Chapter 520: Defection (1)
When the news of Jiang Shiwei reached Tianjin, the Tianjin Executive Committee could use the four words "chaotic and chaos" to describe it, because the time travel group is now facing the most important incident in this time and space, and large-scale defection incidents have occurred in the army.
Just yesterday afternoon, the Tianjin Executive Committee received a report from Beijing that the People's Army garrisons in Zhuozhou and Beijing had a large-scale collective defection of 11 people. At the same time, the defectors also took away six Mauser 98 rifles and 315 bullets. Only three were arrested. The remaining eight people were all unknown whereabouts. Moreover, the defectors involved three regiments.
It turned out that the night before, there were three incidents of soldiers escaping from the barracks with guns in Beijing. However, the barracks had very strict management of guns. Although the defected soldiers stole the rifle from the company, they were still exposed by sentries when they fled the camp. The defected soldiers could not hand over the documents of carrying guns and exiting the camp, so they were stopped by the sentries. The two sides caused an armed conflict, which resulted in two sentries and two defected soldiers being injured. Fortunately, there was no serious injury.
Zhang Zhengjie, the commander of the First Regiment of the Lin Commander stationed in Beijing, was shocked when he received the news. Because the People's Army had never had any defection incidents, he hurriedly ordered the arrested defected soldiers to be imprisoned.
After dawn, when Zhang Zhengjie was about to interrogate the defected soldiers, he received another report that last night, six soldiers asked for leave to go out and did not return overnight. It seemed that they had defected from the People's Army. Moreover, among the nine soldiers, 7 were once members of the Boxer Regiment, so it was obviously an organized collective defection operation. In fact, these nine soldiers made an appointment with Li Zhuangyong and fled from the People's Army yesterday. They originally planned to go out and go out without returning, but three people really wanted to steal the rifle, but the gun was not stolen and was arrested.
In fact, the People's Army has clear regulations: If you take leave and go out, you must return to the military camp before 6 pm. Once there is an incident where a soldier does not return at night, you must immediately report to the regiment headquarters. The soldiers will be subject to severe punishment, and the company where the soldiers are located will also be publicly criticized in the military camp.
However, because some company departments are afraid of being criticized publicly, there are also a few time traveling soldiers who do not have a strong sense of discipline, believing that soldiers occasionally spend a night outside and as long as they don’t cause any trouble, it doesn’t matter. On the contrary, a little relaxation in military discipline is also conducive to winning the trust of soldiers and managing the company. Therefore, the soldiers who do not return at night are not reported, but handle it within the company, and even deliberately conceal it. For example, when checking the door at night, the company has a large number of people, but they deliberately seek to go to the toilet and go to the infirmary to conceal it.
Some local soldiers were somewhat more confident when they saw that they had time to get out of the way. The troops were better when they were stationed in Tianjin. After all, they were under the eyes of the Executive Committee and the Military Commission. No matter whether they were company or local soldiers, they dared not do anything randomly. In Beijing, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and the management was much looser. Therefore, although the situation of soldiers going out to spend the night was not a common phenomenon, it was definitely not an isolated case.
However, soldiers who spent the night outside would come back before going out to work in the morning, because all soldiers had to participate in the work in the morning. Even if they were sick, they would come out as long as they were not lying on the bed and could not move. This was impossible to hide it. However, these six soldiers had not returned before going out to work in the morning. And this morning, they knew that someone had stolen a gun and defected last night. Therefore, the company that had not returned to the night outside knew that they could not hide, so they had to report to the regiment headquarters and report to the command center.
At this time, Zhang Zhengjie should report this matter to Tianjin or the Military Commission immediately. After all, such a major matter must not be concealed. Moreover, as the temporary commander of the Beijing garrison, he must be responsible. However, Zhang Zhengjie was still lucky at this time, because after all, he still arrested three defected soldiers. Zhang Zhengjie hoped to interrogate the defections of the other six soldiers from them, and then arrest them and report them to Tianjin or the Military Commission. In this way, his responsibility would be much smaller.
Zhang Zhengjie immediately ordered a comprehensive investigation of the garrison in Beijing and interrogated the defected soldiers. However, the three defected soldiers were very stubborn and refused to speak no matter how they asked. The People's Army was inconvenient to torture the soldiers due to military discipline, so they had no choice but to waste their lives with them.
At noon, a report from the Zhuozhou side was sent from the first regiment and battalion. Li Zhuangyong and Huang Huaping defected on the way back to Zhuozhou with the team last night, and also took away 6 rifles and 315 bullets.
Li Zhuangyong and Huang Huaping fled from the army and were found when handing over at night. Jiang Haidong, who let them go, confessed. Company commander Qian Guoyu immediately ordered people to control Jiang Haidong and sent people to chase him overnight. However, in the dark, they did not know which direction they escaped, so they did not catch up. Qian Guoyu had to report to Luo Yue of Zhuozhou and lead the entire army to rush back to Zhuozhou.
Luo Yue was shocked when he heard the news that Li Zhuangyong and Huang Huaping defected. Of course, he still didn't know that he had a larger-scale defection incident in Beijing. This was the second defection incident that was born before the establishment of the People's Army, and it was in his own camp. For a moment, Luo Yue didn't know what to do. After all, half a year ago, he was just a platoon leader, and he was under less than 30 people. Now he has been promoted to battalion commander, and at most he can manage more than 80 people. It can be said that except for the ability to command operations and improve with the battle, Luo Yue's other abilities still cannot meet the requirements of the battalion commander. After all, the battalion commander can be considered a middle-level officer, and what he needs is not only the ability to fight. Therefore, Luo Yue doesn't know what to do if he suddenly had such an incident.
Other former Luo Yue's former subordinates also gave him advice. Some suggested not to report to the above and deal with it in the camp. No one knew if no one said it; some suggested tell Qin Zheng first and let Qin Zheng find a way to deal with it; some people thought it was not easy to tell Qin Zheng directly, it was best to tell Zhou Weiying first and let Zhou Weiying pass it to Qin Zheng.
At this moment, Qian Guoyu also brought the troops back. Although he knew what happened, there was another Guan Jian character named Jiang Haidong who was arrested. If he hadn't insisted on letting Li Zhuangyong go, as long as he shouted, Li Zhuangyong might not have escaped. Therefore, Luo Yue decided to ask Jiang Haidong first.
Jiang Haidong was very calm about Luo Yue's inquiry, saying that he let Li Zhuangyong go out of his loyalty, but he was still willing to stay in the People's Army. This time, he let Li Zhuangyong go out was indeed a violation of the army's discipline and was willing to accept any punishment. He only hoped that he could stay in the People's Army to make meritorious contributions, even if he was a soldier.
After listening to Jiang Haidong's speech, Luo Yue also made his own decision. Although it would be fine to hide such a major matter, it would be difficult to hide it. Once the exposure is revealed, the consequences are quite serious, and the later the report, the more unfavorable it is for him. If you tell Qin Zheng first, you might even implicate Qin Zheng, so you must not drag Qin Zheng in. You should report it yourself. Even if you are punished, as long as Qin Zheng is still in the position, you will always have the opportunity to start over in the future. It should be said that after more than half a year of hard training, although Luo Yue still lacks ability, he has indeed matured a lot, and his vision and perspective are much broader.
So Luo Yue immediately reported to the Beijing regiment commander Zhang Zhengjie that he had a defection incident and learned that nine people had defected in Beijing last night. After understanding this situation, Luo Yue became even more relieved because it was not because someone defected here. In this way, he would share the responsibility, so the responsibility he had to bear was much smaller.
After receiving Luo Yue's report, Zhang Zhengjie still had not reported to Tianjin or the Military Commission. Because the results of the report obtained from Luo Yue, Zhang Zhengjie could basically link up this defection incident. Li Zhuangyong is likely to be the mastermind of this defection incident. So Zhang Zhengjie immediately interrogated the three arrested people.
In fact, the interrogation of the three people has never been stopped. Although they could not be punished, Zhang Zhengjie still had some skills in the interrogation and decided to use the wheel fatigue tactics to prevent the three people from resting. As a result, the interrogation for 7 or 8 hours has been continuously exhausted, which has caused the three people to be physically and mentally. In addition, Zhang Zhengjie said, "Li Zhuangyong is the mastermind, and he runs away, why do you still carry him for him?" The psychological defense line of the three people finally collapsed and explained the whole story. Not only did they say that there were also two people who were stationed in Huailai with the troops and did not notify them; they also said that the agreed gathering place was in a land temple outside Beijing.
After getting the results he needed, Zhang Zhengjie immediately launched an action. While notifying the garrison stationed in Huailai, he immediately controlled the two Li Zhuangyong's accomplices. While mobilizing the army immediately, he rushed to the place where Li Zhuangyong and others gathered to arrest people.
But when the army arrived at the Land Temple, there was no one in the temple. They only drew a few pictures on the gate that were not like pictures, and symbols did not look like symbols. It turned out that Li Zhuangyong also considered that if someone did not escape, but was caught by the People's Army, he would definitely send troops to arrest him. During the Boxer Rebellion, he had contacted some sects of the Jianghu and knew some sects of the Jianghu and the secret codes, so he first taught these secret codes to the defectors, and set up secret codes at the first agreed place to gather, which was actually to let them gather at another place.
Chapter completed!