My Military Career in a Parallel World

The distance of five kilometers is not very far, but when you add the words "weight-carrying" and "off-road", the difficulty is no less than running a marathon.

Marathon is just the starting point, weighted cross-country running is the destination.

Running five kilometers cross-country with a load is one of the most hardcore physical training subjects in the army. Although Jiang Chen and others have been running five kilometers almost every day recently, running on the playground and running in the wild are two completely different things.

In the wild, they need to cross various complex terrains, carry weapons and equipment for rapid maneuvers and long-distance raids, which is extremely difficult. After running only the first two kilometers, many recruits are almost exhausted.

"How is it? Can you still hold on?" Jiang Chen slowed down on his own initiative and came to Sun Weichen's side.

"It's okay, squad leader, I can still hold on for a while." Although Sun Weichen was panting heavily, he was still able to hold on thanks to the training during this period.

Jiang Chen didn't say much after hearing this. Some things had to be faced. Jiang Chen couldn't help him forever.

Fortunately, Sun Weichen himself knew the situation well and had been training hard during this period. His originally round and slightly fat belly was almost gone.

"Run, run!" Ge Hongtao and several platoon leaders shouted while standing on the side of the road.

The squad leader at the end of the team also shouted: "Hurry up, keep up!"

After running about one kilometer along the mountain road, the new recruits in the first echelon, including Jiang Chen, were all panting and sweating profusely.

As for those recruits who were not in good physical condition, their eyesight was already a little blurry and their legs and feet were very unsteady after running for so long.

Running five kilometers with a load and running five kilometers armed cross-country are two completely different things. Running on the playground and running on a mountain road are even more different.

Sometimes it’s uphill, sometimes it turns, and sometimes there’s no road at all, and you need to go through dense forests!

"Hold on a little longer, there is only one kilometer left!" After climbing over a small hill, the wasteland where they had previously had a picnic came into view. From afar, they could still see the traces left over from when they dug the smokeless stove in the morning.

Seeing this wasteland meant that they were not far from the end.

Jiang Chen tugged at the rope tied around his waist with a packing tape, squeezed out the little remaining strength in his body, and continued to move forward with everyone.

When they ran another three kilometers, most of the new recruits in the team had reached their limit. Even Zhang Meng, Chu Fei and others who usually performed well were staggering when they walked, and Sun Weichen almost rolled down the hillside several times due to exhaustion.

Jiang Chen wasn't much better off. He could barely protect himself, let alone spare the energy to help others.

Finally, he thought of a solution. He tied everyone's packing tape together into a rope, and everyone pulled a piece, and they held on to each other and pulled forward.

"Do not abandon, do not give up!"

This is not only the persistence of the 7th Steel Company, but also the persistence of all soldiers.

Five kilometers is neither long nor short. When we returned to the recruit camp, it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon.

Normally, a five-kilometer run would take about twenty minutes at most without any weight, and half an hour at most with weight. But this time, they ran for almost an hour.

Especially in the last kilometer, the recruits almost had to crawl back step by step. As soon as they reached the gate of the camp, many of them felt their legs go weak and collapsed to the ground.

When passing by the company returning from training, he saw the new recruits lying in front of the gate without any intention of making fun of them. Instead, his eyes were full of sympathy.

Being assigned to the 228th Regiment was their luck, but also their tragedy.

For other recruit companies, let alone the five-kilometer armed cross-country run, even the five-kilometer weighted run is rarely included in the training subjects.

After all, there is no five-kilometer item in the assessment of the recruit company, and running only three kilometers is the norm for many recruit companies.

But this is the 31st Division and the 228th Regiment, and they are destined to have a hard time here, whether in the recruit company or after being transferred to another company.

Five-kilometer armed cross-country race?

Haha, in the 228th Regiment this is just the beginning, ten kilometers is the norm.

They held their breaths and supported each other as they went upstairs and returned to the dormitory. They threw their backpacks on the ground and then slid down to the bed.

The only sound in the entire dormitory building was the breathing of the recruits.

There was no chatting, not even the sound of talking. Everyone was too tired. It was their first time to do a 5km cross-country race, and many of them were so tired that they didn't even have the energy to talk.

After resting for half an hour, everyone finally recovered a little.

After a quick packing, I changed into clean clothes and went downstairs to gather for dinner.

In the cafeteria, when the squad leader gave the order to "eat", all the recruits seemed to have turned into starving ghosts, frantically digging into the food in their bowls, while their hands were not idle either, no matter whether it was steamed buns or dumplings, they would just grab any and stuff them into their mouths.

With one bite, the steamed bun, which was the size of an adult's fist, was bitten off in half. With another bite, the steamed bun in his hand disappeared.

After all, there are only a few people who can cook and make delicious meals in the wild. Most of the recruits ate half-cooked food all day, or even just didn't have a proper meal at all.

Coupled with the five kilometers of cross-country just now, everyone now wishes they could eat a cow.

Fortunately, Ge Hongtao still had some conscience and left a full twenty minutes for dinner so that everyone could eat and drink their fill.

Go to the computer classroom to watch the news broadcast at 7 o'clock. 7:30 is still the fixed class time for the instructor.

As soon as the class started, Lu Ming gave everyone a head-on blow.

"Today's class is very simple. Regarding this field exercise, each person must write a reflection of at least 800 words!"

"?????"

After hearing the instructor's words, everyone, including Jiang Chen, was filled with question marks.

What kind of experience can I gain from this? I either starved or ran away. Rather than saying it was an experience, it was more like an experience that I would rather not look back on.

Eight hundred words, not too much, but not too little either.

Just as Jiang Chen was thinking about how to write, he heard the instructor on the stage suddenly say: "Oh, I almost forgot.

Jiang Chen! "

"To!"

When Jiang Chen heard the instructor call his name, he had a very bad feeling.

No way……

The more you don't want something to happen, the more likely it is to happen.

Sure enough, the instructor's next words were: "Jiang Chen, write one thousand words. When you finish, I will give you on-site comments!"

"Yes..." He knew that calling him at this time would definitely be bad, but what could Jiang Chen do? He could only agree with a bitter face.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen has accumulated enough experience in tasks such as writing reports. It is only a thousand words, which is not a big deal for him.

After some fabricated stories, I managed to connect this field exercise to the memory of the revolutionary martyrs' hard work, and finally managed to put together a thousand words.

After on-the-spot comments and random checks on the experiences of several recruits, today's class time is finally over.

"I don't know if I will still have to attend classes every night after joining the company?" Jiang Chen put away the notes on the table, looked up at the instructor's back as he left, and thought silently in his heart.

If I still have to go to class every night after joining the company, that would be too miserable...

Jiang Chen glanced at Zhang Meng, who was drowsy but had to force himself to take notes, and a smile appeared on his face.

If people knew that they would have to take notes in class every day when they serve in the army, I'm afraid many people would rather study.

There is no way. Now is not the same as before. Being a soldier requires not only physical fitness but also cultural knowledge.

In the future, for many equipments, people with a slightly lower cultural level will not be able to operate them, let alone understand them.

Moreover, with the advancement of technology, the way infantry fights will also undergo earth-shaking changes.

Jiang Chen didn’t know much else, but he could tell a thing or two from the war he was fighting before he traveled through time.

Drones are shining, but tanks, known as the king of land warfare, have been repeatedly out of favor. Informatization has become the core of future wars.

In just twenty years, no one could have imagined that the war would develop so rapidly. It has been only more than ten years since the spanking of the "baby". The highland battles, offensive and defensive battles, and battles that required human lives that were common at that time have almost disappeared in the future.

Originally used for civilian purposes, drone technology, which was supposed to be just an electronic toy, has now become a powerful killing weapon.

Only one soldier can easily carry a variety of unmanned equipment.

There are rotor drones that can fly quickly at low altitudes, stealth mechanical dogs that are responsible for ground reconnaissance and patrol, and small unmanned vehicles equipped with small-caliber howitzers that can provide fire support...

All of these require solid knowledge support.

Although the new recruits are still using Type 81 rifles and playing with wooden-handled grenades, these are only temporary. The army's equipment replacement and restructuring are imminent. Perhaps soon after this batch of new recruits join the company, new equipment and new tactics will gradually become popular and replace everything existing.

After returning to the dormitory, everyone hurried to pack up while there was still some time before evening roll call. They had been running around in the wild all day, and not to mention the sweat, they were covered in dirt and grass. If they didn't take a good shower, they would probably not be able to sleep well at night.

In addition, as the last-placed class in the housekeeping evaluation last week, Class 5 also has a difficult and glorious task.

Clean the toilet!

While other recruits were queuing up in the bathhouse, Jiang Chen and others seized the opportunity and hurried to the toilet carrying small yellow basins and steel wool.

Without being disturbed by anyone else, ten people worked together to clean the toilet in five or six minutes.

I'll go back and clean up the bathroom and the corridor, and today's task will be completed.

By the time all this is done, the new recruits who went to the bathhouse to take a bath should be back by the time it is their turn to take a bath.

After the evening roll call, head count and a brief summary of today's training, it is time for the fixed evening session, which has been expanded to a five-kilometer night run.

After returning to the dormitory, considering that today's training volume had exceeded the limit, Li Gang did not ask for any more three hundred points. While the soldiers were exercising, he asked the recruits to stretch each other's ligaments, and that was the end of it.

Lying down on the bed, before the lights-out signal was blown, the recruits had already fallen asleep.

In the dream, Jiang Chen had a new training program, so he naturally would not let it go. He continued to hone his military boxing skills while practicing five kilometers of cross-country running, and was very busy.

I thought the day was over, but unexpectedly, at around four in the morning, the familiar emergency assembly whistle sounded again.

Everyone seemed to have returned to the scene of their first emergency assembly, with all kinds of situations occurring frequently.

When going downstairs, Jiang Chen even saw someone running barefoot with shoes in hand.

The curses kept coming.

Only after leading the disheveled recruits to run two laps around the playground did Ge Hongtao stop them.

"Look at you guys throwing away your weapons and armor!" Standing in front of the team, Ge Hongtao's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He pointed at them and started scolding them.

"Platoon leaders, go and check the new recruits in your respective squads!" After saying this, Ge Hongtao turned and left.

Needless to say, the recruits' fate was as follows: they were sprayed with spit in the face and dragged to walk around the playground like a duck before they were let go.

After returning to the dormitory, we thought there wouldn't be any more accidents, so we prepared to take a nap while there was still some time.

result……

Less than twenty minutes after I lay down, the whistle sounded again!

"..."

In the dream, Jiang Chen, who was just about to run another five-kilometer cross-country race, was speechless.

As expected, nothing is impossible in the army. Don’t these perverts need to sleep?!

Oh, it's the company commander, that's all right...

As soon as Jiang Chen packed up and went downstairs, he saw Ge Hongtao holding a whistle in his mouth, and all his complaints were instantly suppressed.

You are the leader, you have the final say, isn't it okay for me to obey you...

Fortunately, no embarrassment was made this time, and Ge Hongtao was too lazy to continue to bother them. He simply waved his hand and asked the recruits to go back to sleep.

But after being tormented twice in a row, how could anyone sleep?

I stayed up until 5:30 and started to fold the quilt. While folding it, I uttered a long list of greetings with a lot of feminine content.

There were no unexpected incidents during today's training. The squad leaders reviewed the training of the previous few weeks with the new recruits.

Tactical movements, military boxing, and taking time to practice gun aiming. Although still very tired, it is much better than yesterday.

At least the recruits don’t have to eat dirt or run five kilometers on an empty stomach…

So far, except for live-fire shooting, they have gone through all the training subjects of the recruit company one by one, even experiencing the five-kilometer weighted run and armed cross-country which are not within the scope of the assessment.

As the first month in the recruit company draws to a close, the recruits will also face new challenges.

Just because you have been exposed to something and practiced it doesn’t mean you can do it.

Not to mention compared with the veterans, even today's recruits are still a long way from achieving qualified scores in these events.

It can be predicted that as time enters the second month, the training intensity of the recruits will be greatly increased, and the squad leaders will no longer just focus on whether you have learned or done it, but will pay more attention to improving your performance.

Regardless of other things, at least you have to meet the assessment standards for new recruits.

Of course, as a force stationed on the border, the 228th Regiment has higher requirements for recruits.

It is far from enough to just pass the recruit assessment. This is not decades later. Conflicts, dangers, and battles may break out here at any time.

Even though twenty years later, when the country has become so powerful that it is not afraid of any challenges except the Eagle Sauce, the border is still full of dangers, and there are still countless people who carry heavy burdens and move forward, silently guarding the lights of thousands of homes behind them.

What's more, we have just entered the new century.

They must ensure that the new recruits have a certain level of combat effectiveness when they are assigned to the company. Even if they cannot be of much help, at least they cannot be a drag.

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