Chapter 12: Experts In Sixth Company?
Chen Jun and Wu Liu Yi are striving hard for this, with the goal of increasing their influence in the company and gaining Company Commander Gao Cheng’s favor and trust.
Now Gao Cheng has the communicator come call him for a private chat, proving that Chen Jun has initially achieved his goal.
Good news has arrived.
Must spur on with even greater effort.
With the communicator’s help massaging his muscles, slightly relaxing so he could move, Chen Jun hurried nonstop to outside the company commander’s office.
“Knock knock knock.”
“Report.”
Knock three times and shout report before entering, the most basic regulations and rules of the troops.
“You’re here? Come, hurry inside.”
Gao Cheng personally ran over to open the door, showing just how excited his mood was now.
“Company Commander, Political Instructor.”
Chen Jun was neither humble nor arrogant, calm and composed, greeting Gao Cheng and Hong Xingguo one by one.
“Chen Jun, you performed very well today, breaking our regiment’s record and tying with the Third Squad Deputy Leader, really opening my eyes, haha.”
Hong Xingguo’s hearty laughter echoed through the office, his good mood even surpassing Gao Cheng’s.
“Political Instructor is too kind, this was completely good luck plus good condition, allowing my body to break through the bottleneck, so I could barely keep up with the Third Squad Deputy Leader; if it were another hundred meters, I definitely would have been left behind.”
A person who is low-key in conduct but high-profile in action is the most welcomed in the troops; Chen Jun handled this aspect perfectly.
“Good, good, good, strong yet not arrogant, able to steady your mentality—this is even more valuable than your progress this time; I hope you can continue to persist and become an excellent cadre.” Hong Xingguo praised greatly with appreciation.
“Chen Jun, so you also know modesty?”
Gao Cheng looked at Chen Jun strangely, recalling Chen Jun’s previous arrogance and boasting.
But thinking this change was good, plus Gao Cheng’s current extremely pleasant mood, and most importantly the company still needed Chen Jun to improve.
So Gao Cheng didn’t pay too much attention, soon set it aside, and got straight to the point: “I called you over; surely you know the reason.”
Chen Jun felt uneasy being looked at by Gao Cheng.
His body was still the same body, but the person had changed, which couldn’t be explained.
Since Gao Cheng didn’t pursue it and went straight to the point, Chen Jun pretended it hadn’t happened and followed the topic: “I know, Company Commander is here to fulfill the agreement between us.”
“Right, exactly.”
Gao Cheng lightly patted the desk, picked up a paper from it simply written with dozens of lines, and said: “This is the outline of the cross-country special training plan I temporarily drafted; take a look, does this arrangement meet your needs?”
Good grief.
Directly skipping the beginning and entering the process, the efficiency is truly fast.
Chen Jun mentally gave Gao Cheng a thumbs up.
Taking the plan outline from Gao Cheng’s hand, it basically just wrote a brief process, total just one or two hundred words, scanned from top to bottom in one glance.
“Company Commander, the training plan is no problem; half a day arranged daily for special training, total one month of time; I have confidence to bring the whole company’s 3 kilometers, 5 kilometers, and 8 kilometers all to excellent, only…”
Chen Jun stopped halfway through his words, smiling and looking at Gao Cheng without speaking.
“If you have something to say, say it straight; what do you mean stopping halfway.”
Gao Cheng was a straightforward person, also impatient, urging impatiently; suddenly he remembered something and instantly realized.
Pointing at Chen Jun with a finger and laughing scoldingly: “Chen Jun ah Chen Jun, you really don’t scatter the eagle without seeing the rabbit; deliberately holding me up here, right?”
“Hehey, Company Commander, I didn’t do it on purpose; this wasn’t what we agreed on.” Chen Jun smiled calmly.
It wasn’t Chen Jun being greedy, but he had to be.
The combined arms division’s goal was so big, the difficulty so high, and the remaining time just two or three years—short if said short, but actually not long if said long.
To achieve the ultimate goal, Chen Jun must seize every “benefit.”
Climb higher, gain more right to speak.
To maximize the success rate!
“Agreed in advance?”
Hong Xingguo’s curiosity was piqued, laughing as he asked: “How so… you two privately made some transaction?”
“Haha, not exactly a transaction.”
Gao Cheng was amused, explaining: “At the time, I agreed with Chen Jun that as long as he could pull his results to excellent, I’d request merit for him at the regiment.”
“If the whole company’s cross-country results all reach excellent standard, that’s an achievement no company in the whole regiment can achieve; if Chen Jun really can do it, requesting merit is a must; I support it, and at that time I’ll personally write the report.” Hong Xingguo supported strongly.
“See, the Political Instructor has already spoken; now you should be satisfied.” Gao Cheng said cheerfully.
In the mid-year grand competition’s running projects, each individual event is divided into individual and team; if the whole company is at the excellent line, then team first is basically guaranteed.
Paired with record-breaking Chen Jun and Wu Liu Yi.
Basically equivalent to in the mid-year grand competition, taking all cross-country projects except the fully armed load 8 kilometers cross-country.
At that time, Steel Seventh Company would inevitably overshadow all others, becoming the brightest star in 702 Regiment.
This was Gao Cheng’s life goal!!
Previously, Gao Cheng could only rely on his background, forcing and grabbing to claim being 702 Regiment’s best company commander, but forcibly taken always left some unease in his heart.
Only if obtained openly and squarely could Gao Cheng stand tall with a straight back confidently.
“Thanks to the Political Instructor; with your words, I will do my utmost; only, I have one small request, not sure if I can make it.” Chen Jun said.
“What request? Just say it.”
As long as it could improve the company’s results, Gao Cheng could give up anything.
“It’s that I also want to do a small experiment, using my own body, utilizing the company’s resources, to see if we can make a breakthrough in the load 8 kilometers cross-country.”
Heavy load long-distance cross-country is different from light gear; the latter usually favors tall and sturdy builds for better results.
Like Wu Liu Yi’s not bulky not slim physique!
While the former requires carrying dozens of jin while running, speed becomes secondary, endurance becomes core; if the body isn’t strong enough, it simply can’t bear the load, and won’t last long before the body collapses.
Instead, a physique with moderately thicker muscle dimensions and greater strength is superior.
But Steel Seventh Company currently has no such person.
Chen Jun in his previous life was a human tank, never knowing what load was.
This life though height shortened by over ten centimeters, this 89 meters height is enough; find a way to build up muscle girth.
At that time…
Light gear and unarmed might not outrun Wu Liu Yi, but in load cross-country, Chen Jun was confident he could outrun the whole regiment, making up Steel Seventh Company’s last shortcoming.
Though he might lose some personal honors, the company would gain more honors.
Chen Jun felt it was worth it!
Chen Jun, a soldier across lifetimes, no longer cared about individual, team’s glory came first.
“Chen Jun, your body is really too thin, and this aspect has always been Sixth Company’s strength; that Ba Te Er is very strong; I think there’s no need to force it; even if we lose just this one project, we can accept it.”
Hong Xingguo knew the difficulty of this project and wasn’t optimistic about Chen Jun’s bamboo pole physique.
But this wasn’t the main point.
The main point was that in heavy load long-distance cross-country project, there was already an insurmountable mountain; the challenge difficulty was simply too high.
