Xiao Zhenlei's return made Cai Guodong, Fan Zhiyong, Song Shijie and others breathe a sigh of relief, these days the new governor Cheng De sent people to inspect the construction of the barracks and the training of the army all day long, in fact, it was to find fault, specifically to find Cai Guodong and others unhappy, and wanted to remove a group of grassroots officers in the army in this way, but Cheng Quande had just taken office, and there were no henchmen available in his hands, so he couldn't succeed for a long time, but there were indeed several company commanders in the army who were taken down by Cheng Dequan's people on trumped-up charges. When Xiao Zhenlei came back, he was very angry when he heard about it.

The construction of the barracks has already been completed, and the brand-new barracks are in the form of a square shape, with a training ground and a playground in the middle, and barracks, ammunition depots, equipment depots, logistics and material warehouses, bunk rooms, bathhouses, indoor training grounds, and so on on both sides. Walking inside from the gate, there is a large road through the training ground and the playground, some trees are planted on both sides, and a flagpole is erected in the middle of the playground, and the Daqing Dragon Flag is hung.

That night, Xiao Zhenlei summoned Cai Guodong, Fan Zhiyong, and the battalion commanders and commanders of the directly subordinate units to his dormitory for a meeting.

"Okay, all of you here are your own people, we don't need to say much polite words, your achievements and performances in the past few months have been seen in my eyes after I came back, about the new governor taking office, you don't have to worry, although I am not with him all the way, but he can also remove me at will without any reason, he will never move me without full certainty, in case we are reversed, he, the newly appointed governor, has also done it. In addition, what is the specific situation about the company commanders who were taken out by the people sent by Cheng Dequan? ”

Fan Zhiyong said: "It's all those people who deliberately find fault, in fact, these company commanders have done a good job and have not done anything that violates military discipline." They just caught up."

Xiao Zhenlei pondered for a while when he heard this, and said: "Tomorrow morning, when I go out for morning exercises, I will pass on my orders, and these company commanders will be reinstated. Ignore those people, and remove me without the consent of me, the chief officer. They are overstepping their authority, and I am not afraid of the lawsuit wherever it goes! ”

Fan Zhiyong frowned and hesitated: "Regiment leader, isn't this appropriate?" It's better for us not to have a stalemate with Cheng Dequan now, if we don't prepare to make trouble now, we won't be able to fight him, and he can just find a reason to play us to death! ”

Xiao Zhenlei snorted coldly: "No, he just came here and has no foundation. At most, the officers of the patrol battalion who saw the wind and steered the rudder would pat his horses and move closer to him, but on the side of the new army, he did not want to transfer, and the co-commander Ai Zhongqi was the person of Baodi, and the forty-fifth standard was not yet ??????."

"No, wait!" Fan Zhiyong hurriedly said: "You may not know that the forty-five standards now have a standard system, and not long after Cheng Dequan took office, he ordered a person named Liu Zhijie to serve as the standard commander of the forty-five standards!" ”

"Liu Zhijie?" Xiao Zhenlei was quite surprised, and he hurriedly said, "What is the origin of this person?" ”

Fan Zhiyong said: "I heard that this person has entered the Beiyang Martial Arts Academy before. Later, he went east to Japan to study at the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, and after returning to China, he went to the northeast as an instructor in the third town, and then was promoted to the battalion management belt to assist Wu Luzhen in preparing for border affairs. After an investigation by the Iron and Blood Operations Division. It was learned that this person had participated in the Xingzhong Society and the Huaxing Society, and a few years later, Liu Zhijie was transferred to the Senator of the Governor's Office of the Three Eastern Provinces. Later, Yuan Shikai's confidant Chen Eun came to serve as the general senator. Liu Zhijie disagreed with him, and a gap arose. Flick your sleeves and leave. When Cheng Dequan was the governor of Fengtian, he deeply respected the talent of the senator Liu Zhijie. Later, Liu Zhijie saw that Cheng Dequan was transferred to the governor of Jiangsu, so he went south to vote. Cheng Dequan was very happy to accept him, and appointed him as the governor of the Yamen Zheng Senate at the very beginning, and within a few days appointed him to the post of the unified post of the 45th standard."

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and waved his hand and said, "Regardless of him, let's reinstate those company commanders first, if these guys have any opinions, let them come to me!" ”

Everyone looked at each other and said, "All right! ”

On the morning of 2 May, when the morning exercise was held, the officer on duty announced Xiao Zhenlei's order on the spot in front of thousands of officers and soldiers, and asked those company commanders to be reinstated!

In the morning, Gu Datong, the senator of the Governor's Yamen, who led the team to inspect, came to Xiao Zhenlei in a menacing manner, and muttered loudly when they met: "Xiao Zhenlei, what do you want to do?" Those few officers who were removed by us have bad records and are not qualified for the position of team officers, are you dissatisfied with our handling when you order them to be reinstated? ”

Xiao Zhenlei said: "Yes! ”

"You ??????" Gu Datong didn't expect Xiao Zhenlei to be dissatisfied with his disposal on the spot, which made him so angry, he didn't expect Xiao Zhenlei to have such a big courage not to give him the face of the governor yamen, his face turned red, pointed at Xiao Zhenlei's face and shouted: "You are dissatisfied with the disposal of this official, you are dissatisfied with the governor's yamen, you are dissatisfied with the governor's yamen!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei shook his hand away and sneered: "Come on, don't put a high hat on me, I am the chief officer of the 46th standard, and the appointment, dismissal and punishment of all officers of the 46th standard are invalid without my consent, you are overstepping the command, it is an ultra vires behavior, if the army is like you acting beyond the level and exceeding the authority, isn't this army going to be chaotic?" Besides, you're just a small senator, and you actually overtook me, a senior member of the third grade, to appoint and dismiss my officers, which onion are you? Who gives you the power? ”

"You, you?????? Do you think that if you are the third product, you really have the identity of the third product? Our dynasty has always had a tradition that civil officials are higher than military positions, and the three grades of martial arts cannot be compared with the three grades of civil officials, and the imperial court is just giving you martial artists some face, do you really think you are a character? Gu Datong said with a sneering face and looked his head at the sky.

Xiao Zhenlei said coldly: "Since the imperial court has promulgated such a regulation, our generals naturally have to comply with it, thinking that civil officials of the same grade are higher than military positions, it is just the self-righteousness of your sour and corrupt literati, and you put gold on your face, and our generals have never admitted it!" Fuck off, get out of here! Don't be trick-or-treating! ”

"You, you?????? Okay, good, surnamed Xiao, you wait for me, you wait for me, I Gu Datong will not die if you swear not to be a person! ”

Xiao Zhenlei suddenly became angry when he heard this, and stepped forward to grab Gu Datong's shoulder is a fat beating, and smashed down with one punch, making him cry and cry his mother, but Xiao Zhenlei still controlled his strength, otherwise this guy would burp if he couldn't stand his punch.

That night, Gu Datong came to the governor's yamen with a blue nose and swollen face, and limped to the governor's yamen to complain to Cheng Dequan, "Lord Governor, the forty-six standard Xiao Zhenlei is really too lawless, you see, I was sent by you, he didn't give you the slightest face to beat me like this, he beat me is to beat you, as the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat the dog, but he doesn't give you a little face?????? at all."

After listening to Gu Datong's complaint, Cheng Dequan frowned and said, "This Xiao Zhenlei has come back from the West?" He's too unreasonable, he doesn't come to report to the old man when he comes back, and he beats you like this, it seems that he is really a reckless man! ”

Cheng Dequan was born in Gongsheng, once entered the country to study, and later studied the Northeast issue, saw the crisis in the Northeast, Shoushan appreciated him very much, and recommended him to go to the Northeast as a staff member, just like the later generations to the leader as a secretary, do a good job, and the leader is intimate, the leader will naturally be vigorously promoted, Cheng Dequan is also this kind of opportunity, after the First Sino-Japanese War, he was promoted by the backer he had served as an alternate governor, and later Shoushan acted as the general of Heilongjiang, he went with him to handle the general's copywriting, so he developed, after the Russo-Japanese War, He was appointed by the Qing court as the acting general of Heilongjiang and had full authority to handle the military and political affairs of the province. At the beginning of 1907, the Qing court changed the northeast into a province, with Xu Shichang of the Yuan Shikai bureaucracy as the governor, and Cheng was only appointed acting governor of Heilongjiang on May 7, and his powers were weakened, apparently because he was squeezed out by the Yuan Shikai bureaucracy. For this reason, Cheng was forced to repeatedly call for a vacancy. In March 1908, Xu Shichang immediately established the Military Aircraft Department to "reward him for several months and return home for medical treatment" because of Cheng's "uncured leg disease". On the 19th of that month, the Qing court vacated Cheng Dequan's position as acting governor of Heilongjiang. In November 1908, Guangxu and Cixi died one after another, and the political situation changed greatly. At the beginning of 1909, the regent Zaifeng transferred Xu Shichang to the internal level, appointed Xiliang as the governor of the three eastern provinces, and Cheng Dequan was also reinstated, and on May 23, he was appointed as the acting governor of Fengtian. However, the post of Fengfu was in the same city as the governor, and it fell within the scope of constitutional reform and streamlining, so it was abolished on April 28, 1910, and Cheng Dequan was transferred to the governor of Jiangsu.

On May 4, Cheng Dequan sent someone to order Xiao Zhenlei to go to the governor's yamen to take him, Xiao Zhenlei received the order and led all the members of the guard company to Suzhou to general Cheng Dequan, the guard company has a total of 200 people, belonging to a super-large reinforced company, the weapons and equipment are the same as other ordinary companies, but there is an extra machine gun platoon and a mortar platoon, and the ordinary company only has a machine gun squad and a mortar squad. In addition, the guard company also has six large trucks, which can load all the horses and equipment of the company even in wartime, and can reach the destination as quickly as possible.

Xiao Zhenlei sat in the front of the open-top off-road vehicle, and the soldiers behind him were all fully armed and sat on five large trucks, his move was to go to Suzhou City to demonstrate, let Cheng Dequan see his capital, don't go too far, just take office and want to seize military power? It's too ugly to eat, isn't it? He just wants to sue Cheng Dequan and provoke him, he has the capital to rebel, he believes that Cheng Dequan can achieve the position of governor, his mind is absolutely sober, and he should not mess around. (To be continued......) R1292