Chapter 66: Gao Cheng’s Decision
The role of scouts and special forces soldiers on the battlefield is almost the same, except they won’t do counter-terrorism and riot control; the work they do on the battlefield is all the same.
Chen Jun once served as special warfare chief instructor and has built strategic-level special forces units.
As long as he puts his heart into it and builds them with full effort, the scouts coming out from under him will absolutely not be inferior in combat ability on the battlefield to special forces units.
At that time, even if facing the old A team head-on, the scouts under Chen Jun won’t have any weakness at all.
They will even be fiercer in combat effectiveness than conventional special operations squadrons.
They can directly take it down!
Because the scouts under Chen Jun don’t operate alone like special forces units; he also has firepower platoon and tactical platoon providing rear support.
As long as the reconnaissance squad finds the specific position, artillery shells will rain down from kilometers away.
No matter what special forces soldiers they are, they will all turn into meat paste.
Steel Seventh Company can scout and strike by itself, forming a “self-sufficient” loop on its own, with combat effectiveness increasing several times over.
If there are really too many reconnaissance missions and they can’t cover them, then deploy the reserve Second Squad.
For the combat needs of a heavy infantry regiment, having two strong reconnaissance units is absolutely sufficient; there won’t be a situation of insufficient reconnaissance strength.
If there are greater reconnaissance mission demands that exceed the regiment-level tolerance limit.
That is a matter for the division direct reconnaissance battalion.
As for completely disrupting the entire establishment of Steel Seventh Company, with almost no squads left holding rifles, and almost losing the ability for frontal assault operations.
That simply isn’t an issue!
Because Steel Seventh Company itself is a reconnaissance company; it fundamentally isn’t an assault company for frontal battles.
The reason it has become like this now is entirely because Gao Cheng has been charging madly in the wrong direction, turning Steel Seventh Company into an assault company.
Throwing away all the work a reconnaissance company should do, and going to rob the work of the armored infantry regiment.
Typical misdirection of effort!
The company structure after Chen Jun’s changes is what Steel Seventh Company should showcase, not clashing head-on with the enemy.
Very shocking!
Whether the company commander, or the political instructor, or the other two platoon leaders, and the squad leader backbones of the nine squads, all were shocked by Chen Jun’s suggestion.
That was a path they had never envisioned, and a direction they had never thought of.
However.
Although the internal reorganization of Steel Seventh Company proposed by Chen Jun sounds indeed very reasonable and highly feasible, no one dared to rashly agree.
The changes are really too big.
The configuration of each squad is changed, the combat methods are changed, which is equivalent to completely changing Steel Seventh Company.
Without any actual examples to reference, and no factual cases to examine, and given that our army has no precedent for such a reconnaissance company.
Rashly making such a huge change to the company, completely turning it into another combat model.
It is indeed a bit too aggressive.
For such overly avant-garde tactical thinking, and tactical theories never heard of before, if something goes wrong, no one has the ability to bear it; naturally, the squad and platoon leaders have no confidence.
Even Gao Cheng, who has the biggest guts in the entire regiment and considers himself the boss among the regiment’s fifteen companies.
For Chen Jun’s subversive improvement method, he couldn’t stop trembling inside, with absolutely no confidence, his brows deeply furrowed.
If someone else proposed such a bold idea, Gao Cheng would definitely have stopped it long ago, telling him not to talk nonsense.
Unfortunately, the one making the suggestion is Chen Jun, the newly rising excellent cadre of this 702 Regiment, the hottest commodity in Steel Seventh Company right now.
Gao Cheng believes that Chen Jun absolutely isn’t messing around; him doing this definitely has certain meaning.
However, without instructions from superiors, and currently our army has no cases, Chen Jun’s plan is the first example; really doing it carries too much risk.
No one knows exactly what to do, or even how to give opinions.
The meeting room was silent for a moment.
Chen Jun knew that whenever subversive theories appear, ordinary people definitely find it hard to accept in a short time, needing sufficient time to verify and digest.
So he didn’t say anything more, leaving enough time for everyone to think.
Unknowingly, five or six minutes passed, and small discussions began to appear in the meeting room, discussing feasibility with the people next to them.
Although the number of people discussing increased, still no one dared to stand up and state their position.
Time passed like that for a few more minutes.
Gao Cheng, who has absolute decision-making power in Seventh Company, after carefully weighing for as long as ten minutes or so, considering the plan as well as Chen Jun’s emotions and such.
He decided not to take such a big risk, and to take half of Chen Jun’s plan as a compromise.
That is, first selectively implement part of it, and for the remaining part, look at subsequent training performance before deciding whether to make it up.
This is indeed the most prudent!
“Quiet, let me say a few words.”
Gao Cheng spoke to break the silence, and the crowd whispering in discussion stopped, all gazes concentrating on Gao Cheng, waiting for him to make the final decision.
“After my serious thinking and consideration, plus discussion with the political instructor, I have a preliminary opinion.”
Gao Cheng’s gaze swept over everyone present, finally stopping on Chen Jun as he said: “The improvement plan proposed by First Platoon Leader indeed has a lot of imagination and creativity, and definitely has advantages in certain aspects.
But currently, looking at all troops across the entire army, even the troops leading in informatization reform, there has been no similar company establishment.
So, I think implementing it all would be really too risky.
My opinion and the political instructor’s is to first take part of it for company improvements, and later see the situation before we make adjustments.
The specific arrangement is like this…”
As company commander, Gao Cheng can decide on his own and doesn’t need votes from the squad leaders and platoon leaders below; he picked up the paper that was full of writing just now and began announcing it to everyone.
First, he adopted Chen Jun’s firepower platoon suggestion, putting all three infantry fighting vehicles into Third Platoon.
The structure of putting three infantry fighting vehicles in one platoon can form effective firepower coverage and strikes, fitting Gao Cheng’s idea for Steel Seventh Company’s assault.
The suggestion to add mortars inside each infantry fighting vehicle was not adopted by Gao Cheng.
Instead, it was changed to standard infantry fighting vehicle squads!
That is, one vehicle with two machine gunners, plus the three-person vehicle crew of vehicle commander, driver, and gunner, and the rest all holding assault rifles.
This configuration is still an assault company setup, able to dismount and charge hilltops to fight positions.
The original configuration of one sniper team, one anti-air team, and one anti-tank team per platoon is retained, still assigning one to each squad.
Second Platoon’s configuration is basically unchanged, keeping the original setup.
One sniper team, anti-air team, and anti-tank team per squad, two machine gunners per vehicle, plus a vehicle commander and vehicle-mounted machine gunner.
The other warriors all hold assault rifles, able to dismount and assault as assault warriors.
Finally, the remaining First Platoon has slightly bigger changes.
