Chapter 468 Seizing Power
"Military throne!" Zhang Chi walked into Wang Mazi's command center and saluted Wang Mazi.
"Hey, you boy!" Wang Mazi turned around and saw that it was Zhang Chi, and said excitedly: "Look at you, you are so busy, why are you back today?"
Zhang Chi's face changed drastically when he heard this.
"What's wrong? What's going on?" Seeing that Zhang Chi's face was wrong, Wang Mazi suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Martial Officer, it was your telegram that asked me to come back!"
Wang Mazi was stunned when he heard this, and then quickly turned his eyes to the communications soldier not far away, gritted his teeth and cursed, pressed the American pistol at his waist and walked up.
"Who sent the telegram?!" Wang Mazi asked coldly, his face full of coldness.
The communication soldiers all turned around in shock and looked at Wang Mazi, not knowing what had happened.
Wang Mazi emphasized and asked again: "Who sent the telegram to let Teacher Zhang come back?!"
At this time, a communication soldier stood up timidly and replied: "I reported to the military seat, I sent it!"
"Damn it!" Wang Mazi kept walking up, quickly pulled out his pistol and pointed it at the communications soldier's head, and asked Li Sheng: "Say... who instructed you to do this? What's the purpose?"
"Military...the military seat!" The communication soldier replied in a speechless manner: "It was Staff Li who asked me to send it. He said it was your order. The military seat was in another room at that time. I had no doubts, just..."
"Staff Officer Li? Li Jiexun?"
“Yes, yes!”
"Find out Li Jiexun immediately!" Wang Mazi ordered several guards beside him.
"yes!"
The guard was about to go out with a gun, but was stopped by several people who came in.
The leader was Li Jiexun. He said with a smile on his face: "Military throne... I will apologize for myself!"
"Li Jiexun, you are so brave!" Wang Mazi was so angry when he saw Staff Li. He was about to attack and was about to step forward with a gun, but he was soon stopped by several guards of the Sixth Army who rushed in.
"What's going on?" Wang Mazi looked at the soldiers in confusion: "Are you doing the rebellion or why are you doing?!"
"Military!" Zhang Chi stopped Wang Mazi and said, "They are probably already arranged!"
Li Jiexun laughed: "The teacher is indeed a sensible person, and he is worthy of being the think tank of the New Seventh Army!"
As he said that, Li Jiexun gave in and pointed to a middle-aged officer behind him and said to Wang Mazi: "Second, let me introduce you... This is Huo Xianjie, the commander-in-chief of the 21st Army."
"Captain Wang!" The officer called Huo Xianjie smiled and nodded at Wang Mazi: "If I remember correctly, we have seen him in Kunming before... I think you should know that the New Seventh Army has been incorporated into the 21st Army!"
Wang Mazi couldn't help but be stunned, then smiled bitterly, walked up to salute Huo Xianjie, and asked, "Sir! What's going on? Didn't the telegram say that you would arrive in a month?"
Wang Mazi was quite asking this question. How could he not know that he, including Zhang Chi, had fallen into a trap of power carefully set by Principal Jiang... This trap is so high. He first pretended that the commander would arrive after a month's busy affairs, so as to paralyze Wang Mazi and make him lose his guard.
Zhang Chi had no idea about this. He devoted all his energy and thoughts to how to fight in the Northeast, and did not consider that there was actually an undercurrent in the middle team in the rear.
It should be said that this is a negligence in Zhang Chi.
You should know that three armies were transferred from the country at one go. So who should command these three armies, including the New Seventh Army? Everyone took it for granted that they were of course under the command of Zhang Chi! This is Zhang Chi's plan and it is also the troops that Zhang Chi requires. Who else can command besides Zhang Chi?!
But Principal Jiang and the newly sent Sixth Army and the subsequent 53rd Army, the 54th Army did not think so... Zhang Chi was just a division commander, and his rank was just a colonel. Why did he let a colonel command the troops of more than 100,000 people from four armies?!
On the other hand, Principal Jiang also intends to take this opportunity to bring this disobedient overseas unit back into his control... So he thought of this move, so that Huo Xianjie, the commander of the 21st Army, rushed to Rabaul without Wang Mazi and others knowing it.
Huo Xianjie is a little smarter. He knows that one of the core figures of the New Seventh Army is Wang Mazi and the other is Zhang Chi, among which Zhang Chi is especially... he is the actual ruler of the New Seventh Army.
Therefore, the most important thing to seize power is to control Zhang Chi, so he used the military command spy who had been lurking beside Wang Mazi for a long time to transfer Zhang Chi back.
At this time, Huo Xianjie thought he was already sure to win. After all, Wang Mazi and Zhang Chi's troops in Rabaul were just some logistics troops, while Huo Xianjie was holding the Sixth Army. No matter how hard Wang Mazi and Zhang Chi could not make a big deal.
So Huo Xianjie smiled and said to Wang Mazi: "Captain Wang, this is actually a misunderstanding... Principal Jiang knew that you two had made contributions in fighting on the Pacific battlefield, so he specially asked me to reward the two. Unexpectedly, his subordinates made the matter like this!"
"Commendation?" Wang Mazi squinted her eyes and looked at Huo Xianjie.
"Of course!" Huo Xianjie replied with a slight smile: "Look... I am the commander-in-chief, but I came here alone because of the military emergency. Principal Jiang's meaning... is to appoint Commander Wang as the deputy commander-in-chief of the 21st Army, and Commander Zhang as the chief of staff of the army. I hope both of you will not refuse!"
Wang Mazi said intimately: This move is really ruthless. One is the deputy commander and the other is the staff officer. They all have no real power and are within the scope of the headquarters. This is almost like being under house arrest.
But Wang Mazi still smiled and said, "Can we refuse?"
Huo Xianjie patted Wang Mazi's shoulder and smiled, "Deputy Commander Wang is really good at joking. If you refuse talents like you and Staff Zhang, of course I, Mr. Huo, wouldn't agree. If it weren't for you... how could I fight this battle!"
Zhang Chi, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but feel a little chilled. On the surface, this scene seemed to be two old friends who had not seen each other for a long time reminiscing about the past, and what they said seemed to be a sympathy, but in fact they all contained murderous intent.
Then Huo Xianjie turned around and asked Zhang Chi: "Staff Officer Zhang, what do you think?"
Zhang Chi shrugged and replied: "I don't care! Wherever I go, isn't I serving for the party and the country, or where is it still fighting? I just want to know... We are deputy commanders and staff officers, so who will command the New Seventh Army and the New First Division?!"
Chapter completed!