Chapter 108: “reputation” Reaches Division Hq
The 702 Regiment tied with the Reconnaissance Battalion in shooting at the target, which exceeded everyone’s expectations.
Now in the second event, the 3 Kilometer Sprint, they performed even better than the first event, directly surpassing the Reconnaissance Battalion.
This was no longer a surprise, but a standard shock.
Winning once you could call luck, but winning twice consecutively left no words to say, even if you didn’t want to admit it, you had to accept reality.
That Zero-score Regiment that used to trail every year had truly risen comprehensively this year.
It became the strongest dark horse!
On the grandstand, a division leader who was accustomed to the many-year pattern of competitions and had lost much interest, now had his enthusiasm completely stimulated.
The strong rising dark horse 702 Regiment made them feel a different mid-year Competition.
It finally brought new variety to the monotonous year-end Competition this year, giving them more anticipation, curious about what performance would come next.
However.
With the 3 Kilometer Sprint curtain falling, the 702 Regiment laughed to the last.
The next competition would be in the afternoon, with nearly three hours including the noon rest in between, so the good show had to wait a little while longer.
Regiment Commander Wang and Gao Cheng came back to their senses from excitement, preparing to chat with the unyielding Regiment Commander Yang who refused to admit defeat.
But turning their heads to look.
They discovered that the arrogant Regiment Commander Yang, knowing staying would only bring self-humiliation, had sneaked away at some point.
Regiment Commander Wang was not one to like showing off his pride, so he didn’t chase to the 701 Regiment to boast.
Being able to stand firm on the competition field, making the 702 Regiment the nightmare of all regiments, giving endless pressure to other regiments, becoming a strong contender for the final victory.
This was enough for Regiment Commander Wang, having achieved his lifelong wish.
Even if they couldn’t ultimately take first in the Division Grand Competition, Regiment Commander Wang was already satisfied.
No regrets in this life!
After the martial arts competition on the field, each led their teams away to the field canteen to prepare for lunch.
The Division Commander was very satisfied with the 702 Regiment’s performance; after so many years, they finally had a standout moment, so he specially called Regiment Commander Wang over too.
Just like Regiment Commander Wang calling Chen Jun over, to have lunch together and casually chat to probe the background.
Mainly wanting to know the reason for the 702 Regiment’s rise.
The Division Commander was extremely curious!
The change was too big, too sudden!
Regiment Commander Wang could have claimed all the merit for himself; he could say the current results were all brought out by him, and as regiment commander, he had the qualification to say so.
But Regiment Commander Wang was not one to covet merit, let alone snatch credit from his subordinates.
So he told the root cause of the matter completely and honestly, pointing out that the top students in the competition were almost all from the Steel Seventh Company.
Because of the Steel Seventh Company’s strong rise this year, the 702 Regiment was so awesome in this year’s competition.
“Steel Seventh Company??”
When the Division Commander heard this name, a clear flash of surprise passed in his eyes.
It was evident he knew of the Steel Seventh Company.
Not because the son of his immediate superior was now serving as Company Commander in the Steel Seventh Company.
But because at a division headquarters meeting relaying superior instructions, after high-level discussion, in the latest overall plan, to align with the army’s comprehensive construction of modernized, informatized military reform, the Steel Seventh Company had been included in the reorganization list.
Several companies were also included in the list at the same time, and the final selection had not yet been determined.
The main reason the Steel Seventh Company was included in T Division’s reform list was that since entering the 1990s, the 702 Regiment had no outstanding performance.
Poor in Division Grand Competition, poor in military exercise.
And as the so-called strongest company of the 702 Regiment—the Steel Seventh Company similarly had no standout performance, completely mismatched with the missions it shouldered.
The Steel Seventh Company’s resource allocation was very abundant, not short on funding or supplies.
From every ordinary target shooting training, they could use vehicles to transport ammunition to the shooting range; other companies fired only a few tens of thousands of rounds a year, while the Steel Seventh Company could fire that many in one go.
From this, it could be seen how abundant and generous the Steel Seventh Company’s funding was.
Yet such a company that didn’t worry about food or clothing, with every team member an elite soldier, a so-called “ace company,” failed to live up to those two ace words.
Instead, it became a typical fake ace Reconnaissance Company that occupied the latrine but didn’t shit.
As troops guarding the capital, T Division, in the great wave of modernization reform, didn’t need reductions like other troops through demilitarization, only internal adjustments and reorganization.
A useless “ace company” like the Steel Seventh Company was the one most in need of change.
And it was ranked first!
Even if this company’s Company Commander had an unusual background, the Division Commander had no concerns at all; if it didn’t perform, it had to be removed.
At that time, transferring Gao Cheng to the Division Reconnaissance Battalion wouldn’t offend the Top Commander of the Group Army either.
And it was this reorganization list’s number one, essentially the most useless “ace company,” that now exploded into a dark horse.
Even the division’s strongest squad and platoon combat effectiveness, the competition dominant Reconnaissance Battalion, it could overthrow.
How could the Division Commander not be surprised!!
“Could the investigation have had a problem? Has the Steel Seventh Company not reached that point yet? Or perhaps, some change occurred that I don’t know about? If the Steel Seventh Company really rises, then the reorganization list…”
Waves of ripples arose in the Division Commander’s heart; even though the reorganization list was known only to a few division leaders, he had to reassess.
To figure out the true nature of the Steel Seventh Company, the Division Commander later sent someone to call Gao Cheng over.
While eating, casually chatting and inquiring.
The 702 Regiment truly consisted of men of character; Regiment Commander Wang didn’t privately claim the merit, the Squad Leader Shi Jin below was also a selfless backbone.
The mid-level cadre serving as Company Commander, Gao Cheng, similarly had his own integrity and backbone.
He didn’t monopolize this merit either, but formally pushed forward this time’s great contributor to the Steel Seventh Company’s rise—Chen Jun.
Letting T Division’s Division Commander, Political Commissar, Chief of Staff, etc., hear for the first time the name Chen Jun, who would later stir up storms in T Division, even the entire Eighty-fourth Group Army, making the entire army’s Blue Army headache.
Upon learning that Chen Jun not only had outstanding leadership ability, but his own abilities were all-around, participating in as many as eight competition events in this competition.
The Division Commander, Political Commissar, and other division leaders thoroughly memorized the name of this little First Lieutenant—
Chen Jun!
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Chen Jun himself, after eating, returned to camp, and to thank Ba Te Er and the other three for their efforts, specially brought a team to proactively go to their tent.
Through proactively going to discuss with them the tactical arrangements for the upcoming other competition events, to express respect and gratitude to them.
For a true man of character like Ba Te Er, specially running over to say thanks would be too pretentious and unsuitable.
As Team One Captain leading the team, giving sufficient recognition to Team Two, treating them as comrades, was the best way to express it.
Ba Te Er could feel Chen Jun’s sincerity, and had even more good impression of this cadre Chen Jun.
And the other team members of Team Two deeply felt it too, quickly blending with all of Team One, laughing and already becoming good brothers and good comrades.
The troops have a song—
Unity is Strength!
Now the 702 Regiment, under Chen Jun’s lead, had fused into two fists of one body, next only needing to unite against the outside, go all out to fight for honor.
With the two teams working together in unison, the goal was left with only one—
Take the first place in the Division Grand Competition!!
To maximize the chances as much as possible, Chen Jun and Ba Te Er, as the competition captains of the two teams, quickly determined the competition policy after discussion.
