After more than a year of rectification and training, the Niutoushan garrison base as a whole has the qualifications to sharpen the whipstone.

All the staff are preparing for the battle intensely, and they know that the real red and blue confrontation is not far away.

It's impossible to watch them occupy the pit all the time and not, it's a mule or a horse, and they have to come out and slip all the time.

At this tense juncture, the military department suddenly issued a notice for the spring brigade chief of staff competition.

After receiving the news, Chen Ming began to prepare early in the morning, originally, this kind of competition had nothing to do with him.

But half a year ago, the division commander mentioned this matter, and specially asked him to prepare in advance, and told him several times during the period.

This can't help but be careful.

Now Chen Ming no longer needs to live in the dormitory of the fire department, and lives in the economically adaptable housing allocated by the military region with Chai Shuyao.

The small couple has just purchased all the furniture, and it has been less than four months since they moved in, and Chen Ming is going to go out to participate in the chief of staff competition, fortunately, this kind of competition will end in half a month at most.

Chai Shuyao got up early, helped Chen Ming pack up some change of clothes, packed them all in trolley boxes, and stacked them neatly.

If you have a good wife in the family, you don't have to do it yourself.

Chen Ming simply ate some breakfast, saw his wife cleaning up, and smiled with emotion: "The treatment of marriage and non-marriage is different."

"In the past, when I went out on errands or went to further study, I would stuff my clothes into my backpack and carry them on my back, but I didn't expect to be able to use a trolley case this time."

Chen Ming said, throwing aside the backpack he was carrying in his hand, which was the backpack issued to him by the artillery brigade after the recruit left the company.

followed him to fight in the south and the north, which can be regarded as a scene that has been with him for eight or nine years, but now it has faded a little.

He was thinking about continuing to use it just now, but seeing that his wife had changed to a trolley case, he couldn't say anything.

Seeing Chen Ming's movements, Chai Shuyan smiled, pulled her hair together and said with a smile: "You are also a deputy regiment-level cadre now, and it doesn't look good if you still carry a backpack when you go out on business."

"What's more, this is the National Army Brigade Chief of Staff Competition, and I heard my grandfather say that there are more than 200 people participating in the competition, and the top attaches great importance to it."

"Comrades in the army will also compare, if you carry a backpack over, like a small private, you will be looked down upon."

"yes." Chen Ming shook his head, this phenomenon is difficult to avoid anywhere.

He really didn't care about this before, he just had to be comfortable.

After the two of them packed up, they drove to the division headquarters to prepare for the report, and the news was that the staff officer of the fire department notified them to their homes.

Chai Shuyao was waiting at the entrance of the division department, ready to wait to send Chen Ming to the high-speed rail station, and the military department of the brigade-level chief of staff competition revealed the news very early.

It's just that for various reasons, it hasn't been finalized, and this time it seems that it is ready.

Chen Ming is very familiar with the place where he participated in the competition, that is, the Shimen Army Command College, that is, the Joint Operations College of the National Defense University.

The place is large, well-equipped, and the instructors and instructors in it are quite powerful.

In the face of several major war zones in the east, west, north, south, and central regions, the competition of hundreds of cadres can also be prepared very properly.

This is destined to be a large-scale and very difficult competition, and it will be notified by the military department, and there will inevitably be leaders of various major theaters who will come to watch it.

It would be a great thing to be able to win a place in the competition.

Chai Shuyao is very confident in Chen Ming's ability, but in the face of a competition of this scale, she has no bottom in her heart.

After all, the chief of staff at the brigade level corresponds to a cadre at the regimental level, and who can mix with the regimental level in the field unit of the army, who can not have two brushes?

Even Chen Ming himself doesn't know what powerful cadres he will encounter in a competition of this scale.

In the past, this kind of regimental level was the chief, how could there be a chance to compete on the same stage, this time it is about to be encountered.

Walking into the gate of the division headquarters, before he could reach the organ building, Chen Ming met Liu Zhiyang, who also came to report, that is, the current chief of staff of the 169th Brigade of the 704th Division.

The two also met many times during the reorganization and discussed some things, and they are quite familiar.

Liu Zhiyang knew that Chen Ming was also going to participate, and only the two of them went to the entire Niutoushan garrison base.

During this competition, Chen Ming also went to the brigade headquarters and asked some questions, and the relationship between the two was good.

"Chief of Staff Liu, morning." Chen Ming greeted with a smile.

"Morning, Chen."

Liu Zhiyang also responded with a smile, he is about 1.73 meters tall, about the same as Chen Ming.

At the age of thirty-six or seventeen, the overall temperament looks elegant, but he does not look like a person from a field army.

However, after working together for so long, Chen Ming knew that this person was not as kind as he seemed on the surface, and he was a person from the 73rd Army.

The original attack on the Red Army day and night was the masterpiece of this one, and it is said that it was deliberately disgusting the 86th Brigade, which Chen Ming has no way to verify, it is all a battle between old comrades-in-arms.

When applied to the battlefield of the exercise, it is not too much to fight.

The two exchanged a few words and came to Wang Junwei's office together.

In the past few days, the training of the Niutoushan garrison base has come to an end, and the units below are re-preparing for war, threatening to usher in a real red-blue confrontation.

Naturally, the division's side will not be too calm.

As the director's department, he must have received some rumors, and he has been actively preparing and arranging in the past two days.

To fight a good fight, show it to the above.

Division Commander Wang Junwei, Political Commissar Xu Guoyang, and Division Chief of Staff Xu Wenqian were discussing when they saw the two coming in.

The three of them tacitly stopped.

Wang Junwei got up and took out two of the military department's entry documents from the filing cabinet and threw them on his desk.

"Lao Liu, Xiao Chen, both of you can take a look, and set off today."

"The location should be known, this brigade-level chief of staff competition is located at the Shimen Operational Command College."

"We started preparing half a month ago, and we received the news relatively late, and the deadline is tomorrow afternoon."

"The requirement of the military department is that comrades from all units who meet the conditions for participating in the competition must participate and must not shirk for any reason."

"You pack up your things, hand over the work and go, time is urgent, don't delay."

"Yes."

Chen Ming and the others picked up the file bag on the desk and didn't open it, except for introducing the location of some competitions and the purpose of the report.

It's almost all long nonsense, and it's useless to read it, just know the place, just report it directly in the past.

After Liu Zhiyang participated in the contest this time, he would directly return to the 73rd Army, and his original unit would probably be classified as the Red Army in the future and go to Niutou Mountain to participate in the confrontation.

So when he got the papers, he just stood upright, saluted, and then turned around and strode out of the office.

It was through an exchange to temporarily help the 704th Division stabilize the early arrangement, and now that it has begun to take shape, he is going back.

Chen Ming was left alone, standing in place in a daze, he was still waiting for the following.

Strictly speaking, Liu Zhiyang is an outsider, and Chen Ming is the "only seedling" who participated in the competition on behalf of the 704th Division this time, his own person.

The division commander and political commissar didn't say anything, and the chief of staff, Xu Wenqian, stared at Chen Ming and admonished, "Chen Ming."

"Here."

"This time, Shimen participated in the competition and performed well, in order to report his name, Lao Wang called the war zone and applied for it."

"The Chief of Staff Contest is currently being held for the first time in our country, and the military department's statement is to set up a training orientation for actual combat and continuously improve the ability to plan for war."

"I estimate that this competition is also a formality, in order to let the following departments receive the last attention, and slowly the influence of this competition will definitely open up greater authority and extend to the lower departments."

"In the past few years, science and technology in the military have developed rapidly, and there will be some problems behind it, which you should be able to feel."

"So this time to participate in the competition, the above will inevitably pay attention, you kid took out your hard work, you can't get a good result, are you embarrassed to come back?"

Forehead. What do you say?

Is he embarrassed or embarrassed to come back?

In a competition of this scale, Chen Ming has confidence in himself, and he will not be blackened in the past, and he will not do anything.

But it won't swell to the point where you think you can get a good ranking, and this time the opponent is not the same as before.

The brigade-level chief of staff of the field units of the whole army is obedient, and there are more than 200 cadres at the regimental level.

When these people get together, it's much more competitive than the classrooms they used to go to study.

After all, further study is to learn together, and competition is to show each other, who knows what those old chiefs of staff have to do.

It is said that the information age is developing too fast, and it is becoming easier and easier to train staff officers, which has become a drawback, and this Chen Ming knows.

Isn't it a drawback?

In the eighties and nineties, which of the staff officers in the army was not put on the line?

On the training ground, Huhu Ha Hey can give you a set, you can be civil and martial, and you don't coax at all when you fight.

Back in the command room, pick up the map, and soon be able to draw a complete set of combat plans.

The ability is not frivolous, even very strong.

In other words, now, many staff officers are not on temporary duty, and they themselves are incapable of being marginalized figures.

Even if it is not a temporary position, it is produced like an assembly line, look at the big screen, learn some professional knowledge, and benchmark the combat ideas, and you can train a large number of them.

In the past, the work of a staff officer now requires four or five people to complete, and it may not be effective.

From the very beginning of the establishment of the composite battalion, the post of chief staff officer has been added to the army, but very few units have been able to have the post of staff officer to shine.

The vast majority of capable staff officers are all concentrated in high-level units, but the grass-roots units are basically nothing more than decorations.

In the information age, the hierarchical command has paid more and more attention to small areas, and in the past, regiments were used as the main force of operations, but now they have become battalions.

It is inevitable to train or attach importance to grassroots staff officers in large quantities.

This contest of chiefs of staff at the brigade level is a signal of attaching importance to the training of staff officers.

Seeing Chen Ming standing there silently, Wang Junwei didn't want to put too much pressure on him, anyway, after this competition, Xu Wenqian would be transferred to the 169 Brigade as the brigade commander.

Chen Ming served as the chief of staff of the brigade, and he was given special treatment during special periods, and according to this kid's ability, he should be able to adapt quickly.

After all, the work of the brigade staff department is really not necessarily more responsible than the firepower department, not to mention that there is Lao Xu staring there, so that Chen Ming can get enough experience.

As for the competition results, it is not so tight.

Lest this kid be under too much pressure, and if he plays abnormally in the past, the newcomer wants to compete with the veteran staff officer, and there is still a big gap between him.

"Alright, take your things to Shimen to report."

"This competition is still hosted by someone you are familiar with, in short, just perform well there, I don't expect you to get a good ranking, but don't embarrass our 704 division."

"Understand?"

"Yes, please rest assured that the task will be completed."

"Go ahead."

"Yes."

Chen Ming raised his hand in salute, turned around and left the office.

He really didn't think about what ranking he could get in this competition, and he didn't know if he would be ranked second.

The chief of staff of the brigade-level field units of the whole army participated in the competition, and the scope of personnel selection was so harsh, would those who could pass there be mediocre talents?

If so, he is a "parallel import", right?

Because from the level to the youth, to the seniority, no matter how you look at it, it looks like it was made up in the past.

But it's a challenge to compete, and it's really unacceptable to compete with a group of half-grown old men if you don't have a little pressure.

He has not been idle for more than half a year, although he used to serve as the chief staff officer of the Tiger and Wolf Battalion, most of them were thinking about how to train and how to train.

I really haven't put much effort into how to fight.

In order to participate in this competition, Chen Ming had a lot of contact, learned and skillfully used various techniques of the staff officer, and made various marks on a map.

Because he thinks that this level of chief of staff competition should not be just about shooting, running, running, so simple, even if there is a warm-up competition in this kind of subject.

The purpose is to get those old guys to stand up and show off their unique skills.

In the past, each unit had a different way of marking the map, so that the map would not fall into the hands of the enemy, and it could be used directly.

Special forces have special forces special marking techniques, and infantry or other arms have their own marking techniques.

Generally speaking, even your own troops do not understand it very clearly.

Of course, there are some things that are common, that is, large-scale battles, common marking techniques among staff officers, and Chen Ming learned these.

Just in case.

Modern warfare is developing toward stealth, over-the-horizon, and centralized strikes.

Once the enemy's traces are found, that's when the opponent is destroyed.

This is characteristic of modern warfare.

So many times on the battlefield, it is impossible to see where the enemy is with the naked eye.

With the development of science and technology, many things used by staff officers have also been discarded, and this is also something that cannot be helped, and it must always progress with the development of science and technology.

Take a map, except for planning the route of travel and marking the location of the attack, nothing else is of much use at all.

These functions are now replaced by drones, and in many cases there is no need to manually tag them.

After all, the war is over before it can be marked on the map in the most stupid way.

But you can't help but learn.

You don't need it, you can't understand it, who knows what bells and whistles will come out of it compared to a group of half-grown old men.

When Chen Ming came out of the division headquarters building.

Liu Zhiyang was already waiting in the distance, he knew that he would return to his original unit after participating in the competition this time, and the 704th Division would not have too much advice to him.

simply stood outside and waited for Chen Ming, and went to Shimen together to prepare to participate in this competition.

"What's wrong with Chen, I don't think you're in good spirits? Did they reprimand you? ”

Liu Zhiyang asked with a smile, he had the impression that the director of the firepower department was a young talent who could turn the tide.

To be honest, who can guarantee that such a large unit will be able to achieve results?

If there is really such a powerful force, there will be ace troops everywhere.

However, the firepower department did make a lot of contributions during this period, and he also knew that this was related to the further training of the Joint Operations Academy at the beginning, but there were many people who studied it.

I didn't see anyone else doing much good.

"Okay, don't worry so much, I believe your ability is okay, the work of a staff officer is not complicated, a lot of it is about judgment, and the news I got in this competition is basically related to interpretation."

"You have seen so many war records in modern history, and you have also studied the methods of many staff officers, so it was no problem to participate in competitions in the past."

"Well, I'm not worried about that." Chen Ming nodded in response.

"There's nothing to worry about in the competition, I just don't know what the topic will be this time, I'm thinking about this just now."

"I was notified of three or five events, but as far as I know, there are more than 20 competitions this time."

"It's not going to be easy." Liu Zhiyang also sighed.

Needless to say, both of them knew that this was not a war zone, nor was it planned by the military region, let alone led by the academy.

Instead, it was issued by the Party Committee of the Ministry of Military Affairs that the competition would inevitably be very strict, and it would not be so easy to start strictly.

On the way to the high-speed rail station, Chai Shuyao was only responsible for driving, and Liu Zhiyang did not arrange for anyone to send it, so he simply rubbed Chen Ming's car together.

According to the above, the stipulated time for this competition is three days, plus the preparation in the early stage and the end in the later stage, which may last for a week.

It's not too long to get out of tolerance.

After arriving at the high-speed rail station, Chai Shuyao simply said a few words of advice, and watched Chen Ming walk into the station with his suitcase.

Along the way, the two also discussed, but the unit they worked in was too far away from Shimen.

In addition, there are not many personnel in the strategic assault division who can participate in the competition in the past, and there is usually no gossip.

No matter how much the two discussed, it was useless.

Everything is based on the arrangement above.

Shimen, after more than a year, Chen Ming came to the city again, but his mood was completely different.

At that time, the Tiger Wolf Battalion had just been brought to Shun, and the Strategic Assault Division was quickly established, and he was stuffed here as the first batch of trainees for further study.

It's just that I didn't expect that just a few days after I came, I was sent to the Second Frontier Company and experienced the life of a border guard.

He was very impressed, and then he was thrown into logistics, and he stayed for a whole year.

Now I come back to participate in the brigade chief of staff competition.

The mood and situation of coming to Shimen twice are completely different, and this time it should not be thrown to the grassroots level for training.

Chen Ming thought about the past, took Liu Zhiyuan, like a host, and took a taxi to the academy with ease.

As soon as I arrived at the place, I found that this time was really different from the last time.

Last time, the scope was only for the training of strategic assault divisions, and this time the whole army units were included.

Rows of vehicles of the local army group were parked at the entrance of the academy, and they looked quite imposing.

In contrast, the two of them took a taxi, which was a little shabby.

(End of chapter)