War Military: From 1978

Chapter 45: Coming from behind and gaining recognition from Lao Wang!
"Hurry up, damn it, the last ten people will be rewarded with a lap later!"

"Did you hear that? The last ten of the Second Company will be in one round, and we'll do the same. Charge!"

On the playground, the company commanders of the two companies turned into loudspeakers, standing by the runway and constantly increasing the pressure on the recruits on the runway.

Fortunately, Chu An was not among the final ten.

But unfortunately, he wasn't that far from the bottom ten.

My legs are numb and sore, and with every step I take, the numbness in my leg muscles is extremely severe.

Because of this, those of them with sore muscles start slower than others.

However, there is also a relatively good phenomenon, that is, as you run, the soreness and numbness will gradually weaken.

Looking straight ahead, Chu An didn't care where the person in front was running. He only stared at the one in front of him.

"Surpass him, I must surpass him."

Gritting his teeth, Chu An kept exerting pressure on his willpower, letting it force his not-so-obedient legs to move faster.

One circle.
Two laps
Until the sixth lap.
Suddenly, someone caught up with him from outside the playground: "Chu An, run faster, you're the only one missing!"

"what?"

Chu An, who was panting and feeling a little overwhelmed, turned his head when he heard the sound.

It’s Lao Wang.

"What?! Just run faster and overtake the guy from the second company in front. If you keep it up, we will win!" Lao Wang yelled.

"Huh?" Chu An was stunned.

Look back and forward.

Well, actually I can't see anything.

There were people in front and behind him. The recruits from the two companies were mixed together, connected head to tail. He had no idea how many people in front were faster than him.

However, it doesn’t matter if you can’t tell the difference. Since Lao Wang has said so, just grit your teeth and do it.

Chu An, who was already breathing through his mouth, clenched his fists and forced himself to speed up bit by bit, staring at the new recruit in front of him again.

But soon, to everyone's despair, Chu An accelerated, and the new recruit from the second company in front also accelerated, and his speed was much faster than Chu An's.

Chu An was not the only one who heard Lao Wang's voice.

When the new recruit from the second company heard that he was the twentieth one and that he asked Chu An to surpass him, he immediately got excited.

"broken!"

When the squad leader of the second company's new recruits, who was on the other side, saw this situation, he immediately became anxious and ran over.

"Luo Yongmin, keep your pace. Don't be disturbed or overtaken. Don't speed up!"

Even from a distance, he started shouting hurriedly.

There are still one and a half laps left. If I accelerate too early and run out of energy, what will I do next?
It would have been better if he hadn't shouted, because as soon as he shouted, the recruit slowed down as he said.

A few seconds later, he felt a gust of wind passing by.
Chu An surpassed him.

At this moment, Chu An fell into a magical state.

Originally he felt that he could not go on any longer, but after forcing himself to speed up for a while, he suddenly felt that his breathing was not so uncomfortable, and even his steps became lighter.

Suddenly, I recalled a short video I had seen before.

Second breath.

The short video introduces that when athletes are doing middle and long distance running, they often break their breathing rhythm under extreme conditions and then enter a state of secondary breathing.

Once you enter this state, you will feel all physical discomfort disappear, your movements will gradually become easier, and your breathing will become even again.

Chu An didn't encounter this situation when he was running yesterday.

But I didn’t expect it to appear today.

Immediately, Chu An felt that his steps were becoming easier and easier.

This feeling is quite refreshing, even a little addictive.

However, Chu An felt good, but the new recruit from the second company who had just been surpassed by Chu An was not happy.

He held his breath, gritted his teeth, and still wanted to overtake. However, after a short burst of energy, he slowed down again, his rhythm was disrupted, and his breath was deflated. Now he couldn't burst out again, and could only follow behind Chu An, even gradually falling behind as Chu An accelerated.

Time passed slowly, and before Chu An finished his seventh lap, someone in front of him had already completed the whole course.

There are some animals that Chu An cannot compare with now.

Chu An's foundation is too weak, and what he can achieve at the moment is already at his limit.

But when Chu An crossed the finish line, he had completed his mission.

The nineteenth completed the three kilometers.

Moreover, there was someone timing and recording the results at the finish line when I ran this morning.

Chu An had just finished running. After the finish line, he slowly moved around for a while following the calls of the veteran squad leaders. Then Lao Wang came over with a big laugh.

"Haha, you're not bad, 11 minutes and 11 seconds. Keep going, and try to run under 11 minutes next time, okay?"

Lao Wang is in a good mood.

In Class 4, two people actually made it into the top 20 this time.

You know, there are only eighteen squads in the two companies, and there are only a few squads with two people who can make it into the top twenty this time.

Even before the race started, he hadn't held this hope. He didn't expect that Chu An, who was the last one at the start, would give him such a big surprise.

To be honest, he likes Chu An more and more now, and he feels that it was the right choice to follow Tong Lianzhong's orders and choose Chu An when he was selecting soldiers.

Naturally, some are happy and some are sad.

At the finish line, many squad leaders' faces were darker than the ash at the bottom of a pot.

There was no one from my class in the top 20.

Even though everyone knew that there were objective reasons for this, such as that they appeared too late during the soldier selection process and the good soldiers were selected by the squad leader in front of them.

But making excuses is not popular in the army, and most of the time they don’t talk about objective or objective reasons. They only recognize the results and only look at the achievements.

Because of this, some classes are destined to suffer today.

"Hey, beast! That guy actually came from Shaolin Temple!"

Chu An exercised for a while and just stopped when Gong Liqun, who had finished running earlier, came over.

As soon as he came over, he shook his head and sighed.

"Who?" Chu An was stunned?
Qiu Wei, who had also finished running and came over, also looked curious.

“Who else could it be?
Yes, the first one, from the second company, I just asked him, and he said he went to Shaolin Temple when he was six years old and only came down last year!

"."

Chu An was speechless.

"Do you know what his grades are?"

"Ten minutes and twenty-one seconds!"

"All right!"

Chu An stopped talking.

Ten minutes and twenty-one seconds!

It was a full fifty seconds faster than him, but he was not surprised by this result.

Yes, he could run in eleven minutes and eleven seconds. At that time, when he had almost finished the seventh lap, he saw someone stop after finishing.

It's more than half a lap ahead of him, so it's not surprising to be fifty seconds faster.

However, it was no use for him to be fast today.

The results are out now.

Including Chu An, there are exactly eleven in the top twenty.

So, even though he was the first one this morning, he couldn't save the twenty eggs that their company commander had paid half the money for.

　Next, we are going to speed up the progress. Is everyone okay with it?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)