My Military Career in a Parallel World

"I would like to remind you that gun oil is corrosive. Be careful when using it and don't get it on your eyes or other delicate parts."

As he spoke, Li Gang took out a palm-sized piece of white cloth, dipped it in a little gun oil, and began to use it to wipe the parts on the ground.

“Make sure every part is wiped thoroughly and all water stains and dust are cleaned up.

Among them, the most difficult and important part is the barrel. Pay special attention to whether there are burrs on the spiral rifling..."

After carefully maintaining all the parts, Li Gang began to assemble the Type 81 rifle.

In order to make it easier for everyone to see clearly, Li Gang deliberately slowed down the movements.

A few minutes later, the Type 81 rifle that had been disassembled into parts became a complete rifle again.

Putting the assembled gun aside, Li Gang looked at everyone and said, "Have you written it down?"

"Uh..." Except for Jiang Chen, everyone else looked embarrassed.

Before this, their knowledge of guns was limited to what they saw on TV. Even Chu Fei, a rich second-generation with a bit of background, had at most come into contact with some obsolete weapons and had only fired a couple of shots with only a vague understanding of them.

This was the first time for them to truly understand and come into contact with the concept of firearms. They were all so engrossed in listening that they had no time to care about other things.

"Hmph." Seeing the reactions of the crowd, Li Gang snorted coldly, scaring several people so much that they quickly lowered their heads, not daring to look at him.

"Jiang Chen, you are the deputy monitor, come up and operate it first." Since no one else could be relied upon, Li Gang turned his gaze to Jiang Chen and said.

"Yes!" Jiang Chen agreed without hesitation.

"Everyone, watch carefully. If you haven't learned it by now, you will be in trouble!" Li Gang made way and stared at the others viciously.

"Yes!" Everyone nodded like chicks pecking at rice.

Sitting down with his gun in his arms, Jiang Chen did not start operating immediately. Instead, he first recalled Li Gang's actions in his mind.

Disassembling a gun is not difficult. Most people can complete the entire operation independently if there is no time requirement and there is someone to guide them.

Jiang Chen followed suit, and although he often had problems with the gun's structure when he first started, with Li Gang's reminders, he was able to successfully disassemble the gun one by one.

Following Li Gang's example, Jiang Chen arranged the disassembled parts in order from right to left, and then began the next step of gun maintenance.

He took a piece of white cloth, dipped it in some gun oil, and began to wipe it carefully.

The guns of Jiang Chen and others had just been maintained before they were issued to them. Now the main thing is to let them learn and adapt to this process. Therefore, Li Gang did not remind Jiang Chen that there were any shortcomings in maintenance, etc. It will not be too late to teach them slowly after the new recruits are familiar with the work of maintaining guns.

After using a white cloth soaked in gun oil to clean the dust and debris on the parts, you also need to use a clean gun cleaning cloth, dip a small amount of gun oil on it and evenly apply it to the entire body of each part. Only after completing this step can you proceed with the final assembly of the gun.

Compared to the stumbling during disassembly, he was much smoother when assembling it as he already had a certain understanding of the structure of the gun.

"Well, not bad. Overall there aren't any big problems. After you get familiar with it a few times, you'll be able to perform gun maintenance independently." Seeing Jiang Chen's performance, Li Gang nodded with satisfaction.

"Next, Chu Fei!"

"what?!"

Chu Fei's face froze when his name was suddenly called. He was thinking about watching it a few more times, but he didn't expect Li Gang to let him go up second.

Chu Fei sat down reluctantly and began to try to disassemble the gun in his hand.

Disassembly and assembly is actually not difficult, especially for boys. Almost everyone has done similar things when they were young.

Disassemble the toy gun you bought into parts and then try to reassemble it. Although it often happens that you can't put it back together, you can still gain some experience.

The general structure of a toy gun is similar to that of a real gun. After removing the upper cover, the first thing that comes into view is a spring...

Amid Li Gang's scolding, Chu Fei stumbled and spent five or six minutes, and finally disassembled the entire gun into parts.

Looking at the parts of different sizes scattered all over the floor, Chu Fei suddenly remembered something and looked up and asked, "Squad leader, there are so many parts. What will happen if one is accidentally lost during assembly?"

Hearing his question, Li Gang laughed immediately.

"Haha, what do you think will happen? Have you forgotten the oath you took this morning? You must protect your weapons and equipment as you would your own life!"

At this point, Li Gang's expression turned serious. After looking around at everyone, he said, "Remember, a gun is a soldier's second life. If you lose your gun, you will lose your life too!"

"The gun is there, the man is there, the gun is gone, the man is gone!"

"Throwing away parts? How dare you say that! If it's missing a part, I'll find an identical one from you and put it in its place!"

It’s not that Li Gang is strict, it’s just that the new recruits nowadays are more lively and courageous than each other. It would be bad if they really cause trouble.

As their first squad leader, Li Gang has the responsibility and obligation to explain to the new recruits what a gun means to a soldier.

They practiced until before lunch, then Li Gang took the new recruits to store the newly received guns in the armory.

One can imagine the expression on the recruits' faces when they saw the guns they had just received less than half a day ago being taken back. However, the storage of guns is a military regulation and everyone must abide by it.

The new recruits handed over their Type 81 rifles with reluctance, and followed their squad leader out of the armory, looking back every few steps.

After the meal, everyone was still not allowed to rest during the lunch break. After more than a week of hard work, everyone had barely passed the task of folding quilts.

However, in order to achieve the standards of a square and octagonal quilt, they need to continue their efforts and overtime is essential. This work will be considered complete when they can fold a quilt that meets the standards within a few minutes.

In addition to folding quilts, everyone also has to recite and learn the safe use of firearms rules distributed last night.

In the afternoon, training continued.

"Sergeant, when are we going to get our guns?" This is almost the most common sentence that all recruits say to their squad leaders before gathering.

Now that the guns have been issued, they will naturally not be allowed to use them.

However, before going to the armory to collect the weapons, there is still one thing to do...

On the playground, the new recruits, fully armed and braving the scorching sun, started the three-kilometer long-distance run around the playground, which is a must-do item in every training session.

However, running three kilometers with nothing and running three kilometers fully armed are two completely different concepts.

The Type 3.5 rifle weighs kg without bullets, plus the steel helmet on the head, the bullet belt, the water bottle hung around the waist, four forearm-length wooden sticks instead of grenades, three empty magazines, and two bricks stuffed into the backpack to replace the weight of bedding.

The whole body carries a weight of nearly 30 kilograms.

Coupled with the scorching sun overhead, after the three-kilometer run, all the recruits, including Jiang Chen, didn't even have the strength to get up.

"Get up! Don't you all want to play with guns?! What are you doing lying on the ground? Get up!"

It was not until this time that everyone realized that distributing guns was not always a good thing.

However, the excitement in everyone's hearts had not yet subsided after they had just received the guns, and they all thought that it would pass if they just endured it. As long as they could touch the guns, no matter how hard or tiring it was, it would not matter.

They don't know that the real suffering has just begun...

The good news is that in subsequent training, they are no longer required to carry weights, so the recruits can finally take a breath.

"Today's weather is very suitable for practicing aiming!" Li Gang suddenly turned his head and said, stretching out his hand to feel the flow of air.

Everyone was confused, not knowing what he meant.

Is there any necessary connection between weather and aiming practice?

However, they did not need to know that. After ordering everyone to put their backpacks under the shade of the trees, Li Gang took them to the edge of the playground, facing the direction of the jungle, and began to teach them how to hold and aim guns correctly.

Hold the butt of the rifle against your shoulder, hold the junction of the handguard and the magazine firmly with your left hand, and ensure that your eyes, the notch, the crosshairs, and the target are in a straight line, which is commonly known as the three-point line...

After correcting the new recruits' movements one by one, Li Gang walked to the left side of the team and said, "If you want to shoot accurately, you have to hold your gun steady!"

As he spoke, he took out a few hollow bullet shells from his pocket and placed them on the muzzles of everyone's guns one by one.

"The one-hour countdown starts now. Every time a shell falls off the muzzle, five minutes will be added!"

As soon as Li Gang finished speaking, there was a crisp sound of "ding", and the bullet casing on the muzzle of someone's gun had fallen to the ground.

Li Gang walked over to pick up the shell on the ground and put it back on the muzzle of the gun. He said expressionlessly: "Sun Weicheng, add five minutes!"

"Yes!"

Sun Weichen answered subconsciously, and then he saw the shell that had just been placed on the muzzle of his gun fall down again.

Li Gang quickly caught the shell and stared at Sun Weicheng with a blank expression, "Sun Weicheng, add five more minutes!!"

"Puchi..." Someone couldn't help but laugh out loud.

However, as time goes by, happiness turns to sorrow. He was just laughing at others, but the bullet casing on the muzzle of his gun fell off as a result of his laugh.

"Luo Ming, add five minutes!"

"Chu Fei, add five minutes!"

Now everyone was quiet, and even their breathing became cautious, for fear that the shell would accidentally fall off the muzzle of the gun.

Holding a gun is a very painful thing, and it becomes more difficult as time goes by.

Not to mention having to lift a rifle that weighs 3.5kg, just keeping your arm half-raised for a long time is enough to make people uncomfortable.

This is a physiological reaction of the human body and has nothing to do with physical strength.

Feeling the soreness in his arms, Jiang Chen gritted his teeth and persevered, and at the same time, he couldn't help but feel fortunate in his heart that when he was training in the dream space, he had been deliberately training his ability to endure. Otherwise, no matter how strong his physical fitness was, it would be useless when he encountered similar projects.

As mentioned before, it becomes increasingly difficult to hold the gun as time goes by. After half an hour, every minute seems to be a hurdle, and bullet casings fall from the muzzles of everyone's guns more and more frequently.

Sun Weichen was the worst off, as his waiting time had accumulated to an hour and a half. The others were not much better, with their waiting time generally being extended by fifteen to twenty minutes.

The two people who dropped less times were Jiang Chen and Li Qiang. Li Qiang dropped twice and Jiang Chen dropped once.

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