Who taught you to be a recruit like this?

Chapter 1179 Eating too much, eating too well, thinking too much

"Report."

"Enter."

In his office at the military headquarters, Wei Shanhe was handling his work.

He looked up at the person who had come, and was immediately stunned.

Standing in front of me was a dirty, disheveled, and ragged fellow.

"You are......?"

"Commander, this is Qin Feng."

Qin Feng took off his wig, threw it on the chair, and wiped his face with his hands a couple of times before revealing his real face.

Wei Shanhe stood up with a laugh: "Oh my god, Qin Feng, it's you! I almost didn't recognize you!"

He looked Qin Feng up and down, puzzled. "What happened to you? You look like you just finished working in the fields and begged your way here?"

Qin Feng recounted his reconnaissance mission in disguise near the combined arms brigade over the past two days.

He went from playing a food deliveryman to a scrap collector, and later played a fellow villager in a powerful military vehicle.

Finally, he played the role of someone who worked in the fields and also collected spent bullet casings near the base.

To be realistic, I did some farm work, so I look a little sloppy.

Wei Shanhe was completely baffled: "Undercover reconnaissance? When you called that day, I thought you were going to talk to Lü Chong. So you just bypassed him?"

"Yes."

"So, what did you find out?"

Qin Feng took a notebook out of his canvas bag and handed it to him.

Wei Shanhe took it and opened it; it was covered with handwritten words in ballpoint pen.

It is clear that Qin Feng wrote this report by hand during his undercover reconnaissance mission.

Wei Shanhe took a closer look, and his smile vanished instantly, his brows furrowing more and more as he looked.

After a full ten minutes, he slowly raised his head and looked at Qin Feng with a complicated expression: "Is everything you wrote above true?"

Qin Feng nodded: "These problems were all discovered by me during the grassroots investigation over the past two days. The targets I found were distributed relatively evenly, and most of them were the most basic units such as squads and platoons."

"During the process, we found that some grassroots soldiers did not have a thorough understanding of combat-oriented training, and even very vaguely categorized combat-oriented training as training with live ammunition like special forces, fearing that casualties would occur."

"This kind of thinking leads some grassroots soldiers to be hesitant and even timid during training."

Wei Shanhe frowned: "Why did this problem occur? We've been conducting ideological mobilization work again and again?"

Qin Feng turned a page and pointed to the recorded content: "It's mainly a misunderstanding. The commanders at the battalion and company levels might be a little better, but the information and orders become more and more ambiguous as you go down the hierarchy."

"Of course, this phenomenon is not widespread; it is more common in some units at the end of combined arms brigades and in logistics units."

"However, the Steel Knife Combined Battalion led by Zhou Fujun and Xu Tiancai does not have such problems; all the soldiers are highly motivated in training and have strong coordination."

Wei Shanhe felt somewhat gratified, but also somewhat helpless.

The Steel Knife Combined Arms Battalion is the main force of the 33rd Brigade and its strongest ace unit.

If this team encounters similar problems again, then the real issue will be the most serious.

In fact, in the previous tests, Steel Knife Camp's performance and progress were quite good, even remarkable. They were the kind of kids who were not only good at studying but also very motivated.

The 33rd Brigade is not just composed of the Steel Blade unit.

If we compare Lü Chong to a homeroom teacher, then the combined arms brigade is like a rocket squad.

The Steel Knife Battalion consisted of top students in the class, while those whose problems were discovered by Qin Feng were mostly students who sat in the back row and were somewhat mischievous.

Now, the higher-ups need to assess the performance of the entire class. Just having one outstanding student is not enough, nor can it prove that this measure can be promoted throughout the entire army.

"You go on."

"Also, this team might be getting a little too cocky."

"You mean, you're getting cocky?"

"Yes."

Qin Feng spoke frankly about this.

During his investigation, he discovered that a small number of rank-and-file soldiers kept saying things like "We are an elite unit."

In addition, the combined arms brigade's combat record panel does look quite impressive.

The long-term pattern of winning more often than losing has made a small number of people arrogant and complacent, unwilling to continue moving forward.

"Before I came here, Qiu Guohai said something to me that I think makes a lot of sense."

"It was he who suggested that I decide to use a disguised infiltration method to investigate."

Wei Shanhe asked curiously, "What did he say?"

Qin Feng: "He said that soldiers must first be human beings, and human beings will want to be lazy and want to slack off."

“He even used himself as an example, saying that when he first graduated from military school, he was single-mindedly focused on climbing the ranks, wanting to become a regimental commander, a brigade commander, and a division commander.”

"But when you reach a certain age, you realize that you can't go any higher, and you find that you've reached about this level, so you enter a state of 'lying flat'."

"As long as the training tasks and targets set by the training department are completed, it's fine. As long as there are no problems, it's acceptable. All I can think about is when I can get off work early, go home, have a few drinks, and enjoy a warm bed with my wife and kids."

These words incisively revealed the true state of many people in the military.

Too much peace can make people complacent and easygoing.

Moreover, this situation is not uncommon in the military.

Even Wei Shanhe himself occasionally experiences aversion to his work.

This is especially noticeable when trivial matters occur at home, or when elderly people or children are sick.

But as a soldier who had come from the battlefield and crawled out of piles of dead bodies, he never dared to forget the horrors of war and often reflected on himself.

As his old comrade-in-arms, Lü Chong should also have this awareness.

However, just because their generation had it doesn't mean that the younger generation of soldiers born in the 80s and 90s will always maintain such a high level of awareness.

Among the young soldiers, Wei Shanhe had never seen anyone other than Qin Feng who was the most hardworking, the most fearless in his work, the most ideologically conscious, and completely unaffected by women or family.

Finally, Qin Feng recounted a series of miscellaneous incidents, including some veterans secretly ordering takeout, engaging in casual relationships without reporting, and the disciplinary committee failing to conduct inspections.

Wei Shanhe, with a stern face, took a deep breath after listening and looked up at Qin Feng.

"Although these occurred in a very small number of units with limited strength and those requiring logistical support."

"Compared to the entire combined arms brigade, this may not be a common or widespread phenomenon."

"But all sorts of messy things combined can be very fatal and seriously hinder the rollout of the pilot program."

"Qin Feng, now that you've investigated thoroughly, let's act quickly and set things right one by one!"

Qin Feng shook his head: "Chief, these matters are too complicated and chaotic. It is not an easy task to sort them out and rectify them one by one; nor can it be said that one or two rectification campaigns and strict crackdowns will be effective."

"So what are you planning to do?" Wei Shanhe asked.

When people are hungry, there is only one thing they think about: eating their fill.

Qin Feng smiled and said, "But after eating your fill, you start thinking about far too many things. The biggest problem for the 33rd Combined Arms Brigade right now is that they eat too much, eat too well, and think too much."

Wei Shanhe laughed heartily: "Eating too much, eating too well, thinking too much. Your summary is spot on and very interesting!"