Chapter 68 In Hell (4)

  After crawling forward for one kilometer, the soldiers rested for only fifteen minutes before embarking on a twenty-kilometer night march. On a pitch-black night, to avoid being detected by the enemy, the new recruits could only rely on the faint marching light on their heads to navigate through the darkness. The light could only illuminate three meters of road ahead, and only one out of every five new recruits was allowed to turn on their light.

  New recruits no longer have the freshness of being selected before, under high-intensity training is physical discomfort, if there is time everyone thinks about resting, originally thought that training in the old unit was very bitter, did not expect that the experience between the past and now is like heaven and earth.

  To avoid slipping on mountain roads, new recruits hold hands or grab the backpack of the person in front. Previously, the Wolf Pack had divided the new recruits into small teams of seven people each, with a team leader for each team, but this did not represent anything because anyone could be eliminated at any time and two teams would merge at the same time. The team leaders took turns every two days, and during training, if one member of the team was eliminated, the other members would be penalized.

  The Jungle Wolf told them the reason was simple: in war, if your comrade sacrifices himself, then as a member of the sacrificed team, you also have an irrefutable responsibility. Remember, you are a team, one person. If one person's arm is broken, his actions will be greatly affected.

  Two hours later.

  Almost everyone felt that their physical strength was on the verge of collapse, with severe muscle soreness and weakness in both legs, as if they were about to fall down at any moment. However, they knew that the road ahead was still long and they couldn't afford to rest, especially in the last kilometer. If someone fell behind, they would be eliminated next.

  (Yuan Nuò: Many years later, when I think back to that period of time, I didn't understand why it was so bitter and exhausting. These things are not important; what's most terrifying is not knowing when it will end. If we were fighting normally, if I couldn't win, I would run - this is human nature. But in those days when we were tormented to the point of hopelessness, what made us persevere? Later on, I understood what it was. It was honor, a soldier's honor. As for honor, I really don't know how to explain it; simply put, it's a soldier's face. For the sake of this so-called "face", we actually persevered, and also because of this "face", we learned not to fear death.)

  "Do you know what military honor is?" Tan Hongzhong said, although Tan Hongzhong was a captain, but his personality was more active. In front of his activity, Xiao Lie seemed to be a bit older.

  "I don't know," Yang Xian said, now feeling that saying a single word was like taking his own life.

  "Honor is just a matter of face," said Tan Hongzhong. "A soldier's honor is his face."

  "There's a saying: 'Die with dignity, live with suffering.'" Lei Hao Lin added.

  Listening to them talk, Xiao Lie felt deeply convinced that they were now a living example of how people would live for a reason, no matter what. If it weren't for Xiao Yang, Xiao Lie probably wouldn't have been able to join the army even if he had tried for eight lifetimes, let alone end up in a place like this. No matter how well he did in geography class as a kid, Xinjiang was just words on paper to him back then. Being a soldier is tough, but all he knew about it before was what others told him.

  In such a march, mutual help and encouragement among team members are very important. Although those words seem to have no power and meaning in peacetime, when you are most tired and want to give up, the sentence from your comrade-in-arms beside you: "Brother, come on!" is like a sweet spring that can add strength to you.

  Xiao Lie felt that his previously drenched clothes were now emitting some warmth, which was a sign of his body temperature rising. He also knew that if he stopped for even ten minutes on this cold night, the dampness would make him feel chilled to the bone. In the face of overwhelming fatigue, he thought that having a bowl of hot congee at that moment would be the most blissful thing. With this thought in mind, he opened his canteen, took a sip to moisten his throat, and continued on his way. Heaven only knew what lay ahead after completing these twenty kilometers.

  Xiao Lie felt a sharp pain in his knee joint, he knew it was because of the previous crawling forward when both knees were worn out. He found a band-aid from his bag. Yang Xian squatted down and used the light on his helmet to help him see, only then did Xiao Lie see clearly that the fingernail-sized wound had bled a lot without him knowing when.

  And such injuries will occur from time to time throughout his training. Tan Hongzhong looked at the wound, then took out a pair of knee pads from his bag and handed them to Xiao Lie.

  "Keep it for yourself, you'll need to use it too." Xiao Ran said, although those knee pads T5 will be issued, but for high-intensity training, those things are consumed too quickly, keeping an extra one for oneself will definitely come in handy at critical moments.

  "Let's go, there is still a long way ahead of us, I don't want you to waste your time here," said Tan Hongzhong.

  When they arrived at the last kilometer, it was almost dawn, but for the new recruits, this wasn't the most important thing. What mattered most was that the last kilometer was the most maddening part, as their physical strength had been depleted by then. In the last few hundred meters, a distance that would normally require just one sprint, now seemed like an insurmountable distance of one mile to them. Xiao Lie was the first to use both hands on the ground and push with his hind legs, using all fours to move forward. It's worth noting that this method was somewhat easier than standing up and walking, and also slightly faster. The new recruits, who had already exhausted their physical strength, also started to learn from him and walk in the same way. No one thought about what they were before - whether they were officers or not - here, nothing mattered.

  When instructors scold themselves as fools, trash and the like, for these words, for others, it's just a swear word, but they can't feel it at all. However, before that, they were all soldiers, and for soldiers, honor is above everything. From the day they enlisted, they were told that being a soldier was a noble profession, and a soldier's honor was earned with blood and sweat. But in boot camp, none of that matters, so instructors will use the most vicious words to crush their confidence. However, for soldiers, encountering strength makes them stronger, so those blows become another driving force for them to move forward.

  "Both hands up, horse-riding stance." The pack of wolves said to the new recruits resting on the ground.

  The new recruits, who had only rested for fifteen minutes, immediately stood up upon hearing the command, assembled, and then stretched out their hands, crouched down in a horse stance. This movement, which was usually easy to do, suddenly became extremely difficult, not just because of their physical strength, but also due to the thirty kilograms of weight on their bodies. Although they had only eaten a little dry rations earlier, it was nothing compared to the intense physical exertion they were about to undertake.

  "Come out, come straight!" The Jungle Wolf continued to shout in his loud voice.

  Xiao Lie found that his arms were trembling uncontrollably, and his legs were shaking violently. If there was a child beside him now, the child could probably knock him to the ground with one push.

  "Squat down!"

  Plop.

  Someone suddenly couldn't take it and fell to the ground, but immediately got back up. Everyone now can't wait to teach that bastard Cong Linlang a good lesson, some newbies who think they're good at fighting even hope to get a chance to beat him up properly in martial arts class one day, damn it, he's too despicable.

  Facing the sun, the man's cheeks began to sweat in no time. The temperature was getting higher and higher, and his body was becoming more and more uncontrollable. That damn forest wolf seemed to have no intention of stopping work, and more and more people couldn't take it and fell to the ground. Although they only stayed on the ground for a second, the feeling was still very comfortable.

  A long time later, Xiao Lie saw a TV program about the armed police force training when he heard a phrase that said: The more others don't believe in you, the more you must believe in yourself. Never give up, not only can it move others, but also move yourself.

  September 23, 2008 sunny

  "Some roads you walk more and more familiar, but it doesn't mean you won't fall again. What to do when you fall? Get up and keep walking."

  Private: Xiao Lie

  Every day, someone gets hurt. If not careful, new injuries and old ones can happen normally. If lucky, they won't interfere with training; if unlucky, they'll have to quit training. At this time, the Jungle Wolf will remind newcomers of some precautions, after all, not everyone is lucky every day.

  For special forces, the most painful thing is still their feet. Because they have also gone through a lot, under high-intensity unlimited training, blisters will appear on their feet first. At this time, you need to pierce those blisters and squeeze them clean, otherwise, if they become infected the next day, it's big trouble. Then, the parts of the feet that bear the most force start to peel off, and calluses form. At this point, a pair of iron feet can be considered trained. Of course, if you accidentally sprain your foot during this process, congratulations! If you have a reason to slow down training just because of a sprained foot, then the Wolf of the Jungle will say one sentence:

  "If you sprain your ankle in a war, then you have to either quit the war or stay there and get killed by the enemy?"

  Of course, the answer is certain. Rather than being killed by the enemy in war, it's better to be eliminated on the training ground. So when some newcomers encounter this, they can't even make a sound, and when their points are used up, they have to leave here. In the words of Jungle Wolf, this is called war attrition.

  The first time they saw the Jungle Wolf, probably only Xiao Lie was the calmest one, because there is no unprovoked sin in this world. Although everyone understands this truth, when thinking of the Jungle Wolf's torturous moves, everyone wants to skin him alive. If a person's gaze could kill, then every time the Jungle Wolf appears, his body would be riddled with thousands of bullet holes.

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