Devil Training Method

  The New Year's celebrations had passed, and the soldiers of the assault battalion returned to their training grounds. The harsh winter was over, and the mountain winds were no longer biting. Luo Yi handed his training plan to Xu Liangqing, who was stunned before he even finished reading it:

  "Luózi, what kind of training requirement is this? This isn't training people, it's training devils!"

  "Haha, this is it, I call it devil training method."

  "Can everyone digest it?" Xu Liangqing also hesitated.

  "You didn't say that there's no strong or weak soldiers, only clever or clumsy ones? Whether you can take it in depends on how you train."

  Lu Shuangyong took over the training outline on one side, and looked at it while clicking his tongue. Lu Shuangyong originally didn't recognize many characters, but after this period of time under Yuan Jing's tutoring, everyone's cultural level had improved somewhat.

  The training outline is written like this:

  Get up at 5:00 in the morning and go for a 5km cross-country run fully armed.

  8:00, physical training, pull-ups 100 times, push-ups 100 times, sit-ups 100 times, 100m shuttle run 10 times, speed within 15 seconds.

  9:00, venue training, including barbed wire, balance beam, 2m obstacle wall, cloud ladder and other 20 types, specific requirements for each type of venue see attachment.

  11:00, Shooting training, including standing position, prone position, shooting while moving, and moving target shooting.

  Take a half-hour rest after lunch.

  13:00, military knowledge learning, according to military school student requirements, complete regular military theoretical study within a year.

  14:30, fully armed 5km cross-country.

  4:00 PM, Combat Training

  ……

  In addition to daily routine training, there are also additional training subjects:

  Every 3 days, conduct a swimming exercise, fully armed and swim 5000 meters distance.

  Every 7 days, conduct a field combat training exercise in the forest, simulating military confrontations for 24 hours, including reconnaissance, raids, ambushes, and breakout operations.

  ……

  "Luózi, what kind of troop training outline is this? You didn't just come up with it by slapping your forehead, did you?"

  Luo Yi smiled mysteriously: "This is the training outline used by China's most elite troops, and it's not something I can come up with on my own. As for how I got it, you don't need to worry about that. What do you think? Is this training plan okay?"

  Xu Liangqing and Lu Shuangyong exchanged a glance and replied in unison: "No problem!"

  Actually, all the officers have a number in their hearts. Soldiers are trained to be strict, and the more severe the training is during peacetime, the less they will suffer when fighting. In general, the troops do not have such a strong sense of training, and on the other hand, they cannot afford it. Luo Yi's training plan is basically built with money, requiring high-intensity training for soldiers every day, and logistical support must be sufficient, otherwise, after a few days of training, everyone's body will collapse. And to ensure that soldiers are well-fed, the cost is endless.

  The cruel training began, and for the first few days, some joking voices could still be heard on the training ground. After a few days, these joking voices disappeared, replaced by long sighs and short gasps. Later, the soldiers found that even sighing had become a luxury, as they returned to their dormitories after finishing their daily training, barely having the energy to take off their shoes and socks before falling onto their beds and starting to snore loudly within seconds.

  "Faster, speed up again."

  "Jump! Don't hesitate!"

  "Lower your head a bit more, don't rub your belly on the ground..."

  On the training ground, there was always this urgent voice. Luo Yi designed many training equipment based on his own experience in later generations and had them made by the wooden factory, which were placed on the training ground for the soldiers to use. There were specific training methods for many of the equipment, but Luo Yi himself wasn't clear about them. However, Xu Liangqing was a military all-around talent, and although he had never seen these equipment before, he could judge at a glance what aspect of ability they were used to train and how to instruct the soldiers to use them.

  Luo Yi sometimes felt that he was really lucky to have picked up Xu Liangqing, a platoon leader from the Northeast Army, from a group of farmers. This guy was born to be a professional soldier, with a passionate love for training, and the more challenging the task, the more excited he became.

  Every morning, Xu Liangqing always runs at the front of the five-kilometer cross-country run. On the one hand, it is to set an example for all soldiers, and on the other hand, it is also to control the pace of everyone. This requires skill. If it's too slow, it won't have a training effect, and if it's too fast, it will exhaust the soldiers' physical strength, making them unable to complete the course.

  Luo Yi had already trained with the sniper squad for a period of time, so running in this wilderness was not difficult for him. He didn't have Xu Liangqing's training experience, but he had his own way of leading troops. He remembered seeing in movies how PLA officers would help soldiers carry their guns during marches. So every time they ran, he would look for those who couldn't keep up and take the guns off their shoulders, carrying them on his own. In that era, it was already a rare thing for military officers not to beat or scold soldiers, let alone help them carry their guns like Luo Yi did. The soldiers were all moved by Luo Yi's actions, and those who had been helped by him because they couldn't keep up with the team were even more ashamed, often risking their lives to catch up with the main force.

  Luo Yi's behavior soon infected other officers, and Lu Shuangyong and others began to follow suit. For them, doing so did not pose any psychological barrier, as they were also from poor backgrounds. Xu Liangqing was initially stunned by this approach, but after seeing the soldiers' performance, he conceded and, when running, learned from Luo Yi's example, shouldering guns for the soldiers.

  On this issue, Xu Liangqing specially asked Luo Yi where he learned this method from. Luo Yi smiled and said that it was taught by Yuan Jing, and the Red Army troops had always done so. Xu Liangqing sighed: "The Art of War says: Treat soldiers like infants, so they can be taken to a deep valley; treat soldiers like beloved sons, so they can die together. Unfortunately, I've been a soldier for so many years, but only now do I understand this sentence."

  Luo Yi said: "Everyone's life is equal, when fighting, the soldiers are in the front line, and the officials are in the rear commanding. The ones who die the most are the soldiers. If we can't treat our soldiers a little better, why should they sacrifice their lives for you?"

  "I've learned something," said Xu Liangqing sincerely.

  Apart from taking care of the soldiers, Luo Yi also introduced the idea of military democracy in training, mobilizing the soldiers' wisdom to solve problems that arose during training. Among the soldiers was a man named Fang Guishan, whose family made a living by fishing and had developed good swimming skills. Luo Yi hired him as a swimming instructor, specifically responsible for teaching everyone how to swim, and his salary was increased by 5 taels of silver. Jiang Huiming became a shooting instructor, but he was too young and didn't have the air of an instructor, so while everyone followed him to learn shooting techniques, they also playfully patted his head, making Jiang Huiming very depressed.

  The combat training was led by Xu Liangqing and Su Xiaofeng. Xu Liangqing specialized in the army's grappling, capturing, and stabbing skills; Su Xiaofeng had learned some martial arts in his early years and was specifically responsible for teaching everyone Sanda. Luo Yi had read a book called "US Special Forces One-Move-to-Defeat-the-Enemy Technique" and remembered some of the moves on it, but wasn't quite sure how to do them. He told these moves to everyone, and several people gathered together to simulate them for half a day, and finally managed to come up with over a dozen moves, each one ruthless.

  " Luo Zi, do you remember when we went to probe Bai Yunfei's big camp?" Su Xiaofeng asked Luo Yi.

  Luo Yi said: "Remember, how did you think of this?"

  "If I had known this trick back then, it would have been easier for our army's sentry."

  Luo Yi smiled and said: "If everyone's training level back then was like it is today, Bai Yunfei's one regiment would really not be able to hold us down."

  Su Xiaofeng rubbed his fists and said: "I really want to find an opponent to practice with... Luo Zi, why don't we go find a Nationalist army unit to fight?"

  "Never have such thoughts, we are still very weak now and not yet capable of provoking trouble. The ambush at Mukden can only be done once. Moreover, our future opponent is the Japanese, not the Chinese."

  "Luó Zǐ, do you think we will really go to war with the Japanese?"

  "It will definitely happen, and soon." Luo Yi counted on his fingers in his mind, only three years away from 1937. The strength of the shock troops was still far from sufficient, and if they encountered the Japanese army, they might not even be able to fight a decent blocking battle. He wondered where the shock troops would meet the Japanese army, and in what way? Shanghai or Nanjing?

  Thinking of Nanjing, Luo Yi's heart suddenly skipped a beat: Nanjing, the eternal pain in the hearts of Chinese people. The blood of 300,000 compatriots, even after 70 years, still pierces the hearts of later generations of Chinese so strongly. Since he had traveled through time and space, could he prevent the tragedy of the Nanjing Massacre from happening again?

  His mind suddenly became very clear, yes, it was Nanjing. If he said that his ultimate formation of the strike camp was just out of a military enthusiast's interest, then at this moment, he suddenly realized that the first mission of the strike camp was in Nanjing.