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Chapter 83 Second Class Merit?! (Please subscribe to 4k)

"All the companies should go back and prepare to pack up for dinner."

"After dinner, the instructor convened a meeting of all soldiers in the battalion to commend them for recent events and the competition."

"Chen Ting and Ji Baichang from the first company, as well as the two new recruits who just won the championship, stay for a while, the others can be taken back."

After the battalion clerk finished speaking, the companies disbanded on the playground, leaving only Chen Ting and three people from Class 1.

"At the military meeting later, keep it brief. You don't have to go on stage and give speeches or anything like that."

"Come with me to the camp to collect your rewards first."

The battalion clerk said this and led the four people towards the battalion headquarters.

Along the way, Ji Baichang couldn't suppress his excitement. If the squad leader hadn't been with him, he would have been unable to help but start talking nonsense.

The four of them went all the way to the battalion headquarters and stood outside the office door. The battalion clerk motioned for the four of them to wait a moment, then he opened the door and went in to speak a few words.

Then he let Chen Ting and the other three in.

As soon as he entered the battalion office, Lu Qinglong saw a man in his thirties with a serious expression on his face and wearing a military rank of two cents on his shoulders, sitting behind the desk in the office.

"Hello, Captain."

Under Chen Ting's guidance, the three immediately shouted to the battalion commander.

"Ah."

The battalion commander nodded, looked at the three recruits standing in front of him, and finally his eyes stopped on Lu Qinglong.

After a while, he looked away and said:

"I called you over here to give you the rewards that belong to you first."

As the battalion commander spoke, he took out three wooden boxes from a drawer beside him and placed them in front of the three people.

Inside the wooden box, there is a medal representing commendation.

"In addition to the medal, there is also a bonus of 500 yuan, which will be distributed along with your allowance next month."

The battalion commander added.

Ji Baichang couldn't wait to step forward and take the medal on the battalion commander's desk. He was reluctant to open it and put it in his arms.

Lu Qinglong and Xue Daochao did the same and took the medals solemnly in their hands.

"Okay, old squad leader Chen Ting, your second-class merit medal is still under review by the brigade. I'm afraid it will take two days to be delivered to you."

"It's just a 5,000 yuan bonus, which will be paid out with your salary next month."

Originally, the three of them were more or less complacent, after all, they had just received commendations. However, after hearing the battalion commander's words, all three of them looked at Chen Ting in unison.

"Second class merit! Our squad leader won a second class merit!"

Ji Baichang was shocked. He originally thought that his squad leader would at most be awarded a third-class merit for handling what happened in the bank, but he didn't expect it to be a second-class merit!

A second-class merit is enough to ensure promotion!
I thought Chen Ting would also show an expression of surprise on his face, but Chen Ting just nodded, as if he had already expected that he would win the second-class merit.

"Well, well, there's nothing else to do."

"Old squad leader Chen Ting, you have three good soldiers."

Before leaving, the battalion commander did not forget to praise Chen Ting.

The meaning behind his words is his desire for these three people.

He didn't ask for much. He definitely couldn't take Lu Qinglong away. If he could take one of Ji Baichang or Xue Daochao away after the recruit training was over in two months, he would be quite satisfied.

After all, their new training brigade, to put it bluntly, is just a makeshift team at the moment.

The personnel were selected from various brigades and trained together for a month. Then new recruits came and they started to train them.

When the new recruits are assigned to their companies two months later, their makeshift team will be finished.

So his idea was similar to the instructor's, which was to see if he could take away some good talents.

They were all taken away by the special operations brigade.

When it comes to selecting soldiers, their special operations brigade also has privileges. Every year, before the new recruits are assigned to companies, they will come to select soldiers one or two weeks in advance.

Moreover, they were very domineering in selecting soldiers. Every time, they would pick out the best seedlings that they had trained with great difficulty, and give the rest to other brigades.

As a battalion commander, he had so many new recruits under his command, and he was thinking about it.

If their special operations brigade comes to select soldiers in advance again this time, they will hide the good candidates from each company and prevent them from participating in the assessment of the special operations brigade.

By then, some good talents can be saved and brought to his previous unit.

"Fortunately, we taught them some things in advance so that they can adapt in advance after joining the company. The requirements for them are relatively high, so they were able to stand out in the physical fitness competition just now."

Chen Ting responded to the battalion commander's words with a smile.

Both of them are old foxes, and they know what the other means at first sight.

Chen Ting is willing to do this, so why doesn't he let go?

The battalion commander shook his head. There was nothing he could do.

After all, he is a veteran who has worked at the grassroots level for 16 years. He has a keen eye and is also the squad leader of the three of them. There is no hope for these three people.

"Well, squad leader Chen Ting, you guys can go back. If possible, I hope you can give teaching demonstrations to the new recruits in our battalion. We still need your cooperation in the subsequent subjects."

"Don't worry, Captain. I will."

Chen Ting nodded and walked out of the camp with the three of them.

"Squad leader! Second class merit, squad leader!"

As soon as he left the camp, Ji Baichang couldn't wait to repeat it to Chen Ting.

For a new recruit who had only been in the army for a month, a second-class merit was still too advanced and something he could only dream of.

The most crucial thing is Ji Baichang himself. He witnessed what happened with his own eyes. That calm and decisive figure shocked him deeply.

"You need to keep a calm mindset. For someone of my age and military service, the second-class merit is not that important anymore."

"You still have a long way to go, and there are many opportunities to make contributions."

"In the remaining two months of the recruit company, you will learn everything you need to learn. After you are assigned to the special operations brigade, there will be many similar opportunities."

"Of course, don't be too proud of the awards you three received today."

"During the recruit company period, the battalion-level commendations you receive are about as valuable as the four-have soldiers that the company awards every six months after you are assigned to the company."

Chen Ting shook his head and educated the three people.

"Squad leader, we got it! So the remaining two months shouldn't be too tiring, right? I feel like the first month after I arrived at the army was the most tiring."

Ji Baichang said so.

"That's not necessarily true. I'm going to step up my game for the remaining two months."

The corners of Chen Ting's mouth slowly rose, and the expression on Ji Baichang's face beside him froze.

It seems like I said something outrageous. This month is already tiring enough, why should I go even harder for the remaining two months? !

When Chen Ting returned to the classroom with three people, the other recruits had already started eating, and there were only four of them left in the entire company.

"You don't have to go to the cafeteria with them for dinner. I ordered fried rice from the fellow villagers outside to celebrate your award." "Ji Baichang and Xue Daochao, you two go to the back wall of the company and get it. The fellow villagers outside should have arrived."

"Okay, squad leader!"

Ji Baichang's eyes lit up, he nodded repeatedly and walked out of the classroom with Xue Daochao.

To put it bluntly, the food in the cafeteria cannot be described as delicious at all. Eating those meals every day can only barely sustain the energy needed by the human body.

There was no other food for them to choose from.

The fellow villagers who were delivering food outside the camp were very mean. They used a fan to blow towards their camp.

Every time a meal was cooked, the aroma of meat and oil hit their nostrils again and again.

Just smelling the takeout outside makes me feel delicious and I’m craving for it every day.

But they didn't dare to do it secretly. If they were caught by the squad leader, they would probably be tortured by some other military force.

When the benefits of something are not proportional to the consequences, no one will take the risk.

Now Chen Ting actually took the initiative to order takeout for them, which made them a little flattered.

After Ji Baichang and Xue Daochao left the class, only Chen Ting and Lu Qinglong were left in the class.

"Lv Qinglong, you're running three kilometers today, are you ready?"

Chen Ting asked while lying on his bed, playing with his mobile phone.

"Yes, squad leader, I did let him off." Lu Qinglong answered truthfully.

Lu Qinglong was not a person who liked to lie, and he felt that there was no need to do so in front of his squad leader Chen Ting.

"Do you want Xue Daochao to get an award as well, so that he feels that his efforts during this period have not been in vain?"

Chen Ting continued to ask.

"Yes, squad leader."

"I don't think it's possible for the camp to give out a third-class merit just because of this kind of competition."

"The third-class merit award must be approved by the brigade level."

"Besides, it would be useless if I received two commendations, so I thought of letting Xue Daochao get one as well."

"I can't see it, Lu Qinglong. In fact, you are the one who sees it most clearly among the three of you."

Listening to Lu Qinglong's words, Chen Ting nodded and sat up on the bed with interest.

"I went to the battalion commander to look at your file today, and I found that you are really as stubborn as your brother."

"You gave up your military academy and came here to join the army. Are you so sure that you can make merit and be promoted to an officer?"

"No, you might be able to do it."

Chen Ting originally wanted to lecture Lu Qinglong, but suddenly he thought of Lu Qinglong's exaggerated physique and immediately changed the subject.

"There has always been a rule in our army that anyone who can break a certain record in a certain subject can receive a third-class merit."

"You can do 305 pull-ups. This is a record in our special operations brigade and represents the record of the entire army."

"The record for pull-ups is 370, set by your brother Lu Qingtian."

"At this speed you will soon surpass him."

"There will be grenade throwing later. With your strength, you can throw it about a hundred or eighty meters, right?"

"It seems that the third-class merit is really not a big deal for you."

The more Chen Ting spoke, the lower his voice became, and in the end he even slapped his thigh.

This guy Lu Qinglong!

Very smart!
I'm afraid that this honest appearance is just a disguise for the comrades around him.

In fact, their emotional intelligence and IQ are much higher than those of ordinary people!
I didn't expect that Lu Qinglong acted so well. He just figured this out today, and he had been kept in the dark before.

I even thought that Lu Qinglong was such a simple and honest person, but I didn't expect that I was wrong!

"Squad leader, I don't have any bad intentions."

Lu Qinglong said this.

"I know, I know. You really don't have any bad intentions."

"I'm afraid you're pretending to be honest and simple now just because you want your comrades around you to accept you better, right?"

"It's not easy for you to grow up like this. Well, the monitor won't say anything to you. Just behave as you should in the future."

Chen Ting stood up and patted the shoulder of Lu Qinglong who was sitting on a small stool.

To tell the truth.

No matter what kind of soldier he is, Lu Qinglong is a good soldier!
Whether it's from his performance in the recruit company over the past month, or from his identity as the younger brother of a first-class combat hero.

He performed much better than the others. In any subject, Chen Ting felt that he never slacked off and was working hard every moment, which was much better than other recruits.

After a month of repetitive days, many recruits have developed a mentality of just getting by.

That's what we call just muddling through life.

Anyway, it's one day at a time. Many people are already dreaming of being assigned to a good logistics unit after joining the company, where they can just chat on their cell phones every day.

But he has only been in the recruit company for a month and he already has such thoughts. This kind of recruit is far inferior to Lu Qinglong in terms of ideology alone.

Not to mention the huge gap in body structure and physical fitness between the two.

If we really have to use adjectives to compare the two.

Lu Qinglong is the kind of student who not only has better academic performance than others, but also works harder than others.

"Yes, monitor, I understand."

"I will continue to do as before, don't worry!"

"I joined the army not to become an officer, but to kill the enemy!"

"The subsequent meritorious service is just incidental. I just want to rush onto the battlefield and kill the enemy!"

"I want to avenge my brother. I want to tear apart all those guys who try to threaten our country."

When Lu Qinglong said this, Chen Ting could clearly feel that the temperature around him had dropped a lot.

A fierce aura also emanated from his body, but it was quickly subsided. If Chen Ting had not felt it clearly, he would have thought it was an illusion.

"Good! Very impressive!"

"But before that, you need to grow up step by step. You still have a lot to learn. After all, you can't become fat in one go."

"There will be live-fire shooting in two weeks. In addition to daily gun training, there will be many other subjects. Let me see how good your shooting skills are then."

After all, he had never seen Lu Qinglong in person, so he had no idea about the focus of the next training plan, so for now he could only focus on some theories.

As for practical training, try to teach as much as you can in this environment.

"Captain, we're back!"

(End of this chapter)