Chapter 239: Overly Clever, Stirring Up A Hornet’s Nest!
The Combined Arms Battalion’s five companies fully moved into the base, and over the next three days, coordination non-commissioned officers from other regiments in T Division successively took their positions.
Those who came were all top-notch excellent non-commissioned officers, with outstanding physical fitness and professional ability.
Chen Jun collaborated with several logistics staff officers from the Combined Arms Battalion to allocate the transferred non-commissioned officers by specialty, filling them into the various companies of the Combined Arms Battalion.
At exactly five o’clock in the afternoon of June 30th, all coordination personnel were in place and assigned to their respective companies.
The second stage of the Combined Arms Battalion’s formation work was thus formally and perfectly completed, with no flaws in any part, absolutely qualifying as a model for forming troops.
And the one who performed the best in the second stage was, without any surprise, Chen Jun, none other.
Without Chen Jun precisely grasping human nature, thoroughly hitting the most urgent demand point of unit cadre, and capturing the Combined Arms Regiment cadre with one trick of painting a big pie, the second stage would inevitably have been a complete mess.
Through the work in the second stage, Chen Jun also demonstrated to the Military Advisory Group leaders who were paying attention to him his efficient and reliable work efficiency and ability.
Presumably, in the minds of superior leaders, Chen Jun’s value must have surged again.
Time came to July 1st.
On this sacred Party Founding Day, the most important third stage whole training of the Pilot Combined Arms Battalion, the pre-training opening ceremony, was solemnly held.
This time was even more grand than the last move-in, with the leadership level raised another notch.
With high-ranking officers presiding, the opening ceremony had no accidents, and under the leader’s anticipatory address, it thus grandly kicked off.
Domestically, there is a common phenomenon, which in vernacular terms is “new official takes office with three fires.”
Translated literally, it means just that.
After the top leader of a new unit takes office, to deter those below, quickly control the overall situation, and show his authority, he will first deliberately pick three troublesome matters to handle with absolute right to speak.
Taking this opportunity to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys, burning away all dissatisfaction and resistance against him.
Letting everyone know that in this place, who is the real boss, now that I have come to this place, whose words you should listen to.
Sun Dongping seemed to be well versed in this!
He knew that the Combined Arms Battalion was set up by the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, and that he had parachuted in to pick the fruit, inevitably facing resistance from above and below the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment.
And the main framework of the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment was all veterans of the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment.
If he couldn’t intimidate everyone and make them obediently listen, then his subsequent work promotion in the Combined Arms Battalion would absolutely be very difficult.
Between solving with strength and communication talks, and using high-pressure means to deter, these two paths.
Due to Sun Dongping’s personality, he chose the latter.
Moreover, Sun Dongping knew in the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, especially in the newly formed Combined Arms Battalion, which people to use for burning the fire, for the best effect of killing the chicken to warn the monkeys.
To kill, pick the biggest to kill.
To burn, pick the most awesome to burn.
As long as he could take down the most thorny one, it would equal him being the most powerful existence here, absolutely able to scare the little shrimps below into submission.
Sun Dongping thought this way.
And there were two who met these conditions for his target, they were respectively Gao Cheng who had just been promoted to deputy battalion commander, and Chen Jun who had successfully built the Combined Arms Company.
The former, Gao Cheng’s background was too deep, not daring to move him easily.
Could only give up.
The latter had no background in the troops, only a pair of parents doing business in society, and businessmen’s influence on the army was very minimal, no need to worry at all.
In addition, Chen Jun’s military rank and position were both low, yet his prestige in the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment was extremely high.
Sun Dongping naturally thought that as long as he could make Chen Jun submit, then the others below, even if they had ideas, wouldn’t dare to bounce.
Sun Dongping felt this idea was flawless, and on the second day of the opening ceremony, he began to stir things up.
First, to undermine Chen Jun’s power and status, to let everyone realize that Chen Jun’s words didn’t work here, and that he was the one with the most right to speak in the Combined Arms Battalion.
The first fire Sun Dongping burned was to stop the construction of the Special Operations Platoon’s camp and training ground.
The reasons given were three points:
First was the statement he had made long ago, denying the value of special operations in battalion-level combat scale, considering it completely superfluous, a meaningless redundant configuration.
The Special Reconnaissance Company already had a reconnaissance squad, and with the reconnaissance squad, it was sufficient to meet combat needs.
Sun Dongping had indeed studied abroad, but he hadn’t learned much.
Now, foreign combined arms battalions were not complete either, still in the exploration stage, and even in the 21st century, not yet perfect.
Just that at this period, they led domestically, far from reaching the correct answer.
One side’s landscape nurtures one side’s people is common sense, yet Sun Dongping completely copied foreign combined arms units rigidly, without considering the troops’ attributes and demands.
The starting point itself was problematic.
Not to mention that what he learned from abroad actually had the limitations of the era.
At this time, foreign combined arms units’ development concepts were merely the concepts of this 1990s era, and the tactics only applicable to this current era.
Fundamentally no comparability with Chen Jun’s concepts from the 21st century.
Completely failing to understand that on future battlefields, the combined arms battalion would become an independent combat unit, configuring variously according to mission demands.
Not all combined arms battalions are the same!
There is no such thing as using one combined arms battalion template to create one suitable for all combat environments, completely universal.
Combined arms battalions also need fine division of labor to make their combat attributes more diverse.
For example, heavy combined arms battalions with all tanks and heavy artillery, mountain combined arms battalions with infantry and tank coordination, assault combined arms battalions with air-ground integration, etc.
And for a troop type like the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, it itself did not lack armored tanks and artillery units.
As part of the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, the combined arms battalion’s combat missions it needed to undertake had to be flexible.
Chen Jun had fully considered this when building the combined arms battalion: the Armored Infantry Regiment’s advantage lay in frontal combat, meaning it was the fiercest at fighting frontal charge battles.
But future battlefields were not traditional wars, not tank vs. tank brutal killing on the battlefield.
Even for troops maining frontal charges, to adapt to the future multi-variable war dynamics, it was necessary to create diverse tactical play.
More tactical play means adapting to more battlefields, branches of service having more adjustability.
That equals stronger adaptability.
Making combat effectiveness stronger.
And the Armored Infantry Division was already the strongest on the ground; to enhance the Armored Infantry Division’s diversity, the only possibility was to start from the air.
Based on this hard demand, the assault combined arms battalion was the most appropriate answer.
And as an assault combined arms battalion maining speed, air-ground integration was inevitably the core skill.
And parachuting was not an ordinary combat skill; this was an extremely dangerous skill requiring long-term training, and not all warriors could master it.
Plus the uniqueness and danger of parachuting, ordinary troops simply couldn’t bear it.
Only troops specially cultivated for it could perfectly undertake air-ground combat missions, maximizing the combined arms battalion’s combat effectiveness.
Plus needing to complete reconnaissance and other tasks, even paratroopers couldn’t fully handle it.
So Chen Jun thought of creating in the combined arms battalion a high-precision special operations force, to extremize the combined arms battalion’s combat effectiveness.
Of course.
The structure of this Pilot Combined Arms Battalion that Chen Jun built might become the only non-replicable one, after all, no one could be like Chen Jun, having Chen Jun’s exaggerated ability to set up a special operations platoon in one battalion.
But as long as the assault combined arms battalion Chen Jun built could perfectly conclude in the pilot assessment, and be supplemented into full establishment afterward.
Then Chen Jun’s assault combined arms battalion could become the template in this domestic field.
In the future, even if unable to similarly build a special operations platoon, could transfer people from airborne troops, and after corresponding training, undertake the same tasks.
Combat effectiveness might drop a bit, but horizontal comparison would absolutely be sufficient.
Sun Dongping’s so-called redundant and wasteful could only say his thought was too limited, completely not understanding Chen Jun’s layout, just deciding based on personal presumption.
Sun Dongping’s second reason targeting the special operations platoon was that the combined arms battalion’s military expenses were very tight.
Under the current limited military expenses, completely no need to waste so many resources on it, better to save and use on other knife tips.
This sounded very reasonable.
In reality, full of loopholes.
The third reason played on conflict division, questioning Chen Jun for giving special treatment to a minority.
Repeatedly saying all were warriors of one battalion, all glowing and heating up for building the combined arms battalion, why could the special operations platoon have an independent camp.
In Sun Dongping’s view, it had to be equal treatment, same as the Seventh Company’s warriors.
This reason was deliberately creating conflict, making others in the combined arms battalion reject the special operations platoon’s privileges, thereby extending to special views on Chen Jun.
Through this to strike Chen Jun’s influence!
Sun Dongping repeatedly said it was based on the above three objective and subjective reasons, so deciding to stop the special operations platoon camp construction, this was an adjustment for the overall situation, absolutely not due to any personal reasons.
Once Sun Dongping’s order was issued, it immediately caused a sensation throughout the battalion.
Even the regiment was alarmed!
Everyone knew Sun Dongping wanted to establish prestige, and at the start would definitely pull some stunt, and would make certain arrangements targeting Chen Jun, this opponent.
But everyone never expected that Sun Dongping would actually touch the main artery.
Right at the start, slashing with one knife at the all-officer special operations platoon that Chen Jun had spent great effort to build, already considered the Combined Arms Battalion’s characteristic brand, basically crippling it.
The camp dormitories not being high-spec, this point could barely be managed.
From Chen Jun’s plan of four people per room, because the Steel Seventh Company Camp itself lacked dormitories, probably turning into a dozen people per dormitory.
Almost becoming a big communal bed.
The special operations platoon warriors weren’t unable to endure hardship; as long as they could learn real special warfare technology, make themselves stronger here.
Sleeping in a big communal bed would be a bit uncomfortable, but definitely could overcome it.
But without a dedicated special warfare training ground, the special operations platoon training with ordinary warriors in ordinary training would be like taking a Rolls-Royce to run Didi.
Only then could special warfare technology be trained out if there were ghosts.
If special forces soldiers were really that easy to train, needing no special treatment or extra resources, then wouldn’t special forces soldiers be everywhere?
This knife slashed too heavily!
Warriors from other companies in the Combined Arms Battalion were already unhappy, feeling Sun Dongping was really messing around; even to establish prestige, he couldn’t mess with the Combined Arms Battalion’s core.
Everyone believed in the Combined Arms Battalion establishment Chen Jun wrote; adding the special operations platoon definitely had its big role.
Now slashed with one knife, definitely affecting combat effectiveness.
Everyone chose to join the Combined Arms Battalion, and took joining the Combined Arms Battalion as honor and pride, precisely because combined arms troops’ combat effectiveness was far higher than regular troops.
Coming here everyone could become stronger, so they were positive about joining here.
Now Sun Dongping for such a small matter directly touched the Combined Arms Battalion’s foundation, causing combat effectiveness to drop, warriors definitely unwilling.
Plus Sun Dongping was originally an outsider, still robbed the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment Second Battalion Commander’s position, officers and soldiers above and below originally had considerable emotions against him.
The vast majority of officers and soldiers in the Combined Arms Battalion began very dissatisfied with Sun Dongping.
Sun Dongping still didn’t know that his self-smart idea of killing the chicken to warn the monkeys unexpectedly poked a hornet’s nest, the explosives barrel already on the edge of ignition.
Even Gao Cheng, upon hearing this news, immediately found Sun Dongping wanting to reason with him.
Why stop the special operations platoon camp construction; the construction funding came from the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment pooling itself, wouldn’t affect the Combined Arms Battalion’s normal operations.
As a result, Sun Dongping threw back one sentence.
Funding was only temporarily advanced by the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, ultimately still to be allocated by the Group Army; wasting the army’s money was a challenge to organizational discipline.
And using the battalion commander’s identity to pressure, telling Gao Cheng not to question his orders.
Gao Cheng was indeed very proud, but he absolutely wasn’t someone disregarding military law, nor someone using background connections to forcibly suppress people.
Sun Dongping was determined not to give any face, Gao Cheng was very angry but had no way.
Political Instructor Ma Tianxiang on this matter maintained his positioning as a political officer, standing on a neutral angle without favoring any side.
Only Chief Staff Officer Man Guangzhi stood out, kindly suggesting whether Sun Dongping could discuss it in a meeting.
Sun Dongping wouldn’t even give Gao Cheng face, dead set on using this matter to thoroughly suppress Chen Jun, naturally wouldn’t give Man Guangzhi face.
As for the regiment commander, political commissar and others of the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, at this time it really wasn’t easy to intervene.
The Combined Arms Battalion formation already had Military Region involvement, having detached from the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment’s actual control; Regiment Commander Wang couldn’t directly order.
Plus as the legitimate battalion commander, Sun Dongping indeed had the right to issue such an order.
In the situation where multiple parties’ persuasions were useless, Sun Dongping’s first fire upon taking office smoothly burned up, and directly burned on the core figure Chen Jun.
Sun Dongping was full of confidence before issuing the order.
Feeling that killing the chicken to warn the monkeys by first killing the leader, the one with the most prestige, would definitely intimidate those below, letting them know who was the king here.
And Chen Jun would definitely be infuriated thereby, jump out to oppose him.
Thus falling into his trap.
