They are all in the army, who is in love?

Chapter 365: Competition oaths, we really are enemies on a narrow road

It was early in the morning, maybe because of the cloudy sky, it was almost six o'clock and it was still dark.

Raindrops pattered on the raincoat. Chen Ming followed seven groups of twenty people to the square under the national flag and stood there.

Looking around, this area should be a place for the college's field work, otherwise it would not be suddenly arranged here, and there is also a national flag square.

Spring is the time when all things come to life. Looking up, you can see the bright national flag bathing in the morning light, fluttering in the wind, and a hint of coolness passing through the crowd.

The competition seemed different from what he had been exposed to before, Chen Ming muttered.

He had just been assigned to a new group. He didn't know anyone in the group, so he had nothing to talk about while standing here. He just waited for more than twenty minutes before all the subsequent vehicles arrived.

More than two hundred cadres participating in the competition were divided into more than a dozen groups. Liu Zhiyang, who came with him, was assigned to the group in the rear.

Under the leadership and guidance of the supervision team, the following groups all stood at the National Flag Square.

Wang Haisheng, head of the Operations Bureau of the Army General Staff Headquarters, also wearing a thick raincoat, walked from one side of the crowd to the front of the National Flag Square and stood there.

The oath before the competition is about to begin.

Chen Ming could feel the nearby cadres collectively looking up and looking ahead. This kind of competition was not as lively as before, but it felt like an atmosphere full of oppression and challenge everywhere.

It’s easier to get your blood boiling.

"Comrades."

Wang Haisheng glanced at the participants and shouted loudly.

"In order to remember the revolutionary history, inherit and carry forward the tradition, sharpen the fighting spirit, boost the morale of the military, and keep the mission in mind, the military department specially arranged this brigade-level chief of staff competition."

"This will encourage us all to never forget our original aspirations, our history, our ancestors, and our traditions, and to purify our souls and replenish our calcium at a new starting point."

"In the struggle for the new era, we will fulfill our unswerving battle song of a strong military."

"Comrades, swear an oath to me."

brush! !

Wang Haisheng turned around and faced the national flag with a solemn expression.

Brush brush.

All contestants in the rear clenched their fists and raised their right arms.

"I swear"

They solemnly swore an oath in front of the national flag, made strong and powerful promises, and spoke from the bottom of their hearts, echoing in the National Flag Square for a long time.

The national flag fluttering in the rain, facing the rising sun in the east, looks particularly solemn and dazzling.

Chen Ming has participated in many activities, but it was rarely so solemn in the past, except when there was a video recording on site.

The opening of a competition like this is so strict, and there aren’t many people who haven’t taken pictures yet.

During the brigade chief of staff competition, the first sentence in the document given to him by division commander Wang Junwei before departure was to inherit the red gene.

Following in the footsteps of our ancestors, inheriting their legacy, we turn our highest respect into determination and motivation, and into practical actions to inherit the red gene and shoulder the important task of strengthening the army.

The competition hasn't even started yet, but I can already feel this atmosphere from a ceremony.

After taking the oath.

The person in charge of the combat bureau informed that there would be twenty minutes of preparation time to allow the personnel of each group to get familiar with it.

When the time is up, the first competition will begin, which is a three-kilometer cross-country trip on a damn rainy day. He wears a raincoat and rubber shoes. Chen Ming has never experienced this kind of cross-country method for so long as a soldier.

The field troops are all rough soldiers and tough people. How could we have brought these with us when it rained before?

He rushed forward with all his righteousness.

Maybe the level of participation in this competition is not low, even if there is a physical fitness subject, it will be neither fish nor fowl.

Chen Ming followed the seven groups of people to the other side of the National Flag Square. He held his raincoat and looked at it, feeling stunned for a while.

During the break, there was nothing to do. Someone from the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team brought over a bunch of combat equipment, such as water bottles, satchels, bullet belts, grenade belts, mold guns, and the like.

Ask all participants in the competition to bring all these equipment with them, and then check whether anyone is illegally carrying electronic equipment.

Now that they have reached their level, the inspection is symbolic, and no one will really go against the rules set by them for such a trivial matter.

After all, getting caught is not embarrassing enough.

After the inspection, perhaps in order to increase the load, the inspection team also left a pair of leggings for each person, because according to the regulations this time, three kilometers is an armed cross-country, not a simple run.

This is to give a group of veterans strength.

Chen Ming carried the kettle and looked at the leggings with a thoughtful smile on his face. He didn't care, he was young and strong.

If you are not afraid of bad weather and add this thing, it will be difficult. Compared with the subsequent subjects, this may be the only one that can be solved with brute force.

"Hello, comrade, come over here and let's discuss the candidates for the team leader and deputy team first."

When Chen Ming was squatting down to tie his leggings, someone in the distance was proposing a candidate for the team leader, so that the seventh team would not have no plans in the next competition.

Even if you need to draw lots to participate in competitive subjects, there must at least be someone who can draw lots.

We can't let everyone here still humbly give in to each other after they've finished smoking.

Chen Ming nodded in response, holding the mold gun distributed to him, and came to the location of the seventh group to gather.

He had no intention of participating in the selection of team leader.

The entire seventh group is always over thirty-five years old. He has little prestige in this group and doesn't know anyone else.

Just listening to a group of them humbly introducing and recommending each other, it took nearly ten minutes to decide.

The leader of the seventh group, Zheng Hongyu, was a contestant from the central war zone. Chen Ming didn't know him, but he seemed to be quite famous, so he served as the group leader.

The deputy team leader Guo Canhui, according to the conversation just now, was from the Western Theater Command, and Chen Ming also didn't recognize him.

After selecting the team leader and deputy team leader, the next step is for the two team leaders to chat with the slightly unfamiliar team members, build relationships, and strive to work together for the following competitions.

Anyway, idle is idle.

Originally, Chen Ming thought that nothing would happen to him, but it happened that this part of getting to know each other was embarrassing.

Chen Ming chatted with the team leader Zheng Hongyu for a few words, and mentioned that he was from the Strategic Assault Division of the Eastern Theater Command. This sentence attracted a lot of attention around him.

Regardless of the combat effectiveness of the 704th Division, as a pilot unit, its reputation is far-reaching.

When others learned that he was from the Strategic Assault Division, they would come over more or less to inquire about the current progress of the base. Only deputy team leader Guo Canhui stared at Chen Ming again and again.

There was a hint of doubt on his face.

After everyone else had a brief chat, they came over and stared at Chen Ming again.

"Are you from the Strategic Assault Division of the Eastern Theater Command?"

"Well, hello, deputy team member." Chen Ming greeted politely. I don't know what happened, but he always felt that the deputy team member looked at him a little bit unhappy.

I didn't offend him.

"Then do you know which army I am from?" Guo Canhui looked at Chen Ming with a half-smile, and the atmosphere was a bit uncomfortable.

Chen Ming's heart thumped, and he suddenly remembered that the other party was from the Western War Zone, and he had a bit of a "story" with this war zone.

You won't be so unlucky to meet the "mistress", right?

"What?" Chen Ming frowned slightly. With the other person's attitude, he naturally didn't need to smile.

Even if they are at a higher level than him, they are not in one unit per war zone, so who is afraid of whom?

"I come from the Southern Xinjiang Military Region, Mountain Assault Brigade, codenamed Baiyun Mountain Regiment. I am Guo Canhui, the brigade chief of staff of the Baiyun Mountain Regiment."

Nima

Chen Ming was speechless for a while, this person was really the master of suffering.

Not long after he led the Tiger Wolf Battalion, the "Peace Messenger" training was held.

The Tiger Wolf Battalion has no establishment and is not in the order of battle. There is no position for them on the frontal battlefield. Even if there is a position, they cannot call for firepower from the rear when they are not in the order of battle. They will be sent away if they go.

But there was a major military training, and the Tiger Wolf Battalion was at the point where it was about to apply for a designation or be disbanded on the spot.

You can't just do nothing.

With nothing to do and nothing to eat, you can't lead the troops to the rear and live near the logistics warehouse, eating and drinking, right?

If they really did that, the more than a thousand people in the Tiger Wolf Battalion would really have no need to exist in the eyes of the people above.

Therefore, Chen Ming had no choice but to take advantage of the disadvantage of only two armies in the western theater at the beginning of the war and was unable to mobilize enough troops to confront the three armies in the eastern theater.

Sneak to the rear to investigate and look for opportunities.

Unexpectedly, there was only one Tianshan Eighth Division and one Baiyun Mountain Regiment behind the Blue Army in the first battle. In order to gain an advantage on the front line, they suppressed the Red Army's firepower superiority.

The two combat forces were almost deployed, which gave the Tiger and Wolf Battalion the opportunity to wreak havoc with a combined force of more than a thousand people. He also grabbed the rations of the Blue Army to supplement his own needs. In the end, he grabbed too much and disrupted the director's plan, which led to a one-day truce.

During this period, the Eighth Tianshan Division only lost some supplies, and the headquarters of the Baiyun Mountain Regiment was taken away.

Chen Ming also arranged for Gao Fei, the captain of the helicopter squadron, to go over to notify them of their elimination from the air very coquettishly.

At the beginning of the war, the Baiyun Mountain Regiment was depleted by both beating and taking, and was elegantly called "bandit leader".

I blew up someone else's lair. I didn't expect to come here to participate in the competition today and meet people from this army again.

This is really a narrow road for enemies to meet each other.

But when it came to practicing fighting, although his tactics were inappropriate, he didn't do anything wrong, so he wasn't afraid of it.

"It turns out to be Chief of Staff Guo, hello." Chen Ming smiled and stretched out his hands, which was called enthusiasm.

This made Guo Canhui look depressed and grind his teeth secretly. He was not stingy.

At such an old age, it’s still hard to deal with this.

Mainly because of the defeat in the army, the influence is not just as simple as defeat.

The dignified Baiyun Mountain Regiment was the first to be taken over by others during the exercise, and the entire staff was wiped out.

At the review meeting after the exercise, the angry fingertips of the chief above him almost pierced his heart.

There was a lot of bloody yelling. This was a trivial matter. The main reason was that a defeat caused many key members of the brigade who should not have been discharged from the army. They all packed up and left during the retirement season.

The quotas and various benefits have been drastically reduced, which has caused the whole brigade to lose many backbones and veterans.

No one will be angry if I leave him alone.

He usually trains and wants to be first in every category, not just to win some quotas and some benefits, but in the end, Chen Ming's surprise attack left no hair left.

The officers of the seven nearby groups had also heard the rumors about the "bandit leader", and they all looked at the conversation between the two and wanted to laugh.

This is really fate.

"Hello." Guo Canhui reached out and shook hands with Chen Ming angrily. It has been several years since this happened.

No matter how angry I was and banged the table, there was no need to bring up the old things again now, I was just a little unhappy.

Just when the atmosphere relaxed a bit, it was time for a twenty-minute break.

With the intervention and reminder of the supervision team, all participants in the competition began to gather and lined up group after group.

It's daybreak, but the rain is getting heavier and heavier. This is not a college. Except for the National Flag Square just now, which is a cement floor, the only other places where the vegetation is not dense are also cement floors.

It was muddy as soon as I stepped on it, but the participants did not flinch at all because of the bad weather.

on the other hand.

After gathering again, the participants in each group were in high spirits.

boom!

The starting gun sounded without warning, followed by "beep-beep-beep" and the whistle sounded simultaneously.

The first and easiest one, the three-kilometer armed cross-country began.

Among the teams, the members of the supervision team were on the periphery, running with the large troops.

The three kilometers is just the beginning of the competition and a warm-up, but it has been mentioned in previous meetings that the results will be recorded this time, and no one dares to really care.

buzzing.

Military drones hovered overhead, and the staff in the red tent behind them activated the visual drones.

Chen Ming looked up at the top of his head and then at the disciplinary inspectors everywhere outside the arena, feeling a little speechless.

This is just a competition, why should it be so grand?

It’s just that there are so many people supervising, and it’s superfluous to launch a drone. In terms of visualization, the shooting will be hindered to some extent on rainy days.

It's better to think of supervision. For the sake of fairness, the above have really made a lot of big moves.

Who came up with these ideas?

Chen Ming was thinking secretly, but there was not much time left for him to think. The starting gun sounded, despite the age of these people participating in the competition.

Their physical strength was not inferior at all, and all the personnel rushed out like arrows from the string.

The competition officially kicked off.

The place chosen by the academy is large enough, and judging from the growth of nearby vegetation and the absence of human-made paths, it can be roughly judged that this is a wasteland.

The ground was very soft and it had been raining heavily all night. As soon as he stepped hard on it, several members in front of Chen Ming were unsteady and almost fell down.

Even if he didn't fall, he was still rushing forward step by step.

This kind of running method consumes far more energy than under normal weather. If you usually run 3 kilometers with a heavy load, being able to run within fifteen minutes is considered a normal result.

With this kind of weather and terrain, Chen Ming suspected that it would last at least twenty-five minutes.

Except for the fierce rush at the sound of the starting gun, after the momentum passed, there was almost no conditions for sprinting in the rest of the journey.

Chen Ming frowned, and followed the crowd in the group, making a running motion, but moving forward one foot deeper and the other shallower.

What's the point of this kind of competition? Chen Ming couldn't help but look up into the distance, a little confused.

"Hey, hey, snap."

An officer nearby lost his balance and slipped on the slippery road. His raincoat was instantly covered with mud.

Chen Ming quickly went over to pull the fallen person up, but he almost performed the sliding technique on the spot, but luckily he stabilized himself in time.

The surrounding members of the supervision team turned their heads to look this way, but did not make any move and continued to move forward.

This made Chen Ming a little confused, and he couldn't understand the purpose of the above requirement.

They are not new comrades. No matter how good their physical fitness is, is it possible that they can still be used to charge during a war?

Of course, this is not because the personnel participating in the competition are not very experienced, but because the ground in the army is so empty. There are soldiers running on the training ground every day.

The ground has long been trampled and is no different from a cement floor.

This kind of muddy ground was only seen when I was a child. Later, as the country's economic development accelerated, various places took on a new look, including rural areas.

Is this to remember the bitter and think of the sweet?

Chen Ming shook his head, thinking that it shouldn't be the case. The above-mentioned subjects couldn't just be assigned today. Rain is an emergency.

This is an uncontrollable factor.

The team is still moving forward, and Chen Ming has already observed the surroundings in advance. Not all of the roads in the competition are bad roads like this. There are also some places with lush grass and the ground is not so empty.

There are also places where there are more stones, which will be better. At least your feet will not slip when you step on them.

Chen Ming specially picked a good place to walk, and people from other groups began to change positions. Soon, they walked through several hundred meters of concrete ground, and the ground in front of them was much harder.

The team began to speed up the sprint. Of course, speeding up was only a relative term. There was no such thing as a competition for new recruits to compete for first place.

Everyone moved in unison, without laziness or scrambling. Chen Ming sprinted several times and finally broke away from the seven groups, attracting the attention of the supervisory team.

Feeling inappropriate, I lowered my speed and returned to the queue.

Just when Chen Ming was wondering about the meaning of this kind of competition, the "sufferer" of the Baiyun Mountain Group glanced at Chen Ming and said angrily: "You don't have to run so fast."

"In this competition, being fast is of no use. The 3-kilometer armed cross-country is just for us to experience a difficult simulation that we have not experienced for a long time."

"Follow the team. You'll know when we get there."

Although Guo Canhui is still a little unhappy when thinking about the past, he has not reached the level of being resentful.

As the deputy team leader, he naturally reminded Chen Ming to just follow the team. Obviously he knew some of the arrangements above.

This made Chen Ming a little depressed. It seemed that fairness and justice were only relative terms.

He hasn't received the news yet, and neither has Liu Zhiyang. How could an officer in the Western Theater Command know the significance of this competition.

as predicted.

The team marched for almost half an hour and finally completed the 3-kilometer armed cross-country mission.

Rows of military green tents appeared in front of them, more than thirty in total.

Judging from the outer area of ​​the tent, just one tent can accommodate dozens of people, but there are more than thirty people here.

The big tent in the middle is even more terrifying. It is estimated to be thirty or forty meters long. It is not a problem to fit a hundred or ten people into this big tent.

Is this where this competition is?

Apart from the simplicity and poor conditions, it doesn't seem to be difficult at all.

Or is there another arrangement behind it?

Chen Ming was vaguely looking forward to it.

(End of this chapter)