In this battle of Jiangyuan, the navy, field brigade and other soldiers and civilians all performed outstandingly and will be rewarded based on their merits in accordance with the system of the Perak Army. The biggest contributor was Xia Dagen. It was the warships he led that sank a large number of Mongolian troops crossing the river. The sound of his cannons also provided timely warning to the soldiers and civilians of Jiangyuan and bought time for the arrival of reinforcements. However, how to reward this young hero caused a dilemma for the top brass of the Thunderbolt Army. Xia Dagen is not interested in rewarding property. He and his younger brother Xia Xiaogen are orphans. Their guardian, Liao Nilu, has no family and lives in a military camp. The dozens of acres previously allocated were also managed by the neighbors. He should be promoted. He became company commander just after he turned sixteen. Although he was promoted based on military merit, everyone had no objection. However, being promoted again will not be beneficial to his personal growth, and may even do more harm than good. After all, "if a tree is as beautiful as the forest, the wind will destroy it." Ouyang Xuan thought about it and decided to transfer him to his side as a company-level staff officer in the staff department.
Ouyang Xuan did this based on many considerations. The most important thing is that Xia Dagen is already a leader among the younger generation of the Pili Army and deserves careful training. Although Xia Dagen is a young talent, he is still immature both physically and mentally and needs long-term experience. There are many famous generals who died young in history, the most famous one is Huo Qubing. Xia Dagen was injured again in this battle. If he leads his troops in high-intensity battles again, he may become ill from overwork. The Pili Army cannot take this risk. Currently, Xia Dagen has shown excellent military talent, but due to the limitations of the times, his thinking, vision, and structure still have limitations. Ouyang Xuan transferred him to his side in the hope of making up for his shortcomings in this area through daily nurturing.
Liao Nilu also clamored to be transferred to the staff department, but Ouyang Xuan vetoed it. After Liao Nilu was punished, he corrected his mistakes immediately and his performance was also very outstanding. After consideration by the Military and Political Joint Conference, he was allowed to take over the battalion commander position vacated after Le Quan'an was promoted to brigade commander.
In fact, for a soldier like him who drinks a lot of wine and eats a lot of meat, being on the front line is the happiest thing. The reason why he made this request was that on the one hand, he and Xia Dagen were like father and son and could not bear to be separated. On the other hand, Huang Dagen was also transferred to the staff department as chief of staff. After the two were suspended last time, Liao Nihao had no objection to his punishment. He just felt that he had implicated Huang Dagen and always wanted to express his guilt in various ways. After Huang Dagen annihilated the Mongols with nearly zero casualties in the two states of Wei and Mao, Ouyang Xuan proposed that he serve as chief of staff, and it was unanimously approved by the Military and Political Joint Conference.
Where there are rewards, there are punishments, and the first person to be punished was Chang Yuan's boss--Captain Jiang Yuanjigan Company. Although this person was unaware of what Chang Yuan and his gang were doing, he turned a blind eye to Chang Yuan's cliques and cliques. He obviously neglected his duties and neglected his duties. Therefore, he was sentenced to one year of hard labor after trial, and his position as company commander was naturally removed. In accordance with the Pili Army's judicial principle of "no harm to relatives", although the relatives of Chang Yuan and his party members have not been punished, their immediate family members within three generations will be deprived of their citizenship rights, which means that they cannot study, hold official or management positions, and cannot Enjoy the right to be exempt from food tax. This latter article was proposed by Yang Xiucai after he took charge of the judiciary. It was discussed and adopted by the joint meeting and received strong support from the Senate. "Not paying food is out of sympathy for the people, but there are also bad people among the people. Of course, we cannot let them suck the blood of the Perak Army." The words of Tang Shun, president of the Senate and a famous doctor, represent the voice of the people.
When the military and political joint meeting was discussing the rewards and punishments of the Jiangyuan Incident, Dong Hu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly proposed to take the blame and resign, leaving everyone stunned. During this period of time, incidents such as the defection of caravan members and Chang Yuan's collusion with the Mongolian army occurred one after another. Dong Hu, who was in charge of counter-espionage, felt deeply guilty, and there were also discussions within the Perak Army. Ouyang Xuan knew that Dong Hu had actually gone all out. The Perak Army has been in a period of rapid growth since its establishment. The area and population under its control have increased more than ten times, and it is inevitable that there will be a mixture of good and bad. Especially after the Battle of Yokoyuan Castle, there were tens of thousands of refugees and defeated troops who fled in. It was impossible to identify all the dissidents among them. Looking around the world, the Mongols are also masters of espionage and infiltration, and are full of conspiracies and tricks that are difficult to detect. Dong Hu's internal security brigade has complicated affairs and limited energy. It can only prevent changes in key areas and key groups of people. In Ouyang Xuan's opinion, it is not easy for the counter-espionage force of the Pili Army to be in the situation it is today.
Although it is not easy to counter espionage and eliminate traitors, the Jiangyuan Incident exposed problems that must be improved. Therefore, Ouyang Xuan proposed a long-thought-out plan at the meeting: reorganizing the counterintelligence and intelligence agencies. His idea was to have the General Staff take charge of intelligence and reorganize the Internal Guard Brigade. This idea received loud applause from Dong Hu, and the others had no objections, so it was passed smoothly. According to Ouyang Xuan's plan, the Internal Guard Brigade was reorganized into a special brigade, specializing in military intelligence reconnaissance and special operations. It consists of one reconnaissance battalion and two special battalions, both of which are three-company systems, and there is also a brigade headquarters company with a total number of There are still a thousand men, and the brigade commander is still Dong Hu.
Other units of the Internal Guard Brigade are placed directly under the Staff Headquarters to strengthen the role of the Staff Headquarters. The original staff headquarters had no subordinate units, only a dozen middle- and low-level officers to assist in handling military affairs, and Ouyang Xuan was the de facto chief of staff. After the internal security brigade troops are transferred, the staff headquarters will be divided into five companies, namely the guard company, the counterintelligence company, the communications company, the investigation company and the intelligence analysis company. The main responsibility of the investigation company is to conduct covert investigations into the background and activities of internal military and political personnel, and to cooperate and complement each other with the overt counterintelligence company. The intelligence analysis company conducts comprehensive analysis and judgment on intelligence from different systems such as the Perak Army's government affairs, caravans, and the military.
Just after the military-political joint meeting ended, a messenger came from Jiading. Since the Perak Army occupied the Changqiu Mountains, although the two sides are still blocked by the areas occupied by the Mongolian Army, the difficulty of contact has become much smaller than before. The messenger not only brought Yu Xing's handwritten letter and Lin'an's letter of appointment, but also a letter from Li Kaipeng. The envoy first hinted that there should be happy money here, and after accepting a piece of gold with a smile, he congratulated Ouyang Xuan, and then read out the appointment from the court: Ouyang Xuan is the military commander of Yongkang. The army is a court governance institution at the same level as the state and government, and is mainly located in strategic military locations. The military bases once set up in western Sichuan included the Huai'an Army in Yunding City and the Yongkang Army in Guankou Village, but they were later cancelled. Ouyang Xuan didn't know at first why he was appointed as the magistrate of Yongkang instead of the magistrate of Qiongzhou or Chongqing. After reading Li Kaipeng's letter, he vaguely guessed the reason.
Li Kaipeng's letter was written in the code language of the Pili Army. To outsiders, the sentences did not make sense at all. It was also mixed with some weird characters like earthworms, which outsiders could not understand at all. After Ouyang Xuan sent it to the envoy, he ordered someone to translate it and read it several times. Li Kaipeng said in the letter that they had established a firm foothold in Lin'an and had initially established an intelligence collection network under the cover of doing business. At present, in addition to establishing connections with Lu Wende and Jia Sidao, he has also established relationships with many high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China through simple and crude methods such as sending money and bribes. At present, they have spent half of the property they brought with them. In order to avoid being left empty-handed, they have now started doing business in Lin'an and nearby cities, and are establishing trade routes with Zhoushan, Quanzhou and other places.
