Li Cungao will never forget the situation when he graduated at the beginning of this year, when he received the gold-plated five-star saber from Zhao Dongyun, and Zhao Dongyun said to him cordially at that time, asking him to continue to work hard and fight for the country and the nation.

Although many people in this era do not know what the country and the nation are, Li Cungao, who grew up receiving a new education after Gengzi years, knows what it means to understand the country and the nation.

And Li Cungao may not be able to forget today's situation in the future, although he had heard that someone would come to the doctor to condole, but he didn't expect to see Zhao Dongyun come in person, this is the second time he has seen Zhao Dongyun in his life.

Seeing Zhao Dongyun, he was struggling to get up, and without waiting for the doctors next to him to come forward to persuade him, Zhao Dongyun took two steps forward with a smile on his face: "Lieutenant Li Cungao, you are injured, you don't have to get up!" ”

As soon as Zhao Dongyun spoke, Li Cungao's face over there was excited, the handsome man still remembered himself and knew his name!

Zhao Dongyun took two steps forward: "On behalf of the country and the nation, I thank you for your sacrifice, your heroic battle has brought us hope for victory!" ”

At this time, a lieutenant colonel from the Quanxu Department on the side stepped forward in time with a plate, on which were a pair of epaulettes and a medal, Zhao Dongyun took out the epaulettes on the silver plate: "Because of your heroic fighting, today I hereby promote you to captain, and award you the three-star Purple Tiger Medal!" ”

Li Cungao's face became even more difficult to hide his excitement when he heard this, so he could only be stunned and asked Zhao Dongyun to personally change the captain's epaulette for him and pin the three-star Purple Tiger Medal to his chest.

He was already stunned, he didn't even know that Zhao Dongyun took someone out, the shock that these things brought him just now can be said to be really great, he didn't think that Zhao Dongyun would come to visit him in person, you must know that Zhao Dongyun is now the vice president of the republic, the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces, and he handles a lot of official business every day, and in order to prevent assassination, he rarely goes out, even if he goes out, he carries a large number of guards, not to mention ordinary people, even ordinary middle and low-level officers in the Feng army are rarely able to see Zhao Dongyun.

In addition to the military and political dignitaries, guards, and other people who often follow Zhao Dongyun's side, other ordinary civil and military officials can often see Zhao Dongyun, and only the students in the advanced course of the army military academy in the three eastern provinces, such as Li Cungao, are only when they graduate, and they have to be among the top five to be able to get Zhao Dongyun's personal reception, as for the future, you either have to look at it from a distance, or you are talented enough to climb to the position of colonel or even general.

So he was not surprised that he was promoted to captain, and he was glad that Zhao Dongyun came to see him in person and promoted him to the military rank.

As for this three-star Purple Tiger Medal, it is even more of a surprise, Li Cungao knows that if he wants to get a Purple Tiger Medal now, it is actually not too difficult, but if he has ordinary military merits, he will only get the lowest-level one-star Purple Tiger Medal, and if he wants to get the three-star Purple Tiger Medal, it is actually quite difficult.

The medal system implemented by the Fengjun last year is also the first army in China to implement the medal system, and the medal system is still relatively simple at present, mainly composed of the Purple Tiger Medal, the White Lion Medal, and the Golden Dragon Medal, among which the Purple Tiger Medal is the most extensive, mainly awarded to the soldiers who fought bravely, and is divided into one star and three stars according to the size of the merit, one star is small, and three stars are large. The White Lion Medal is mainly awarded to soldiers who have made great military achievements, and is also divided into one star to three stars, while the Golden Dragon Medal is stipulated to be awarded only to soldiers who have made great contributions to the country and the nation.

This medal system is actually a simple imitation of military ranks, and has been formulated into a medal system of three classes and nine grades.

Among the above three ninth-level medals, the highest Golden Dragon Medal has not been obtained for the time being, and only one star of the White Lion Medal has been awarded, and several soldiers of the Third Division were awarded the One-Star White Lion Medal at the beginning of the year.

As for the Purple Tiger Medal, there are quite a few people who have won this kind of medal in the troops that entered the customs last year, and the Feng army has already awarded more than 200 Purple Tiger Medals, most of which are one-star Purple Tiger Medals, a few are two-star Purple Tiger Medals, and only a very small number of people are the three-star Purple Tiger Medals obtained by Li Cungao.

Of course, Li Cungao himself would not know that the reason why he was awarded this three-star Purple Tiger Medal was not only because of his heroic combat behavior in the front-line troops, but also because of his injuries, coupled with his excellent military academy graduation results, many of them added up to make the superiors have a great impression of him, so he was able to get a three-star Purple Tiger Medal.

Watching Zhao Dongyun and the others go out, Li Cungao still didn't come back to his senses, and Zhao Dongyun and the others outside were already preparing to enter the second ward, and Lieutenant Colonel Quanxu, who had been following Zhao Dongyun's side, whispered in Zhao Dongyun's ear in time: "Major Fang Kongyuan, the commander of the third battalion of the ninth regiment of the third division, was injured by shells while patrolling the front line!" ”

Listening to the whispers of the people around him, Zhao Dongyun's pace did not stop, but walked into the ward, and then instantly put a smile on his face: "Major Fang Kongyuan, on behalf of the country and the nation, I sincerely thank you for your heroic efforts!" ”

The Fang Kongyuan's injury seemed to be extremely serious, he only had one hand left on the hospital bed, and his chest was still wrapped in a large bandage, and there were faint traces of blood oozing out of the bandage, his face was pale, he opened his eyes, looked at Zhao Dongyun, flashed a trace of excitement and showed a wry smile: "Teacher, I'm afraid I can't follow you to the south again!" ”

From this title, it can be seen that this person belongs to a very special group of 'advanced students' in the Feng army, except for them, no one among the 100,000 soldiers inside and outside the three eastern provinces knows or dares to call Zhao Dongyun.

Zhao Dongyun actually didn't recognize this person at first, after all, he didn't have much time to go to the advanced class every month, and to be honest, although the students he taught were not many, but his affairs were extremely busy, and he had the heart to remember what students he taught, so except for a few students with excellent academic performance, the others were no different from passers-by to him.

But when he heard the title of 'teacher' today, he vaguely remembered that this person should be a scholar of the class of 05, with a medium and upper academic performance, but he talks less on weekdays and is not very active, and he often rarely expresses his opinions when he conducts sand table exercises during teaching, so Zhao Dongyun naturally has no impression of him.

But today I saw that the student who I had taught for more than a year was now lying on the hospital bed, and he was extremely seriously injured, in this era of lack of modern medicine, only a small wound could cause tetanus, and then cause sepsis and the like, and now he is so seriously injured, although he has received better medical care in this era, but the chance of surviving is still very small.

Zhao Dongyun took two steps forward again, he stretched out his hand and grabbed Fang Kongyuan's left hand: "I remember that I taught you that even if the enemy is ten times and a hundred times as long as I wait, we must not lose the confidence of victory." The great cause of the republic has not been accomplished, you still have to live, I need you to fight with me! ”

Fang Kongyuan turned his head, and the eyes of the man in his thirties were already moist: "Teacher, I, I will definitely live!" ”

Zhao Dongyun's mood at this time was also a little infected, and he put the two-star Purple Tiger Medal taken by the people from the Quanxu Department on his body personally: "Because of your heroic battle, today I will award you the two-star Purple Tiger Medal on behalf of the headquarters!" ”

Zhao Dongyun didn't stay for too long, and said two more words to go out, and when he went out of the door, he turned his head to look at the doctor of the affiliated hospital in a white coat: "Can he live?" ”

The doctor's face was embarrassed for a long time: "There is a chance, but it is small!" ”

After hearing this, Zhao Dongyun's face did not change much, and he was as calm as before, and then he visited more than twenty other injured officers, and promoted them to military ranks and awarded medals.

On the way back to the headquarters, he said to Meng Enyuan beside him: "Old Meng, you said that I taught them out, and then sent them to the battlefield and then died and wounded, do you think this is right?" ”

Meng Enyuan also wondered in his heart after hearing this, the Zhao Dongyun he knew was not one of these people who were easily sad, according to Zhao Dongyun in his memory, in order to win the war, it is estimated that he will not mention sending students to the battlefield, it is estimated that even his brothers and sons can be sent to the battlefield, he has followed Zhao Dongyun for many years, he has always thought that Zhao Dongyun belongs to the kind of resolute and decisive person, last year when he talked about the army, he didn't say a word after the Battle of Tongzhou, and immediately took Fengjun and Wang Yingkai to fight, and this year is the same, seeing that the situation is not good, Immediately took Fengjun into the customs in a big way, in these heavy events, Zhao Dongyun has never hesitated, and once a decision is made, it is often resolute.

At the end of May, Zhao Dongyun had just noticed that the situation in the south was not secondary, but within two days, he had already decided to enter the customs, and after making the decision, he immediately transferred troops and sent troops.

It can be seen that Zhao Dongyun is a very decisive and resolute person.

And this is also the reason why Meng Enyuan and many other Beiyang generals put their future on him, if many young generals in the Beiyang era were afraid of generals because of Zhao Dongyun's talent, country, nationality and other factors to follow him, then Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan, Xu Bangjie, the older generation of Beiyang generals actually value more Zhao Dongyun's personal personality charm.

No matter what era or environment, if you can make hundreds of thousands of people follow you from scratch and pay for it with their lives and blood, then this definitely has a personality charm that others can't have, which is commonly known as the spirit of Wang Ba.

Napoleon was able to make countless French people proud, relying not only on his military talent, but also on his personality, the French army during the Napoleonic Wars could often achieve more than half of the casualty rate without collapsing, this kind of thing has been repeated in the history of human warfare, except for Napoleon's army, no other army can do this.

During the war, Hitler was able to make countless Germans see Germany as the savior and hope of its rise, relying not only on some brainwashing and other words, but also on his charisma, in addition to his outstanding economic ability, he was able to make the whole of Germany crazy.

And the domestic Yuan Shikai was able to make a large number of Beiyang bigwigs bow down, and obediently and obediently relied not only on his political or military talents, but also on his personality, which created Yuan Shikai's huge prestige in the late Qing Dynasty that others could not match.

Even if it is several other bigwigs in Beiyang, such as Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui, especially Duan Qirui, who can become the boss of the Anhui family, it depends not only on military talent and the like, but on his personality charm, and this kind of personality charm Zhao Dongyun experienced many years ago.

Whether they are heroes in history, heroes or dictators, they all have the same characteristic, that is, they have a personality charm that others cannot look up to.

Good or bad aside, but they can attract countless people around them and work hard for a certain goal.

Today's Zhao Dongyun embodies this trait, although it is far from being comparable to those famous dictators, but it can also be glimpsed.

Such Zhao Dongyun shouldn't be, can't be sad!

Meng Enyuan said: "Before we set foot on the battlefield, we already knew that sacrificing ourselves for the country and the nation is the honor of our generation of soldiers!" ”