Girls und War

Xia Shu turned his head to look at Fafner, but found that she was staring straight at him and had no intention of getting along well with him.

So Xia Shu shrugged and just thought it was a joke made by Sister Dongliang.

After Pigeon led the non-commissioned officers from the teaching group to visit various departments of the Lieutenant Academy, their work came to an end.

In the following time, I will simply do some finishing work and wait for school to start.

Not long after that, the quotas for new students in the Flower District were finally fully confirmed.

After the teaching group received it, Sister Dongliang quickly informed Pigeon, gave them a copy, and organized a meeting for the members of the two teaching groups.

Looking at the list of more than 200 people, Cream, who had many years of training experience, frowned and whispered, "Why are there so many people?"

Some other officers and instructors also began to whisper, seeming a little surprised by the situation.

Xia Shu didn't know the market situation, so he whispered to An Nan, "Are there a lot of people this year?"

An Nan nodded and replied, "Based on the enrollment numbers of previous years, this year's enrollment is indeed much higher."

“How many should be normal?”

"The number of people in recent years has increased slightly compared to previous years, but overall, 80 to 90 people should be normal. It will rarely exceed 100."

"Double as much?" Xia Shu was shocked when he heard that.

Seeing her like this, An Nan smiled and said, "Maybe a lot of them are directed at you."

At this time, Sister Dongliang, who was sitting in the meeting chair, suddenly coughed and said to them, "Everyone, please be quiet. Let's start the meeting now."

704. The sudden appearance of competitors

As the meeting began, the officers and non-commissioned officers in the conference room stopped whispering and turned their attention to Sister Dongliang.

Seeing that everyone was ready to listen to her, Sister Dongliang picked up the list of new students and briefly talked about this year's enrollment expansion.

After the generals' meeting a few days ago, everyone has analyzed the bill's policies very clearly.

Expanding enrollment is the general trend and is inevitable.

Even though the number of recruits for their military academy has more than doubled compared to previous years, if you really think about it, the number of recruits enrolled in the recruit camp next door is even more than four times that of the military academy students.

This is only the first enrollment expansion since the bill was announced, and many people in remote areas are not yet prepared for the enrollment expansion bill.

In a few years, the number of admissions to military academies may double.

However, even though enrollment is expanding, the actual effect of the bill is not yet in sight, and they don’t know what it will become.

The new law is used for admissions, but the teaching model remains the old one.

When they got the list of new students, they found that teaching resources were indeed a bit tight.

So how to solve this problem next is the topic they need to discuss.

After Sister Dongliang explained the situation to everyone in the conference room, she said very straightforwardly, "If you have any questions, you can speak up now."

After she asked the question, someone immediately raised his hand to speak.

Sister Dongliang nodded, and the other party said, "Since our teaching resources are no longer sufficient, should we expand the staffing of the teaching team?"

After saying this, the other girls expressed their agreement.

But Sister Dongliang shook her head and said, "School is about to start. Even if we want to expand this year, it may be too late. Everyone should prepare for a tough battle."

After he finished speaking, there was a moment of silence in the conference room.

After a moment, Pigeon raised his hand and asked, "Are we still dividing the classes as usual?"

Sister Dongliang nodded and replied, "It's still the same as usual."

Pigeon thought for a moment and said, "As usual, we won't be able to manage the situation in two shifts. With the sixty-person limit, we need to divide the team into at least four. This means our workload will at least double."

After Pigeon finished speaking, the other officers and non-commissioned officers also frowned.

The double workload here does not only refer to the workload of managing trainees.

The same is true in teaching.

The previous course arrangements were made according to the plans of the two classes.

The teachers staggered their teaching times, made lesson plans for two classes, and then taught the classes separately, leaving more time for classes.

But increasing the number of classes to four means that their schedules need to be redone and each person's teaching time will have to double.

Because the teachers are still the same, but there are two more classes to teach.

Upon hearing this, Sister Dongliang could only sigh and say, "Given the circumstances, please consider this. I also hope our work arrangements can be a little easier, but there really isn't a solution in the short term."

After hearing what she said, the girls didn't show any annoyance on their faces, but they couldn't help talking to each other.

Xia Shu thought about the changes that would occur if the workload doubled.

First of all, if six teachers teach two classes, it is relatively easy with an average of three students taking turns for one class.

But with six people teaching four classes, that means one and a half people take turns teaching each class period, so the pressure is enormous. There's probably very little time to rest.

To make a simple analogy, there are only six teachers to teach four classes in a grade. This situation is difficult to accept in any way.

Pigeon shook his head and said, "We can handle the scale, but we're physically unable to complete this kind of work. With only six instructors in our teaching staff, we can't possibly get through the first three months of training normally. Even if we could, the quality of instruction would be completely unacceptable."

After listening to this, Sister Dongliang nodded quickly and then said, "I understand this. So, my idea is to have the NCOs responsible for the first two classes during the first three months of training, and the officers responsible for the last two classes. This way, we have a buffer period to transition through the training period. After these three months, the additional staff from the administrative department should also be transferred here. This way, we will have sufficient manpower to ensure the later training of lieutenants. Does anyone have any questions?"

When everyone heard this, they all felt that this arrangement was the best.

However, compared with the previous officer instructor group, they had a lot more work to do in the first three months.

Seeing that no one (especially the officer instructors) expressed any objection, Sister Dongliang pointed out a group of six officers and divided the subjects that the instructors were responsible for, just like the non-commissioned officers.

I just don't know which side has better teaching ability, the teaching group temporarily selected from the officers or the teaching group composed of a group of elite non-commissioned officers.

After the grouping arrangements for the first three months were completed, another officer asked, "What about the arrangements for the counselors for each class? Will they be NCOs or officers this time?"

The status of counselors in military academies is slightly higher than that of class teachers in ordinary schools.

Because of the strictness of military discipline, there might be certain things that a homeroom teacher couldn't order students to do. But in a military academy, orders from superiors were absolute and could not be disobeyed under any circumstances.

So generally speaking, only experienced team leaders will be chosen to do this.

In the past, due to the different levels of trust that team leaders had in the instructors, it was possible to arrange officers or non-commissioned officers to serve as counselors.

However, Sister Dongliang took into consideration that the non-commissioned officers' group had a heavy workload and might not be able to spare the energy to take care of the trainees' daily work, so she selected four officers who did not have teaching tasks and asked them to take on the responsibility of serving as counselors in the class.

In this way, the preliminary arrangements for the teaching group were easily reached.

There may be some minor problems afterwards, which can be solved slowly depending on the situation.

Seeing that everyone in the meeting room had no questions, Sister Dongliang announced the adjournment of the meeting, and everyone in the teaching group left the meeting room and returned to their offices to do their work.

Judging from the preliminary arrangements, there has been no change in the work of the non-commissioned officer instructor group.

In the past, there were six people teaching two classes, and now there are still six people teaching two classes.

The only difference is that during the training period led by non-commissioned officers, competitors led by officers suddenly appeared.

Maybe in principle they are not competitors, but that is the reality.

So this is very interesting.

It seems that this year's cadets' training period has suddenly taken on the purpose of testing the gap in professional skills between officers and non-commissioned officers.

It will be clear at a glance which side’s training level is not good.

Sister Dongliang is happy to see this happen.

After all, competition is motivation.

At that time, the student classes on both sides can be brought out for comparison, so that everyone can avoid accusing each other of poor teaching standards and engaging in endless verbal battles.

705. First day of school

Xia Shu didn't know what the public opinion would be like after the instructors from the officers returned.

But she could see that the non-commissioned officers didn't take the officers' teaching challenges seriously at all.

Perhaps when it comes to command teaching, those officer instructors each have their own strengths.

But when it comes to teaching military skills, the other party will definitely not be able to catch up.

After all, leading new recruits is not like playing a board game where you can just go straight to the boss once all your friends are together.

To lead new recruits, you absolutely cannot do it without years of rich experience working at the grassroots level.

The high-ranking NCOs in the teaching group were all very proud. They absolutely refused to believe that those officers could surpass their leadership skills with just a few tricks.

Even most people here think that it is great news that the newly established cadet class can tie up the hands of the officers and instructors.

Because during the previous military academy training period, officers had nothing to do.

I have too much free time, so I often wander around here and there - when I have nothing to do, I go to the student team to find faults and find problems.

Old instructors like Naiyou have long been tired of them.

This time, two squads were assigned to the officers, and they were left to organize themselves to see what kind of new recruits they could form.

At any rate, it's better than them coming here to make trouble for the non-commissioned officer instructors for no reason.

Several sergeants were chatting happily. An Nan noticed that Xia Shu had been silent for a long time, so he leaned over and asked, "What are you thinking about? So engrossed?"

Xia Shu came back to his senses, smiled, and said, "Nothing, just thinking about the recruit roster."

"Hey, isn't it just over 200 people? Isn't this the number in grassroots troops? You'll get used to it!" Naiyou interrupted with a giggle when he heard the two talking.

Xia Shu smiled and nodded, but did not continue the conversation.

Because she was thinking about something else.

I seemed to have seen Xiao Jue’s name on the list of new students before.

She thought she had seen it wrong, but when she sent a message to Xiao Jue, he didn't reply.

Xia Shu didn't know the specific situation and couldn't guess what was going on.

I can only think of it as a duplicate name, or maybe I read it wrong.

Just as she was thinking, a mail delivery robot suddenly flew in from outside. It then stopped in front of Xia Shu and said to her, "You have received a mail."

As he said that, he handed a light gray physical envelope with gold embossing to Xia Shu.

Xia Shu turned the envelope over and saw the sender written on it - the Admissions Office of the Hana District Military Academy - and knew what was in the letter.

It was quite ceremonial, and no one from the office was asked to deliver it directly on foot.

Seeing that Xia Shu suddenly received a physical letter, the other non-commissioned officers asked curiously, "What is it? A love letter?"

Xia Shu smiled as he opened the envelope and replied, "It's the admission letter from the Lieutenant Academy."

"Tsk~" Several non-commissioned officers thought that Xia Shu didn't want to tell them the truth and just told a joke to deceive them.

However, it is indeed impolite to read other people's letters casually, and the people sitting here are a group of polite and good children.

So they shifted their gaze and stopped staring at the letter in Xia Shu's hand.

When Xia Shu took out the things inside, he saw the big words "Admission Notice" as expected.

The notice stipulated her reporting time, which was just a few days later.

However, she had already received the notice of postponement of reporting in advance, so it was better not to look at this date.

Then, seeing that the other girls were no longer paying attention to the letter in her hand, Xia Shu put the things away and put them in her backpack.

Thinking that no one would believe the "truth" he had said before, Xia Shu could only sigh helplessly.

At this time, only the stern Senior Sergeant Dove showed a mysterious smile to Xia Shu.

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After that, a few days passed.

Regardless of how the teaching team prepared the lesson plans and how well the preliminary preparations were completed, the Lieutenant Academy of the Hua District Military Academy finally opened as scheduled.

Students and parents who came to report to the college filled the shaded corridor in front of the student dormitory.