War Military: From 1978

Chapter 205 Forced Promotion!

A little after ten o'clock in the morning, Chu An led the team back to Hill 312.

Chu An went up the mountain as soon as possible.

In the cave on the top of the mountain, the regiment headquarters, which was originally in Kou T, was also moved here last night.

"Deputy Captain Chu, thank you for your hard work!"

In the cave, seeing Chu An coming in, the captain strode up, patted Chu An on the shoulder and spoke.

Chu An didn't show much emotion. On the contrary, he just looked haggard and responded perfunctorily: "Well, serving the people!"

The captain paused as he patted Chu An's shoulder.

He slowly withdrew his gaze, and the smile on his face faded.

“Class Six isn’t hopeless.

Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. The entire army is currently capturing prisoners. Your reconnaissance platoon is back. Consider whether you should still send it out!"

Chu An looked at the team leader.

The regiment commander also looked at Chu An. Without waiting for Chu An to speak, he spoke again: "Also, from today on, you are the acting commander of the special forces company!"

"Huh?" Chu An was startled: "What happened to my company commander?"

When Chu An heard this, he subconsciously thought that something had happened to Cui Jiying.

On the battlefield, promotion is not a good thing.

There is only one reason for promotion at the last minute: there is a vacant position!
"Don't think too much!" The captain waved his hand, turned around and lit a cigarette.

"The regiment's deputy chief of staff was seriously injured while commanding the attack on Hill 809. The regiment decided to let Comrade Cui Jiying take over!"

"This"

Chu An stopped talking.

In fact, he felt relieved now.

Although it shouldn't.

But he was not familiar with the deputy chief of staff of the regiment, and now that he heard that Cui Jiying was not in trouble, he naturally had this kind of mentality.

Obviously, the regimental commander didn't care about this. He looked at Chu An and said, "Your platoon leader Shi Zhimin died. Think about who is suitable to be the platoon leader. As for your deputy company commander position, it will be taken by the platoon leader of the engineering platoon!"

Chu An frowned immediately.

Yes, in this battle, the platoon leader is gone again.

The key point is that two of the remaining four squad leaders are gone, and two of them are soldiers led by his original subordinates.

Among them, Wang Xiaohu has the same military service as him, and the other one has only two years of military service.

It's a bit tricky.

The remaining two are retired veterans and are both experienced squad leaders.

It would be a bit unreasonable to promote cadres without them.

After all, they all fought hard in this battle.

But they were all recalled from the army.

"Commander, you know, most of my platoon members are now recalled veterans!"

This is a big problem.

The recalled veterans should have completed their military service, so there is no problem in recalling them to fight, and there is no problem in awarding them merits and awards after the war. However, these recalled soldiers can go home directly after the war.

Secondly, even if someone wants to stay, the possibility of not being able to do so is also a problem.

Again, they have completed their military service.

In addition, there is another important reason.

Although Chu An had been through life and death with them, he had only been with them for a few days, and to be honest, Chu An didn't really know much about their personal situations.

So it’s a bit difficult to promote platoon leaders now.

Promote his two former subordinates?
One is a one-year soldier and the other is a two-year soldier, so the other recalled veterans will definitely have objections.

After all, Wang Xiaohu and his companion have no other advantages over others except that they entered the battlefield earlier.

In terms of military service, any retired veteran who is recalled crushes them.

Moreover, among the retired veterans, there are many who retired as squad leaders. They certainly want to be promoted based on their military achievements so as to continue their military service.

The leader smoked silently.

In fact, he was also troubled by this problem.

No other army could fight like Chu An.

Moreover, due to the special nature of the reconnaissance platoon, it is impossible to transfer grassroots cadres at the platoon level from other units.

"How about this, go back and talk to them. The mission intensity is not high right now, so let them speak with their actions tomorrow. Four squad leaders, whoever kills the most Japanese and captures the most will be promoted according to their merits!"

"Okay!"

This method sounds hasty, but it is now considered a good idea.

Although this is not very fair to Wang Xiaohu and the others.

After all, in terms of military achievements, they have followed me since the beginning.

But now, due to the special nature of the reconnaissance platoon, we must take into account the feelings of the recalled veterans.

Furthermore, Wang Xiaohu and Zhuang Qiu had no experience to speak of. Before the war, they were both soldiers, not even squad leaders, and had never been in a training corps.

Now it is no problem for me to work my way up to the position of squad leader.

But if they are directly promoted to cadre positions such as platoon leaders, the other recalled veterans, especially the two reinstated veterans who are already qualified as squad leaders, will definitely be dissatisfied.

"By the way, you don't have to go on the mission anymore. You're the company commander now, and you're also responsible for the work of the engineering and guard platoons. From now on, you'll be operating with the regimental headquarters!"

Just as Chu An was about to turn around, the captain spoke again.

Chu An looked back at the team leader.

Then he nodded: "Okay!"

At this moment, Chu An actually had some ideas.

But he didn't say it.

As he watched Chu An leave, the team leader took a deep puff of smoke.

In fact, Chu An’s unspoken thoughts were guessed correctly.

Chu An is a great hero. If it weren't for the importance of this mission of blowing up the mine, he wouldn't have wanted Chu An to continue fighting.

However, the situation was urgent at the time and the task was also urgent, so he had no way to promote Chu An temporarily, so he could only hold his nose and let Chu An lead the troops over.

Fortunately, Chu An came back.

But this time, the regiment commander would definitely not let Chu An continue to go to the front line to carry out the mission.

Even though it was a good time to gain military merit, he didn't want Chu An to go up.

Chu An is definitely the big baby of Group C now.

There is no doubt that after the war, Chu An will definitely be a first-class hero, and he will most likely be awarded an honorary title.

This kind of hero should be reported and widely publicized.

This is the entire C Group and also his honor, so how can we not protect it?

Therefore, Comrade Cui Jiying was forced to be promoted.

Just now, Chu An just came out and met someone who was already waiting outside.

"Company commander!"

Chu An, who had a difficult expression on his face, saw Cui Jiying and immediately forced a smile and walked forward.

"Yes, the hero is not missing any limbs!" Cui Jiying approached with a smile.

"Haha, Captain, congratulations!"

"What are you congratulating me for? I'm just relying on you!" Cui Jiying rolled his eyes.

As he spoke, he threw over a bag of Da Chongjiu.

"Thank you for your hard work!" He restrained his smile and his expression turned serious.

As Chu An's direct superior, he had benefited from all of Chu An's honors, but when Chu An was fighting in the front lines, he was basically not by his side.

Of course, it’s not that he is afraid of death, it’s just the nature of the special forces company.

As the company commander, he was also responsible for leading the guard platoon to protect the regiment headquarters and arranging the engineering company's missions.

Chu An shook his head.

"Is there something urgent? If not, let's go sit over there!" He pointed to the trench not far away.

"it is good!"

Although I have to go back and announce the selection of platoon leaders.

But there's no rush for a few minutes.

He and Cui Jiying walked into the trench and each of them lit a cigarette.

Chu An told him the specific action process of this mission. At the same time, Cui Jiying also told Chu An about the actions of the regiment in the past few days and the situation of our army on a larger scale.

"Captain, is the war about to end?"

Suddenly, Chu An looked at Cui Jiying and asked this question.

Cui Jiying was stunned.

Then he shook his head: "Who can say for sure? Although the higher-ups say we have temporarily achieved our combat objectives, we cannot rule out the possibility of continuing to advance and directly capture the enemy capital!"

Chu An stopped talking.

In fact, he knew that this was impossible.

Although he didn't know much about this period of history, he knew that our battle lasted less than a month.

And now, only ten days have passed.

But withdrawal also takes time.

Chu An estimated that this battle might really be called off in the next few days.

Of course, calling a halt does not mean the war is really over.

The war has been going on for ten years. Even if this war is over, it is only the beginning.

For the next ten years, our army would engage in a long tug-of-war with the Vietnamese devils.

I just don’t know how the situation will develop in the later stages after I return home from this battle.

(End of this chapter)