I asked you to repeat your senior year of high school, but did you miss out on joining the military

Chapter 371 Exercise Signs, You're So Clever
The situation is urgent and the brigade has issued orders.

Zhao Ziheng briefly explained the situation to Chen Jun and then brought along a few cadres.

He hurriedly took his men and rushed straight to the recruit training center.

Pengcheng in mid-December has entered the cold winter season. Although it is already morning, the morning mist can still be seen, like milky white sand.

Floating throughout the camp.

Along the way, almost no one spoke in the car. The decision to place new recruits in the Second Battalion was indeed too sudden.

This has cast a shadow over the hearts of many cadres.

Chen Jun was sitting in the back seat of the vehicle. He turned his head and looked at the road outside. There were obviously more vehicles than usual, and heavy transport trucks were dispatched one after another.

He knew that this was a sign before a large-scale exercise began.

Chen Jun smacked his lips and discussed selecting new recruits to be transferred to the Second Battalion.

He didn't know how to evaluate the above decision. Anyway, the military district just had to talk and the battalion had to run around.

What else can I do?

If the Second Battalion does this, the difficulty of its initial formation will increase exponentially. Two hundred recruits are simply not the number that a new battalion can currently absorb.

Even a battalion cannot be swallowed.

"Old Chen, do you have any idea what to do with these 200 people after they enter the camp?"

Halfway through the journey, Zhao Ziheng rubbed his brows and said with a tired tone: "With so many new comrades, it's a big hassle just to manage them uniformly."

"There are only officers in the camp now, but no veterans to help. It's easy for problems to arise with so many people."

"That's not the case."

Chen Jun heard this, he withdrew his gaze from the window, and said with a smile: "How to lead these new recruits? The first battalion can't help at the moment. The big exercise will probably start soon."

"The battalion needs to prepare, and I guess the same is true for other units."

"After all, the annual military exercise is the most important training operation for the higher-ups. It is related to the welfare and quota allocation of each unit next year. No one wants to transfer personnel at this critical juncture."

"Well, I know that."

Zhao Ziheng nodded. He was also a veteran cadre, so how could he not know?

Even if the 179st Battalion were to transfer people to him now, Lao Zhao would not accept them unless the military district gave a clear order that the th Brigade's Combined Battalion would not participate in this exercise.

But this is unlikely.

Military district meetings are now beginning to vigorously promote synthesis, but synthetic battalions are not allowed to participate in exercises. This logic does not make sense at all.

"I understand all this. I don't even want to worry about the organization right now. I just want to settle these new recruits first."

"Don't be impatient."

Chen Jun smiled and said, "Other units cannot spare so many veterans, but the officers in the brigade can appropriately experience leading new soldiers."

"There are also the brigade's guard company, motor company, communications platoon, reconnaissance platoon, anti-tank platoon, grenade launcher platoon, and logistics platoon. Aren't they all still there?"

"After you bring the new recruits back, go directly to Brigade Tao to ask for them. One platoon will give you two three-term recruits, three two-term recruits, and five one-term recruits."

"Just the platoons directly under the brigade can gather 80 to 90 veterans for you. Each recruit class has three veterans and nine new recruits."

"The 200 people are divided into about classes. With the help of these veterans and cadres, they will go to the first battalion for training before the exercise."

"After the exercise, when the rest of the organization is in place, it's not impossible to do it."

"yes!!"

After listening to Chen Jun's suggestion, Zhao Ziheng's originally listless expression suddenly became energetic, and he excitedly clapped his hands on the chair.

Chang laughed and said, "You bastard, Old Chen, you had a good idea but you didn't say it just now. What are you doing holding it in? I've been thinking about it all the way but I still can't figure out how to deal with it."

"I am just discussing the matter at hand."

Chen Jun smiled bitterly: "Who could have thought that this would be so difficult? Besides, our brigade may only have one battalion participating in the battle this time."

"The troops directly under the brigade can only help the first battalion and do peripheral work. Otherwise, there are only a few people in those platoons."

"You took away ten people from a platoon, which means you took away almost all the veterans. If it weren't for special circumstances, would you dare to ask Brigade Tao for such a request?"

"Ha ha."

Zhao Ziheng gave a dry laugh. He was just an idiot.

Although he had never attended the theater headquarters meeting, he had heard Chen Jun mention that large-scale synthetic reactions were not a good idea.

The pressure of forming the organization has been put on the military region by higher authorities. Now that it is the critical moment of the annual military exercise, each unit has reasons not to send personnel.

Isn't it difficult to run a military zone?

It is true that it is the duty of soldiers to obey orders, but sometimes they also have to consider the demands of the majority of units. It is not like they won’t give it to them.

Instead, consider the general direction as the starting point.

The pressure naturally falls on them at the grassroots level.

After hearing what Chen Jun said, Old Zhao felt relieved and a smile appeared on his face again.

. . . . . . . .

It takes about 40 minutes by car.

Two military vehicles slowly slid into the army's new recruit training center.

The so-called recruit training center is actually a training ground built by the military region during the semi-mechanized period in the 1980s and 1990s.

The purpose was also to train soldiers, but at that time the army mostly relied on legs for mobility, and more training was done on individual tactical movements.

For example, fighting, assassination and so on.

The training ground is large in area and can provide a place for multiple units to communicate. Later, as mules and horses became motorized, and then to semi-mechanized and mechanized, the role of the training ground became smaller and smaller.

The training ground is mainly used for exercises, and is often located within a radius of several kilometers at the junction of three provinces.

But the military is a nostalgic place, and even if the training grounds can no longer keep up with the times, the previously preserved buildings will still be renovated and used as venues for military sports games or division-level competitions.

This is not.

Now it has been allocated for the training of new recruits.

The cold wind was blowing outside the martial arts arena. Even though there were vehicles passing by on the road from time to time, the winter chill still seemed to be able to freeze people to death.

But the situation inside the martial arts arena was different.

It was drill time at this time, and there were formations on the open ground, and it was unclear whether they were organized into platoons or companies, and they were practicing marching formations.

The slogans heard from time to time blocked out the howling wind, and a positive scene came into view.

Wait for the vehicle to stop.

Chen Jun got off the car and looked at the queue in the distance with great interest. He stayed in the First Battalion every day and was used to seeing the coordination between infantry and tanks, and between infantry and artillery.

Suddenly seeing so many soldiers training together but no tanks, I felt a little uncomfortable.

It was the same when he first went to the Army Academy's freshman training base, but the freshmen of an academy could not be compared with the new recruits recruited by an army group every year.

Looking around, the nearly 200,000 square meter martial arts arena seemed to be full of people except for the storage area and accommodation area in the distance.

The green military uniforms stretch as far as the eye can see, like a green ocean.

"call!!"

After Zhao Ziheng got out of the car, he took a deep breath, looked at the soldiers who were training nearby with a smile on his face, and said with emotion: "Damn, I feel a lot younger after coming here."

"Looking at it now, it seems like bringing back two hundred bastards isn't such a bad thing."

Upon hearing this, Chen Jun just smiled.

That's because there is a compromise solution to the problem. If not, Old Zhao is not in the mood to express his feelings here.

Who knows why he's holding his head, feeling sad and depressed.

While the two were chatting, a lieutenant colonel came running over from a distance. He looked to be about thirty-six or thirty-seven years old.

The other party had obviously received the order to mobilize troops a long time ago. He extended his hand enthusiastically and shook hands with Chen Jun and then Zhao Ziheng.

"Hello comrades, are you from the 179th Brigade?" "My name is Ma Fei, the battalion commander of the st Battalion of the nd Regiment of the Mechanized Infantry Division. I'm transferred here to lead the new recruits."

"We are in charge of the group here. The higher-ups have already told us the details of the situation."

"Thank you for your hard work, Captain Ma."

Zhao Ziheng shook hands with the other party, and then smiled slightly: "I am the battalion commander of the 179nd Motorized Infantry Battalion, and this is Chen Jun, the deputy chief of staff of our th Brigade."

When Lao Zhao introduced him, he emphasized the words "Deputy Chief of Staff of the Brigade".

Chen Jun stood aside and said nothing, because he knew what was going on.

Although Lao Zhao seems to be an honest man, he is actually a cunning man. Ma Fei is the battalion commander of a mechanized infantry division, and here he is the regiment commander leading new recruits.

Zhao Ziheng was afraid that two battalion commanders would come over and it would be difficult to communicate with them when they needed people, so he deliberately used Chen Jun's name to pressure the other party.

After all, the deputy chief of staff of the brigade sounds more impressive than the battalion commander.

Sure enough, when Ma Fei heard that Chen Jun was the deputy chief of staff of the brigade, he looked at him in surprise.

But he didn't ask anything.

It was obvious that he knew Chen Jun, or to be more precise, he had heard of him.

After all, even if we don’t mention the National Day military training, or the grievances between the First Battalion and the mechanics, just saying that he is the battalion commander of the only pilot battalion in the entire army, this title is enough.

Ma Fei glanced at the two men and said with a smile: "I have already notified the 200 comrades who will be transferred to your brigade. They will be gathering now."

"Let's go over and have a look."

"Walk."

Zhao Ziheng had just been playing some tricks, but in the next moment he enthusiastically put his arm around Captain Ma's shoulders, and the two of them were whispering with their arms around each other's shoulders.

They offered cigarettes and chatted with each other.

People who don’t know would really think that these two are old comrades with a very close relationship.

Chen Jun followed beside him, watching the soldiers training around him as he walked.

Have no idea.

Old Zhao's damn words made him look arrogant, so Chen Jun didn't know what to say.

The Deputy Chief of Staff is the Deputy Chief of Staff, he is not fake anyway.

It seemed that there were three regiments of new recruits training in the entire training ground, with a total number of about five to six thousand people.

The cadres in charge of leading the new recruits are all drawn from various units, including the training brigade commander, regiment commander, company commander, platoon leader, and squad leader.

The framework and other things are not much different from regular combat units, except that the appointment of cadres is not so particular.

When training new recruits, a fourth-term non-commissioned officer can become a company commander of new recruits, while a second- and third-term non-commissioned officer can become a platoon leader or squad leader.

After all, there are so many cadres, and each unit cannot transfer all of them according to demand.

You can't fail in your own unit.

Besides, the ability of cadres to lead new recruits is not necessarily better than that of old non-commissioned officers.

These veterans all have their own way of leading the new recruits.

Following Captain Ma, we bypassed the training queue and came to the accommodation area slightly behind the training ground.

The accommodation and dining conditions at the training ground are not very good, and many of the barracks were built a long time ago.

Although it is not a dangerous building, it is normal for the walls to be mottled and cement blocks to be falling off.

In addition, there are too many people in the new training brigade, and the facilities in various aspects are somewhat inadequate. The overall environment looks far less clean and tidy than the newly built barracks of the first battalion.

Several people came to the dormitory area, and a number of troop transport trucks were already ready.

The 200 new comrades packed their backpacks and stood in a large square with high spirits.

You can always see a sense of youthfulness from the new recruits, if we only talk about the formation.

Chen Jun felt that there wouldn't be any big problem in incorporating these new comrades into the Second Battalion.

"What do you think, Deputy Chief of Staff Chen, Captain Zhao? I chose these soldiers because they are the best performing soldiers in the regiment."

"I can easily pass all the assessments. Discipline, queues, and housekeeping are all no problem."

Ma Fei handed the list in his hand to Chen Jun and patted his chest to make the promise.

"Yes, Not Bad."

Chen Jun glanced at the list and handed it to the cadre behind him.

"Go and make the check."

"Pay attention, make sure the list is correct, and check it again before getting on the bus."

"Don't make any mistakes."

"Yes!!"

New recruits are different from old soldiers. Old soldiers can stay in the army for two or three years, so at least you don’t have to worry about whether they will secretly run away or something.

But it is different for new comrades. It takes not only a brief visit to them, but also a lot of time to do ideological work and communication after bringing them back to the camp.

Not to mention like the First Battalion, where they started training right away by memorizing the instruction manual. It was already a difficult task to ensure that there were no problems with so many new comrades.

Before leaving, Lao Zhao was thinking about coming over to pick some.

But when he really got here and saw so many new recruits in training, he couldn't choose even if he was given the chance.

Not knowing where to start, my mind naturally lost interest.

Ma Fei arranged cadres, together with the cadres brought by Zhao Ziheng, to assist together.

The 200 recruits were put onto nine troop transport trucks and carried back to the Second Battalion in a mighty procession.

When we came here just now, Lao Zhao arranged two cars. When we go back, one will lead the way and the other will cover the rear.

He went to lead the new recruit Chen Jun.

But after returning to the camp, he didn't care about it anymore, because there were plenty of cadres in the Second Battalion anyway.

One cadre can oversee three new recruits.

The new comrades just know little and don’t have the corresponding majors or skills required by each branch of the combined arms battalion, so they have to start from scratch and learn them.

It’s not difficult to settle down.

Relatively speaking, new recruits are definitely more obedient than old soldiers.

The next few days.

Chen Jun should go to the Second Battalion or continue to hang around. Zhao Ziheng also followed Chen Jun's advice and went to Brigade Tao to ask for people.

But Chen Jun didn't ask how to do it specifically.

Anyway, I just saw Lao Zhao going there twice a day. He was more diligent than when he was at work. I don't know why he went to the brigade headquarters every day.

New Year’s Day is getting closer.

The tense atmosphere of the annual military exercise was finally suppressed, and low-flying transport planes rumbled through the air.

Helicopters, which normally were only seen a few times a day, began to be dispatched in large numbers without the need for the military district to issue specific notices.

All units already knew that the annual military exercise was about to begin.

It may be that all battalion-level units of the 179th Brigade have been withdrawn, or it may be that the military district is currently only in the preparation stage and has not issued any specific notice.

Anyway, there is no change in Chen Jun’s daily work.

Either go to the first battalion to see the training, or go to the second battalion to see the progress of the barracks construction.

Although there was no notification from the brigade, Chen Jun could roughly guess it.

The First Battalion will definitely have to participate in this year's annual military exercise, regardless of whether the 179th Brigade withdraws or not.

They are in the stage of vigorously promoting synthesis, and this is the only synthetic battalion.

How could he not join the war?
(End of this chapter)