Chapter 37: The Military Training Competition Begins

  After another day of train bumps, Qu Mingjun and his company returned to the Shimen Luyuan they had left for a month. In the days after their return, Qu Mingjun often thought of all the cadres and soldiers in the artillery company. The rough but respectable company commander Li Li, the steady and thoughtful squad leader Ding Qiang, and that silly and pitiful new recruit Chang Er.

  For a very long time, Qu Mingjun felt that Wei Wei's "The Most Lovely People" was written for the ordinary cadres and soldiers in these grassroots companies, who were too simple and too respectable compared to the various people in the local area.

  Emotional memories usually don't last too long, especially under the heavy learning tasks like Qu Mingjun's. Generally speaking, the second year of university is relatively relaxing, but for Qu Mingjun and his 14th squad members, military training has just begun, and numerous professional courses have come flooding in, leaving people breathless.

  But that's not all, in mid-September, Shimen Luyuan also welcomed a very important event.

  "What? The entire army academy's martial arts competition?" Qu Mingjun, wearing a white protective belt, sat on the grass beside the military professional training field. Today was rock climbing class and it was now break time.

  "Right. Want to know?" Wang Jin looked at the six classes of brothers who had gathered around and thought about teasing them again.

  "What is the Army Academy's grand martial arts competition? When is it? What are they competing in?" Qu Mingjun was also very curious, and pulled Wang Jin to ask.

  Seeing Qu Mingjun asking himself, Wang Jin rarely didn't intentionally provoke others' interest and quickly spoke out the news he had heard. "I heard that every three years, the eight major military academies of the entire army will hold a large-scale military competition. The competition is divided into many events, with representative teams from the eight major military academies competing at the end of October. I heard that the winner can directly gain merit, and at the same time, the eight major military academies can also distinguish their strengths and weaknesses, to see which family's training level is the strongest."

  "What is the Eighth Continental Army Academy?" Qu Mingjun had never heard of this before.

  "It's the eight land army academies under the jurisdiction of our eight major military regions. Shimen Land Army Academy, Quancheng Land Army Academy, Chang'an Land Army Academy, Jinling Land Army Academy, Yuzhang Land Army Academy, Luda Land Army Academy, Lingui Land Army Academy, and Chuncheng Land Army Academy." Wang Si squeezed his eyes, "So, this martial arts competition not only involves the competition between the eight land army academies but also involves the competition between the eight major military regions. We happened to catch up with it this year."

  "Do you know what project this is?" Qu Mingjun found this martial arts competition very interesting.

  "This is not very clear, every three years when the big martial arts competition comes, a preparatory group will be jointly established by the eight major military academies, and then the project will be determined. However, shooting and obstacle courses are definitely indispensable." Wang Mi asked in great detail.

  The people of Class 6 were still pondering this big martial arts competition when the duty officer on the other side blew his whistle, announcing the start of class.

  Qu Mingjun quickly put on the protective gear and ran to the bottom of the high wall. Now they were practicing a two-person assisted ladder climbing method, with Qu Mingjun paired with Cui Ze.

  Two people are of excellent quality, Cui Ze as the assistant below, slightly squatting, with hands crossed and embracing his abdomen, Qu Ming Jun steps on one foot, borrowing Cui Ze's upward momentum to jump up, and grabs onto the second floor window of the simulated building, then Qu Ming Jun climbs up, flips over and pulls Cui Ze up.

  The two cooperated like this and soon reached the top of the sixth floor. The instructor pressed a button on his watch from downstairs, very approving. He waved his hand to let the two slide down along the rope.

  The 14 teams' members lined up in four rows and practiced one after another.

  It's been a week since the last lesson, and everyone had almost forgotten about Wang Jin's mention of the full-scale military competition at the Army Academy when the academy suddenly announced that it would be holding a large-scale military competition within the Shimen Army Academy. This time, all the old student teams were mobilized except for the new students who had just enrolled in September.

  "What's the big deal?" Guo Xiangyang had just returned from a team meeting specifically convened for the upcoming martial arts competition, and all his classmates in Class 6 were eagerly asking him questions. Wang Jin hadn't heard any news about this until now, but he didn't think it would tarnish his reputation as "Mountain Man", so he joined in on the excitement.

  "Shooting, 400-meter obstacle course, individual tactical movement, and fully armed five-kilometer cross-country." Guo Xiangyang looked at the notebook in his hand, "And armed swimming."

  Apart from the 400-meter hurdles, which everyone has just started practicing, all the other events are things that the fourteen teams have already learned. It seems that this year's competition will definitely not be without them, especially with Yan Weidong's personality, he will absolutely not let go of this opportunity to compete and win.

  As expected, Guo Xiangyang furrowed his brow and said: "I'm in the shooting group, Qu Mingjun, you're in two groups, one individual combat tactics group and one 5km cross-country group. Cui Ze, you're also in two groups, the 400m hurdles group and the 5km cross-country group. Li Dongkuan, you..."

  In the end, Class 6 surprisingly had half of its students in this military competition group, while the remaining few people, such as Ma Xiaotian, who were not particularly outstanding in any aspect, were not included in the competition group.

  "The captain said that each group has a person in charge, this time I'm in charge of the shooting group, and Qu Mingjun is in charge of the individual combat tactics group. In the next phase, each military competition group will no longer participate in the routine training within the team, and will focus on training for the competition projects. Qu Mingjun, get ready, tonight we may have a meeting with the captain along with the leaders of the five groups." said Guo Xiangyang.

  Qu Mingjun nodded, and Captain Yan Weidong surprisingly let him be in charge of the individual tactics group this time, giving him great trust. The other four groups were led by veteran soldiers, but his group was the only one led by a local trainee. In fact, Qu Mingjun didn't know that the captain had deliberated for a long time before deciding to have him participate in these two groups. This competition was purely military projects, and Qu Mingjun's physical quality was extremely strong. According to the captain's temperament, if

  If possible, 400-meter hurdles estimated Qu Mingjun can't even run, physical ability and other aspects are his strong points.

  In the evening meeting, Captain Yan Weidong confirmed Qu Mingjun and four others as the leaders of the martial arts team, asking them to confirm a deputy leader, formulate a daily training plan, and start organizing people in the group for training. As for those with two group tasks, they would switch every half day. For example, Qu Mingjun attended individual combat tactics training in the morning and participated in five-kilometer cross-country training in the afternoon, switching groups every half day.

  After Qu Mingjun left, he began to formulate a training plan for the 5km cross-country race. The armed 5km cross-country project is different from other physical training projects, which involve skills and experience, and can be improved quickly through targeted training. However, the armed 5km cross-country test is basically a test of one's endurance, which cannot be achieved in just a few days. For training elites like Qu Mingjun, it is very difficult to improve by one or two minutes on the existing basis.

  Choi Jae ran over, and it just so happened that he was also in the armed five-kilometer cross-country group. He looked at the book placed in front of Kook Min-joon, twirling a pen in his hand, furrowing his brow in a daze.

  "Hey, Captain, what's your plan for our next training session?" Cui Ze teased Qu Mingjun.

  "I don't know yet." Qu Mingjun scratched his head.

  "It's also the case that this thing is just a run, and there are no other skills. You can arrange to run every day, just like three months of intensive training." Cui Ze thought for a moment and made a suggestion.

  "That doesn't sound very scientific?" Qu Mingjun shook his head.

  "What's scientific about it? What's scientific?" Cui Ze didn't understand how running was related to science.

  "Look, we've been intensifying our training for three months now, running every day. But we're not newcomers to training anymore, so what's the point of pushing ourselves so hard?"

  "Isn't this the usual practice? What else can we do? Otherwise, let's run three sets a day?" Cui Ze said with a smirk, three sets of fully armed five kilometers a day, it's going to be deadly.

  "You're kidding." Qu Mingjun laughed, "At this rate of training, we won't even make it to the day of the martial arts competition, and we'll all be crawling on the ground."

  "This won't work, that won't work, what's your scientific method? Are we supposed to just lie down every day?"

  "I have an idea, why don't we gather everyone together and discuss what to do next?"

  "Aren't you the team leader? You've already decided, why ask so many questions?"

  "At least unify everyone's thinking." Qu Mingjun wrote a few strokes on his notebook and then put it down.

  Choi Jae's suggestion to run 5 kilometers every day is not impossible, thought Qu Mingjun. However, this cannot greatly improve their scores. Although the ten members of the armed forces' 5-kilometer cross-country team selected by their own team are all very capable, they cannot guarantee that they will come in first when competing against the entire school, as there are many strong athletes among the old students.

  There are two weeks left before the big martial arts competition in the hospital, Qu Mingjun gathered all the other nine participants together and held a democratic life meeting to see what everyone thought.

  The meeting discussed until the end, and basically everyone recognized the training plan proposed by Qu Mingjun. Every morning, get up fully armed and run a 5km cross-country, timing, do recovery exercises after running, rest at noon, play basketball in the last two classes in the afternoon, go to the second high ground for hand-to-hand combat drills twenty times at 8 pm, and then return to the squad to prepare for washing and sleeping after finishing the recovery exercise.

  This ensures that everyone has a good endurance for the five-kilometer cross-country and is familiar with the terrain, while also increasing their explosive power. As long as everyone runs well in front of them, they can improve their performance by a lot when sprinting to the last kilometer.

  Feng Shaojun is the leader of the individual tactics group, and Qu Mingjun, in addition to gathering his own five-kilometer cross-country training every day, also has to leave some time to participate in individual tactics training. Physically, everyone basically doesn't have any problems, the only thing that needs improvement is everyone's action standards in individual tactics.

  This thing doesn't even have a particularly good method for single-soldier tactical instructors, the only emphasis is on practicing more, thinking about the movements in your head while practicing, and not just blindly practicing. As long as you practice enough to become proficient, when everyone is doing single-soldier tactics without having to think too much and can perform standard actions, that's basically mastery.

  However, Feng Shaojun still organized everyone to study each other's movements and pointed out the shortcomings, so that when training, everyone had a clear direction, and their movements improved faster.

  Captain Yan Weidong may look like a cold-faced leader, but he takes great care of his trainees. Seeing the various training groups working hard to strengthen their training, he arranged for the cooking class to set up a separate small kitchen and add some meals. When he saw that the single-soldier tactical training group's camouflage uniforms were severely worn out, he specially ran to the college's logistics department to apply for new camouflage uniforms.

  The 14th squadron is like this, and all of Lugou Institute are like this too.

  The war drums beat faster and faster, sharpening knives with a whoosh.

  Everything is ready, only waiting for the east wind!