Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 216 Damn it, are you here to raid my house?
Before going to Commander Fu's office, Luo Yaowu guessed that a lot of follow-up work would probably fall on Chen Mo's shoulders.

This kid isn't humble at all. He dares to say anything in front of his superiors, leaving himself no room for maneuver.

Director Luo had nothing more to say.

He simply instructed Chen Mo to write a training plan as soon as possible and submit it to his superiors.

As the chief director of the Northwest military exercise, Fu Hongyi cannot stay here forever. Once the matter of the informationized battalion is finalized, he will inevitably set off for the Northwest to oversee the battlefield and supervise the troop transport of various units.

Therefore, time will be extremely tight.

Chen Mo was actually quite pleased that his superior hadn't given any instructions.

After all, many things are neither as simple as the above thought, nor as complicated as they think.

Short-term intensive training naturally has its uses when time is limited.

Go back to dorms.

The logistics company had already brought his bedding back from Huanglongwangou and placed it on the bed; Pei Shuaijun wasn't here.

Chen Mo took a deep breath, took out his officer's ID and lieutenant's certificate from his pocket, rubbed them in his hands a few times, and felt a sense of relief.

Even the hairs on my body seemed to be stretching out.

After neatly arranging his certificates on the wooden table, Chen Mo took a few steps back and walked back to the dormitory window in a synchronized manner.

Raise your hands and salute.

A young and tall figure was reflected in the glass.

"Lieutenant Chen, welcome back." Chen Mo looked at his reflection in the glass, a smile playing on his lips.

Although he had only been in the army for a short time, he had been waiting for this day for far too long.

After teasing him for a bit, Chen Mo calmed down, turned around, walked to the cabinet, took out a new military uniform, and prepared to take a bath with a basin and toiletries.

Tomorrow is a new beginning.

Even if you're just an acting battalion commander, you have to look like an acting commander; you can't be too sloppy.

I'll come back after I've taken a shower.

Chen Mo felt refreshed, but when he opened the door, he saw his roommate Pei Shuaijun sitting on the floor, holding an aluminum lunchbox and eating his food with gusto.

Let's see Chen Mo come back.

He then pointed to the table beside him and said, "Scholar, I brought your food back for you. Eat up."

"Damn it, you're finally back and you're all set. You just disappear into the commander's office and don't care about anything else."

"Damn it, I've been busy until now. There aren't enough dormitories at the base, and meals need to be arranged by the logistics department. You've offended the logistics department, and today the food delivery was more than an hour late."

"Look at this!" Pei Shuaijun complained, tapping the lunchbox with his chopsticks. "There's not even a bit of meat in it. I barely managed to squeeze to the front and grab two boxes. Otherwise, you wouldn't have gotten any."

Despite his complaints, he ate with great gusto.

Chen Mo stuffed the toiletries under the bed and glanced at the lunchbox.

The food was really not good; it consisted of two steamed buns and half a box of stir-fried cabbage with chili peppers.

However, he wouldn't accept that the quality of the food had decreased because Chen Mo had offended the logistics department.

With so many bigwigs from various military regions in the base, who would dare to openly engage in these petty tricks?
The only explanation is that the exercise ended too suddenly, and the logistics department simply did not have time to prepare in advance and temporarily supply meals for thousands of people.

That's already pretty good.

Chen Mo didn't refute. He pulled over a stool, held up his lunchbox, and said, "We're going to Huanglongwanggou again tomorrow."

"What the heck?" Pei Shuaijun was stunned for a moment.

Chen Mo didn't hide anything and recounted in detail what he had said in the commander's office and the military order he had made.

Pei Shuaijun, who was diligently eating, was stunned by Chen Mo's words.

He didn't even bother to eat, got up from the ground, dragged a stool and sat down in front of Chen Mo: "Did you really make a pledge in front of the commander?"

"Go crazy."

"The director has said many times that the ultimate goal of informatization is to explore the path after mechanization. You dare to take on such a heavy task?"

"What don't I dare to do? The bold get rich while the timid starve." Chen Mo said, biting into a steamed bun with a determined expression.

It's impossible to organize a camp in seven days; even seven months would be difficult.

However, for the current companies within the base, as long as logistical and equipment issues are resolved, and with absolute efficiency and priority given to their tasks, they can quickly and decisively address the minor problems.

It's not necessarily true that they can't participate in the war.

After all, forming a new battalion and directly serving as the commander of a unit are two different concepts, and the latter is much easier.

An information-based battalion must first be able to synthesize, and synthesis requires collaboration.

At present, the battalion has no shortage of commanders, no shortage of veterans, and skilled backbone personnel are drawn from the entire military region. There are even two sergeants at the sixth level.

With this configuration, if you can't afford to play big games, can't you at least not play small games?

After finishing his meal, Chen Mo immediately began preparing the training camp plan.

The reason he told Pei Shuaijun earlier was because he was worried that Pei would ask too many questions while he was busy.

Now, Pei Shuaijun realizes the seriousness of the situation.

Naturally, he wouldn't bother her too much anymore; he would just stand aside and watch Chen Mo make his plans when he had free time.

In fact, the training camp is quite simple.

It consists of three steps: Construction, Integration, and Streamlining.
The construction of the camp involves holding a large meeting to instill new thinking, including the concepts of unity and new collaboration, in all the officers of the camp.

In-depth discussions and deployments were conducted on the three core auxiliary combat units: radar, communications, and long-range firepower.

Each company should do its job well. As the core of mechanization, armored units don't need to be too complicated. In the next few days, they only need to conduct unarmed mobility training.

Getting them moving and understanding the most basic coordination between infantry, armored vehicles, and helicopters is enough.

The next step is to enable the military academy graduates who have been trained at the base for so long to take on their assigned duties.

Computerized management is gradually emerging, with professional staff efficiently linking different teams, assigning tasks, and uploading results based on the work content.

Even if it's a stitched-up battalion, the battalion's operating speed must be increased.

It puts immense pressure on everyone, pushing them forward like they're sprinting a hundred meters.

For the past seven days, Chen Mo has not needed subordinates or soldiers who can think; what he needs are tools who only need to obey orders.

Besides.

The electronic warfare unit's technical reconnaissance team needs to bring in a group of experienced personnel.

206 drones is far too few; four are not enough. We need more than a dozen, and at least a hundred hand-cranked drones.

It's not that we can use that much of this stuff, but rather that recycling it is too much of a hassle.

If a dozen or so drones were deployed to the battlefield, they probably wouldn't be enough to cover the losses. After all, if a small drone's battery drains too quickly in enemy territory and it breaks apart, would we really send a whole company to search for it?

What's the point of reconnaissance then?

It would be much faster to just find the other person's commander, ask about their organization, and how to allocate firepower.

Therefore, it is essential to stockpile more of these small drones.

We also need as many individual rocket launchers as possible, and it would be best to get a few more tanks.

Two-thirds of the logistics staff were laid off, and a joint logistics mechanism was adopted to unify supply and transportation.

Any company that brings its own nannies to the front lines again should be fired.

Chen Mo sat in his dormitory and worked until late into the night before finally finishing writing the training plan.

I intended to hand it over to the commander overnight.

However, when Chen Mo came out of the dormitory, he saw that, apart from the soldiers patrolling and standing guard, almost all the lights in the buildings in the entire base were turned off.

He had no choice but to return to his dormitory.

The next day was June 2th.

Around 5 a.m., before the assembly whistle was sounded, the soldiers' dormitory area at the base was already bustling with activity.

Some company commanders personally directed the cleaning of the training grounds, while others hurriedly cleaned the corridors—they were incredibly enthusiastic.

Compared to how carefree he was when he first arrived, he's become much more diligent now.

How could I not be diligent?
Before the exercise began, it was said that if the battle was won, all units within the base would be awarded a collective second-class merit.

Although the collective military merits, when divided among individuals, are far less substantial than a third-class merit, the honor of the unit is still an honor.

Soldiers yearn to achieve merit, a yearning that is unimaginably fervent for others.

I was busy until 6:20 when a notice came from the base that an awards ceremony would be held in ten minutes.

Good guy.

Upon receiving the message, the soldiers in each company hurriedly ran back to their dormitories and changed into their summer uniforms.
Before long, squads of soldiers, dressed in leather shoes, peaked caps, and ties, with their shirts tucked into their belts and officers with their own belts, emerged from the building, strutting about and shouting slogans.

As the commander of this exercise, Chen Mo naturally changed into his civilian clothes early on and joined the reconnaissance company in the ranks.

The company awarded him a second-class merit. Strictly speaking, he no longer belongs to the reconnaissance company, but he can still share in the joy.

Apart from the leaders of the Kyoto Military Region and the Kinjo Military Region, no one else showed up at this conference.

All personnel from the 63rd Army's staff and training department were present, including all leaders of the Army Academy, who also served as observers.

6 points.

Military Region Chief of Staff Qin Quan'an arrived at the flag-raising platform at the base training ground. Looking at the thousands of people lined up neatly before him, he nodded slightly and said in a resounding voice, "Greetings, comrades!"

"Hello, Chief!!"

The response was as powerful as a surging tide, with all the soldiers roaring in response.

"Very good, everyone looks quite energetic." Qin Quan'an glanced at the crowd below the stage and suddenly asked, "Comrades, let me ask you a question first."

"Has any unit conducted a debriefing session privately following yesterday's exercise?"

As soon as these words came out.

The officers of each company in the joint battalion were all bewildered, and subconsciously looked at the nearby units.

Clearly, they never did a post-mortem analysis.

Of course, this is not absolute.

The reconnaissance company must have conducted a small-scale debriefing, but the core of the debriefing was to collect information on how the scholar tricked them.

A group of people sat and chatted for half an hour. The term "scholar" appeared more than two hundred times, and when the word "dog" was added before it, it appeared more than three hundred times.

But how could I possibly bring up something like this in front of my superior?

Qin Quan'an stared at the people in the queue, and waited for a while but no one responded.

He continued, "No one is reviewing the situation, right? Very well, I can understand the comrades' behavior. After all, this was an unplanned confrontation."

"During the engagement, neither side had any major problems. The entire exercise was extremely intense, with wave after wave of confrontations starting from the maneuver phase. Even after entering the exercise area, various tactics and war plans emerged one after another."

"Ignore factors such as morale, training, and equipment disparities, and look at the final data."

"It is clear, comrades, that you have won."

"Congratulations."

As he spoke, Qin Quan'an led the applause, and the soldiers in formation immediately reacted and began to applaud loudly as well.

The applause was thunderous and lasted for a long time.

"In the past two years, we have gone through a painful period of downsizing and transformation. The transformation has been talked about since the early 1990s, and during this period, many units still held negative attitudes." "More than 20 group armies have been withdrawn to only a dozen or so group armies now. The training department and the staff department could fill tons with cursing theories."

"However, even if you swear a lot, it's still just cursing."

Do you know why none of you do a post-mortem analysis?

"Because you have no idea how exactly this battle was won, I'm reminding you all here, especially the officers and senior military officers present."

"This exercise has fully demonstrated the importance of reform and changes in the combat system."

"I only want to remind everyone of one point, and I'll only repeat it once: if you fall behind, you'll be vulnerable to attack!!!"

Speaking of which.

Qin Anquan paused again, his expression turning cold and his aura becoming imposing.

After a long while, he finally waved to the back.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, officers from the General Staff, wearing sashes and carrying framed plaques bearing the inscription "Collective Second-Class Merit," came one after another to the stage.

Just this time.

Many soldiers and officers in the audience held their breath, because the so-called collective second-class merit was not awarded to the entire combined battalion.

Instead, one piece was allocated to the 2nd Tank Battalion of the 7th Brigade, one piece to the 3rd Reconnaissance Company of the 7th Armored Brigade, and one piece to the 1st Howitzer Company of the 3rd Mechanized Battalion of the 106th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade.
Every unit in the joint battalion, including all battalions and companies, that participated in this exercise will receive a collective second-class merit.

Seeing so many military merit plaques, many people at the scene were quietly swallowing their saliva, clearly quite shocked.

Previously, they had considered awarding a collective second-class merit to each company, but after discussing it privately, they felt it was impossible.

After all, it came too easily.

It should be awarded jointly by the entire joint battalion.

But now.
Qin Quan'an stared intently at the soldiers below the stage, his eyes practically glued to them. He couldn't help but grin.

In fact, according to Commander Fu's intention, today's commendation meeting was to distribute the collective second-class merit honors to the various battalions and companies.

After all, he is the leader of a major military region. It is not difficult for him to grant a few collective second-class merits. As long as it is done and the information technology experiment is promoted, then it is deserved.

However, the military region is considering that it will also participate in subsequent military exercises, which will be even more difficult.

To motivate subsequent training, the military region does not plan to award the prizes today; it is simply being used as a pretext to ignite morale at the mobilization rally.

The emotions have been stirred up enough.

Qin Quan'an waved again, and the staff officers holding the medals walked down from the flagpole from the left and right sides, but did not leave.

Instead, they stood holding the sign in front of the flagpole, closer to the queue.

"Comrades, this is your honor, do you want it?"

"think!!"

The shouts were much louder than the applause from before.

"very good!"

"But I must tell you that these collective second-class merit awards cannot be issued now."

"Because your mission is not yet complete, we still need to go to the Northwest to carry out military exercises."

"These are things you should consider after you return."

"Comrades, the training camp is about to begin. This Northwest military exercise not only represents the Informationized Battalion, but also our 63rd Army and our Kyoto Military Region."

"Comrades, are you ready to go into battle and fight the enemy?"

"Always be prepared! Always be prepared!! Always be prepared!!!"

The waves surged higher and higher, churning within the base.

Yesterday's exercise gave them great confidence. Even a strategic assault division like the 188th Division was defeated. Who else would they dare not fight?
Qin Quan'an raised his hand to stop the shouts from the crowd.

Turning his head to scan the crowd below, Chen Mo knew it was his turn to go up. He quickly gathered his military uniform, clenched his fists to his sides, ran away from the ranks, and came to the flagpole.

Qin Quan'an nodded slightly and pointed to Chen Mo, saying, "Comrades, I now announce that during the upcoming training, Comrade Chen Mo will be relieved of his duties as accompanying staff officer and intern cadre in the statistics department. After deliberation by the Party Committee of the Military Region, Comrade Chen Mo will be appointed as the acting battalion commander of the information battalion."

"Comrade Gao Jin is appointed as deputy battalion commander, and Comrade Liu Heli is appointed as political education commissar of the information technology battalion."

"From today onwards, all officers in the battalion, except for the three just appointed, are not allowed to wear rank insignia or armbands. All personnel must obey all arrangements for the upcoming training and personnel matters."

"On the morning of August 8, we set off on time to participate in the war in the Northwest."

"Comrades, is it clear?"

"clear!!"

A series of roars erupted from the ranks once again.

The military region chief of staff personally stood on the stage and dictated the appointment letter. Even if someone was unhappy, who would dare to show it?
Even a fool could tell that this time the higher-ups were serious.

Otherwise, the appointment wouldn't be so strange and unconventional.

The acting battalion commander was only a lieutenant, while the deputy battalion commander was a colonel staff officer in the General Staff Department, and the political instructor was also a colonel in the General Staff Department.

This configuration.

Some people might think that Chen Mo is too young to manage such a large unit, so they sent two people to help.

But anyone with eyes can see that these two people are not helping, but assisting.

Assist in the establishment of camps and training, and facilitate effective communication with various units in the military region.

The commendation ceremony, or more accurately, the mobilization meeting, has concluded.

Chen Mo became the acting battalion commander.

The other officers were fine; they started removing their rank insignia and armbands before the ranks were even disbanded and put them away themselves.

The purpose of doing this is to eliminate the distinction between who belongs to the anti-aircraft artillery brigade, who belongs to the armored brigade, and who belongs to the 188th Division during the training period.

Unified goals, unified attire.

But the reconnaissance company seemed particularly awkward.

Xiucai, quite a few people in the entire reconnaissance company have watched this kid go from a raw recruit to a private.

But today, he's transformed into a battalion commander.

Even Cheng Dong, who is usually carefree, couldn't help but scratch his head and look around.

He never imagined that this brat would one day climb all over him; it was incredibly awkward.

Fortunately, the awkwardness didn't last too long.

After the meeting ended, someone notified the queue to disband and wait for further instructions to regroup.

Chen Mo, the acting battalion commander, hadn't even had a chance to put on an act or say a few words.

He was then called away by the staff and followed Chief of Staff Qin to the base's conference room.

Chen Mo knew that the people above were eager to see his training plan, so he always carried it with him.

But after arriving at the conference room...

Chen Mo looked around but couldn't find Fu Hongyi at all. Just as he was wondering...

Qin Quan'an sat at the conference table and waved his hand: "No need to look. The leaders above left by car early this morning. The follow-up training work of the information battalion will be handed over to the military region for assistance."

"Have you finished writing the training plan? If not, you can describe it verbally."

"The report is finished."

Upon hearing the question, Chen Mo realized what was going on and hurriedly handed over the plan.

at first.

Qin Quan'an breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that Chen Mo's training camp was divided into construction, integration, sorting out, and various collaborative training arrangements.

He thought to himself that this kid really had some skills.

Although the principle is to trust those you employ and not to employ those you don't trust, Chen Mo's experience is too limited, so it's inevitable that we should have some concerns.

But, just as he breathed a sigh of relief...

When Chen Mo saw that he wanted to reduce the logistics staff of the entire battalion by two-thirds, and also wanted tanks, drones, and an electronic warfare-specialized technical reconnaissance platoon, he was shocked.

Qin Quan'an was at his wit's end.

Holy crap, they really dare to ask for that!

Tanks are relatively easy to manage; we only need about a dozen, and those are easy to deploy.

However, the number of large UAVs in the 206 was twenty, and the number of man-portable hand-cranked UAVs was more than one hundred.

The technical reconnaissance requirements for electronic countermeasures made Qin Quan'an's lips almost tremble.

Let's talk about the 206 Aisheng vehicle-mounted drone. If the military region really had more than 20 of them, would the 188th Division have suffered such a huge loss?

They were prepared long ago.

Isn't it precisely because we lack knowledge and understanding that we are unprepared?

The entire military region currently only has two drones, and a sixth-level sergeant was specially assigned to study at the academy there. Upon his return, he will mainly be responsible for drone operation.

There are also individual hand-cranked drones, which, if Qin Quan'an remembers correctly, are currently only available in one reconnaissance platoon of the army's directly subordinate reconnaissance battalion.

There weren't many, only six or seven. They even broke apart during landing, and the whole battalion had to search for parts around the hilltop.

Damn it, there are only six or seven in the whole military region, and you're asking for more than a hundred?
There are also technical reconnaissance personnel who are required to be equipped with GPS/GLONASS cross-linked satellite positioning systems and ground surveillance radars. The entire electronic warfare brigade is almost entirely covered in high technology.

Where can I get these things?

The more Qin Quan'an looked, the more confused he became. Finally, he forcibly suppressed his anger and looked up at Chen Mo.

"You son of a bitch, you're here to ransack my place? Do you think I'm some rich old man?"

"Are these the equipment your information battalion needs?"

As the chief of staff, Qin Quan'an usually wouldn't scold lower-ranking officers, but this time, he really couldn't hold back.

Chen Mo knew he would be scolded.

Because he knew the situation of the 63rd Army very well.

Actually, drones have been around for the past two years, but due to the military region's continuous downsizing and reforms in the last two years, coupled with the military region's complete lack of attention to this area, they have not been widely adopted.

No one went to make the purchases, which led to this awkward situation.

"Report to the chief!"

Chen Mo puffed out his chest and said in a serious tone, "These are all necessary equipment for the training camp."

"Humph!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Quan'an raised his hand to rub his temples, remaining silent.

The other cadres in the meeting room were also quite curious about what Chen Mo had written, and when everyone gathered around to take a look...

Look at that string of requirements.

Everyone was immediately speechless. Damn it, this was practically ransacking someone's home.

Where can we get him over a hundred drones?

There's also that whole bunch of systems used by the satellite interconnection system, which many people simply can't understand.

They all doubted whether this piece of junk really existed.

(End of this chapter)