These people had suddenly been transferred down to the Starry Sky Marines and challenged the newly appointed Squad Leaders and Company Commanders because they wanted to use this opportunity to claim the biggest share of military merit. But they had never intended to actually serve as Starry Sky Marines for three years! Soon, this new military regulation was implemented along with the formalization of military law.
Those who had come down to snatch military merit had only two choices.
Either they immediately left the Starry Sky Marine ranks, in which case they had to return the military merit they had previously received.
Or they had to serve in the Starry Sky Marines for three years!
How many soldiers from noble families could endure the hardships of the Starry Sky Marines? They had thought they could easily earn military merit, then promptly transfer back to some cushy department up above.
Now they could not.
Weighing the options, their own lives were still more important.
So the "elites" from the regular combat ranks who had just challenged so many appointments of Starry Sky Marine Squad Leaders and Company Commanders all declared that they did not need this military merit and wanted to transfer out of the Starry Sky Marines.
These transfer orders had all been arranged through connections, and the people above did not deliberately make things difficult for them.
In any case, they could not take their military merit with them. Letting them leave was also a favor.
Thus, in less than one week, those people who had come down full of ambition slunk away in disgrace.
Then the appointments of Squad Leaders and Company Commanders that had previously been in their public notice period were reinstated.
By the time Xia Chujian received this news, she had already finished reinforcing her