War Military: From 1978

Chapter 281 Two Months at Military Academy!
Military academy life officially begins.

The books were picked up that day, and classes officially began the next day.

Contrary to what Chu An had expected, Chu An and his classmates were not currently taking basic university courses such as Chinese, mathematics, and English.

But this does not mean that academic work is easy.

Map reading and mapping, terrain surveying, Vietnamese translation, tactical and strategic analysis, sand table exercises, and tactical drills.

These highly targeted professional courses are packed full of content.

And that's not all. Chu An and his classmates' major is called Combined Arms Command, and the school is clearly trying to capitalize on this name.

Familiarity with infantry equipment and tactics, artillery equipment and tactics, and tank equipment and tactics is all covered in the course.

The course includes tactical drills that combine infantry and tanks, infantry and artillery, and even all-round integration of infantry, tanks, and artillery.

Moreover, the trainees are all officers and veterans who came from the battlefield.

All of them are based on combat experience, so a large number of real-world cases are presented on the stage.

Before Chu An and his classmates entered the school, they wrote their war memories every night in their spare time from farm work, and now they have become everyone's teaching materials.

Various real-world combat cases were analyzed and studied.

The entire learning process was completely different from the procedure for attending a regular military academy, yet it was also perfectly natural.

After all, they only have a one-year school term.

There's no way they'd actually arrange a university-level education in math, physics, or chemistry for you.

Moreover, even if it's a genuine teaching, not many people can truly understand it.

It's important to know that none of these students were admitted through the entrance exam, and their educational backgrounds varied greatly. Although most of them had a junior high school education, that was about it.

Those who genuinely passed the rigorous military entrance exam are still standing at attention during outdoor training.

"Squad leader, you actually went to see Instructor Niu!"

During a leisurely afternoon in the dormitory, Wang Xiaoliu watched Chu An sitting at the table reading a book, and couldn't help but speak up after leaning over.

Because the book Chu An is reading now is not a professional book from a military academy, but a basic book on music composition that talks about melody, harmony, rhythm and form.

"what!"

Chu An casually uttered an "ah".

His memory was so good that the school's professional courses and cultural theory courses were no challenge for him.

Two months into the semester, Chu An consistently ranked first in all subjects, and by a significant margin.

Because Chu An often gets full marks in his subject exams.

This is an oppressive feeling that makes others feel hopeless.

But for Chu An himself, these things were actually not difficult at all.

Leaving aside cultural theory courses, let's talk about professional courses. Because it's only basic command education, tactical command is basically just simple company and platoon level tactics.

What's really important is familiarity with the professional skills of various grassroots military branches.

But these challenges were no match for Chu An.

He was originally a reconnaissance soldier, and he had already learned many things, such as driving.

While the other trainees were still struggling to learn how to turn the steering wheel without power steering and how to press the accelerator, Chu An simply drove them around the training ground at high speed.

The same applies to the basic skills of other corps such as engineers, artillerymen, and tank crewmen.

Chu An hadn't been exposed to tanks before, but in other skills like artillery, he was more accurate and faster at aiming than the instructors.

After all, this is a competition of computing power.

Therefore, based on all of the above, he has now started to find things to do for himself.

Such as now.

After the art academy instructor gave a lecture, Chu An approached him after class and sought his advice on song composition.

Actually, it's mainly the music.

Because Chu An has plenty of military songs in his head.

In particular, there was one song that Chu An remembered, and he felt it was such a pity that it had been forgotten.

"A blood-stained glory!"

This is a song that Chu An's middle school music teacher taught him before his rebirth.

But after entering the workforce, it's rare to hear about it, and there's no content about it online in many places.

The reason isn't that the song is bad; it's simply that the person who created the song made a mistake, which caused the song to be affected.

In my memory, this song was just very emotionally moving, but I was still young back then, so that was all.

But now that he has experienced the war himself, he is deeply moved when he thinks back to the songs specifically written about it.

So Chu An decided to create the song himself first.

In that way, this rare and wonderful song won't be literally lost. But...

He remembers the lyrics and knows how to sing them, but since he has never studied songwriting, the melody is a big problem.

After all, creating a complete song is not as simple as just being able to sing it.

You definitely need to compose the melody for how you sing it.

Of course, this requirement is not difficult. You just need to know how to sing it, learn some basic arrangement, and then fill in the lyrics.

Even if it's not difficult, you still have to learn it.

"Hehe, that's great! Class monitor, when you actually write a song, teach me to sing it, and I'll definitely learn it!"

Wang Xiaoliu laughed heartily.

He was obviously joking.

After all, just because Chu An is very good at studying military science doesn't mean he'll be good at it after switching fields.

Fighting cattle and creating songs are completely unrelated things.

"Fine! But don't bother me now, go and learn on your own!"

Chu An glanced at him sideways: "Tomorrow is the basic tactical theory exam. If you get less than 80 points, you know what will happen!"

"Hey! Class monitor, could you lower the bar a little this time?"

"Yeah! Class monitor, how about 60 points? Can't we lower our expectations a bit?"

Inside the dormitory, the last student also cried out with a pained expression.

The class monitor is a top student, but he has both good and bad qualities.

After all, in a military academy environment, competition is everywhere.

Moreover, in many cases, the competition within the district team is based on classes.

With Chu An as a score-boosting player, they often manage to stand on the winner's stage.

But the downsides are even more obvious.

The platoon leader and squad leader would tell them to learn from Chu An, especially those in the same dormitory. If their exam results were poor, they would be the ones to be criticized.

People will ask you why, even though you're in the same dorm and live together every day, the other person gets a perfect score while you fail!
This is a very frustrating question, and they also want to know why Chu An finds learning so easy.

Look, I still have the mood and time to learn how to compose songs.

But what about them?

The kind of person who stays up late into the night with the lights off, even with a desk lamp on, to keep working.

However, the various assessments were still incredibly difficult, and he often failed.

"Stop nagging!" Chu An said with a stern face, "Go and inform Yan An and the others that 80 points is the passing score tomorrow. Anyone who doesn't pass will have to do an extra week of bayonet practice!"

The two people in the dormitory immediately looked distressed.

But they didn't have the courage to refute Chu An.

Although Chu An was only the class monitor, and although they were all cadre trainees, daily physical training was not the focus.

But in those days, even cadres couldn't avoid bayonet fighting.

Especially after this war.

Although Chu An never actually fought the enemy with bayonets in this war.

However, this does not mean that such situations do not exist on the battlefield.

In fact, this situation is quite common.

Not to mention the situations where, when defending a position, you run out of ammunition and food, and in the end, you can only fight with bayonets.

Even when attacking enemy positions, charging into the trenches and engaging in close combat with bayonets drawn is a fast and effective fighting process.

Especially since this batch of trainees are all grassroots cadres.

On the battlefield, it is always the front line who leads the charge.

Bayonet combat is a required course that must be learned and mastered.

Of course, the main reason for saying all this is that they can't beat Chu An.

Even if the remaining eight students in the class attacked together, they would all be beaten black and blue by Chu An alone.

Therefore, Chu An's so-called week of extra bayonet training was an unparalleled pressure for them.

If you don't want to get beaten up, you can only try your best to meet the requirements of class monitor Chu An.

As for resistance, that's impossible.

Chu An's title of hero was overwhelming, and he was also their class monitor.

The key problem is that they can't win in a fight, and they can't pass the exam either.
(End of this chapter)