Chapter 14 The Broom Star
.When I arrived outside the head and intestines.
Huang Zhibo waited for fifteen minutes.
We waited until Lu Fengliu hit us and went in together.
"what is going on?"
"I haven't figured it out yet, but it's certainly related to Japan."
Lu Fenglie frowned and asked Huang Zhibo to make things clearer.
"About six hours ago, the East China Sea Fleet received a telegram from a fierce submarine and confirmed that the sending location was about 40 kilometers east of the Diaoyu Islands. At the same time, the warships and fighter planes operating in the East China Sea discovered a relatively strong radio interference signal. The submarine's telegram was not complete, and only a part of it was received. The deciphered content shows that before that, the submarine encountered a Japanese submarine and had a certain degree of confrontation. After receiving the news, the East China Sea Fleet had sent patrol aircraft, and Zhou Yusheng also mobilized nearby submarines. However, there has not been any more news yet, so it can only be confirmed that the submarine sent the news has disappeared."
"Sinking?"
“There is this possibility.”
Lu Fenglie breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You must first find out whether our submarine has sunk in this matter. If it is bad news, you have to find out the cause."
“Investigation is underway.”
Lu Fenglie shook his head and said, "You can't solve this matter. Let me explain the situation to the head of state first."
When they arrived at the study, the two sat for a while before Fu Xiubo rushed over.
After Huang Zhibo explained the situation, Lu Fenglie did not express his opinion, so he could only bear it.
"It seems that Lao Wen is right. You are just a broom star. After you enter the General Staff, you will always have troubles in one day, and you will not be able to rest for a day." Bi Xiubo sighed.
Shaking his head, he said, "Fortunately, we are not afraid of trouble. As national leaders, our job is to solve the trouble."
Huang Zhibo forced a smile. In the past few years he served as the deputy chief of staff, there were indeed constant troubles.
Before he became the deputy chief of staff, there were also a lot of trouble.
After signing the armistice agreement with the coalition forces, Huang Zhibo did not return to his country immediately, but continued to stay in North Korea as the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army, responsible for the aftermath of the war.
Of course, this does not mean helping North Korea to carry out post-war reconstruction.
The current volunteer army.
It was not the volunteer army more than 60 years ago, after helping North Korea defeat the invaders.
There is no obligation to help North Korea carry out construction. Even the volunteer army that later remained in North Korea was only responsible for military work, such as helping the Korean People's Army train officers, guarding important military strongholds on the ceasefire, guarding important military bases such as Wonsan and Haizhou, and maintaining peace and stability in North Korea.
The main purpose of the aftermath of the war is to exchange prisoners of war.
On this issue, Huang Zhibo encountered trouble, or caused some trouble.
Because the prisoners of war returned by the coalition forces did not match the list of prisoners of war submitted, Huang Zhibo almost tore up the armistice agreement and placed hundreds of thousands of troops on the ceasefire line to start war again to threaten the coalition forces strictly implement the terms related to prisoners of war, that is, to completely and comprehensively repatriate all prisoners of war.
This incident was a big deal at that time.
It was finally clear that it was not that the coalition forces refused to repatriate prisoners of war, but before the end of the war, some prisoners of war died in prison camps due to excessive injuries and could not be repatriated.
However, Huang Zhibo refused to give in and asked the coalition forces to provide the bodies of the dead prisoners of war.
The problem is that some prisoners of war died before signing the armistice agreement, and the coalition forces did not retain the bodies of prisoners of war.
Many of them were cremated in prison camps.
Although this matter was successfully resolved in the end, that is, the coalition forces paid pensions to the families of the dead prisoners of war, due to this incident, it was not until before Christmas in 2017 that the last batch of American prisoners of war walked across the Linchuan River Bridge and spent the first Christmas in four years with their families.
After returning to China, Huang Zhibo also had a lot of trouble.
The biggest thing is the personnel problems he caused after becoming the deputy general staff member.
After becoming the deputy chief of staff, Huang Zhibo's first thing was to reuse the outstanding officers and soldiers in the volunteer army. Within the first month, he issued nearly 5,000 personnel appointment letters.
Promotion orders were also issued to about 2,000 officers, and a large number of officers and soldiers who performed outstandingly on the Korean battlefield, especially young officers, were promoted and valued, and they all took important positions within the next six months.
At that time, about two-thirds of the positions were replaced in the General Staff alone.
In the grassroots troops, there is no need to say much about the situation. Among the eight armies participating in the war, almost all officers from the second lieutenant platoon leader to the major general commander had been on the battlefield. In order to reward those meritorious soldiers, Huang Zhibo also contacted more than a dozen military academies and opened a crash course for more than a dozen officers. By the end of June 2016, at least 25,000 soldiers were promoted to grassroots officers after learning theoretical knowledge for a year.
Such a thing must have been unimaginable in the past.
You should know that a qualified second lieutenant officer must study in the military academy for at least three years. If a student is directly recruited from fresh high school graduates, he must study for four years.
What can I learn in one year?
Of course, this is not a problem. The Second Korean War has proved that the battlefield is the best classroom and practical experience is the best textbook.
The problem is.
Is it possible to promote the officer?
It means that there are equal numbers of officers to be cut.
You should know that before Huang Zhibo did these things, Fu Xiubo had announced that he would reduce the military force that would be expanded when forming the volunteer army.
Those who participate in the war are highly valued, so those who fail to go to the battlefield will naturally retire.
Obviously, this is definitely not a trivial matter.
It’s okay to say that the grassroots level is, after all, grassroots officers who have not participated in the war will retire after retirement.
You can also continue to serve in the reserve force, that is, the armed police. In addition.
According to Huang Zhibo's arrangement, if the military voluntarily terminates the contract, a considerable subsidy will be paid to the layoffs of officers and soldiers.
With this money, soldiers can go home to make a living and officers can go back to school for further studies.
The ones who are truly threatened are those high-ranking generals.
At the end of the Second Korean War, nearly two hundred new generals were added to the volunteer group, and according to Fu Xiubo's promise.
The rank of the Volunteer Army is legal.
That is to say.
After these freshmen returned to China, they were also generals and would be highly valued by Huang Zhibo.
The first one who was unlucky was the generals of the General Staff.
Among the more than 50 generals, only four were retained, and these four were all assisted in the strategic logistics support work of Lu Fenglie's volunteer army during the war, making great contributions to the volunteer army.
Now, the general who was deposed quit.
Although according to Lu Fenglie's promise.
All generals who retire early can enjoy active service benefits. They can not only retain the housing provided by the army, but also receive full allowances on time. They even retain the special equipment, guards, etc., but they cannot stay in Beijing. However, these comfort work did not receive the expected effect. After all, if you can become a general, you will not care about the allowances and benefits.
In a sense, the general's best interests are not legal treatment.
In addition, for generals who have served in the army for decades, money is not a problem at all. Many generals care about the superiority of those in power.
It would be strange if these generals retreated.
However, Huang Zhibo did not stop. After firmly taking up the position of Deputy Chief of Staff, he set his sights on various military regions and replaced the senior management of the seven military regions within half a year.
As a result, there were not more than fifty generals who had to retire early, but nearly two hundred.
Using "poke a hornet's nest" to describe what Huang Zhibo did is not an exaggeration at all
At the end of 2016, a "reversal of Huang" storm broke out in the army, and nearly 400 generals jointly wrote a letter asking Huang Zhibo to be removed from his post as deputy chief of staff.
This incident was a big deal, which forced Lu Fenglie and Fu Xiubo to come forward to comfort him personally.
Fortunately, in addition to receiving the support of Lu Fenglie and Fu Xiubo, among the eight armies of the 18 armies that participated in the Second Korean War, all supported Huang Zhibo to carry out reforms. These eight armies were ace troops, which were better than the other nine armies except the 38th Army, and were equal to more than half of the soldiers, especially grassroots officers and soldiers, who stood on Huang Zhibo's side.
However, after this incident, Huang Zhibo had to temporarily stop personnel transfers.
In Lu Fenglie's words, if it's too harsh, it may hurt your muscles and bones.
Trouble, not only from the inside, but also from the outside.
I won’t talk about the East China Sea issue, but there are still constant troubles in other strategic directions.
In early 2017, the renamed "Huangdi" aircraft carrier battle group was sent to the South China Sea Fleet by Huang Zhibo. In name, it was engaged in confrontational training with the South China Sea Fleet and the Guangzhou Military Region, but in fact it was to deter Vietnam, which was going further and further on the South China Sea issue. Because at the end of 2016, Vietnam signed a contract with three American companies to jointly develop oil and gas resources in the South China Sea, with nearly half of the exploration and mining areas being disputed waters between China and Vietnam.
It’s nothing to just threaten Yue Hui.
No matter what, Vietnam borders China and the Chinese army has just won a battle on the Korean Peninsula. No matter how arrogant the Vietnamese authorities are, they dare not provoke China at this time.
"Huangdi, after one month of activity in the South China Sea, he ran to the Gulf of Aden in one breath.
According to Huang Zhibo's deployment, of course, he went to the Gulf of Aden to carry out anti-piracy escort missions. However, after patrolling in the Gulf of Aden for less than half a month, the Huangdi went to Karachi, Pakistan, and then conducted joint exercises with the Pakistani Navy, and engaged in waters near India for nearly a month.
Now, India has also gotten involved.
When he returned, the Huangdi did not travel to the Malacca Strait, but to the Sunda Strait. He also arrested a group of Indonesian pirates trying to hijack a Chinese tanker in the Java Sea. As a result, before the Huangdi returned to Guangzhou, an anti-Chinese demonstration broke out in Indonesia.
Although these things were not what Huang Zhibo wanted to see, all these troubles were related to him.
To be honest, Huang Zhibo's aggressive attitude was.
It not only did not help China get rid of the diplomatic dilemma after the Second Korean War, but it had a very bad impact.
Chapter completed!