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Chapter 397 4 words
Chapter 397
the next day.
Jiang Fan used all kinds of practical training to train the members of the Fourth Company and Jiang Xiaoyu.
On swimming training.
Every swimming skill Jiang Fan will point out their shortcomings one by one.
And help them in the most effective way to improve these shortcomings.
Even a provincial swimming champion like Lu Yan.
Under Jiang Fan's guidance, his swimming skills have also risen to a higher level.
Even Liu Xiaoshan and Deng Jiuguang, two older Gods of War.
Faced with Jiang Fan's swimming skills, they couldn't help but go up and listen.
And let Jiang Fan guide them.
Although their swimming skills have reached the top level in the Marine Corps.
But under Jiang Fan's teaching, he still made more than a little progress.
Passing the subject of swimming training also made Liu Xiaoshan and Deng Jiuguang make up their minds.
After assisting Jiang Fan to train Silian and Jiang Xiaoyu.
In private, they would also ask Jiang Fan for tips on other training subjects.
Soon, another month passed.
After a month and a half of training.
It can be said that the people of Silian and Jiang Xiaoyu were trained by Jiang Fan.
Maritime combat skills have been improved by leaps and bounds.
The remaining one and a half months.
Jiang Fan also conducted all-round training on various tactics such as their sea shooting and 400-meter crossing to the island.
As for the progress of Silian, Wugang, Beast Camp, and other companies are all aware of it.
Before less than three months.
Just over a month later, they already felt a sense of crisis.
Because the people in Silian are progressing too fast.
To be precise, Jiang Fan's training mode was perverted, but very effective.
at last.
After working overtime to train Silian and Jiang Xiaoyu for 3 months.
The Marine Corps ushered in a quarterly assessment.
In the end no surprises.
All members of the Fourth Company, including Jiang Xiaoyu, passed the assessment.
And got very good results.
And their overall combat power, the points even surpassed the second-ranked Beast Camp of the Marine Corps by more than a dozen points.
In other words.
The current Fourth Company's combat effectiveness is already the veritable No. 1 in the Marine Corps.
Indisputable.
It was also when Long Baichuan announced this result that the entire Marine Corps was completely erupted.
Only three months.
A company that just came to the navy from the army and has not yet qualified for sea combat capabilities.
Actually, after only three months, its combat effectiveness surpassed all the Marine Corps squadrons and companies.
That in itself is pretty incredible.
No one ever believed that Jiang Fan could do it.
But it just happened.
It happened right under their noses.
They saw little by little changes in Silian.
Seeing how they break free from the shackles of death and break through the limit again and again.
I saw the suffering and tiredness they had suffered in the past three months.
It is precisely because of their blood and spirit that they do their best to become stronger and are desperate.
It can be said that this touched them very much.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Inside Long Baichuan's office.
He looked at Silian's report card in his hand, and laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear.
"Instructor Wu, should you trust Jiang Fan's ability now?"
Long Baichuan said to Wugang.
Chief of Staff Kang Lei also walked in with a smile at this time: "How is it? The company commander I brought over is awesome, right?"
In the past three months, Kang Lei basically never asked about Jiang Fan's training.
Because he has an absolute understanding of Jiang Fan.
Since he dared to make a promise, he will definitely keep it.
Long Baichuan held Kang Lei's hand excitedly: "It's not just amazing, it's amazing that it can fly into the sky, hahahaha."
Wu Gang also shook his head bitterly: "I really didn't expect me, a veteran who has been an instructor for decades, to be inferior to a student officer who has just joined the army for a few years."
Long Baichuan smiled and said, "Look carefully."
"In addition to the fourth company, the results of other squadrons have also made great progress in this quarter's assessment."
"It's kind of a chain reaction."
"The Marine Corps has always been more intensive in training."
"But this intensity has been maintained for many years and has not changed."
"This has also led to no change in the overall combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps. All soldiers have become accustomed to this intensity of training."
"Now that Jiang Fan has joined, the training intensity has been doubled, or even several times."
"Finally let them see that the limit is not just the previous point, and their room for improvement is still very high."
"As long as they are willing to put in more energy and physical strength, they can continue to make breakthroughs."
"Just like this time."
"Even if Jiang Fan didn't go to train other squadrons and companies."
"But when they see the progress of the four companies and the training status of the four companies, they will also be infected and touched. Under the subtle influence, they will also be more active in training, and thus gain a certain amount. reward."
For this point, WISCO also rarely nodded in agreement.
Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he rushed to Long Baichuan and asked, "Should we raise Jiang Fan's level a little bit and let him lead more squadrons and companies to train together?"
Long Baichuan shook his head slightly and said, "I asked Jiang Fan's opinion about what you said before."
"He said it was hard."
"Leading a company is basically his limit."
"And this company must have been trained by him from the beginning."
"If you want to thoroughly train a company, you need the company to have absolute trust and obedience to him, the company commander, and the instructor."
"And you and I have seen the three-month training."
"What is the attitude of the soldiers of the fourth company towards Jiang Fan, the company commander, and what kind of desperate mental state is he in order to become stronger?"
"It is precisely because of the absolute trust of the soldiers of the Fourth Company in Jiang Fan that Jiang Fan was able to train them so smoothly with this kind of actual combat training."
"Moreover, Jiang Fan teaches one by one in terms of skill improvement."
"If you hand over the entire Marine Corps, tens of thousands of soldiers, to him for training, even if he has 10 clones, he will still be exhausted to death."
Wu Gang heard the words and couldn't help thinking about the situation of Jiang Fan and Silian in the past three months.
It seems that this is really the case.
Wu Gang said: "Should Jiang Fan be so capable as a company commander in our brigade?"
Long Baichuan smiled slightly, walked to his desk, took out a document and handed it to Wugang.
Wu Gang took it over and looked at it, and was immediately surprised: "The higher-ups agreed for us to form a special naval force?"
Long Baicun nodded with a smile: "This notice was issued a month ago."
"It's just that I didn't want to distract Jiang Fan at the time, so I haven't told him yet."
Wu Gang was stunned: "You mean to let Jiang Fan be the chief instructor for the selection?"
Long Baichuan said: "Otherwise, can you see who else in the Marine Corps is more qualified than him?"
Wu Gang shook his head.
This really doesn't exist.
Long Baichuan said: "It was originally planned to form a naval special force this year."
"At that time, I also thought about seconding a few naval special forces instructors from the army special forces or the naval special forces of other military regions to assist us."
"But now it seems that there is no need for that."
"If Jiang Fan is the chief instructor, it should be fine."
Then there was a knock on the office door.
"Report, Jiang Fan is here to report."
"Yo, say Cao Cao Cao Cao will be here."
Long Baichuan smiled and went to open the door for Jiang Fan himself.
"Come in, come in."
Not to mention how enthusiastic Long Baichuan was, he dragged Jiang Fan straight in and sat down.
At this time, Wu Gang said directly: "Comrade Jiang Fan, I apologize to you for questioning your training methods before."
Jiang Fan hurriedly said, "Instructor Wu, don't say that."
"Everyone just has some conflicts of opinion about the training method, but they didn't take a stand. You don't have to apologize to me."
Kang Lei patted his shoulder and said, "This time you're fighting for our old Iron Fist again."
Jiang Fan said lightly: "I just did what I should do."
Long Baichuan looked at Jiang Fan and said with a smile, "Don't be modest."
"Now I officially notify you."
"Since the combat effectiveness of the fourth company at sea has been trained by you, then the number of the sharpshooter fourth company will continue in the Marine Corps."
Kang Lei became excited when he heard this.
Iron Fist is gone, but at least he kept the sharpshooter four.
Oh no.
It should be said that Jiang Fan kept the 4th company of sharpshooters.
Jiang Fan was not surprised by this result.
If it is said that with the current combat effectiveness of the fourth company, the original organization and designation cannot be preserved.
Then it can only be said that Long Baichuan's vision is really short-sighted.
After everyone chatted for a while, Long Baichuan talked about serious matters with Jiang Fan.
When he heard that he was asked to be the chief instructor of the Marine Corps, Jiang Fan agreed without hesitation.
He agreed to come to the Marine Corps, and he also had this purpose in mind.
Long Baichuan said: "However, regarding the selection, it will take about another month."
"Because there is another thing that may need you to do."
Jiang Fan vaguely guessed something, hesitantly said: "The captain said, but it is the upcoming special forces competition of the whole army?"
"You still know this?"
Long Baichuan was slightly surprised.
Jiang Fan said: "When I was participating in the hunter training camp, the special forces from other military regions told me about it."
"So that's the case." Long Baichuan nodded slightly. .
Wu Gang on the side immediately slapped his head and said, "Why did I forget about this?"
"Dragon Team, do you mean that you want Comrade Jiang Fan to participate?"
Wu Gang asked.
Kang Lei is naturally clear about this kind of competition.
Just don't know much about it.
After all, the Iron Fist group he led before was not qualified to participate.
But the Marine Corps is different.
Although the Marine Corps is not a real naval special forces.
However, in order to take care of the naval forces and be able to participate in the top national competitions, the headquarters will also give a few places to the Southeast Military Region and the Marine Corps.
Long Baichuan nodded and said, "We have four spots in the Marine Corps, and I want to give Comrade Jiang Fan one."
"In the competitions in previous years, our Marine Corps always ran with us."
"It's hard to find a powerful naval fighter like Jiang Fan now, so naturally we have to let him out to win some glory for our Marine Corps."
"Jiang Fan, what do you mean?"
All three looked at Jiang Fan.
Jiang Fan smiled slightly and said, "Since the brigade trusts me so much, I'll give it a try."
"And I'm also curious about this kind of national top competition."
"I also want to compete with special forces from other military regions, so I can see some old friends by the way."
Seeing that Jiang Fan agreed, Long Baichuan breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, as soon as Jiang Fan came back, he asked Jiang Fan to take the fourth company for special training.
It can be said that Jiang Fan has never had a day off since he went to participate in the training camp.
It would be too much to ask him to participate in the special forces competition now.
But at present, Jiang Fan is the only one in the Marine Corps who can use it to fight against the special forces of other military regions.
Wu Gang asked: "Then who are the other three candidates?"
Long Baichuan looked at Jiang Fan again: "Do you think anyone else in Silian can take on this task?"
Jiang Fan thought for a while, then shook his head slightly and said, "Although they have made great progress, they have not yet reached the standard of special forces. They were just cannon fodder in the past."
"However, the two monitors, Liu Xiaoshan and Deng Jiuguang, may give it a try."
Wu Gang frowned slightly and said: "But they are too old, and their bodies also have some old injuries."
"Compared to their peak combat effectiveness, they have dropped a lot."
"I'm afraid that if you let them go, they won't last long."
Jiang Fan said: "For the past three months, I have been giving massage treatments to their old injuries."
"Although it is not fully recovered now, 7788 has recovered."
"In addition, they have also learned various combat skills from me, and their current combat effectiveness should be stronger than that at their peak."
Long Baichuan was surprised when he heard the words: "You also know medicine?"
Jiang Fan said: "Before enlisting in the army, I had a bone-setting massage technique with an old Chinese doctor in my hometown, and then I tried it on them, and found that the effect was good."
Wu Gang said excitedly, "That's really great."
"It's equivalent to having two more gods of war comparable to special forces in our Marine Corps."
Long Baichuan nodded and said, "Okay, then it's decided."
"Jiang Fan, Liu Xiaoshan, Deng Jiuguang, and Xiang Yu are going to participate."
Long Baichuan said and looked at Jiang Fan: "There is still half a month before the competition, you can see if you should take a break or take them for another half month of special skills improvement training."
"This is up to you to decide, I appoint you as the captain of this team."
"Yes."
........................
After returning, Jiang Fan also told Liu Xiaoshan and Deng Jiuguang the news.
The two were excited when they heard that they could still represent the Marine Corps in the top competitions in the country.
They all asked Jiang Fan to train them specially.
"report!"
At this time, a voice came.
Xiang Yu came in front of the three of them, "Captain, Xiang Yu is here to report!"
(End of this chapter)
the next day.
Jiang Fan used all kinds of practical training to train the members of the Fourth Company and Jiang Xiaoyu.
On swimming training.
Every swimming skill Jiang Fan will point out their shortcomings one by one.
And help them in the most effective way to improve these shortcomings.
Even a provincial swimming champion like Lu Yan.
Under Jiang Fan's guidance, his swimming skills have also risen to a higher level.
Even Liu Xiaoshan and Deng Jiuguang, two older Gods of War.
Faced with Jiang Fan's swimming skills, they couldn't help but go up and listen.
And let Jiang Fan guide them.
Although their swimming skills have reached the top level in the Marine Corps.
But under Jiang Fan's teaching, he still made more than a little progress.
Passing the subject of swimming training also made Liu Xiaoshan and Deng Jiuguang make up their minds.
After assisting Jiang Fan to train Silian and Jiang Xiaoyu.
In private, they would also ask Jiang Fan for tips on other training subjects.
Soon, another month passed.
After a month and a half of training.
It can be said that the people of Silian and Jiang Xiaoyu were trained by Jiang Fan.
Maritime combat skills have been improved by leaps and bounds.
The remaining one and a half months.
Jiang Fan also conducted all-round training on various tactics such as their sea shooting and 400-meter crossing to the island.
As for the progress of Silian, Wugang, Beast Camp, and other companies are all aware of it.
Before less than three months.
Just over a month later, they already felt a sense of crisis.
Because the people in Silian are progressing too fast.
To be precise, Jiang Fan's training mode was perverted, but very effective.
at last.
After working overtime to train Silian and Jiang Xiaoyu for 3 months.
The Marine Corps ushered in a quarterly assessment.
In the end no surprises.
All members of the Fourth Company, including Jiang Xiaoyu, passed the assessment.
And got very good results.
And their overall combat power, the points even surpassed the second-ranked Beast Camp of the Marine Corps by more than a dozen points.
In other words.
The current Fourth Company's combat effectiveness is already the veritable No. 1 in the Marine Corps.
Indisputable.
It was also when Long Baichuan announced this result that the entire Marine Corps was completely erupted.
Only three months.
A company that just came to the navy from the army and has not yet qualified for sea combat capabilities.
Actually, after only three months, its combat effectiveness surpassed all the Marine Corps squadrons and companies.
That in itself is pretty incredible.
No one ever believed that Jiang Fan could do it.
But it just happened.
It happened right under their noses.
They saw little by little changes in Silian.
Seeing how they break free from the shackles of death and break through the limit again and again.
I saw the suffering and tiredness they had suffered in the past three months.
It is precisely because of their blood and spirit that they do their best to become stronger and are desperate.
It can be said that this touched them very much.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Inside Long Baichuan's office.
He looked at Silian's report card in his hand, and laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear.
"Instructor Wu, should you trust Jiang Fan's ability now?"
Long Baichuan said to Wugang.
Chief of Staff Kang Lei also walked in with a smile at this time: "How is it? The company commander I brought over is awesome, right?"
In the past three months, Kang Lei basically never asked about Jiang Fan's training.
Because he has an absolute understanding of Jiang Fan.
Since he dared to make a promise, he will definitely keep it.
Long Baichuan held Kang Lei's hand excitedly: "It's not just amazing, it's amazing that it can fly into the sky, hahahaha."
Wu Gang also shook his head bitterly: "I really didn't expect me, a veteran who has been an instructor for decades, to be inferior to a student officer who has just joined the army for a few years."
Long Baichuan smiled and said, "Look carefully."
"In addition to the fourth company, the results of other squadrons have also made great progress in this quarter's assessment."
"It's kind of a chain reaction."
"The Marine Corps has always been more intensive in training."
"But this intensity has been maintained for many years and has not changed."
"This has also led to no change in the overall combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps. All soldiers have become accustomed to this intensity of training."
"Now that Jiang Fan has joined, the training intensity has been doubled, or even several times."
"Finally let them see that the limit is not just the previous point, and their room for improvement is still very high."
"As long as they are willing to put in more energy and physical strength, they can continue to make breakthroughs."
"Just like this time."
"Even if Jiang Fan didn't go to train other squadrons and companies."
"But when they see the progress of the four companies and the training status of the four companies, they will also be infected and touched. Under the subtle influence, they will also be more active in training, and thus gain a certain amount. reward."
For this point, WISCO also rarely nodded in agreement.
Suddenly his eyes lit up, and he rushed to Long Baichuan and asked, "Should we raise Jiang Fan's level a little bit and let him lead more squadrons and companies to train together?"
Long Baichuan shook his head slightly and said, "I asked Jiang Fan's opinion about what you said before."
"He said it was hard."
"Leading a company is basically his limit."
"And this company must have been trained by him from the beginning."
"If you want to thoroughly train a company, you need the company to have absolute trust and obedience to him, the company commander, and the instructor."
"And you and I have seen the three-month training."
"What is the attitude of the soldiers of the fourth company towards Jiang Fan, the company commander, and what kind of desperate mental state is he in order to become stronger?"
"It is precisely because of the absolute trust of the soldiers of the Fourth Company in Jiang Fan that Jiang Fan was able to train them so smoothly with this kind of actual combat training."
"Moreover, Jiang Fan teaches one by one in terms of skill improvement."
"If you hand over the entire Marine Corps, tens of thousands of soldiers, to him for training, even if he has 10 clones, he will still be exhausted to death."
Wu Gang heard the words and couldn't help thinking about the situation of Jiang Fan and Silian in the past three months.
It seems that this is really the case.
Wu Gang said: "Should Jiang Fan be so capable as a company commander in our brigade?"
Long Baichuan smiled slightly, walked to his desk, took out a document and handed it to Wugang.
Wu Gang took it over and looked at it, and was immediately surprised: "The higher-ups agreed for us to form a special naval force?"
Long Baicun nodded with a smile: "This notice was issued a month ago."
"It's just that I didn't want to distract Jiang Fan at the time, so I haven't told him yet."
Wu Gang was stunned: "You mean to let Jiang Fan be the chief instructor for the selection?"
Long Baichuan said: "Otherwise, can you see who else in the Marine Corps is more qualified than him?"
Wu Gang shook his head.
This really doesn't exist.
Long Baichuan said: "It was originally planned to form a naval special force this year."
"At that time, I also thought about seconding a few naval special forces instructors from the army special forces or the naval special forces of other military regions to assist us."
"But now it seems that there is no need for that."
"If Jiang Fan is the chief instructor, it should be fine."
Then there was a knock on the office door.
"Report, Jiang Fan is here to report."
"Yo, say Cao Cao Cao Cao will be here."
Long Baichuan smiled and went to open the door for Jiang Fan himself.
"Come in, come in."
Not to mention how enthusiastic Long Baichuan was, he dragged Jiang Fan straight in and sat down.
At this time, Wu Gang said directly: "Comrade Jiang Fan, I apologize to you for questioning your training methods before."
Jiang Fan hurriedly said, "Instructor Wu, don't say that."
"Everyone just has some conflicts of opinion about the training method, but they didn't take a stand. You don't have to apologize to me."
Kang Lei patted his shoulder and said, "This time you're fighting for our old Iron Fist again."
Jiang Fan said lightly: "I just did what I should do."
Long Baichuan looked at Jiang Fan and said with a smile, "Don't be modest."
"Now I officially notify you."
"Since the combat effectiveness of the fourth company at sea has been trained by you, then the number of the sharpshooter fourth company will continue in the Marine Corps."
Kang Lei became excited when he heard this.
Iron Fist is gone, but at least he kept the sharpshooter four.
Oh no.
It should be said that Jiang Fan kept the 4th company of sharpshooters.
Jiang Fan was not surprised by this result.
If it is said that with the current combat effectiveness of the fourth company, the original organization and designation cannot be preserved.
Then it can only be said that Long Baichuan's vision is really short-sighted.
After everyone chatted for a while, Long Baichuan talked about serious matters with Jiang Fan.
When he heard that he was asked to be the chief instructor of the Marine Corps, Jiang Fan agreed without hesitation.
He agreed to come to the Marine Corps, and he also had this purpose in mind.
Long Baichuan said: "However, regarding the selection, it will take about another month."
"Because there is another thing that may need you to do."
Jiang Fan vaguely guessed something, hesitantly said: "The captain said, but it is the upcoming special forces competition of the whole army?"
"You still know this?"
Long Baichuan was slightly surprised.
Jiang Fan said: "When I was participating in the hunter training camp, the special forces from other military regions told me about it."
"So that's the case." Long Baichuan nodded slightly. .
Wu Gang on the side immediately slapped his head and said, "Why did I forget about this?"
"Dragon Team, do you mean that you want Comrade Jiang Fan to participate?"
Wu Gang asked.
Kang Lei is naturally clear about this kind of competition.
Just don't know much about it.
After all, the Iron Fist group he led before was not qualified to participate.
But the Marine Corps is different.
Although the Marine Corps is not a real naval special forces.
However, in order to take care of the naval forces and be able to participate in the top national competitions, the headquarters will also give a few places to the Southeast Military Region and the Marine Corps.
Long Baichuan nodded and said, "We have four spots in the Marine Corps, and I want to give Comrade Jiang Fan one."
"In the competitions in previous years, our Marine Corps always ran with us."
"It's hard to find a powerful naval fighter like Jiang Fan now, so naturally we have to let him out to win some glory for our Marine Corps."
"Jiang Fan, what do you mean?"
All three looked at Jiang Fan.
Jiang Fan smiled slightly and said, "Since the brigade trusts me so much, I'll give it a try."
"And I'm also curious about this kind of national top competition."
"I also want to compete with special forces from other military regions, so I can see some old friends by the way."
Seeing that Jiang Fan agreed, Long Baichuan breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, as soon as Jiang Fan came back, he asked Jiang Fan to take the fourth company for special training.
It can be said that Jiang Fan has never had a day off since he went to participate in the training camp.
It would be too much to ask him to participate in the special forces competition now.
But at present, Jiang Fan is the only one in the Marine Corps who can use it to fight against the special forces of other military regions.
Wu Gang asked: "Then who are the other three candidates?"
Long Baichuan looked at Jiang Fan again: "Do you think anyone else in Silian can take on this task?"
Jiang Fan thought for a while, then shook his head slightly and said, "Although they have made great progress, they have not yet reached the standard of special forces. They were just cannon fodder in the past."
"However, the two monitors, Liu Xiaoshan and Deng Jiuguang, may give it a try."
Wu Gang frowned slightly and said: "But they are too old, and their bodies also have some old injuries."
"Compared to their peak combat effectiveness, they have dropped a lot."
"I'm afraid that if you let them go, they won't last long."
Jiang Fan said: "For the past three months, I have been giving massage treatments to their old injuries."
"Although it is not fully recovered now, 7788 has recovered."
"In addition, they have also learned various combat skills from me, and their current combat effectiveness should be stronger than that at their peak."
Long Baichuan was surprised when he heard the words: "You also know medicine?"
Jiang Fan said: "Before enlisting in the army, I had a bone-setting massage technique with an old Chinese doctor in my hometown, and then I tried it on them, and found that the effect was good."
Wu Gang said excitedly, "That's really great."
"It's equivalent to having two more gods of war comparable to special forces in our Marine Corps."
Long Baichuan nodded and said, "Okay, then it's decided."
"Jiang Fan, Liu Xiaoshan, Deng Jiuguang, and Xiang Yu are going to participate."
Long Baichuan said and looked at Jiang Fan: "There is still half a month before the competition, you can see if you should take a break or take them for another half month of special skills improvement training."
"This is up to you to decide, I appoint you as the captain of this team."
"Yes."
........................
After returning, Jiang Fan also told Liu Xiaoshan and Deng Jiuguang the news.
The two were excited when they heard that they could still represent the Marine Corps in the top competitions in the country.
They all asked Jiang Fan to train them specially.
"report!"
At this time, a voice came.
Xiang Yu came in front of the three of them, "Captain, Xiang Yu is here to report!"
(End of this chapter)
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