Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 430 Special Graduation Exam
The training content here is completely different from what Anthony and others had imagined beforehand.

I thought I came here to learn fighting skills.

Unexpectedly, in the past two months, apart from giving them some physical training every morning and evening, Song Heping spent the rest of his time in classes and tactical training.

The content ranges from coordinated combat command to coordinated combat offense and defense, and also involves logistics support and tactical coordination between squads, platoons and companies.

Many ELN students were discussing privately that they felt they were not coming to a special forces school, but to study.

Many people are also worried about whether what they have learned for two months will be useful after they go back.

This concern is not unreasonable.

After all, the ELN armed forces have been participating in actual combat all year round, and they have no systematic concepts, let alone much systematic tactical theoretical foundation.

Guerrilla forces like theirs use actual combat effectiveness as the ultimate criterion - if they win, they are awesome, and if they lose, they are terrible.

But no matter what, everyone has made great progress in tactical command. At least when Song Heping sets a combat intention, these 50 people can quickly formulate a relatively reasonable combat plan. They can also manually use pencils to draw rough maps and calibrate troop deployments on homework paper, etc.

The most important thing is that they can now finally easily use a compass and a map to determine their position in a very short time without having to rely on GPS.

A month passed quickly.

The courses gradually became less stressful than when I first enrolled.

The ELN trainees noticed that their instructor Song Heping seemed to be less concerned about them recently, and the training was directly handed over to the instructor named Jiang Feng. Every day, he would lead the team out for company and platoon tactical training, or continue with command work. After physical training in the evening, they would take a shower and then take the textbooks to recite theories under the incandescent lights in the open air. Each of them was as diligent as if they were preparing for the college entrance examination.

And this month, the school has also undergone tremendous changes.

First of all, the runway was almost completed.

Recently, some Russian pilots have arrived, and the two SU-24s in the hangar have been assembled and are being tested there every day.

Then a large number of instructors began to move in. These instructors were all Chinese, and were said to be retired non-commissioned officers and officers from the PLA.

Ever since the new instructor came, the ELN trainees have suddenly become busy.

In the past, Song Heping and Jiang Feng, along with an interpreter, led the training. In the last half month, twenty or thirty instructors surrounded the 50 trainees, adding various classes and training sessions.

As a result, the good days of ELN students are gone forever.

Every morning at 5:30, the military bugle sounded in the camp on time.

When you hear the call, you have to get up, get dressed, and go out to assemble within five minutes. Then there is a series of physical training, which will make you feel like you have been fished out of the water.

After breakfast, we rest until eight o'clock and then start classes on time.

The morning is usually a military theory class, and the afternoon is a field operation class.

In the evening, we have two hours of physical training, and then start the theoretical exam to test the military theories we have learned.

They took showers at 9:30 and lights were turned off at 10:00. Occasionally, there would be one or two emergency assemblies at night, making these ELN-armed guerrillas as nervous as new recruits.

Two months slipped away quickly. One night, the emergency assembly whistle suddenly sounded.

The students who had just finished taking a shower heard the whistle and hurried back to the dormitory. They packed their backpacks as quickly as possible, put on their camouflage uniforms, put on their individual carrying equipment, grabbed their ammunition, rushed out of the tent and ran to the open space to gather.

At this time, everyone realized that the person who blew the emergency assembly whistle tonight was not any of the new instructors, but the principal Song Heping who had been hanging out at the airport recently.

"Two months have passed. During these two months, I want to ask everyone, do you feel like you have learned anything?"

Song Heping's eyes swept over the students one by one, finally landing on Anthony.

"Anthony, tell me about your experience. Do you think what you learned from me is useful?"

Anthony thought for a moment and said, "I've learned a lot, and I think it's very useful. For example, I think this management and training method is very good. I might use it in the troops I manage when I return."

"Management and training are one thing, I mean combat," Song Heping said. "Do you think you've learned the skills of fighting and commanding here?"

"I've learned that," Anthony said. "Principal and instructor, I will use all the tactics and command knowledge you taught me in future battles."

Song Heping turned his gaze to Godwin: "Godwin, what do you think? Did you learn anything?"

Godwin said, "Of course, I led the way when we first came here, but we all got lost. Now I have learned to work from maps. Even if you throw me into the jungles of another country, I will not get lost."

Song Heping nodded and smiled. "That's great. You all said you learned something. I hope you weren't bragging. Since you're about to graduate and will be returning to Columbia soon, I have to make sure you've truly learned the skills. Otherwise, even if I collected such a high tuition from your leader, it would be too much to use. So, we're going to conduct an assessment, and the format is very simple and direct. Bring all your equipment, including your mortars and RPGs. Take everything you can. Don't leave anything behind. Afterwards, we'll cross the river tonight and return to Columbia."

"Back to Columbia?"

Anthony couldn't help but exclaim.

"Are we supposed to graduate and go back?"

Song Heping shook his head: "It's not that simple. We are going back to Columbia to take the test."

"Assessment?!"

All the players present looked at each other in confusion.

How to assess when returning to Columbia?

Song Heping said, "This assessment is very simple. Return to Colombia, enter the small town of Ramo near the port of Inirida, and attack the AUC camp there. Reliable intelligence indicates they've just received a shipment of munitions from the port. These munitions were provided by government forces, and the AUC has been receiving continuous munitions support from the government. I suspect they may be planning a new offensive against your ELN. If we can successfully attack their camp and destroy the munitions they've just received but haven't yet distributed, it will not only assess the effectiveness of your two months of study, but also alleviate some of the pressure on your organization."

He paused and continued, "I'll have someone hand you maps and other things later. Anthony, you're the highest-ranking cadet. How you organize these 50 people, how you divide them up, and how you formulate your battle plan are all your business. Instructor Jiang and I will follow you across the river, but we won't interfere. I don't care how you fight, whether you win or lose. However, I will record your performance and include it in the graduation evaluation to be sent to your leader, Morins. This will affect your future appointments in the organization, so perform well. I can see who performs well."

When they heard that they would have to go back to Columbia for actual combat after graduation and that their opponent would be AUC, all the students became excited.

"Go, bring all your weapons. The school will send a car to take everyone to the river. Get ready. This is actual combat. It's best if everyone survives."

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)