Chapter 69: The Sect’s Schemes Run Deep
Chen Jun had been waiting for this order for a long time. As soon as he entered the door, he impatiently confirmed and asked, “Company Commander, has the competition order come down?”
“It’s come down. Hurry over here, let’s study it carefully.”
Gao Cheng excitedly waved to Chen Jun. The desk had the newly transmitted document spread out flat, and it looked like he had already skimmed through it once.
“Good, okay.”
Chen Jun quickly walked to the desk, picked up the document, and started browsing it rapidly.
At a speed of ten lines at a glance, a large amount of information entered his mind.
Last year’s mid-year grand competition was divided into three major common subjects: shooting, comprehensive, and army, totaling sixteen competition projects altogether.
This year still followed this model, but there were two fewer projects than last year.
Shooting, as the main means of lethality for most soldiers and one of the troops’ most core subjects, is always the top priority in the grand competition every year, with relatively many competition projects.
This year there were a total of five shooting projects, which could be divided into three major categories: rifle, pistol, and vehicle-mounted.
They were rifle 150m precision shooting, pistol 80m precision shooting, 200m rapid movement shooting, sniper rifle 500m precision shooting, and vehicle-mounted machine gun precision shooting.
Last year’s grand competition did not have vehicle-mounted shooting, so this is the only new shooting project this year.
The comprehensive subject had only four projects in total.
Except for the fixed grenade throwing, which didn’t change, all the other three competition projects were replaced.
They were armored vehicle mountain obstacle course, weapon disassembly and assembly, and battlefield first aid.
Among them, weapon disassembly and assembly was a bit special.
Last year’s weapon disassembly and assembly had two projects: rifle disassembly and assembly, and pistol disassembly and assembly.
This year, the two projects were combined into one, becoming weapon disassembly and assembly.
Each competitor needed to disassemble and assemble both the rifle and pistol simultaneously in the shortest time possible, with the combined time of both calculated.
It was also specifically reinforced a second time, increasing the difficulty by several times over.
The requirement was to disassemble both guns together first, and all the disassembled parts had to be placed together, then manually randomly shuffled by the examiner, before reassembling both guns.
It was not allowed to disassemble and assemble one gun first, then the other.
After fully disassembling both guns into parts, dozens of components were piled together in a dazzling array, and someone not very familiar with them simply couldn’t tell which parts belonged to which gun.
Especially when assembling the first gun, there were too many parts, too messy, too chaotic.
A slight lack of attention could easily lead to grabbing the wrong part.
Every time a wrong part was grabbed, it had to be swapped out again, wasting at least two seconds.
Weapon disassembly and assembly competed on speed, and the final victory or defeat could hinge on those two seconds—a single mistake was fatal.
Not to mention that grassroots company warriors were equipped with rifles, and only officers were equipped with pistols.
This led to most veteran soldiers never having much chance to even touch a pistol throughout their entire service, let alone practice its disassembly and assembly.
And officers, equipped with pistols, similarly rarely practiced with rifles.
At most, they would fire a few rounds at targets with a rifle when the interest struck.
Only special forces soldiers from special operations forces, equipped with both long and short rifles, would practice dual gun disassembly and assembly in their daily training.
Therefore, this change in this year’s grand competition seemed like not much alteration on the surface, but actually increased the difficulty by several levels.
For grassroots units, it became very frustrating.
Everyone had to start practicing from zero again.
Fortunately, there were still more than four months until the grand competition, so warriors from each company still had enough time to figure out how to quickly disassemble and assemble two guns.
How far they could ultimately practice disassembly and assembly to would depend only on talent and diligence.
After all, with no foundation at all, no one dared to make guarantees.
Only Chen Jun, seeing this competition project, couldn’t suppress his smile as his mouth corners frantically tugged upward, nearly bursting into laughter on the spot with hands on hips.
Because.
He was very familiar with this thing.
He had tried all kinds of ways to disassemble and assemble pistols and rifles, and had mastered them to the point of boredom—he could operate proficiently even with his eyes closed.
For others, this was a fatal question, but for Chen Jun, who came from a strategic-level special operations force.
This was purely a free points question.
Something the warriors of each company in the 702 Regiment had never played with, Chen Jun had already been doing for over ten years, long forming muscle memory.
Not to mention doing dual gun disassembly and assembly with eyes open—even blindfolded, he was confident of taking first place.
“Before it even starts, I can score a point first—this is a good omen, haha.”
Chen Jun chuckled to himself inwardly, not telling Gao Cheng this good news, mainly because it wasn’t convenient to explain, and continued looking at the final military gymnastics subject.
Military gymnastics was mainly military stamina, focused primarily on running fast.
They were 3km light load sprint team, 5km light load cross-country team, 10km light load cross-country team, 10km cross-country with load individual, and 400m obstacle individual.
Military gymnastics had a total of five running projects, plus the previous comprehensive and shooting.
The three major common subjects totaled fourteen competition projects.
China’s Army claims to be the world’s number one, and it truly is the undisputed world’s number one, with running being the most core stamina in Chinese troops, the most emphasized stamina.
None other!
The subject that could be mentioned in the same breath as shooting was probably only running.
Last year’s grand competition had only one team running event, but this year it increased to three at once, and each project required three participants.
The final result was calculated as the team average.
The division headquarters clearly had considerations in setting the competition projects—team events better reflected a company’s overall level, so they changed to so many team races.
For companies with only a few talented individuals, this change was undoubtedly a fatal blow.
Besides making major changes to the competition projects, this year’s competition format and rules also made many adjustments, including restrictions on the number of participants.
In previous years, there was no limit on the size of competition teams, only that no more than two people per project.
This led many companies to max out participants per project for results, specializing only in that one event, concentrating all energy on it, which yielded better results than one person competing in several events.
Thus, across more than a dozen competition projects, half a company could go participate.
To avoid this situation recurring—companies completely neglecting normal training for the competition, making the competition, which should promote company development, lose its proper meaning.
This year’s competition had clear requirements: each company’s competition team could not exceed 10 people.
Across the fourteen competition projects, each individual event needed two competitors, each team race needed three, totaling over 35 person-times.
But the competition format rules strictly stipulated that each competition team could have at most 10 people participate.
This meant.
All competitors in the mid-year grand competition, each person had to participate in at least three or more projects—specialized experts were epic-weakened, all-rounders rose across the board.
It had to be said.
The division’s strategy was truly profound!
