The Strongest Soldier: From Being Specially Recruited into the Army

Chapter 96: Cliffside cliffs, bare-handed rock climbing! (1st update)
Crash...!
The rain was getting heavier. The first rain in Liaodong in 2019 did not feel like rain, but more like water drops irrigating the ground from the sky. The raindrops hit the ground, destroying the branches and leaves of the trees. As the strong wind swept through, the branches and weeds swayed in the wind, and the strong wind whistled.

Su Chen was naturally unaware of Gao Yi's earnest words after Meng Zhe and the other two were eliminated.

Taking advantage of the fact that the thunder and lightning stopped for a while, six people including Su Chen had to find shelter under a big tree.

After carefully looking at several photos in the intelligence, Su Chen looked at his comrades and told them his analysis and inference:
"These photos have one thing in common: there are more or less iconic things on them, maybe a tree, a stream, or a unique hillside...

"What we need to do now is to find these iconic traces on the map and connect them together. The route formed is probably the correct route to Lone Eagle Ridge!"

Since wilderness survival is a training exercise, it tests their analytical and decision-making abilities behind enemy lines.

Su Chen thought that the difficulty of the assessment might not be too high. After all, they were not professionals, so the photos were the clues left for them by the instructors.

Based on these clues, it is not difficult to find a safe route to Lone Eagle Ridge!

Shen Hang nodded in agreement, "That makes sense."

With an idea in mind, the next natural step was to formulate a route of action. When confirming several landmark traces and connecting them together, everything turned out just as Su Chen had expected. A new route clearly appeared on the map. The team members looked along the route marked by Su Chen with a marker, and suddenly their eyes went dark and they had the urge to curse!
This is a far cry from the route preset by the instructors, and the straight-line distance has been shortened a lot.

Jiang Cheng pointed at the route and analyzed: "Although the straight-line distance seems to be closer, this road is not easy to walk!"

Indeed, the re-planned route required them to cross a swamp, a turbulent river, and even cliffs, making the journey more difficult than the original route.

"Isn't this their purpose?" Yan Ziqiang snorted, "By pushing us to the limit, they'll consume a lot of our energy and test whether we can maintain sufficient combat effectiveness after consuming a huge amount of energy behind enemy lines!"

"According to this route, we need to march nearly 200 kilometers of mountain roads, and the individual food and drinking water we carry are simply not enough!" Shen Hang said with a frown.

Su Chen nodded in agreement, "It's definitely not enough! So the energy and water supply will depend on us, especially the water supply."

The complex mountain terrain covered nearly 1935 kilometers of mountain roads. Even if the martyrs ran 120 kilometers a day according to the Luding Bridge capture, it would take nearly two days.

Su Chen believed that their spiritual will and faith were not as strong as those of the martyrs. Moreover, the mountain roads included complex terrain such as swamps, rivers, cliffs, etc. They would have to walk in the jungle for at least three days, and the food and water were only enough to support them for one day.

"Damn it!" Shen Hang cursed, "We have to be treated like animals again!"

I still remember that during the Devil Week, they did not have enough food. Maybe two or three people only had one steamed bun a day. How could they replenish the energy needed by the body and ensure that they completed the training?

At that time, they ate voles, snakes, and insects to replenish their energy. Everyone called their way of survival during the Devil's Week as livestock. Now it seems that they have to continue to be livestock!
"We can't help it. Who made us choose this line of work?" Su Chen shook his head helplessly and looked at his comrades. "Comrades, the time has come to test us!"

"Let's do it! What else can we do if we don't do it?"

"We've all rested enough. Don't discuss it here. Let's run. There are 200 kilometers of road waiting for us!"

"I'm going to suffer again..."

These quasi-special warfare members could even survive the Devil's Week. Their willpower was far beyond that of ordinary people. When they heard about the forced march of nearly 200 kilometers, even though they complained that it was going to be painful and life-threatening, not one of them was vague!
After adjusting their mindsets, they quickly began to rush toward the route, marching at their maximum speed.

The forced march takes a huge toll on the body's energy. From dusk to dawn, the sun rose. Fortunately, the rain was sparsely falling, so the weather was not too hot. As the soldiers began to feel hot and sweaty, a cool breeze blew by, which was quite refreshing.

The consumption of body functions must be replenished through water and food.

Just as Shen Hang said, they had to be treated like livestock again. They caught some game and ate it raw with the blood stinging.

According to the background regulations of the exercise, they were operating behind enemy lines, so how could they dare to start a fire?
Bloody animals do not taste good, and the soldiers did not even care whether any bacteria would enter their bodies. Su Chen had never thought that he, who normally did not even eat sashimi or fried eggs with soft cores, would actually eat raw mice and other things after joining the army, and even insects became his food.

Insects don't taste good. The fishy smell is extremely nauseating, especially when they are still alive before entering the mouth. You have to chew them up before swallowing.

Feeling the chewing of the hard shell and the mixture of the juice inside the insect, the taste is really fucking...

But there is no way!
This is a soldier! A special forces soldier!

There are many ways to defeat yourself. If you want to become a strong person who is one in ten thousand or one in a hundred thousand, there will always be many things that you dare not even think about in your daily life. You must muster up the courage to do them.

Many years later, Su Chen gradually realized that if you want to defeat your enemy, the first thing you have to do is to defeat yourself!
The water source is actually relatively simple. Because it is raining, there are raindrops on many vegetation, which are relatively reliable water sources. Using stones, sand and plants, a simple filtering device can be made.

The specific operation method is also very simple. Find a container, put a layer of pebbles, a layer of sand, and a layer of vegetation (such as grass or leaves) on the bottom in turn, and finally use the gauze in their simple first aid kit to filter through these materials to remove impurities.

………In the training base.

From the surveillance camera, we can see that Su Chen and others encountered a cliff. There were no other roads around, so they had to climb up with their bare hands without any safety measures.

"Flying Tigers, this is their most dangerous stage!" Lin Yudong stared at the monitor and said in a deep voice.

Gao Yi nodded, "Notify the rescue team to hide and organize rescue immediately if any situation occurs."

There is a steep cliff of thirty or forty meters. No one can guarantee that there will be no accidents when climbing barehanded without safety measures, especially when the rookies have been marching all day.

But Gao Yi had no intention of stopping them.

It is said that exercises are real combat. In real combat, when encountering cliffs and precipice, can the special forces retreat and not overcome this difficulty? !
The special forces are well aware of the truth that "exercises are actual combat". Every year, the special forces selection and training have casualty targets, and the targets are greater than those of regular forces. This is because the training of special forces is destined to be accompanied by great risks!
In conventional troops, safety in training may be required, but in special forces, it can only be relative safety, not absolute safety!
"You little brats, stay calm!"

Although Gao Yi's face looked extremely calm, in his heart he was really worried about these six young men and prayed secretly.

.........

Cuiya Mountain.

Under the cliff.

Looking up at the steep cliff, the soldiers were a little nervous. No one should brag that they are not afraid of death. If they missed a step on the cliff, they would be smashed into pieces. We are all born by our parents. Who dares to pat his chest and guarantee that he is not afraid of death? !

Even if he is a special forces member, he is still a human being!
"Damn it, when Devil Zhou climbed the cliff, he at least had a safety rope! Now... he's doing it with his bare hands!" A soldier swallowed and said with some fear.

The others looked at him, but no one laughed at him.

"If the six of us climb up together, it's easy to get into trouble!" Su Chen said in a deep voice. He paused and looked at Jiang Cheng, who grew up in a martial arts family. "Jiang Cheng, we have the best physical fitness here. Let's climb up first, then tie the rope to the tree above and throw it down to them. Let's climb up one by one!"

Jiang Cheng glanced at the cliff that was thirty or forty meters high, swallowed his saliva, suppressed the fear in his heart and said: "Okay, no problem!"

present.

Under the watchful eyes of soldiers such as Yan Ziqiang and Shen Hang.

Su Chen and Jiang Cheng walked to the foot of the cliff, tightened their shoelaces and glove ropes, and looked at each other.

"Be careful." Su Chen said to Jiang Cheng.

Jiang Chengmu said: "You too!"

As they spoke, the two men began to climb the cliff with their bare hands. This scene made the remaining four soldiers worry for them and secretly prayed that Su Chen and Jiang Cheng were safe.

This is a cliff with an inclination angle of about 110 degrees. The cliff wall is bare except for the protruding rocks and a few branches. Because of the rain, the cliff surface is even more slippery.

From the moment he started climbing, Su Chen put aside all distractions and focused on the task. He did not look at the cliff below his feet, but carefully observed and confirmed every climbing point and landing point to make sure that the explanation was correct.

That's why they say it's cold at high places. The farther away from the ground, the cooler it is. A gust of cold wind blew by, and Su Chen felt his hair stand on end. An emotion called "fear of heights" spread and rose from the bottom of his heart.

There may be many reasons for fear of heights. For Su Chen now, he is not afraid of anything else but falling down and becoming disabled or even dying...

People probably all have a problem, that is, the more you are afraid of something, the more you like to think about it. It's like watching ghost movies when you were a kid. The more afraid you are, the more you watch it. After watching it, you still keep thinking to yourself, what if the ghost comes to find me? !
"Hu..." He took a deep breath and put these messy thoughts behind him.

Su Chen looked down at a protruding rock slab under his feet. He had just grabbed this protruding rock slab with his hands and it felt quite solid. So he took a step forward, stepped on it with his thick, non-slip Marine boots, and at the same time, exerted force with his legs to climb up.

However, at this second, suddenly, a slight "click" sound occurred, causing all the hairs on Su Chen's body to stand up like a frightened cat!

“Crack!——”

The rock slab actually broke right under Su Chen's feet.

I... fuck!!!
Su Chen's entire brain went blank all of a sudden!
……

(End of this chapter)