1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 749 Recruit Training
"Stand up straight! Whoever dangles again will run in circles!" The instructor loudly reprimanded the recruits who were undergoing queue training, his eyes were like falcons, and he patrolled the crowd back and forth. If he saw that someone's standing posture was not correct , then this unlucky guy will immediately be punished by running around the playground.

Sun Zhen was also in the crowd, staring fixedly at the backs of the heads in the front row, standing up straight.He estimated that he had been in this position for two sticks of incense, and some parts of his body had become stiff.But he persisted hard, unwilling to be expelled from the team at the last moment.

With the sound of a long copper whistle, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to move their numb hands and feet.Compared with the beginning of the training, only about half of the qualified people remained in the end, and those who did not persist to the end received corresponding punishment measures.

Sun Zhen let out a long sigh of relief, quickly moved his neck and waist, and then went to the side to drink water and rest.It’s been half a month since he mainly focused on queue training like this, but the seemingly simple training content is very easy to make people feel tired, even more tiring than he used to go to the fields to do farm work. After all, there is no need to wait until the physical strength is exhausted when doing farm work Only then did he stop to rest, but this training seemed to be designed to drain the trainee's physical strength again and again.

At the beginning, Sun Zhen didn't quite understand the purpose of this kind of training. Shouldn't soldiers practice fighting skills such as swords, guns, bows and arrows to kill enemies?What is the use of standing in queues for such a long time and starting in various queues?Sun Zhen is not the only one who has such doubts. He knows that most of the recruits under training do not understand this.

However, the officer in charge of training them, Gao Qiaonan, moved Sun Zhen in a lecture during a break. What Gao Qiaonan said was simple and direct: If you can’t stand up on the training ground now, after you go to the battlefield I'm afraid it has long been a mess!All the basic training is to enable you to obey orders and prohibitions on the battlefield in the future, so that you can use collective strength to save your own life and kill the enemy.

Although Sun Zhen, who had never set foot on a battlefield, could not fully understand the meaning of Gao Qiaonan's words, at least he knew that the training he had received so far was not a waste of time.Sun Zhen heard that this tall but short officer was actually a Japanese pirate. After joining the militia, relying on the accumulation of military exploits on the battlefield, he was promoted from an ordinary soldier to his current position step by step.For the recruits who joined the militia as new immigrants, it is undoubtedly a very inspirational story, which means that everyone in the Haihan militia can have a chance to be successful, and maybe they can be like Takahashi Minami in the future Same, become a senior military officer with military power in hand.

Of course, the person who spread this story would not tell the audience how many battles Takahashi Minami went through, how many fights he went through, and only then relied on his extraordinary performance to accumulate enough military exploits to rise up.In addition to his personal bravery, what is more important is that he has always maintained a high degree of loyalty to Haihan, so that the top military officials can safely hand over the command to him.

The morning is for queue training, the afternoon is for combat skills training, and after dinner there is intensive ideological study in units of platoons. The whole day is fully arranged.For a recruit like Sun Zhen, there is no room in his mind to accommodate other things. The daily training and learning content alone has made him feel exhausted.

And the rhythm of life here is completely different from the environment in Sun Zhen's hometown in Dengzhou in the past. Everywhere in the camp, you can see all kinds of slogans and slogans, large and small, such as "Sweat more in normal times, fight more." When you bleed less", "When you are a soldier, you are not afraid of death, if you are afraid of death, you should not be a soldier", "If you lose your skin and flesh, you will not fall behind, and you will not shed blood, sweat or tears", "I always want to fight, everything is for war, dare to fight tough battles, and guarantee victory", "Honor, responsibility, faith, will, spirit, value"...

All kinds of slogans can be seen every day when you open your eyes.Every morning, when we go out for exercises, turn off the lights at night, and before the three meals are served, we also have to collectively shout slogans.When Sun Zhen came here, he was just an ignorant farmer, but only more than ten days have passed, and now Sun Zhen can recite a dozen propaganda slogans at any time.Although Sun Zhen still doesn't understand Haihan's social structure, nor does he know what kind of executive committee exists, but this has not prevented him from beginning to regard himself as a member of Haihan's group.And with the deepening of training, Sun Zhen also gradually realized that the Haihan militia he was in was definitely not just a private armed force to maintain order in the countryside.

The instructors responsible for training the recruits are all veterans who have served for more than three years. Most of them joined the army in Annan and participated in many military operations involving the Haihan militia since the Annan Civil War.During the training, these instructors would occasionally talk about their previous combat experience, telling how the militia army fought and swept across all directions.Only at this time did recruits like Sun Zhen know that the army he joined had such rich combat experience, and the risk of joining this army really existed.

There were also reckless people who proposed to leave the army, and they did - they were taken away by military police with red armbands.As for where to take it, the officers didn't say anything with a sullen face, and the others didn't dare to ask at all.Anyway, no one with a smattering of brains would foolishly make such a request. Thinking about how much energy and money Haihan spent to get people here for training, how could he just leave without saying a word?This is a serious army, not some sort of charitable army that can come and go as it pleases.

Sun Zhen did not want to retire because of this. He has learned about the difference in the treatment of immigrants before and after naturalization through various policy presentations these days.When being promoted to one level as a soldier, the level of improvement in treatment is far greater than that brought about by the increase in labor levels.And the most important thing is that the promotion of military rank mainly depends on military merit.Rather than the number of years of enlistment, if you are lucky enough, you may be able to get promoted by virtue of military merit after one or two military operations.

The platoon leader of Sun Zhen's current platoon joined the army at the end of last year, and his qualifications are still very low. However, he was promoted to platoon leader for his outstanding service in the battle of Penghu in May this year.And the Second Lieutenant Tang who took Sun Zhen to accept the registration review was only half a year earlier than the platoon leader. Excellent performance in the battle of the island.These vivid examples have given enough confidence to motivated recruits that they will have the same opportunity for promotion if they stay.

Regardless of whether the Haihan militia is killed or injured, there will be corresponding pensions. If it is discharged due to injury, there will be follow-up arrangements to ensure that it will have a stable income in the future.For example, accepting external employment as a military adviser to an ally country, a private security adviser to a wealthy businessman and a high-ranking official, or serving as a grassroots cadre in the area under the Haihan rule, as a village chief or town chief.In addition, the military also has a large number of positions that can be arranged for retired wounded veterans, such as the military workshops that are currently being gradually built in various garrison areas. These workshops do not manufacture weapons, but are mainly responsible for repairs. It is an excellent choice for employees, who can quickly start working after only a short-term technical training.

There is no doubt that the security that the Haihan militia can provide to the soldiers has caused a lot of impact on these recruits.This basically means "As long as you don't die, Haihan will always support you", and those who died in battle can also get perfect care.After the recruits entered the camp, they were taken to the newly built "Haihan Militia Heroes and Martyrs Memorial Cemetery" on the island to visit and study. Some of the bones of Haihan soldiers who died in the two battles of Nanri Island and Penghu last year were buried here.Only part of the reason is that the families of some soldiers who died in battle are in Hainan Island, and their bones have been transported back for burial; others disappeared in the naval battle, and their bones have not been found.

Bringing these recruits to visit is not to arouse their "patriotic enthusiasm", but to tell them that everyone who died fighting for Haihan will not be forgotten, even if they are lonely, someone will regularly burn incense to them after death Burning candles, paying tribute and offering sacrifices, you don't have to worry about dying on the battlefield and even having no one to take care of your funeral.

The officer who led the team at that time once said to the recruits: "One day, some of us will die on the battlefield, and will be buried in such a hero's tomb, and accept the worship of those who come after us. Don't worry about becoming lonely ghosts , people from generation to generation will pay homage to the martyrs here. You can think about it, can you get such good treatment as a soldier elsewhere?"

Not to mention the treatment in terms of food, clothing and housing. You can see oily food every day, all the clothes you wear are distributed uniformly, and you live in clean and tidy barracks. Far stronger than the hard days during the escape.Apart from the intensity of the training, the recruits really don't have much to complain about the life in the barracks here.

Sun Zhen's strong physique and hard-working personality made him stand out from the recruits under training soon, and he was selected to the special reserve company trained by Qian Tiandun himself.Of course, it is said that Qian Tiandun is personally responsible, but he is only responsible for supervising the training situation. Now that he is a high-ranking and powerful person, he no longer needs to go out in person to demonstrate one by one and point out one by one. His assigned training program.

And since entering the reserve company, Sun Zhen feels that the amount of training has more than doubled compared to before, especially the physical training is simply fatal.Get up at around [-] o'clock every morning to gather, and run ten laps on the playground with weight as a foreshadowing before breakfast.The morning is full of combat skills training, such as hooking up and down ladders, climbing ropes, climbing high and low wooden frames, mixed martial arts, etc., and the afternoon is shooting training, which also includes knowledge and familiarity with various firearms, and also needs to be trained. Learn basic firearm repair and maintenance skills.After dinner, there will be a ten-lap weight-bearing run as the end of the day's training.In addition, there is a long-distance swimming training every three days, a cross-country marching training around Penghu Island every seven days, and a three-to-five-day field survival training every month. The location is in the Penghu Islands. Somewhere on an uninhabited island.

The queue training I received when I first joined the army, after entering the reserve company, the training time was relatively reduced. This is also an adjustment made according to the special tactics of the special forces.In addition, the ideological study courses that are conducted every night will also be reduced accordingly, and replaced by various skill training courses, such as reconnaissance, communication, navigation and so on.Most of these more difficult courses are taught by Qian Tiandun and Chen Yixin in person in turn.

Although Sun Zhen has been educated and can read, he can only understand a small part of these professional courses, and he was at a loss when he first saw the contour line military map.But he was not discouraged, anyway, write it down before talking.

It has to be said that some talents really can be learned without a teacher, and Sun Zhen's talent is survival skills in the wild.Although he doesn't even know how to read military maps, he can use various natural conditions to identify directions, rely on a saber to obtain food in the wild, build temporary shelters by himself, and even use the simple method of sun-drying salt to get food from seawater. Get the salt you need to survive in the wild.

In the first field survival training held in October, Sun Zhen received the highest evaluation among all reserve companies. Qian Tiandun even commented on Sun Zhen with the comment "much better than Gao Qiaonan when he first came in". Really perform.Others' field survival training lasted only three days, but Sun Zhen still maintained an excellent mental and physical condition after five days, and even had some small food reserves through hunting.Although Gao Qiaonan was a little unconvinced by his boss's evaluation, he also admitted that Sun Zhen seemed to have a certain talent in this area.

"I've liked being outside since I was a child, and I'm used to it!" When Sun Zhen was asked about his performance after the training, he responded to Qian Tiandun's question with this simple answer.

This answer that sounded a little perfunctory not only did not offend Qian Tiandun, but on the contrary gained his favor.Qian Tiandun used to be a scout. When he was receiving field survival training, the instructors spoke highly of him. At that time, his perception of himself was actually very similar to that of Sun Zhen now.

Some people don't need special practice, and they can perform beyond the level of ordinary people in some aspects. Qian Tiandun thinks that he is such a person, and now he has found another similar person.

"If the recruit training period is over and his tactical command assessment can be excellent, then I will give him a small team." Qian Tiandun expressed his love for talents to Chen Yixin in a chat.

(End of this chapter)