Sixth: Platoon training and political study

  The next day, formal military training began.

  When the four companies arrived at the drill ground, a tall and upright instructor was already standing on the reviewing stand in front of them. After the company duty officers reported to the instructor, he began his speech. It turned out that the instructor's surname was Ji, who had participated in the National Day military parade as a member of the Three Armed Forces Honor Guard four years ago. After being promoted, he was transferred to the Chengdu Military Region to be in charge of military training affairs. This time, the troops specially borrowed him from the military region to come here to strengthen the university students' military training power.

  Hearing this, and seeing Ji's standard military posture and perfect movements, Lin Fanghua whispered to Wang Ju: "He's from the Honor Guard of the Three Armies, we're done for, we're going to be in big trouble now!"

  Just after finishing speaking, a low and stern voice came from behind: "Lin Fanghua, no talking in the ranks!"

  Lin Fanghua was startled, and muttered to herself: I'm standing in the middle of the team, you can still find me. You're staring at me too tightly! Thinking about it, Lin Fanghua could only focus on listening to Instructor Ji's explanation of the formation movements.

  On the first day, they only learned basic movements: standing at attention, at ease, turning left, right and back. Lin Fanghua was too familiar with these, her movements were standard and elegant. As a result, she was quickly called out by the class leader to demonstrate, and was asked to take Yang Qian, who had the worst movements, aside for individual guidance. Lin Fanghua couldn't help but think: I didn't expect Little Bear Class Leader to be so capable of ordering people around despite looking so honest.

  Yang Qian is an outgoing and easy-going girl, and her relationship with Lin Fanghua has always been good. She's just a bit chubby, so when she turns around, she often loses her balance and stumbles. The male class leader pointing it out on the side only makes Yang Qian more nervous, causing her movements to become even more awkward. But under Lin Fanghua's guidance, she relaxes, and with Lin Fanghua's patient instruction, she slowly masters the movement techniques and is able to perform them relatively standardly.

  From then on, the ninth class seemed to have formed a unique training method. The monitor always led everyone in unified exercises first, and then Lin Fanghua demonstrated it. After that, the monitor would point out one or two girls with poor movements and let Lin Fanghua take them aside for individual practice, while continuing to lead the others in unified exercises.

  The training effect of the ninth class and their little movements had already been seen by Instructor Ji, who was patrolling around. He also chatted with Jiang for a few sentences to ask about the situation of this outstanding female student.

  One day, when the physical education class was over and the review was being conducted, Instructor Ji suddenly said: "Third row, ninth squad, seventh in line!" The girls below were stunned. Instructor Ji shouted again: "Third row, ninth squad, seventh in line!"

  Lin Fanghua just reacted and realized that seventh place was himself, so he hurriedly answered loudly: "Present!"

  "Fall in!"

  "Yes!"

  Lin Fanghua took a half step back, turned around, ran to the front of the reviewing stand, stood at a 45-degree angle in front of and to the left of Instructor Ji, facing him, and came to attention.

  "Attention - Stand at attention! At ease! Right turn! Left turn! Right turn! At ease! Stand at attention!"

  Lin Fanghua followed the instructor's command and performed the movements with agility and fluency, especially when turning around, her upper body was stable and didn't waver at all.

  Suddenly, Captain Ji ordered: "Quick march! One-two-one! Forward march!"

  Lin Fanghua reflexively took a few steps forward before realizing that this step hadn't been taught yet, how could she do it? But now she can only follow orders and doesn't have time to think about the instructor's intentions. She still remembered the key points of the action and executed the instructor's command once.

  At the end of it, Instructor Ji shouted at the students below: "Everyone saw that! How was this female student's move?"

  From below came a deafening voice: "Good!" Mainly the boys cheered and shouted louder.

  The coach shouted towards the boys' team: "You big boys, your movements can't even compare to a little girl's! Aren't you ashamed? Don't laugh! In my opinion, many of the class leaders' movements aren't as good as this female student's! B, b, b……!"

  Lin Fanghua's face turned bright red as she stood facing everyone. Just a while ago, after half a day of training, she hadn't even broken a sweat, but now her palms were sweating profusely. It seemed that being the center of attention wasn't so pleasant after all!

  It wasn't easy, but Captain Ji finally relented and allowed Lin Fanghua to join the ranks. She hurriedly ran back to her position in the lineup. At the end of the line, she saw Jiang Pai Zhang and Xiong Ban Zhang both smiling at her with gleeful eyes. Lin Fanghua couldn't help but let out a burst of childishness, sticking out her tongue and making a silly face at them. Unexpectedly, this was seen by several male students from the second row, who let out a few friendly chuckles. This made Lin Fanghua's face, which had just started to fade back to normal, flush bright red again.

  From then on, Lin Fanghua was even more diligent in training because she had been named by Instructor Ji and received special attention. The team formation movements that she originally mastered were also practiced with great effort and precision, far exceeding the level of her previous years as a military student. In the drill team's joint exercise, she maintained an outstanding position. Under her leadership, the team formation movements of Class 9 were also among the best in the entire team, causing Jiang to gradually lose his scowl and smile more often.

  In the afternoon, there was a class on political situation report. Everyone arrived on time with their small stools, lined up and sat down in the grand auditorium of the troops to wait for the instructor to start the lesson.

  The first loud and intense singing of the military-style song began under the lead of several platoon leaders. There were companies competing with each other, platoons competing with each other, and even some classes came out to challenge individually. The auditorium was filled with shouts of "XX Platoon, come on!" "Come on, XX Company!" "One, two, three! Three, two, one! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven!" "One, two, three, four, five! We've been waiting so hard! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven! We've been waiting so anxiously!" The sound of singing and the occasional military song filled the air. This lively scene reminded Lin Fanghua of a phrase: A passionate military camp.

  Three rows of girls, always the focus of attention from the boys' teams. Not only did the boys' team from our own battalion come to pull us, but also the boys' team from the second battalion came to pull us. The girls' team from the second battalion didn't seem to receive much attention. I don't know if it's because of the ranking announced by Captain Ji this morning, but probably those boys thought they had lost face on the training field and wanted to regain it on the tug-of-war field.

  In this way, the three rows were slightly outnumbered. In the end, it was Zhu who came forward and united the whole company to face outward, which finally relieved the siege of the third row. Jiang didn't seem unhappy this time, but instead felt a little pleased that the girls in the third row were popular. However, except for the meticulous Xiong class leader who saw the corner of the team leader's mouth slightly raised, no one else could see anything from his serious face.

  At this time, the instructor also began to lecture in a timely manner. This kind of political report was something that Lin Fanghua couldn't listen to before her rebirth. However, even with good memory, it's impossible for someone who has been reborn to remember everything from their past life. Therefore, as Lin Fanghua listened to the instructor's talk about domestic and international situations, she verified them against the memories left in her heart and found them interesting to listen to.

  At this time, the world is in a turbulent era. Last year, the country had just experienced a major upheaval, and strengthening ideological and political education for college students was also a direct consequence of this event. A well-known university's freshmen were therefore required to undergo military training for a year. The international situation was even more turbulent, Eastern Europe had already begun to shake, the Berlin Wall had fallen at the end of last year; Lithuania, one of the Baltic states, had declared independence, but people at that time could hardly imagine that after more Soviet republics gained independence the following year, the Soviet Union would finally dissolve. That was a real earthquake, a major event in the 20th century with far-reaching impact, comparable to the end of World War II.

  However, the military training instructor's report mainly focused on explaining the domestic situation after the riot, and only mentioned some events in Eastern Europe. Also, because the troops had been stationed in Lhasa last year to enforce martial law, they said a bit more about the Lhasa riots. This also reminded Lin Fanghua of the crazy activities of Tibetan separatists during the Olympic year. In fact, domestic and international events are all interconnected. It was precisely because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe that the United States became the winner of the Cold War and became the only superpower. When he looked around the world, China, which was rapidly developing, became his imaginary enemy or competitor, and for this reason, he spared no effort to surround and contain China. It's hard to say whether there is no black hand of Western forces behind the Tibetan, Xinjiang, and Jiangdu forces.

  Lin Fanghua fell into deep thought: in the face of these political upheavals, an individual's power is negligible. Fortunately, the country and nation have their own path to survival, although they also experienced some difficulties, but still continued on their own path of reform and opening up and revival relatively smoothly. I will not be arrogant enough to think that my rebirth has any ability to change the world or save the nation, I just hope to learn medicine diligently, and make some achievements for human health. However, the road is walked out step by step. I will take it one step at a time, do well every day, and do well every small thing!