My Military Career in a Parallel World

Previously at the training ground, Jiang Chen had asked Li Gang for advice on the techniques of the 400-meter hurdles. As the top student of the 3rd Reconnaissance Company, Li Gang's level was unquestionable. His best result in the 400-meter hurdles had even reached about one minute and thirty seconds.

What does this result represent?

Let me put it this way, the current fastest record for the 400-meter hurdles is one minute and nineteen seconds. It's a pity that this record has not been recorded due to the loss of information over a long period of time.

The fastest publicly reported record for the 400-meter steeplechase is 1 minute and 23 seconds.

Li Gang's best result was only seven seconds away from the military record!

Now he holds the regimental record of the 228th Regiment in the -meter obstacle course, which shows how strong Li Gang is.

When teaching Jiang Chen the techniques of the 400-meter obstacle race, Li Gang did not tell him some of the tricks he had figured out himself. It was not because Li Gang was stingy, but because everyone has their own habits and what suits them best is what suits them best.

A big part of the reason why Li Gang can achieve his current results is that he learned a lot of special forces tactical moves during the special forces training, and made some fine-tuning based on his own situation.

If you want to run, you must first learn to walk!

If I teach Jiang Chen these things right from the start, it would not be helping him, but harming him instead.

Li Gang taught Jiang Chen the most basic technical moves.

At this time, Jiang Chen was using the replay function of the dream space to carefully observe every movement of Li Gang's demonstration.

When he first entered the dream, Jiang Chen specifically looked up the scene of the soldiers of the third company running 400 meters, and now he watched Li Gang's movements.

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Compared with the veterans of the third company, Li Gang's movements were not so fancy, nor did they give people the feeling of being very fast or very awesome.

Just four words stand out: simple and unpretentious!

Li Gang tried his best to perform every movement as standard as possible, making it almost indistinguishable from the pictures in textbooks.

This was the method his squad leader taught him back then, and Li Gang now taught it to Jiang Chen exactly as it was.

Although the movements are simple and plain, the connection and transition of each movement of Li Gang are very smooth and have a unique beauty.

To use the slogan of a chocolate brand in my past life to describe it...

Enjoy the silky smoothness!!!

One minute fifty-five seconds thirty-two.

This is Li Gang’s final result.

Obviously, in order to allow Jiang Chen to see his movements clearly, Li Gang had slowed down as much as possible.

After carefully watching Li Gang's movements several times, Jiang Chen warmed up and prepared to start working hard.

The first step is a 100-meter straight sprint. There is nothing much to say about this. After this period of training, Jiang Chen can easily run a hundred meters in twelve or thirteen seconds.

Of course, this was a result he achieved by running desperately. He certainly couldn't do it like this right from the start in the 400-meter hurdles.

Run the 100-meter sprint at a slightly slower pace, go around the flag, and start entering the obstacle course.

Cross the three-step pile, cross the trench, jump over the low wall, pass the high plank platform, pass the ladder, pass the single-plank bridge, climb the high wall, crawl through the low pile net...

At this point, the 400 meters are already halfway completed. Many people fall here when they first start running the 400-meter obstacle course.

The sprint and the continuous obstacles consumed a lot of energy, resulting in insufficient energy reserves in the last 200 meters. Wasting time is a minor problem. The more serious ones are like those recruits in the day, who couldn't climb up the high plank platform, couldn't climb up after jumping into the trench, etc...

Jiang Chen also had a similar problem. Even though he had run twice, he still did not distribute his physical energy well enough.

After coming out from under the low-pile net and bypassing the marker flag, Jiang Chen's breathing had already become heavy.

After crossing the low-pile net, you will immediately face the first hurdle: climbing the high wall.

Fortunately, at least this obstacle can be overcome by stepping on a wooden board to gain leverage. Once you master the technique, climbing over it is not as difficult as you might imagine.

Go around the pillars under the single-plank bridge, pass the ladder in a suspended manner, and then you will come to one of the most difficult levels of the 400-meter obstacle course, passing the high board diving platform.

This time there was nothing to leverage on, so Jiang Chen had to rely on the strength of his arms to climb over the nearly two-meter high diving platform.

As mentioned before, any of the 400-meter hurdles events taken individually are not difficult. Even the most difficult high board diving platform, under normal circumstances, at least 40% of the recruits can climb it.

However, it's different when these projects are combined.

A lot of physical strength had already been consumed before, and when faced with such a difficult obstacle, even someone as strong as Jiang Chen had to try several times before he successfully flipped onto the diving platform.

And then there are holes to drill through, which is just as difficult as the trenches on the high board diving platform, as well as five-step piles and the final 100-meter sprint.

By the time he reached the finish line and pressed the stopwatch, Jiang Chen had already drained the last bit of his strength and lay on the grass gasping for breath.

Two minutes, thirty-eight seconds, three-four!

The result was not great, but definitely not bad. It was only eight seconds away from the passing line of two minutes and thirty seconds.

This was Jiang Chen's third attempt at the 400-meter steeplechase. He was quite satisfied with the result he was able to achieve despite not being familiar with the venue and the event.

Sure enough, as long as the basic physical condition is good, you can get twice the result with half the effort no matter what you practice.

Using the rewind function to restore his strength, Jiang Chen watched Li Gang's action teaching again, comparing it with his own actions, looking for mistakes and deficiencies and correcting them in time.

Thinking back to the issues that he had just summarized and needed attention, Jiang Chen came to the starting point again.

The distribution of physical strength, we must pay attention to the distribution of physical strength...

Jiang Chen reminded himself silently in his heart and threw himself into training again.

Jiang Chen spent almost the entire night on the 400-meter hurdles, and even forgot about his favorite military boxing and live-fire target practice.

However, the results of nearly a hundred hours of training in one night were also remarkable. Before leaving the dream space, Jiang Chen's best result in the 400-meter obstacle race had reached about two minutes and ten seconds, only one step away from the excellent line of two minutes.

As time gets closer to the last month of the recruit company, the intensity of daily training is visibly increasing.

In preparation for the final assessment of the recruit company, every squad leader is desperately squeezing the last bit of physical strength out of the recruits.

It’s okay if the grades meet the requirements, but it’s terrible if the grades fail.

Extra training was almost a common occurrence, and every night there would be dozens of new recruits left on the playground for extra training.

If this happened in the future, the squad leader wouldn't care about you so much, or even if he wanted to care about you, he wouldn't be able to do so.

At that time, the new recruits were all bosses. You couldn't beat them or scold them, and you couldn't even ignore them. If you were not careful, you would be reported by these new recruits and your military career would be ruined.

The squad leaders at that time were like university teachers. They would train on time every day. No one would care too much whether you trained well or not, and extra training was out of the question.

Anyway, whether you can pass the recruit assessment, how your grades are, and how you are assigned to a company are all affected by you.

Before traveling through time, Jiang Chen couldn't help but sigh after hearing about this from a friend who had just completed his conscription.

Compared to that recruit company, Jiang Chen still prefers his current unit.

It may be a little tiring, a little hard, but it is indeed what the army should be like.

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