The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 528: Deepening military reform, students join the war!!!
At that time, Liu Wu and other students of the seventh term were training hard to participate in the drill.

The battle for teaching reform in military academies has begun. The increasingly fierce military reform has finally reached the theater field, targeting the outdated teaching syllabus.

This is a battle without the smoke of gunpowder, and the opponents are tangible books and intangible habits.

Before National Day, Lao Luo, who also serves as the dean, and Song, the political commissar of the college, went to Beijing to attend the meeting of all military academies.

Since its establishment, Shishi Army Academy has built tall buildings on the plain land at the foot of Taihang Mountains.

An army school covering an area of ​​several thousand acres, with a construction area of ​​nearly hundreds of thousands of square meters and complete facilities has been built in a proper manner.

Under the leadership of the school party committee, all faculty and cadres of the school have carried out hundreds of reforms from "entry" to "getting on the road".

I'm famous in the newspapers, I'm heard on the radio, I'm seen on TV. Although I can't say I've made outstanding achievements, I have a clear conscience.

However, they never expected that the speech from the leader of the headquarters would soon upset the mood of Lao Luo and his companions.

The headquarters proposed the general reform policy of "starting from reality, making comprehensive and systematic changes, and making changes resolutely and orderly."

The clear and firm requirements of "resolutely changing what has been identified" and "school teaching cannot 'copy antiques' year after year" are truly thought-provoking.

Lao Luo and his friends could no longer sit still. Before the meeting was over, their determination had already been conveyed back to the school.

"I can no longer feel good about myself. If I don't make progress, I will regress. I have to make major changes!"

After Lao Luo and Lao Song came back, the atmosphere at the school party committee meeting to convey and implement the spirit of the college meeting was serious and solemn.

The feedback information from practice made the members of the school party committee feel mixed emotions.

Comrades from the academic faction who had been sent to the southern Xinjiang front to investigate the combat situation reported that

Some front-line unit commanders did not understand the principles of armored force use and used assigned tanks beyond their capabilities;

Some did not understand the performance of mines and could not organize mine clearance, resulting in unnecessary bloodshed and sacrifice.

Comrades who observed the "Xiabei Exercise" last year said that the concept of modern three-dimensional warfare was not reflected in school teaching;

The school's graduating students who participated in last year's "Xiabei Exercise" felt that what they learned in school was not enough and suggested opening a staff business major.

Several students who are about to graduate next year not only received their college diplomas from their own school, but also obtained university diplomas from local "correspondence universities" and "journalism universities".

They said: "The curriculum of Lu School is sufficient for the 'cerebellum', and the 'brain' has to find its own way."

Comrades in the army also reported to the school investigation team that although the basic qualities of the graduates of the academy were very good.

But now the troops’ equipment has been updated, but the talent has not been updated.

A grassroots cadre said bluntly: "A platoon leader who only knows infantry is considered 'semi-illiterate' here. I dare not give him a mechanized platoon to command. The military academy should always take the lead!"

The discussion became more and more in-depth, and the crux of the problem became clearer and clearer.

Although the Army Academy has made major updates to its teaching content, it is still far from meeting the urgent need for high-level talents in the modernization of the military.

We must further emancipate our minds and adapt to the development trends of modern education, modern warfare and modern military construction.

Break through the existing teaching model and carry out overall reforms in talent training objectives, knowledge structure, teaching system, teaching methods, etc.

This stone stirred up thousands of waves.

Not everyone was mentally prepared for the "major surgery" of global reform, and all kinds of discussions and different opinions soon emerged.

Some "old schools" said, "Our teaching syllabus cannot be changed, otherwise there will be chaos..."

Some people believe that: "Breakthrough reform means self-denial and tearing down the newly built building with one's own hands..."

Others said: "Everyone has worked hard in the past few years and has achieved many achievements and honors. How will we explain if we mess up?"

In the face of all the doubts, Dean Lao Luo noted the importance of unifying everyone’s thoughts through multiple channels: “…the epoch-making achievement of the 11th 3rd is to make it clear that everything should proceed from reality;

The leaders of the headquarters have also repeatedly said that if we are sure, we should resolutely change it, if we are not sure, we should conduct experiments first, and if we make mistakes, we should summarize the experience and lessons..."

At the same time, Dean Luo made it clear: "If we are to take responsibility, we must first take the responsibility of cultivating modern talents, even if there are great risks, we should take the risk."

So after the meeting, the school party committee announced: "Liberate the mind, boldly reform, strive for success, allow failure, but not allow failure to change!"

This was not only a top-down reform of the college, but also sparked a heated discussion among those who were about to graduate and newly enrolled students such as Liu Wu and Sun Xinchun.

Liu Wu and other students were very fortunate to encounter the wave of military reform as soon as they entered school, which had a profound impact on their future growth.

After careful consideration and repeated research by the entire college, an overall reform plan was finally formed that reflects the needs of modern warfare and troop construction in the new era.

Break the old system, try out the new system, and set up new subjects.

The training subjects are mainly taught one kind of professional knowledge while also learning other professional knowledge.

To enable graduates to be competent for both one professional position and other professional positions.

To achieve the goal of "one specialty, multiple abilities and four skills", namely, being able to command battles, organize training, manage education, and do ideological work.

On the basis of the original curriculum, 12 new subjects have been added, including staff operations, vehicle driving, electronic computers, automated command, electronic teaching, military management, military operations research, and military education.

It has expanded the scope to include new content such as military theory, foreign military research, military meteorology, military political work, grassroots leadership, and teaching methods.

The curriculum system was restructured according to the principle of disciplinarization, changing the previous single infantry major into a new synthetic command major based on infantry and integrating artillery, heavy machine guns, and staff operations.

To enable students to form a foundation based on political theory, scientific and cultural knowledge and military common knowledge.

Based on military theory, military technology, military command and military management knowledge,

A complex knowledge structure centered on synthetic command major.

Just as the college was about to fully implement the reform plan, new contradictions emerged.

When planning the specific teaching content, the heads of the teaching and research sections of each department began to argue over class hours.

Everyone emphasizes the importance of this subject and wants to spend more time and add more content, sometimes even arguing until they are red in the face.

The knowledge structure of new talents must broaden their knowledge and add new subjects, but the school system and class hours are fixed and cannot be increased or extended.

If the dispute over class hours cannot be resolved, breakthrough reforms will become empty talk.

The essence of the race against time is the inertial thinking. If we stick to the old ideas of running schools, it will be difficult to break out of this vicious circle.

Dean Lao Luo convened the heads of teaching and research departments to study the knowledge structure of talents, analyze the position and proportion of various disciplines, and asked everyone to look at the problem from a global perspective.

Once the traditional concept of class hours is broken, people's eyes suddenly become clear.

In accordance with the principle of "comprehensive summarization to avoid repetition, deleting the old and adding the new to highlight the key points", each subject optimized the content structure and training methods and compressed a large amount of time.

After long-term discussion, a series of reform implementation plans embodying "short cycle, high efficiency and low consumption" have been completed one after another.

After comprehensive balancing, a new outline that reflects the standards for high-level talent training was produced.

It was decided to put this into practice with a two-year infantry platoon.

Next year, a school year reform experiment is about to end. Lao Luo decides to personally lead a working group to stay in the experimental squadron to conduct assessment and acceptance of each subject.

This squadron was finally selected, Liu Wu's squadron, which made Liu Wu, Sun Xinchun and other students feel that they had a mission on their shoulders.

Compared with similar squadrons that still teach according to the original syllabus, Liu Wu's squadron
In 18 out of 24 items in 22 courses including drill, shooting, topography, military thought, foreign military research, tactics, basics of Marxism-Leninism, and revolutionary history, the scores were higher than those of the non-real squadron.

On this day, the military region chief Liu Zhiye personally visited the school and attended the graduation ceremony of the third batch of students. Lao Luo made a reform report to him on behalf of the academy.

Liu Zhiye said happily: "Your ideas for teaching reform are paired..."

He spoke highly of the school's reform experience and achievements, and used the platform of Shishi Army School to call on the Yanda Military Region to further deepen reforms.

Liu Zhiye was the only initiator of the military reform, and the success or failure of this military reform will affect his future.

"A man should serve his country by taking his pen into the army. Now he is going to the battlefield to kill the enemy and shed his blood to make new achievements."

After the college welcome party ended, Liu Zhiye immediately met with and saw off the officers and soldiers of the college's trainee company who were going to Yunnan to participate in the war.

Hu Aiguo, the student representative, stood on the stage and solemnly swore to Liu Zhiye, the college leaders, and the thousands of students in the audience: "Go to the border! Go to the front line! Go to where the motherland needs you most!"

Liu Wu, Sun Xinchun and other students in the student team were so envious that their eyes were red with envy, but unfortunately they were new students and had no chance to go to the front line to fight like the older brothers.

It was a coincidence that Hu Aiguo put on a military uniform, came to Shijiazhuang Army School, and embarked on the path of military service.

Three years ago, after graduating from high school, Hu Aiguo was admitted to the Forestry College in his hometown.

When Hu Aiguo was enrolled, Shishi Army School came to recruit college students. Hu Aiguo felt very excited, so he and many other students signed up. However, when they received the "Admission Notice" from the military school, many of them backed out.

Indeed, in the eyes of some people, it is too disadvantageous for college students to join the army, and it is even more incredible that Hu Aiguo signed up to join the army.

They said to Hu Aiguo, "You are a student union cadre of the college, a three-good student of the provincial college, and the only student in the college who has become a full member of the party. You can choose any unit you want after graduation. What do you want to do by joining the army?"

"Yes, what do I want?" Hu Aiguo remembered that the teacher once told them that the country has to pay the value of one year's labor of 60 farmers to train one college student. How much trust and hope of the people are placed on these college students!
But as a party member, Hu Aiguo felt that how could he use the diploma in his hand as capital to bargain with the party and the people or to pursue personal enjoyment?
“From childhood to adulthood, haven’t we always said that we should contribute our youth to national construction?
The troops need us now, how can we retreat? "

So, with the determination and ambition to make a career in the army, Hu Aiguo stepped into the gate of the military academy holding the bright red admission letter in his hand.

When Hu Aiguo put on his brand new military uniform for the first time, he was so happy that he couldn't express it in words.

A group of classmates gathered around the mirror to look at themselves. Before going to bed at night, they would fold their military uniforms neatly and place them next to their pillows, and would touch them from time to time.

But the novelty soon disappeared, and life in military academy was not as romantic as Hu Aiguo had imagined.

The college student carried a gun and walked with a heroic and proud manner, with a group of children following him as he walked down the street.

Life in military academy is very stressful and hard.

The first is that the food is not good.

The food was poor, and we often ate large cornmeal pancakes and "steel noodles". For each meal, there were 12 dishes and 4 soup for the 1 people in the class.

It's really tiring, with more than 9 hours of military training every day, running around in circles.

We have to get up at 5:3 in the morning, get dressed in the dark, and assemble within minutes.

People often make fools of themselves in a hurry, sometimes wearing other people's clothes by mistake, and sometimes after running a lap they find that they are wearing one cloth shoe and one rubber shoe.

You are not allowed to go out during normal times, and you can only rest one day a week. There is a ratio for going out, and you may not even have a day off in a month. You even have to ask for leave to go to the toilet.

Especially the strict folding of quilts and cleaning are unbearable.

Hu Aiguo also had regrets and even thought about not wanting to continue.

But gradually, Hu Aiguo also tasted the fun of military academy life and the warmth of the military family.

It was this hard, tiring and rigorous life that tempered Hu Aiguo's will, cultivated his military qualities and elevated his life realm.

If we say that Hu Aiguo learned how to study in middle school and university.

So, in the military academy Hu Aiguo learned how to be a person, how to be a strong person with ideals, who can endure hardships and have the courage to fight.

To be honest, when Hu Aiguo was in college, he didn't think he would have the opportunity to join the army, but after joining the army, he thought about fighting.

When I first entered the school, the first batch of students from the Army School had just set off to participate in the war.

At that time, Hu Aiguo was sitting in the audience listening to a report on heroes and models with tears in his eyes. He was deeply moved by the heroic deeds of so many heroes and trainees on the L Mountain front. Hu Aiguo felt that "soldiers who have never been to the battlefield are regrettable soldiers."

So, Hu Aiguo secretly made up his mind that if he had the chance, he would go to the front line, show everything he had on the battlefield, and accept the test of war.

Just when Hu Aiguo's study and training life in the military academy was about to end, the academy received an order from the headquarters to select some students to serve as trainees on the front line.

That night, the squadron instructor Sun gave a mobilization speech to Hu Aiguo and others to join the war in the classroom.

Before he finished speaking, Hu Aiguo had already written an application to join the war in his notebook and was the first to hand it in.

Hu Aiguo’s application read: “I firmly request to go to the front line.

The reason is that I am the only formal party member among the 120 students in the squadron, and my political qualifications are high.

I am also an excellent student with strong military skills.

I once won first place in the mountain climbing competition for the whole squadron, so I am in good health.

Besides, I have four brothers, so I don’t have to worry about anything.”

After research by the college, 56 trainee students were selected from the graduating students to form the Yanda Military Region's trainee company to go to Yunnan to participate in the war.

Before the trainee company went out to the battlefield, Liu Zhiye asked the veterans who had participated in the war to go to the academy to give Hu Aiguo and his men more than a month of pre-war training.

The main preparation is in terms of military technology and ideology.

I practiced the use of various weapons again, from pistols to bazookas and recoilless guns.

At the same time, they also carried out various forms of ideological and political education, watched video documentaries about the "ungrateful wolves"' resistance..., also watched war-themed feature films, as well as martial arts films. Hu Aiguo and his team's fighting passion continued to rise.

What inspired Hu Aiguo the most was that his parents knew that he was going to join the war.
He sent a telegram to Hu Aiguo, which read: "I hope you will return triumphantly after defeating the enemy bravely."

And his girlfriend Liu Jing came all the way from northern Xinjiang to the military academy. She was Hu Ai's classmate in high school.

Seeing Hu Aiguo, Liu Jing held his hand tightly and said to him with tears in her eyes: "I cried when I heard that you were going to the front line. I am proud of your choice. You are worthy of being a man.

However, I have a request. I hope that we can get married before you leave so that I can send you to the battlefield as your wife.

I think that if something unexpected happens to you, your life will be able to continue."

Hu Aiguo said: "Thank you for your support and understanding. Don't worry, with your blessing, I will definitely return victorious.

When I come back with my military medals, we can get married, wouldn't that be better?"

What Liu Jing didn't know was that before Hu Aiguo packed his backpack and prepared to go to the battlefield, he wrote a letter to her in his dormitory, and also wrote a "suicide note".

Hu Aiguo and his trainee company who were going to Yunnan to participate in the war were seen off by leaders at all levels and the people of Shishi City, and then they boarded the No. 61 express train from Yanjing to Chuncheng and headed south.

After arriving in Chuncheng, the trainee company stopped at the Chuncheng Army School for a while, then changed to a car and traveled on the winding mountain road for another three days and three nights.

Yunnan Province has high mountains and dense forests, and beautiful scenery. Most of the Yunnan people they met along the way were ethnic minorities, and the women all had things tied in their heads, which made Hu Aiguo and his team very curious.

The villagers were very enthusiastic towards Hu Aiguo and his group, and many people lined the streets at the entrance of every village to welcome them.

Many adults and children carried baskets filled with eggs, corn, bananas, etc. and kept throwing them into Hu Aiguo's car.

Hu Aiguo and his men were not polite either. They took whatever was thrown to them and accepted everything.

The further we went, the thicker the war atmosphere became, and we could faintly hear the sound of artillery in the distance.

Large slogans can be seen on both sides of the road: "Expel the Y bandits and return our land to us", "Heroes' Gate", "Arc de Triomphe", etc.

At the end of November, Hu Aiguo and his team arrived in Ma County, Yunnan Province, and stationed in a remote village called Shuidifang.

This is a backward little mountain village with mud houses everywhere and no electricity. The locals use orange stalks to make fire and cook, and the houses are blackened by smoke.

The weather is humid and it rains frequently, so the roads in the village are all muddy.

There, Hu Aiguo and his colleagues conducted pre-war training for more than ten days.

On this day, Hu Aiguo and his men rushed to the front line of the battlefield.

They first received their mission at the old house, received mobilization and education from the regiment, and then got on the trucks and drove forward.

As the car moved forward, the sound of gunfire and artillery fire became closer and closer.

The enemy's cold artillery kept exploding near the highway, and sometimes bombs exploded in the Panlong River on the side of the road, creating towering columns of water.

The car was driving very fast.

At this time, Hu Aiguo and the other dozen students and soldiers in the car stopped talking, but just clasped their hands tightly together at the same time.

Everyone looked at each other, and Hu Aiguo felt that everyone's eyes were meaningful, full of expectations, encouragement, and also hidden worries...

At this moment, he suddenly remembered a poem: "The wind is whistling and the Yishui River is cold, the hero will never return once he leaves."

The car drove to the bow of the farm and could not go any further as it had entered the war zone.

A two-story building was blown down, many houses were destroyed by enemy shells, and the walls were covered with marks of gunfire.

The war atmosphere became increasingly tense, and even grenades were placed in the toilets of the military supply station.

There was constant sound of gunfire in the distance.

The trainee company had a meal there, which consisted of eggplant, potatoes and rice.

Hu Aiguo ate three big bowls of rice in a row, but he didn't expect that this would be his last meal before going to the battlefield.

In the nearly three months since then, they could only drink rainwater, eat compressed biscuits and canned food every day...

(End of this chapter)