It was early in the morning, perhaps because it was cloudy, and it was nearly six o'clock, and it was not yet dawn.

The raindrops were dripping on the raincoat, and Chen Ming followed the twenty people from seven groups to the square under the national flag to stand still.

Look around, this area should be a place for the academy's field work, otherwise it wouldn't be suddenly arranged here, and there is also a flag square.

In spring, it is the time when everything recovers, and I look up and see that the bright national flag is bathed in the morning light, fluttering in the wind, and the slightest coolness passes through the crowd.

The competition seems to be different from what he has been in contact with in the past, Chen Ming muttered.

The new group that was just assigned, he didn't know anyone in the group, and there was nothing to talk about here, so he waited for more than 20 minutes, and all the follow-up vehicles arrived.

More than 200 cadres participating in the competition were divided into more than a dozen groups, and Liu Zhiyang, who came with him, was assigned to the group in the rear.

Under the leadership and guidance of the monitoring team, the follow-up groups all stood at the National Flag Square.

Wang Haisheng, head of the Operations Bureau of the Army Staff Department of the Military Department, was also wearing a thick raincoat and stepped from the side of the crowd to the front of the National Flag Square to stand still.

The pre-competition oath is about to begin.

Chen Ming could feel that the nearby cadres collectively looked up at the front, this kind of competition was not as active as before, but it felt full of oppression and challenge everywhere.

It's easier to get your blood pumping.

"Comrades."

Wang Haisheng's eyes swept over the contestants and shouted.

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

"In this way, we are encouraged not to forget our original intention, not to forget history, not to forget our ancestors, not to forget tradition, to purify our souls at a new starting point, and to refuel and replenish calcium."

"In the struggle of the new era, we will complete our unswerving battle song of strengthening the army."

"Comrades, swear an oath with me."

Brush!!

Wang Haisheng's body turned back, facing the national flag, with a solemn expression.

Brush brush brush.

All those in the rear who participated in the competition, clenched their fists and raised their right arms.

"I swear"

Solemnly swore to the national flag, a generous and powerful promise, and a heartfelt word echoed in the national flag square for a long time.

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

Chen Ming has participated in many activities, but he has rarely been so solemn before, unless there is a video scene shooting.

The opening of similar competitions is so strict, and there are really not many who have not been filmed.

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

Walk in the footsteps of our ancestors, inherit the legacy of our ancestors, and turn the highest respect into determination and motivation, into practical actions to inherit the red gene and take on the important task of strengthening the army.

Now that the competition has not even begun, the atmosphere has already been felt from a ceremony.

After the oath is taken.

The head of the combat bureau informed that there was a twenty-minute preparation time to allow the personnel of each group to familiarize themselves.

When the time is up, the first race will begin, that is, a damn three-kilometer cross-country on a rainy day, with a raincoat and rubber shoes, Chen Ming has never experienced this off-road method for so long as a soldier.

The field troops are all rough soldiers, rough people, how can they bring these in the rain before.

All with righteousness, rushed forward.

Maybe the level of participation in this competition is not low, even if there is a physical fitness subject, it will be nondescript.

Chen Ming followed the flow of seven groups to the other side of the National Flag Square, pinched the raincoat on his body and looked at it, stunned for a while.

During the break, it was not that there was nothing to do, and some people 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 so on.

Ask all participants to bring all the equipment with them, and then check if anyone is carrying electronic equipment in violation of regulations.

It's all at their level, and the inspection is also symbolic, and no one will really fight against the rules set by the above for such a trivial matter.

After all, it's not shameful enough to be caught.

At the end of the inspection, perhaps in order to increase the load, the monitoring 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.

It's about giving a group of veterans a lot of intensity.

Chen Ming carried the kettle, looked at the leggings again, and showed 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 to the later subjects, this may be the only one that can be solved by brute force.

"Hello comrade, come here, let's discuss the candidates for the team leader and deputy group 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 seven groups would not have any plans in the next competition.

Even if you need to draw lots to participate in the competition, then at least there must be someone who will draw lots.

Can't everyone smoke it all, and this side is still modestly letting each other go.

Chen Ming nodded in response, holding the mold guns distributed to him, and came to the location of the seven groups to assemble.

He didn't plan to participate in the selection of the team leader.

The entire group of seven people is thirty-five years old and above, and he has no prestige in this group, and he does not know others.

Just listening to a group of them being humble, introducing and recommending each other, it took nearly ten minutes to settle down.

Zheng Hongyu, the leader of the seventh group, the contestant who came from the Central Theater, Chen Ming didn't know him, but he looked like he should be quite famous and served as the team leader.

Guo Canhui, the deputy leader of the group, heard the meaning of the conversation just now that he came from the Western Theater, and Chen Ming also did not know him.

The team leader and deputy team leader are elected, and the next thing is for the two team leaders and slightly unfamiliar team members to talk, pull the relationship, and strive to work together in the following competition.

Idle is idle anyway.

Originally, Chen Ming thought that there was nothing wrong with him, but it was this mutual familiarity that made it embarrassing.

Chen Ming chatted with team leader Zheng Hongyu for a few sentences, mentioning that he was from the Strategic Assault Division of the Eastern Theater, and one sentence attracted a lot of attention from the surroundings.

No matter how effective the 704th Division is, as a pilot unit, its reputation is far-reaching.

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

There was a hint of confusion on his face.

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

"You're from the Eastern Theater Strategic Assault Division?"

"Well, the deputy team is good." Chen Ming greeted him politely, I don't know what's wrong, I always feel that this deputy group looks at him a little unpleasantly,

I didn't offend him.

"Do you know which unit I'm from?" Guo Canhui looked at Chen Ming with a smile, and the atmosphere was not quite right.

Chen Ming sighed in his heart, and suddenly remembered that the other party was from the Western Theater, and he had a bit of a "story" with this theater.

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

"Who are?" Chen Ming frowned slightly, with the other party's attitude, he naturally didn't need to greet him with a smile.

Even if the level is higher than him, and it is not a unit in a war zone, who is afraid of whom.

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

Nima

Chen Ming was speechless for a while, this is really a bitter master.

Not long after he led the Tiger Wolf Battalion, he ushered in the "Peace Messenger" training.

The tiger and wolf battalion is not organized, it is not in the combat sequence, and there is no place for them on the frontal battlefield, even if there is a position, if it is not in the combat sequence, it is impossible to call the rear firepower for help, and it is also sent if it goes.

But a large-scale military training is at the node where the Tiger Wolf Battalion applies for a number or is disbanded on the spot.

You can't do nothing.

I don't have anything to do or eat, so I can't take the troops to the rear and live near the logistics warehouse, eat and drink together, right?

If you really do that, the more than 1,000 people in the Tiger Wolf Battalion really don't have any need to exist.

Therefore, in desperation, Chen Ming could only take advantage of the disadvantage of only two group armies in the Western Theater at the beginning of the war, and could not draw enough troops to fight against the three group armies in the Eastern Theater.

Quietly touch the rear to reconnoiter and look for opportunities.

Who knew that in the first battle, there was only one Tianshan Eighth Division and one Baiyun Mountain Regiment in the rear of the Blue Army, which fought for the advantage of the front line and suppressed the firepower advantage of the Red Army.

The two combat units almost rushed out, which gave the Tiger Wolf Battalion the opportunity, a composite force of more than a thousand people, to wreak havoc.

also robbed the Blues of the rations to supplement their own needs, but the result was too hard, disrupting the director's plan and directly stopping the war for a day.

During this period, the Eighth Division of the Tianshan Mountains only lost some supplies, and the Baiyun Mountain Regiment even had its headquarters terminated.

Chen Ming also arranged for the captain of the helicopter squadron to fly high, and he was very angry in the air to inform them of the elimination.

At the beginning of the war, the Baiyun Mountain Regiment was consumed by its own fighting, and it was also given the elegant title of "bandit leader".

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

This. It's really a narrow road, and it's easy to meet.

But when it comes to the exercise and fighting, although his tactics are inappropriate, he has not done anything wrong, so he naturally does not coerce.

"It turned out to be Chief of Staff Guo, hello." Chen Ming smiled and took the initiative to stretch out his hands, which was called enthusiasm.

made Guo Canhui look depressed and grind his teeth secretly, it's not that he is stingy.

I'm so old, I can't get over this.

The main thing is that the army has lost the battle, and the influence is not just as simple as losing the battle.

In the dignified Baiyun Mountain Regiment exercise, the first one was taken to the old nest, and the establishment was abolished.

At the review meeting after the exercise, the angry fingertips of the chief above were about to poke into his heart.

It's a bloody scolding, this is still a trivial matter, mainly because a defeat caused many backbone members of the brigade not to be discharged, and all packed up their things and left in the retirement season.

The quota and various benefits have been sharply reduced, and the whole brigade has lost a lot of backbones and veterans.

Whoever is not angry.

The roar of the usual training, all of them want to compete for the first place, isn't it just to fight for some places and some benefits, but as a result, there is no hair left that was sneak attacked by Chen Ming.

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

It's really fate.

"Hello." Guo Canhui stretched out his hand and shook hands with Chen Ming angrily, and it has been several years since this incident.

At that time, no matter how angry he slapped the table, there was no need to bring up the old matter again at this time, it was just a little unhappy.

Just when the atmosphere eased somewhat, the time for a twenty-minute break came.

With the intervention and reminder of the monitoring team, all the participants in the competition began to assemble and line up in groups.

At dawn, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, this is not the academy, except for the national flag square just now which is a concrete floor, and there are only places where the vegetation is not dense, which is also a cement floor.

When I stepped on it, it was muddy, but the participants did not flinch because of the bad weather.

On the contrary.

After the regrouping, the participants of each group were in high spirits.

Bang!

Without warning, a starting gun sounded, followed by a "beep-beep", and the whistle sounded simultaneously.

The first, and easiest, three-kilometer armed off-road, began.

In the team, the members of the monitoring team were on the periphery, running with the large group.

The three kilometers are just the beginning of the race, and it is also a warm-up, but it has been mentioned in the previous meeting, and this time the results are also recorded, and no one dares to really care.

Buzz.

Military drones hovering overhead, and the staff inside the red tent in the rear activated the visualization drone.

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

It's just this competition, as for making it so grand?

It's just that there are so many people to supervise, and there are many drones in the air, but in terms of visualization on rainy days, shooting will be more or less hindered.

It's better to think that the supervision, for the sake of fairness, there are really a lot of big moves on it.

Who came up with the idea?

Chen Ming secretly thought, but there was not much time left for him to think, the starting gun sounded, don't look at the age of these people participating in the competition.

The physical strength was not inferior at all, and the figures of all the personnel rushed out like arrows off the string.

The competition has officially kicked off.

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

The ground was very empty, and the heavy rain poured all night, and as soon as he stepped on it hard, several members in front of Chen Ming stood unsteadily and almost fell.

Even if he didn't fall, he slid forward step by step.

This way of running is far more physically demanding than in normal weather, and if you can run 3 kilometers with weights and be able to run within 15 minutes, it is considered a normal result.

Then this kind of weather, this kind of terrain, Chen Ming suspects that it will extend to at least twenty-five minutes.

Except for the fierce rush when the starting gun sounded, after passing the momentum, there were almost no conditions for sprinting on the back distance.

Chen Ming frowned, followed the crowd in the group, and moved forward, one foot deep and one foot shallow.

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

"Hey, hey, smack."

A nearby officer was unsteady on his feet, slippery on the slippery surface, and his raincoat was instantly covered with mud.

Chen Ming quickly went over and pulled the fallen man up, but he almost performed skating on the spot, but fortunately stabilized in time.

The surrounding members of the monitoring team turned their heads to look this way, but they didn't make any moves, and continued to walk forward.

This made Chen Ming a little baffled, and he couldn't understand what the above requirement was for.

They are not new comrades, no matter how good their physical training is, can they still be used to charge when fighting?

Of course, this is not to blame for the low experience of the personnel participating in the competition, but how can there be such a void in the ground in the army, and there are soldiers running on the training ground every day.

The ground has long been trampled on like concrete, no different.

This kind of muddy ground was only seen when I was a child, but later with the acceleration of the country's economic development, all parts of the country took on a new look, even the countryside was included.

Is this to remember the bittersweet memory?

Chen Ming shook his head, thinking that it shouldn't be, the above assignments of these subjects can't be arranged today, and the rain is an emergency.

This is an uncontrollable factor.

The team is still moving forward, Chen Ming has already observed the surroundings in advance, not all of the roads in the competition are such rotten roads, there are also some grassy places, and the ground is not so empty.

There are also places with more stones, which will also be better, and at least your feet will not slip when you step on them.

Chen Ming picked a place to walk, attracting people from other groups to also start changing positions, and soon, a few hundred meters of concrete ground walked through, and the ground in front of him was much harder.

The team began to sprint at a faster pace, but of course, the acceleration was only relatively speaking, and there was no such thing as a recruit competition for the first place in this kind of competition.

Everyone unified their pace, unified movements, did not be lazy, did not compete, made Chen Ming sprint several times, and finally broke away from the scope of the seven groups, attracting the attention of the monitoring team members.

Feeling inappropriate, he lowered his speed and returned to the queue.

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

"In this competition, there is no use in being fast, and the 3-kilometer armed off-road is just a hard simulation that we have not experienced for a long time."

"Follow the group, you'll know when you get there."

Although Guo Canhui is still a little unhappy with the previous events, it has not yet reached the level of nostalgia.

As the deputy team leader, it was natural to remind Chen Ming to follow the team, obviously he knew some of the above arrangements.

This can make Chen Ming a little depressed, it seems that what is fair and just, but it is relative.

He hasn't received the news yet, and neither has Liu Zhiyang, so how can the officers of the Western Theater know the significance of this competition.

Sure enough.

After marching for almost half an hour, the team finally completed the task of 3 kilometers of armed cross-country.

Rows of green tents appeared in front of them, and there were more than thirty of them.

Judging from the outer area of the tent, dozens of people can live in just one of them, but there are more than 30 here.

The big tent in the middle is even more terrifying, but the length is only thirty or forty meters, and it is not a problem to stuff a hundred and ten people in this big guy.

That's where this contest comes in?

Except for the simplicity and poor conditions, it doesn't seem to be difficult.

Or is there something else in the back?

Chen Ming faintly looked forward to it.

(End of chapter)