Chapter 68 Temporary Review of Troops

  Still no good?

  Qū Míng Jùn was thoroughly depressed, what to do? Should he obediently go back to where he came from? This is the 50th anniversary of National Day's grand military parade! How many years can one serve in the army? How many National Day parades can one catch during their service? Not to mention being able to participate in person.

  If I could be in the front row, that would be an exciting thing to think about. Thinking about it, my family's elders are standing on the viewing platform on both sides, and there are many other people's uncles and aunts there too, this is absolutely a great stage to show off myself.

  Qu Mingjun looked up at the doctor, who was smiling and shaking his pen in his hand, looking at himself.

  Huh? Why hasn't he started writing yet? Is it... Heh heh, there's still a way out of this.

  "What's that, Doctor?" Qu Mingjun rubbed his hands and smiled. "What's the bottom line to get you to be lenient with your pen? You see, if I were to tell Instructor Fan about this physical examination being written off by your hand, wouldn't it hurt the harmony between you old hometown folks? How about this: whatever conditions you have, just say them."

  "Hmm――" The doctor crooked his mouth, "I said you're not very old, but you've got a lot of tricks up your sleeve. Threats and bribes, huh? What's going on? You want to say that, now I'm really curious what would happen if you don't pass."

  "No, no, no, no...!" Qu Mingjun looked at the doctor taking out his pen to write and was so scared that he quickly waved his hand. "Doctor, Doctor, I was wrong, I was wrong, isn't that enough? Then tell me, what exactly do you want?"

  "Haha." The doctor was overjoyed, "Come on, kid, what's your surname?"

  His surname is Qu, named Qu Mingjun, who won the championship in the military competition of the whole army at the Military Academy. Wang Jin hurriedly stretched out his head to take over the conversation.

  "Oh, it's you." The doctor nodded and shook his head, unclear what he meant. "Good kid, well done, you're a credit to the academy!"

  The doctor finished speaking and took the seal of approval, heavily stamping it on Qu Mingjun's physical examination form. "Here, take this, but you must come over tomorrow, I still need to give you a prescription, while training hasn't started yet, hurry up and take care of yourself."

  "Ah? Ha, thank you doctor, thank you doctor." Qu Mingjun stretched out his hand to take it.

  The doctor suddenly took back the physical examination form and said seriously: "You must come tomorrow."

  A warm current surged in Qu Ming's heart, and he nodded solemnly, "Don't worry, I'll definitely come."

  The doctor smiled with satisfaction, handed the physical examination form back to Qu Mingjun and called out: "Next."

  Qu Mingjun thanked the doctor again, with a smile on his face to check other items, all of which were normal and smooth. Qu Mingjun got a physical examination form filled with red "normal".

  The next day, Qu Mingjun took a leave of absence and went to see a doctor for a prescription. He ran to the superior hospital in the city for a thorough examination and electrotherapy. After returning, he continued with his convalescence at the medical department of his own hospital.

  All this is idle talk. To cut a long story short, after Qu Mingjun finished the physical examination, on the third day in the afternoon, all the students who had passed the physical examination were summoned to the front of the college's parade ground.

  Inside the Shi Men Lu Institute, there are many iconic buildings, including the grand reviewing stand at the northernmost end of the large playground. The reviewing stand faces south and backs north, with a large building behind it that is the college's auditorium, which can hold three thousand people. The reviewing stand is suspended five meters above the outer wall of the auditorium, with zigzagging stairs connecting the upper and lower levels on both sides. Below the stand is a flowerbed of several dozen square meters, in the center of which is a pattern made from evergreen plants and flowers in the shape of the eight-one-five-star emblem. From a distance, it looks majestic and awe-inspiring.

  The reviewing stand is very large, sixty steps east and west, forty steps south and north. It can accommodate over a hundred people on the platform. This is also an important venue for Shigemori Ryokan to hold large-scale events and graduation ceremonies.

  Only 22 people passed the physical examination of the 14th Reconnaissance Squadron, including Qu Mingjun, Feng Shaojun, Li Dongkuan, Cui Ze and Wang Jin. Others, such as Ma Xiaotian, were eliminated in the first item of height.

  Qu Mingjun and his group arrived at the parade ground in a small column, where many teams had already gathered. It seemed that they were all students who had passed the physical examination. The larger groups were basically graduate students, while the smaller ones were students like Qu Mingjun's class, who still had one year to go before graduation.

  There were several instructors standing on the platform, but since they were quite far away, Qu Mingjun couldn't see them very clearly. There were also several instructors standing below the platform, each holding a file folder in their hands.

  It turned out to be a test. Only the students in front of the team were called up one by one by the instructor, from this end of the reviewing stand, marching to the other end. Then the officers wrote and drew on the documents in their hands.

  After a while, an instructor called out the name of the 14th squadron. Feng Shaojun led the entire 14th team to bring over the twenty-two people.

  According to the name list, one by one. It was soon Qiu Mingjun's turn.

  Qu Mingjun didn't need to put on airs or pretend, after all, the many years of training weren't for nothing. With his standard and upright physique, and rhythmic regular pace, he caught the eye of several instructors standing beside him, one of whom couldn't help but nod in approval.

  Qu Mingjun was still a bit nervous about his performance, but as he marched forward in step, it was impossible for him to look around, let alone see the expressions of the instructors beside him, not to mention those on the high reviewing stand.

  The 14th squad of 22 people finished their drill assessment and returned collectively under the instructor's command.

  "Is that all?" Wang Jin muttered in the queue.

  "Don't talk nonsense, the instructor is still watching us." Feng Shaonian didn't even turn his head, and in a low voice warned Wang Jin, then loudly shouted: "One, two, three, four!"

  It turned out that Feng Shaojun was indeed experienced. After the event, during an unintentional conversation with the instructor, he mentioned the discipline problem of the 14th team. The reason why the instructors had a very good impression of the 14th team at first was not only because their formation movements were very standard, but also because they kept their formation discipline particularly well before entering and after leaving the field, unlike some teams that, after finishing the assessment, would leave in disarray, laughing and chatting, with no regard for formation. The instructor said at the time, "We can't have people like this in our parade team."

  Finally, when the personnel of the review team were determined for the first time, in addition to the graduates of that year, there were more people left behind from the 14th team. As many as nineteen people were left behind. Some teams didn't even have one person. In the words of Captain Yan Weidong, I don't need to look and I know my soldiers won't be wrong.

  So, the parade team was temporarily established. Why is it temporary? Mainly because all the affairs of the parade are still in the process of formation, and personnel are also being gradually selected and adjusted. This time, 425 people were selected for the temporarily formed parade team. Every evening after dinner, they gathered at the parade ground, standing densely packed.

  "Take a short rest."

  "Attention!" A loud command from Qu Mingjun, and the twenty-four students standing in front of him immediately straightened their postures.

  Due to the excellent quality of the troops, Qu Mingjun was appointed as the platoon leader of his seventh company before the arrival of the platoon leader instructor appointed by the higher authorities, and Qu Mingjun was in charge of organizing the training of the seventh company.

  The training mission was very strict, and Qu Mingjun and his team felt it on the first day of training. The instructors responsible for the parade training were all from the Military Basic Education and Research Department's Queue Teaching Group, and almost all the students knew them and considered them their benefactors. However, these benefactors were also ruthless when they started to discipline.

  On the first day, all personnel followed the instructor's requirements and rearranged themselves in a disorderly manner according to their height, forming a parade formation with 25 rows horizontally and 17 rows vertically. The 425 students formed a large square formation and stood in front of the reviewing stand. Then, everyone stood one meter apart from each other, turned their military caps over and placed them on top of their heads, and began standing at attention training in place.

  For three whole hours, they stood still under the overturned military caps, with instructors occasionally walking over to correct their posture and movements. Qu Mingjun was also corrected several times, such as when his head was slightly tilted or his neck wasn't tightly against the back of his collar.

  Moreover, the instructor would occasionally sneak up behind a team member and slap their leg with his palm, which really knocked down several team members who were tired and relaxed. One trainee from Team 14, Zone 1 was even slapped to the ground by the instructor and struggled to get up for half a day because his legs had gone numb from standing for too long.

  So Qu Mingjun and the others attended classes during the day and trained at night and on weekends. Before they knew it, time had arrived at the winter vacation that all the trainees were looking forward to. All the trainees who were not selected for the parade team happily packed their bags and went home for the New Year's celebration, while Qu Mingjun and the other 19 of them had to stay behind for further intensive training.

  Qiu Mingjun had already called home to explain to his mother and Xiao Qi that he wouldn't be returning. As a result, Xiao Qi was so excited that she said if Brother Jun was going to participate in the National Day parade, she would definitely try to find a way to watch it, to see if she could find her own Brother Jun. It was actually Qiu Mingjun who was left feeling somewhat amused after hanging up the phone - this silly girl, with hundreds of thousands of people there, even if you had binoculars, what would you be able to see?

  "Fall in... assemble in front of the building!" Every day after breakfast at 8 o'clock, this whistle would sound on time.

  This time the team was brought to the big playground, unexpectedly there was another team of officers wearing horse pants on the playground.

  "Comrades." The captain of the parade team stood in front of the formation and introduced, "Now the platoon leaders assigned by our superiors have all arrived, and our parade training can enter a new phase. Next, I will introduce these platoon leaders to you."

  "The first row is long-faced and comes from the Military Basic Teaching and Research Section, his name is..."

  ……

  "The seventh row is in front." The commander of the troops stopped for a moment, flipped through the list in his hand, and at this time, a lieutenant colonel stood up. Qu Mingjun, the leader of the seventh row, was taken aback. Just now, an officer wearing cavalry pants uniform was also in the seventh row, but he didn't notice, how could it be him?

  "The seventh row, the one with a long face, from the Special Warfare Teaching and Research Department, his name is..." The major officer suddenly discovered Qu Mingjun and winked at him.

  Today, the angel didn't go out, but relatives came... speechless. Suddenly realized that Chinese New Year is just running around, eating and drinking, meeting and greeting, tired in the back. Several younger siblings messed me up so much that I couldn't even code words, my thoughts were all gone. Today's chapter has fewer words, please forgive me. The angel wants to sort out the plot for the next part.