Chapter 750 Maintenance Department
Of course, not all officers are as easy to get along with as Colonel Slain and General Streck.
However, perhaps because Qin Chuan can always win on the battlefield, he feels that his commanders are easy to get along with... Officers and even soldiers like people who can bring them victory. After all, this is related to their lives. For officers, there are also merits and topics worth showing off in front of people of the same level.
Qin Chuan is the one who can give them victory, so of course he will receive special preferential treatment.
There is a saying that "absolute power will lead to absolute corruption", and some officers will use the power in their hands to make annoying actions.
Colonel Conrad took a lieutenant to find Qin Chuan.
"Major!" said Conrad, "I hope you can help this lieutenant!"
Qin Chuan looked at the lieutenant next to Conrad. He didn't like the lieutenant's flinch, and this was not a soldier's due to his performance.
Later, Qin Chuan realized that he could not be called a soldier, or that he was a combat soldier as Qin Chuan understood.
"He doesn't look like he needs help!" Qin Chuan replied.
"His name is Bidman!" Conrad handed a cigarette to Qin Chuan, raised his head at the lieutenant, and said, "He is a weapon expert, a precision tool maker, and has studied weapons in the Army. Because I graduated from the same school as him, I went to the same place. You know, I like to go to the maintenance department and talk to the people there!"
"Hmm!" Qin Chuan could understand why this lieutenant was a "retreat" expression.
The battlefield is not only soldiers who fight bravely on the front line, but also soldiers such as logistics transportation and mechanical maintenance. They are all important links of war machines. Sometimes soldiers like Bidman can be said to be irreplaceable assets because an excellent soldier is easy to train, but people like Bidman cannot do anything without a few years of learning and fiddling with military weapons.
"Can I help him anything?" Qin Chuan asked.
"This is the thing!" Conrad said: "You know Major General Lex, do you?"
"No, I don't know!"
"God!" said Conrad: "He is the commander of Fort Kinov, and this helicopter base is within his jurisdiction!"
Qin Chuan said "Oh" and replied: "This seems to have nothing to do with me!"
"Of course!" Conrad smiled and said, "You don't need to take these so-called major generals seriously, so I need your help!"
"You haven't said anything wrong with him yet, Colonel!"
"A very small thing!" said Conrad: "He did not throw away his beloved pipe as ordered by the general!"
As he said that, Conrad raised his head at Bidman and handed over the right to speak to Bidman.
"Sir!" Bidman saluted in front of Qin Chuan, and then reported: "Yesterday I took a car into the city to find parts for the maintenance camp. Because the car was too crowded, I kept standing on the footboard. When I lit the pipe and smoked two times, I found General Lex not far ahead of the car. The general could not tolerate me smoking leisurely in front of him. He thought it was an insult to him, so he stopped the car and ordered me to throw the pipe away..."
Conrad interjected, "He did not follow the general's orders, because the pipe was his only place in this boring and suppressed place. He chose to knock the pipe on his boots and put it in his military pocket. And this move annoyed General Lex again, who thought it was a blatant disobeying his orders and insulting him!"
Bidman explained: "I promise I don't mean to insult the general. I just don't want to throw away my pipe..."
"What then?" Qin Chuan asked.
"He was demoted and dispatched to the frontline combat troops to become an infantryman, an infantryman fighting on the frontline!" Conrad replied.
So Qin Chuan understood that Major General Lex hoped that Biderman would disappear from this world... Because it was obvious that Biderman was not a combatant, had not received relevant training but was sent to the front line. Such soldiers could not survive on the front line for a few days, even at this time.
Some German officers do do this, because they intend to send non-combatants to the front line to die because of a little personal grudge or a trivial matter. They call this practice a "punitive mobilization."
This practice is deeply hated in the military, because on the one hand, it is meaningless to send these non-combatants who have not received relevant training to the front line, and it may even drag their backs because they do not know what to do, always need protection.
On the other hand, this "send to death" behavior will also reduce the logistics forces by a lot of talents.
Simply put, it is to execute another kind of death penalty.
What's more serious is that the officers who carried out "punitive mobilization" were completely unaware of one thing: being able to fight on the front line should be an honor, the best and most respectable group of people, but they regarded it as a execution ground and sent violators here.
This practice will seriously damage the morale and honor of front-line combat troops... because it will make them think that they are fighting against the enemy on the front line because of some violation or punishment.
After thinking about it, Qin Chuan laughed: "Col. Do you think... if I accept Bidman, he will live a few more days?"
"Of course, Major!" Conrad replied.
"Why?" Qin Chuan said: "You know that we are the First Infantry Regiment, and we have always been on the most dangerous frontline!"
"I know!" said Conrad. "But you won't use him as an infantryman, do you?"
Conrad was very smart. He had seen through Qin Chuan's ideas for a long time.
Qin Chuan nodded helplessly and replied: "Okay, Colonel. You are right. The First Infantry Regiment does need to set up its own maintenance department. I don't know if Lieutenant Bidman is competent!"
"I can guarantee this!" Conrad said, "Otherwise I wouldn't save him!"
"Thank you, sir!" After hearing this, Lieutenant Bidman couldn't help but burst into tears. He shook Conrad's hand in emotion, and saluted Qin Chuan with a straightforward stern salute, saying, "Sir, it's a honor to join the First Infantry Regiment. God, this has always been my dream unit..."
"Hmm?" Conrad said: "Bidman, you wouldn't have made this mistake on purpose, and then use this as an excuse to let me help you join the First Infantry Regiment!"
"No, of course not!" Bidman explained in a hurry.
Chapter completed!