I joined the army in the same group as Chen Yi, a fellow villager from Sichuan, who was very small and lightweight, and looked a lot shorter when standing with the Northeast soldiers. When he first joined the recruit company, the cadres and northeast soldiers in the company called him "little rabbit cub", and they didn't seem to look down on him very much. After the training began, because of the limitations of his personal conditions, he was much worse than other soldiers, and he had to run several steps in one step, and he could not do single and parallel bars, so he became a drag oil bottle for the company.
Chen Yi has the hard-working spirit of a Sichuan soldier, and he uses his free time in the morning and evening to "eat small stoves" and train hard. After continuous hard work, he finally made significant progress. In the training and assessment of recruits, he was the first in all aspects, which impressed the cadres and soldiers of the company.
Later, with his excellent military qualities and cultural level, he was recommended to go to a military school. After graduating from the military academy, he was assigned to a company as a platoon commander with excellent grades, and the soldiers in the platoon he led were all first-class in military quality. Later, with his outstanding military and political ability, he was promoted to company commander, commander of the training unit, battalion commander, and deputy chief of staff of the regiment, and he performed outstanding in every post.
In particular, he became a shining star in the major contests of chiefs of staff and military training organized by the group army. In the common subjects and business assessments such as five-kilometer cross-country, pistol shooting, equipment assessment, push-ups, tactical movements, and tactical plotting, his comprehensive results were among the best.
Chiefs and officers and soldiers at all levels no longer called him a little rabbit cub, but gave him the title of Scud, sharpshooter, and so on. Later, the chief of staff of their regiment was promoted to deputy commander, and the position of chief of staff of the regiment became vacant, and the division immediately listed him as a reserve candidate.