My Military Career in a Parallel World

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Arranging people to carry away the fat pig that was stabbed all over and died in extreme pain, Li Cheng did not forget to remind them: "Oh, by the way, we need to perform programs for the party tonight. Each class will have two programs. Sign up before lunch. I will give you two hours of rehearsal time in the afternoon."

"Yes!" All the squad leaders agreed.

During lunch time after morning exercises, everyone was eating while discussing what the platoon leader had just said about reporting the program.

The party held in the army is actually very casual. There are no requirements on what you must do. As long as you can swallow your pride, it's okay to go up and howl.

Instead of saying anything, everyone will smile knowingly.

The main theme is joy.

A class has two programs, one of which can be a group program like a chorus, but the other one cannot and must be a separate program.

Even if only one person goes up to sing solo, it's fine.

And this is what gives everyone the most headaches.

"Let's finalize the group program first. If we delay any longer, those grandchildren will have already grabbed all the spots for the chorus."

After Li Gang's reminder, everyone finally reacted. They didn't even bother to eat the food in their bowls and hurried to find the platoon leader to confirm the group program.

However, they were still a step late, and the most sought-after and easiest chorus spots had already been filled by other classes.

Only places are left for language programs and military boxing performances.

Helplessly, fearing that all the spots would be taken up again, Jiang Chen, who came as a representative to register for the program, could only choose a group program of military boxing performance.

What can I say about the military boxing program?

Some are tasteless, tasteless to eat, and a pity to throw away.

We are all scouts. Don't even think about watching military boxing. We're tired of practicing it during normal training. Unless we come up with something unique, it will basically not get any attention. It will be a complete waste of time.

I went on stage and snored for a long time, and I was exhausted, but there was not much attention. This is also the reason why everyone does not want to watch this show.

In contrast, martial arts routine performances are much more popular.

There is never a shortage of talent in the army, especially in the reconnaissance company, which has many soldiers who graduated from martial arts schools or have practiced martial arts since childhood.

Bajiquan, Tongbeiquan...there is nothing you cannot see, only you cannot think of it.

Plus, everyone has a foundation in military boxing, so there is no need to learn too much. A few simple routines can be learned just by looking at them once or twice.

Several classes are combined together, and dozens of people perform on stage together, which is much more interesting than the military boxing that we are already tired of watching.

"Let's just do military boxing. It's better than performing skits or dancing. These two events are really not something a human can perform. Last year..."

The rest of the class quickly accepted this result.

In their opinion, practicing military boxing is much better than performing skits and dancing.

The group program has been finalized, and there are also individual programs to discuss.

Moreover, the speed must be fast. If it is a little slower, it might end up like what happened just now, where the simple and easy performance spots were taken away by others.

"If it really doesn't work, let's just sing. This is the easiest. And we didn't get a place in the chorus, so we can choose to sing solo." Li Gang said after thinking for a while.

Others had no objection to this, but the question was, who should be sent to sing?

Subconsciously, everyone except Jiang Chen looked at Han Li.

Seeing this, Han Li shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, I was the one who went up there last year. Everyone else was singing either The Sky is So Big or The Glorious Years, but I was the only one who went up there to sing about our soldiers. I'm not going this year no matter what!"

It's no wonder Han Li behaved like this, even though he was just having fun within his own camp, people still have to have dignity. Others can sing all kinds of classic songs at will.

There were a few guys from Guangdong province who sang beautifully. When it was their turn, they would sing: "We are soldiers..."

Han Li is also a young man and he also wants to save face. Last year he had no choice but to go because he was forced to do so. This year, he said he didn't want to go up and embarrass himself no matter what.

Others showed similar behavior.

They all spoke nicely before, but when it came time to go on stage, they ran faster than each other.

"Squad leader, how about I go up and try?" After discussing for a long time without coming to a conclusion, as the deputy squad leader, Jiang Chen could only bite the bullet and say it.

In an instant, everyone's eyes were focused on him, not giving Jiang Chen a chance to refuse. As soon as he said this, everyone, including Li Gang, made the decision immediately.

"It's settled, you said it yourself, don't go back on your word!"

"Uh……"

Jiang Chen was speechless.

It's just singing a song... It's not that difficult to go to the battlefield, right?!

Fortunately, Jiang Chen was not shooting at random.

As a notoriously 'bad' student and street urchin, Jiang Chen also has some skills.

Before going to the county town and having access to the Internet, Jiang Chen was good at playing the guitar.

In junior high school, a new musical instrument training class opened near the school in their town. It was summer vacation at that time, and Jiang Chen was not very interested in this thing, but he couldn't help but one of his junior high school classmates and best friends was particularly interested in this aspect.

Boys are like this. No matter how interested they are, they will hesitate or even give up if you ask them to do something alone. But if they have a partner, it will be different.

In order to bring Jiang Chen along, he asked his family for money and even deliberately doubled the registration fee...

The money had been spent, and Jiang Chen had no choice but to go along.

There were two people. Jiang Chen's best friend asked for a drum set, while Jiang Chen picked a guitar.

After more than a month of study, Jiang Chen still didn't understand music theory, but he had no problem playing a piece of music by looking at the musical notation and memorizing it.

Later, when he entered high school, Jiang Chen used this skill to win the priority mating rights for three years of high school by singing Harlem's "It's a Choice" from Meteor Garden.

However, after he came into contact with online games, he became addicted to playing games online every day and forgot about this skill. It was not until he entered society and started working that he picked it up again for some reason.

There is a saying that goes like this...

It’s better to just talk and not sing than to act like a hooligan.

Out of a hundred people who play guitar, at least eighty of them, if not ninety, are trying to pick up girls.

Jiang Chen was naturally no exception.

So, even though his singing is not that good, it is still acceptable to the ears.

I can’t compare with professionals, but being a KTV microphone master is definitely not a problem.

……

"Squad leader, it's no problem for me to go, but does our company have guitars? I can't just go and sing with nothing in my hands, right?!"

Before Jiang Chen finished speaking, Li Gang's eyes suddenly lit up and he asked in a surprised tone, "You can also play the guitar?!"

Jiang Chen was startled by his expression and nodded somewhat at a loss.

After being in the army for so long, this was the first time he saw Li Gang react so strongly.

Any problem with playing guitar?

Jiang Chen couldn't help but think in his heart.

However, he had no idea that although the first platoon was famous for its strong individual military qualities, they were far behind in other aspects.

Especially for cultural performances, there are only a few of them every year.

It's either a chorus or a martial arts performance, not to mention individual events.

They are all tone-deaf. Apart from muscles, they don't even have any artistic cells or even the slightest bit of artistic bacteria in their bodies.

As a result, whenever there is a performance or a party, their row is definitely the least welcome one. Even if it is a chorus, unless there is really no other choice, other rows are unwilling to have them join in the fun.

This is not exclusion, it's mainly because the people in the row are really...

Let me put it this way, in terms of artistic performances, apart from martial arts and military boxing, other items are useless.

It would be fine if he just sang out of tune, but his hoarse voice often caused others to sing off-tune as well.

When performing skits, he only has a stern face and stiff limbs, and he does not look like the powerful figure on the training ground at all.

Standing on the stage, one couldn't help but wonder if they were under a spell of immobilization...

Li Gang is also a veteran in the platoon. He has suffered a lot in this regard in previous years. Now that he finds a chance to get back at his former self, how can he not be excited?

"Come on, come on. I'll take you to the platoon leader to confirm the quota first. Then, go to the warehouse to get the guitar and play it for us..."

As he spoke, Li Gang no longer cared about the dining discipline and pulled Jiang Chen towards the platoon leader Li Cheng. As he walked, he turned his head and told the others, "After dinner, Zhang Ming, you take the others to clean up first."

"Yes!"

……

Half an hour later, in the open space next to the company warehouse, Jiang Chen was holding a guitar, facing platoon leader Li Cheng, second squad leader Zhao Hongbin, third squad leader Li Gang, and a group of people from the kitchen team who had come over to join in the fun after hearing about this.

“Then shall I start singing?” Being stared at by so many people, especially by his own platoon leader and squad leader who looked as if they wanted to eat him, even Jiang Chen, a time traveler, felt a little overwhelmed.

"Well, we can start now." Li Cheng raised his hand to signal others to be quiet, and then continued to stare at Jiang Chen with burning eyes.

Holding the guitar, Jiang Chen first tried the sound and adjusted it according to his own habits.

While busy with his work, Jiang Chen was also thinking about what song to sing.

Although he can play the guitar, he knows nothing about music theory. He can only memorize the music score of a song. If he memorizes it, he can play it. If he doesn't memorize it, then...

Jiang Chen quickly searched through the few songs in his music library in his mind.

"Anhe Bridge", "Chengdu", "Ordinary Road"... These are songs that nine out of ten people can sing.

There are also songs like "Sunny Day", "Love Is Not a Choice" and "My Deskmate" that I learned specifically in high school to pick up girls.

Because of the existence of the dream space and the original owner's memory, these memories that should have been forgotten once again surfaced in his mind.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Chen felt that although these songs were good, they were not very suitable for the army.

After reminiscing for a long time, Jiang Chen suddenly remembered a song that he particularly liked in his previous life, and for this reason he specially asked a master to help him play and sing the song on guitar.

The theme song of the TV series "I Am a Special Forces Soldier" is "Forever Brothers".

That’s it!

Recalling the music score that the master wrote for him at that time, Jiang Chen's fingers lightly swept across the strings...

“The days before were bright and beautiful, and you and I shared the deliciousness of youth together.

The past days were sad and bitter, and you and I shared the physical and mental exhaustion.

The romance of the past made you and me extremely intoxicated, and the vicissitudes of the past made you and me no longer pure...

The wind goes and the flowers fade, the wind comes and the flowers bloom, the day of reunion!!

Always meet unexpectedly~

Come on bro, cheers!!!

Let’s wade through the water together and face the fire together!

We depend on each other in life and follow each other in death. We depend on each other and follow each other.

The day of triumph~Don't get drunk~Don't return~

……

Jiang Chen's singing continued, but the soldiers below fell into silence.

Especially Li Cheng, Zhao Hongbin, Li Gang and other veterans who have served in the army for many years and have experienced real life and death, and have watched their former comrades/brothers leave one by one.

They can best understand the meaning of the word "brothers" in the song.

Let’s wade through the water together and face the fire together!

We live together, we die together, we come back victorious, we won’t leave until we are drunk…

To live and die together is not only the oath of special forces, but also the oath of scouts and even every soldier.

No one understands the meaning of the words comrades/brothers better than them.

Before joining the army, Jiang Chen also liked this song very much, but after this period of training in the army, when he sang this song "Forever Brothers" again, he had new insights.

The moment the song sounded, Jiang Chen brought himself into it.

The ups and downs of the three months in the recruit company flashed before his eyes one by one: the strangeness when they first met, the joy in the hardship during the five-kilometer run, the playfulness in their spare time, and the sadness and reluctance when they left...

Li Qiang is 1.9 meters tall and speaks Northeastern dialect, which misleads everyone.

Chu Fei, a rich boy from Beijing, went from being a rebellious boy to being the class funny guy.

Zhang Meng, who is from Xiangxi, loves spicy food very much and has some unspeakable secrets.

Sun Weichen, a fat boy born in a small mountain village in Shu, is able to burst out unimaginable strength just for a bite of food.

Zhou Xinghai/He Wenjie thinks going to the bathhouse is like a death sentence.

Zhao Feihang and Lin Wenbo are comparable to Aburame Shino in Naruto who has the invisibility buff.

And Luo Ming, who is from the same province but has completely opposite living habits.

……

Although Jiang Chen's experience is not worth mentioning compared to Zhao Hongbin, Li Gang and others, the comradeship/brotherhood has been fermented and integrated into everyone's body and bones through repeated training and getting along...

This is also why so many veterans, after retiring, would not hesitate to take the retirement benefits they had saved over the years and go to the police station to be cheated just because of a word from their former comrades.

Although this is a negative example, it also shows the importance that soldiers place on comradeship and brotherhood.

Are they stupid and don't understand all these twists and turns?

Maybe, but more of it is the trust in former comrades and brothers!

The singing stopped.

There was an immediate burst of cheers and applause at the scene.

"Okay! This is the song we'll sing at the party tonight. I want to see how those guys show off this year!" Li Chengqiang suppressed his emotions, clapped and cheered, and patted Jiang Chen on the shoulder while speaking.

Soldiers are like this, they feel very bitter and difficult inside, but they always look like they don't care.

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