Chapter 169: No. 1 among all members, the strongest team
The light weapons shooting range of the Army Academy covers a large area. Regardless of the land area, the cement road built around the site is 400 meters long and wide.
The total area is approximately 160,000 square meters.
For such a large area, running around it would take about 1.6 kilometers.
Large shooting ranges like the Army Academy were rare in the 1990s, even within the entire military.
at this time.
It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. The ground, which had been exposed to the scorching sun all day, was almost cracked, and waves of heat were steaming from the ground.
On the track, the majority of the people were members of the second team of students, and they were like wild horses running at full speed.
Always occupying the forefront.
When many people are running, because the backpack is too heavy, they have to stretch out one hand to support the bottom of the backpack to prevent stones from falling.
Long-distance armed cross-country running is supposed to be a test of endurance and willpower, not physical fitness.
The starting gap is ten or twenty meters, so there is no need to rush to catch up.
Because even a mule carrying 30 kilograms of cargo cannot run 10 kilometers in one breath without stopping. It needs time to catch its breath.
But mules can't do that, but the people's soldiers can.
Chen Mo, Xie Yong, Lai Wei and Ding Zeliang took the lead, setting an example for the entire team, boosting the morale of the entire second team, and rushing forward desperately.
The heavy-duty cross-country team will only take the last place, which means that if the second team wants to win first place again, they must at least ensure that the overall performance of all team members is the highest among the seven teams.
A long journey is not an easy journey. Physical fitness is important, but maintaining high team morale at the start is even more important.
I could hear the heavy breathing behind me, and it was getting closer and closer.
Chen Mo didn't even need to look back to know that it was the land commander and the armored squad that were catching up with him.
He and Xie Yong looked at each other and both accelerated at the same time.
Chen Mo focused his eyes, constantly adjusted his breathing, stared at the road ahead, and fought with all his might.
He tried hard, and the people behind him were also affected, and the whole group began to speed up.
"These guys, youth is their asset, they're getting competitive again."
The examiner Yang Shilei, who was watching from a distance, saw that all seven team members were devoting their energy to the new round of competition.
He breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked into the tent, grabbed the mineral water on the table and gulped down half a bottle.
What is assessment?
There are so many students in the Army Academy, and the academy itself has the important task of training talents for the army, which is the country's violent institution.
Command talents not only need to have a strategic foundation, but their personal military qualities cannot be ignored either, especially if they are officers trained with great effort.
If you get out of breath after running a few steps and rest after walking a few steps, can you still be called a commander?
The mid-year assessment is a quantitative evaluation of each department. The achievement rate of each goal must be reported to superiors for feedback and planning of various training plans for the second half of the year.
To put it bluntly.
What Yang Shilei wants is this kind of spirit of striving for the first place, trying one's best, daring to fight, and striving to win the first place.
The orienteering event was disrupted, and the academy didn't say much. Yang Shilei roughly knew what happened.
And the soldier named Chen Mo was jumping around every day, and he also understood what was going on.
In any case, as the captain of the reconnaissance squadron, a lieutenant colonel-level cadre, he is already a middle-level leader among the military officers in the Army Academy.
He had heard that the academy was building a training base recently, and after the mid-year assessment, he would also participate in the relevant training as one of the military instructors.
Chen Mo was eager to show off and wanted to get a qualified identity to go to the base, and he knew this.
Captain Yang was thinking about his own little plan in his mind, while at the same time squinting his eyes, crossing his legs, and looking at the competition field in the distance.
Members of the 30th Squadron continue to perform their duties.
There was a guard post every ten meters and a sentry every twenty meters around the runway on standby, and a lot of mineral water was placed in front of them.
Provide fresh water for the soldiers undergoing assessment.
soon.
Weight-bearing test field.
The second lap was over, and the crowd, who had already run at least three kilometers, began to slow down significantly.
Including Chen Mo, their fighting spirit is no longer as fierce as it was at the beginning.
But these do not affect the fighting among veterans.
Qin Xiaojun and Xu Zhanqi caught up from behind, both of them panting heavily. Even though their legs had already gone weak, they still glared at Chen Mo, Xie Yong and the others fiercely.
Always trying my best to surpass these guys from the second team.
As the saying goes, the first effort is strong, the first is weak, the second is exhausted, and the third is not strong enough.
Being able to be selected from other colleges to participate in the assessment together with the Reconnaissance Department of Lu Academy, the difference in their own strength will not be too big.
At present, they have run nearly one-third of the distance, which is the most critical stage. Once they are left behind at this time, it will be difficult to catch up later.
Several people moved forward at the same pace. The difference in physical fitness and food supplements was minimized at this moment by the obsession with winning first place.
Chen Mo felt as if every cell in his body was roaring wildly, and the sun above his head seemed to be staring at him alone.
The stones in the backpack behind him kept hitting his back due to the bumps caused by running, and severe pain and fatigue swept over him all the time.
Even the air I breathed in and out of my mouth and nose felt hot.
Even so, Chen Mo still faced the heat wave, mobilizing all the strength in his body and moving forward with all his strength.
The sweat on his forehead flowed along the brim of his hat and down his cheeks, wetting his shirt and covering his eyes.
Every step forward would leave a sweat mark under the feet, and every breath would make the chest feel as if it was being cut open by a sharp knife, with unbearable pain.
But Chen Mo seemed unaware of it.
He was always fighting hard with these veterans. He didn't want to lose not only the results but also his momentum.
No one's honor can be obtained by waiting.
What he needs now is results and sufficiently dazzling qualifications. The original intention of changing the map is actually to win, to help the team gain time and win first place.
Who the hell could have known that those veterans would be so powerful that they changed half of the map, but ultimately ended up making things worse. This was truly beyond his expectations.
The race continues, lap three, lap four
After four laps, the total distance was almost seven kilometers, and more than forty minutes had passed.
It was almost six o'clock, the sun was setting and it was almost dusk.
The veterans who had been competing with each other for most of the day were still fighting. Chen Mo was not the first, but he was still in the first echelon.
He was always fighting with the veterans of the second squadron, the army commander, and the people from the Armored Forces Academy.
Chen Mo was really not sure whether the team could get first place.
After all, this kind of running with loads, without guns, helmets, or even magazines or grenades, is a group of people running with quilts and stone balls on their backs.
The heavy equipment was all bundled together.
I can't help lighten the burden on my teammates.
However, there is one good thing.
With strong physical fitness as a foundation, after reaching a certain level, the body will not feel as uncomfortable as at the beginning.
After going through the most uncomfortable period, Chen Mo felt that he had entered a very strange state. He always felt that his body had endless energy. The more he ran, the more he wanted to run, and the more he ran, the better he could run.
Just when everyone entered the fifth round, all the hatred and resentment were basically forgotten.
The examiner on duty in the distance suddenly took a megaphone and shouted: "The Military Medical College team, withdraw from the assessment, the other teams continue."
Someone quit?
Hearing the noise, Chen Mo subconsciously looked back.
Because the crowd at the rear blocked his view, he couldn't see clearly, but he could still see that two members of the Military Medical College team, who had been following behind, fell down.
The veterans on duty nearby were helping him to rest aside.
Seeing this situation, Chen Mo grinned. This was the college's mid-year assessment. The requirements for this large-scale assessment would be relatively high.
Ever since he heard that people from the Military Medical College would be coming, he guessed that the bottom team was coming.
This is not really Chen Mo being arrogant. After all, they are of different military branches and their usual focuses are also different. He is competing with a group of old scouts.
How many units in the entire army dare to do this?
Not to mention being a military doctor.
Even if special forces come, as long as they are not from a particularly famous combat team, they can only stand aside as punishment.
Sixth lap.
Chen Mo's discomfort has completely disappeared. That's not right. Except for his back which is still painful from being poked by the stones, at least his legs and lungs are no longer uncomfortable.
Completely numb.
The other veterans who have been able to hold on to this point have basically entered this state.
It’s time for the final sprint.
At the finish line, someone pulled up a streamer, and the examiners who were originally sitting and resting in the tent began to stand up one after another.
Not just them.
The veteran who was initially in the middle of the pack began to gain momentum.
The crowd on the track was charging forward like crazy.
Perhaps because it was nearing evening, the assessments of other departments had temporarily ended, and the people who were taking the assessments at the stadium, individual tactical training ground, Hill No. 2, engineering training ground, and obstacle training ground all gathered at the light weapons shooting range.
Chen Mo hasn't reached the finish line yet.
A large number of people began to pour in from the vicinity.
The assessment process of the Reconnaissance Department has always been the most watched scene by all departments of the Army Academy, with crowds of people flocking in.
Many people recognized Chen Mo as the first person to complete the 1,000-meter obstacle course at the military training ground yesterday.
"Hey, isn't that a scholar?"
"It's really him, Xiucai, hurry up, come on!!"
There was a small commotion in the crowd. Chen Mo heard the noise, but he didn't dare turn around to respond.
After running ten kilometers with a load, the team came in last, and everyone in the field was vying for the top spot.
He stared at the finish line and slowly moved his body to the inside of the track, keeping the closest distance.
Even though his legs had no feeling at all and running felt like walking on cotton, Chen Mo was always at the front.
There are only 300 meters, 200 meters, 100 meters, and 50 meters to the finish line.
When Fang Huaidu clenched his fists and everyone around him focused their eyes on the finish line.
Chen Mo sped up suddenly, becoming two body lengths faster than Xie Yong who was in second place, and hit the finish line ribbon ahead of time.
"Well done, great scholar!!"
Some of the confused audience members around cheered in unison.
But they didn't know that being ranked first among the scholars didn't mean the assessment was over.
As he reached the finish line.
The veteran on duty nearby immediately stuffed the number plate into Chen Mo's hand and made way.
Next, Xie Yong was second, Ding Zeliang was third, Qin Xiaojun was fourth, and Lai Wei was fifth.
The crowd crossed the finish line one by one.
It's not over yet.
After all, Chen Mo had served as the deputy captain of the second team, even if it was only temporary, he knew everyone in the team.
Take off your backpack and put it on the ground.
Chen Mo forced himself to support his tired body, pressing his hands on the backpack, while suppressing his limbs that were trembling due to exhaustion, and looking up at the runway.
When the 26th person, that is, the last of the 14 members of the second team of the reconnaissance department students, successfully crossed the finish line.
Chen Mo finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The struggle on the track continues, but it no longer has much to do with them.
The fourteen members of the second team of students have already proven themselves, and even if the map is not changed, they will still be the first place.
All staff are excellent.
“Haha, I win!!”
Xie Yong collapsed on the ground, grinning widely.
Although he is the captain, the captain of a team like the one in the academy does not have much status. The entire team is not like the grassroots troops, where everyone eats, lives and trains together all day long.
There is tacit understanding and collective honor on the field, and we can fight for a common goal.
Here, as the captain, he could do very little. Because of the heavy load, he couldn't even share the burden with his team members.
It is really not easy to get first place.
"Scholar, we won, haha." Wang Bo dragged his tired body and sat down in front of Chen Mo, just grinning.
Not long after.
The rest of the students in the second team also carried heavy backpacks and walked to where Chen Mo and Xie Yong were.
A group of extremely tired veterans looked at each other and the people around them, with smiles on their faces that could not be concealed.
Those who were originally sitting stood up, and those who were originally lying down to rest also stood up.
At this moment, the fourteen people finally let go of their inner grudges and alienation. After all, if it weren't for this assessment, they were just people from two dormitories.
They were a hastily assembled team from seven major military regions and across the country. Who could truly convince whom? And who could truly integrate into a collective so easily?
Although the orienteering result was invalidated, it was still first place. In this weighted cross-country race, Chen Mo and Xie Yong were always at the front, setting an example for those behind them.
This is the most direct influence brought by strength.
"Brothers, we have fulfilled our mission and we are first again." Chen Mo smiled and spoke first.
"The assessment isn't over yet. From now on, we will be the strongest team." One of the veterans in dormitory 401 said jokingly.
However, at least half of this is true.
If the promoted veterans from the reconnaissance companies of major military regions across the country can really work together, it will not be a problem for the Second Squad to win the final first place.
Just from the speed at which these guys change maps, it's not hard to see how powerful their teamwork is.
"Come, I wish you all the best in the upcoming assessment. May we overcome all obstacles, sweep away our opponents, and win first place."
Chen Mo spoke again, and a group of people formed a circle, putting their hands together.
"Captain, you shout." Chen Mo looked at Xie Yong with a smile.
"You are the deputy captain, it's the same if you shout." Xie Yong responded with a smile on his face.
"Okay, come on, comrades, let's hope our team can sweep the opposition and take first place."
Chen Mo swore loudly.
A dozen veterans laughed and shouted along.
The sound spread throughout the entire shooting range. The team of the Army Command, the team of the Armored Academy, and even the two teams of the Army Academy were all a little fed up with watching it.
Damn, when you say you’re going to sweep away all your opponents, aren’t you just sweeping away us?
Several teams looked at each other and could see dissatisfaction in each other's eyes.
But no one said anything.
Who makes him number one?
However, the morale of the second team did inspire other teams.
Many veterans subconsciously began to gather.
Whether it is weighted cross-country or orienteering, they are just appetizers for the assessment.
The purpose is just to get these people to work together.
The finish line is set at the light weapons shooting range.
In addition, now that so many people who are taking the test have gathered here, some veterans have already noticed it.
Night subjects should be the most intense competition.
This is the moment when the team really needs to work together.
It's coming.
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