Chapter 240: Battalion Commander Sun Who Doomed Himself!
Sun Dongping’s idea was very ideal, having calculated Chen Jun’s subsequent reaction.
With the identity of a subordinate openly falling out with a superior, this was something very taboo even outside, let alone in the disciplined army.
At that time, Sun Dongping could use this as a reason to once again harshly suppress Chen Jun.
With a wave of consecutive attacks, he would directly bring Chen Jun down.
Sun Dongping being able to think of this set showed he was indeed someone good at using stratagems, with far deeper scheming than ordinary people; if not careful, one could really be calculated to death by him.
However, Chen Jun’s reaction left him very confused.
His proudest creation had messed with Chen Jun, yet Chen Jun showed no action at all, not even appearing, as if he hadn’t heard it.
The entire Combined Arms Battalion, even the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, was helping Chen Jun speak out for him.
Only Chen Jun had no voice!
“Could it be that he’s afraid of me? Already backed down?”
Sun Dongping couldn’t understand Chen Jun and could only forcibly explain from his own perspective.
Little did he know his guess was worlds apart from the real situation; Chen Jun wasn’t afraid at all, but was already laughing heartily.
Chen Jun was just afraid that Sun Dongping, being deeply calculating, would use a conciliatory policy to slowly win over the people below.
In that case, Chen Jun really wouldn’t have a chance.
After all, people’s hearts are made of flesh, and there’s a saying that one doesn’t hit a smiling face.
As long as Sun Dongping showed enough sincerity, truly considering the warriors below from their starting point in all matters.
The people below would definitely sense Sun Dongping’s genuine goodwill toward them.
Plus, Sun Dongping himself had strength, at least far superior to ordinary people in military stratagems, and had some understanding of new tactical play.
If sincerely used to drill the Combined Arms Battalion, even if the combat effectiveness improvement wasn’t as good as Chen Jun’s, it would still far exceed ordinary battalions.
At that time, even if Chen Jun had influence, Sun Dongping could stand firm amid the voices, and as Battalion Commander, gain sufficient control.
At that point…
The Combined Arms Battalion would really become Sun Dongping’s, and the fruit that Chen Jun had painstakingly planted and nurtured would really be picked by him.
Unfortunately, Sun Dongping had schemes but no strategy, eager yet wanting to eat hot tofu.
Still a bit short of the right heat!
Now, Sun Dongping had adopted strong-arm tactics, seemingly using an iron fist to thoroughly control the Combined Arms Battalion, which in Chen Jun’s view was seeking his own death.
Upon hearing Sun Dongping disregard anyone and still strongly issue orders.
Chen Jun laughed.
Because from the moment he issued the order, Chen Jun already knew the answer; there was no need for him to act, and Sun Dongping would soon bring disgrace upon himself.
Throughout this period, Chen Jun did only one thing, which was to specifically run to the Special Operations Platoon.
To console those who were all emotionally charged and furious, especially the most hot-tempered Tuo Yonggang, who was already about to lead people to confront Sun Dongping.
Tuo Yonggang even dared to confront Yuan Lang head-on, so how could he fear a mere Sun Dongping.
Fortunately, Chen Jun arrived in time.
Chen Jun didn’t make a big fuss upon arriving at the Special Operations Platoon; he just asked them, for his sake, to promise him one thing.
That was to wait two months.
After two months, all matters would be settled; what he, Chen Jun, promised, he would definitely honor, making them true Special Forces Soldiers.
Special Forces Soldiers even better than old A!
Chen Jun’s persona hadn’t collapsed because of Sun Dongping deliberately causing this incident; his words still carried sufficient credibility.
Tuo Yonggang and the other Special Operations Platoon warriors all chose to believe Chen Jun’s promise.
They treated Sun Dongping’s words as farts and ignored any orders he issued for the time being, just muddling through for two months first.
After all, getting stronger wasn’t a matter of one or two days; the first step toward getting stronger was to remain calm and composed.
This was what Chen Jun told them!
It was precisely because of Chen Jun’s reassurance that none of the scenarios Sun Dongping envisioned occurred, and the development of events completely exceeded his expectations.
“Why no movement? What’s going on?”
Sun Dongping believed his stratagem had no issues and couldn’t understand which link had gone wrong, and why the gap with his imagination was so great.
However, although the overall situation was very bad, not going in the direction he anticipated at all.
He did see through this matter that Chen Jun made no resistance whatsoever, feeling that Chen Jun was very easy to handle, which gave him even more confidence.
Therefore, in the subsequent formal training, Sun Dongping decided to unleash another big move.
Originally, the arrangement made by the Military Region above and Division Headquarters was to have Chen Jun responsible for leading the training, which was why he was exceptionally promoted to Training Staff Officer.
But Sun Dongping, to showcase his ability, also needed sufficient performance footage in training.
So, Sun Dongping’s second big move was to forcefully intervene in the training as Battalion Commander, participating from the outline to leading the teams entirely.
Sun Dongping was already convinced that Chen Jun was weak and wouldn’t dare stand up to confront him head-on.
So even if his work was taken, he still wouldn’t dare speak out.
And Sun Dongping’s soldier-leading philosophy and ideas all came from that year he studied in Europe, the set he learned from foreign troops.
Chen Jun’s Combined Arms Operations theory and ideas were borrowed from later generations, then incorporated some of his own ideals, as well as the demands of the Seventh Hundred and Second Regiment, and customized accordingly.
It could be said to be pure authentic Chinese local style, the most suitable training model for the Chinese Army.
When Western model collides with Chinese model, it was destined not to perfectly fuse; East-West combination was impossible in the army.
Sun Dongping’s forceful intervention into training inevitably led to conflict with Chen Jun.
Often, the training plan Chen Jun formulated in the morning would be overturned by Sun Dongping at noon, then a new training plan issued under the Battalion Commander’s order.
In the army, a higher rank crushes all; the Battalion Commander’s orders always superseded the Training Staff Officer’s.
Even if the five Company Commanders below were dissatisfied with Sun Dongping’s forceful intervention in training, they could only train according to his training plan.
If it were merely changing the training plan, it wouldn’t cause everyone to dislike it.
The main issue was that Sun Dongping didn’t prepare training plans in advance; even if he had them, he didn’t notify ahead, insisting on waiting until Chen Jun produced the training plan and started leading the troops in training before jumping out midway to change the training plan.
It was clearly targeting Chen Jun, ensuring that all of Chen Jun’s efforts couldn’t show even a bit in the Combined Arms Battalion.
And also to undermine Chen Jun’s influence, making Chen Jun’s days in the Combined Arms Battalion difficult.
Sun Dongping’s deliberate targeting of Chen Jun by temporarily changing training plans, and not just once, but frequently and consecutively multiple times.
In just the first month of training, he did it no less than six times.
More than once a week!
Making the warriors who were training well have to change midway multiple times because of Sun Dongping.
Each time training halfway through, it was scrapped, and they had to switch to Sun Dongping’s new training methods; warriors practicing halfway through had to change, which was really too uncomfortable.
The Combined Arms Battalion’s third stage training, which was going well, was forcibly turned by Sun Dongping into “eliminating dissenters.”
Because they were firsthand experiencers, comparing Chen Jun’s care for the warriors, the warriors’ dissatisfaction with Sun Dongping was even stronger than the Company Commanders’.
The already dissatisfied emotions, amid Sun Dongping’s constant self-sabotage and constant targeting of Chen Jun, heated up rapidly like boiling water.
Even though soldiers regarded obeying orders as their duty, from Company Commanders to warriors, they had to obey Sun Dongping.
The dissatisfied emotions couldn’t be eliminated!
They would only turn into a pressure cooker boiling water, with the water continuously vaporizing into steam, the pressure growing greater and greater, causing the pressure inside the pot to build up more and more.
When the pressure reached the unbearable point, it would inevitably lead to a “earth-shattering” big explosion.
This was a reasoning everyone understood!
However, Sun Dongping was perhaps too arrogant, not caring about others’ feelings at all, or being so immersed he was oblivious.
Not only did he not realize danger was approaching, he even escalated his self-sabotaging level.
Chen Jun being repeatedly targeted by him yet not resisting was, in Sun Dongping’s view, a sign of weakness, thinking he had completely pinned down Chen Jun.
So when training entered the second month, Sun Dongping decided to play a big one again.
To crush Chen Jun in one go.
To completely and utterly wipe out Chen Jun’s right to speak in the Combined Arms Battalion.
Originally, in the Combined Arms Battalion plan Chen Jun submitted, because the third stage needed to drastically improve overall combat effectiveness in an extremely short time, quickly and forcibly shifting the conventional combat model to Combined Arms Tactics model.
Making such a big change in a short time, the cost was extremely high training intensity.
The third stage’s daily training time far exceeded the conventional eight hours, raised to ten hours, and even longer for some support units, sometimes needing to reach twelve hours.
This training intensity and time had already reached training camp levels.
And training camps generally selected the best of the best, only gathering a portion of elite warriors together to withstand such high-intensity training camps.
Training a scale like the Combined Arms Battalion with elite minority training methods was actually very tormenting.
Under normal circumstances.
Warriors’ bodies could hardly endure it.
After all, not everyone was a Soldier King, or had Xu Sanduo’s indestructible body, or Chen Jun’s pervert stamina, able to endure any training.
Even though they were all selected elites, the All-NCO battalion couldn’t withstand such intense pushing.
So…
To prevent the warriors’ bodies from being trained to ruin, Chen Jun proposed two safeguards in the plan to compensate for their efforts.
One was to raise living diet and supplements to divisional unit training camp level.
For example, every meal must have two big meats, reaching the standard of five dishes and one soup, plus milk, eggs, vitamin tablets, etc., various nutritional auxiliary meals.
Ensuring warriors’ intake of protein and other nutrients could support the daily high-intensity training consumption.
Secondly, for the warriors’ hard efforts, give modest substantive “subsidies,” not much, basically equivalent to encouragement.
NCOs and officers already received salary, unlike enlisted soldiers who got allowances.
Giving them a subsidy of a few dozen yuan a month wasn’t a large amount, but having this subsidy achieved psychological comfort effect.
Letting warriors feel in their hearts that their hard efforts were seen by superiors.
It’s said soldiers give without expecting return.
But not expecting doesn’t mean not wanting; getting return for effort is a different kind of enjoyment, making one feel satisfaction.
Chen Jun’s application for this subsidy for warriors was precisely for this purpose.
To boost morale!
As a result, Sun Dongping, to deliver a fatal blow to Chen Jun, set his sights on this point.
His brain was quite clever; he didn’t touch the previous meal supplements, knowing that with such training volume, if warriors’ bodies collapsed, everything would be lost.
But the latter few dozen yuan salary subsidies seemed irrelevant to Sun Dongping.
He felt it was just a few dozen yuan; a First Class Non-commissioned Officer’s salary was several hundred, missing a few dozen subsidy wasn’t a big deal.
Instead, for Chen Jun, who in Sun Dongping’s view, after his series of blows, had his right to speak severely diminished, basically non-existent in the Combined Arms Battalion after being suppressed.
If the plan he proposed was cut again, he would definitely have no credibility left in the Combined Arms Battalion.
At that time.
He could thoroughly control the Combined Arms Battalion.
However, Sun Dongping never dreamed that this sure decisive kill big move against Chen Jun didn’t kill Chen Jun but flipped himself over.
When Sun Dongping publicly announced his new order, canceling all warriors’ training subsidies.
The reason was simple.
Training was what soldiers should do as a matter of course; soldiers should uphold the spirit of enduring hardship, not demanding more money for more hardship.
This was capitalist behavior, not the thought a patriotic soldier should have.
This statement was also subtly attacking Chen Jun, implying Chen Jun had ideological issues, trying to pin a big black pot on Chen Jun’s head.
As a result, just after Sun Dongping issued the new order, he never expected the reaction to be so intense.
The entire Combined Arms Battalion exploded.
The first to react was Chen Jun.
That very afternoon, he sent a report to the battalion, citing his limited energy and inability to hold two positions, applying to resign from the Combined Arms Battalion Training Staff Officer post, no longer responsible for the Combined Arms Battalion’s training work.
Sun Dongping, seeing this, still didn’t realize his major crisis had arrived.
Still thinking Chen Jun had been convinced by him, this application report was equivalent to a surrender letter, so he signed off on the application with a flourish.
Then sent the report to the regiment for the regiment to handle the follow-up.
Sun Dongping had no authority to decide, even the regiment had no decision rights; Chen Jun applying to resign as staff officer at least needed to go to the division for approval.
Regiment Commander Wang had received Chen Jun’s call in advance and without delay directly sent someone to deliver it to the division.
After the division received Chen Jun’s application, realizing the matter was very serious, not daring any delay, quickly passed it to the Division Commander.
The Division Commander at this time still didn’t know so many messy things had happened in the Combined Arms Battalion.
The baffled Division Commander immediately ordered the duty room to call the Combined Arms Battalion headquarters, commanding Chen Jun to immediately come to Division Headquarters to see the Division Commander.
