Chapter 77: What? New Recruits Can Join Too?
What is tactical abandonment?
It means even if you have the strength to participate in all five military physical events, you still selectively abandon one or two of them to conserve stamina and energy to charge the remaining events.
Use the smallest possible loss to gain the greatest benefit.
Other companies don’t know how to arrange it or how much trouble it causes, but anyway, Chen Jun and Wu Liu Yi from Seventh Company, the two of them are in quite a bit of trouble.
As the number one person in Steel Seventh Company history, Chen Jun took on eight events in one go.
They are 200m speed shooting, pistol 80m precision shooting, 3 kilometer sprint, 5 kilometers light load, 10 kilometers light load, 10 kilometers cross-country with load, grenade throwing, weapon disassembly and assembly.
Among them, the most critical military gymnastics subjects, out of the five, Chen Jun participated in four.
Wu Liu Yi is even more critical!
Out of the six competition events he participated in, five are within military gymnastics subjects.
3 kilometer sprint, 5 kilometers cross-country, 10 kilometers light load cross-country, 10 kilometers cross-country with load, 400m obstacle individual, not a single one is missed.
The more military physical events the two participate in, the more important it represents they are in military gymnastics subjects.
If they don’t tactically handle it well, something big will definitely happen.
But now time is extremely tight, even if holding a meeting while putting on equipment, minus the time to rush to assembly, at most fifteen minutes.
Gao Cheng had no choice but to seize the time, assemble everyone to brainstorm and discuss.
After a few minutes of intense discussion, in the end Chen Jun proposed a specific plan, which also received approval from Company Commander Gao Cheng.
The difficulty of military gymnastics lies in the first three events, all of which require three people and are team projects.
There are only ten competitors in total.
They need to occupy nine person-times.
The team projects use a scoring system, the first to reach the finish line gets 2 points alone, second to tenth is 5 points, eleventh to twentieth is 1 point, twenty-first to forty-fifth is 5 points.
From this point allocation, it can be seen that it was definitely carefully calculated.
The first to cross the line has a 2-point advantage, this advantage is huge but not absolute, the remaining two teammates must not drop outside twenty-first to secure first place in the event.
If they drop outside twenty-first, then another company only needs their three competitors in the top ten, each getting 5 points to also get first in the event.
Even if one of them is in the third tier getting only 1 point, it still has great competitiveness.
Chen Jun targeted the rules of the team race scoring system, and under the premise of fully exploiting the rules’ benefits, made a relatively perfect allocation.
The core is to strive for the key 2 points, others conserve physical strength to stay in the second echelon.
The specific execution plan is like this…
Chen Jun and Wu Liu Yi are both record-breaking competitors, so they are responsible for grabbing the 2 points, taking turns to lead one event each, running ahead and sprinting with full effort.
With breaking the record as the ultimate goal, first secure the absolute advantage in the event.
The other competitor not leading is responsible for pairing with the third competitor, through cooperation between them, using the opponents’ wind breaking, tightly follow in the second echelon, conserving sufficient physical strength.
By cycling and alternating in the competition, it can maximize stamina savings, avoiding the body not holding up, collapsing midway and causing accidents.
Chen Jun believes his running technique is better than Wu Liu Yi’s, and his stamina now is completely not inferior.
Plus the second event 5 kilometers cross-country is Wu Liu Yi’s strongest advantage event.
So the final arranged order is…
3 kilometer sprint led by Chen Jun, with Wu Liu Yi and Xie Chong cooperating; 5 kilometers switched to Wu Liu Yi, Chen Jun and Xie Chong cooperating; 10 kilometers light load switched back to Chen Jun, completing one rotation.
Wu Liu Yi after one round of rest can impact the 400m obstacle individual again.
The final 10 kilometers cross-country with load is Chen Jun’s charge event, also the advantage event of Sixth Company’s tough guy, already dominated by him for years, with very high competitive pressure.
For Chen Jun who participated in two events in a row, stamina will be an extreme exploitation.
Fortunately, after the 10 kilometers light load, there is Wu Liu Yi’s 400m obstacle in between as a buffer, plus the connection time between the two matches.
Added up, the total rest time should be around one to two hours.
Although the time is not very abundant, impossible to fully recover stamina.
But with two hours as buffer, teammates assist in relaxing body muscles, plus chugging a few cans of Red Bull to supplement stamina, get some minor excitement to stimulate the body, it can also recover to about seventy to eighty percent.
Chen Jun’s arrangement plan is the most reasonable, after Company Commander Gao Cheng adopted and arranged it, twenty minutes had almost passed.
“Just arrange it like this, first event pistol 80m, very difficult, Platoon Leader Chen, Cheng Cai, it’s up to you, prepare to go to assembly.”
Gao Cheng patted Chen Jun’s shoulder, then patted Cheng Cai’s shoulder again.
Even with absolute trust in Chen Jun and Cheng Cai, after all they performed very well in company assessment, in his eyes besides seventy percent anticipation, there was still thirty percent slight nervousness.
Before the final results come out, no one can remain unruffled.
Even with absolute strength, still afraid of accidents.
What’s more, limited by pistol’s limited range, pistol 80m is about prediction, accurate aiming is useless, high probability of accidents.
（PS: Effective range is aiming where the bullet hits there. Maximum range is the bullet’s maximum lethal distance, bullet head will parabola drop.）
“Don’t worry, Company Commander, the opening first battle is very important, nothing else to say, just this pistol 80m, I have absolute confidence to take it down, if not, dispose of me as you wish.”
Chen Jun was very confident, issued a military order to Gao Cheng, waved his big hand and ordered: “Cheng Cai, follow me.”
Then he took the lead and ran out.
Cheng Cai at this moment was excited to the point of face flushed red, closely followed Chen Jun and ran out.
“Let’s go to the spectator area.”
Gao Cheng didn’t want to miss the first event’s good show, must witness Steel Seventh Company’s resurgence, leading everyone straight to Seventh Company’s spectator area.
Chen Jun and Cheng Cai ran all the way to the parade ground to take position, soon thirty competitors from fifteen companies all in place.
“Why is there a new recruit??”
“No one left? Sending a new recruit to make up the numbers?”
“New recruit egg hasn’t even touched a gun a few times and comes, must have strong background, came through back door huh.”
…
All participating in pistol are officers and non-commissioned officers, not even a private first class, yet Cheng Cai this new recruit pops out, causing a small commotion in the team.
But soon interrupted, because the chief referee officially announced the competition start.
“Attention, dress right dress, at ease…”
The officer in charge shouted commands, organized the team and brought them to the shooting range preparation area a hundred meters to the right of the parade ground, which had already done vigilance and cleared the field.
To ensure fairness of the grand competition, competitors’ entry order uses a draw system.
