Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 263 Inspiration: When it comes to being ruthless, the battalion commander is the only one.

Hearing Minister Sun's constant urging, Cheng Dong was somewhat troubled.

Based on his judgment, the fact that someone would assault another person and then impound their car was almost certainly the work of a scholar.

But if he makes this call in front of the leader, and the other party's response is slightly off, it would be tantamount to admitting it directly.

No.

We can't be so disloyal, but we can't disobey the commander's orders either.

"Go ahead and attack! What are you standing there for?" Sun Zhensheng sneered. He had long seen through the true colors of these demonstration battalion cadres. Just this moment of hesitation was enough to solidify his initial suspicions.

"Yes!"

Cheng Dong chuckled dryly, then walked to his desk, picked up the phone on the table, and dialed the number for Chen Mo's office in the Academic Affairs Office of the Sergeant Academy.

beep!beep!
As soon as the call connected, before the other end could speak, Cheng Dong said, "This is Cheng Dong. This is the office number for Logistics Minister Sun. To make a long story short, I'm looking for Battalion Commander Chen."

opposite.

Chen Mo sat in his office, waiting for the political instructor to pass on a message. Unexpectedly, the political instructor didn't call; instead, his company commander called first.

Hearing the company commander's slightly hurried voice through the microphone, Chen Mo thought for a while before responding.

"That's me, what's wrong, Company Commander?"

"Oh, Battalion Commander Chen isn't here. Go look for him. I'll call back in ten minutes. Hurry up."

Cheng Dong gave a few perfunctory replies and was about to hang up when Old Man Sun, sitting opposite him, stared at him with an expression as if he were a complete idiot.

Damn it.

This is not how you lie to someone, is it?

We were less than two meters apart, and he could hear the response on the phone clearly. His act of helping to cover for us was really bad.
"Bring it!"

Old Sun snatched the microphone and held it to his ear.

"Young Chen, the Shanxi Provincial Armed Police Corps called me, saying you assaulted someone and impounded your vehicle. The Corps is demanding an explanation. Tell me, how much trouble have you caused lately?"

"I'm innocent, sir! Our gate alarm malfunctioned today, and the troubleshooting report has already been submitted to the military region's combat readiness duty room. We don't have the energy to beat people up or impound their vehicles. Some bastard must be framing me."

Chen Mo stood up from his seat and spoke in a tearful, accusing tone.

Cheng Dong had just deliberately reminded him that he made the call from the logistics minister's office. Chen Mo already understood what he meant, but he had to pretend at this moment.

They lured Sun Zhensheng into digging deeper into the matter.

After all, it's much better to be caught by Old Man Sun first than to have the Commander-in-Chief, Political Commissar, or Chief of Staff intervene first.

At least this old man Sun is alright in other ways, except for being stingy. Since the matter has to be resolved anyway, it's better to find someone who can communicate with us to resolve it.

"Bullshit! I've heard everything, it's all your demonstration battalion's fault!"

Sun Zhensheng was furious when he heard Chen Xiaozi calling him a bastard.

"Don't worry, sir. We really did encounter some problems here today, and the battalion is still troubleshooting and hasn't finished yet."

"How about I go and ask around to see if any company has some kind of misunderstanding with the armed police officers?"

"What nonsense about misunderstandings! Don't try to fool me, kid. Tell me, did you hit anyone or not?"

Sun Zhensheng didn't buy into Chen Mo's act at all and asked with a cold face.

"They must have been hit."

Chen Mo sighed, feigning defeat, and frankly revealed his thoughts.

"Has the vehicle been impounded?" Sun Zhensheng continued to inquire.

"No." Chen Mo shook his head like a rattle drum: "I really don't have that kind of guts.

"Stop trying to fool me, I'll give you one more chance. Did you impound the car or not?"

"Deducted!"

"How much was deducted?"

"Two motorcycles."

"How many?!!"

"No, there are two jeeps and a few motorcycles."

"Damn it, I'm asking one last time, how many vehicles were impounded?"

"Three 212s and seventeen 750s, sir, that's really all. Even if you beat me to death, that's all."

Feeling that the quantity matched what Tao Qingping had said, Sun Zhensheng curled his lip and said, "You little brat, you're really lawless! You even dare to confiscate Old Tao's things?"

"Bring the car to the logistics department right away, and I'll return it to the owner. We're all comrades; if someone hits another person, fine, but how can you impound their car?"

Oh shit!

Chen Mo reached out and pressed the microphone, secretly spitting out his own words.

They get more shameless as they get older.

Given Old Man Sun's character, he'd squeeze every last drop of oil out of even a pebble picked up by the roadside. Sending a car to him would be like throwing a meat bun to a dog.

Don't even think about asking for it back; he's even less likely to return it to the armed police.

"Sir, I'd like to deliver it too, but I can't drive that far. Our annual training supplies haven't been approved yet, and we don't have any fuel reserves."

"Hey! You little brat, you dare to bargain with me?" Sun Zhensheng glared at him, perhaps feeling guilty himself, and after only a couple of curses, he readily said, "Approval, I'll approve it for you, okay?"

"Hehe, sir, you can't just approve it on your own. Our people have to get the slip first."

"Hey! You son of a bitch."

Sun Zhensheng slammed the microphone on the desk, pointed at Cheng Dong, and said, "You, go next door and call someone from the statistics department. They'll calculate your requested supplies right now and approve them immediately."

"I always keep my word!"

"Yes!"

Cheng Dong listened to the conversation on the phone the whole time. He grinned and thought to himself, "That scholar really has guts."

He made a mistake and still dared to bargain with his superior. Anyone else probably wouldn't have had the guts.

Seeing that everything was arranged properly.

Sun Zhensheng then picked up the microphone again, but remained silent.

Chen Mo heard a crackling sound coming from the microphone, knowing that the old man was listening on the other end.

"So, sir, what about this fight?"

"What fight? I asked, and there was no such thing!"

"What about the impounded car?"

"I've already paid for it, why are you impounding the car?"

"Yes, sir. I'll arrange for someone to deliver it immediately. Goodbye, sir. Please take good care of your health. The development of the military region is truly inseparable from your contributions."

Just as Chen Mo was speaking fluently, a dial tone came from the microphone.

I glanced at the phone.

Chen Mo hung up the phone, rubbed his temples, and sat down in his office chair.

"Battalion Commander, this logistics chief is quite easy to talk to."

Wang Jianyong, who was standing next to him, said with a smile that Chen Mo, a major, was really awesome for daring to negotiate with a high-ranking officer.

"Easy to talk to my ass. After all that work, it's just turned into a transaction."

Chen Mo shook his head: "Didn't you ever think that the supplies we need should have been approved in the first place, but now it's become a matter of sending out twenty truckloads before approval is granted?"

"We've been working for nothing, and the logistics department has just made a killing."

"At that time, even if the logistics can't withstand the pressure, we can just take out a few supply corps vehicles and cover it up."

"In the end, we and the brigade both suffered losses, while they benefited."

“That makes sense, it’s really damn shady!” Wang Jianyong decisively changed his stance.

He couldn't offer any advice on this kind of transaction. After thinking for a long time, he said, "It's such a pity. Such a good batch of motorcycles, just given away like that. Sigh!"

"Give it away for nothing, you have to keep some for yourself."

Chen Mo spoke fiercely, then stood up and tugged at his military uniform. With his personality of "if you don't pick something up, you've lost it," how could he possibly return the item so easily? "Hey, go get Lao Man and ask the training department if they have any scrapped motorcycles. Take one of our good ones and trade it for three or four of their older ones. It doesn't matter if they're drivable or not, the important thing is that they have to be new and have them repainted."

"Just replace seven or eight vehicles, mix in two good ones, and send one jeep to the logistics department. Keep the rest for yourselves."

"Remember, you can deliver the vehicle, but you have to wait for Company Commander Cheng and Political Instructor Fang to return."

"We're not going to do a business that loses money."

"Yes!"

Wang Jianyong swallowed hard and responded with great reluctance.

He thought the logistics staff were all corrupt enough, but little did he know, the most corrupt of all was the scholar.

The training department has a lot of activities and does have a lot of motorcycles, but the problem is, if the vehicles in the army can be driven to the point of being scrapped, how badly must they have been driven?
It's probably missing the clutch and brakes, and there's little chance of finding three tires. If this thing is sent to the logistics department, they'll be furious.

But the battalion commander is doing this for the benefit of the battalion, so we have to do as he says.

Watching Wang Jianyong leave.

Chen Mo then stretched and decided to take a walk around the camp.

Since Old Man Sun from the logistics department offered to send the car over, it means that the follow-up to this matter will definitely involve Sun Zhensheng arguing with the people in the brigade.

It has little to do with the demonstration camp.

However, it wasn't a big deal in the first place.

At this moment.

The day's cultural classes at the East Campus were basically over, and the soldiers from each company gathered at the West Campus.

As soon as Chen Mo came downstairs, he saw Man Xuexi, Wang Jianbin, and several other cadres standing in front of the bulletin board discussing something.

There were also many soldiers surrounding the area.

It was rare to see such a lively scene in the camp, so Chen Mo strolled over to the vicinity.

"Hello, battalion commander!"

Perhaps what happened this morning worked, giving the entire battalion a sense of unity.

As soon as Chen Mo arrived, a group of veterans greeted him with smiles. He wasn't stingy; he took out cigarettes from his pocket, lit one for himself, and tossed the rest to the soldiers nearby.

He then looked up and gestured towards the crowd, asking, "What's all this commotion up there?"

"Battalion Commander, they're all posting the competition rules for the Dragon and Tiger lists."

"Our mechanized infantry company is on the Dragon List."

One of the sergeants, patting his chest proudly, introduced himself.

In other battalion-level units, the battalion commander or political instructor generally does not stay in the lower-level companies all day.

I only go over occasionally to check on things.

When a company makes propaganda or minor training changes, it can usually make its own decisions. For these reasons, many veterans in the battalion still don't understand. Although there are many companies in this demonstration battalion, it will not be like before.

Each company should have its own separate base, and they should not interact with each other normally.

If the demonstration battalion adopts a combined information-based organizational structure, it would significantly weaken the capabilities and even the presence of the company commander.

If it weren't for this, Chen Mo wouldn't have dared to assign two newly graduated cadres to the position of company commander.

Therefore, many soldiers thought that the battalion commander had no idea about these rankings and that the company itself had made them.

However, Chen Mo didn't care.

As he listened to the sergeant in front of him, a sense of pride almost overflowed from his words when he mentioned the Imperial Guard's rank again, and Chen Mo himself understood the situation.

These people will gradually develop a sense of belonging.

The supply application was approved today, which made the people in the camp feel a sense of belonging.

Then we can get down to business and get things done.

"Then you should work harder and try to take first place on the Dragon Ranking. The competition in the infantry company is quite fierce, so you have to give it your all."

Chen Mo chuckled and raised his hand to punch the soldier who had just spoken in the chest, then went to the bulletin board.

Now that Cheng Dong is not in the academy, many responsibilities of the General Staff are falling on Man Xuexi's shoulders, so naturally, he is the one who needs to take charge of implementing them.

"Battalion Commander, what do you think of this Dragon and Tiger Ranking?"

Seeing Chen Mo come over, Man Xuexi clapped his hands and pointed to the list that had already been posted.

The so-called "Dragon and Tiger List".

The company conducts phased evaluations, taking into account individual performance in terms of physical fitness, shooting, professional knowledge, and other aspects. The one who gets the highest score is number one.

The list usually only includes ten people, namely the first to the tenth place.

Chen Mo looked around but didn't find anything that needed to be corrected.

He laughed and said, "Now that the rules have been set, we'll see which comrade can stay at the top of the list for a whole month."

"Whoever is not pushed out of office within a month will be awarded a third-class merit."

"Anyone who can maintain the top ranking for six months can apply for any promotion or advancement opportunity they can have, as long as I can provide it."

"By the way, besides the Dragon and Tiger Ranking, let's add some other rankings, such as Theory Star, Training Star, Progress Star, Discipline Star, and Housekeeping Star."

"Make sure you do all these classifications right. If you're going to build a battalion, you need to make it look like a battalion. The Dragon List is for the infantry, and the Tiger List is for the tank companies. But remember, your lists don't mean others can't take them."

"In our battalion, those who are capable get to eat meat, and those who aren't even capable get to drink soup. Anyone can participate in all the honor rolls."

"Including the reconnaissance company, the medical detachment, myself, and other officers."

Chen Mo explained in a clear voice.

These words were originally meant for the soldiers watching.

This is also a way of indirectly telling everyone in the battalion that from now on, a battalion is a collective, unlike before when only one company was a collective.

Chen Mo's words caused quite a stir.

The veterans from the reconnaissance company standing nearby exchanged glances, their faces revealing meaningful smiles.

If we only consider physical fitness, shooting skills, and overall performance, basically no other unit can compare with reconnaissance soldiers.

Even in the sergeant academy, which brings together veterans from many units, the same applies; the prowess of reconnaissance soldiers is not just empty talk.

At first, the reconnaissance company members thought it wasn't their responsibility, and that the benefits were designed for newcomers.

Now, everyone is starting to get ready to fight.

Upon seeing the battalion commander, he mobilized everyone's enthusiasm with just a few words. Man Xuexue scratched his head, quickly walked up to Chen Mo, and whispered, "Battalion Commander, has the matter with the armed police been settled?"

"It's almost done even if it's not resolved yet."

Chen Mo smiled and said, "The ammunition has been approved. We don't have a transport platoon right now, but the ammunition should be brought back by the logistics department soon."

"We'll wait for the instructor and Chief of Staff Cheng to return, and then we'll quickly move on to the first phase of training."

"Hehe, that's great!"

Hearing the ammunition approval process concluded, even Man Xuexi's face broke into a smile.

Before he came to the demonstration camp, he had heard that the previous Blue Army camp had performed exceptionally well in the exercises.

Unfortunately, I didn't catch the right time.

When he was assigned here, the entire battalion had already been disbanded.

Now, I finally have the opportunity to participate and see for myself.

What's so magical about this IT-enabled camp?

Once formal training begins here, the Academy of Military Sciences will likely send people over to learn and observe.

Everyone seemed to be in high spirits.

Chen Mo smiled and began to wander around the camp area to inspect it.

Make final preparations.