This is war, and in the most brutal of battles, so Gao Yang can appoint a soldier from a rookie directly to a company commander without any resistance.
Similarly, Gao Yang also had to order the execution of a company deputy commander.
This is war, and in the fiercest, most brutal battles, disobeying orders, shaking military morale, and attempting to incite subordination to attack the superior, any of these offenses require the deputy commander to die.
After promoting a company commander and executing a deputy commander, along with Bupasnov's support, Gao Yang had already taken control of the second battalion of the Khartsyzk Group.
The second battalion still had a third company, but the third company could be taken over directly because the third company's commanders were all dead, leaving only one platoon leader still resisting. Promoting the surviving platoon leader to company commander, the soldiers of the second battalion were as if a command system had been re-established.
