Chapter 47: Xu Sanduo’s Benefactor Appears
Fortunately, Gao Cheng’s face was extremely useful. Regiment Commander Wang, even if he himself couldn’t come, didn’t casually arrange an officer or staff officer to make up the numbers.
Instead, he arranged a Deputy Regiment Commander to come over. In terms of rank, it was absolutely enough importance.
Although the Deputy Regiment Commander didn’t have the Regiment Commander’s decision-making power, third-class merits needed to be reported to the Regiment, approved by the Regiment Commander, and then approved by the Political Department, adding several procedures in between.
But as long as Cheng Cai could achieve a perfect score on the spot, the third-class merit should be almost certain.
As for arranging the shooting to the last event, it was purely to let Cheng Cai “focus without distraction.”
After all other graduation subjects were completed, Cheng Cai’s assessment pressure would greatly reduce. Without needing to consider anything else, he could tackle this final assessment with the highest concentration and the best mentality.
The probability of hitting fifty rings would definitely increase because of this.
For new recruits, hitting fifty rings is half strength and half mentality; mentality plays a very important role.
……
At 3 p.m.
The highlight shooting assessment officially began. The new recruits assembled on the parade ground, completed various preparations, and were then uniformly taken to the shooting range to prepare for shooting.
The Deputy Regiment Commander and his group from the Regiment were all arranged at the shooting site.
Accompanied by the Company Commander and Political Instructor together.
Chen Jun discovered that among the group from the Regiment, there was actually a very familiar face—that was one of Xu Sanduo’s benefactors from the original drama—
Officer Zhang from the Regimental Propaganda Section, responsible for the regimental newspaper.
Without Officer Zhang’s “standing guard” drawing, Xu Sanduo from the original drama would likely have “spent his final years” in Grassland Fifth Squad.
It was because of Officer Zhang’s sketch drawing and his unsparing lies in the regimental newspaper, lavishly using his writing style to praise Xu Sanduo.
Especially when the Regiment Commander, who saw the report, called him in for questioning, Officer Zhang fully unraveled the mystery.
He told the Regiment Commander, who had seen the repaired road from the helicopter but didn’t know the reason, that the road was repaired by a new recruit, and specifically mentioned that he did it alone.
This person was named Xu Sanduo!
This truly shocked Regiment Commander Wang at that moment. He had long been concerned about Grassland Fifth Squad repairing the road. Back when he was just a Platoon Leader, he had the same idea to repair the road at the oil depot, but failed in the end, leaving a lingering regret and obsession in his heart.
Something he couldn’t accomplish leading an entire platoon was done alone by a new recruit. How could Regiment Commander Wang not be shocked?
It was this shock in his heart, that his obsession of many years was finally completed by someone, that prompted Regiment Commander Wang to ultimately make the decision—
Such an excellent soldier must be transferred to Regiment Headquarters to charge into battle alongside the combat vehicle.
It started from this point.
That led to Xu Bing Wang later on.
Without Officer Zhang’s embellished and lied regimental newspaper, without him hyping up Regiment Commander Xu Sanduo’s “greatness,” the Regiment Commander wouldn’t have personally investigated on his own, and none of the later events would have happened.
Chen Jun knew that Xu Sanduo would return to Seventh Company later and still needed this Officer Zhang to be his benefactor.
So he specially arranged for Officer Zhang, who was carrying a camera and obviously following to gather material, to find him the best observation position.
Moreover, this position was closest to Fifth Squad, conveniently allowing him to get acquainted with Xu Sanduo in advance.
And by the way, get acquainted with Shi Jin too.
In the end, Shi Jin and Xu Sanduo hadn’t gotten acquainted yet, but Officer Zhang had already locked onto Chen Jun with a single glance.
The Propaganda Section was responsible for the Regiment’s propaganda tasks, including content editing for the regimental military report, requiring a large amount of various materials.
Chen Jun, wearing a red card, appearing in the new recruit company was a very rare occurrence.
Rare things were the best material.
Normally speaking.
Red card cadets still in their probationary period were basically just making up the numbers in the company, rarely responsible even for normal drill classes, at most just helping out on the side.
Coming to the new recruit company to be responsible for core work like new training had an extremely low probability.
At least Officer Zhang had never heard of it!
Now encountering such a rare thing, and with Gao Cheng introducing him as the new recruit company’s Platoon Leader Chen, it made Officer Zhang even more curious.
Out of his profession’s strong relevance, he couldn’t possibly miss such good material.
Taking advantage of the preparation phase before the new recruits shot, Officer Zhang took out paper and pen and hurriedly said, “Platoon Leader Chen, can I interview you?”
“No need, right? What’s there to interview about me? I’m just a new recruit platoon leader.” Chen Jun refused.
His goal was to introduce Xu Sanduo for initial acquaintance, and secondly, after Cheng Cai really achieved a perfect score, to casually boast about Shi Jin beside him.
Everything was taught by Squad Leader Shi Jin, leading to the perfect score new recruit breaking the record.
Shi Jin was Seventh Company’s best old squad leader, who had trained many excellent warriors, including someone who got second place in the division grand competition.
And so on, various things to boast about relentlessly, even exaggerating a bit.
Anyway, the Propaganda Section was all about telling stories.
As long as Shi Jin’s name could appear in the regimental newspaper, no matter in what form, it would be a breakthrough opportunity for Shi Jin.
It would not only give him higher exposure but also enrich his resume even more.
Another chip added for promotion to fourth level.
The Great Wall is built brick by brick; a beautiful personal resume also accumulates step by step. The plan to save Shi Jin was ongoing.
But now Officer Zhang wasn’t doing the main thing, ignoring the protagonist to focus on him.
Chen Jun was truly amused and exasperated.
“No, no, no, you’re different from other new recruit platoon leaders. I’m very curious what reason, or what matter, made your internship company’s chief officer agree to give up cultivating his company’s platoon leader and let you come lead the new recruit company?”
Officer Zhang had paparazzi traits and wouldn’t easily miss Chen Jun. He then added, “A cadet leading new recruit platoon? That’s unheard of, at least I haven’t seen it. You’re the first.”
Cadets were strictly speaking still new recruits, needing to go through the probationary period to familiarize themselves with grassroots units’ new recruits.
Grassroots companies and the military academy were not the same concept.
A simple analogy.
Just like university students and company employees: no matter how well you studied your major in university, memorizing all knowledge points fluently, you still had to start from internship at the company.
Chen Jun, still a “new recruit,” coming to lead new recruits was like a fresh graduate intern from a company representing the company to be responsible for project training.
No matter from which angle, it was abnormal.
So Officer Zhang was so curious!
Seeing the strong curiosity in Officer Zhang’s eyes, Chen Jun knew that if he didn’t explain clearly about cadets leading new recruit platoons, he definitely wouldn’t have the mind to pay attention to anything else.
If he missed Cheng Cai’s highlight moment later and lost the chance to promote old Squad Leader Shi Jin, that would be a huge loss.
“Looks like I can only find a way to fool him first, come up with a reason to brush it off. I can’t let my matter delay the main business.”
After secretly calculating in his heart, Chen Jun decided to cut the knot quickly and resolve this matter.
