The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 78 The Agreement with the Saber
Li Mo'an gave an order, and He Wei was about to be promoted to lieutenant. He Wei had indeed wanted to build a good relationship with his superiors just now so that he could be promoted, but he didn't expect that the order for promotion would come so quickly, and that happiness would come so suddenly, so he made the decision on the spot. Got the order to be promoted to lieutenant!
After this order, not only He Wei, Fu Chen, Fang Jing, and Hu Zhaowu were also shocked. Hu Zhaowu was fine. He just felt that people from Huangpu were good. He was young and had a good background. If he got the opportunity, he would be promoted quickly. , of course he is also convinced of He Wei's ability.

Fu Chen and Fang Jing were shocked, but felt an inexplicable feeling of envy, or sourness?

Fu Chen graduated from the eighth class of Nanjing Huangpu in the 22nd year of the Republic of China. He is now in his fourth year of work and was promoted to captain not long ago. In other words, he has worked as a second lieutenant and a lieutenant for four years.

Fang Jing was also promoted to lieutenant after graduating from the 25th phase of Huangpu in the [-]th year of the Republic of China. He worked steadily for a year as a platoon leader before being promoted to lieutenant. More importantly, the current officer system has strict regulations on the service time of each rank. , that is, the theory of stopping the year.

According to regulations, the suspension period for a second lieutenant is one and a half years, which means that a fledgling officer who graduates from a military academy and is transferred from the status of a trainee officer to the rank of second lieutenant must hold the rank of second lieutenant for one and a half years before he can become a second lieutenant. Fang Jing and Fu Chen were qualified to be promoted to lieutenant. They all walked through it step by step. He Wei did it well and completed in a few months what others took at least a year and a half to complete.

Even though He Wei's promotion is suspected of violating regulations, the military is different from other places in that it does not rely entirely on regulation management. It is a place where the rule of man factor is great. The personal decisions of unit chiefs can sometimes have higher authority than the system. The army commander gave orders to promote He Wei according to his priority, and no blind guy came up with regulations to ruin the scenery.

"Thank you, Commander, for your kindness. I am very grateful. However, reporting on enemy kills is a matter of personal responsibility. The staff is originally from the Northeast, and they only want to kill the enemy in order to return to their hometown as soon as possible. Moreover, according to regulations, a second lieutenant can only be qualified after serving as an officer for one and a half years. The qualifications for promotion to lieutenant depend on the establishment. For the three infantry platoons belonging to the national army infantry company, the platoon leader’s military rank is one lieutenant, one second lieutenant, and two lieutenants. If promoted, it will not be consistent with the cadre ranking.”

He Wei shied away a little, of course, but in reality it was just a few polite words, and he would not really refuse the promotion.

Li Mo'an only said one sentence: "Wartime is different from normal times, special things should be done specially!"

After saying that, Li Mo'an called the platoon leader of the guard platoon over again and said: "You have been the guard platoon leader for me for such a long time. It's time to mention your military rank. When you get back, you will be promoted to captain. You will also have the rank of lieutenant." It’s no longer needed, take it off and give it to Platoon Commander He!”

The guard platoon leader quickly took off the lieutenant's collar badge and handed it to Li Mo'an.

Of course He Wei understood that Li Mo'an was going to personally award him a military rank, so he stood at attention and saluted after Li Mo'an personally changed the rank of lieutenant to him.

"Thank you Commander!"

Li Mo'an nodded, patted He Wei's shoulder, turned around to look at the other brothers in the trench, and said: "Do a good job, young people must be able to endure it. Send me another order, the 57nd Battalion of the 2000th Regiment." The Sixth Company has made meritorious service in the battle. As a reward, all officers and soldiers of the company who participated in the battle will be rewarded with [-] French currency. Company commander Fu Chen and platoon leader He Wei will each be rewarded with [-] French currency!"

"Thank you Commander!"

"Thank you sir!"

The trenches suddenly erupted with applause and thanks. He Wei was promoted. Li Mo'an did not forget about the others, and directly issued an order to award a reward. 2000 yuan of legal currency was distributed to each person. There could be dozens of them no matter what. Blocked.

The monthly military pay of a private is only 30 yuan, and the national disaster military pay of a second lieutenant is only [-] yuan. For these big soldiers, dozens of yuan is not a small amount. Moreover, the purchasing power of legal currency can be said to be quite strong at present, so It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a huge amount of money compared to the reward. No matter what era or environment, whether in the military or in civil society, material incentives are always the most direct, crude, and most effective.

In front of almost all the officers and soldiers of the company, he was promoted to He Wei, and he rewarded and encouraged all the brothers in the company. Then, accompanied by Fu Chen and He Wei, he began to inspect the position of the sixth company. Naturally, during the inspection, he had to inspect the entire position. To understand the defense configuration, firepower formation, peripheral obstacle deployment, and frontal defense, at this time, it must be He Wei, who is the deployer of the entire defensive position, to answer them one by one. During the conversation, Li Mo'an became more and more satisfied, especially After He Wei introduced and personally demonstrated the usage and principles of the longitudinal shooting equipment used in the civil war, Li Mo'an even shouted "Hello".To be fair, the sixth company's position is a company-level defensive position. When it comes to academic qualifications and academic qualifications, Li Mo'an graduated from the first phase of Huangpu. The first phase of schooling lasts only seven months. In addition to basic enlistment training, it is left to students to study. The time for studying military subjects and technical subjects is very limited. In essence, it is a crash course officer education, and there is not even a division into military subjects.

During the subsequent Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, Li Mo'an was promoted all the way. Most of the actual military command he experienced was in large-scale army operations above the regiment level, and he never returned to military academies for re-education or return training. Therefore, for field troops below the regiment level, He was very lacking in tactics, so-called small unit combat tactics.

Not to mention anything else, He Wei served as an enlisted student at the Central Military Academy in Nanjing for one year. After the enlisted student stage, he received two years of officer development education in the school. The courses he usually studied were all new. Infantry tactics, this alone was enough to make Li Mo'an confused, not to mention He Wei's knowledge bonus as a time traveler. In short, after inspecting the entire position, Li Mo'an naturally had a higher opinion of He Wei. point.

When a group of people passed by the piled Japanese weapons along the trench, Li Moran suddenly stopped and squatted down with interest. He first picked up a [-] rifle, pushed and pulled the bolt several times, and then touched the captured door. The blood stains on the Type [-] infantry cannon have not yet dried up, making it look dazzling.

Fu Chen said on the side: "Sir, He Wei and his men rushed up to seize this cannon. It's a pity that the shells were not captured!"

"It's okay, it's good to be able to grab a complete artillery piece." Li Mo'an said while playing with the breech of the [-] infantry cannon.

Suddenly he saw the sabers piled up next to the cannon. Li Mo'an stopped looking at the cannon. Most of the captured command knives were in good condition, but they were basically the Type 57 command knives used by non-commissioned officers and the Type [-] command knives used by lieutenants. There were only two of them. Li Mo'an picked up a saber decorated with tassels and said to Liu Mingxia, the leader of the [-]th Regiment beside him.

"How about giving this saber to Brother Xianzhou? When the troops arrived in front of Xinkou, he made an appointment with me to kill the enemy in a competition. He also said that his 21st Division would definitely win, and he wanted to compete with who had captured more trophies. He said he would use the captured Take the loot to an exhibition in Taiyuan!"

Liu Mingxia also smiled: "Commander Li wants to compete with our division. Now it seems that our division still has the upper hand. This knife is just like the cannon, it is not easy to capture!"

Realizing that He Wei and Fu Chen were staring at each other as they couldn't understand the conversation between them, Li Mo'an said: "That's right, Master Li Xianzhou of No. 20 Division 21, your regimental commander and I are your seniors. , we were each other's classmates in the first phase of Huangpu. We got together before the war and agreed to compete with each other to kill the enemy and compare the captured trophies. Commander Li Xianzhou also said that he would use the trophies captured by his [-]st Division to hold an exhibition in Taiyuan City, but now we see Come on, I have to open this exhibition first."

"Fu Chen, He Wei, I'm not polite about the weapons you have seized. I just happened to take these things back so that I can show them to the officers in other departments and boost their morale! This saber, wait until When we meet again, I will make a gift for Mr. Li Xianzhou Li."

He Wei said: "The trophies of weapons should be returned to the public and handed over to the public. The commander can take it, but this saber does not need to be given to Commander Li. To be honest, among the captured knives, this knife is of good quality. Yes, it's just a standard Weiguan sword. Our unit just wiped out a reinforced squadron. I guess this sword is the sword of the Japanese squadron leader. This battle will have to be fought slowly. We can't guarantee the general's sword. I will definitely get you a sword, and it won’t be too late for you to give Master Li a sergeant sword!”

As soon as He Wei's words came out of his mouth, Fu Chen gave He Wei a hard look, his face turned the color of pig liver, and he cursed in his heart: He Wei, He Wei, although you are somewhat capable, you are too arrogant. !How difficult is it to kill an assistant officer? Don’t you have any idea?

Li Mo'an was stunned at first, then waved his hand and said: "Captain Fu, you don't have to be like this. A man is so generous when he dies. Since ancient times, heroes have been born in young men. Of course, young soldiers must have the spirit of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers. Back then, we were just a group of people who had been trained for a few months in Guangdong. They are just students in military training, but if they don’t go on expeditions east and north, they will defeat the enemy to pieces.”

"You successor cadres will be the backbone of the revolution in the future. It is good to have this kind of momentum. Your brigade commander Chen Munong talked about you, a small platoon leader, who dared to directly talk to the brigade commander on the phone and asked to hold on to the Yanzhuang position, and even opened his mouth When we ask for war defense artillery, hearing is worse than meeting. Now I see that you are indeed brave enough! But you are right, our goal is to defend Xinkou to the death, so there is nothing to say about tactics. Every village and every fortress must be defended to the death. , try to delay the Japanese army as long as possible, and hold on as long as you can."

With approving eyes, he added: "Since you are so determined, well, I will wait for you to give me the Zuoguan Sword. Today you killed a squadron, got the Weiguan Sword, and created this flying thunder." Pao, I promoted you to lieutenant, and when you give me the Zuoguan sword, forget about lieutenant, so what if I just promoted you to captain!"

(End of this chapter)