I asked you to repeat your senior year of high school, but did you miss out on joining the military

Chapter 566 Rushing to Lake City, Tao Can's Promotion Opportunity
4pm on April 27th.

Li Haiyao was in the kitchen, wearing an apron and busy preparing dinner.

Chen Jun sat on the sofa in the living room and took out the documents one by one from the pile of brown paper bags in front of him.

The house was brightly lit, fragrant, and looked like a cozy environment, but Chen Jun, who was reading documents, couldn't calm himself down.

The document sent by Chief of Staff Xu contained detailed information on cadres at all levels of the artillery brigade, including not only those currently in office, but also those who have been transferred or changed jobs.

Sun Chenxu, formerly deputy commander of the self-propelled artillery battalion of the artillery brigade, was transferred to the deputy director of the Political Department in April 17 and was promoted to director in February this year.

Wu Junpeng, former director of the Political Department, suddenly applied for a transfer to civilian work at the end of last year.

Wang Pingnan, former brigade logistics director, was given a severe warning and demoted in June 17 because his combat readiness arsenal failed to meet the superior's acceptance inspection.

Wang Deling, former commander of the 3st Long-Range Artillery Battalion, was transferred to the Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion as deputy battalion commander due to a duty error during the combat readiness acceptance in March last year. He applied for demobilization at the end of the year.

Cui Yafen.
Chen Jun sat on the sofa in the living room. He stared at the documents with a frown on his face. He lit a cigarette and silently looked at the transfer documents one by one without saying a word.

Li Haiyao, who was busy in the kitchen, tinkered for a long time and finally prepared a simple dinner. She was just about to ask Chen Jun to clean up and start eating.

Turning her head to see Chen Jun smoking with a worried look on his face, she hesitated for a moment, turned off the fire and covered the cooked dishes.

Then he walked lightly to the sofa in the living room, sat down and also stared at the documents.

But after all, she had not been in the front-line unit for too long and was not familiar with many work transfers. After reading it during the day, she was a little confused and asked: "Is there something wrong with these documents?"

"Ah."

Chen Jun came back to his senses and put out the cigarette in his hand: "According to the regulations, cadres of combat units are generally not allowed to transfer or retire directly while in office. It's okay at the company level, but there are such regulations at the battalion level."

"But if you look at the information, the director of the brigade's political department and the original commander of the long-range artillery battalion were demoted to deputy battalion commander, including the instructors of the box-type artillery battalions, all of whom applied for transfer while in office."

"Let's not talk about whether it complies with the regulations. Just think about it in less than two years. Isn't the frequency too frequent?"

Although Chen Jun had not studied the duty regulations of the Supervisory Department, as a brigade chief of staff, he would definitely come into contact with some of them.

It’s not difficult to see the problem.

After hearing Chen Jun's analysis, Li Haiyao took the document and stared at it for a long time. She was silent for a few seconds before trying to speak: "Then this reason is not sufficient."

"Regulations are regulations. Sometimes there are special circumstances. It's not like there haven't been examples of officers being directly retired from their positions as chief officers."

"Just like this battalion commander was transferred to deputy battalion commander. The higher-ups may have considered the impact on the morale of the battalion, so they deliberately transferred him to another battalion. It is possible that he was not happy about being transferred from the regular battalion commander to the deputy battalion commander, and he could not accept it, so he applied for a transfer, but the higher-ups did not have time to transfer him."

"There's more."

After reviewing the personnel transfers, Li Haiyao continued, "Some promotions are not entirely in accordance with the rules and regulations. After all, the system is static, and the training system naturally has its own mechanisms. During the training process, officers are not guaranteed to be promoted 100% of the time."

"Special times call for special treatments. To disprove the incident simply by looking at the results of these transfers and the training mechanism is a false logic that does not make sense with objective dialectics."

"Some...some are too idealistic."

Li Haiyao put forward his point of view as carefully as possible. After all, the mid-year conference of the war zone would end this rectification, which was a very serious move.

As the Chief Supervisor, Chen Jun cannot allow any problems to occur at this critical juncture.

Because if we really talk about promotion, it is not without reason that some people want to withhold Chen Jun's promotion.

It just depends on whether you dare or not.

But if it really comes to a certain point, who knows who will be involved?
Therefore, Li Haiyao still hopes to be of help as much as possible in areas where she can.

Seeing Li Haiyao being cautious, Chen Jun smiled and raised his hand to rub her hair, explaining: "You are right, but you didn't consider the scope."

"From the end of 16 to now, in less than two years, the personnel turnover rate of the entire brigade is 15% higher than that of other units of the same level. This is not an isolated comparative data."

"It's the problem that the headquarters' inspection department found after reviewing the units of the same level in the entire theater."

Speaking of it.

Chen Jun took his hand back, shook his head and sighed, "Everything else can be deceiving, except data. The mobilization rate is so high that it's no exaggeration to say it's weird."

"Take our 179th Brigade as an example. If we compare it to the changes on this list, with all this messing around, let alone maintaining the current combat effectiveness, it's hard to say whether it can be comparable to the combat effectiveness before the re-equipment."

"Fatty He, you know what happened? In order to be transferred from the battalion to the brigade, this transfer lasted for nearly a year before he could get out properly. And this is just a battalion."

"The troops must consider the impact of the commander's transfer on the morale of the entire army. It is a taboo in field warfare for the soldiers not to know the commander and the commander not to know the soldiers."

"The situation of the artillery brigade is much simpler than that of the synthetic unit. Even if the officers are frequently transferred, as long as the veteran non-commissioned officers, company commanders, veteran squad leaders and technical veterans at the grassroots level are not transferred in large numbers, the combat effectiveness will not be greatly affected."

"But this is only temporary. Over time, the commanders will be frequently transferred and people will lose their morale. Doesn't the brigade consider this?"

"Putting so many transfers together, if you take one or two of them individually, there's nothing wrong with that, but putting so many together, that's a big problem."

Chen Jun's remarks left Li Haiyao speechless. After all, she had little exposure to the subject, so it was normal that she couldn't figure out the fundamental reason.

"So what are you going to do tomorrow? Just take your men directly to the artillery brigade?"

Li Haiyao was a little worried. After all, that was someone else's territory. Although the Training and Supervision Department had considerable power, would it be useful to just go straight in and kill them?

No matter how broad the scope of a department is, it will be difficult to achieve anything if it reaches other people's places.

"No no no."

Chen Jun heard this and waved his hands repeatedly: "How can we just go there? We should not ignore the principle of burning incense and worshipping Buddha when we enter a temple, no matter what the artillery brigade does."

"All officer transfers or transfer applications must be signed by the commander-in-chief. Commander-in-chief Liu of the 72nd Army is very kind to me. No matter what, I can't just bypass the military headquarters and go directly to his territory."

"Tomorrow morning, we should go to the military headquarters first. After all, Chief of Staff Xu has made such a big scene, and he didn't say that we can't follow the procedures. We still have to go to the military district."

"Even if it's just to ask for help, I'll go."

"Well, let's go then."

Seeing that Chen Jun's thoughts were quite clear, Li Haiyao put aside her worries and stood up to serve the dishes.

Chen Jun took advantage of this opportunity to send a message to Li Wujie, asking him to come early tomorrow morning. He also arranged for Bian Tao and his men, who were still far away in the 92nd Brigade, to set off tonight and go directly to Huzhou.

Anyway, the Training Department, the 72nd Army Headquarters, and this destination are all in Huzhou, so there is no need to take another step and come to Pengcheng.

That left the document matter alone for now. Chen Jun put all the things on the coffee table into a brown paper bag and tidied the table.

Li Haiyao put the prepared porridge and two side dishes on the table. She ate very simply because she couldn’t cook anything complicated.

But for a family, what is important is not a sumptuous dinner, but a world of two without being disturbed by outsiders.
. . . . . . . . .

Early morning of the 28rd.

At around five o'clock, Li Haiyao got up from bed, got dressed, went downstairs to buy breakfast, and after coming back, helped Chen Jun pack his suitcase.

A soldier's suitcase is very simple, always containing a few sets of spare uniforms and some toiletries.

After leaving the 179th Brigade, Chen Jun needed to expand his experience on a large scale and gain achievements beyond leading troops in combat. Li Haiyao knew all this. This time she left, not knowing when she would be back next time, so she had to suppress her reluctance, silently packed her luggage, and accompanied Chen Jun to finish breakfast.

Li Haiyao waited until Li Wujie came downstairs to pick someone up before following behind and waving goodbye.

This married person is different from an unmarried boy.

Li Wujie came from the brigade, and he had no reluctance at all. He smiled with his big front teeth bared, and turned his head to ask: "Battalion Commander, where are we going this time?"

"This car is from the military district's logistics airport. Do you want to return it?"

"Not yet."

Chen Jun shook his head: "We'll talk about the car later. Let's go to the Huzhou Military Headquarters first."

"By the way, you are back at the 179th Brigade this time. Is everything going well in the brigade?"

"It's okay."

Li Wujie chuckled: "I have been following Fatty He these past two days. He is now the chief of staff of the brigade. Brigade Commander Feng is not here. I heard that he went to attend the launching ceremony of the aircraft carrier or something."

"The Second Battalion Commander has also been transferred. Fatty He is going to keep an eye on the Second Battalion all day, so I'm going with him."

Read more latest popular novels at 6.9*shuba!

"Ah."

When Chen Jun heard Li Wujie mention He Yingtao, he smiled and nodded without saying anything else.

Regardless of whether Fatty He is very capable or not, at least his way of dealing with people and things is absolutely on point.

When one is promoted to a certain level in the army, one's ability to lead troops can no longer be used as a reference, or can no longer be used as the only reference.

One has to take into consideration how one behaves and what one does. It is obvious that Fatty He is a suitable candidate. It is an indisputable fact that this guy is much more capable than himself in handling many things.

However, promotions below the battalion level are basically based on ability, regardless of relationships.

From the battalion level to the regiment level, what is considered is the comprehensive aspects of the individual, also leaving aside relationships. But from the regiment level onwards, there are too many comprehensive aspects.

But there is one thing, having come to this point, you can no longer put aside the relationship.

Therefore, Chen Jun could predict that Fatty He would serve as the chief of staff for probably five or six years. When he was in his forties, he would be transferred to the logistics department of the military region to work for a few more years and then apply for retirement when he was fifty.

This result is already very good.

After all, if there had not been this military reform and continuous reorganization, according to the previous motorized infantry organization, several battalion commanders of the 179th Brigade would have been forced to retire at the age of , at the battalion level.

After thinking about the situation of 179 in my mind, I feel that there will not be any major changes in the next few years.

Chen Jun then relaxed and leaned back in his chair, turning his head to look at the trees and buildings that were receding on the side of the road. He also began to worry about this work.

After all, this is not a surprise raid. It requires a face-to-face investigation, and he has no experience in this. Chief of Staff Xu also did not say whether people from the headquarters’ inspection department would come to supervise.

But think about it, it probably won’t happen.

Because there is a saying that family disgrace should not be made public, the war zone can bring me to the unit for investigation.

That means the higher-ups must have noticed something was wrong.

Never underestimate the people above you. There are many things they don’t say or mention, but that doesn’t mean they don’t understand.

It's just that after comprehensive consideration, a reasonable breakthrough is needed to solve the problem, and I can't tell whether it is lucky or unfortunate that I was pushed forward as the reason for this breakthrough.

When Chen Jun went to the Huzhou military headquarters, he was always thinking about how to solve this problem.

Thoughts were fruitless.

But at this time, there was another person who was more anxious than him.

That is Tao Junming, the former commander of the 179th Brigade, and now the deputy chief of staff of the nd Army General Staff.

As the saying goes, deputy positions are generally not taken seriously in the army. When Lao Tao first came, his situation was similar.

I have basically no say in the General Staff, it is definitely a sinecure.

But things have been different recently. The former chief of staff will be transferred to the theater artillery command as the head after the theater mid-year conference.

It turns out that the guy at the artillery command is going to retire.

The lower-level units were not aware of this kind of information, but at the military district level, it was impossible for it to be completely secretive.

The military region's chief of staff is at the deputy army level, and Lao Tao is currently only a deputy division commander, so he must first be promoted to a full division commander.

According to regulations, there are two opportunities every year for promotion to the rank of full colonel or first-rank official, in July and at the end of the year.

July is the month after the mid-year conference of the war zone ends.

However, as per convention, for such promotion, one must first attend a short-term training at the National Defense University. Now it is the end of April and not long before the mid-year meeting. Tao Junming also received news yesterday that he should hand over his work in the next two days and go to Kyoto for classes.

Originally, Lao Tao had nothing to explain, as he had not yet taken over any substantive work.

You should go to class happily and wait to make arrangements when you come back.

As long as he gets the position, a promotion of one cent a month would only take him one or two years.

But just this morning, Lao Tao heard people talking about the artillery brigade, and learned that the matter would be handed over to Chen Jun, the new chief inspector, to handle.

Since graduation, Chen Jun has been working under Tao Junming. All the officers of the 179th Brigade are well aware of Tao Junming's love for this guy.

At this critical juncture, Lao Tao was really worried, but there was no news from Commander Liu.

At this time, Tao Junming was sitting in the office. He wanted to pick up the phone and call Chen Jun several times to ask about the details.

But I feel it is not quite appropriate.

This matter is currently at a sensitive stage and it is not appropriate for him to interfere.

The office was filled with smoke and the ashtray was almost full of cigarette butts.

Tao Junming raised his hand and hit his forehead. He thought that this kid should know the rules and at least come to the military region before going to the artillery brigade.

Could you at least let me know?

So he simply picked up the landline phone and called the military duty officer, instructing the comrades on duty if anyone from the Training and Supervision Department came over.

Notify him immediately.

As for what he was so anxious about, to be honest, Tao Junming couldn't explain it.

Anyway, I just feel that something is not right this time.

Or maybe it’s not that simple.

(End of this chapter)