My Military Career in a Parallel World

For the first and second phases, as long as your personal military qualities are strong, renewal will generally not be too difficult.

It’s different after three phases.

A first- or second-term non-commissioned officer can at most be a deputy squad leader, but a third-term non-commissioned officer will be assigned the position of squad leader after studying in the teaching team for a period of time unless there are special circumstances.

When a squad leader's personal military qualities are no longer the first factor in assessment, the overall performance of the class becomes the focus.

The fixed assessment results every year can only be regarded as basic scores, and more bonus points must be considered.

For example, if a regimental-level housekeeping model emerges in the class, a soldier wins a place in a competition, there are new recruits in the class who are promoted to non-commissioned officers or non-commissioned officers successfully renew their contracts, etc., these can all be considered plus points.

"This kid was able to get into a 985 university, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to get into a military academy..." Li Gang touched his chin, the more he thought about it, the more reliable it seemed.

It is much easier to take the military academy entrance exam from the army than directly from outside.

First of all, a lot of effort can be saved in the political review and physical examination stages, and the passing score will be lower than outside.

The only thing that made him unsure was whether Jiang Chen's personal military qualities could meet the standards.

If your physical fitness cannot keep up, the probability of being admitted to the military academy will be greatly reduced.

The troops have to train during the day, so they have little free time left. Even though Jiang Chen is a 985 university student and has experience in the college entrance examination, he still needs to review.

I don’t have the physical fitness to do this. I’m exhausted from training every day, so how can I have the time and energy to study overtime?

"Since the training tasks of the recruit company are not that heavy, we can give him some extra training to improve his physical fitness first. Then, if this kid wants to stay in the army, it will be easier for him to take the military academy entrance exam."

They had only been together for two days, and Li Gang was not sure whether Jiang Chen had any intention of continuing to work in the army. What if he was just being too sentimental and he simply didn't want to stay in the army?

He was just thinking that if Jiang Chen really planned to continue working in the army, these preparations would come in handy.

Li Gang was daydreaming, while Jiang Chen on the other side was a little annoyed by their questions and could only slow down to satisfy everyone's curiosity.

"What other reason could there be? My family is poor."

"That's not right, Brother Chen. Don't the village and the county give bonuses to those who get into college? We had a college student in our village before. Wow, everyone wanted to line up to give him money..."

"Haha, don't you realize what era that was? Now there are college students everywhere. Undergraduates are still okay, but junior colleges are almost everywhere..."

"I'm not studying in Tsinghua or Peking University, so what else can I do if I don't find a solution myself?" Jiang Chen curled his lips speechlessly.

Do you really think that the situation now is the same as it was a dozen years ago, when a family has a college student, the whole village will be busy and the county will send people to express their condolences.

Tuition fees are not a problem at all. Everyone knows that they can get a stable job in a company after graduating from university, and neighbors are willing to lend money to them as a favor.

Later, as universities expanded their enrollment and more and more people were admitted, many people did not get back the money they had borrowed until five or six years or even ten years later.

Over time, college students are no longer so strange to people.

As for now...

Unless you are from Peking University or Tsinghua University, if you want to borrow money, no way!

What's more, their family's situation was not good to begin with.

At that time, when the original owner had just been admitted to university, the news spread back to the village. When relatives saw their family, they would avoid them and would rather take a detour than pass by their door, for fear that Jiang's father and mother would ask them for money.

"Then why don't you go work? The army only pays you a few dollars in two years." Chu Fei asked.

Jiang Chen couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this. This guy was truly a modern version of "Why not eat meat?"

Do you really think money is so easy to make?

At his age, he has no skills and no experience, and he gets paid less than others for screwing screws in the factory.

Not to mention that when he traveled through time, joining the army had already been decided. Even if it hadn't been, Jiang Chen didn't really want to go out and work for others.

Although he has the experience from his previous life as a foundation, as the saying goes, a young man without experience cannot do things well. Is that boss crazy enough to hire a 17 or 18-year-old boy to take the lead?

"You are a second-generation rich man, what are you talking about? Do you really think money is so easy to make?!"

"What can we do at our age? At best, we can be apprentices, serving dishes and doing odd jobs in a restaurant. Not only will we not earn much per month, but we may even have to pay for it. My family doesn't have that much money for me to spend."

Chu Fei was speechless after being confronted by Jiang Chen. He scratched his head and wanted to say something in rebuttal, but after trying for a long time, he couldn't think of any rebuttal.

Although he is a little naughty, he is not the kind of idiot who knows nothing and only knows how to eat, drink and have fun.

Chu Fei originally wanted to go to work in his father's factory. The workers there earned a lot of money each month, and he could earn at least 70,000 or 80,000 yuan in two years.

But just as he was about to say it, he suddenly realized that it was his father's factory. It would be easy for him to go in, but it would be difficult for outsiders to get in.

When Chu Fei was at home, he often heard his father talk about how relatives from who knows how many generations apart came to beg for mercy and wanted to send their family members over.

He grew up in Beijing and had met many migrant workers who came from far away to seek opportunities.

He has a childhood friend who is very close to him and likes to play in a band. He has come into contact with these people a lot and knows some of the situation.

It’s okay for those who have a stable job. Even if they don’t save much money, at least they won’t starve. But people who don’t have a stable job are miserable.

Not to mention that we don’t have enough food to eat, but the situation is not much better…

The others thought about it for a while, and then combined it with their own experiences and found that it was indeed the case.

Who’s family doesn’t have a few relatives or friends who dropped out of school to work?

Forget about sending money back home, it would be great if I could ask my parents for less money.

This is not the 1980s or 1990s, when you could make money by doing anything as long as you went out.

Without skills and diploma, you can only work as a laborer.

It's better to join the army. Not only will you have some money left when you return after two years, but at least you don't have to ask your family for money...

Several new recruits, who came from poor families and had originally planned to work for just two years before retiring and going home to work, were silent at this moment.

We are all adults, they just lack experience and don’t know how dangerous society is, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have brains.

They may not take their elders' words too seriously, thinking that the elderly have always lived in the mountains, unaware of the prosperity outside and have little experience.

But if it’s someone of the same age as you, it’s a different story.

Especially since Jiang Chen was admitted to university, unlike them who either had no hope of passing the college entrance examination or dropped out of school early.

The same words, said by different people, have different effects.

This is similar to the situation in many villages where there is a group of people who are idle and lazy as the villagers say. Suddenly one day, one of them wakes up and starts to do real work. After making some money, the others who were originally just eating and waiting to die are influenced by him and start to do real work.

Those who fall behind continue to live their previous life of eating and waiting to die, while those who follow along have better and better lives.

……

After wiping his feet, Li Gang stood up holding the small yellow basin. A smile appeared on his face as he walked out of the dormitory door.

With a new recruit like Jiang Chen in his class, his future work as the squad leader will be much easier.

Based on what I just said, nine out of ten of these new recruits will continue to work in the army.

With the idea of ​​staying in the army, they will integrate into the training and daily life faster than other recruits, and will execute the orders given by Li Gang more thoroughly.

That's for sure. You can't just plan to stay in the army and still want to argue with your squad leader or superiors...

There are two types of troublemakers in the army.

One type is excellent in all aspects of physical fitness and has their own pride. Until they are convinced, they do not take the words of the veterans to heart. Therefore, they often go against the squad leader and superiors.

The other type is much simpler. They never thought about joining the army. They were either forced to join the army by their families, or after joining, they could not accept the constraints of the army and could not withstand the high-intensity training every day, and they just wanted to leave as soon as possible.

The recruit who was at breakfast this morning belonged to the latter group.

I had originally made an appointment with my friends to go out and work together, but my parents forced me to send me to the army. I was already full of resentment, so it would be strange if anything good happened.

That is the role of the recruit company, to separate the good steel from the scrap iron, to forge the good steel into blades, and to throw the scrap iron into the garbage dump to fend for itself...

The biggest difference between good steel and scrap iron, apart from talent, is the change in thinking.

As long as you can change your mindset and train hard, how bad can the results be?

Vice versa, if you only want to leave early, no matter how talented you are, how much better can you become if you slack off all day?

In today's materialistic society, the military is one of the few places where fairness can be achieved.

Every drop of sweat and every effort you make will be rewarded.

……

At ten o'clock in the evening, the lights-out signal blew on time. After a tiring day, everyone was already very sleepy and soon after lying down on the bed, they started snoring.

In the dream space, time goes back to five o'clock in the morning.

"Look carefully, how I fold it!" Li Gang half-knelt on the ground and demonstrated the technique of folding the quilt.

Jiang Chen came closer and carefully observed his every move, and compared it in his mind with what he had done during the day to see if there was anything wrong or something that could be corrected.

What's more, after taking a closer look, Jiang Chen actually discovered something.

The biggest difference between him and Li Gang in folding the quilt is that when Li Gang presses the quilt, as soon as he presses it, the quilt will not swell up immediately even if he takes his hands off the quilt, but the same is true for the quilt he presses. Even if he uses a small stool to press it tightly, the cotton in the quilt will swell up after a while as soon as he lets go of his hands.

Apart from that, everything else is just a matter of details and experience.

There is no better way, you can only practice slowly over time.

However, as long as it takes time to build something up, it is not a problem for Jiang Chen.

After watching Li Gang fold the quilt several times and practicing it a few times, Jiang Chen had a good idea of ​​it.

In two days at most, I can't say I can reach Li Gang's level, but reaching 80% of the level should not be a problem.

With six hours of rest time every night, the ratio is one to ten, which means that in two days, Jiang Chen can practice in the dream space for one hundred and twenty hours, a full five days and five nights. If he still can't learn it, then forget about staying in the army and just find a piece of tofu to kill himself.

There wasn't much to do tonight. Due to the fatigue accumulated throughout the day, all the new recruits fell asleep as soon as they hit the bed.

In order to avoid getting up at night, Jiang Chen went to the toilet before turning off the lights.

It took a full sixty hours. When I got tired of folding the quilts, I would practice military posture and formation for a while. If I couldn't stand it any longer, I would run another three kilometers.

It not only exercises physical fitness to lay the foundation for the future, but also does not neglect the most important thing at hand.

When he was in a state of madness, Jiang Chen often fantasized about how nice it would be if his golden finger was a system.

That way he wouldn't have to do everything himself, and a few extra points would make up for his biggest shortcoming, physical fitness...

Unfortunately, these are just fantasies.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen is a time traveler. He was beaten up in society for more than ten years in his previous life. He has enough self-control and understands the importance of opportunity.

Otherwise, if it were a young person with no experience, even if he had the golden finger of dream space, he would probably have to suffer enough before he could fully utilize its functions.

Moreover, even if he changes his mind, the lost time cannot be made up, and the ultimate achievements he can achieve will be limited.

The period between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five is the fastest period of growth for a person, whether in terms of learning things or improving physical fitness.

After this age, the time required to learn the same thing again will increase exponentially with age.

While thinking about these random things, Jiang Chen discovered another potential function of the dream space.

When ordinary people grow to a certain level, increasing the amount of training will not only not lead to much improvement, but may cause various hidden injuries due to overdrawing the body due to excessive training. When they are a little older, the quality of all aspects of their body will decline rapidly.

For example, when top athletes reach their peak performance, every 0.1 second they break is a new limit for humanity. With more training their results may be even better, but their bodies cannot withstand this limit.

Jiang Chen is different. He doesn't need to worry about overdrawing his body. As long as he continues to train and can improve, he can increase the amount as many times as he wants until he can't improve any further.

Moreover, because he did not overdraw his body in advance, his peak period could be maintained longer than that of ordinary people.

Due to various factors, ordinary people may experience varying degrees of decline in all aspects of their physical condition after the age of 30. Even if Jiang Chen encounters similar problems, the decline will be very slow.

This discovery further strengthened Jiang Chen's determination to become the Liver Emperor (King of Involution).

In a word, if you can’t practice to death, then practice until you die!

For a full sixty hours, Jiang Chen did not waste a single minute except for recalling the scenes.

The quilt in front of me has been folded countless times.

If the quilt had not been restored to its original state after each retracing, it is estimated that this quilt would have become exactly the same as the one Li Gang was wearing.

While folding the quilt, Jiang Chen did not miss the opportunity to improve his body.

I ran three kilometers at least ten times and practiced marching many times. I can't say I'm comparable to a veteran, but reaching the passing line is definitely not a problem.

The only thing that is less practiced is probably the military posture.

There is no way. This thing is too time-consuming. It takes half an hour to start. It will be meaningless if it is shorter.

If you have that time, you might as well fold the quilt a few more times or run a few more kilometers.

Anyway, the recruits have plenty of time to stand at attention in the first week of the recruit company, let alone after that. They have to stand guard and line up every day. As long as they are a soldier, there is no problem with their military posture.

You will be able to practice it sooner or later, there is no need to waste time on it.

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