Chapter 70: Hitting 50 Rings As Easily As Drinking Water
The new competition rule added at the division level actually imposes very significant restrictions on the company.
It can be said to be a subversive change.
After all, most people’s energy is limited, and their talents tend to lean toward certain aspects, so they can only shine in one particular area.
They might be awesome in that aspect, but very weak in others.
All-round competitors are rare.
This invisibly raises the requirements for participating competitors several times stricter than before, so the company has to consider much more when selecting people.
If someone is only strong in one event and average in others, not reaching competition level at all.
Then whether to bring him or not needs careful consideration.
After all, gaining an advantage in one event while falling into disadvantage in another two or three events is a deal that clearly isn’t worth it.
Gao Cheng has a straightforward and generous personality, and he never resorted to tricks in previous competitions.
So he is not sensitive to changes in the competition format.
The thoughts in his mind are very simple, purely so, that is, just see if each competition event can be taken down.
And Chen Jun, as the competition captain he designated, is naturally the competition competitor Gao Cheng trusts the most.
Expecting Chen Jun to win at least three first places for him in this year’s grand competition, plus a few more from others.
Then this year’s top spot in the entire regiment is half secured.
It’s hard for ordinary people to even get one first place, but Gao Cheng openly asks for three from Chen Jun, which sounds very blind, but actually has a certain foundation.
He has broken the regiment record in the 5 kilometers cross-country, so as long as no accidents happen, he will definitely get it.
The probability for the 3 kilometer sprint is also very high.
Chen Jun also performed disassembly and assembly in the new recruit company, with speed equally unbelievably fast, causing quite a stir at the time.
Just based on the time Chen Jun took to disassemble the rifle back then, the rifle disassembly and assembly alone would definitely take first place.
Even now it’s changed to dual gun disassembly and assembly, which is indeed much more difficult, but the difficulty has increased equally for other companies.
When everyone’s difficulty increases, Chen Jun definitely still has a great chance to take this one.
So three first places aren’t 100% probability.
But there won’t be too much pressure either.
As for the other competition events besides these, whether Chen Jun has any strengths where he can take first place, Gao Cheng isn’t very clear.
So after reviewing all competition subjects, Gao Cheng first started discussing the subjects Chen Jun excels in.
“For the five military gymnastics events, Platoon Leader Chen, I think the 3 kilometers and 5 kilometers are definitely no problem for you, the 10 kilometers also has competitiveness, with you and Wu Liu Yi, we can at least secure two.”
In the last sparring between Chen Jun and Wu Liu Yi, both broke the regiment record for 5 kilometers light load, so Gao Cheng has sufficient confidence.
But for the last two events, Gao Cheng couldn’t help but frown and said: “It’s just this load 10 kilometers, and the 400 meters obstacle course, probably…”
Gao Cheng didn’t say the words after that, because the result was already very obvious.
So he changed the topic, asking expectantly: “Oh, right, Platoon Leader Chen, haven’t you been practicing load training? How’s it going now?”
“My physical fitness hasn’t come up yet, muscle gain speed was okay at first, but very slow after a month, hasn’t reached the formed stage, no results visible yet, to test results, at least another two months.”
Although Chen Jun still persists in running every day now, he hasn’t started practicing 10 kilometers load yet, and honestly told Gao Cheng the situation.
If he wants to know the 10 kilometers load results, Chen Jun thinks at least his weight needs to reach standard, that is 180 pounds, to get useful data.
“That Inner Mongolian from Sixth Company is real livestock, like a high mountain hard to cross, the 10 kilometers cross-country with load is very difficult for us, but I won’t push too hard, just do your best, winning other events can still secure the win.”
Gao Cheng didn’t put pressure on Chen Jun, not wanting to crush this excellent seedling.
His brows raised, recovering confidence with a smile: “For the 400 meters obstacle course, the company does have a few who are okay, if we send them to the special training team to practice, they can definitely produce something presentable.”
“You’re right, with the special training team, practice a bit, who knows, might produce a few dark horses.”
Chen Jun smiled optimistically and quickly suggested: “No time like the present, Company Commander, how about we start the whole company test this afternoon?”
“Good, today it is.”
Gao Cheng himself is also hot-tempered, accepted Chen Jun’s suggestion and decided: “You go notify the duty clerk, have him stop training immediately, assemble everyone, and hurry to conduct the whole company baseline test.”
“Yes, I’ll go right now.”
Chen Jun received the mission, turned and left, jogging all the way to the large parade ground, notifying the current duty Third Platoon Leader.
Soon.
“Du du du du du…”
A series of whistle sounds rang out on the rear parade ground, and when the whistle stopped, the Third Platoon Leader’s command rang out: “Stop training, whole company assemble immediately.”
The squad leaders who had already been brought to the large parade ground and started morning drills heard the order to stop training and brought their people over to assemble.
Gao Cheng, who put on his jacket and hat, then brought the communicator to the large parade ground.
Military gymnastics and comprehensive can both be done on the large parade ground, all nine events with everyone in the company participating in the test, finally only taking the top three to join the special training team.
Deliberately leaving one elimination quota in the special training team is to give the team members a sense of urgency.
With pressure, training results will be better.
Now the people from Seventh Company who were away have basically returned, only a few special cases left.
The number of people reached
Among them, except the company commander, political instructor, communicator, clerk, and quartermaster not participating, the rest including the three platoon leaders all need to take part in the test.
The armorer is concurrently served by Second Platoon Leader, so equivalent to the armorer also has to participate.
Each event has ninety-one people to test, even if average one minute per person, one event takes an hour and a half.
Plus pre-organization and post-cleanup, each event takes at least over two hours.
By the time all nine events are fully tested by everyone, it’s already the afternoon of the third day after receiving the competition order, which took a full two and a half days.
Fortunately, the remaining five shooting events tested much faster.
Together they took less than a day.
The shooting subjects could be tested so quickly mainly because most events had few people testing.
For example, sniper rifle 500 meters precision shooting only had the company’s few snipers testing, not everyone in the company has to participate.
Pistol 80 meters precision shooting had even fewer, only the three platoon leader cadres in the whole company could participate.
Company commander and political instructor can’t participate in the competition, and Steel Seventh Company has no deputy company commander or deputy political instructor, these two positions have always been vacant.
As a result, after one round by the three platoon leaders, only Chen Jun this new platoon leader scored 49 rings.
This was still him deliberately controlling it.
Otherwise, with Chen Jun’s absolute gun sense technique, a mere 80 meters target, even with pistol, hitting 50 rings would be as easy as drinking water.
While the other two platoon leaders gave their all, yet still only 44 and 46 rings.
