The Major General was a Major General of the army. He hailed from the armored vehicle unit and was very knowledgeable about armored vehicles. Sometimes he would also participate in technical guidance and maintenance for armored vehicles.
A general was frequenting places with his soldiers; no wonder Xia Jinyuan said this armored vehicle unit was one of the strongest teams. The leading general was able to put in so much work and played a leading role, so all of the officers and soldiers under him naturally looked up to their general.
In the following seven days, not only did the Major General personally give pointers to Ye Jian, he even personally drove a tank as he talked about the categorization of tanks, tanks with auto-loaders do not have a loading soldier; all it needed was a tank commander, gunner, and a driver.
“The tank commander directs vehicular combat and is in charge of communicating between his superiors and underlings. While the gunner is in charge of manipulating the cannon, the driver’s job is slightly easier as he is mainly in charge of driving. If there’s no auto-loader, then we’ll have to assign one loading soldier.”
“During the past few years, the debate between manual loading and auto-loading has widely contended. In our country, we have both manual loading and also auto-loading. While there’s a consensus about malfunctions during auto-loading, countries like America and other western countries normally don’t adopt auto-loaders.”
“From a technical standpoint, the most important reason was they harbor a suspicious attitude towards the reliability of auto-loaders, the moment their auto-loader malfunctions. The disaster that they bring to the entire operation and the adjacent areas would be big enough to affect the outcome of the entire war.”
“This tank of ours can reach the top speed of 65 kilometers an hour. The tallest slope it can climb is 31 degrees, and it can go 14 meters underwater. The main ammunition is armor-piercing rounds and anti-personnel grenades. Now, look here…” The Major General started introducing every function of the tank, from what they needed to worry about the tank’s length and cannon’s size, he told Ye Jian everything.
Any soldier in the armored vehicle unit could give a detailed introduction about things like this to Ye Jian, but the Major General deliberately chose to do it himself. The reason was also this; he wanted to know firsthand how exceptional Ye Jian’s abilities were.
He was quite satisfied with her performance on the first night, and she spent yesterday with the armored vehicle soldiers on the cannon field. There was a problem with the treads on one of the tanks; she started lifting the heavy equipment with the male soldiers without another word and didn’t show any expression that revealed she was afraid of hard work.
Company Commander Zuo also sneakily asked him: “Major General, the female special forces that you spoke of, she’s absolutely a girl, right?… That strictness she had towards herself, even my heart feels scared when I look at her!”
She was stricter than the male soldiers and was more like a soldier than the male soldiers. A female soldier like this would make any unit look like gold, wherever they walk, wherever the shine comes from.
Seated in the driver’s seat, Ye Jian didn’t even wipe away the sweat that flowed into the corner of her eyes. She stared unblinkingly at the Major General as he explained every equipment in the tank and each equipment’s primary function.
Although the tank’s vent was left open, her back was drenched in sweat after sitting in a sealed-off space for such a long time.
They were riding a tank with an auto-loader, the Major General very attentively explained the different types of loading amongst auto-loaders. It was explicit knowledge that was extremely difficult to understand, but Ye Jian listened to him with relish.
The Major General always kept an eye on Ye Jian’s expression. He purposefully came over here to instruct her at noon, all because he wanted to observe how Ye Jian perseveres through hard-work.
The more he observed, the more satisfied the Major General felt. He was further impressed by the hawk-like eyes of the soldier king! If it wasn’t because he had a wisdom eye, based on the investigation the military made into Ye Jian’s family situation. It was extremely likely they would let such a great talent dissipate in the crowds, instead of allowing her to render her services to the country.
