Chapter 190: The First Step In Forming The Composite Battalion!
Chen Jun drank while instilling various ideas, casually conveying his thoughts at the wine table with smiles and laughs into the minds of the leaders present.
Especially when talking about the various advantages of the combined arms battalion, it was the kind of overwhelming power.
These old comrades, including the division commander, were all stirred up by this young man Chen Jun, reviving the passion of their youth.
They wished they could immediately form a combined arms battalion and make T Division the strongest division in the entire army.
However.
For now, it was just a thought.
Everyone, including the division commander and political commissar, knew very well from what Chen Jun said that a combined arms battalion wasn’t something a single division could create.
Whether the combined arms battalion would ultimately be approved still depended on whether Group Army Higher Command gave the nod.
As the chief officers of T Division, the most they could do was to take out Chen Jun’s combined arms theory and personally deliver it to the military region to lobby the military region chief.
Whether it would succeed was uncertain.
Of course.
Such a big matter couldn’t be rushed and had to be handled step by step slowly.
What the division commander and political commissar wanted to do now was also something they could personally handle, which was to enhance T Division’s overall strength.
How to enhance it?
Very simple!
Seven Zero Two Regiment was able to fight to a draw in this exercise against the blue army, which had absolute equipment and terrain advantages.
That meant Seven Zero Two Regiment had mature experience that other regiments could deeply learn from.
In this way.
They could draw personnel from Seven Zero Two Regiment to go to other regiments for experience sharing and lectures, allowing other regiments to learn from Seven Zero Two Regiment.
This way, next time they encountered troops like the blue army, they would know how to respond and how to leverage their own advantages.
No need to say more.
At least they wouldn’t be as passive as before, getting easily pushed over in one wave.
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After Steel Seventh Company Commander Gao Cheng and Chen Jun finished the feast, they drank until about seventy to eighty percent and returned to camp with the company, buzzing with energy from the alcohol and getting busy.
Individual merits and awards could be kept personally, but collective commendations, third-class merits, and second-class merits definitely needed to be prominently displayed.
The small conference room, also serving as the hall of honor, soon had several more brocade banners added.
“Oh man, look, just look, we’ve earned so many merits and awards recently, it’s really troublesome, the walls aren’t enough to hang all the brocade banners, it’s truly worrisome.”
Gao Cheng shook his head and sighed dramatically, but he couldn’t hide the laugh lines at the corners of his eyes.
This wave of showing off…
Was simply perfect!
“Old Gao, if there’s not enough space here, no problem, my room is still pretty empty, hang them in mine then, as many as there are, I’ll take them all, haha.”
Political Instructor Hong Xingguo joked verbally, but he really thought that way in his heart.
Every brocade banner represented honor, and no one would mind their own honors were too many; hanging them red and bright in one’s own room, even if they couldn’t be eaten as food, just looking at them could refresh the mind.
“No way, you have to line up behind me, fill my room first.” Gao Cheng laughed.
“If both our rooms are filled, then we’ll have to trouble our deputy company commander, Old Chen, we’re counting on you for our two rooms, haha.”
As soon as Hong Xingguo said this, it immediately drew laughter from everyone.
Chen Jun rarely acted smug and showed off: “Then Instructor, you need to hurry and sew a few cloth bags, make them big, best to use burlap, that’s sturdy.”
“My burlap bags? What for?”
Political Instructor Hong Xingguo didn’t get it, and Gao Cheng hadn’t reacted either.
“Next time we go to the division, with so many brocade banners, our hands won’t be enough, won’t we need to bring burlap bags to carry them?” Chen Jun explained seriously.
Chen Jun’s showing off felt extremely satisfying, especially paired with his deadpan expression.
The instructor and company commander laughed even louder.
With the company commander and instructor in great moods, the warriors below were all high in morale.
Steel Seventh Company’s morale was ignited.
Its guts were ignited.
Its spirit, energy, and mind were all ignited.
At this moment, Steel Seventh Company was terrifyingly strong.
Compared to the same time period in the original drama, where they lost miserably in the exercise, Cheng Cai’s defenses were broken and he ran off to Red Third Company, overshadowed by the gloom of reorganization.
It was a complete extreme contrast.
The company’s overall morale was sky-high, and whatever work they did was exceptionally efficient.
While preparing to charge toward the combined arms battalion, Chen Jun also targeted the shortcomings exposed by Steel Seventh Company in the exercise and began a new round of improvement training.
But the training had lasted less than a week when the regiment brought an order from the division.
Get rich first yourself, then lead others to get rich.
This social economic development model could similarly be applied to the army.
This time, division headquarters mobilized the entire Seven Zero Two Regiment; the companies that had performed well in the exercise by executing according to Chen Jun’s tactical play all received orders from the division.
Artillery Company 11 needed to select a squad to go share experience with all artillery troops in the division.
The two anti-aircraft companies needed to each send one squad to similarly share experience with all anti-air defense units in the division.
Tank Company 1 and Second Company also needed to each send one squad.
Each battalion’s cookhouses responsible for rear logistics cooking needed to draw two cooks to form a squad and share how they provided support during the large-scale exercise.
Steel Seventh Company, as the most outstanding and the only combined arms company in the exercise, had an even heavier task.
It needed to send training teams of no fewer than two people each for night shooting, jungle sniping, company-level anti-air defense combat, reconnaissance infiltration, mountainous terrain combat, multi-arm coordination…
And so on, totaling only about ten subjects.
Moreover, all training teams sent by Steel Seventh Company would be led and headed by Chen Jun.
As the hottest cadre right now, besides leading teams, Chen Jun was also required by the division commander, with regiment assistance, to form a Sharp Sword Exercise tactics lecture squad for division-wide touring lectures.
It was stipulated that every regiment must attend the lectures, with each lecture lasting no less than two days.
The specific lecture content and arrangements were to be fully handled by Chen Jun himself, as long as they met these two stipulations.
Chen Jun’s lecture time was limited to two days, plus the time for various training teams to complete their training.
The time Chen Jun spent in each regiment would be at least no less than a week, and going through the whole division would conservatively take a month.
This sounded like a waste of time, but Chen Jun himself was quite willing.
First, Steel Seventh Company had transformed into a combined arms company in less than a year; even with excellent performance in the exercise, it still needed time to settle.
Preparations for the combined arms battalion would likely take until next year at the earliest.
In the coming half year, Chen Jun actually didn’t have any particularly arduous tasks, and time-wise he was relatively free.
Going out to share experience with the whole division wouldn’t affect Steel Seventh Company’s development at all.
Second, going out with the division’s order this time, Chen Jun could take the opportunity to understand T Division’s overall situation in detail on the ground.
Getting acquainted with all the regiments in T Division first would make it easier to ask for people or whatever later.
Finally…
And most importantly.
The people scooped up all had their own strengths, and each regiment had its own fortes.
While understanding each regiment, Chen Jun could also enrich himself through this opportunity, elevating himself by learning from each regiment.
A comprehensive understanding of various grassroots troops would lay the foundation for creating the combined arms battalion next.
After all, though the combined arms battalion had a relatively small establishment, its branches of service were actually more complex than a regiment’s; learning the strengths from each regiment and adapting them for the combined arms battalion was a very good approach.
For these three considerations, Chen Jun actively prepared.
