My military function points

Chapter 17 Record setter for the 400m hurdles!
"Why? Didn't they say that squad leader Liu Chuan would get first place this time?" Chen Rong was confused.

"Alas!" Ma Shouliang shook his head and sighed: "Now that Luo Wei is here, the others can only compete for second place in the 400-meter hurdles."

Chen Rong: "Who is Luo Wei?"

Ma Shouliang pointed at the car that just passed by with his chin: "That's the short student from the Sichuan-Chongqing Corps."

"Is he great?"

"More than amazing!" Lu Senbao looked at Chen Rong: "Liu Chuan is the squad leader of your recruit company. He is only one third-class merit away from being promoted to officer. Did you know about this?"

Chen Rong blushed: "I know he's the class deputy, what does this have to do with Luo Wei?"

"Liu Chuan won first place in the 400-meter hurdles event in two consecutive competitions, but the division headquarters only gave him a commendation each time, but not a third-class merit. Do you know why?"

"why?"

"Because although Liu Chuan won first place, he did not break the record! The division believes that his first place is of no value!"

"The record for the 400-meter hurdles? What's that?" Chen Rong asked quickly.

Lu Senbao said word by word: "One minute and twenty-two seconds!"

Chen Rong immediately reacted: "Are you saying that this record was created by Luo Wei?"

"That's right!" Ma Shouliang continued, "Luo Wei was able to get promoted and go to the military academy because of this record that no one in the army could break. The reason why Liu Chuan was able to get first place in the past two years is because Luo Wei went to school."

"So that's how it is." Chen Rong understood.

Lu Senbao was indignant: "Damn it, can't the Sichuan-Chongqing team afford to play? Did they ask Luo Wei to take a leave from school to come here?"

"This is Luo Wei's third year as a student, and it's time for his internship." Ma Shouliang also looked helpless: "Liu Chuan is really unlucky."

Chen Rong heard something wrong at this time. Ma Shouliang and Lu Senbao seemed to care a lot about whether Liu Chuan could win the first place in the 400-meter hurdles this year.

"Squad leader, deputy squad leader, what will happen if squad leader Liu Chuan cannot get first place?" Chen Rong asked.

"I heard it, just heard it!" Ma Shouliang emphasized again, and then said: "Captain Xu has obtained an opportunity from the division commander. If he can win a single championship or the first place in the team this year, he will be awarded a third-class merit!"

"In fact, everyone knows that the captain is trying to help Liu Chuan. He already has a third-class merit. If he gets another one, whether it's for an individual or a team, he can be promoted."

"Now, eh"

"If it doesn't work this year, then we can do it next year! Next year, Luo Wei will be promoted to an officer and won't be able to participate in the competition." Chen Rong didn't understand why Ma Shouliang was so pessimistic, and continued:
"Besides, isn't it also possible to be the first in a single event? That shouldn't be difficult, right?"

Before Ma Shouliang could even open his mouth, Lu Senbao started to complain quickly: "Next year? Liu Chuan is already in his fifth year, and he's also old enough. He can't be promoted this year, so he can only transfer to the second term next year!"

"This is a military competition. Everyone here is a top soldier. It's even harder to get first place in a single event. It depends on the average performance of the entire team!"

"If one person performs poorly on the spot, the whole team will be held back!"

"To put it bluntly, this is Liu Chuan's last chance!"

After Lu Senbao finished speaking rapidly, he realized that Chen Rong had lowered his head and remained silent.

At this moment, Chen Rong thought of the time when Liu Chuan lost a third-class merit because of him when he was in the recruit company, and he felt guilty.

If I hadn't held him back at that time, the other party should have been promoted successfully, right?

"Old Ma, how about we go and beat Luo Wei tonight? Let him stay in bed for ten days or half a month! Hahaha!" Seeing Chen Rong's low mood, Lu Senbao immediately made a joke. Ma Shouliang ignored him and handed Chen Rong a walkie-talkie: "You are a medic now, stay in the training ground, and by the way, you can also see how these masters train. Abao and I will go to the armory for duty."

"Yes!"

At this time, only the people from the 1st Mobile Division were training in the training ground. Chen Rong sat under a big tree nearby with a medicine box on his back, watching them carefully.

The 400-meter obstacle course is mainly composed of 7 groups of obstacles, and one round trip requires crossing 14 obstacles. The eight team members have all been tested and are now training their speed in passing a single obstacle under the command of Xu Ke.

Chen Rong discovered that the way these people overcame obstacles was somewhat different from what Ma Shouliang taught them. Specifically, in many places they did not choose the safest and most reasonable way.

In pursuit of speed, they all rely on their physical fitness to eat hard!
Not to mention the dangerous moves like flying over the low wall which relied purely on personal bounce, three or four people including Liu Chuan didn't even put their feet firmly on the ground when getting off the high board, but just used one hand to support themselves and jumped over.

Wow! You are indeed a master!
Chen Rong compared his movements in his mind and found that Liu Chuan and the others were at least one or two seconds faster than him when crossing a single obstacle!
That's a difference of dozens of seconds throughout the whole game!

But this greatly reduced safety. In less than ten minutes, two team members fell off the obstacle one after another.

Chen Rong immediately picked up the medical kit and was about to go over, but Xu Ke waved his hand to stop him. The fallen team member seemed to be used to it, and got up, patted his clothes and continued training.

More than half an hour later, the Sichuan-Chongqing Corps also came down. Everyone in the First Mobile Division looked at the short student.

Chen Rong noticed that Liu Chuan's expression was calm, but his eyes were full of dissatisfaction.

After the team leader Mao Xiaomao exchanged a few words with Xu Ke, Xu Ke took the team members to the climbing training ground on the other side, leaving the 400-meter obstacle course to the Sichuan-Chongqing team.

Chen Rong thought about it and decided to stay where he was. He wanted to see what exactly was so powerful about Luo Wei.

When it was almost time for dinner, Liu Chuan and another team member found Chen Rong.

"Chen Rong, do you have any iodine? Li Guohua's hand is injured!"

"Yes!" Chen Rong quickly opened the medicine box, took out cotton swabs and iodine, and helped Li Guohua start cleaning the wound.

When the other person's right hand was climbing the outer wall of the building, the callus on the palm of his hand was completely worn off, revealing the pink tender flesh inside.

"Do you want to put on a bandage?" Chen Rong asked.

Li Guohua shook his head and said nonchalantly, "Why bandage such a small wound? Just put on a Band-Aid. We still have training in the afternoon."

Liu Chuan dug out two bottles of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water from the medicine box, handed one to Li Guohua, and drank it all in one gulp with a bitter face: "Damn! It's September and it's still so hot. I almost got a heat stroke!"

"Sergeant, your training intensity is too high!" Chen Rong said.

He had just noticed that Liu Chuan and his team climbed from the first floor to the top floor of the training building over and over again using various methods, climbing the outer walls, balconies, water pipes, etc., and they hardly ever had a rest.

Liu Chuan looked at the Sichuan-Chongqing team members who had finished training and were heading to the cafeteria, and smiled bitterly: "There's nothing we can do. We have no hope in the 400-meter obstacle course. The captain wants us to try harder in the climbing event."

"Squad leader, I just watched Luo Wei's training, and I don't think he is that good. Some of his moves are not as good as yours!" Chen Rong asked the doubts in his heart.

"That guy grew up in the mountains. He has no other advantages except that he has good endurance and can run." Liu Chuan explained:

"Most people's physical strength has reached its limit in the last 100 meters, so their speed will definitely be much slower, but Luo Wei was able to do the last 13 meters in about 3 seconds, which is at least seconds faster than us!"

Chen Rong understood.

All those who come to the competition are elites, and the gap between them is actually not obvious. Being 3 seconds faster is a very exaggerated data.

In other words, even if Luo Wei was slower than Liu Chuan when overcoming obstacles, he could still overtake in the last 100 meters with his physical advantage!
(End of this chapter)