Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 201 Mobility Planning, Delayed by Half a Day

With the addition of a new batch of personnel, the huge base has become even more lively.

There used to be only a little over a hundred people here, but later, due to the construction project, the armed police gradually withdrew, leaving only a small number of people to stay, which inevitably made it seem somewhat desolate.

But not today.

It was almost 10 p.m.

Inside the base, shadowy figures of soldiers could be seen moving around everywhere; some were familiarizing themselves with the environment, while others were gazing at the tanks outside the base.

Although there were many people, fortunately, the soldiers assigned by various units this time were of good overall quality. After several years of hard work at the grassroots level, they were all quite perceptive and did not cause any trouble in their new location.

Just wandering around.

"Scholar, have you figured out what's going on? You've been standing here for ages."

Pei Shuaijun walked over with a smile. He had been busy all day, but he looked energetic at the moment.

"I can't figure out what's going on, but the chariot is really good, and the people are good too."

Chen Mo smiled, his expression meaningful.

Following Chen Mo's gaze, Pei Shuaijun looked at the rows of tanks outside the base, stretching as far as the eye could see, his expression filled with excitement.

After staring blankly for a while, he finally came to his senses and said, "By the way, the director said everyone should get some rest early tonight."

"The training grounds arranged by the military region are in place, and the logistics department has also cleared out accommodations and dining facilities. We will all depart tomorrow."

"After a few days of intensive training, we await orders from the military region to proceed to the Northwest."

There will be no meeting tonight.

"Okay, I understand."

Chen Mo sighed, looked up at Pei Shuaijun's departing figure, and a sudden feeling of irritation rose in his heart.

This feeling is not without reason.

The personnel have arrived, and the military region is also providing strong support in terms of armored vehicles and other aspects. However, the problem is that this hastily assembled joint battalion, even though it is composed of the best soldiers from each unit, is still in operation.

It's not necessarily true that they can unleash the full combat power of 1+1=2.

It is a major taboo in the army that soldiers do not know their generals and generals do not know their soldiers.

Can an army really be mobilized in just a few days?

Chen Mo was very skeptical about this.

The military is different from other jobs. If you were working elsewhere, you could just pass on any problems you couldn't handle to your superiors or other colleagues.

But here, the concept that a higher-ranking official can crush you is absolutely true.

Try pushing a task that's been assigned to you.
If we can manage to get it done, great. If we can't, we have to grit our teeth, hold on tight, and use every means possible to get it done.

Luo Yaowu appointed him as his accompanying staff officer, and also brought a group of newly graduated staff officers to sort out the organizational issues of the 10th Company of the 1st Battalion.

Chen Mo himself couldn't say for sure whether it was because Director Luo trusted him too much, or because the people above him really knew what they were doing.

To say that with the existing forces, we would be fighting against any single battalion-level unit, whether it be a mechanized infantry battalion, artillery battalion, motorized infantry battalion, or even an armored battalion.

No command is needed, let alone any tactics. With a wave of the hand, the armored assault alone can crush these units.

However, on the actual battlefield, those units will not be single-unit formations; they will be delivered right to your doorstep for you to fight.

The units that could go to the Northwest battlefield were probably among the top main divisions in the Jincheng Military Region.

When it comes to head-on confrontations, the joint battalion is not up to the task.

After returning to the dormitory.

Pei Shuaijun was already wrapped in a blanket, curled up like a shrimp, fast asleep.

The air conditioning in the room was on full blast. Chen Mo sat on the bed, holding a porcelain cup in his hand, sipping his tea. On the desk next to the bed was a list of all the personnel in the company.

Aside from the combat company's organization, which Chen Mo didn't touch, all the logistics personnel brought by each unit were reassigned to the logistics company.

Whether it's artillery logistics or tank battalion logistics, everything is brought together in one place. Problems can only be seen during joint training.

Worrying about dividing things up now is completely unnecessary.

It's all about logistics anyway. So what if the anti-aircraft artillery company can't get fuel and ammunition supplies during a war? Can your armored battalion just ignore it?
If everyone in charge of logistics is responsible for their own things, then there's no point in training the soldiers.

After unknowingly finishing a large vat of tea, Chen Mo realized that his last bit of drowsiness had vanished without a trace.

I sigh and think I'm just destined to be a workaholic.

Chen Mo picked up the company's organizational chart, left the dormitory, and walked towards the conference room.

at first.

He didn't expect Director Luo or the faculty members of the Army Academy to be able to stay up all night at this time.

After all, it was these instructors who notified us that there would be no meeting that night and that we would be leaving early the next morning.

But when he arrived at the teaching building and walked to the door of the conference room, he found that nearly thirty people had already gathered in the entire conference room.

Besides a dozen or so instructors, the rest were either officers from the Army Academy or officers from the military region's staff and training departments.

The room was filled with smoke, and the door was half-open. You didn't even have to go to the door; the strong smell of smoke almost knocked you over.

These older military officers are all heavy smokers, especially during meetings. Many of them can keep a cigarette in their mouths from beginning to end without ever putting it out, one after another.

The smoke was quite pungent.

Through the window, Chen Mo could only see that the slide projector in the conference room was on, seemingly showing the location of a training ground.

Director Luo stood at the front, attaching small flags with magnetic bases to different areas.

It looks a bit like a war game simulation.

The little flags were all different; there were reconnaissance flags, armored flags, and flags for infantry and artillery.

Open the door and walk in.

Luo Yaowu's deep voice finally came through clearly.

"In light of this situation, our 2nd Battalion will launch a mobile assault, make a 180-degree turn, and the reconnaissance company will retreat to conduct intensive reconnaissance only in the 30-kilometer operational area along the northward route of the troops."

"The first wave of firepower will be used to cover the 357-369 line with rockets."

At first, Chen Mo thought that these people were staying up late and gathering together to do war game simulations.

But upon entering, they heard about the need for armored battalion organization efficiency, battlefield maneuver and turning processes, coordination capabilities, and firepower strikes against the 357-369 line on the flanks.

Chen Mo suddenly realized.

It wasn't a war game at all; it was a scenario for planning tomorrow's march to the joint training ground and all subsequent joint training exercises.

To put it simply...

That means planning all the scenarios in advance, from the base to the training ground, including the route, the supply arrangements, and how to conduct training after arriving at the training ground.

After we depart tomorrow, these units can simply carry out the planned actions.

The combat effectiveness and execution capability of a unit can be judged by its execution efficiency.

Chen Mo stood in the conference room for a full half hour.

During this period, it wasn't just Luo Yaowu who was speaking; all the mobilized companies had staff members from the military region's staff department who, based on the terrain and organizational structure, gave specific time limits.

Among the cadres listening attentively, some were responsible for taking notes, while others were responsible for recording the entire action plan of all units in the joint battalion.

Many grassroots cadres at the base thought that the leaders of the Army Academy had not made any preparations for the upcoming joint training.

I don't know.

All the plans for maneuver were gradually finalized late into the night.

As the meeting drew to a close...

Luo Yaowu looked up and saw Chen Mo. He had already noticed that Chen Mo had entered the conference room. However, in Director Luo's view, Chen Mo was too young and inexperienced to participate in such a planning meeting for large-scale troop movements.

However, it wouldn't hurt to listen.

"What's up?" Luo Yaowu clapped his hands, put down the flag he was holding, and looked at Chen Mo.

As Director Luo inquired, everyone who was listening to the lecture turned their attention to him, and many people only then noticed that there was a little guy standing at the back of the conference room.

"report!"

Chen Mo straightened his chest, hurriedly grabbed the prepared staffing list in his hand, strode forward and handed it to Luo Yaowu.

The fax list was provided by the company.

The base needs to further implement these measures and assign the existing reconnaissance company, veterans, and senior sergeants to various companies.

Create a completely new list.

The division of logistics units is also a task of the cadet staff.

It wasn't unusual for Chen Mo to come to the conference room under this pretext.

After receiving the organizational roster, Luo Yaowu glanced through it briefly and found that some members of the reconnaissance company had been transferred to artillery reconnaissance, while others had been assigned to the engineer platoon.

He nodded, noting that more than a dozen veteran sergeants were also assigned to various companies based on their specialties.

When Luo Yaowu, a man of great experience, saw that the logistics company had more than 400 people, he was somewhat stunned.

It should be noted that the logistics department of the 7th Tank Division only had a little over 2,000 people back then, but this one battalion's logistics department had more than 400 people, which was more than the total number of people in an ordinary battalion-level unit.

If we follow this ratio...

Back then, the Seventh Division had five regiments under its command, so the logistics personnel had to be around six or seven thousand.

However, due to the urgency of the situation, there was no room for nitpicking in the staffing process.

"Anything else?"

Luo Yaowu put down the documents in his hand.

He knew the scholar's temperament. This kid was up in the middle of the night, coming all the way to deliver the census list. He couldn't just be running errands.

They're probably hiding something on their mind.

Seeing Chen Mo hesitate, Luo Yaowu thought to himself, "As expected," and noticed that the meeting room smelled too pungent.

He simply walked past Chen Mo and went straight to the corridor outside the conference room, took a deep breath of fresh air, and put his arm around the railing.

Gazing into the distance.

"Chief!"

Chen Mo followed him out of the conference room.

"If you have something to say, then you can say it."

"Yes!"

This was what he was waiting for.

Chen Mo straightened his posture and said, "Commander, aren't we being a little too hasty in terms of training?"

"The reason." Luo Yaowu didn't ask any other questions, but went straight to the point.

"The joint battalion training focuses on coordination, and the foundation of coordination is tacit understanding. When I was compiling the roster today, I found that many company commanders did not know their own squad leaders at all."

"When the squad leader was compiling the list, some people still needed to ask the soldiers for their names. In some cases, the people on the left and right sides of the dormitory bunk beds did not know each other."

"This situation occurring in the military is considered very dangerous, and even if training is organized, it probably won't be very effective."

"Even if we follow the pre-set movement routes to test the mobility efficiency of each unit and the high mobility guerrilla state of the infantry, the final result will probably not be very good."

"If soldiers don't know their generals and generals don't know their soldiers, it's difficult to fully utilize flexibility during maneuvers, even with a lightly organized force."

"Soldiers don't know their generals, and generals don't know their soldiers." Luo Yaowu repeated Chen Mo's words, his brows furrowing slightly.

"What about your suggestion?"

"Report," Chen Mo said, "My suggestion is to postpone the joint training plan and give these people some opportunities to get to know each other."

"At the very least, soldiers should know who their platoon or squad leader is, so that problems are less likely to occur during subsequent training."

Luo Yaowu: "What about time? How much time do you think is appropriate?"

“It will take at least a day,” Chen Mo replied after thinking for a moment.

"No, we don't have that much time to waste."

Luo Yaowu straightened up, pulled his arm off the iron railing, and said seriously, "Your suggestion is very useful. This is indeed something I overlooked."

"But the efficiency of the troops should not be so low. Half a day is enough time to set off for the training ground on time tomorrow afternoon, otherwise the military region will not be able to coordinate."

"I'm entrusting this matter to you. Instruct the political officers of each company to get started as soon as possible. If you encounter any comrades who are unwilling to cooperate, send them back to their original units immediately."

"Since there are too many people right now, we can replace those who are sent back to their original units with people from the reconnaissance company, or notify them to arrange for people from their own units to come and replace them."

"I'm only giving you half a day, not a minute more."

"Go!"

"Yes!"

Chen Mo raised his hand in salute, then turned and hurriedly left.

Half a day is fine.

It's already quite an achievement that those in higher positions listen to my suggestions. It's not the first time in the military that someone above can just give a few words and those below have to run themselves ragged.

Watching the scholar go downstairs and walk away into the distance.

Luo Yaowu, who had just been looking serious, immediately relaxed and smiled as he looked at Zhang Jinnan, who was coming out of the conference room.

"This kid is really taking it to heart."

"Like flies, they crawl up to anything that smells good." Zhang Jinnan took out a cigarette case and handed one to Luo Yaowu. He lit it himself and took a deep drag.

Two plumes of smoke billowed from his nostrils: "But then again, if all the comrades who go out of our academy could be as serious and responsible as this kid..."

"Only when people come over in the middle of the night to offer suggestions can we truly say that there is hope for national defense."

"Let's give this scholar some training. The Kyoto Military Command is planning to establish informationized battalions in all seven military regions, using pilot projects to gradually influence other units."

"Let's take this opportunity to see if this kid is really made of gold."

Listen to Zhang Jinnan's advice.

Luo Yaowu remained silent; he already had a plan in mind regarding Chen Mo.

From the moment he announced that he would have this junior colleague serve as an advisor to him, he already had the idea of ​​grooming him.

In fact, Luo Yaowu knew very well whether Chen Mo was capable or not.

To put it simply, just like in the conference room earlier, I deliberately let this kid listen to the plan for half a day.

In the end, he still couldn't change his mind. He insisted on coming over to offer suggestions and even asked me for more time.

This alone is enough to show that this young man is accelerating the sixth experiment in information technology.

But it was far more complicated than he had learned yesterday at the 7th Armored Brigade headquarters.

Let's keep trying.

The older generation struggled for seven or eight years without achieving any results.

Even if it's a rotation system, young people should be given some opportunities.

(End of this chapter)