Chapter 179: The whole company is transferred, the strongest backing
After cursing for a while, Cheng Dong no longer had the heart to hang around.
He rolled up his trouser legs and sat on the curb, lit a cigarette and smoked it dejectedly.
This disarmament had a wide impact, and the reconnaissance company was seriously understaffed. According to the original organization, the company had four platoons and sixteen squads.
Each squad is composed of a standard 12-man infantry squad. The full company strength is 192 people, plus civilian staff, such as clerks, instructors, and him as the company commander and deputy company commander, there are almost 200 people.
Now, some are retiring, some are being laid off, let alone 192 people, there are only 96 people left in the entire company.
Recently, another document was issued, requiring the entire company to be reduced to three platoons, and the platoon leader of the remaining platoon was also transferred.
It is said that new disarmament orders will be issued one after another, and Cheng Dong himself does not know whether the 7th Armored Brigade will be further disbanded.
But he had been the company commander for seven years and had poured so much effort into the company, but now he was watching its organization being reduced step by step under his leadership.
Even the tanks had to be packed up and transferred to the main battalions. Captain Cheng felt really bad about it.
"Hello, Captain! Hey, let me have a cigarette."
When Cheng Dong was feeling depressed, Wang Jianyong, Yao Jinghua and several other veterans who were passing by came up to him with a grin on their faces.
Without waiting for their company commander to assign them cigarettes, several veteran soldiers, like bandits, picked up cigarette boxes on the ground, opened them, stuffed them into their mouths, and clamped them on their ears.
That guy is just like a robber.
It’s not that Cheng Dong is too old to lift a knife, nor is it that these old soldiers are too arrogant to dare to come and steal the company commander’s cigarette so openly.
It is really the helplessness of middle-aged people.
At the end of the month, when the company commander's living expenses were gone, he would randomly confiscate cigarettes in the company, under the pretext of "good assessment", from anyone he saw smoking.
Soldiers don't have much money. The company commander is short of money, and these married old soldiers are also short of money. If they don't confiscate the company commander's rations, everyone will starve.
"Fuck it, get out of here, I just opened the cigarette."
Cheng Dong looked at his half-finished pack of cigarettes, which was reduced to a piece of cardboard in the blink of an eye, and immediately widened his eyes.
However, before he could continue to curse, Yao Jinghua beside him hurriedly put away the cigarette in his mouth, stood up and stood at attention, and shouted: "Hello, instructor!"
When Cheng Dong heard the noise, he turned his head and glanced at the distance. Huo Linshan was walking towards him hurriedly.
Lao Huo is the political cadre of the company and is usually very steady. Seeing him so anxious, Cheng Dong realized that something must have happened.
He quickly stood up, brushed the dust off his butt, and threw the cigarette box away with a "whoosh": "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
"Well, the military district staff just sent a notice requiring our entire company to depart early tomorrow morning and move to a base southwest of Jinyang. Someone from the staff is coming over right now."
"What the hell, the whole company is moving?"
When Cheng Dong heard this, his heart skipped a beat. He felt a sense of emptiness as if the treasure he had protected for years was suddenly taken away by someone.
There is also a feeling of the river flowing east and the hero's twilight years.
This whole company transfer is more frightening than disarmament. If there were no unexpected circumstances, they would have been incorporated into other units.
"Don't worry." Huo Linshan waved his hand and then looked at the veterans nearby and said, "You guys go gather the entire company at the training ground. The company commander and I will be there shortly."
"yes!"
Wang Jianyong, Yao Jinghua and others looked at each other and did not dare to delay any longer.
The transfer of the entire company is a big deal.
What's more, this was an order directly issued by the military district staff, skipping the brigade headquarters. It sounds like a big deal.
If it is a small matter, there is no need for the military district staff to give orders in person for a company-level unit.
As for Liang Hongjie being transferred, the people in the company actually didn't know where he was transferred to. It was the training department that directly notified the various units to send people.
You will not be informed of the specific details, but for information-based experiments, confidentiality measures still need to be in place within a certain scope.
Seeing that everyone had been sent away, Cheng Dong reached into Huo Linshan's pocket and took out a cigarette, lit one himself, and asked anxiously: "What's going on?"
"Why would the General Staff notify us to move?"
"I don't know what's going on." Huo Linshan shook his head. "But he sounded very anxious on the phone, like he was afraid someone would go back on their word."
"The order is to seal all the company's tanks where they are, and the soldiers are to depart tomorrow morning with their individual equipment. The General Staff has sent someone to lead the way tomorrow and to oversee our movements."
"Alright, go tell the comrades to get ready. I'm going to the headquarters to ask the officer on duty what's going on."
"Okay, go slowly on your way."
Cheng Dong sighed. He just wanted to work hard for another three years and then change his career when he turned 40. He had long given up the idea of continuing to climb up the ladder.
Why is it so difficult to fulfill such a small wish?
Full company transfer.
"You little bastard, you're still obsessed with power. Interfering with the three companies is good, but haven't you seen the data and summary of the previous experiments?"
"I asked you to be an advisor, and you dare to make decisions for three months?"
Inside the base meeting room.
The meeting had already ended by then, and all the divisions and brigades of the military region, including the staff and training departments, had already withdrawn.
Only a group of teachers and students from the Lu Academy were left, and they were still detained here, and no one dared to leave.
No other reason.
It was because Chen Mo signed a three-month military order in front of so many leaders, and there is no joking in the army.
The purpose of holding this meeting is to let the military district open up the channel for transferring personnel. Good things take time, and we will strive to get a group of technically competent non-commissioned officers and form an informationized battalion after training.
The reason why Dean Lu agreed with Chen Mo's suggestion was that he had repeatedly considered it and was sure that this method was indeed feasible, so he was so proactive.
result.
Once the military order for the three-month period is issued, the military district will have an absolute excuse and will not arrange anyone else in the short term.
Just give it to a reconnaissance company. Just now when the meeting was over, those military district leaders ran away, each one faster than the other.
Afraid of being entangled.
As the current person in charge of the base, how could Luo Yaowu not be annoyed and angry?
I really didn't expect that Chen Mo would suddenly say this during the discussion.
Look, they are raising an army to punish the culprit.
Facing the furious Director Luo, Chen Mo grinned. He was indeed reckless in this matter.
But what if it’s not reckless?
If the academy and the military region really play Tai Chi with each other, procrastinate for several months, and finally send in dozens of leftovers, even if the number of people is enough to make up a battalion of non-commissioned officers, what's the use?
The first requirement for combat is absolute obedience to orders. Those old hands are not even liked by their own units. Expecting them to obey orders is a waste of time.
Reform is not easy, and innovation is even less easy. If many things are not pushed to a certain extent, don't expect to see results.
"Director, I..."
"Don't call me Director. From now on I will call you Director." Luo Yaowu slapped the conference table angrily.
Then he stood up and said, "Don't you want to be the staff officer? Okay, I'll let you be the staff officer. Tomorrow, the people from the interspersed company will come over. You will be responsible for arranging the majors, and I will find someone to teach them."
"When the three-month deadline comes, I'll see what you can say."
"snort!"
After Luo Yaowu finished speaking, he turned around and strode away.
Many instructors and students on site also left one after another.
After being scolded, Chen Mo not only did not show any nervousness, but after everyone else left, he smiled, touched his nose, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Liang Hongjie, who had been on edge, walked up to him and said angrily, "Scholar, you are so reckless."
"How can you speak in that situation?"
"Platoon leader, you don't understand." Chen Mo smiled and didn't explain.
Pei Shuajun on the side also looked relaxed, with his hands on his hips, as if he was not worried about Chen Mo's situation at all.
Because he is also an assistant to the leader, equivalent to the confidential secretary of the military district leader.
It can be seen at a glance that Director Luo was not angry at all just now. He was just performing for the instructors on the scene.
After all, although Director Luo is the person in charge, he cannot make the final decision on many things. He gets angry so that the teachers can shut up and stop asking questions.
It was also to cover for Chen Mo.
If the experiment fails after three months, Luo Yaowu can severely reprimand Chen Mo in front of the academy and the military region, saying that he had never agreed to it in the first place.
Request the military region to continue to cooperate.
Sometimes, everyone knows the truth, but they still have to act it out. If they don’t, how can they save face and continue to recruit people in the future?
The meeting just now has reached a dead end. The Chief of Staff has not expressed his opinion and has allowed the Training Department to cry poor. The academy can no longer force them.
Chen Mo's approach could be said to be the best solution at the time.
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Poor Platoon Leader Liang didn't have that much insight, and he just thought that Chen Mo was really being scolded.
These three people left the latest, and the facilities in the base are not yet complete.
The cleaning work naturally depends on their self-awareness.
Wait until everything is ready.
Chen Mo came down from the conference room and looked at the bright moonlight in the sky. He had never felt so relaxed as at this moment.
He finally brought the reconnaissance company to the source of the tide of the times. As long as this is successful, the entire company will most likely develop into the first informationized force in the entire army.
This is what he has always believed: ability is not important, opportunity is the most important.
After all, there must be a more suitable unit than the reconnaissance company right now, but the problem is that Chen Mo doesn't know them and has no foundation there, while the reconnaissance company just meets these conditions.
"Scholar, do you really have an idea?"
Liang Hongjie handed Chen Mo a cigarette. He always felt that this scholar in front of him seemed to have become mature after leaving the company.
Even more mature than the company commander.
"I'm a regular, no problem." Chen Mo smiled. He reached out to take the cigarette and then urged, "Platoon leader, go and rest. We'll be welcoming the company commander and the others tomorrow."
"Tomorrow? So soon?"
"Yeah." Chen Mo nodded: "It's only at night. If it were daytime, I'm afraid the people from the military district wouldn't be able to wait until tomorrow and would ask the company commander and others to come over."
"Why?"
"Because of the military district, we are also afraid that the people in the academy will go back on their word." Chen Mo smiled deeply.
Because there are still many things to do tomorrow.
Chen Mo didn't chat with Liang Pai for too long. After returning to the dormitory, as expected, something happened.
Pei Shuajun brought over a stack of research documents on armored communications, saying that it was Director Luo's request, and asked Chen Mo to read and learn on his own, and then go to class after the instructor here started the class.
Chen Mo had no objection to this arrangement. The knowledge points related to armored communications were indeed what he needed to supplement the most at the moment.
Although the current research direction revolves around the battles between Hans and the Soviet Union during World War II.
But this does not prevent these topics from reflecting the years of thinking of outstanding students from the Lu Academy.
The academy has never lacked people with quick wits, nor has it lacked students who are willing to muster up the courage to explore and break the rules.
From these topics, we can learn a lot of perspectives from similar students.
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After these people join the army, their edges will often be smoothed out and they will become less sharp due to the general environment, social customs, or various other reasons.
As information technology is currently in the experimental stage, it can only be regarded as a low-intensity, localized campaign.
However, many students regard this direction as the mainstream challenge when doing their research projects.
Chen Mo has a memory that is ahead of his time, but it is not omnipotent.
If we compare it to a famous gun, it can at most affect the outcome of a battle.
But if he is willing to learn, willing to change more people, and mass-produce more famous guns, then he can control the war.
It's late at night.
Fortunately, the dormitory is big enough and there are only two people living there.
Pei Shuajun was sleeping soundly on the east side, while Chen Mo was on the west side with the desk lamp on, reading the questions one by one, and taking notes of various novel ideas with a pen.
These topics were the best answers that many students had racked their brains to come up with, and Director Luo brought them over, which benefited Chen Mo a lot.
Chen Mo didn't know exactly what time he went to bed that night, but as soon as the sun rose, he put on his military uniform and found his regular clothes and shook them out neatly.
He took out the leather shoes given by Dean Lu and squeezed some shoe polish on them to wipe them carefully.
Chen Mo rarely wore the leather shoes issued by the college because he was not used to the three-jointed leather shoes.
People in dormitory 402 basically never wear it, but people like Xie Yong and Ding Zeliang are used to it.
But I can't bear to wear it.
Many veterans were so excited when they were given leather shoes for the first time that they asked for leave to go out and have the soles nailed on their shoes. But when they came back, they only dared to wear them on and stroll back and forth in the corridor.
Just to listen to the "da da da" sound.
Unless the academy requires casual uniforms with leather shoes, those veterans will wear them. Otherwise, that thing is just a mascot.
But today is different.
I have been in the army for quite some time now, and I finally got the rank of staff officer. And today, I will be meeting the company commander and squad leader, so I must dress smartly.
After packing up my casual clothes and leather shoes.
Chen Mo packed all these into his backpack, carried the weighted backpack, quietly opened the dormitory door and went downstairs.
That's right, he has to resume his old habit of getting up early and exercising every day.
The reconnaissance company was his old unit.
Chen Mo knew very well what the atmosphere in the company was like. He didn't bring people here to show off.
He wanted to bring the reconnaissance company's fighting spirit and positive attitude here, starting with himself.
He wanted to tell all the veteran squad leaders in the company that Xiucai was still the same Xiucai as before, but to get here, we all needed to work together.
Looking to the future.
The morning breeze blew towards him, bringing with it bursts of warmth, but Chen Mo did not feel uncomfortable. Instead, he felt particularly comfortable.
The main thing is that the feeling of fighting in the company before has returned.
After running intermittently for about an hour, Liang Hongjie also came down with a backpack.
You can see it.
Pai Liang must not have been slacking off in the company recently. He was not surprised to see Chen Mo running when he came downstairs.
Instead, he ran side by side with Chen Mo.
At first, neither of them said anything.
The sky is getting brighter.
People in the armed police dormitory building in the distance began to get busy because the facilities at the base were not complete.
There is no unified wake-up call in the early morning.
As expected, none of the more than 20 non-commissioned officers arranged by the troops yesterday went downstairs.
Even the teachers from the distant Lu Academy have started exercising, but the group of old soldiers are still nowhere to be seen. They must be comfortably hiding in the air-conditioned room.
"Scholar."
"Um."
"You know, our company has been downsized. The fourth platoon is gone. From now on, the reconnaissance company will only have three platoons. As a platoon leader, I don't know what to do from now on."
Liang Hongjie suddenly spoke when he was exhausted from running.
When Chen Mo heard this, he was stunned.
Such a big thing happened. When Liang Pai came over yesterday, the two of them squatted in the corner and smoked for a long time without telling anyone.
However, it doesn’t seem too late to say it now.
Chen Mo grinned, grabbed the towel hanging around his neck, slowly stopped running, wiped his face and said: "Platoon leader, I guess there will be no reconnaissance company in the future. We may become a combined battalion."
"Synthetic Camp?" Liang Hongjie also stopped and looked at Chen Mo with a puzzled look on his face.
"Yes, it's the combined battalion."
"Platoon leader, do you know about informationization?"
"Of course I know. Wasn't the Gulf War the result of the Americans' use of information warfare?"
"That's both right and wrong." Chen Mo shook his head slightly: "The scale you're talking about is too large. We can't afford it right now. We can only start with a small-scale, intense war."
"There's too much I can't tell you, but don't worry, Platoon Leader. The reconnaissance company may no longer exist, but we will continue to thrive."
"You don't have to be the reconnaissance platoon leader anymore. Weren't you the leader yesterday? There are more than 20 veterans here. You can just lead them."
"I?"
Liang Hongjie raised his hand and pointed at himself with a shocked expression. He was well aware of how lax the discipline was among the veterans who had come yesterday.
"I'm not very good at this."
"The main thing is that those people are just scumbags pushed out by other units. I won't be able to convince them if I lead them."
Liang Hongjie is not without ambition, nor is he without a positive and progressive spirit.
What he lacks is experience, enough experience.
Chen Mo glanced at Liang Pai, then looked at the dormitory building in the distance. Neither the students from Lu Academy nor the group of lazy soldiers who came here yesterday came downstairs.
He sighed, slowed down his pace, and said, "Platoon Leader, it's been ten years since the Indochina War ended, right?"
"Our Type 56 rifle has evolved into the Type 81 today, and there will even be Type 95 or other models in the future."
"The main battle tank has evolved from 79 to 88, and now to 96, the infantry fighting vehicle has evolved from 87 to 94, and there are more than a dozen types of mortars. Even the DF31 has become the DF41."
"Weapons have been updated for so many generations, but our individual soldier roles and squad and platoon tactics haven't changed at all, including our reconnaissance company. Platoon leader, do you think this is normal?"
"I" Liang Hongjie was a little confused. He felt as if he was being taught a lesson by Xiucai, the private.
Chen Mo didn't give him a chance to respond and continued, "What we lack is the courage to explore and break the old rules."
"In an era without firearms, wars would always change with the enemy's tactics. But now, with foreign powers surrounding us, if we don't change, we will be bullied."
"You're a top student in armor and a member of the reconnaissance company. You're definitely capable of shining the brightest in this era. Why do you have to think you're incapable?"
"Someone has to endure some hardships, and someone has to try some things. Last night, in front of so many leaders, I dared to issue a military order. Platoon leader, what are you afraid of?"
Chen Mo's tone was firm and expressive.
Liang Hongjie's forehead began to sweat after hearing this. He stared at the dormitory building in the distance with rapid breathing.
Because that was the dormitory he and those veterans were assigned to.
"Platoon leader, the armed police are still in charge of the base's guard duty. You were the first one to lead the troops into the base, so you are responsible for these people."
"While the academy's leadership is still struggling to react and the various regulations haven't been formulated yet, go gather these people and ask them to go out for drill according to the squadron's regulations."
"Your efforts will definitely be noticed by others. If you don't want to be a platoon leader in the reconnaissance company, then you can quit. In the future, you might become the company commander of a combined forces battalion. At the very least, you still have things you need to do."
"But you have to take the first step, right?"
"Scholar, stop talking." Liang Hongjie picked up the towel and wiped his face fiercely, his eyes a little ferocious.
"Although I can tell you're trying to trick me, I also know this is for my own good. Indeed, I can't continue to behave like the reconnaissance company in a different environment."
"I'm going to blow the whistle and ask them to assemble for drill."
Liang Hongjie is a practical person. After expressing his opinion, he walked towards the building in the distance with his backpack on his back.
See this situation.
Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief.
Is it a scam? I can only say it's half and half.
Last night, Director Luo said that he would serve as the staff officer and had a three-month military order.
Since Director Luo has agreed, it means that he has the absolute right to interfere in military training and study arrangements.
He doesn't want these bad soldiers either.
But now that they are here, they can't go back. We can't just train the reconnaissance company and let these old soldiers do nothing every day and just watch the fun.
These bad soldiers also need to be utilized. Liang Hongjie happens to be the team leader, so it would be good to assign them to him for management and to train them.
As for any accidents, Chen Mo was not worried at all.
According to the time, the reconnaissance company's main force will be here soon, and even if Liang Hongjie is in the reconnaissance company, he will not be very popular.
Could it be possible that those scouts would just watch him being bullied by these veteran soldiers?
Someone stepped forward, which was a good opportunity for Liang Pai to exercise, and Cheng Dong hated lazy soldiers the most.
There will always be bigger villains to deal with the bad guys, so why be afraid?
Anyway, they had been running for a long time, so Chen Mo took advantage of the opportunity when Liang Hongjie went over to blow the whistle and call people to exercise, and went back to the dormitory to take a shower and change into regular clothes to welcome the reconnaissance company.
but.
What Chen Mo didn't expect was that he still underestimated the laziness and arrogance of these lazy soldiers.
Liang Hongjie took the whistle and stood in the corridor blowing it for a long time, waking up all the cadets and soldiers of the Army Academy and making them run out to line up.
Only the group of old soldiers stretched their heads out and cursed, and saw that it was him blowing the whistle again. Only seven or eight of the more than twenty people came out.
The remaining dozen or so continued to sleep with their heads covered, ignoring all attention.
Liang Hongjie was also helpless. When he was fooled by Chen Mo just now, he was very ambitious.
But when he really met this group of old non-commissioned officers from various units who were playing tricks and unwilling to cooperate, he had no good solution.
He had no choice but to push open the door of one of the dormitories and put the whistle in his mouth.
"Beep-beep!"
"get up!!"
"What the hell are you bragging about?" Gao Sufeng, the third-class sergeant of the mechanized infantry company whose information Chen Mo had read when he came to the base, was half asleep.
Awakened by the sudden whistle, he subconsciously grabbed the belt on the head of the bed and smashed it straight over.
Gao Sufeng lived close to the door, and the belt he threw hit Liang Hongjie on the head.
This wasn't just Gao's arrogance. He was the only third-level non-commissioned officer in the entire company and was used to being domineering.
When he came to a new place, he naturally would not buy into the account of a lieutenant who was transferred here with him.
"Get out of here, it's time to blow it?" After hitting the man, Gao Sufeng cursed a few words and continued to lie there to rest.
That's when it happened.
Outside the base gate, six troop transport trucks rumbled in.
The reconnaissance company, including Cheng Dong and Huolinshan, had a total of 96 people. They set out at four o'clock and rushed for two hours before finally arriving under the leadership of the General Staff.
Arrived at the base to report.
The vehicle stopped and the scouts, each holding an 81-type rifle in their hands, carrying an 85-type submachine gun on their backs, wearing a steel helmet and a 91-type dagger rifle on their waist, quickly got off the vehicle and lined up.
Cheng Dong got out of the co-pilot seat, put his hands on his hips, and observed the layout of the base. The smile on his face was like skinning a dog, and he couldn't restrain it.
With his hands on his hips and looking ahead, his soldier-like temperament suddenly emerged.
Because he already knew from the staff that the transfer of the entire company was actually Xiucai's idea.
This news is much better than being disbanded or merged, right?
"Fuck it, gather together, hurry up, you bastards, you don't even give me some face when you get to this new place."
Cheng Dong's cursing voice soon echoed throughout half of the base.
Chen Mo, who had just changed into casual clothes and put on leather shoes, heard some noise coming from downstairs.
His face lit up with joy as he hurriedly tugged at his military uniform and went downstairs quickly.
"Scholar?!"
"Is it really you?"
Chen Mo came downstairs.
A group of veterans from the reconnaissance company lined up in formation, each holding a rifle, staring at the figure coming down from the building with a smile on their faces.
Some smiled brightly, some looked a little surprised, and some waved, even though they had only not seen each other for a month.
But it feels pretty good to see familiar people in this strange place.
"Company Commander!!"
Chen Mo waved to the ranks of veterans, quickly ran towards Cheng Dong, stood at attention, and saluted!
"Hey, you son of a bitch."
Cheng Dong grinned and returned the greeting, looking up and down at the soldier in front of him. When he saw that Chen Mo was still wearing his regular clothes and even had leather shoes on, he was shocked.
Captain Cheng scratched his head and scolded with a smile: "Damn it, you are more promising than me."
"Okay, not bad."
"I heard from the comrades in the General Staff that you will be our advisor in the future?"
"Yes, Captain, hey, let's talk about this later."
Chen Mo turned his head and looked around.
I found that there were only cadet soldiers lined up downstairs in the distance, and there were only seven or eight veterans lined up.
He knew that Liang Pai was in trouble.
Chen Mo ran to Cheng Dong and whispered a few words.
Originally, Cheng Dong was quite surprised to hear that Liang Hongjie was also transferred here, but when he heard that his own platoon leader was actually being made difficult to lead his troops.
His eyes widened and his anger increased immediately.
If his own cadres were bullied by his own people, it was because Liang Hongjie was incompetent and he deserved it, but what about being bullied by others?
"Platoon leader!"
"arrive!!"
Wang Yanjun, the platoon leader of the reconnaissance company, heard the order, stepped forward from the line, and responded in a loud voice.
"Go, take your platoon and follow the scholar to see what's going on."
"Damn it, he dared to bully my soldiers. He's rebelling against me."
"yes!!"
The first platoon of the reconnaissance company, most of the third-level non-commissioned officers are concentrated in this platoon.
Wang Yanjun gave an order.
Three squads, more than twenty veterans, moved in unison, with Chen Mo responsible for pointing the direction.
Platoon Leader Wang led the team and rushed into the dormitory building.
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