Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 215 Seven-Day Military Order, the Privilege of a Green Light All the Way
Quickly getting out of the company commander's sight, Chen Mo ran to the nearest water room to wash his face, trying to make himself look more energetic.

There's no need to change your clothes.

During drills, it's common to go a month without showering or washing your face, even in the sweltering summer heat; a bit of messiness makes the hardship even more apparent.

Upon arriving at Luo Yaowu's office, Chen Mo raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Tap-tap-tap".

"Enter!"

Hearing the sounds coming from inside, Chen Mo straightened up, pushed open the door, and strode into the office.

At this moment, Luo Yaowu had obviously just woken up. He was slumped on the sofa with dark circles under his eyes, looking like he had stayed up very late.

Seeing Chen Mo come in, he stood up, raised his hand to rub his cheek, and then walked to the desk, tapping the edge of the desk: "Take your things back later."

Following the direction Director Luo pointed, Chen recognized that those were the rank certificates and officer IDs that had not been issued when he was awarded the rank of lieutenant.

When he was awarded the rank, Chen Mo only had a military rank. His file still showed him as a private and he still received a monthly allowance of 40 yuan as a conscript.

Now that the certificate has been issued, along with the officer's ID, it means that all the procedures for my lieutenant rank have been completed.

Starting this month, we will no longer need to receive allowances, but will instead receive a monthly salary of 290 yuan plus some subsidies, which will amount to approximately 400 yuan per month.

These benefits were not the most important thing to Chen Mo.

It is important to acknowledge the recognition you receive from the military and the academy.

Chen Mo strode up to the certificate, picked it up, stood at attention, and saluted: "Thank you, sir!!"

"You're welcome, you deserve it."

Luo Yaowu waved his hand, pondered for a while, and then said, "You fought well this time, and the leaders above have praised you highly."

"But at the same time, the burden on your shoulders may become heavier, and I can't shield you from much hardship. Are you prepared?"

"Always be prepared!!"

Chen Mo straightened his chest and spoke in a clear, resonant voice.

He understood the implication in Director Luo's words: because of his unauthorized command, the exercise had been closely watched by the leaders of the Kyoto Military Region.

In the future, information technology experiments may very well break away from the college's background and be affiliated with the military region.

In this way, the Army Academy will at most appear as an assisting unit, rather than a unit that takes the blame, since it is an institution that trains talents for the country.

It's impossible for someone to be a waste of their talents and always be sent out to lead troops.

And the one who sticks out will be tied to the experimental unit, sharing both its glory and its loss.

In the past, with the academy taking the lead, failures were no big deal; at most, we could integrate the experience and continue next time.

However, if he fails again after leaving the Army Academy, Chen Mo himself will have little chance to participate in the follow-up.

That's a bit of an extreme way of putting it, but that's roughly the idea.

If you force yourself to fly before your wings are fully grown, you may soar to great heights or disappear into oblivion.

There are many talented people in the military, but few make it to the end, and there's a reason for that.

Seeing that Chen Mo had made all the preparations, Luo Yaowu didn't say anything more and stood up, saying, "Come with me, Chief Fu wants to see you."

The two walked in the hallway for quite a while.

Luo Yaowu seemed to suddenly remember something, turned to look at Chen Mo, and reminded him, "By the way, don't say anything carelessly in front of the leader."

"Especially regarding logistics issues, you can offer your own suggestions. Don't just blurt things out like you used to, especially in front of your superiors. Sometimes, a single word from you can cause many units to suffer."

"You know?"

"Yes, Chief!"

Chen Mo responded with absolute certainty, his expression as serious as could be.

But Luo Yaowu found his demeanor somewhat unbelievable.

If this kid could really understand, why would he be talking about his own military region's logistics problems in front of the chief of staff of another military region and in front of the division commanders of other military regions?

Good guy.

Luo Yaowu had a good plan with Vice Dean Zhang to transfer Chen Mo to the logistics department for training, but instead, he went to the statistics department, such an important department.

Before even entering the office, and before the door even faces which way, they've already offended the entire logistics department.

They offended the military region's armored units before, and now they've offended the logistics department.

To be honest, Luo Yaowu was really worried that if the information technology battalion were handed over to this kid, it might become a unit that everyone hated.

If we offend the General Staff again, we really won't be able to stay in the 63rd Army anymore. We'd better go somewhere far away and hide as soon as possible.

But as an instructor, he couldn't be too explicit. Seeing Chen Mo's confident demeanor, he naturally didn't say anything more.

The two of them went upstairs to the temporary office, one after the other.

The door was open, the air conditioning was on, and Fu Hongyi was chatting enthusiastically with several leaders from the Jincheng Military Region, with bursts of hearty laughter occasionally escaping his lips.

Chen Mo and Luo Yaowu entered together, before they could even salute.

Fu Hongyi waved his hand and looked at Chen Mo, saying, "Alright, there's no need for so many rules."

"You're Chen Mo?"

Fu Hongyi strolled over to the office chair, sat down, and looked up at the young man in front of him.

"Yes, Chief."

Chen Mo took half a step forward, stood at attention, and saluted.

"Hmm, you commanded this operation quite well, which surprised me."

After saying that, Fu Hongyi fell silent, seemingly considering something.

Inside the office, the other leaders of the Jincheng Military Region sat with their legs crossed, looking at him with great interest.

Several pairs of eyes focused on him.

Chen Mo felt a sense of pressure. These people were all commanders who had cultivated an air of authority in their positions. Even without speaking, they could look at him with scrutinizing eyes.

It can make people feel a sense of oppression.

Fortunately, Chen Mo was no novice; he stood upright, like a spear planted in the ground.

A full half minute passed.

Even Luo Yaowu, who was standing next to him, felt a little uncomfortable.

Fu Hongyi smiled and said, "Not bad, it's a good piece of material."

"Chen Mo."

"To!"

You know about the military exercises in the Northwest, right?

"Report, understood!"

"Okay, now I have a question for you. You've been studying with the academy for so long, and you seem to have some experience in commanding. If you were to go to the Northwest for a military exercise, would you like to lead this informationized battalion, or should I arrange another unit for you?"

"If you were transferred to another unit, we would put your command mindset in the 61st Division of the Jincheng Military Region, where you would assist Division Commander Wang in military exercises."

"what do you think?"

Hearing the question, Chen Mo took a deep breath.

He understood what the leader meant. To put it simply, the higher-ups wanted to expand the information system and not waste time on battalion-level units.

Instead, they used the smallest operational units as experimental springboards to expand the scale.

This idea was actually not unexpected for Chen Mo.

In his previous life, the information technology reform experiment was led by the man surnamed Man, who gradually worked his way up from the divisions, regiments, and battalions of many strategic assault divisions to integrate and experiment.

The nation is desperately eager to become powerful.

The fear of insufficient firepower is not only reflected in equipment, but also in the overall system.

Every time I see a new direction for breakthrough, I want to seize it firmly and make full use of it.

To be incorporated into the defense system.

Take, for example, the most famous experiment in later generations, "God is stupid." A group of academicians cursed it all night long, but the reason was that they wanted to make progress too much and were unwilling to fall behind.

The lesson that backwardness invites aggression is only needed once.

From the current development perspective, if I am transferred to the 61st Division, then my future development will most likely follow the path of a certain leader.

It may not necessarily be a waste of time, but you will definitely take some detours.

However, I am sure I will receive enough attention and be able to seize opportunities in a short period of time and climb faster.

Because it is backed by the Jincheng Military Region and the 61st Division, it will definitely develop much faster than if it were backed by a battalion-level unit.

But then again.

For informationized forces during the period from the end of the century to the beginning of the century, no matter how they develop, due to equipment limitations, the battalion level, or at most the regimental level, is the most suitable.

They can't take big steps, and even if they wanted to, they couldn't.

After careful consideration.

Chen Mo took a deep breath and said, "Commander, may I speak about some current issues related to information technology?"

He opened his mouth like that.

Inside the meeting room, no one else had reacted yet.

On the contrary, Luo Yaowu closed his eyes and thought to himself that it was all over again. His reminder just now probably had no effect at all.

That brat is definitely going to start spouting nonsense again.

Noticing Luo Yaowu's expression, even Fu Hongyi was taken aback for a moment before smiling and saying, "Speak."

"Yes, sir!" "Commander, as for achieving an information system, even the information battalion does not currently possess this capability."

"First of all, for a battalion-level unit to truly possess information-based combat capabilities, at least all officers and soldiers in the battalion must give full play to their initiative and create a positive and favorable training atmosphere."

"To meet this requirement, the core members and cadres in the battalion must undergo systematic and professional training."

"Information-based training requires daily military modeling to ensure that every soldier in the battalion is deeply involved in the training process and improve the efficiency of joint operations."

"At the same time, the training methods, tactics, and even operational modes for information technology should be different from the Army's syllabus."

"All training and coordination need to be explored, such as how to use auxiliary combat units, how to divide the authority of multi-unit battlefields, and how to transform from mechanized integration to information integration."

"These are all problems."

"To give a simple example, the information battalion currently has eleven mainline companies and auxiliary combat units of different natures. These units can only achieve the most basic coordination on the battlefield."

"If we can't even coordinate, it's no exaggeration to say that if we insist on implementing informatization, we can't even accomplish the task of ensuring efficient and reasonable communication order for the entire battalion, avoiding frequency competition and collisions."

"And all of these factors combined make commanding them more than ten times more complex than commanding an informationized force of the same size."

"Commander, it's not that I'm unwilling to go to the 61st Division, but information technology can't be demonstrated at the battalion level. Even if I get to the division level, it's just the skin of information technology, not the substance."

"We can't take such big steps."

Chen Mo rattled off a whole bunch of things.

Luo Yaowu breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. Fortunately, this kid managed to hold his own this time.

They didn't criticize it that harshly.

However, the same words left the other leaders in the office somewhat bewildered.

The group exchanged glances and made eye contact.

Damn it, after listening for so long, this kid in front of me is basically denying the value of information technology altogether?
That means the fact that the Informationized Battalion won the exercise against the 188th Division so easily was not due to the system.
It's fortunate that Wang Songhe and Tang Haodong weren't there; otherwise, the two division commanders probably wouldn't have been able to resist going up and beating Chen Mo up.

Damn it, you've already won, why are you still making sarcastic remarks?
how?

The great 188th Strategic Assault Division, it didn't lose to the system, so it couldn't possibly lose to a greenhorn like you who hasn't even shed his first hairs yet.
Even though Fu Hongyi was a man of great experience, he was speechless at this moment, choked by Chen Mo's words.

After all, when everyone was praising and recognizing his command of the information system, this guy suddenly spoke up and said, "This isn't information technology."

He flipped his own table over.

"Are you saying that this exercise didn't rely on an information system?"

Fu Hongyi frowned and asked the question that was on everyone's mind.

"No."

Chen Mo shook his head decisively: "This victory was purely by chance. If the 188th Division had changed its usual method of hiding troops in mechanized warfare and openly brought its troops to the battlefield, the informationized battalion would have had a hard time competing with it."

"The reason we were able to win was simply because we obtained enough intelligence in advance, kept track of the enemy's every move, and fought a targeted battle, using the strategy of Tian Ji's horse racing."

"Informationized warfare not only requires drones to obtain the necessary intelligence in advance, but also needs to establish electromagnetic power, electronic reconnaissance power, and information control as the primary objectives."

"The current informationized battalion is just a dozen or so combat-ready companies forcibly put together, equipped with a few drones, and fighting a war where information is not equal."

"During the operation, some units lacked clear roles, and some commanders had a strong mechanization mentality and did not pay enough attention to auxiliary units."

"Modern warfare must focus on logistics, command, communications, and beyond-visual-range strikes."

"Instead of knowing the enemy's movements in advance and then scattering our efforts to fight separately."

"With this kind of fighting style, once the enemy plays to their normal level, it is easy to be countered and suppressed."

There was a few seconds of silence in the office.

Fu Hongyi got up, lit a cigarette, walked to the window, and smoked half of it.

He turned around and stared at Chen Mo: "I understand what you mean."

"In other words, not even a battalion-level unit currently possesses the so-called information warfare capabilities, so it's impossible for them to participate in the Northwest military exercise in half a month?"

"Theoretically, yes." Chen Mo was not intimidated by the leader's gaze and spoke frankly.

He was telling the truth; with the current combat strength of the joint battalion, it would be insufficient for large-scale battlefield operations.

Even the slightest minor incident could blow the entire camp apart.

Winning once doesn't mean they can be proud of it.

"What if you remove your theory?"

Fu Hongyi asked calmly.

Now, the informationized battalion cannot avoid participating in the military exercise; this has already been agreed upon by both military regions.

The division commander of the Jincheng Military Region, who was in command of the Kyoto Military Region troops, was defeated by a single battalion.

The General Staff probably already knows about this.

Suddenly changing the plan and not participating will certainly not have much impact on the overall exercise, but it will be difficult to explain why so many years of repeated experiments have been conducted.

Remove theory
Chen Mo took another deep breath; the meaning of the commander's words was quite clear.

In this military exercise for the informationized battalion, you have to participate whether you want to or not, or you'll have to find a way to do so.

Not only do we have to go, but we also have to make a scene.

"Training camp."

Chen Mo said definitively, "Commander, if we must unleash the power of information technology, then we have no choice but to start intensive training as soon as possible."

"Gather all existing units together for a week of intensive training."

“Officers, the mindset of the core members must change. The entire battalion must obey my orders alone.”

"And also, logistics and equipment."

Just as Chen Mo was about to list out his terms, Fu Hongyi waved his hand dismissively: "No need for unnecessary words."

"The commendation ceremony will be held tomorrow morning, followed immediately by intensive training."

"Seven days. I'm only giving you seven days. Take your troops to the Northwest on August 8th. I'll be waiting for you at the command post."

"Starting tomorrow, all cadres will have their military ranks removed. Anyone who disobeys orders will be demobilized and fired on the spot."

"I'll give you the green light for seven days for all the necessary equipment, personnel, and cooperating departments."

“The 63rd Army’s various units are cooperating. Your military region doesn’t have that, but Kyoto does. I just need an informationized battalion that can participate in combat and knows how to fight.”

"Can it be done?"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!!"

Chen Mo stood at attention, saluted, and accepted the seven-day military order.

"Don't be so sure of yourself. If you can't produce a battalion that can fight, you'll have to write your own demobilization report."

Fu Hongyi sat back down at his desk with a cold expression: "After you get back, write me a training report immediately."

"Starting tomorrow, you will be the battalion commander of the information battalion. You will send a telegram to the military region every day to report on the training results of the day."

"Is it clear?"

"Yes!"

Chen Mo's expression turned serious. Who the hell wouldn't know this?

If he's constantly being asked to write a demobilization report, especially when it's said personally by a high-ranking military region leader, there's probably no room for negotiation.

"If you understand, then go back."

Fu Hongyi waved his hand, watching Chen Mo and Luo Yaowu leave, and the office door was gently closed.

His previously serious expression instantly turned into a smile. He picked up the teacup next to him, took a sip, and smiled without saying a word.

A commander standing nearby couldn't help but laugh and said, "Old Fu, are you really planning to let this kid lead a battalion?"

"He hasn't been in military uniform for very long, is that possible?"

"Humph!"

Upon hearing this, Fu Hongyi snorted coldly: "That's because you don't know this kid. He dared to write a letter to the People's Armed Forces Department as soon as he joined the army, and he dared to clamor to build an academy as soon as he got to school. He even said he was thinking about the soldiers."

"It's good to put some pressure on him. Don't worry, this kid is probably thinking about how to ask us for an exorbitant amount right now."

"Don't be afraid of his arrogance. As long as he has the ability, it's okay to give him a little something in return."

"Besides, so what if I have low seniority? I joined the army and became a political instructor in the regimental headquarters not long after I enlisted."

Faced with Fu Hongyi's rebuttal, everyone present shook their heads helplessly.

Can this era be compared to that of that time?

New recruits can be appointed as platoon leaders or company commanders on their first day on the battlefield.

However, with Chen Mo's instructions already in place, and this kid confidently stating as soon as he came in that this wouldn't work and that wouldn't work, there was no problem.

Give it a tap, there's nothing wrong with it.

the other side.

Chen Mo emerged from the commander's office, his eyes gleaming with barely concealed joy.

The leader has a pretty good eye for people.

It's impossible to train an entire information technology battalion in a week; no one can do it.

But if you want everything to go smoothly, with people and weapons readily available, that's a different story.

If the system cannot be trained, does that mean that even with existing technology and ample resources, we dare not go to the Northwest battlefield?
The joint camp was originally scheduled for intensive training, but Chen Mo had previously broken his promise.

Now, he's the one who calls the shots.

Fu Hongyi was right.

Chen Mo is really going to ask for an exorbitant amount.

(End of this chapter)