Girls und War

Haven't eaten pork, haven't seen a pig run yet?

After fighting for so long, aren't the daily combat operations of the various leading non-commissioned officers - those sergeants and staff sergeants - an example?

Just follow their example and do as they say.

After the theoretical assessment, the more difficult tactical assessment began.

From now on, most corporals will be eliminated.

Less than one-third of them eventually become sergeants.

At this time, the girls' expressions became tense.

The previous assessment may just be a warm-up, and the main event will come later.

The tactical assessment of a sergeant is different from that of a corporal. The requirement for tactical ability is all-round and fully adaptable.

Especially as a deputy command sergeant, one must be able to adapt to command and combat capabilities in various environments.

Therefore, the tactical assessment is divided into four sections.

That is, mountains, wilderness, jungles and cities.

These four sections cover most of the terrain elements on the battlefield of modern warfare.

Those more rare elements are also included.

For example, snow-capped mountains belong to mountains, deserts belong to wilderness, and wetlands belong to jungles.

Less common elements such as oceans and islands are all supported by other special forces.

Such as beach landing teams, helicopter airborne teams, etc.

What these regular infantry sergeants have to do is fight on a normal battlefield.

Don't let them do anything too special.

So, under the guidance of the invigilator, this group of corporals came to the wider and more dazzling large-scale examination platform.

453. "Five Years as a Non-commissioned Officer, Three Years of Assessment", "New Target Sergeant Promotion Guide"

The large-scale military assessment platform is a tower-shaped building built above the Hua District Military City for the assessment and training of senior non-commissioned officers.

It covers a vast area, is built in layers, and towers into the clouds.

From a distance, it looks like several islands floating in the air, piled together.

These several platforms are each designed with different terrains to reflect the ever-changing environment on the battlefield.

This tactical assessment will be conducted on the platform.

The corporal participating in the deputy commander's assessment was quickly taken to a level marked with mountain terrain.

There are several towering peaks standing in an orderly manner here, and the highest ones are almost touching the top of the upper level.

However, the bottom of the upper platform uses optical transparency technology, so when looking from below, you will only see a faint shadow, which does not have much impact.

The people participating in the assessment quickly reached the top of the mountain platform, inside an observation deck.

Here you can have a comprehensive view of the entire platform environment and take in all the details.

It was at this point that the examiner emphasized the examination room rules and examination details to all the candidates.

Everyone already knew the situation, so no one looked too surprised.

All non-commissioned officer assessments are conducted in a fully transparent and supervised environment.

There were not many confidential matters, and everyone knew the subjects and content of the exam in advance.

This assessment is very simple overall. You have to start from a landing point, pass through a large number of terrain obstacles on the platform, and then reach the end point.

The entire journey takes about twenty minutes, and you will be disqualified if you exceed the time.

But it sounds simple, but in fact the marching skills required in this assessment are extremely complex and varied.

Because the entire battlefield environment spans a large number of irregular scenes, participants can choose multiple routes to reach the destination.

Generally speaking, the more skills a non-commissioned officer has, the greater advantage he or she will have in the assessment.

Otherwise the disadvantage is huge.

A corporal who knows nothing about this test would have little chance of reaching the finish line without any obstacles. He would even be eliminated.

These rules are clearly stated in the company's promotion manuals. Therefore, if you want to advance in rank, you must improve yourself in a targeted manner according to the rules.

After the examiner explained the outline of the assessment, he conducted a simple round of drawing lots.

Each examiner is divided into groups of eight, with vacancies left if there are not enough people.

Then the assessment began.

The first group of assessment members quickly boarded the aerial tram leading to the corners of the four platforms.

After the tram placed them at the eight preparation areas on the four sides, they began warming up and doing preparatory exercises with the help of auxiliary robots.

Xia Shu was not in the first group, so she had the opportunity to observe how the people in the previous groups acted.

She stood in front of the tracking screen with several girls who had the same idea.

After the first group of members pressed the ready button, the examiner pressed the timing button.

Eight fully armed girls all descended along the rappelling ropes to the snow-capped mountain peaks below.

Xia Shu observed the overall terrain of the mountain platform and found it somewhat like a crater-like landform piled up in a square sandbox.

Then four snow mountains were piled up along the four corners of the sandbox.

The starting point of the assessment for the eight candidates is on the eight edge lines of the four snow-capped mountains.

After they came down from the snow-capped mountains, they arrived at a large slope of grassland and mountain terrain.

From here, there are several paths leading to the finish line in the center of the platform.

One is a relatively long and gentle mountain road, one is a narrow mountain road with rugged rocks, and the other is the most complex canyon fissure.

Coming out of these three roads, there are several optional roads up the mountain.

In short, the more complex the terrain, the shorter the distance, and the simpler the terrain, the longer the road.

If you want to get good results or even avoid being eliminated, you must find a way to choose the route that suits you best.

On the observation deck, the test results of the eight girls were displayed on the big screen.

Both are two shots, one far and one near.

You can see that after they slide down from a high altitude to the top of the snow mountain, they start to choose the route to go down the mountain.

Going down a snowy mountain is not an easy task. If you want to be quick, you must use props.

The tool bench on the top of the mountain provides them with several means of transportation, such as various types of skis, sleds, snowmobiles and rappel ropes.

Most of the girls chose snowmobiles, but some also chose skis and abseils.

But Xia Shu felt that the rappel rope was not suitable.

Because the rappelling route on this snow mountain is somewhat special, it is located on a remote ice cliff on the side of the snow mountain.

Although it may seem like the shortest distance, in reality the speed of rappelling cannot be pursued blindly.

Expect this route to take significantly longer than on skis or a snowmobile.

Xia Shu guessed that the girl might not know how to use other means of transportation on the snowy mountains, and walking was too slow, so she could only choose the simplest and easiest to learn method of rappelling.

Sure enough, the girl who chose to rappel encountered a landing point with more complicated terrain when she was halfway down the ice track.

With nowhere to hold on, she could only use the rope to crawl down little by little, and as a result, it took her extra time to reach the foot of the mountain.

By the time she left the snowy mountain area and reached the grassland area, she was already the last one.

The other assessors had already gone down the mountain using other means of transportation, leaving a great distance between them and her.

The specific locations of the eight reference personnel have been marked on the large platform map of the observation deck, and their experience paths have been drawn with red lines.

The distance between them and the center point was clearly visible, and everyone on the observation deck was silently estimating the time it would take them to reach the destination.

And if it were me, where should I be at this time?

Of course, there are also many girls who did not look at other people's assessment results.

Most of them have already gone through the sergeant assessment, so they have their own judgment on this assessment.

For them, the subsequent on-the-spot combat assessment is the top priority.

What is needed for this assessment is the small map that was given to them before.

These girls are taking the time to memorize the map and prepare for the subsequent assessment.

Xia Shu looked at it for a while and then stopped.

These projects on the assessment platform have long been listed in detail in the promotion manual.

Some veteran non-commissioned officers also compiled a lot of exam strategies and shared them in the community. Xia Shu was already very familiar with these things.

In her opinion, this was not a difficult test.

So, like the other veteran non-commissioned officers, he sat down beside them and memorized the map.

The assessment of this map is different in each period, it is a random thing.

The time available to understand a map is always limited, so you must seize every minute and every second.

454. When you say "I can do this too", you are already a keyboard warrior

About twenty minutes later, Xia Shu heard someone calling him from the waterside.

She looked up and found that the first batch of members had completed the assessment and now it was her turn.

The examiner had just called out Xia Shu's number, but Xia Shu hadn't noticed. Fortunately, Shuibian noticed and called out to her.

Xia Shu quickly stood up from his seat and thanked the waterside.

Then he stood in the ready position and said to the examiner.

Seeing that it was Xia Shu who was late, the examiner didn't say anything. He just asked the girls to sign their names on the examination receipt and then asked the main console whether the examination room had been cleared.

The examiner was notified that the cleaning would take a while, so he was not in a hurry and let the second group of people waiting to take the exam rest there for a while.

At this time, the first group of members who had finished the exam had already taken the elevator up.

Seeing that they were either happy or depressed, with marks of damage or burnt marks on their bodies, all the girls in the waiting area had sullen expressions.

If I didn't do well on the test, I'd be embarrassed. But the worst thing was to be embarrassed and not do well at the same time.

Xia Shu felt a little bored, and happened to see Shuibian giving him a thumbs up, and said "come on" with a smile.

She also smiled and replied, "You should do your best too."

This suddenly made her feel as if she was back in the recruit company, and Shuibian was encouraging the recruits in Class A of the Third Platoon before the assessment.

As time goes by, I never thought that there would be a day when I would participate in the same assessment with the squad leader.

As for the wonders of the world, that’s all.

The examiner stood in front of the panoramic camera and waited for a long time, and finally received a signal from the main console that the examination room had been cleared.

So she turned around and asked the second group of eight girls to take their positions.

Xia Shu quickly walked onto the aerial tram and fastened his seat belt.

The examiner pressed the button and the aerial tram quickly started, carrying her to a corner of the platform.

Xia Shu looked down from the air, observing the terrain below from a few hundred meters away, silently planning his future route in his mind.

A moment later, she was at the starting line in the corner of the platform.

The starting line is located in mid-air, like a black box floating helplessly dozens of meters above the top of a snowy mountain.

After entering the black box, she found that it was a relatively large room with a small square opening in the center of the room, and a descending rope extended straight down from the opening.

This is the starting point of the assessment.