Chapter 88: The Regiment Is Poaching, And Now The Division Wants In Too?
The final gunshot rang out, and the last target fell.
The record keeper, who had the honor of personally witnessing this legendary moment and had long been tense to the point of rapid breathing with trembling hands, hurriedly pressed the stopwatch.
When he lowered his head to look at the time on the stopwatch…
The next second!
The record keeper was stunned!
“How much? What’s the result?”
Regiment Commander Wang knew the result must be very good, but he wanted to know exactly how good it was. He wanted to hear that number and could no longer control the excitement in his heart.
“Yeah, what’s Chen Jun’s result? Why hasn’t the shooting range reported the result yet?”
The record keeper had only delayed reporting by a few seconds, but to the chief of staff, who was eager in mood, it felt like it had been delayed by several centuries.
The chief of staff already regarded Chen Jun as someone from headquarters. Such an excellent person must join headquarters.
His mood was more urgent than anyone’s.
He was so anxious he was breaking out in sweat!
The regiment leaders on the grandstand were getting impatient, and the competitors in the spectator area were even more anxious. Some competitors who couldn’t hold back had already started shouting toward the shooting range.
“Hurry up and report it, we’re dying of impatience here.”
“Don’t sleep, wake up quick, report the targets!”
“What’s going on, taking forever to report the targets.”
…
Amid the various urging voices that were nearly inciting public outrage, the record keeper finally came back to his senses. He smacked his unusually dry lips and took two deep breaths.
With a trembling voice, he grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted loudly: “No. 28’s full-course time is 88 seconds, hit rate 100 percent, no violations, final result 88 seconds!!”
Zhan Fei from Red Third Company had taken 43 seconds, which had already shocked the whole audience at the time and caused a huge sensation.
Everyone knew.
43 seconds was already the ceiling for grassroots units. Advancing even one second beyond that was an extremely difficult challenge.
But Chen Jun had gone ahead and dropped a king bomb.
He accomplished an unbelievable miracle, improving the result by more than 13 seconds in one go, instantly killing off Zhan Fei, whose regiment record break was still fresh.
The improvement was so perverted and exaggerated that after a brief deathly silence across the whole audience, it was followed by an explosive roar that pierced the clouds.
“Good heavens, 88 seconds????”
“My ears aren’t playing tricks on me, right? 29 seconds? You’re sure it’s not 49 seconds? Or 39 seconds?”
“My goodness, is it really this fierce?”
“This is too exaggerated. Forget the regiment record, the division record must have been obliterated for sure, no doubt about it.”
“Pistol record broken, speed shooting record broken too, and it’s our division’s record. Where did this god Chen Jun come from? This is too damn awesome.”
…
T Division’s current record for 200-meter speed shooting was only 41 seconds, set by an elite soldier from the division reconnaissance battalion during the division grand competition two years ago.
And when he broke the previous record, it was 21 seconds, an improvement of less than one second.
But now Chen Jun improved it by more than 10 seconds in one go, pulling the result into the 30-second range that no one had dared to even imagine, leaving people unable to comprehend and unable to accept it at the same time.
Because at T Division’s record-breaking pace, the new record set by Chen Jun had a high probability of becoming the permanent record.
No one could surpass it again!!
Regiment Commander Wang had judged from Chen Jun’s extraordinary moves that his result would definitely not be bad and could absolutely break the record set by Zhan Fei.
But he had predicted a result of at most 40 seconds. Improving the speed by three seconds would already be very strong.
He had never imagined it could be that perverted.
When he heard the record keeper report a result of more than 29 seconds, even though Regiment Commander Wang had been in the troops for over thirty years with a mentality and thought process that were extremely mature and steadfast,
At the moment he heard the result, his mind buzzed and lost the ability to think.
He couldn’t believe it was real.
To confirm whether the result was real and effective, without any issues in the middle, Regiment Commander Wang specially sent someone to bring the stopwatch over for a personal check.
The result was naturally no problem at all; the stopwatch was running very accurately.
Confirming it wasn’t an issue with the stopwatch, Regiment Commander Wang was instantly enveloped in indescribable ecstasy. Looking at Chen Jun, his eyes were glowing green.
“Soldier King, this is the real Soldier King. Our regiment is in for a good show at this year’s division competition. After so many years of being mere spectators, we can finally be the protagonists, haha.” Regiment Commander Wang said excitedly.
“It’s outrageous, truly outrageous. Chen Jun’s strength is way too ahead of its time. With his 30 seconds, across all four regiments and one brigade plus the reconnaissance battalion in the whole T Division, count them all, not one can match him as an opponent.”
The chief of staff, full of vigor, started bragging, his face brimming with pride and excitement.
His own regiment had produced a super Soldier King with the strength to crush everyone in the division and win honor for the regiment—how could the regiment leaders not be excited?
Company commanders compete with company commanders, and regiment leaders compete with regiment leaders.
It could even be taken more seriously!
Soldiers, whether officers or enlisted,
Are all fiercely competitive.
Unconvinced is in a soldier’s bones!
“Old Wang is right. Our 702 Regiment has been runners-up every year in the division grand competition, we’ve run enough. Looks like this year we can really fight a turnaround battle.”
The political commissar laughed until his face was full of wrinkles, his eyes already filled with anticipation.
Before, they dreaded the division mid-year grand competition every year, but now in just a few short minutes, they had begun to infinitely anticipate the division mid-year grand competition.
Such a huge and rapid shift was the confidence brought by the king bomb-level competitor Chen Jun.
“It’s also time to let those guys from the division reconnaissance battalion feel what real pressure is like, the way they all strut around with noses in the air every day, haha.”
Regiment Commander Wang fantasized about Chen Jun crushing the reconnaissance battalion, and his face broke into an uncontrollable grin.
Under the influence of this extremely refreshing and pleasant mood, seeing that it was now mealtime and the competitors were almost done,
Regiment Commander Wang waved his hand and said: “Little Du, go call Chen Jun from Seventh Company over. We’ll have lunch together at noon.”
“Yes, I’ll go right now.”
As the civil servant who ran errands and did odd jobs for the regiment commander, Du Ziteng immediately understood that the regiment commander had taken a liking to Chen Jun and that the regiment was about to gain another excellent cadre. He quickly ran off.
As Du Ziteng ran toward Seventh Company’s spectator area, Regiment Commander Wang suddenly remembered something.
He hurriedly sent someone to immediately notify downward: all relevant information about this year’s regiment competition was to be classified as confidential, not to be leaked to anyone outside.
Not even people from their own company.
Violators would face disciplinary action for leaking military secrets.
“Old Wang, the mid-year competition is all public. Is this arrangement appropriate?” the political commissar asked worriedly.
“Better safe than sorry. Chen Jun’s displayed strength is too strong. Can you say the division doesn’t want him? Impossible.”
Regiment Commander Wang lived up to being an old ginger, with long-term planning, already starting to lay the groundwork ahead of time.
“You know, it really might happen.”
The political commissar instantly got Regiment Commander Wang’s meaning, knowing he wanted to do everything to keep Chen Jun, and said knowingly: “We do need to make some preparations in advance, or it’ll be too late if the person is gone by then.”
