Section 15 Court of Military Justice

After the morning drill the next day, Long Qian summoned the four company commanders, eight platoon commanders, as well as the head of the staff Ning Shijun, the head of the ordnance team Wu Lie, the head of the logistics team Song Jinguo, and the chief and deputy captains of the cavalry team Chi Chunxian and Jiang Yun to the ward of Zhou Yi in the infirmary.

These people are the core of the Mengshan Army.

"Tell me, who is the right person to do this court-martial?" Long Qian got straight to the point.

"I thought about it for half the night, but I still didn't understand," Chi Chun asked first, "This, can this court really overturn the punishment of the leader?" ”

"Call the boss, don't call the leader." Long Qian smiled, "Yes, if the punished subordinate is not satisfied, he can report it to the military court court, and the court must make a judgment on the dispute within one day." At this time, the court had several options: first, if it found that the officer had imposed a proper punishment, then the soldier's appeal would be rejected and the officer would take it back to enforce the punishment; Second, if the court finds the soldier innocent, then it can issue a verdict of not guilty, release the soldier on the spot and report it to the Supreme Military Council, where the wrongful verdict of the officer is recorded. Thirdly, if it is considered that the punishment of the officer, that is, the superior, is unfair and violates the military rules and regulations, the original punishment can be overturned and the officer can be ordered to re-punish the soldier who is at fault. ”

"Wait, Captain, no, Commander, why did you come up with a Supreme Military Council again? What is this? Lu Shan, who was confused, interrupted Long Qian's words.

"Oh, this is an agency I came up with last night. I think it's necessary to be established. Think about it, if you are wronged by your boss, or if your boss intends to retaliate against you and make an unrealistic and wrong judgment, you will be locked up if you should not be confined, and if you should be locked up for one day, you will be locked up for three days. Do you feel aggrieved? ”

"Of course. Who isn't like that? "Feng Guozhu said.

"Brothers, no one dares to say that they will not meet a confused boss, a narrow-minded and retaliatory boss. So, the possibility of being wronged is enormous! This is a very important matter concerning the lives of the brothers. However, military law must be established, and it will become more and more perfect. Without strict military discipline, there would be no future for the Mengshan Army. Therefore, I believe that the purpose of setting up the inquisition is to eliminate those erroneous military judgments as much as possible, so that unconvinced soldiers and junior officers have a place to reason! However, the court-martials do not have supreme authority, and they can make mistakes. Imagine that they might dare to mitigate the punishment, but not to make a presumption of innocence? Is it to completely reject the officer's verdict and declare the soldier or junior officer not guilty? This is tantamount to a slap in the face of the superior! Therefore, it is necessary to set up another body to support the Tribunal and to supervise the work of the Tribunal. This is the Supreme Military Council. ”

Everyone looked pensive. are all digesting Long Qian's words.

"So, who are the Supreme Military Councils you are talking about?" Wang Mingyuan asked.

"That's a good question. The candidates are ready-made," Long Qian smiled, "The function of this committee, that is, its powers, is not only to deal with the affairs of the inquisition, it should be the highest decision-making body of our Mengshan Army." All major matters concerning the future of the Mengshan Army should be decided by this committee, not by me alone! One person is definitely more likely to make a mistake than a group of people, you may not believe it, but I believe it. The present number of members of this committee should not be large, and my opinion is that the commander, the deputy commander, the four company commanders, the chief of staff, the head of the logistics group, the chief and deputy captains of the cavalry reconnaissance team, and the director of this inquisition, are full members of the committee. ”

Long Qian did not say his name, but said the position of the committee member, and a smart person immediately heard what he meant, Zhou Yi asked, "You mean, whoever holds these positions is a member of this committee?" ”

"Right! Positions can be promoted or demoted, if you do a good job, you will be promoted, and if you don't do well, you will be demoted. For example, the company commander of a four-infantry company may not always be the company commander, if you don't do a good job, don't train well, and can't win the battle, I'll change people! Let the excellent platoon commander come up! ”

The frustrated Lu Shan became happy again. The company commander who is good has been dismissed because of a desertion incident! I can't even get into the Supreme Military Council. Mingyuan is still interesting enough, and he has persuaded himself several times to calm down and fight for the captain's face, but will this platoon commander just keep being the leader? Fortunately, the commander said the latter, and it seems that there is hope that he will be reinstated.

Zhou Yi thought, this trick is really fucking poisonous, no wonder his uncle takes a fancy to him as a person who does great things. It seems to be a separation of powers, but the real power is always in his hands, the committee, the inquisition, he has the power to remove people anyway, and no matter how many institutions are established, it will only strengthen his rule, and will not shake his foundation. On second thought, it was so clever that those who had been elected to these institutions had become more loyal to him as soon as they seemed to have a lot of power separated.

Long Qian's words also caused shocks to others, especially the few people who were temporarily sitting in the designated seats, the members of the so-called "Supreme Military Council", it seemed that this position might not be stable. There are also eight platoon commanders below, many of whom are Long Qian's cronies, such as Cheng Erhu, such as Lu Shan, especially Lu Shan, who is not inferior to Wang Mingyuan's absolute cronies. If the boss is not satisfied, his successor is there and can be replaced at any time, and things really need to be done seriously.

There were too many platoon commanders, and it was normal for them to not be able to enter this "Supreme Military Council", which seemed to have a lot of power. But Wu Lie himself is just an honest blacksmith, illiterate, and not a real ringing horse, but a blacksmith who Sun Deming went up the mountain three years ago. Because he was lonely, Wu Lie probably felt that going up the mountain could at least fill his stomach. When the brigade broke through a few days ago, Wu Lie happened to be ill, he couldn't walk, and no one took care of him, so he stayed in the village to try his luck with Song Jinguo. When Long Qian returned to the mountain, he asked Wu Lie to be the leader of the ordnance team, and Wu Lie shirked it several times, feeling that he was an iron striker, how could he be a team leader. Long Qian insisted on letting him be the head, and also sent him three soldiers who were too weak to serve as combat soldiers to be his apprentices, so that Wu Lie was more energetic to work, and now he got up early every day and took his three subordinates to repair the simple blacksmith shop, ready to open as soon as possible.

Now Wu Lie didn't feel that he was not valued by Long Qian at all, and Long Qian called him to a meeting to discuss, which was enough to give him face. In Wu Lie's opinion, Captain Long, oh, now called Commander Long, everything is good, it's just some mothers-in-law, as leaders, what to discuss with the following? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shout.

"Lao Wu has something to say? It doesn't matter, you can say whatever you want. Long Qian encouraged.

"I, I think, it's okay for the commander to decide the big things." Muster up the courage to say this.

This sentence touched the hearts of several of Long Qian's hardcore henchmen, and Feng Guozhu immediately answered, "What Brother Wu said is true. I don't think this committee means anything. I know the commander's original intentions, and the commander loves soldiers like a son, and I also understand, but even the implementation of military law has to be discussed by everyone, and what else does the commander do! ”

"National Pillar!" Long Qian shouted, "Lao Wu said that, I'm not angry. But I'm not satisfied if you're so confused! I've told you all the truth, and this committee was set up for you, for the soldiers, and for me to make fewer mistakes! It's for the development of our community! Say such foolish things again, this committee, you don't stay! ”

"Okay, Commander, can I recommend a personal choice?" Wang Mingyuan was unwilling to embarrass Feng Guozhu and hurriedly returned to the subject.

"Of course, I was asking for your opinion."

"I recommend Cao Minzhong to be the director of the Military Tribunal."

"Don't say it, this person recommended by Brother Mingyuan!" Lu Shan shouted in a loud voice.

Cao Minzhong was the captain of the original fifth team, followed Zhou Yi back to the cottage and served as the platoon commander after the reorganization. As Cao Minzhong's company commander, Wang Mingyuan had already learned Cao Minzhong's resistance to the top, but afterwards he felt that this person's resistance was not nonsense, and he did take advantage of it. Since Long Qian wanted to set up such a court, Wang Mingyuan immediately thought of him.

Feng Guozhu also agreed.

"Hmm, how is this guy?" Long Qian asked the others.

"Since Company Commander Wang thinks it's okay, you might as well let him try." Zhou Yi said.

"Well, if no one objects, then the director will be decided, and there are still two places, everyone will continue to mention."

This time Zhou Yi was nominated, and he proposed a soldier from the original third team, and now he is the squad leader, called Liu Chunning, and everyone did not object, and immediately passed. Seeing this, Feng Lun also mentioned the squad leader of the original sixth team, named Hu Zongyu. Before he could express his position, Ning Shijun and Chi Chunxian also proposed their own candidates, Ning Shijun proposed Lan Xinzhi of the staff group, and Chi Chunxian recommended his deputy Jiang Yun.

These two people were immediately vetoed by Long Qian, "That Lan Xinzhi is good, he is a good seedling of a staff officer, and he is not suitable to go to the inquisition." As for Jiang Yun, I have other considerations, no. ”

In the end, Hu Zongyu was settled.

Regarding the system construction of this military court court, Long Qian has already considered it, he took out a piece of paper, on which seven rules were written, which is the most basic system of the military court court, and explained to everyone one by one, except for himself, everyone present was a little absent-minded. Therefore, this "Regulation" has also been passed.

So, Long Qian summoned Cao Minzhong and the other two to formally form this new organization, which surprised the soldiers.