Chapter 219: One Man Builds An Entire Unit!
Yuan Lang didn’t come to find the Captain on his own initiative; he was specifically called over by the Captain.
The incident at the shooting range, Captain Tie already knew all about it.
As one of the few excellent ones, the cadet whom he had personally gone to poach through connections was eliminated just like that. Captain Tie felt it was truly too regrettable.
He took two puffs of smoke, looked at Yuan Lang and asked, “Does he really have to leave?”
“He must leave!”
Yuan Lang’s face was expressionless, but his words were very firm.
“This batch of cadets, we went to great lengths and finally managed to bring them over, especially this one who wants to leave—he was personally poached by me. You just don’t think much of him that much?” After Captain Tie finished speaking, he took another puff of smoke.
From how frequently Captain Tie was smoking, it was evident that his emotions were very intense at this moment.
If it weren’t for Yuan Lang being the chief instructor of the training camp, and Yuan Lang always having the final say on training matters, and Captain Tie always respecting Yuan Lang’s decisions.
Captain Tie really wanted to issue an order to let Tuo Yonggang stay and give it another try.
“It’s not that I don’t think much of him, nor is it that his ability is lacking—if his ability were lacking, I would teach him. It’s his self-control ability that exceeds his limit.”
Yuan Lang picked up Captain Tie’s cigarette case from the table, opened it, took out one, and lit it himself.
Then he continued, “If it were a month ago, I might have given him a chance. At that time, I had time, and A Squadron you could accommodate him.
But now, A Squadron has heavy missions and can’t spare special time to adjust for him.”
Under military reform toward informatization, the troops are all changing. Although A Squadron didn’t reduce personnel and even expanded, it added more training tasks.
For example, researching modernized special operations routes, developing new special warfare techniques and concepts.
Especially the urgently needed counter-terrorism and riot control.
A Squadron, already shouldering heavy responsibilities, needs to go full throttle to complete missions and simply has no spare idle time just to cultivate a certain warrior.
Otherwise, it would affect A Squadron’s entire upcoming training plan route.
So even though Yuan Lang knew Tuo Yonggang was very excellent and only needed to correct minor flaws, he still insisted on not retaining him.
Circumstances forced it.
It’s impossible to give special privileges to a certain soldier.
Captain Tie also knew A Squadron’s situation and knew even better how heavy A Squadron’s missions were, so he didn’t force Yuan Lang to keep people.
Seeing that the matter had no room for maneuver, Captain Tie could only let it go and teased, “Aren’t you afraid he’ll really go complain about you?”
“Tch~”
Yuan Lang sneered disdainfully, “Impossible. If he complains after a little grievance, what could he complain about me for? Doesn’t he think he’s lost enough face already?
Moreover, I don’t believe among these forty-four people, there’s really such a spineless guy who, not being good enough himself, goes whining to mom and dad like a child.”
“Then… out of this batch of soldiers, how many do you plan to ultimately keep?” Captain Tie asked seriously.
“The training camp hasn’t ended yet, so it’s undetermined. If none of them make it to the end, I won’t keep a single one,” Yuan Lang said cruelly.
“You…”
Captain Tie believed in Yuan Lang’s ability but was helpless against Yuan Lang’s overly harsh standards.
At that moment.
“Knock knock knock.”
“Report!”
The door was knocked on, and from the voice, it was Chen Jun.
“Yo, how come Assistant Instructor Chen came over?”
It wasn’t even dawn yet, so Captain Tie was very surprised by Chen Jun’s appearance and curious about his purpose here. He responded toward the entrance, “Come in.”
“Captain, Captain Yuan.”
Chen Jun pushed the door open, came in, saw Yuan Lang without any surprise, stood at the entrance and saluted, then calmly greeted the two.
“Assistant Instructor Chen, coming over so early in the morning, is there some urgent matter?” Captain Tie asked.
“It is indeed an urgent matter.”
Chen Jun didn’t plan to beat around the bush and got straight to the point, “Captain, I have a request. I hope you can help by arranging Tuo Yonggang, who was just eliminated, to our Steel Seventh Company.
Our regiment is forming the entire army’s first informatized combined arms battalion according to the group army’s requirements, and we now need a large number of talents to join.
Although Tuo Yonggang isn’t suitable for A Squadron, I think he’s definitely suitable for the combined arms battalion.”
As soon as Chen Jun stated his request, Captain Tie and Captain Yuan’s eyes both changed, showing not only surprise but also sudden realization.
“I was wondering why you took the initiative to come to our A Squadron as teaching assistant. I thought I picked up a great deal, but you were waiting here for me, eyeing this whole group of people from my training team.”
Yuan Lang was truly convinced by Chen Jun and said with a wry smile, “You’re poaching talent too ruthlessly, even poaching from A Squadron.”
“Hahaha.”
Captain Tie also burst into laughter, pointing at Chen Jun admiringly, “Assistant Instructor Chen, you really live up to being Seven Zero Two’s first military advisor. Is this move of yours what I can understand as letting the wolf into the house? Haha.”
“Ahem.”
Chen Jun fake-coughed twice and chuckled, “How is this letting the wolf into the house? We’re each getting what we need, and besides, I haven’t affected you guys.
Before the cadets were eliminated, I didn’t proactively exchange or shake their morale.
Instead, I wait until they’re eliminated by you and become unwanted cadets, then casually pick them up home. At most, it’s making use of waste.
Moreover, people selected with such great effort, just letting them go back like that would waste talent, right? Joining the combined arms battalion is so much better. Once it’s formed, A Squadron will share in the merit too.”
Chen Jun knew how to pull people in with big promises.
To paint the big promise on A Squadron’s head, Chen Jun was truly one of a kind.
“Good one, making use of waste, haha.”
Captain Tie laughed even louder, but then his tone suddenly shifted as he said, “I indeed don’t need the eliminated people, but how to get him to your Seven Zero Two is your business. I can’t help with that.”
Captain Tie thought he had grasped leverage and wanted to take this opportunity to get benefits from Chen Jun.
From the fact that Chen Jun could come up with so much theory, Captain Tie had sufficient reason to believe that Chen Jun’s mind had even more goods, just not yet brought out.
This was a perfect chance to fish more benefits from Chen Jun.
“All cadets participating in the training camp, their files were transferred to A Squadron together, meaning they are now A Squadron people. Where to send them next, A Squadron has absolute right to speak.”
Chen Jun first clarified the relationships, then responded to Captain Tie’s words, “Three pieces of theory in exchange for three requests—this is written in black and white clearly.
One of them is that, without harming A Squadron’s interests, I have the right during the training camp period to request A Squadron to satisfy my demands.
I think you haven’t forgotten, Captain.”
Chen Jun knew Captain Tie wanted to add chips; following his words could achieve the goal, but he didn’t want to be led by Captain Tie. He wanted to master the initiative.
“Yuan Lang, does the agreement have this clause?”
Captain Tie actually knew very well inside and was purely asking on purpose.
“Captain, it does indeed have this clause.”
Yuan Lang had already guessed Chen Jun’s “scheme” and asked speechlessly, “Assistant Instructor Chen, you don’t intend to… take all the eliminated cadets to your place, do you? Making A Squadron make wedding dress for you?”
“It’s not exactly making wedding dress, but the meaning is indeed that.”
At this point, there was no need to hide anymore, so Chen Jun spoke openly, “My purpose in coming here is for this batch of cadets.
A Squadron only picks the most excellent ones; the eliminated will all be sent back to their original units.
I think that’s too wasteful. Our regiment’s combined arms battalion happens to need people right now. Why not do a favor along the way and arrange them to us?
A Squadron wants to become stronger, and our regiment’s combined arms battalion needs to become stronger too.”
Chen Jun was so candid.
And most importantly, it truly didn’t affect any of A Squadron’s interests.
Yuan Lang and Captain Tie couldn’t criticize Chen Jun, but satisfying Chen Jun’s request just like that would mean being played around by him.
That would be too embarrassing!
Captain Tie could only take another approach and said in a different way, “Although it’s written in the agreement, cross-branch personnel transfer isn’t a small matter.
And with such a big appetite, transferring so many people, I’m afraid it’s not feasible.”
Chen Jun knew Captain Tie on one hand couldn’t let go of face, and on the other was demanding benefits, not wanting to work for free without any gain.
He readily threw out a card, “Before this training camp ends, of the three pieces of theory I gave you, pick any one at random, and I’ll convert it into a training plan for you as hard work fee. How about that?”
The card Chen Jun threw out was very tempting; Yuan Lang and Captain Tie’s eyes both lit up.
How to convert theory into usable lesson plans was something the two had been racking their brains over, and to this day, they still had no clue.
With their abilities, it wasn’t impossible, but it would inevitably take a very long time.
And A Squadron was short on time right now.
Asking Chen Jun to join in compiling it—Captain Tie and Yuan Lang, having been hoodwinked by Chen Jun before, were afraid he’d take the chance to demand an exorbitant price.
So even though the training camp had started a week ago, they hadn’t yet discussed this with Chen Jun.
Now Chen Jun proactively raised it, and the condition for completion was not as difficult as Captain Tie said for A Squadron—actually, it was just a matter of one sentence.
The training camp cadets were already A Squadron people; Captain Tie could transfer them wherever he wanted.
It meant solving the biggest current problem without any cost—this was simply great news for Yuan Lang and Captain Tie.
In excitement, Captain Tie was about to blurt out agreement to Chen Jun’s condition.
But Yuan Lang spoke half a second before him, countering by upping the ante again, “Cross-branch soldier transfer is very complicated. You must write all three lesson plans. Perhaps by then, we can try it.”
Captain Tie, who had nearly blurted out agreement on the spot, hearing Yuan Lang’s bargaining, immediately narrowed his eyes in a smile.
He was just short of giving Yuan Lang a thumbs up!
“That won’t do. Three months—I only have three months. After that, I have to go work on the combined arms battalion. Where would I find time to write them? Even if I work overtime like crazy, I can at most produce two lesson plans for you.”
Chen Jun bargained with Yuan Lang just like doing business.
Clearly able to do it, but pretending not to be able to.
This was also a skill!
“Fine, two it is.”
Captain Tie, afraid Chen Jun would back out, agreed before Yuan Lang could speak, putting on an act as he said, “I’ll figure out a way for you and try my best to make it happen.”
“One more thing.”
Yuan Lang immediately followed up, “In A Squadron, everything follows the principle of voluntariness. Transferring eliminated cadets also requires their own willingness.
If they don’t want to go to Steel Seventh Company, we can’t help you either.”
“No problem at all.”
Chen Jun agreed readily and immediately said, “Then let’s start with Tuo Yonggang. I’ve already talked to him, and he’s agreed to join Steel Seventh Company.
I’ve already arranged things on Seven Zero Two Regiment’s side. You just need to contact our regiment commander. Once Tuo Yonggang gets there, Regiment Commander Wang will take full responsibility for reception and arrangements.”
“You arranged it long ago? You indeed had this planned,” Yuan Lang was convinced, thoroughly convinced.
Usually, it was he, Yuan Lang, who schemed against others, but unexpectedly, he was schemed against dead tight by Chen Jun, and most importantly, he hadn’t noticed throughout.
With Chen Jun’s meticulous mindset, Yuan Lang truly had nothing to say.
“One person achieving a whole troop—that’s a legendary thing that’s rare and hard to come by. But Old Wang meeting you is his fortune. It’s you who achieved Seven Zero Two Regiment, not Seven Zero Two Regiment achieving you.”
Captain Tie looked at Chen Jun full of regret, enviously to the point of sour tongue as he said, “I didn’t believe in ‘hating to meet too late’ before, but now I truly do.”
Chen Jun single-handedly driving a whole troop couldn’t be described merely as talent or genius.
Such a person, no matter which troop he went to—even if thrown to a godforsaken place—he could bring out a nationally top-tier troop.
This was Chen Jun’s strength!
Yet such an excellent and powerful young talent just couldn’t be brought under his own command—how could it not make Captain Tie feel bad inside.
“Captain, thank you for the praise. I’m just doing what I can.”
Chen Jun smiled modestly without arrogance or servility, also touched by Captain Tie’s genuine emotions, then said domineeringly, “Although I can only belong to one troop, my ability can help all troops that need it.
Although I can’t become a special forces soldier myself, I can use my methods to let more people become special forces soldiers—more excellent special forces soldiers.”
“Good, well said.”
Captain Tie applauded Chen Jun’s words, no longer considering personal gains and losses, and said directly, “For Tuo Yonggang’s matter, I’ll arrange it right now.
You go find him now, have him pack up, and wait in the dormitory first. Once I’ve handled it here, I’ll send a car to take him over.
Oh, right, for Seven Zero Two Regiment’s side, you make the call yourself. The telephone room has the military line.”
“Got it. Thank you, Captain, Captain Yuan. I’ll go make the call now.”
Tuo Yonggang’s matter was perfectly resolved, and Chen Jun was in an exceptionally great mood. He saluted, then strode out of the office.
And as Chen Jun left the office, Yuan Lang and Captain Tie started talking again.
The topic of their conversation was Chen Jun!
The effort Chen Jun showed for Seven Zero Two Regiment, the determination to make his old troop stronger, was truly the point that touched them the most.
One person achieving a whole troop—a legendary thing was unfolding right under their noses.
