ushernet Chapter 665 Training Soldiers
Chapter 665 Training Soldiers
What's the point of creating something if you can't use pinyin or read?
Li Jixu was transferred less than a month after being promoted to company commander because about half of the soldiers in his company filed a joint complaint against him.
After verification by the military law department, it was found that Li continued to arbitrarily change the training volume, causing more than 20 soldiers to urinate blood, and one soldier even almost died.
In Chen Er's opinion, this soldier was incredibly lucky, because based on his experience, the young man's pneumothorax was most likely caused by excessive exercise.
In modern times, as long as treatment is timely, pneumothorax is not a serious illness. It can be treated with medication or instruments to help the damaged lung heal slowly.
But what could one expect in this era? The doctors who came couldn't even determine the cause of the illness. The soldier's survival was entirely due to his own strong will to live.
Li Jixu was one of the first three squads to receive commendations since the unit was formed. The squad's military skills were outstanding, and they were highly regarded by Chen Er because he was from Denglai, Shandong.
Chen Er has noted down all the promising players from outside Fujian in the current team, because they are rare talents.
Although he was promoted to company commander, Li continued to be very dissatisfied because Xie Kangde was promoted to battalion commander. Although he was only a deputy, everyone knew that as long as the unit expanded, the current deputy positions would be the first to be promoted.
In Li Xuji’s eyes, Xie Sande was just lucky. Liu Zheng happened to be his friend. He didn’t believe that Xie Sande would care about anyone else.
Why was Xie Sande promoted to battalion commander first, even if he was only a deputy?
Li Jixu has a very outstanding advantage: great endurance. In several long-distance races at Zhongzuo Institute, he was always the first. Whether it was push-ups, sit-ups, or any event that required endurance, there was no one he couldn't do well in.
His approach differed from Li Dao's; Li Dao emphasized speed, while Li Jixu was more persistent and patient.
For soldiers in any era, endurance is one of the most important physical standards. Li Jixu seemed to be born to be a soldier.
Because he was unconvinced, Li continued to try to prove to his superiors that he was not only strong himself, but also that the soldiers he led were equally strong.
In this era, there were no sports competitions. Apart from natural height, people rarely believed that there were differences in physical fitness among individuals. If you couldn't carry a load far, it was simply because you were lazy and unwilling to exert yourself.
Li continued, "Why can I run this far but you can't? Laziness."
So Li continued to train the soldiers according to his own standards.
It was common for soldiers to be beaten by their superiors in those days, especially since Chen Er's unit had a family heirloom.
However, bamboo strips and leather whips were no longer suitable for the dead of winter, so after discussion, they changed to broken wooden sticks, which were seventy or eighty centimeters long and four or five centimeters in diameter. Because they were short, unless one swung them with all their might, they would not cause serious injury.
So Li Jixu's company was then subjected to his short baton. Everyone was already mentally prepared; they figured they'd just have to take the beating.
But then they found it wouldn't work. Other companies started with two li (a unit of distance) a day, but they started with two 5 li (another unit of distance) a day.
Since the morning exercises all take place around the track, everyone is busy training and no one bothers to count how many laps they run.
Running exercises weren't scheduled at a fixed time. Whenever there was training time, there were always teams running. In this haphazard way, the soldiers in Li Jixu's company ran 1.5 times more than others every day.
That wasn't all; Li also secretly increased the workload for other projects. This kid was quite clever; he didn't change the number of units in each group, but secretly had his men make several more groups.
If the additions were done gradually, the soldiers might have been able to adapt. However, Li, eager to prove himself, continued to overdo it.
After only five days, soldiers started getting injured. It's normal to get sprains and strains during training; if you get injured, just rest.
Starting from the seventh day, some people started urinating blood. If it weren't for the repeated emphasis on obedience within the team, some people might have started causing trouble at this point.
However, this was the first time the eldest son of the president had organized a large-scale military reorganization. All the original maritime business leaders attached great importance to it and hoped that no trouble would occur in their own ranks. Wouldn't it be unpleasant if the eldest son of the president had a bad opinion?
None of them had experience, and Li Jixu's company was definitely not the only one that increased the workload, but no one did it as ruthlessly as Li Jixu.
It's good that you have blood in your urine, but most people don't, right? This means you're weak. Go back and rest for a couple of days before increasing the intensity. If you're weak, you need to train even harder.
The soldiers were scattered and organized into different groups. Very few of them were originally on the same ship. They were not allowed to stay at home during the training, but were instead assigned to dormitories.
You might occasionally run into a few familiar faces, but the brothers you used to know have all been assigned to different places. If you want to find your former employer or manager to complain, you won't be able to run into them for a while.
Twenty-odd days passed, until a man named Yu Dongping was diagnosed with a pneumothorax. He experienced severe pain in one side of his chest and difficulty breathing.
If training leads to the formation of bad elements, this becomes a major problem, eventually alarming Chen Er. How should it be handled? The regulations didn't even anticipate such a thing happening.
But because of Yu Dongping's matter, all the superiors came. Now, out of 114 people in the company, 52 people complained to their superiors about Li Jixu.
If Li continues like this, something bad is bound to happen, because once the soldiers' emotions erupt, it will definitely lead to a riot.
Li was transferred, but that was just to save face for him, because there were no vacant positions available for him at that time.
At that time, the military did not implement a rank system, so Li Jixu, who did not hold a position, was now just a common soldier.
Li continued to feel extremely frustrated. He didn't think he had done anything wrong. What was wrong with training the troops so hard? Didn't the CEO always say, "The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in wartime"?
Chen Er also felt a headache coming on. This kid was someone he thought highly of, so why was he so stubborn?
At this point, it wouldn't be appropriate to put Li Jixu anywhere, because his reputation was known throughout the army—the heartless and ruthless Li Jixu.
This kid is soldier material, it's a shame not to put him in the combat ranks, but it would be too hurtful to make him start over as a private, because in essence, Li Jixu didn't do much wrong.
Li continued to wait in the barracks for his superiors to reassign him to a new job, while Chen Er and a group of people discussed the matter back and forth but couldn't come up with a good solution.
It's been three days, and it's not appropriate to keep Li hanging like this any longer. But it would be awkward to put him in any combat unit. Chen Er and a few first and second term soldiers discussed it for another morning.
Forget it, if all else fails, we'll just have to put it in the logistics department for now and deal with it after things calm down.
Chen Er walked out of the small conference room in a huff, followed by seven or eight people, all of whom knew of Chen Er's favorite generals.
Dong Xian goes without saying; I heard he's sworn brothers with the president and is the commander of the mobile fleet. Yu Yuan is another story altogether; they've always lived together, but unfortunately he doesn't lead troops. The only other one is Er'an, who has been with them for a long time and is now leading troops in Zhangquan.