Chapter 259 Hospital Condolences

Li Cungu will never forget that when he graduated at the beginning of this year, he took over the gold-plated five-star military knife from Zhao Dongyun. At that time, Zhao Dongyun kindly told him that he would continue to work hard and fight for the country and the nation.

Although many people do not know what the country and the nation are in this era, Li Cenggao, who grew up receiving a new education after the year of Gengzi, knows what the country and the nation mean. The original motivation for him to apply for Fengtian Wubei School in the north was to serve the country. .

And Li Cunghao may not forget today's situation in the future. Although he had heard that someone would come to the doctor for sympathy before, he did not expect to see Zhao Dongyun come in person. This is the second time he saw Zhao Dongyun in his life.

Seeing Zhao Dongyun, he just struggled to get up. Without waiting for the doctors next to him to come forward to persuade him, Zhao Dongyun stepped forward with a smile on his face: "Li Chenggao, you don't have to get up if you are injured!"

As soon as Zhao Dongyun opened his mouth, Li Cung-ghao's face over there was very excited. The general still remembered himself and knew his name!

Zhao Dongyun took two more steps: "I thank you for your sacrifice on behalf of the country and the nation. Your heroic battle has brought us hope of victory!"

At this time, a lieutenant colonel at the side of the narrator came forward with a plate with a pair of epaulettes and a medal on the plate. Zhao Dongyun took out the epaulettes on the silver plate: "Because of your heroic battle, I hereby promote you to captain today and award you the three-star Purple Tiger Medal!"

Li Cungao's face was even more difficult to hide his excitement. He could only ask Zhao Dongyun to change the captain's epaulette for him in person and pin the three-star Purple Tiger Medal to his chest.

He was stunned and didn't even know that Zhao Dongyun took people out. The shock brought to him by these things just now can be said to be really big. He didn't expect that Zhao Dongyun would come to visit him in person to express his condolences. You should know that Zhao Dongyun is now the vice president of the Republic and the inspector of the three eastern provinces. He deals with it every day. There are many official duties, and in order to prevent assassination, they rarely go out. Even if they go out, they still carry a large number of guards. Not to mention ordinary people, even ordinary middle and low-level officers in the Feng army rarely see Zhao Dongyun.

In addition to military and political dignitaries, guards and other people who often follow Zhao Dongyun, other ordinary civil and military officials can often see Zhao Dongyun only students in the training class in the Army Officer School of the three eastern provinces. Low-level officers such as Li Cunggao only graduate and have to be at the top. Only five can I get a personal reception from Zhao Dongyun. As for the future, either take a look from afar, or you are talented enough to climb to the position of colonel or even a general.

So he was not surprised that he was promoted to captain. He was pleased that Zhao Dongyun came to see him in person and promoted him to the rank.

As for this three-star purple tiger medal, it is even more surprising. Li Cungao knows that it is not difficult to get a purple tiger medal now, but ordinary military merit is only the lowest-star purple tiger medal, and it is actually quite difficult to get the three-star purple tiger medal.

The medal system implemented by Fengjun last year is also the first army in China to implement the medal system. At present, the medal system is relatively simple. It is mainly composed of three types: the Purple Tiger Medal, the White Lion Medal and the Golden Dragon Medal. Among them, the Purple Tiger Medal is the most widely awarded, mainly awarded Soldiers who fight bravely are divided into one star and three stars according to the size of their merit. One star is small and three stars are large. The White Lion Medal is mainly awarded to soldiers who have made great military achievements, which is also divided into one star to three stars, while the Golden Dragon Medal stipulates that it can only be awarded to soldiers who have made great achievements to the country and nation.

This medal system is actually simply modeled after the military rank and has been formulated into a third-class and ninth-class medal system.

Among the three nine-level medals, the highest Golden Dragon Medal has not been obtained for the time being, and only one star White Lion Medal was awarded. At the beginning of the year, several soldiers of the Third Division were awarded a Star White Lion Medal. Gu Lanyu defeated Wang Shizhen in one fell swoop because he led the troops boldly during the battle. The flank of the division laid the foundation for the victory of the Battle of Tongzhou at that time and became the first person in the army to receive the White Lion Medal.

As for the number of people who have won the Purple Tiger Medal, many of the troops who entered the customs last year have received this kind of medal. By the time they entered the customs, the Feng army has awarded more than 200 Purple Tiger Medals, most of which are one-star Purple Tiger Medals, a few are two-star Purple Tiger Medals, and very few people are Li Cungao won this three-star Purple Tiger Medal.

Of course, Li Cungo himself will not know that the reason why he was awarded him the three-star Purple Tiger Medal was that in addition to his heroic combat behavior in the front-line troops, his injury also added points. In addition, his excellent graduation from the military academy made his superiors have a great impression on him, so he can get it. I won a three-star Purple Tiger Medal.

Watching Zhao Dongyun and others go out, Li Cung-gao still did not recover, and Zhao Dongyun and others outside were ready to enter the second ward. The lieutenant colonel who had been following Zhao Dongyun's side whispered in Zhao Dongyun's ear in time: "Major Fang Kongyuan, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 9th Regiment of the Third Division, inspected the front line was The shell was injured!"

Listening to the whispers of the people around him, Zhao Dongyun did not stop, but walked into the ward, and then put his smile on his face in an instant: "Major Fang Kongyuan, on behalf of the country and the nation, I sincerely thank you for your heroic efforts!"

The Fang Kongyuan's injury seemed to be extremely serious. He had only one hand left, and his chest was still wrapped in a large area of bandages, and there was faint blood oozed from the bandage. With a pale face, he opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Dongyun. After a flash of excitement, he smiled bitterly: "Teacher, I'm afraid I can't follow you south again. !"

It can be seen from this name that this person belongs to a very special small group of 'studying students' in the Feng army. Except for them, no one among the 100,000 soldiers inside and outside the three eastern provinces will or dare to call Zhao Dongyun.

Zhao Dongyun actually couldn't recognize this person at the beginning. After all, he didn't have much time to go to the training class every month, and to be honest, although there are not many students he teaches, his affairs are extremely busy. He has the mood to remember what students he has taught, so except for a few students with excellent academic performance He can remember that the rest is no different from passers-by.

But when he heard this name of 'teacher' today, he vaguely remembered that this person should be a 05 trainee with an upper academic performance, but he usually speaks less and is not very active. He often rarely expresses opinions when conducting sand table exercises during teaching. In this way, Zhao Dongyun naturally has no impression of him.

But today, I saw that the student I have been teaching for more than a year is now lying on the disease** and is extremely serious. In this era of lack of modern drugs, a small wound can cause tetanus, which can cause sepsis and so on. Now he is so seriously injured, although he has obtained a relatively good job in this era. Medical treatment, but the chance of being able to survive is still very small.

Zhao Dongyun took two steps forward again. He stretched out his hand and held Fang Kongyuan's left hand: "I remember I taught you that even if the enemy is ten times more than I, he must not lose the confidence to win. If the great cause of the republic has not been achieved, you still have to live. I need you to fight with me!"

The square hole turned his head, and the eyes of the man in his thirties were moist: "Teacher, I will definitely live!"

Zhao Dongyun's mood at this time was also a little infected. He personally put the two-star purple tiger medal brought by the people on his body: "Because of your heroic battle, today I will award you the two-star purple tiger medal on behalf of the headquarters!"

Zhao Dongyun didn't stay for too long. He said two more words and went out. Out of the door, he turned his head and looked at the doctor of the affiliated hospital in a white coat: "Can he survive?"

The doctor looked embarrassed for a long time: "There is a chance, but it's very small!"

After listening to this, Zhao Dongyun's face did not change much and was as calm as before. Then he visited more than 20 other injured officers to promote their ranks and award medals.

On the way back to the headquarters, he and Meng Enyuan, who was beside him, said, "Old Meng, do you think I will teach them out, then send them to the battlefield and die and die? Do you think it's right?"

Meng Enyuan was also puzzled when he heard this. Zhao Dongyun he knew was not these sad people. According to Zhao Dongyun in his memory, in order to win the war, he probably sent his students to the battlefield. It is estimated that even his brothers and sons can be sent to the battlefield. He has been following Zhao Dongyun for many years, and he has always been Zhao Dongyun was a resolute and decisive person. Last year, he raised his army. After the battle of Tongzhou, he immediately took Fengjun and Wang Yingkai to fight. This year, he saw that the situation was not good, so he immediately took Fengjun into the customs. In these major events, Zhao Dongyun never hesitated. Indecisive, and once a decision is made, it is often vigorous.

At the end of May, Zhao Dongyun just noticed the situation in the south, but in two days, he had decided to enter the customs. After making the decision, he immediately dispatched troops. In less than ten days, all the troops had secretly gathered in the mountains and customs.

It can be seen that Zhao Dongyun is a very decisive and resolute person.

And this is also the reason why many Beiyang generals such as Meng Enyuan put their future on him. If many young generals in the Beiyang era are afraid that Zhao Dongyun's talent, country, nationality and other factors follow him, then the older generation of Beiyang generals such as Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan and Xu Bangjie actually value it more. It is Zhao Dongyun's personal charm.

No matter what era or under what circumstances, hundreds of thousands of people can follow and pay their lives and blood for it, then this absolutely has the personality charm that others can't have, which is commonly known as the spirit of the eight.

Napoleon can make countless French proud by relying not only on his military talent, but also on his personality. During the Napoleonic Wars, the French army was often able to achieve more than half of the casualties without collapse. This has been done in the history of human war. There is no other army except Napoleon's army. This can be done.

During the war, Hitler was able to make countless Germans see Germany's saviors and hope of rise, relying on not only brainwashing and other words. In addition to his excellent economic ability, it is also related to his personality charm, which can make the whole of Germany crazy.

And Yuan Shikai in China can make a large number of Beiyang bosses bow down. Obediently rely not only on his political or military talent, but also on his personality charm, which created Yuan Shikai's huge prestige that others could not reach in the late Qing Dynasty.

Even if several other bigwigs in Beiyang, such as Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui, especially Duan Qirui, can become the boss of Anhui, they rely not only on military talent, but also on his personality charm, which Zhao Dongyun experienced many years ago.

Whether they are heroes, heroes or dictators in history, they all have the same characteristic, that is, they have personality charm that no one else can look up to.

Let's not talk about good or bad, but they can attract countless people around themselves and work hard for a certain goal.

Today's Zhao Dongyun embodies this trait. Although it is far from being compared with those famous dictators, it can also be seen.

Zhao Dongyun should not be like this. He can't be sad!

Meng Enyuan said, "We knew before we set foot on the battlefield that sacrificing ourselves for the sake of the country and the nation is the honor of our generation of soldiers!"