From the 7th Steel Company to the Synthetic Division

Chapter 204 The combined battalion is officially launched!
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

The application for forming a combined battalion submitted by the division headquarters was finally finalized after more than three months of discussion in the military region.

In response to the CMC's major information-based reform, the military region approved the application report submitted by the T Division.

The official document on the establishment of a combined battalion was officially issued from the military region to the division, with the T Division taking the lead and piloting the combined battalion in the 702nd Regiment.

The division commander immediately forwarded the good news and related documents to the 702nd Regiment.

As the core initiator of the combined battalion, Chen Jun was immediately invited by Captain Wang to join the regiment to accept this long-awaited document.

With anticipation and excitement, Chen Jun read the document carefully.

Overall it's good, no major problems.

There are quite a few minor issues though.

Because the official document issued by the military region clearly defined the status of the combined battalion in this military reform, and there was a specific implementation plan for the establishment of a combined battalion.

This is the implementation plan that has already been implemented, which hides many potential risks.

Because this plan was not the one written by Chen Jun. To be precise, it was based on Chen Jun's plan. After many discussions at the military district seminar, it was finally revised and adjusted to be a new plan.

Brainstorming has its own advantages, and it is undeniable that there is strength in numbers.

But when a large group of laymen, plus a large group of people who have only a superficial understanding, or only half-knowledge, gather together to discuss things.

It is mixed with too many personal assumptions and too many wishful thinking.

There is no verification, I just think...

Too many people is not a good thing!
Self-righteous experts and scholars are not only everywhere in society, nor are they limited to the 21st century. They are even more numerous in the s.

Especially the combined battalion under the background of military reform, once it is formed and successfully accepted.

The potential value is exaggerated.

Since everyone knows the greatest value that a combined battalion can bring, no matter what their motivations are, they naturally want to get involved.

Even if only one suggestion is adopted and finally certified as feasible, everyone will flock to it.

Because as long as the suggestion appears in the combined battalion, it means that he has contributed to the establishment of the combined battalion. Once the combined battalion pilot is successful, this contribution will be converted into merit and he will be able to obtain considerable returns.

Who can resist in the face of such huge temptation?

Chen Jun wrote a plan for the establishment of a combined battalion based on the mature combined forces system of later generations and his own decades of experience accumulated in the army.

It's not perfect, but at least it's the most advanced in this era.

As a result, after a discussion at the military district seminar, it was found that the thoughts of those participating in the seminar were limited to this era, but they all had a strong desire to express themselves, and the suggestions they put forward were actually problematic.

However, forcing these problematic ideas into the formation of a combined battalion will only have a counterproductive effect.

The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the woman is reasonable.

Add them all!

The originally well-organized organization plan was turned into a mess.

Chen Jun read it from beginning to end and found that many of his plans had been changed beyond recognition. The good mood he had been in when he received the order to form the team completely disappeared from his face.

"It seems that the road to forming a combined force is far more complicated than I imagined. It's a long and arduous journey!"

Looking at the plan that failed to achieve the desired result, Chen Jun couldn't help but sigh inwardly. With so many bloated things, it would be really difficult to cut them off later. This was a perfect description of what it meant to make trouble for no reason.

Fortunately, the main line of the formation of the combined battalion has not changed, and the plan written by Chen Jun is still the core.

This finally gave Chen Jun, who was troubled by the plan, some psychological comfort. If he continued to implement it according to the plan, at least a combined battalion would be produced.

As for the various extra strange things, I can only find a way to clean them up when the time comes.

The most important thing is to get the scene going first.

Otherwise, if Chen Jun disagrees with the new plan, he will find a way to communicate with the division commander, then report it to the military region, and finally hold a meeting to discuss it.

Let’s not talk about whether things will get better and improve current problems after discussion.

It will take at least several months to build another set.

What Chen Jun cares about most is time, and he really can't bear to waste it like this.

So Chen Jun did not raise any opinions. He ignored the things he didn't like for the time being and began to discuss the organization work with Captain Wang.

The basis for the formation of this combined battalion is to expand a new battalion based on the original 7th Reconnaissance Combined Company.

This was equivalent to adopting Chen Jun's independence plan, making the combined battalion independent from the other three battalions of the 702nd Regiment, turning the 702nd Regiment into a regiment of four battalions.

Although there were certain changes in the organization of the combined battalion, Chen Jun's plan was still generally adopted.

As for the comprehensive establishment work after the launch of the combined battalion, it was subdivided into four detailed stages in the military district's implementation plan.

There are two things in the first stage.

The first thing is that the military district’s engineering battalion will move into the 702nd Regiment at the end of January and begin building barracks at the selected site.

The barracks, training grounds and temporary material depots for the five companies of the combined battalion are expected to be completed between three and four months.

The second thing is that all the materials, equipment, daily necessities, etc. needed by the five companies of the combined battalion will be sent to the temporary material warehouse for storage during the period of building the barracks.

The various supplies needed by the five companies when put together is not a small number.

In order to ensure the safety and maintenance of this batch of supplies, the military district assigned this task to the Seventh Steel Company. The large playground as big as a football field behind the Seventh Company’s building will be transformed into a temporary supplies warehouse by setting up tents.

Every day, materials coming in and out need to be registered, and there are many posts to guard the imports and exports, and a lot of time is spent on maintenance.

This meant that Steel 7th Company was basically unable to carry out any outing training for the next few months.

Although this has a great impact on the company's training, the combined battalion was expanded based on the 7th Steel Company, which means that all these supplies belong to the 7th Steel Company.

This is the task that the 7th Steel Company needs to undertake.

It's impossible that your 7th Steel Company will be expanded into a battalion and everyone in the company will be smiling from ear to ear.

The dirty and tiring work has to be done by other companies.

……

Once the construction of the combined battalion's camp is completed and all the necessary equipment and materials are in place, the second phase of work will be started.

The core content of the entire second phase of work is actually only one——

That’s “people”!
It is also divided into two aspects.

The first thing is to set up the battalion headquarters of the combined battalion. From selecting the battalion commander and political instructor to every staff officer, everything needs to be carefully selected.

The combined battalion and the originally formed combined company are completely different concepts.

At that time, the reform of the military region had not officially started, and contract tactics had not yet become one of the core elements of the reform. Moreover, the level of the combined company was too low to be on the big stage, and it only had some influence within the division.

Now that the information technology reform has begun, the direction of the reform has become very clear.

The value of contract tactics is well known. The staff and deputy staff of the battalion headquarters will undoubtedly become popular. No matter which position they take, there will be a lot of people competing for it.

Even the heads of the military region will have their eyes on this piece of cake.

I can't use it myself.

It can be used by our own people.

Especially for the two main officers of the combined battalion - the battalion commander and the political instructor, the competition will inevitably be more intense, and people with ordinary backgrounds will not be able to get involved at all.

You have to know that this is the first combined battalion in the entire army group, or even in the entire army.

Even if it is a pilot program, it is a combined battalion.

The first commander of a combined battalion in the entire army, this title alone is full of value.

You can guess with your toes...

There is no need to wait until the second phase of work begins. As soon as the pilot order for the combined battalion is issued, I am afraid that many people have already started to make efforts.

The next three or four months will be a fierce competition of strength and background.

Chen Jun believed that as the company commander of the 7th Steel Company and his father being the head of the group army, Gao Cheng would certainly be able to become the deputy battalion commander.

But Chen Jun still wants to work hard for the other positions remaining in the battalion.

At least get Shi Jin to the battalion headquarters as a combat staff officer.

In this way, even if Shi Jin is just a non-commissioned officer, he can participate in the battalion command system and have a certain say at the level of the combined battalion.

Only in this way can you lay the most solid foundation in advance for entering a higher command in the future.

The upper limit of non-commissioned officers is much lower than that of officers. If Shi Jin does not take this opportunity to lend a hand, he will definitely not be able to keep up with Chen Jun and Gao Cheng in the future.

Shi Jin is definitely an organizational talent, and it is a pity that he fell out of the top team.

Compared with the bloody atmosphere destined for the battalion headquarters, the selection of soldiers for the five companies below formed a sharp contrast with the battalion headquarters.

The full non-commissioned officer battalion needs the support of the entire T Division, which means that people need to be brought in from other regiments to complete the combined battalion of the 702nd Regiment.

And only the best non-commissioned officers are needed.

I'm afraid no team leader would be willing to do that!
Captain Wang is a vivid example. When the railway came with an order to ask for people, he didn't even want to let go of any of them, let alone the best soldiers.

This is true for Captain Wang and other captains as well.

Even if there is an order from the army group at that time, it would be difficult to ask for people with nothing in hand.

As the saying goes:
There are policies and measures to counter.

If the leaders of other regiments are unwilling, even if there is an order, it will not be of much use. They have ten thousand ways to circumvent it.

No matter what tricks they play, the only one who will suffer will be the combined forces battalion.

How to successfully recruit people from other regiments, and to select the best non-commissioned officers, is quite difficult and is bound to be a challenge.

Chen Jun thought about this problem and has been thinking about effective solutions.

But there is no clue yet!
Fortunately, there is still plenty of time before the second stage, and Chen Jun has enough time to think.

The second phase is expected to take one month, during which time the military district will send special personnel to assist and complete the personnel deployment work within one month.

By gathering the necessary personnel in the second phase, combined with the supplies and preliminary preparations for the camp in the first phase, the work in the third phase can be carried out smoothly.

Training, training, training.

That's the only thing that works in Phase 3!

Whether the combined battalion can eventually become a formal organization depends on whether the battalion-level contract tactics in the third phase can truly form combat effectiveness.

This is also the most critical and important core stage in the entire process of forming a combined battalion.

Therefore, this stage lasts a long time, and a full year is given for training so that the combined battalion can maximize its combat effectiveness.

After one year of training, it will take sixteen months to form a combined battalion.

Next comes the final fourth stage.

In the fourth phase, a high-intensity confrontation exercise will be conducted on the combined battalions that have completed the training to verify whether the combined battalions are truly feasible.

If the combined battalion passes the confrontation exercise, the group army will officially incorporate the combined battalion into the army.

Have your own exclusive number and organization!

If the combined battalion fails to pass the final acceptance, it will mean that the pilot project will end in failure, and Chen Jun's dream of forming a combined force will end.

After spending so much energy and time, no one wanted the combined battalion to end in failure.

Therefore, the entire group army was very enthusiastic about the pilot work of the combined battalion, and the work in all aspects was promoted very quickly.

In just two or three days.

The work representatives sent by the division and the military region have handed over the work to the 702nd Regiment and the 7th Steel Company, and officially started the first phase of work.

Just when this combined battalion was officially launched and the entire army was revolving around it, the recruitment work of Battalion A also began.

1998 1 Month 28 Day.

Tielu and Yuan Lang, the two big and small kings of the A Battalion, came to the training ground of the 702nd Regiment with a group of old A men wearing the distinctive uniforms of the A Battalion and wearing sunglasses to look particularly pretentious.

All the more than 200 soldiers on the railway list gathered in the training ground.

“They’re all here?”

Tielu was a little surprised to see that all the people on the list, especially the few talents he had his eye on, were actually in the team.

Based on his understanding of Captain Wang's character, he was sure that Captain Wang would play some tricks.

We had already discussed this with Yuan Lang in advance. If the seedlings on the list were not on site, Yuan Lang would go and find them.

As a result, all the seedlings have now arrived, completely frustrating the railway's predictions.

"It must be Chen Jun again."

Yuan Lang at the side said the truth, then frowned and said: "Chen Jun is a cunning guy, it is impossible for him to be so obedient. There must be something wrong here. I just don't know what tricks they are playing."

"It's rare to meet an opponent who is equally matched in life. This is quite interesting, haha."

Tielu seemed to know something, but he didn't say it out loud. After a few hearty laughs, he arranged, "Now that everyone is here, let's get started.

I'll leave the work here to you. I'll go talk to Chen Jun in person."

The railway has always admired Chen Jun and has always wanted to bring Chen Jun to Team A, but has never had a private chat with Chen Jun.

In order to get to know Chen Jun more deeply, and also to find out what Chen Jun is up to.

Tielu felt it was necessary and went to have a chat with Chen Jun.

(End of this chapter)