"Report!"
On the third floor of the battalion headquarters, there were two gentle knocks on the door outside Li Zheng's room, followed by a slightly hesitant report.
Li Zheng looked at his watch. The time was half past seven in the evening.
At this time, the night training time of the first battalion had just begun. All the companies were taken out, and the camp was quiet.
After dinner, Li Zheng returned to his room, intending to sort out his experience of the past few days.
He was sure that Wang Liansheng would come to him tonight.
This is probably the time.
He walked over and opened the door.
Sure enough, I saw Wang Liansheng standing outside the door, holding back a blushing face and looking a little at a loss.
"come in."
Li Zheng returned to the room and sat down on the sofa next to the coffee table.
The location of this room is very quiet.
The battalion headquarters building is on the third floor. There is a gate on the front. After entering, there is a duty room on the right. Opposite is the stairs leading upstairs. There are corridors on the left and right of the stairs, forming a T-shaped corridor. The corridors on both sides can pass through the entire building. Each building has a side entrance.
The institutions on every floor are almost like this, very typical of military office buildings.
There is a spiral staircase next to the side door on the left that leads to the third floor. On the third floor is a small screening room. Next to the screening room is Li Zheng's room. This room used to be used by projectionists. After cleaning it up, it was temporarily given to Li Zheng. use.
This room is isolated from the main building and is very quiet.
If it were before, Li Zheng would live in Lianli.
But this time he asked for a quieter place, saying that he would not disturb others and was afraid of noise, but in fact he had a deeper meaning.
Sometimes, leaders also need to be careful.
Just like now, when Wang Liansheng came up to find him, at least he didn't have to go through the first and second floors to avoid the embarrassment of being in the public eye.
After Li Zheng sat down, he picked up the hot water bottle in front of him, took a cup, and poured water into it. When he looked up, he found that Wang Liansheng was still standing at the door.
"What? You don't even have the courage to come in and face me? How dare you, the commander of a main battalion, to admit it?"
Wang Liansheng gritted his teeth and strode in. When he arrived in front of Li Zheng, he didn't sit down. He took out two things from his pocket and put them on the table.
"Chief of Staff, I take full responsibility for what happened today. Here is my review and the other is my application for transfer from the First Battalion. Please approve it!"
Li Zheng stopped pouring tea for a moment, then put the kettle aside.
In the previous expectation, Wang Liansheng would come over and admit his mistakes in person. This would definitely happen, and it was also expected that he would submit a letter of apology.
Just submitting a transfer application was unexpected.
This made Li Zheng have a better impression of Wang Liansheng.
It is impossible for a person to make no mistakes in his life.
Be brave enough to admit when you have made a mistake.
If you can shoulder your responsibilities, that's what a man does.
Li Zheng picked up the review, and instead of asking Wang Liansheng to sit down, he asked him to stand.
After browsing through the self-reflection letter, it is quite profound. From personal vanity to the wrong concept of collective honor, from discipline to style, I have made profound reflections.
Li Zheng put down his self-examination and raised his head to ask Wang Liansheng: "Neither An Baoguo nor Qiao Zhi know about this?"
Wang Liansheng answered without thinking: "I don't know, they thought they were hit. Before boarding the car, I told Gu Zheng, who was in charge of security, to keep an eye on it and make some technical measures if it didn't work."
Li Zheng nodded slightly: "The so-called technical processing is to do tricks on the target cloth without hitting it, right?"
Wang Liansheng gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and finally let out a long sigh of relief: "Yes, but you can't go too far too far. Anyone with a discerning eye can see it if you go too far. If you go a little bit too far, then..."
Li Zheng said: "Just fake it and deceive the new chief of staff in the stands. He is not very familiar with the armor profession anyway, right?"
Wang Liansheng's face turned redder.
Li Zheng said: "You are a battalion commander, not a soldier. I have seen soldiers play tricks and be clever. I have also been a soldier, but as a battalion-level officer, if you do this, you will not be able to do it." Have you thought about the consequences? Not thought about the seriousness? Even if you can deceive me today, if there is a real war in the future, will you let the people from the support company go up and poke a hole in the enemy's car body for you?"
The series of questions here made Wang Liansheng so embarrassed that he couldn't lift his head up.
Li Zheng said: "After I came back from Highland No. 4 this morning, I was really angry. I wanted to dismiss you from your post on the spot because I felt that you were simply unworthy of being a battalion commander for doing such a thing. But on the way back I thought about it and decided to give you a chance. Let me go to you in person or come to me on your own initiative. If you don’t take the initiative to come to me tonight, take the initiative to take responsibility, and don’t take the initiative to admit your mistakes, I will summon you tomorrow. The entire battalion, remove you from your position as battalion commander in front of everyone! Fortunately, you still took the initiative to come. Now that you are here, I will consider whether to remove you from your post or transfer. I need to think again. .”
After saying that, he stood up and walked to Wang Liansheng's side, whispering: "Go ahead, think about it yourself when you go back, and prepare to accept disciplinary action."
"yes!"
Wang Liansheng saluted.
"I'm leaving, Chief of Staff."
After saying that, he turned around and left, closing the door behind him.
Li Zheng listened to Wang Liansheng's footsteps disappearing into the stairwell and sat back on the sofa.
He picked up the self-reflection letter on the table and read it again, and then picked up the transfer application and read it again.
It is said that you are applying to be transferred to a government agency as a director, but in fact you are depriving yourself.
What kind of job would a battalion commander of a main force battalion do when he goes to work in an agency?
It's nothing more than a request to be dismissed.
"Quite sincerely..."
Li Zheng put down the two materials and fell into deep thought.
If this matter is really brought to the brigade team for discussion, the punishment of dismissal will be certain.
Once this matter breaks out, the morale of the First Battalion and even the 433rd Brigade will be hit to a certain extent, especially in the context of the failure of the recent confrontation with the White Eagle Brigade. What do the leaders of the group army think?
Once morale is hit, it will take a long time to recover.
But it would not be justified if he was not punished.
Discipline is ironclad, and if it is violated, it is committed.
If discipline is not dealt with, then why do we need discipline?
what to do?
How to deal with it?
In the past, when Li was a soldier, a platoon leader, a company commander, and later a battalion commander, he never encountered such a difficult situation.
Being a brigade chief of staff is different from being an ordinary cadre or soldier.
As a soldier, in addition to building unity with your comrades, the only thing left is training. Whether the training is good or not depends on your subjective initiative. If you are willing to endure hardships, you can succeed in training.
Being a squad leader or a platoon leader, taking charge of dozens to dozens of people, is relatively simple. You just need to care about the soldiers and lead by example. If you play a leading role, you are a good officer and squad leader at the grassroots level.
When I was a battalion commander, I had hundreds of people under me. I couldn't guide and take the lead in everything like when I was a platoon leader and company commander, because people's energy is limited and they can't do so many things. All they have to manage is the few companies under them. Commander, manage the company commander well. Each company commander should perform his duties and manage his own company well. Use good people and the right people. The rest is tactical research, which is not too difficult.
But when it reaches the brigade level, the difficulty suddenly jumps exponentially.
Although you are only the chief of staff, others already call you "chief".
In addition to managing operations, I also manage training. I have to face not only command issues, but also the tactical coordination problems between the battalions below and make corresponding adjustments. I also have to face some unexpected problems - —For example, this fraud incident.
One's own words and deeds can affect the future of a mid-level officer at a small level, and can affect a brigade at a large scale.
Punishment can set a negative example, but it hurts morale.
If there is no punishment, wouldn’t that be just appeasement? Is it equivalent to indulgence?
If Wang Liansheng is the kind of person who cheats and cheats, he will never be merciful.
However, the Wang Liansheng I saw just now can be regarded as a chief officer who dares to take responsibility. From his review, it can be seen that the responsibility rests entirely on himself, and no one is mentioned, including those in the security team.
This actually made Li Zheng embarrassed.
Just as he was thinking about it, there was another knock on the door.
"Um?"
who?
he thinks.
Could it be that Wang Liansheng left and came back?
"who?"
"Report! 1st Battalion Support Company 3rd Platoon Changgu Zheng!"
Valley Zheng?
Li Zheng suddenly thought of the young second lieutenant he saw on Range 4 today.
He stood up and went to look at the door. The door opened, and sure enough he saw the second lieutenant standing at the door.
Judging from his expression, he seemed to have summoned up all his courage. His face was not red, but it was white.
"Can I help you?"
Li Zheng asked.
Gu Zheng licked his dry lips, seeming to remember something, and quickly handed over a piece of material in his hand.
"Chief of Staff, I'm here to review."
Li Zheng said: "Your battalion commander just came here to conduct a review. What review are you here for?"
Gu Zheng's face turned even paler, and he finally seemed to grit his teeth before uttering a sentence: "What he said may not be the truth."
"Oh?" Li Zheng was a little surprised: "Is there something else I don't know about?"
After thinking for a while, he let the door open.
"Come in and talk."
Gu Zheng walked carefully into Li Zheng's room and stood there, still holding the self-examination in his hand.
Li Zheng pointed to the wooden sofa next to the coffee table: "Sit down and talk."
Gu Zheng walked to the coffee table, still standing, still holding the review in his hands, and put it on the table in front of Li Zheng.
"Chief of Staff, you will understand after reading this."
Li Zheng picked up the self-examination book in confusion and said: "You guys in the first battalion are really weird. When Wang Liansheng came over, I asked him to sit down and talk, but he didn't sit down. The same goes for you. Is it comfortable to stand?"
As he spoke, he opened the self-examination and started reading sentence by sentence.
After reading it, I laughed.
"Okay, what a great comrade-in-arms. Do you know what your battalion commander said?"
Gu Zheng said: "I know what he said even if I don't read his confession."
Li Zheng asked curiously: "How did you know?"
Gu Zheng said: "He came to see me."
Li Zheng frowned: "Are you still colluding in the confession?"
Gu Zheng hurriedly shook his head: "No, our battalion commander is not that kind of person, but... he doesn't want me to take responsibility. He asked me to leave me alone and he will bear the responsibility..."
Li Zheng said: "I have something strange. What is your relationship with Wang Liansheng? Why does he care about you so much?"
Gu Zheng hesitated for a moment, then said: "When he was the company commander, I was his soldier."
"oh!"
Li Zheng seemed to understand something.
"I see."
Gu Zheng continued: "He knows the situation in my family. He knows that if I make a mistake and am punished, I will be ashamed to go home. My dad will be angry to death if he knows... My dad is in poor health and has a heart problem. I I am the first person from our village to be admitted to the military academy...I...the battalion commander...I..."
The more he talked, it seemed that Gu Zheng couldn't even speak smoothly. When he arrived, he actually started sobbing, and the tears of a big man fell down.
Li Zheng said: "A soldier's tears should not be shed in a place like this."
Gu Zheng immediately stopped sobbing, wiped his eyes, took a breath and said, "Chief of Staff, the facts are as written in my self-reflection letter. You can investigate. If I tell a lie, you Deal with me! In fact, the battalion commander didn't let me change the impact point. He just told me to be more alert. The brigade commander and chief of staff were watching from the stands. As a result, when the fourth shot came, the target was wiped. There was no target cloth on the side. I thought, if according to the rules of the competition, the side would count as a hit, but there were no bullet holes in the target cloth, which didn’t look good, so I took it upon myself to ask the squad leader of the security class to make a fake one. …”
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