Chapter 25: The “great Plan” To Save Shi Jin
The training subjects for the new recruits’ second week finally moved from “indoors” to the parade ground.
Drill training began!
The upper limit of this subject is extremely high; reaching the level of the honor guard is art, where every frame of movement can immerse people and make them exclaim awesome.
The lower limit is similarly low.
As long as the movements can be made to look somewhat decent, they can basically pass smoothly; no squad leader will force it to absolute standard.
Therefore, no great physical talent is needed; almost any normal person can complete the training easily.
But Xu Sanduo, with his photographic memory ability and able to run fast even when chased and beaten by his dad, turns out to be a one-in-a-million “rarity”—
His hands and feet are severely uncoordinated!
This situation cannot be called a disease; it can only be said to be a congenital functional deficiency, which can be completely corrected through later training.
But before correcting it, for someone with uncoordinated body doing drill training, the difficulty is several times that of a normal person.
Plus Xu Sanduo’s personality is too simple, purely to the point of being a bit silly, with extremely lacking comprehension ability, making it hard to quickly grasp the key points of movements.
With both stacked together…
It’s simply like being in prison!
Xu Sanduo, who even falls down on a simple turn to the rear, torments not only himself but also Shi Jin, who wants to teach him well.
Watching Shi Jin patiently teach hand-by-hand over and over, meticulously pointing out every key point of movement, yet Xu Sanduo still can’t even stand in military posture properly.
The even more difficult turn to the side is a disaster; every turn results in losing balance and falling to the ground.
Even though Shi Jin is a nice guy, he’s driven to speechlessness.
He wants to scold but can’t bring himself to.
Because Xu Sanduo isn’t deliberately slacking or uncooperative with training; he’s already trying very hard to learn, as can be seen from his constipated expression.
Unfortunately, his innate body functional uncoordination prevents him from learning drill movements as quickly as other new recruits.
Can this be blamed on Xu Sanduo?
Obviously not!
If blaming anyone, it can only be himself for being soft-hearted at the moment, knowing Xu Sanduo wasn’t suited for the troops but getting carried away by alcohol and bringing him into the troops, even bragging boldly.
Shi Jin was somewhat regretting it, but it was already too late.
Starting from this day of drill training, the smile originally on Shi Jin’s face due to Xu Sanduo’s good housekeeping disappeared from then on.
No more seeing Shi Jin’s smile!
And this situation of wanting to teach but unable to teach well, while inwardly bearing the responsibility called promise, pressure began piling up on Shi Jin’s shoulders.
If following the original drama development.
Shi Jin’s ending would be completely dragged down, performing too poorly in the extremely critical exercise, losing the precious quota, and ultimately leaving the troops in tears.
Chen Jun knew that if he didn’t intervene, the combined arms division he wanted to build in the future would lack an excellent backbone squad leader.
So he couldn’t stand by; he must find a method to solve Xu Sanduo’s problem.
Cheng Cai’s problem could be postponed.
Xu Sanduo’s was already imminent.
When Chen Jun watched Soldiers Sortie before, he had really assumed what method he would use to break this situation if he were Shi Jin.
After various opinions on the forum, Chen Jun discovered there were actually quite a few methods.
And he preferred borrowing the enterprise management model!
A company has many things to do; even just the top management part, if all handled by the boss, even with three heads he’d be exhausted to death.
This involves a thought, whose name is “delegation of authority.”
As long as most power is delegated, letting others make decisions for him, the boss just sits there steering the ship.
Work that could exhaust one person to death instantly becomes easy.
Chen Jun felt Shi Jin would be dragged down by Xu Sanduo because he held “power,” that is, “responsibility,” too tightly, unwilling to pass the trouble to others, thinking it was his own matter.
Such heavy pressure always held in his hands, unwilling to let go, and in the end the person collapses.
Found the root cause, solving it becomes easy.
Just prescribe the right medicine.
Shi Jin, the nice guy, doesn’t want to trouble others and is unwilling to transfer the pressure from Xu Sanduo to them, so proactively help him transfer it, forcing him to delegate authority.
If Shi Jin alone dragging Xu Sanduo would exhaust him, then find someone to help share the load.
Pressure shared, responsibility shared.
Shi Jin would naturally be relieved!
In the original drama, Wu Liu Yi did help Shi Jin and advised him to abandon Xu Sanduo this baggage, never giving Xu Sanduo a good face.
But after all, he’s just a squad leader with limited ability; the extent he can help is too limited.
Gao Cheng does have the ability to help Shi Jin, but from the start he didn’t like Xu Sanduo, extremely rejecting him, only wanting to throw away this shameful surrendering soldier, so how could he proactively help Xu Sanduo.
Thus in the original drama, it was always Shi Jin carrying it, stubbornly carrying Xu Sanduo into Steel Seventh Company, and persisting to carry him into a qualified soldier.
Parentheses.
Just a qualified soldier.
Still far from an excellent soldier.
But now the situation is completely different; Chen Jun is now the platoon leader of Second Platoon, Shi Jin is a squad leader under him, just having the qualification to force it.
Plus Chen Jun has already occupied certain influence in Company Commander Gao Cheng’s mind.
Combining these two advantages, Chen Jun completely has the ability to operate Xu Sanduo this baggage using the enterprise management model.
As the saying goes:
As long as standing on the wind outlet, even a pig can fly.
Applied to Xu Sanduo, as long as operating enough resources, Chen Jun has absolute confidence that even if Xu Sanduo is a real fool, he can train him out.
Thus.
Chen Jun, who decided to rescue the best old squad leader Shi Jin, starting from the second week of drill training, that is, the overall third week of new recruit training, began his rescue plan.
First, to cure the disease, cure the root.
For a slow bird wanting to fly first, it needs more practice.
If can’t learn, then extra practice, practice until learned.
What others learn in ten minutes, Xu Sanduo practices twenty minutes; if still can’t after twenty, practice two hundred minutes.
Turn Xu Sanduo into an old ox; as long as not practiced to death, practice to death.
Anyway, Chen Jun knows this guy Xu Sanduo very well; his biggest advantage is his durable body—no matter how trained, no problems.
Not even minor injuries or illnesses.
Chen Jun believes no matter how big Xu Sanduo’s functional defect, how uncoordinated hands and feet, as long as increasing training intensity, ten times a hundred times practice, definitely can train him out.
After all, Xu Sanduo isn’t really dead wood; he’s just gold wrapped in dung shell.
In the original plot, only until Steel Seventh Company was about to disband was the outer shell finally worn off, revealing the shining gold inside.
Not only finally gaining Gao Cheng’s recognition, but also caught the eye of old A Yuan Lang.
