Chapter 59: Starting Corrections From Smoke Grenades
Gao Cheng’s personality is one that yields to gentleness but not force; boiling a frog in warm water is perfectly suited for him.
It only requires, in daily training and life, constantly using indirect or roundabout ways to convey modernized combined arms operations concepts to Gao Cheng.
Through subtle influence and infiltration, make Gao Cheng gradually understand and accept combined arms operations.
Three people make a tiger, brainwashing, PUA…
These all have similar effects!
As long as Chen Jun talks enough, in detail enough, and enticingly enough in the next two years, to touch Gao Cheng’s most sensitive nerve.
With Gao Cheng’s competitive and unconvinced nature, he will definitely be attracted by improving combat effectiveness and recognize the combined arms company as this new combat model.
At the very least.
Gao Cheng will also become curious after hearing so much about whether combined arms tactics are really that impressive.
With curiosity as the foundation, there is soil for it to sprout.
When Chen Jun leads the Third Squad he has forged, launching actions with combined arms tactics, shining brightly in the exercise, and beating the Blue Army into a sorry state.
Assuming this can be achieved.
Then Gao Cheng, who has been continuously influenced and urgently wants to enhance Steel Seventh Company’s combat effectiveness, will definitely start to take combined arms tactics seriously.
As long as Gao Cheng recognizes combined arms tactics, Steel Seventh Company can become a combined arms company.
Finally, the most critical part—
How to earn merit!!
Chen Jun wants to achieve Captain Deputy Company Commander within two years, which at least requires an individual third-class merit as the base, plus various commendations and praise as embellishments.
Looking at the Soldiers Sortie plot for the next two years, there are no major actions except for the exercise.
The only opportunity for Chen Jun to have enough stage to perform and strive for individual third-class merit as the base honor is the annual all-army grand competition.
So now that Chen Jun has returned to Steel Seventh Company, the core is to prepare for the grand competition in August.
It is now March 1996, five months away from August; with this half year, Chen Jun is confident he can recover to 80% of his previous life’s strength.
By then, as soon as the grand competition begins, Chen Jun will go all out.
The biggest goal is to have no goal.
The main focus is to take as many first places as possible, grab as much honor as possible.
Don’t fear having too many medals on the chest; maximize his own chips as much as possible.
Assuming that in the grand competition, Chen Jun completes the “stocking up,” achieves the Captain Deputy Company Commander goal, writes out detailed combined arms tactics theory, Gao Cheng’s brainwashing goes very smoothly, and the remade Third Squad shines brightly in the exercise.
By then, proposing combined arms operations to Gao Cheng will result in a completely different ending.
Described in four words—
No suspense!
But having said that, it’s still that old saying: all of this is just a plan for now; whether it can succeed is still unknown.
Perhaps unexpected changes occur, and everything will go in an unanticipated direction.
…
In the next two years, Chen Jun has far too many things to do, and the hell-level difficulty of challenging the combined arms division begins to emerge.
Therefore, Chen Jun cherishes every minute and second, not wasting even a single afternoon.
Upon returning to Third Squad, he starts organizing housekeeping, so he can free up enough time in the afternoon to make up for today’s unfinished training volume.
Chen Jun’s muscle gain physique strengthening training was never interrupted during the three months in the new recruit company, no matter how busy.
Now that he is back home, it is even less likely to be interrupted.
Gan Xiao Ning and the other veterans of Third Squad are not watching; they have long been convinced by Chen Jun and enthusiastically come up to help organize.
You make the bed, I fold the quilt, you handle the wardrobe, I place the shoes.
By the time Shi Jin finishes assigning the six new recruits and Wu Liu Yi brings Cheng Cai and Bai Tie Jun back to the squad, Chen Jun’s housekeeping is almost done.
Fully demonstrating that many hands make light work!
“Gan Xiao Ning, two new comrades have arrived in the squad; you veterans hurry up and get moving. Squad relationships must be built well; treat them like family—show them the bed, cabinet, living area, and such, let the new recruits feel the warmth of our Third Squad.”
Chen Jun says this not only to the veterans but also intentionally to Cheng Cai.
To make him treat Third Squad as home, not isolating himself.
Cheng Cai doesn’t understand the implication, but his slick nature comes into play; he immediately sets down his hand luggage bag, pulls out cigarettes, and prepares to distribute.
“Cheng Cai, first day in the squad, don’t take out Chun Cheng; veterans are also under the Squad Leader, must show respect. If distributing, give Honghe.”
Chen Jun intentionally corrects Cheng Cai’s habit, so he specifically reminds him the first time he distributes cigarettes.
This way, even if Cheng Cai’s three packs of cigarettes are later exposed—giving Honghe to the squad and Hongta Mountain to cadres, treating them differently.
Since Cheng Cai himself smokes Chun Cheng, the squad veterans won’t have too much prejudice.
After all, he himself only smokes Chun Cheng and gives Hongta Mountain to leading cadres; giving you Honghe is something veterans can basically understand.
This way, veterans have no bias against Cheng Cai, and Cheng Cai can better integrate into the squad.
At the very least, it won’t be like in the original plot, where his squad interpersonal relationships are terribly poor, with no friends except Xu Sanduo.
Hearing Chen Jun tell him to switch to distributing cigarettes, Cheng Cai is actually reluctant, feeling heartbroken.
He doesn’t move right away.
He is now a new recruit, with only 18 yuan monthly subsidy.
Even though when he came to enlist, his father was the village chief and fairly well-off, his mother gave him a few hundred yuan to buy food in the troops.
But Honghe cigarettes at five yuan a pack are still very painful for him to buy.
If distributing Honghe to the entire squad, with so many new recruits, one round would finish half a pack; at least one pack of Honghe a day is needed.
Plus giving cigarettes to company cadres—even if few smoke, one pack can last one or two weeks; at least two packs of Hongta Mountain a month.
Just the cigarette expenses in a month would be nearly 200 yuan at minimum.
That’s a huge expense in
The few hundred yuan Cheng Cai brought from home, even plus monthly subsidies, won’t last two months; he’d have to call home again for remittance.
Having come out to enlist and still asking family for money.
It’s ultimately embarrassing.
If switched to one-yuan Chun Cheng cigarettes, this biggest consumption could be cut by four-fifths; 50 or 60 yuan a month would suffice.
200 yuan versus 50 or 60 yuan—the gap is really big.
No wonder in the original plot, Cheng Cai divides cigarettes into three grades; the main reason is lack of money, unable to sustain such huge expenses.
Otherwise, with Cheng Cai’s shrewd personality, Gao Cheng personally said in the new recruit company: “This soldier Cheng Cai offends no one, always smiling to everyone.”
Someone with such a slick personality wouldn’t possibly offend people over something as small as cigarettes.
