Chapter 202: Inviting People to Watch the Battle, the Joint Battalion Moves Out
"Scholar, what are we going to check? Why do we need to wear this broken thing?"
The scouts called over by Chen Mo were holding police armbands in their hands, each with a more disgusted expression than the other.
Some people even exaggerate by pinching it with two fingers, and it feels like holding a dead mouse in their hands.
The corners of his mouth can reach his ears.
Because in the Seventh Brigade, the reconnaissance company and the military affairs department are mortal enemies.
They usually dislike each other when they meet, let alone taking the initiative to do patrol work.
"Put it on. I'm definitely not going to pick a fight. I'm just going to find a few soldiers and ask them who their squad leader is, who their platoon leader is, and who their company commander is. And if they know any of their classmates."
"The work is easy." Chen Mo took the safety pin and pinned it on his sleeve. At the same time, he turned around and explained the work.
Listen to what he said.
A dozen veterans put on the armbands reluctantly.
How should I put it? It's just a formality. After all, if you don't wear an armband, and so many people suddenly rush into the base, who will know who you are?
Simply to avoid unnecessary conflicts.
The work is indeed not difficult.
At present, some people from each company are staying in the dormitory, while some cadres who are more capable of doing things have taken the entire company to the foot of Mount Tai and found an open space for personnel interaction there.
The staff are relatively scattered.
After Chen Mo assigned tasks to everyone, he went to Pei Shuajun to get paper and pens for everyone to record the inquiries. Then they started to work in groups of two to carry out the tasks.
Wang Jianyong and Chen Mo are more familiar with each other, so they work together as a team, mainly to check the people in the armored battalion.
"Scholar, isn't this a waste of time for you?" Wang Jianyong looked at the notebook in his hand and said with a lack of interest, "So many people came here yesterday. Even if I didn't know you, what could I do?"
"Catch them and give the company commander a scolding?"
"It's not that cheap." Chen Mo smiled upon hearing this, then explained seriously, "Our upcoming joint training will be very arduous. As a joint camp, we must maintain a positive attitude."
"Being a little lazy or a little clumsy doesn't matter. The purpose of the joint training is just to test the efficiency of each unit's maneuverability, so as to facilitate planning for specific missions when we arrive in the northwest."
"But if their attitude is not right and their training is perfunctory, it will affect more than just one company."
"I know everything you're talking about, but what if someone really refuses to cooperate?" Wang Jianyong was puzzled. "A battalion is made up of four or five different divisions and brigades. I've never heard of such a scheme before."
"They came all the way here, and their positions are still with their original units. What can you do if they refuse to obey orders?"
Lao Wang’s worries are not without reason.
Take the reconnaissance company for example. In the 7th Armored Brigade, under Cheng Dong's leadership, they are all good soldiers who obey orders.
If you give these people another place, would you try again?
If those guys didn't raise their heads to the sky and glare at people with their noses, even the reconnaissance company would be very restrained.
"What can we do? Everyone must retreat. If the company commander doesn't obey, the entire company must retreat. If a soldier disobeys, each must retreat individually. If we don't have enough personnel, our reconnaissance company will fill in. If we don't have enough command, which of the three platoon leaders in the reconnaissance company can't step up?"
"Special times call for special measures. Don't think about using your personal charm to conquer others. We don't have the time for that."
Chen Mo raised his hand and waved, with a hint of dominance in his tone.
But let him say that.
Wang Jianyong, who was originally not interested, almost had his eyes popping out.
He said in a tone of watching the fun and not minding the trouble: "Scholar, is what you said true?"
"Damn it, if you say that, I'm going to ask them one by one."
There are not many people in the Second Tank Battalion. Excluding logistics, a company has at most fifty people, and the entire battalion can basically be crammed into five or six dormitories.
In the morning, when Chen Mo was wandering around the base, he already knew that everyone from the Second Battalion was holding a company meeting in the dormitory, so the two of them simply went straight to the First Company dormitory.
Maybe he knew that people would be fired and that his job was not without challenges, so Wang Jianyong was quite proactive.
The two walked to the dormitory door.
Without Chen Mo saying anything, Wang Jianyong started banging on the door.
It was obvious that turning the doorknob would solve the problem, but the person refused to turn it. He waited until someone inside opened the door before grabbing the notebook in one hand, taking off the red armband with the other, and saying solemnly: "Comrades, check the mission."
"Everyone cooperate."
"Hey, you, yes, you, tell me what your squad leader's name is and who your platoon leader is."
Chen Mo was in the same group with him. Originally, the two of them were going to look for someone to ask, but now Lao Wang was blocking the door alone.
The voice was like a broken gong and he couldn't get a word in at all.
Chen Mo stood at the door of the dormitory and patted his forehead helplessly. Damn it, I asked these people to wear armbands just now, and each one was more reluctant than the other.
No matter what you say, even a dog wouldn't do this kind of work.
If this really happens, what's the difference between them and those patrolmen on the street without any video equipment? They're all like bandits, and they never keep their voices down.
After standing at the door and watching for a while, I made sure that Lao Wang knew the people from the Second Battalion and would not be beaten.
Chen Mocai stretched his head and called out Zhu Gaituan who was hiding in the corner of the room for a meeting.
"Hello, Deputy Class Leader!!"
Coming out of the dormitory, Zhu Gaituan straightened his body in a proper manner and spoke with a smile.
"Are you used to coming here?"
"I'm used to it. Too used to it. It has air conditioning here. Damn, it's much better than our infantry squad dormitory. We only have a broken fan and it often runs out of power."
"Before I joined the army, I thought the army wouldn't have power outages. Who knew it would go out this time, and the hotter it got, the more it went out. You don't know, squad leader, sometimes after training, we would squat in a row outside the cafeteria to eat dinner."
"For dinner, I had fried salted fish with garlic sprouts. The garlic sprouts were hard to chew, and there was only a little bit of the salted fish tail left. Ugh!"
Zhu Gaituan became more and more excited as he spoke, and occasionally used some body movements. It was obvious that the summer in the tank battalion was indeed not easy.
If we really compare, the base can be said to be quite good.
"Well, that was quite uncomfortable."
Chen Mo smiled and patted Zhu Gaituan on the shoulder: "How about this, when you have time, go find our squad leader, or even the company commander."
"Tell them you want to be transferred to the reconnaissance company. After this military exercise, they'll likely be training a large number of people here. If you transfer over and learn with the company, you'll be able to become a respected veteran NCO like our squad leader."
"Hehe, that's great."
Of course Zhu Gaituan had no objection. These were the exact words he had said to Chen Mo two days ago.
Unexpectedly, the class vice-chairman still remembered it.
"What about Lao Feng, the squad leader? He's been transferred to the logistics company now. Why not transfer him to the reconnaissance company as well?"
"It's okay. I have my own arrangements with Old Feng. Our former Platoon Leader Liang is now in charge of logistics. Let's have Platoon Leader Liang talk to him."
"Okay!"
After the two chatted for a while, Zhu Gaituan returned to the dormitory.
In the past, there were standards for selecting people for the reconnaissance company. For example, those who did not perform well as recruits, such as Zhu Gaituan and Feng Junling, were not qualified even with the face of veterans.
After all, it’s not a good unit.
Forcing them in will only make those with poor foundation suffer more.
Things are different now. The reconnaissance company has gradually been integrated into the informationized battalion and is responsible for various tasks.
Chen Mo will definitely do his best to take care of his fellow soldiers.
Zhu Gaituan is doing well. He can survive in the infantry squad and serve as a machine gunner, which shows that he has good adaptability.
But Feng Junling was in some trouble.
That guy, who was over 1.9 meters tall, was not popular in the army. Fortunately, the recruitment requirements were not strict at that time.
Otherwise, if you are too tall, you will not be allowed to undergo physical examination.
With that height, you can only go to the artillery battalion, and it has to be a towed artillery, not a self-propelled artillery, otherwise you can't even get into the cockpit.
Chen Mo planned to wait and see about Lao Feng's matter.
While Lao Wang was blocking the dormitory door and checking people out as if calling out names, Chen Mo simply changed his dormitory.
He was not as rough as these scouts. He adopted a slightly softer approach. He specifically selected a few soldiers, took them to the corridor, and gave them a few cigarettes.
Ask which squad or platoon members were left behind to stand guard in the camp and who were transferred from other units.
Did the company commanders and cadres talk to the transferred people and chat with them to clarify these things?
Chen Mo didn't ask in detail. He still said the same thing: half a day would not achieve the effect he wanted. The problem lies in execution.
If cadres lack execution ability, the troops will have no cohesion. The atmosphere of a unit is basically linked to the character of the commander.
Lax discipline and everyone working on their own are big taboos when it comes to the scene.
Inadequate communication of ideas and forced arrangement of training subjects can easily lead to a decline in the training enthusiasm of the entire army.
If the cadres don’t take it seriously, how can we expect the soldiers under them to charge forward screaming?
The way to clean up woodworms is to take immediate measures to eliminate them when you find worm holes, rather than waiting until the tree trunk is riddled with holes before taking action.
After a brief inquiry from the Second Battalion and finding no problems, Chen Mo went downstairs and stood in the place where they had dispersed before.
Waiting for the people from the reconnaissance company who went out to count to come back and report.
Probably more than half an hour passed.
Personnel from the entire base began to move towards the cafeteria one after another, and the food delivery trucks arranged by the Jinyang Logistics Department arrived at the base.
The dozen or so scouts who went out finally came back.
Wang Jianyong, Cui Liang, and Yao Jinghua all had the same expression.
When the record books issued to them were returned, they were also clean and had nothing written on them.
"Scholar, your arrangement is superfluous. I went to the anti-aircraft artillery company, and there were only three new people there. The company commander and platoon leader brought these three people to hold a company-wide meeting early in the morning."
"He specifically talked about the importance of this training session and also said that we were going to the northwest to participate in military exercises and we couldn't lose face for our old unit."
"My situation is almost the same. I went to the howitzer company. The people there were quite enthusiastic. They dragged me to smoke for half an hour. My lips were numb from smoking. I couldn't get the number of guns I had, but they were quite cooperative anyway."
Chen Mo was quite confident in the people in the reconnaissance company. If he was not confident, he would not have loaned them out.
But he was not in a hurry to draw conclusions.
When the work was assigned in the morning, these companies behaved normally and were the type that actively cooperated with the work. There is nothing much to say about it.
"Where's the rocket battery?"
Chen Mo turned his head to look at Yu Tao from the reconnaissance company, who was specifically responsible for running to the rocket launcher to inquire about the situation.
I heard the scholar ask.
Yu Tao, who had been silent the whole time, raised the record book in his hand and said, "This company isn't very cooperative. Their company commander is called Hu Xueyan, and he's just an old-fashioned person."
"I had a big argument with him there. I didn't ask much, and it would have been pointless to ask. There were basically no new recruits in the rocket artillery company. I roughly counted the entire company and there were over ninety of them."
"Their logistics were not separated and were all grouped together. They were not allowed to approach the camp at all."
Yu Tao looked very unhappy when he said these words.
After all, no matter what, the joint battalion has several companies, and no matter which unit you come from, at least you are now a united front.
The reconnaissance company basically serves these long-range artillery. As a result, they were only allowed to do statistical work and were not even allowed to enter the camp.
This shows how arrogant the people over there are.
Actually, how should I put it? The people in the rocket artillery company are arrogant, and Chen Mo can understand that.
In the late 1990s, many units were still equipped with motorized infantry and no equipment at all. Even the most powerful armored unit was just the newly equipped Type 96 tank.
But do you know what equipment the WS-1 rocket launcher unit has?
The entire company not only has artillery vehicles, but also a separate command vehicle. Even the logistics transportation and loading vehicles must be fixed QY-88 models.
In addition, high-altitude meteorological radar vehicles are standard equipment.
Howitzers are pretty awesome, right? They can only fire extended-range rounds over 20 kilometers, while rocket artillery can easily bombard targets over 60 or 70 kilometers.
When fighting, no tactics are needed, just bomb.
If Chen Mo were to lead such a company himself, he would probably be a little arrogant.
But proud, scoring opportunities.
Chen Mo's face was a little gloomy. He raised his hand and patted Yu Tao's shoulder to comfort him, then turned to look at Feng Shuaijie.
Lao Feng was the person who went to the radar and anti-aircraft artillery company to do statistics, and he noticed Xiucai's gaze.
Feng Shuaijie shrugged. "Anyway, it wasn't going well. Their company commander is called Fu Xiangfei. We didn't argue, but we just weren't very cooperative."
"This radar company has a lot of veteran NCOs, and they're just as capable as ours. Their discipline is fine, but they just don't cooperate very well."
"I observed it for a while, and it wasn't as exaggerated as Old Yu said, but what you said this morning, Xiucai, probably didn't explain it well enough."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, squad leader. I know what's going on."
Chen Mo nodded. The results of the examination were exactly as he had imagined.
As lunch was about to start, the baskets of staple food and bowls of vegetables were being unloaded from the delivery truck little by little.
After lunch, the troops will set off.
Something went wrong at this critical moment. Chen Mo didn't care about anything else and turned around and ran towards the meeting room.
The joint camp is troublesome, the problem is too big.
If this is the case, Chen Mo doubts whether the subsequent emergency plan can be successfully completed.
When he arrived at the meeting room.
Luo Yaowu, Zhang Jinnan, as well as a group of instructors from the Army Academy, senior officers from the Training Department and the General Staff Department are still formulating subsequent maneuver and joint training plans.
The group of people were so busy that they had dark circles under their eyes. It was obvious that the people in charge were not having an easy time.
See Chen Mo coming.
Luo Yaowu, who was originally sitting in the audience listening to the explanation from the military district staff, immediately stood up and said, "What's going on? Tell me!"
"yes!"
Chen Mo straightened his body.
I reported the statistics just now in detail.
The matter doesn't sound big, at most it's just that the grassroots units did not cooperate with the work.
But after Director Luo heard the report, his eyes widened.
There was a loud bang as he slapped the conference table.
"furious!"
"The battle hasn't even started yet, and you're already acting like a bully in your own den?"
"Inform everyone, skip lunch and load everything onto the trucks. Contact the General Staff, the Training Department, and the 188th Division. Brigade Commander Feng of the Anti-aircraft Artillery is coming to watch the information battalion's maneuver demonstration."
"Let them see whether their troops are qualified enough to go to the battlefield."
"Notify all personnel to set off in half an hour!!"
"yes!!"
Following Luo Yaowu's order, all the officers in the conference room stood up.
In the blink of an eye, those who were making phone calls started making calls, and those who were delivering messages went downstairs to pass on messages.
Even Chen Mo was caught off guard.
No, are we going to start now?
If the hidden dangers are not eliminated, can such a large-scale troop mobilization achieve the expected results?
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