Amid sweeping military reforms across the armed forces, Lu Zhanting, a 28-year-old major and battalion commander, returned from command academy and immediately made a solemn pledge at the brigade Party committee meeting: “Give me the Third Motorized Infantry Battalion. In six months, I’ll turn it into a combined-arms battalion.”
As doubts swirled, a mysterious presence called the Strong Army Support System awakened in his mind. It didn’t conjure things out of thin air like a golden finger. It offered only training manuals, tactical frameworks, and equipment performance assessments far ahead of their time. It showed him the way, but he had to take every step himself.
Under intense pressure, he set up the brigade’s first combined-arms battalion pilot program, starting with basic individual training and bringing every branch together under a single command structure. Some were waiting for him to fail, neighboring units threw obstacles in his way at every turn, and the Blue Army’s strongest unit, the Canglang Brigade, laid an inescapable trap on the exercise field.
But he held firm.
By his side was Shen Nian, the youngest operations and training staff officer at the theater command. Born into a distinguished military family, she never relied on her connections, earning everyone’s respect through her professionalism. From mutual admiration at work to trust on the battlefield, the two found a meeting of minds on their journey to build a stronger military.
Over ten years, he rose from major to major general. Leading his “Blade Battalion,” he set the standard for the entire armed forces and spread the seeds of combined-arms reform throughout the theater command.
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