In late September, the night breeze had a slight chill, and on the playground of the Army Engineering University training base, singing was loud and passionate. The university's new training team is currently holding a singing competition, with over a thousand new students taking turns on stage to sing military songs such as "Tempered into Steel", "Chinese Military Soul", and "Strong Army with Me". Under the spotlight, students of a new training team lined up neatly and performed a magnificent song called 'Battle with bayonets', which brought the atmosphere to a climax. The song' Battle with bayonets' was like a rainbow, emphasizing the importance of practicing this move to protect the country. As the main body of singers, the vast majority of the growing military academy students are born after 2005 and are the new generation among military academy students. This new training season, reporters conducted interviews and investigations in the New Training Brigade, capturing a series of images of their transformation and growth. "The generation of online students" - shouldering the mission and carrying a dream "There are two rows of wutong trees here. The sun penetrates the leaves, and the light and shadow are mottled. In a trance, they feel back to their hometown, and a little homesick..." In the second week of the training, Zou Hanxiang, a new student from Hangzhou, wrote in the diary of the new training. Zou Hanxiang was born in 2005 and often used the internet when he was in elementary school. Despite the intense academic pressure during his middle and high school years, he always found some time to browse the internet. The 'Zou Hanxiang' are truly the 'Internet Generation'. A survey shows that over 90% of students have WeChat, QQ, and short video accounts, and often use mobile payments; Nearly 50% of students start from junior high school and spend an average of over 1 hour online every day, except for doing homework online. During the new training period, mobile phones cannot be used anytime and anywhere. Will the "Internet Generation" feel "out of place"? When answering the question about "restrictions on mobile phone use", 98.9% of new students stated that since they have chosen to join the military, they must comply with the various disciplinary requirements of the military. Before entering the school, Zou Hanxiang specifically searched for the "guide" for new military academy training compiled by netizens. When reporting, he styled himself as a soldier and deleted any relevant information that could not be retained on his phone. Zou Hanxiang said, "If it were for freedom and comfort, I wouldn't choose to take the military academy exam. Since I have chosen military attire, I must make necessary sacrifices for this sacred and valuable profession." Like Zou Hanxiang, the vast majority of students come to military academies with dreams. 94.15% of the students and their parents unanimously agreed to apply for military academies, 63.91% of the students applied for military academies mainly because "being a soldier is very honorable", and 74.6% of the students' expectations for their future military career are "to practice hard and make achievements on the battlefield". The students have a deep sense of patriotism and have the heroic ambition to serve as soldiers and defend their country. Many students expressed their feelings directly in the questionnaire using phrases such as "Three Foot Sword in Wind and Dust, One Military Robe for the Country", "Granting Marquis is not my intention, I hope the sea is peaceful", "Wearing Military Robes, a Lifetime of Glory", etc. As a new generation of students with diverse ways of obtaining information, their depth and breadth of understanding of the times exceed the expectations of the new training backbone. In the questionnaire, they were generally proud of the country's increasing strength, while also being aware of the local undercurrents and turbulence in the world. A student wrote on the questionnaire: This is a peaceful era, but also a turbulent era. It is the soldiers who charge ahead and guard the lights of thousands of households behind them. In the questionnaire survey, when answering the question "Have you ever thought you would go to war one day?", more than two-thirds of the students said "I have thought about it and am ready at any time. Another training day, the afternoon sun is still strong. Zou Hanxiang stood under the wutong tree, sweat beads falling from his eyebrows along his nose, lips and chin. He has been standing in military posture for over 30 minutes, feeling his scalp tingling and almost unable to hold on. The kindergarten, separated by a wall, suddenly rang the bell and the children rushed out of the classroom. Accompanied by the noisy chatter, a magical force surged from Zou Hanxiang's heart to his whole body, causing his slightly bent legs to instantly straighten. That night, he wrote in his New Training Diary: "For these laughs, we must persevere and persevere." "Crispy skin and tough bones" - Liu Sipeng, a student who grows tall and thin with a heart towards the sunshine, comes from a city in the north. In the first few days of training, he couldn't even pull up a single horizontal bar, and his arms trembled when he supported himself on a tablet for more than ten seconds. Looking at the serious gaze of the class monitor, Liu Sipeng also felt very sad. In the eyes of the new training class leader, many new students, like Liu Sipeng, are a bit "fragile" and "weak", like crispy fruits and vegetables that can be easily damaged or broken by sun exposure or knocking. The first time I picked up my phone to talk to my family, I was yelled at by the squad leader during queue training, and my physical performance was criticized by my comrades as' poor '... These are all challenging the fragile nerves of the students. The new students did not strongly defend the label of "brittle". This is because they have a relatively clear self-awareness and unique self-healing and self consistency abilities. Regarding the phenomenon of internet celebrities, 77.03% of students expressed that they do not envy internet celebrities, and even if given the opportunity, they do not want to become internet celebrities themselves; 88.39% of students said they would "admit their mistakes and accept them humbly" when faced with criticism from teachers and parents; 49.37% of students believe that "there are many articles that catch people's attention, but upon closer inspection, they don't seem to be the case and automatically ignore them. In the questionnaire, many new students wrote similar inspirational sayings, such as "The wind and snow have been pressing on me for two or three years, and I laugh at the light snow like cotton" and "Despite thousands of blows, I am still strong, let the wind blow from all directions". They say that physical weakness is a reality, but deep down we are not incapable of enduring hardship. 'We are tough and resilient, we can break away the surface and the rest is hard in our bones.'. Under the scorching sun, Liu Sipeng did not flinch at all. Before reporting to the military academy, his family told him that when you sweat more than your weight, you will become a qualified soldier. The new training team organized everyone to set new training goals, and Liu Sipeng's goal was to "sweat profusely and become a good soldier". His training uniform got wet and dry again, but as he walked onto the training ground, he never gave up until he achieved his training goals. The cadres of the new training team, based on Liu Sipeng's characteristics, did not rush for success and encouraged him to work steadily and gradually. After one month of training, Liu Sipeng passed all of his physical fitness tests. Like Liu Sipeng, many new students who have a warm sunshine in their hearts continue to persevere. Trainee Li Chengcheng's knees and elbows were worn and bleeding while practicing tactics, but he never lowered his head in the "battle between human skin and land"; Trainee Tao Zhidong's toenails were inflamed, and the doctor said he needed to have them removed for treatment. He said that he would not be able to participate in the training and begged the doctor for conservative treatment. Like other comrades, he used climbing tactics and ran 3000 meters... After starting the training, the trainees underwent many visible changes: their skin color turned black, their small voices turned into big ones, their dragging became efficient, their twisting became bold, and their disorder became orderly; Some big boys who stay at home without touching the spring water have now learned to wash and sew clothes, fearing that their parents may worry that they won't be able to handle it on the training ground, and have also learned to "report good news but not bad news". Before entering the school, Hu Bingzhan, a new student who aims at the bullseye and undergoes steel quenching, was a complete military enthusiast. He likes playing battlefield mobile games and thinks that soldiers are so handsome and cool. He has always dreamed of becoming a soldier. Arriving at the military academy, the equipment in the game went from virtual to reality. When he touched the metallic feel of firearms and heard the crisp sound of pulling the bolt and changing the magazine, he couldn't help but feel extremely excited; The new training team organized to watch the movie "Sniper", and Hu Bingzhan was inspired by the story in the movie and became even more eager to become a "sharpshooter" when shooting. Liking does not necessarily mean success, the flower of success requires the nourishment of sweat. The first live fire shooting experience gave Hu Bingzhen a heavy punch: "15 rings." Looking at the target paper, he couldn't believe his eyes and could only console himself in the end: shooting on mobile games is very handsome, and real target shooting is much harder to upgrade than fighting monsters in games. At night, Hu Bingzhen didn't fall asleep for a long time and kept thinking about shooting movements. In the next few days, he begged the instructor for guidance on shooting techniques and asked the instructor to help him analyze the reasons for the unstable gun. When he was training again to make up for the difference, he practiced with his gun alone and remained motionless for a quarter of an hour, soaking the concrete floor with his dripping sweat. The second live fire shooting has begun. Lie down, load the gun, aim... Look at the strong military slogans on the red banners on both sides, and then look at the green target paper a hundred meters away. Hu Bingzhan positions himself in the most suitable posture after repeated exploration, adjusting breathing, intentionally aiming, and unintentionally firing, with 5 crisp sounds and 45 rings! Transformation requires sweat, and elongation is accompanied by hardship and exhaustion. At the tug of war competition, the new students shouted in unison, gathered their attention, and tried their best to interpret what unity and hard work mean; At the queue training ground, new students tense every muscle in their bodies, and sweat droplets on their noses shimmer in the sunlight; At the scene of grenade throwing, the new students turned sideways, flicked the grenade, waved their arms, and threw it in one go. The grenade traced arcs in the air and accurately landed in the target area. On the eve of National Day, more than a thousand new students conducted assassination training, and the camp echoed with deafening cries of killing. Although they have only been in the military academy for over a month, their powerful and sharp eyes have already begun to show the heroic, masculine, and resolute temperament of revolutionary soldiers. As the new students Xue Kaiwen and Deng Xiaoman collaborated on a poem during the Mid Autumn Festival Gala, they said: "With sharp eyes, firm gaze, and a broad mind. In the future, we will forge the Great Wall of Steel and write legends again." The youth movement of quenching into steel played by the new generation of students is worth looking forward to! (New Society)