From the 1998 Lanzhou Military Region representing the Chinese special forces in the eighth "Elna-Assault" international scout competition held in Estonia to participating in the "Hunter Training School" in Venezuela in 2003, Chinese special forces soldiers have always displayed the brilliance of the Chinese dragon on the international stage with their own unique perseverance and tenacity.

But for the first time, the higher authorities ordered the Fifth Special Forces to send elite aces into battle. The reason why this conference was named "Blue Shield" in the name of training and competition was that it was jointly issued by the six most well-known international special forces training schools in the world, with the topics of "peacekeeping" and "international counter-terrorism", which are at the peak of the trend of the times. And for the first time, in the agenda, the "theory of unlimited operations" was proposed!

The organizers of the conference have a very precise opinion, "On the battlefield, weapons and people are an inseparable whole. In the 21 st century, the real combat capability of special forces depends not only on individual training and team cooperation, but also on the cooperation of advanced combat weapons and survival equipment in order to give full play to the best results. Therefore, this time, the organizers will no longer provide combat weapons to the military personnel of the participating countries, and the participating countries will provide them themselves, and only need to go through the security inspection of the organizers of the conference when conducting the competition against the surname. ”

In other words, aside from the joint training in the early stage of the conference, the military competition in the back is a super stage for the world's advanced weapons and the strongest special forces to show their heroic posture!

And this "theory of unlimited operations" was the first to put forward a competition regulation on the battlefield that was very much in line with the "time, place, and people" in the Chinese art of war.

When two teams participating in the competition meet according to the competition process, their captain will draw lots under the supervision of the competition committee, and the person who draws the red lottery for the first time will get the "time of day", and can propose a game mode that is beneficial to him according to his own advantages and the shortcomings of the opponent; The captain who draws the red draw for the second time can choose which terrain the two sides will play in.

As soon as this confrontation model was introduced, it completely overturned the previous concept of competition among special forces, and the strongest one wins. A secret and powerful weapon may, in some cases, be the killer weapon that will affect the final victory.

Moreover, this "Blue Shield" competition has more stringent requirements for the personal qualities of the participating troops. If we want to come out on top in this military competition dominated by the "theory of unrestricted operations," we must have an outstanding professional soldier who is highly technological, high-quality, and has a high overall strength, can adapt to any special operations, and can quickly display 100 percent of our strength in any special terrain!

In the face of such an unprecedented scale of international military competition, and a new competition model, those countries that have a learning attitude, of course, do not care, maybe the blind cat meets a dead mouse, and they draw one on their own, and they can mix up with the awards of a single competition to go back to the prestige!

However, some military powers can't help but feel a little weak in their hearts; in peacetime, this kind of international military competition is the best stage to show the quality and actual combat capability of the army; if they suffer Waterloo in this kind of military competition that is closer to real war, will they not lose all their face?

In this competition, there is another headache for the countries that really hope to win the team championship, that is, whether the weapons they have secretly developed should be taken out, or how much is more appropriate!

Such problems also plague China.

"Our Chinese Army is the strongest army in the world, and our Chinese special forces are the strongest special forces in the world. However, although this 'theory of unlimited warfare' was not put forward against us, it just hit us in one of our weak undersels. ”

In the principal's room of the Fifth Special Force Elite Training School, Li Xiangshang stood solemnly with a special line phone in his hand, and he was listening carefully to every word the other party said. Because he knew that every word he could hear now was the result of a "brainstorming" discussion by at least fifteen think tanks with extraordinary military and political wisdom.

"China started relatively late, and it is still a developing country, and in terms of education, it cannot be compared with the developed countries in the West, which directly affects the average education level of our soldiers; although we continue to train outstanding officers and assign these highly educated officers to various units to work at the grassroots level, on the whole, in terms of comprehensive operations and high-tech operations, it is still our weakness. In the face of high-tech weapons that may appear at any time in the competition, without sufficient experience and rich knowledge, it is impossible to react in the shortest possible time and make various strategic adjustments according to the surname. ”

Li Xiangshang nodded, and he said in a deep voice: "But we can't lose!" ”

Li Xiangshang is not wrong at all, the Chinese special forces have won so many victories and honors on the international stage with their own blood, and the Chinese special forces have become the pride of China, and in this case, China cannot afford to lose!

"Now that China is adhering to the policy of 'peaceful rise', the 'China threat theory' of the surrounding countries is still shouting. Under these circumstances, after careful consideration, those senior staff members of the think tank suggested that I not invest in any new weapons in this military competition, because on the one hand, the research and development of these weapons is a state secret, and we cannot expose them just because of a military competition, and on the other hand, we must not allow those who shout about the threat theory of [***] things to find new points of attack. Therefore, in this military competition, we can only rely on the quality and actual combat ability of our own soldiers to win! ”

The person on the other end of the phone chuckled: "Xiang Shang, you must pick out a good captain for me, this captain must have rich knowledge of combat and weapons, super command ability, and more flexible mind, these points are indispensable." A good lead wolf can at least increase our chances of victory by thirty percent! ”

"This military competition that put forward the 'unlimited combat theory' is a touchstone to test the real combat capability of our army in modern warfare, so we selected seven outstanding soldiers from the navy and army, and left you five places in the fifth special unit, just hoping that the trump card of your [***] team can play the role of a bumper for us!"

Listening to the familiar and cordial voice on the other end of the phone, and feeling his ardent hope for himself and the Fifth Special Department, Li Xiangshang only felt a rush of blood rising from his chest, and he shouted proudly: "Please rest assured, Chief, we will definitely win!" We will definitely get the best results from the competition and come to the chief to report the good news! ”

"Win?" The other laughed, "I like to win too, but you can't win!" ”

"Huh?!"

Li Xiangshang is really dumbfounded now, he can't lose or win, what is this?

The other party had obviously heard Li Xiangshang's confusion from Li Xiangshang's voice, and he chuckled: "Xiangshang, do you know the golden mean advocated by Confucius? ”

"This ......" Li Xiangshang has beads of sweat oozing from his head, he is a pure professional soldier, not a politician, let alone a sinologist, he grabbed his head and said honestly: "I don't know!" ”

"I remember that in ancient Chinese poetry there was such a passage to describe beautiful women, 'The son of the Jing family, if you add one point, it will be too long, and if you are short, you will be too short; If you are powdered, it is too white, and if you are in Shizhu, it is too red'. Xiang Shang, you carefully taste these words, in which the golden mean has been completely interpreted! ”

"If you add one point, it will be too long, and if you are short, it will be too short......" Li Xiangshang repeated these words in his mouth, and he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and said in a deep voice: "I understand, what you said about the golden mean means that you should do things with the right weight and just right!" And you ask me that I must not lose, and I cannot win, that is, you ask us to use this golden mean to achieve an upper-average result, so that we can achieve such results without investing any advanced weapons, and we are definitely not ashamed; And it can also make those who shout 'China's threat of force' every day find no excuse to criticize my [***] strength! ”

"Xiang Shang can draw inferences from one another, and he does have the talent of a general!" He smiled heartily and said: "Then I will be fully responsible for this matter, if there is any problem that cannot be handled, you have to humbly ask an old comrade like Zheng Xun for advice." Remember, tell the captain you have selected to find a way to find out if the water is deep, just like a pony crossing a river, and if the water is shallow, your Fifth Special Force will have some spare strength and not show too much; If the opponent invests too many advanced weapons, the seven comrades selected from all over the country will not be able to successfully complete the task, and you bumpers will have to play their due role! ”

Li Xiangshang said solemnly: "Yes, please rest assured!" ”

When the phone in his hand came from the blind sound of the other party hanging up, Li Xiangshang slowly put down the special line phone in his hand. He thought for a moment, pressed a button in the office, and said, "Immediately inform the staff of the computer room number database, in two hours, I want to see the list of all members of the entire Fifth Special Force, the top 100 in the comprehensive quality assessment!" ”

By 206, China had sent astronauts into space several times, which marked that China's space technology had begun to move closer to the United States and Russia, becoming the third country in the world to send astronauts into space. At that time, in order to select the most suitable elite for astronaut missions from among many super-pilots, the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a comprehensive data evaluation system. A comprehensive quality assessment can be carried out on each member according to the physical fitness, flight time, experience, surname, family history and training data.

The Fifth Special Force has successfully transplanted this system into its own database.

(To be continued)