Chapter 455: Schoolwide Competition
After a leisure weekend passed, the tough training resumed.
Last week, Gu Qingjiu had carried out intensive training for Feng Yumeng, and this week it was time for the schoolwide competition.
This schoolwide competition would take place once every two months. To this group of new students, it was their first time taking part.
The categories were combat, shooting, physical fitness, and formation drills.
Among them, other than formation drills being the only group event, the other three were individual.
But for combat, group points would be the basis of the judgment.
That was why Feng Yumeng was super nervous.
There was no time to rest during the weekend since the competition would take place from Thursday to Sunday.
You could view it as a sports meet in a military school.
All the students—from the first-years to the fourth-years—had to take part in it, but they would be competing in different camps.
From Monday to Wednesday, the instructor-in-charge of each segment would send the most appropriate candidates to participate in the competition.
For the combat segment, one had to be selected by a professional before they could compete with their peers at the same level.
If one could obtain victory, they would receive additional military points.
Same for shooting.
Different from ordinary universities, the military points here had to be obtained by merit of one’s results.
Usually, everyone differed only by their performance in academic results, and now, military points are also considered.
In a military school, every student was groomed to be a future military officer.
But amongst them, some were outstanding and some were inferior.
For some troops, it wasn’t just the students applying to study there, but they also could afford to be selective with the students they took in as well.
Military points were one of the bases they made such a decision upon.
Every freshman came in with zero military points.
Once every few months, or once a year, there would be a major competition that allowed them to earn military points.
Such as Gu Qingjiu taking part in the upcoming shooting competition in November—which was a major competition. For combat, they also had a major competition that would take place in December.
Formation drills and physical fitness competitions, on the other hand, took place at other times of the year.
Being on a schoolwide level, a competition of this scale was considered a minor one, which could not be compared with the major competition where various military schools took part together.
Students who emerged victorious in these various segments would become the candidates chosen to participate in the major competitions.
For the shooting segment, the instructors had already decided upon Gu Qingjiu.
There were only a few spots for each specialization, but when the computer science specialization decided to fill Gu Qingjiu’s name for the shooting competition, no one in the entire specialization voiced their objection.
What a joke. She was a sharpshooter who wiped out the entire National Defense University. Who would dare to vie with her for that spot?
As for the other segments like combat and physical training, they had to undergo a selection process.
Although Gu Qingjiu was slightly stronger in combat and shooting, she didn’t stand out in physical training. She usually just put up an average performance. Naturally, she chose to give up on this segment.
Classes were temporarily halted these two days and instead, the time was used for training and selection.
Yesterday, they held selection rounds for physical training, and today it was combat. Meanwhile, tomorrow would be for shooting.
Combat was a nightmare to Feng Yumeng. But for physical training, she was almost on the roster.
For the level-wide competition, each specialization could send in at least thirty students to take part, and luckily Feng Yumeng ranked at least beyond thirty-something.
For her combat results to be this terrible, it truly was a headache.
Gu Qingjiu didn’t feel much pressure about combat, though she did feel worried about Feng Yumeng.
She didn’t know if the intensive training she put Feng Yumeng through last week had any effect.
Though, when Feng Yumeng was dueling with her earlier on, she at least had learned how to take the initiative to counter-attack.
With the selection rounds going on in the school over these two days, the shooting department wasn’t of much use.
After all, all the members had to prepare for the competition in their specialization.
This was a rather big military school, with more than five thousand first-year students, and tens of thousands of students in the entire school. One could only imagine how much time the selection rounds would take.