"You should have told him more clearly."
At the company headquarters, he solemnly said to Zhuang Yan: "In the past two years, your brigade will add a lot of technical personnel, many of whom are technical non-commissioned officers and backbones of other troops. From a practical point of view, the possibility of Hou Jun's promotion is close to zero. Unless there’s a miracle.”
Zhuang Yan said nothing.
There is a serious truth to what he said seriously, but he still didn't want to make it too clear. After being a soldier for so many years, he said that soldiers are hard-blooded, but men also have feelings.
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Not to mention, I can leave a thought for Hou Jun, maybe there will be a miracle.
The old comrade seriously saw Zhuang Yan's little thoughts, and finally sighed: "It seems that our Brigadier Zhuang loves his soldiers as much as his sons."
Zhuang Yan smiled bitterly and said: "Lao Yan, do you remember Lao Xu back then?"
The old Xu in his mouth refers to Xu Xingguo, an old comrade and old enemy who came out of the same recruit company as him and Zheng Zheng and served in the special brigade together.
Zheng Zhen was startled for a moment, then nodded and said, "Back then?"
His mind was racing, searching for memories.
Finally I remembered.
"You mean he was injured during the selection and concealed it?"
Zhuang Yan said: "Yes. You were born into a military family. It is your destiny to join the army and wear an officer's uniform and become an officer. What about me? When I was a soldier, it was just that my family couldn't handle it, so I was sent to the army for discipline. To be honest, my family conditions are good. Even if you don’t take the military academy and don’t think about working, you can live a comfortable life at home. What about Lao Xu? He is different. My hometown is in a remote old area and is extremely poor. For us, being a soldier may be an ideal, or it may be an experience. But for him it was an opportunity that could change his life. Can it be the same?"
He sighed solemnly and acquiesced to Zhuang Yan's statement.
"Report!"
Hou Jun's voice came from the door.
The two of them looked up and saw Junjun Hou already standing at the door of the tent.
"come in."
Zhuang Yan waited for Hou Jun to arrive and asked him: "Have you made a decision?"
Hou Jun said without any hesitation: "Brigadier, I won't be a driver anymore."
Not going means staying.
Serious couldn't help but said: "Have you thought about it carefully? Do you want to think about it again? Young man, opportunities are rare. Sometimes seizing opportunities is also very important for your military career."
Hou Jun said: "Thank you for your concern, chief. I know it will not be a loss to go with you, but I just thought about it, why did I become a soldier? Yes, I am not noble. When I was a soldier, I just wanted to join the army to make a career." I’m not afraid of making you laugh at my career, I’ve thought about becoming a general..."
Seriousness and solemnity looked at each other and smiled.
"A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier." He said solemnly, "I also had this ideal at the beginning."
Hou Jun said: "But after so many years in the combat army, if I become a driver with you, everything I have learned in these years will be wasted. Besides, I really like this kind of life now. I want to be an officer, and I want to be in the military." I want to work in the army for a long time, but not to achieve this goal and choose a way that I don’t like to achieve it. If I really do that, the goal will lose its meaning to me.”
After listening to Hou Jun's words, Zhuang Yan knew that he had indeed thought clearly.
The "soldier" in Hou Jun's eyes is the current kind of "soldier", not the kind of "soldier" that follows Zhen back to the headquarters, works as a driver and is finally promoted to a logistics cadre.
In everyone's eyes, the spectrum of the word "join the army" is different.
"Okay." Nodding solemnly, "As long as it's your own choice and you don't regret it."
Hou Jun was moved and said: "Brigadier, I have let down all your hard work. I know you deliberately arranged this for me. This time..."
At this point, I stopped.
After gritting his teeth, Hou Jun continued: "I have been a soldier for nine years and I have no regrets."
After speaking, he saluted the two of them and turned around to leave.
Looking seriously at Hou Jun's leaving figure, he sighed with emotion: "What a good soldier..."
At this time, the confidential mobile phone rang.
Zhuang Yan quickly took it out, saw that it was the military code, and quickly connected it.
After listening to the call, he said seriously: "It seems that I have to rush back."
He asked seriously: "In the military?"
Zhuang Yan said: "Yes, there is an important meeting and he asked me to go back to the meeting."
He looked at his watch seriously, and then asked, "When will you leave?"
Zhuang Yan said: "The sooner the better."
He said solemnly: "Then just wait a moment, I'm going back to the headquarters, and we'll go together by helicopter later."
"No problem." Zhuang Yan said.
…
Early the next morning.
A conference room at the Army Headquarters.
When Zhuang Yan came in, he saw the brigade commander of the D Group Army's engineer brigade was there, so he said hello and found a seat to sit down.
The brigade commander of the engineering brigade was named Guo Ren. Seeing Zhuang Yan sit down, he asked, "Brigadier Zhuang, I heard that soldiers from your brigade killed a tactical team of the Blood Wolf Commando during a real-life confrontation the night before yesterday?"
Zhuang Yan was stunned.
He didn't expect the news to reach Guo Ren's ears so quickly, so he asked: "Commander Guo, you are very well-informed!"
Guo Ren said: "Hey, this is not a secret, but it is explosive news. It has spread all over the headquarters. Everyone says that you are looking bad for our army."
Zhuang Yan suddenly realized.
The first company is the commando team of the Menghu Brigade, representing the face of the D Army. This time, a small team of the Blood Wolf Brigade came to participate in the confrontation exercise. A special force with a history of decades was replaced by a rookie team of the special brigade that was established just one year ago. Defeated, it would be strange if it didn’t become news.
However, Zhuang Yan did not want to talk more about this matter. After all, there was an element of luck in it, and it was not a complete crushing of strength. There was nothing worth showing off. So he looked around, changed the subject and said, "What's the point of calling us to a meeting in such a hurry this time?" Something?"
Guo Ren said: "It seems that you are not in the brigade during this period, right?"
During the recent period, Zhuang Yan did go to the training ground of the First Company.
So he nodded in acquiescence.
Guo Ren said mysteriously: "Good thing, we have the opportunity to go abroad to perform missions."
"Going abroad to perform a mission?" Zhuang Yan was a little surprised.
Guo Ren didn't see much surprise on Zhuang Yan's face and was a little disappointed. In fact, he didn't know that Zhuang Yan had rich experience in this area. Not to mention performing missions abroad, he had studied at a foreign special operations academy for two years.
Guo Ren said: "Yes, I heard it is a peacekeeping mission. This year it is our military region's turn to send people."
Zhuang Yan finally understood. No wonder Guo Ren, the commander of the engineering brigade, also came to the meeting. Since he had peacekeeping experience, it was no wonder that the chief would find him.
If the special operations brigade really sends people here, they probably won’t be too many. After all, a general peacekeeping mission requires a battalion of troops to go out. Due to the nature of the mission, there are not too many combatants. Generally, only one is set up. The quick reaction platoon is specifically responsible for guard and alert tasks, while the engineers are mainly composed of engineering companies, which will also assist the quick reaction platoon in performing some daily sentry duty tasks.
The two chatted for a while, and other people came to the conference room one after another, from communications, equipment, support and hospital people, all coming to warm up.
After everyone exchanged a few words, Army Chief of Staff Qi Heng also arrived.
"Let's see if everyone is here, and we'll have a meeting when they are."
He asked the clerk next to him to check the attendees against the list of participants. After confirming that there was no problem, he asked the clerk to send documents to everyone, and then got straight to the point.
"This is what happened. At the invitation of the United Nations, in order to maintain security and stability in Africa, our country decided to dispatch peacekeeping troops to country l to participate in the United Nations' local peacekeeping operations. The Military Commission assigned a dispatch task to our military region and will form an engineering detachment. The task was dispatched to the engineering regiment of our army, and a medical detachment was formed within the jurisdiction of the military region, and went to country m with the engineering detachment, requiring us to be ready for an expedition at any time..."
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