Girls und War

After this class, all the students felt like they had received a brand new baptism and were reborn from head to toe.

They seemed to suddenly realize what a waste of time their previous lives as grassroots officers were.

Now they can't wait to return to their jobs and show their skills and achieve remarkable results.

But in the next class, they were instantly brought back to their original form.

Because the person teaching the class was Sergeant Major Wheat Ear.

The first lesson given to them was also a thorough warning.

What this course teaches them is that no matter what time, they should never forget that before they become an officer, they are first and foremost a soldier.

933. Carrot and Stick

The number of students enrolled in the Officer Academy this semester is thirty-six.

Thirty-six people, not even enough to form a squadron.

Standing on the playground, it is just a small area, and there is no need to even divide the students into classes.

So Major General Shasa didn't even go through the formalities of assigning them to teams and simply treated them as a whole.

As for the squad leader, the roster showed that the well-known Xia Shu would naturally be the one to take the position. They also arranged for two other people they liked to be deputy squad leaders.

One of them has a long military career and is a captain who has served in front-line combat units for a long time. His name is Xinghe.

The other one is Qingxian.

The other team members were not surprised by the result of this selection. After all, the army is a place where strength matters.

After assigning the class leaders, Major General Sasa didn't say much. She simply asked Xia Shu to take them to change into combat uniforms and then gather them on the playground.

Shortly afterwards, Sergeant Major Wheat Ear came in front of the crowd leisurely, wearing a hunter's hat and with his hands behind his back.

Then he raised his hand formally to the group of lieutenant colonels as a military salute.

She swept her eyes across the faces of the students, her gaze like a knife cutting their faces.

The students were all a little scared, not knowing what this instructor leader was up to.

But soon, Mai Sui spoke up, "I've seen it in just one day. Each of you is arrogant and domineering at the grassroots level. You're used to being leaders, right?"

The students didn't say a word, but the sweat on their foreheads revealed their feelings.

The sergeant major was right. These former captains were, at the very least, office clerks, with a large number of junior officers and non-commissioned officers at their beck and call.

Not to mention a fake captain like Xia Shu who is in charge of hundreds of people.

Seeing this, Mai Sui sneered and continued, "I think you need to be disciplined. Otherwise, after a few days of not being a school officer, you will forget who you are and just enjoy yourself."

After Mai Sui finished speaking, the field fell into silence.

The students didn't dare to say a word. After all, the man before them was a super machine gun that even ordinary generals wouldn't take seriously.

You should know that the number of sergeant majors in the imaginary battlefield is even less than that of generals.

In the flower district, apart from Yue Chan, the senior sergeant major who stands at the top of the soldiers, there are only a few sergeants major who are most respected by the soldiers.

Not to mention that there are many generals and generals in the current Generals' Council, who are soldiers led by Sergeants Major like Mai Sui.

Not to mention this group of students, even the officers and instructors in the military academy would walk around them when they saw wheat ears, right?

"Let's put it this way." Mai Sui was silent for a moment before speaking, "I won't make it difficult for you. The standard for the military assessment is five kilometers in twenty-two minutes. Let me first see if you can still meet this standard."

After saying that, he gestured to Xia Shu and asked her to lead the team to test.

So Xia Shu asked the team members to line up, and then go to the track to start the familiar yet unfamiliar five-kilometer test.

Soon, the sound of girls running breathlessly could be heard on the playground.

Fortunately, Xia Shu had picked up his previous training again because he needed to lose weight.

Otherwise, she might not be able to withstand such a sudden attack.

Soon, Xia Shu took the lead, left everyone behind and was the first to finish five kilometers.

But others didn't have it so easy.

Among this group of students, a considerable number are office clerks who are used to a life of luxury.

The sudden five-kilometer attack turned a group of clerical officers into human bellows in an instant, gasping for breath.

In the end, more than a dozen out of the thirty-six students failed.

The most amazing ones were the two students who were running at the end. They were so slow that they were several laps behind the others.

As soon as Xia Shu saw the situation, he knew it was going to be bad.

As expected, Mai Sui's face fell in an instant.

"What's going on with you two?" she asked the last two students with a dark face.

The two men panted and wiped the sweat from their foreheads. They said very embarrassedly, "We...we are from the logistics unit...we rarely do physical training."

"Logistics troops don't have to fight anymore? Huh? You good-for-nothings like you want to get promoted? You want to go to the battlefield? You're even calling yourself an 'outstanding talent from the Flower District'. It's embarrassing for me to watch you. Don't you have any shame? I'm herding a bunch of pigs! I'm hanging them with carrots! I can still run faster than you! I don't know how you, with your basic skills, can lead troops. You're a clerk, right? Are you a clerk? Huh? And you? All of you! Are you sitting in the office like idiots? If you can't do it, go back to writing paperwork! Don't embarrass yourself here. It makes me angry just looking at you!"

Mai Sui scolded them all, and the faces of the group of lieutenant colonels turned blue and red.

Xia Shu also witnessed the true strength of this "military academy machine gun".

After she had finished scolding him, she had Xia Shu gather the team together and then angrily said to them, "I don't care where you come from or what you've been like before. But when you graduate this semester, you must meet the passing line in physical fitness! If you can't, I'm sorry, you won't pass here! If all the officers who graduated from the Flower District Military Academy are like you, haha, I think the Flower District will be expelled from the academy. Do you understand?"

"Listen carefully!" All the students knew Mai Sui's routine very well, and shouted out with all their might.

So Mai Sui replied "disbanded" and asked Xia Shu to lead the team back to the dormitory.

After this round of heavy blows, the students' faces were filled with bitterness.

They never imagined that when they arrived at the Officer Academy, the instructors would require them to improve their physical fitness.

However, Xia Shu was not surprised by this carrot and stick policy.

First, Major General Shasa played the villain and used open classes to arouse the enthusiasm of the students, and then Sergeant Major Mai Sui played the villain and stifled the students' impetuous spirit.

After this back and forth, the students were trained a lot, which made it much easier to manage them afterwards.

But Xia Shu really didn't expect that there would be so many cadets in a group of captains whose physical fitness had deteriorated significantly.

To be a qualified officer, it should not be difficult to reach the passing line when graduating from the Lieutenant Academy.

It seems that working as an office clerk is indeed a very demoralizing place.

But if you think about it carefully, this sergeant is the bad guy after all. Even if they all pass the physical fitness test, she may not let them go easily.

After all, we are here to find trouble, so we will be able to find their flaws.

So instead of getting tossed around, it's better to just surrender and admit defeat. At least it will make you feel a little more relaxed.

934. The Devil Called the Cosmic Constant

There is no doubt that since the first day of school, when Sergeant Major Mai Sui gave the group of students a severe scolding, no lazy student has appeared in the daily routine physical training.

However, Sergeant Major Mai Sui never cared about their training since that day.

It was as if the insults that day were just a spur of the moment event.

But the students didn't dare to relax at all, because they didn't understand Mai Sui's temper. What if she just wanted everyone to let down their guard and then launched a surprise attack in the final assessment? That would be a big deal.

And judging from Mai Sui's personality, this is very likely to happen.

At the same time, in addition to physical training, other officer courses have also officially begun.

Among the courses offered in the Officer Academy, the most important ones are compulsory courses such as "Strategic Overall Layout", "Integrated Warfare", "Marginal Effects of War", "Complementarity between Logistics and Frontal Battlefield", and "Introduction to Space Warfare".

For Xia Shu, the most troublesome course is the space warfare course.

As mentioned before, the original intention of establishing the Military Academy and the entire imaginary battlefield was to cultivate a group of senior generals who can master current space warfare in peacetime.

Space warfare is now fully intelligent and AI-powered. Officers no longer need to spend a lot of time learning how to control spacecraft or use high-tech combat weapons.

In other words, instead of wasting time operating complex military weapons that are constantly being updated, it is better to devote all your energy to learning advanced strategic ideas.

Another very important point is that strategic thinking can only be better applied with the support of rich practical experience.

Otherwise, officers who study theory at the military academy from the beginning are likely to fall into the dilemma of only being able to talk about military affairs on paper.

Imagine a student who has just graduated from school and has learned combat experience in an ivory tower for more than ten years and has learned all the theoretical knowledge.

Then, as we walked out of the school gate, we were suddenly attacked by real aliens.

So can she accept the real casualty figures on the battlefield?

Can she accept mass human sacrifice?

Is she capable of sacrificing herself and her troops if necessary?

No one knew if she could do it.

Therefore, before learning various strategic ideas, it is necessary to use the most primitive combat methods to let these officers see the bloody and cruel side of war.

This is why there are imaginary battlefields of cold weapons and imaginary battlefields of non-nuclear hot weapons.

Now, after being fully tempered in countless battlefields, a group of officers finally stood out in the battle of blood and fire and became the backbone of various war zones.

Thus, they gained the qualifications to learn real space combat.

But space warfare is, after all, a completely new combat system.

Previous battlefield experience and tactical theories are not applicable here.

Here, the battlefield distances are often light years, and the combat positions are more than a dozen axes. Before learning battlefield knowledge, you must first understand the physical parameters.

So Xia Shu, who was exposed to space warfare for the first time, once again felt the difficulty of subjects like advanced mathematics that were difficult to master.

Those coordinate systems, cosmological constants and other data are enough to make you want to die just by looking at the charts.

Not to mention deploying troops and forming formations in the three-dimensional coordinate space axis like playing Go.

And what they are learning now is only the basic space warfare.

After they rise in rank and reach the level of general, they will also have to learn intermediate and advanced space warfare.

Just thinking about that scene makes me feel "beautiful beyond measure".

Xia Shu just felt that he had been a dog in the past two years as a soldier.

What special forces? That stuff sounds awesome.

Actually, when it comes to the entire human military deployment, it's nothing.

What really matters is the overall strategic concept and the discipline of space warfare, which can enable an officer to be promoted to the rank of general.

This is also why many officers have difficulty getting promoted in the early stages, delaying their advancement for over a decade. However, later in life, after switching disciplines, their promotion speeds actually catch up, reaching levels that others can hardly match.

It's because they performed well in the space battle.

It can even be said that most of the senior generals in the Generals' Council are talented people who are very good at space warfare.

And people who really know nothing about space warfare cannot actually sit in that position.

However, at this time, not only Xia Shu, but other students were also subjected to crazy humiliation by "Introduction to Space Warfare".

They were like a group of pitiful young prostitutes who had fallen into prostitution when they first experienced sex. They kept wailing, twisting, gritting their teeth, and singing sweetly in front of the little blue book.

The entire officer's dormitory was a picture of hell.

And Xia Shu finally understood. How could Doragon, who had been the captain of the Red Dragon Squadron for so long and had more or less cultivated his strategic thinking, have failed the first level in the Officer Academy?

Only now did she realize that not only Doragon, but even she herself would not be able to pass the test with certainty.

It would be fine if the Officer Academy really only tested strategy and tactics.

But there is such a universal constant devil that has killed all the military cadets in the past.

Yes, she, Xia Shu, is no longer worthy of being called the Demon King. That blue book is the Demon King!

Now Xia Shu finally experienced the feeling of being pinned to the ground and rubbed by some powerful person.

But speaking of which, it's a good thing that Dragon came to the Officer Academy last year.