimin takes the flag! ”

The commander of the heavy infantry brigade was originally concurrently held by General Li Benlei, but now that the heavy infantry brigade has withdrawn from the active combat sequence, it is naturally impossible for him to continue to serve as the commander of a reserve army.

But for Chen Kefu, this heavy infantry brigade is very important to him, it is the future ace force that he has built at great cost and with huge resources. Although there was something going on in front of him, of course he couldn't just give up this force. Giving such a serious punishment now is also a blow to the pride of the officers and men at all levels in the army.

Second, in order to continue to expand this army of soldiers and horses, Li Shimin has observed for a long time, and he is indeed a good general, "As long as you continue to hone it, you can become a general." However, first, he is his brother-in-law, and second, he is too young and has no military qualifications, and if he continues to expand the heavy infantry brigade, then it is impossible for him to let Li Shimin serve as the commander of the heavy infantry brigade.

Now he made a ruthless move, first severely punished the heavy infantry brigade and withdrew the heavy infantry brigade from the battle sequence. First, it gave all the officers the effect of killing five hundred people, and second, it also happened to continue to strengthen the strength of the heavy infantry brigade.

At present, he increased the heavy infantry brigade from 5,000 to 6,000 at once, and directly promoted the two brothers-in-law to the position of chief officer in the army. But it will not attract the dissatisfaction of others, because today's heavy infantry brigade has been demoted, it is a reserve, and no one will want to run to serve in the reserve, which is three levels lower than the active service. Even if it is the rank of brigadier general of the brigade commander, it is only equivalent to the major on active duty, this is the position of deputy battalion commander in active duty, and no one will be transferred there in pain.

When Li Jie heard that Chen Kefu had promoted Li Shimin and added another regiment to the establishment, he originally wanted to speak out against it, "saying that he lacks qualifications or something." But when I think about it, now the heavy infantry brigade is unlucky enough, not only the troops have been demoted, the official position has been demoted, but also such a big shame. Well, Chen Kefu came to give him a promotion at this time, and it is estimated that it will also comfort him.

Now, if he comes out to oppose it again, it is estimated that no one will agree with his opinion, "After thinking about it, forget it."

Li Shimin got up and walked in front of Chen Kefu with steady steps, stretched out his hands to take the only half of the brigade flag. The flag was unspeakably weird with only half of it left, and there was a boot print stained with dirt on it. Well, not long ago, on behalf of the Heavy Infantry Brigade, at the flag awarding ceremony, he happily received the battle flag embroidered with four golden characters of the Heavy Infantry Brigade awarded by Chen Kefu.

Chen Kefu held the flag with both hands, handed the flag into Li Shimin's hands, looked at him like that, and shouted, "The iron-blooded man bleeds and sweats without tears, today you made a big mistake, and Ben Shuai punished you heavily, not that I want you to squat in the corner and cry like a girl." What we hope is that you can remember this moment of shame today, and often look at this half-half battle flag, so that it can remind you. I hope that you will be more courageous in the future and wash away today's shame with blood and glory! If you can't do this, Ben will advise you, don't take over this banner anymore, pack up early, and go back to Luoyang to continue to be your son-in-law, this place is not for you! ”,

"Today's teachings of the marshal to all the officers and men of our heavy infantry brigade will always be remembered in our hearts. It will not be long before the officers and men of the First Heavy Infantry Brigade of the Reserve Force will be able to wash away today's shame with blood and honor.

We will definitely let this half of the flag of the heavy infantry brigade make all the enemies fearful. , Li Shimin took the flag, gritted his teeth, and roared word by word.

"Well, that's the kind of force I'd like to see. Go, take your oaths and fulfill him with blood and honor. When you fulfill your oath, the commander will return to you this half of the heavy infantry brigade flag in his hand, and at that time, this military flag will carry your unparalleled honor! ”

Chen Kefu nodded to the side, and the gendarmes of the newly formed Security Division wearing a black sè armor cloak and a red sè armband on their arms were dispatched. These gendarmes walked up to the officers and men of the heavy infantry brigade and ruthlessly took away the ranks on each person's shoulders one by one. The current officers and men of the heavy infantry brigade are no longer worthy of these ranks, and they will be replaced with special ranks with reserve insignia.

Li Xuanba was a little reluctant to look at the wooden-faced gendarme coming to pick up his rank, and wanted to stretch out his hand to stop it, Li Shimin stretched out his hand and held his hand tightly, holding it very hard, even Li Xuanba, who had always been healthy, felt a trace of pain.

From the beginning to the end, the 3,000 men and horses of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade have been kneeling on one knee on the ground, watching Chen Kefu first severely punish the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division. This was followed by more severe punishments for the officers and men of the heavy infantry brigade who participated in the brawl. Directly driven out of the sequence of combat units and reduced to reserve auxiliary units. Such a severe punishment made Guo Xiaoke's heart like ashes.

He originally thought that they were the only troops in the Northeast Army who still had all the broken barracks, and they were the only troops whose combat effectiveness had not been reduced. Moreover, they are also the descendants of the general Chen Kefu, many of whom were born in Chen Kefu's original personal army, and now the position of brigade commander is also held by the general. So before, after the reorganization of the troops, they always had a sense of superiority. They are considered to be the orthodox broken barracks, and those of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Divisions, including the heavy infantry brigades, are just civilian battalions.

It is precisely because of this that they dare to fight with the heavy infantry brigade led by the two brothers-in-law of the general, because they are Chen Kefu's descendants and the elite trump card in the entire Liaodong Army. But now he understands that even the heavy infantry brigade that Huā had built at countless costs, the commander had destroyed the battle flag of the entire unit without saying a word, and canceled the number of the unit. Then they will definitely not be able to escape such a fate.

, "Guo Xiaoke, you are also a veteran of the broken barracks." And the entire brigade of 3,000 men and horses of your heavy cavalry brigade are all elite veterans of a hundred battles who have broken the barracks.

You are the trump card of our entire Northeast Army and our strongest combat effectiveness. But now it seems that we have spoiled you. I don't know how thick the sky is, and I even think that Lao Tzu is the first in the world. I don't have much to say to you. I've been with me for so long, I've already said what I should say. The people of the heavy infantry brigade make mistakes, and it can also be said that they are recruits. But you are different, you are the essence of the whole army, you are the trump card. ”

"The people of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade obeyed the order, and the general ordered to revoke the battle sequence number of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade.

From now on, the Heavy Cavalry Brigade will be changed to the Second Heavy Cavalry Brigade of the Reserve, with Guo Xiaoke as the commander of the Second Heavy Cavalry Brigade of the Reserve, and the rank will be changed to the rank of Brigadier General of the Reserve. The Second Heavy Cavalry Brigade of the Reserve Force increased its strength by 1,000 cavalry, and the original two regiments remained unchanged, and each regiment was changed to 2,000 horses. Zhang Shizhen, the former commander of the heavy cavalry brigade, was the brother brigade commander and reserve major, and the commander of the second subordinate regiment was taken over by the original commander of the regiment. ”

After speaking, Chen Kefu walked directly to the front of the heavy cavalry brigade, snatched the Pegasus battle flag of the heavy cavalry brigade from the flag guard, and raised the horizontal knife to slash over. The white sè pegasus, with its wings on the black sè battle flag, was suddenly split into two halves. The remaining half of the battle flag only left the gold sè embroidery of the heavy cavalry brigade, and the pair of white sè wings, but the strong and majestic white sè war horse was gone.

That part was cut off by Chen Kefu and left in Chen Kefu's hands.

"After all the troops returned to the camp today, the battalion commanders convened their respective subordinate corporal and above officers to hold a post-war summary meeting to summarize the combat experience in detail and find out the gains and losses. The rest of the regimental-level officers all went to the tent of the military headquarters for a meeting. Officers at or above the regimental level of the 1st Reserve Heavy Infantry Brigade and the 2nd Reserve Heavy Cavalry Brigade are also eligible to attend the meeting and must attend. After all the rest of the soldiers returned to the camp, they stepped up their rest, cooked on the fourth watch tomorrow, and set off on the fifth watch! ”

Watching the troops leave neatly, Li Jie suddenly felt as if he had been deceived by Chen Kefu today. It turned out that he felt that Chen Kefu's punishment of the heavy infantry brigade and heavy cavalry brigade was very severe. Because the numbers of these two units were revoked, they became auxiliary reserves. But now that we look at it, this is not the case at all, and both forces have increased in number by a thousand each.

Li Shimin, Li Xuanba, Guo Xiaoke, and Zhang Yuanzhen, several middle-level officers of Chen Kefu's henchmen, have now become high-ranking officers, and two of them have become brigadier generals. Although it seems to be an auxiliary army of the reserves, the generals of the two armies are still eligible to participate in the meeting of senior officers, which is half a point different from before!

Thinking of this, Li Jie looked at Chen Kefu's back thoughtfully!

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