My Military Career in a Parallel World

"Jiang Chen has been a smart kid since he was young. He has excellent academic performance and is always willing to help others..."

When faced with interviews from reporters, the villagers were full of praise.

"As for me, I'm his second uncle. I've watched this kid grow up since he was a kid! Maybe you don't know this, but Xiaochen is still a college student!"

"College students?!" Even the reporter who was interviewing the students couldn't help but be surprised.

"Yeah, I heard that someone like Nine or Five came here..."

"Ninety-eighty-five?!"

"Yes, yes, that's nine hundred and eighty-five!"

"Do you know which university it is from?"

The reporter immediately realized that this was definitely a big breaking news and asked quickly.

"It seems to be called something like Xi'an Industrial University. Yes, Industrial University, that's the name. It sounds quite ordinary. Aren't Internet and other things popular these days? How about this university?"

If the reporter didn't know that the villager in front of him really knew nothing about this, he would have thought that this guy was deliberately being pretentious.

No, there is no such word as Versailles now. It should be called "pretending".

The reporter forced a stiff smile and replied: "Haha, you are talking about Northwestern Polytechnical University, right? This school is not bad, not bad..."

In addition to Jiang Chen, the second uncle who appeared out of nowhere, some relatives and friends who they rarely interacted with and had nothing to do with him at all also swarmed over.

Those who were fortunate enough to be interviewed were all smiling happier than each other, and they were very forthright in praising Jiang Chen. They could say anything they wanted to say. If you didn't know, you would think these people had a very good relationship with his family.

It really proves the saying that if you are poor in a busy city, no one will care about you; if you are rich in the mountains, you will have distant relatives!

Although a second-class merit would not make the Jiang family much richer, anyone with a little common sense knew what a second-class merit meant. Even if they didn't know, there were other people who could help them learn about it. There were many families in the village who had served in the army.

Today's society is so realistic that as long as you show a little value, countless people will come to flatter you.

One more friend means one more way, maybe you will need it someday.

However, these people were really shameless. When Jiang Chen was admitted to university, they all tried to avoid him when walking, for fear of bumping into him and asking him to borrow money.

Now, they come uninvited, and are so enthusiastic that they want to spend all their money.

It’s not their fault that they are so realistic. It’s just that college students nowadays are becoming less and less valuable.

In the past, if a village produced a college student, the villagers would be very generous.

Borrow money?

It’s a small matter. As long as the child is admitted to university, the whole village will sell everything they have to send him to school.

At that time, college students were guaranteed jobs and even received salary subsidies after entering school, so the villagers were not worried about not being able to get back the money they lent.

However, after the era of guaranteed job assignment was over, even if someone in the village was admitted to a university, it was actually just the level of an ordinary college, and everyone still borrowed money to send their children to school as usual.

then……

At this time, college students are no longer popular. After graduation, it is considered good if they can support themselves without asking their families for money. But they still have money to give back to others.

People with a conscience will still think about this matter, and after a few years when they are financially well-off, they will remember to pay back the villagers' money.

But the value of money now cannot be compared with that of a few years or even a dozen years ago!

What’s worse, some people simply choose not to come back, and the money lent by the villagers is wasted.

Over time, people will naturally be unwilling to lend money anymore.

This can actually be considered a kind of investment. College students no longer have the halo they once had, so naturally they are no longer worth investing in.

Unless you are admitted to a nationally renowned university like Peking University or Tsinghua University, otherwise, like Jiang Chen, when people know you have been admitted to university, they will not even dare to walk past your house, for fear of being stopped to borrow money.

As for student loans...

How many people in the rural areas understand this stuff? Even if they know something, they have to consider whether they can afford it.

This was also the reason why when the old man proposed to send Jiang Chen to the army, Jiang's father and mother agreed after just a slight hesitation.

It’s nothing, it’s just because of poverty.

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A second-class merit not only brought excitement to Jiang Chen’s hometown, but also made him a little famous on the Internet.

The local TV station in X County reported the entire process of presenting the plaque, which was then publicized in the military newspaper, and of course there were reports on the Internet.

A new recruit who had just arrived in the army for less than a month and was also a college student soldier won the second-class merit.

This is unprecedented in peacetime, if not unparalleled.

How could it not attract attention?

However, no matter how lively it is outside, it has nothing to do with Jiang Chen today.

The training continued every day as usual, and as time went on, the training tasks for Jiang Chen and other recruits became increasingly arduous.

Formation, physical fitness, tactics, grenade throwing, etc., take turns to perform, and if you fail to meet the assessment standards, you will have to practice more.

After the evening roll call every night, I have to go through some more troubles back in the dormitory.

Sometimes when the lights are turned off, the new recruits still have to practice in the dark.

Last month, the recruits were able to go to bed on time after lights out at 10 o'clock, but now the earliest they go to bed is after 10:30, and sometimes even until 11 o'clock.

There is no other way. The scores of many recruits are still far from the passing line. They have to practice more!

In the words of the squad leaders: "Sleep allows you to restore your spirit and physical strength to prepare for a new day of training.

However, today’s physical energy cannot be wasted!

Practice before going to bed, so you can sleep well! "

Now, the new recruits have to do several sets of three hundred exercises before going to bed every night to completely drain everyone's physical strength before they can go to bed.

Fortunately, now the recruits don’t have to get up early every day to fold the quilts. They can sleep until 5:30 and then get up, which is not so bad.

At night, Jiang Chen still took advantage of his sleeping time to enter the dream space for further practice.

His current training goal has long since changed from simple physical training to improving combat effectiveness.

Military boxing and shooting are the top priorities of practice.

After training with sandbags and frequently seeking out NPCs for actual combat training, Jiang Chen's combat skills are now very good.

When facing knife-wielding gangsters, Jiang Chen was rarely injured and could basically end the fight within ten moves.

If the opponent were to be injured in exchange for injury, three moves would be enough to render the opponent unable to resist.

The only regret is that Li Gang has not fulfilled his promise to practice with him. Otherwise, with Li Gang as a scout to teach him moves, Jiang Chen's fighting ability would at least be able to reach a higher level.

After talking about fighting, let’s talk about shooting.

During this period, Jiang Chen himself didn't know how many bullets he had fired in the dream space. Tens of thousands were probably too few. He even felt like vomiting from shooting at one point. He couldn't muster up the energy to do this.

Sharpshooters are fed with bullets, and this statement applies to the vast majority of ordinary people.

What Jiang Chen didn't expect was that he actually had some talent in shooting. After firing tens of thousands of bullets, hitting the ten rings with every shot was no longer a difficult task for him.

Jiang Chen even tried the shooting method in the TV series Special Forces, where two bullets hit one bullet hole.

Although the success rate is a bit low, it is not too difficult to do it.

If you try ten times and succeed four or five times, there is no problem.

Jiang Chen felt that he had vaguely felt what Li Gang had mentioned as the gun feeling.

Otherwise, how could he dare to say that he had some talent in shooting.

This is because the recruit company only has fixed targets, otherwise, he would have to show off his skills to Li Gang.

At this point, Jiang Chen suddenly remembered that Li Gang had promised to take him to play with a sniper rifle, but he didn't know if he kept his word.

But I don’t know how big the difference is between a sniper rifle and the Type 81 rifle.

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Although Jiang Chen focuses his main energy on improving his combat effectiveness, it does not mean that he has to give up his physical strength.

No matter when, physical fitness is the foundation that supports everything, and Jiang Chen is not stupid enough to lose sight of the important and pursue the trivial.

However, perhaps because the speed of improvement was too fast, Jiang Chen’s physical fitness seemed to have reached a bottleneck.

When he first came to the army, he could feel a clear improvement after just a little exercise.

But now it’s no longer possible. No matter how much he increases his training, he can’t find the feeling he had when he first joined the army.

If you want to improve your physical fitness, you can only do it slowly by training more and relying on time...

It was after realizing this that Jiang Chen decisively shifted his focus to military boxing and shooting.

However, Jiang Chen's current physical fitness is already among the best among the new recruits, and is even not inferior to some veterans who have been in the army for two or three years.

This may not be very intuitive, and using the assessment standards of the recruit company may be more clear.

In the three-kilometer light-carrying run, Jiang Chen's best time was within ten minutes, close to nine minutes.

This result has surpassed the level of most third-level athletes and is only one step away from the second-level athlete's standard of nine minutes and ten seconds.

The assessment standard for new recruits is 13 minutes and 50 seconds to pass, 12 minutes and 10 seconds to be good, and 11 minutes and 30 seconds to be excellent.

Jiang Chen's current score is almost two minutes above the excellent line!

Jiang Chen can also perform basic exercises such as push-ups and sit-ups to a level above the excellent level.

He can do eighteen or nineteen of the most difficult pull-ups, and he can do more than forty of the equally difficult parallel bar bent-arm extensions.

Although this result is not the best among the recruits, it is also one of the top ones.

There was no way. Although Jiang Chen had the help of the dream space, there were many recruits who had practiced boy's skills since childhood. Unless he was gifted, it would be difficult to surpass these guys in a short period of time.

However, Jiang Chen's advantage lies in balance. His performance in all subjects is excellent without any bias, which is something that others cannot do.

For example, Li Qiang, who joined the school team to play basketball since he was a child.

His physical fitness would definitely rank among the top ten among the recruits, but his grenade throwing performance has always been less than ideal.

Almost half of the recruits have passed the test, and they can only barely pass the test, and there is still a long way to go before they reach the good level.

There are many similar examples.

Some people have strong lower limb strength and terrifying explosive power. They have almost no rivals in the 100-meter sprint, but they are not so good at long-distance running.

Some people have good upper limb strength, and push-ups are a piece of cake for them, but they are not so good at pull-ups.

This thing mainly relies on the strength of the forearm, and its heavy weight makes it much more difficult to pull than for ordinary people. After practicing for a long time, one can only barely pass it.

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"Wake up, wake up, wake up, everyone, get up and fold the quilt!"

At 5:30 in the morning, Li Gang woke everyone up on time.

After unremitting efforts, the cotton in everyone's quilts has now been initially compacted, and the difficulty and time spent on folding them are naturally much less.

Even the slowest person can finish a quilt within twenty minutes, and the way it is folded can barely meet Li Gang's standards.

After getting dressed and spending ten minutes making the bed and quilt, Jiang Chen took the small yellow basin, toothbrush and cup to the bathroom to wash up.

It has been raining these past few days. Although it’s not heavy, it keeps raining every day.

When it started to rain, everyone felt quite comfortable. At least it wasn’t so hot during training.

But now, everyone would rather bask in the sun than be in the rain again.

My clothes are never dry every day, especially when I run with a load. The backpack and clothes become very heavy once they get wet. The original weight of about 20 to 30 kilograms becomes at least 5 or 6 kilograms heavier after being soaked in water.

This is nothing. It would be terrible if we had to do the climbing tactics on a rainy day.

After climbing a circle, I felt like I had rolled in the mud. My mouth and nose were full of mud and water. I was in such a mess...

Fortunately, the rainy season in the south has ended in September. There was not even much rain last month. I think this rain will stop soon.

We started training on time at six o'clock. After lining up and counting the number of people, we went to the playground for training in the drizzle.

Training, eating, and then it’s time for morning exercises again.

Because there has been a lot of rain in the past two days, in order to avoid problems caused by the guns coming into contact with water, Li Gang did not take everyone directly to the playground for training in the morning. Instead, he returned to the dormitory and took the recruits to maintain their guns.

Everyone was happy to hear that they didn't have to get wet in the rain.

I thought it was just a simple gun maintenance, but I didn't expect that this thing would actually require time.

Complete the decomposition and combination of the "81" bar within one minute and thirty seconds.

The requirements are not high, but not low either.

No one had thought that this thing would also require an assessment, so few people paid attention to the maintenance of guns. As long as the task was completed, no matter how much time it took!

Now, they suddenly heard that Li Gang also had a time requirement for disassembling and assembling guns, and they couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Things are different now than before. If you fail to meet the qualification standards, you will definitely be pulled out for solo training!

Daily training is tiring enough, and no one wants to be forced to practice more.

At this time, the advantages of Jiang Chen's choice of all-round development were reflected.

Although he spent most of his time either practicing military boxing and shooting or exercising his physical fitness, even if he had time to rewind and not worry about physical problems, he would not be able to bear it mentally if he kept practicing like this.

Therefore, Jiang Chen would insert some easier and less strenuous activities during training.

For example, folding a blanket when you have nothing to do, practicing the disassembly and assembly of firearms, etc...

Although I didn't focus on practicing, the base is large.

Quantitative changes produce qualitative changes!

It is no exaggeration to say that Jiang Chen can now disassemble and reassemble the Type 81 rifle in his hand with his eyes closed.

Just one minute and thirty seconds, it was no difficulty at all for him.

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