Soldiers Assault: Starting from the 7th Steel Company

Chapter 83: The best of the best

After taking a cold shower, everyone felt much better and lined up in an orderly manner to go to the cafeteria for breakfast.

Today's breakfast is quite rich. The staple food is a large bowl of plain noodles, plus a large bowl of scrambled eggs and steamed buns, and each person has a banana.

Although everyone was starving, after yesterday's lesson, everyone ate extremely carefully.

If you eat and run, and then run a long distance later, it will be terrible.

"Don't worry, eat. I can promise you today that I won't be running later! I told you, 10 kilometers each morning, noon, and night. The next run will be in the afternoon!"

After hearing Yuan Lang's assurance, everyone was a little skeptical. This man's credibility was almost as good as the purchasing power of the Nationalist government's legal tender in 1949.

But even if it's a trap, I have to eat it.

As he said, he has to train a lot in the afternoon and evening, and he can't handle it without adequate nutrition.

Chen Jiang decisively filled a large bowl of noodles, then put some scrambled eggs in it and started eating.

Since someone took the lead, and everyone was really hungry, the forty-four people started eating together.

These people ate really fast. All the noodles and fried eggs on the table were eaten up, not even a single steamed bun was left.

After breakfast, Yuan Lang kept his promise and did not let them run. Instead, he took them to the playground to do some simple relaxing exercises.

This made everyone feel a little uncomfortable, fearing that there was some conspiracy.

Although the afternoon training involves weight-bearing, everyone is mentally prepared, but the weight requirement is really a bit abnormal.

I'm not talking about running, but obstacle course and rock climbing. You can imagine how difficult it is after carrying weight.

Instructors such as Yuan Lang kept "encouraging" them: Give up! If you give up, you won't have to suffer this kind of hardship!

But everyone understands that the most taboo thing for a soldier is giving up. It is not much different from surrendering and is a lifelong shame for a soldier.

So who can give up easily?

But if you don't give up, you must complete it within the time he sets. If the quality of completion is not good, you will be punished to start over. In this way, you will easily miss meal times.

Yuan Lang set a rule for everyone: no one is allowed to eat after mealtime!
This is actually equivalent to automatically eliminating those who fail to complete the task, because such a large amount of training cannot be sustained without eating, which will eventually lead to a vicious cycle.

Chen Jiang and others are the top students of the 7th Steel Company. They only find the heavy training a little strenuous, but are far from being unable to bear it.

But Wu Zhe and Tuo Yonggang are different.

Tuo Yonggang is the deputy company commander and can basically cut corners in daily training, while Wu Zhe is a high-tech talent in the navy and only skims the surface in training.

When they got here, they became extremely uncomfortable. In the running yesterday and today, both of them fell behind. Fortunately, they were the kind of people who never gave up, and their physical fitness was pretty good, so they barely completed the task.

"Hey, brothers, I finally see through it. They obviously want to drive us away!" The day's training was finally over. Tuo Yonggang lay comfortably on the bed, not wanting to move at all.

"That 'butcher' is just a little bit fierce, but the 'evil man' is really hateful! He is an out-and-out villain."

"Twenty-Seven, who is the bad guy? Who did you give a nickname again?" Wu Zhe lay on his back on the bed, supporting his aching waist.

"It's Yuan Lang. This guy is the most disgusting. He's just so disgusting!"

"Hahaha, I think he's targeting you!" Wu Liuyi laughed happily, which affected his waist injury. "Hiss~~~"

"Liuyi, your waist injury hasn't healed yet?" Xu Sanduo had a very good relationship with Wu Liuyi, so he naturally knew that he had developed this old injury because he fought desperately to present a gift to the mechanized infantry company.

"Call me a number, haha, forty-three is better. I feel like I'm one number ahead of forty-four." Wu Liuyi deliberately avoided the question.

"Forty-three, you have a waist injury? That's terrible for you. The training will become more and more abnormal later on. Can you bear it?" After hearing this, Tuo Yonggang couldn't help but worry for this strong man.

"We have to hold on even if we can't." Wu Liuyi said it very lightly, but everyone understood how heavy the meaning behind it was.

I'm not sure whether I can stay here, so what qualifications do I have to give him advice?
So everyone in the dormitory fell silent.

Perhaps feeling the oppressive atmosphere, Xu Sanduo took the lead in breaking the deadlock. He jumped off the bed, searched for a while and found a bottle of medicinal wine for traumatic injuries, and wanted to apply it to Wu Liuyi.

"You still keep this thing?" Wu Liuyi saw that it was the special medicine that Gao Cheng had given them. He didn't expect that Xu Sanduo still kept it after he had used it up.

"I don't need it, so it's just right for you!" After saying that, without waiting for Wu Liuyi's consent, she directly lifted up his training T-shirt.

You won’t know until you see it, and you’ll be shocked.
My waist is swollen.

"Liuyi, you..."

Chen Jiang's intuition was strong, and he immediately scanned over and noticed the situation. Wu Liuyi wanted Xu Sanduo to stop talking, but Chen Jiang had already seen the signs. This was a new injury after the old one had not healed.

Problems that have accumulated!

"Liuyi, you won't be able to hold on if you keep going like this. This kind of training intensity won't last just one or two days. It's easy to wear yourself out." Chen Jiang, having lived two lives, knew too well the side effects of this kind of physical fatigue.

"Forty-three, you're risking your life. Is it worth it?"

Tuo Yonggang's words reminded Wu Liuyi of what Gan Xiaoning said when he saw him eating raw snake and rat meat. He also asked himself if it was worth it.
Today, he has a deeper feeling.

"Forty-four, twenty-seven, you all have ways to retreat, including forty-one and forty-two. Of the six people in this dormitory, I'm the only one without a way to retreat. Isn't that enough reason to fight to the death?"

He had seen Shi Jin's confusion, so he didn't want to be eliminated by the army like Shi Jin.

He just wanted to be useful to the army and then stay in the army naturally. This has become an obsession.

"Forty-three, you're such a man! I admire you! It's a pity there's no wine here, or I'd definitely toast you a glass!"

"Sanshijiu, you are so petty. If you want to toast me, it should be a bottle!" Tuo Yonggang can drink quite well, so he finally got the chance to bully Wu Zhe.

"We don't even use bottles when we toast." Xu Sanduo suddenly blurted out.

"Then what should we use?" Wu Zhe was puzzled. He had never been to a grassroots company, so he didn't know.

"Lunch box, a marching lunch box. Basically, one and a half bottles fill one lunch box, and I drink it all in one gulp." Chengcai explained from the side. He had experienced this once before he jumped ship from the Seventh Company.

"Good boy! I can't drink that. I can't drink much."

Wu Zhe could only beg for mercy.

Chen Jiang knew that everyone was talking about drinking just to avoid the matter of Wu Liuyi.

None of the five people could persuade him to give up, so instead of dwelling on a fruitless problem, it would be better to choose to escape.

The training on the second day went on as scheduled. This time, we didn’t have to wake everyone up at 1 a.m., but it wasn’t much better.

It just let everyone sleep for half an hour longer.

"Today's weather is better than yesterday's; it's cloudy and rainy! It's perfect for running long distances. Let's try something new today. Five kilometers isn't far! As for carrying weights, just a piece of wood. How's that? Isn't that nice?"

Looking back, Yuan Lang's words turned out to be nonsense!
These five kilometers are shorter, but this time it is a mountain road, and it is a dirt road going up the mountain.

Is this an ordinary piece of wood?
This is a log that was fished out of the water. You can imagine how difficult it is to carry it.

At first, I could still carry it on my shoulders, but in fact, I couldn't carry it for long because the skin on my shoulders would break. Then I had to change shoulders. If it broke again, I could only carry it flat on the back of my neck.

In the end, there was no good meat left on my upper body, and the pain became extremely numb. I just ran, no matter what!

The most annoying thing was that it was agreed that it would rain on cloudy days, but it turned out to be a downpour. With the help of the rain, the log became heavier and slippery, making everyone miserable.

"This evil guy is still listening to music and drinking hot coffee in the car. It's so infuriating. If he had the guts, he could run with us!" Tuo Yonggang and his few other latecomers were running at the end, and he couldn't help but muttering to himself again.

"Stop talking. Aren't the points deducted bad enough?" Wu Zhe's shoulder was bleeding from being rubbed by the log. His shoulder had long been soaked in blood, but he didn't complain because he saw Wu Liuyi running very fast.

"Run faster, why have you slowed down? This is five kilometers, and the training volume has been reduced by half! Of course, if you really can't run, there's an ambulance behind you!" Yuan Lang's privacy windows were closed tightly, and rain could not get in, so no one could see the real situation inside.

But even a simple guess would tell you that this guy was living a life of luxury in there, and this huge contrast made everyone extremely unhappy.

So Qi Huan asked the people who fell in the rain if they wanted to get on the ambulance. They just climbed out of the mud pit and continued to run forward without saying a word.

Chen Jiang was always at the front, followed by Xu Sanduo, Chengcai and others.

Wu Liuyi ran the hardest, but he still kept up.

When they finally reached their destination, everyone was leaning on logs, gasping for breath and greedily drinking the rainwater running down their cheeks.

"Look at what you've become? You're so tired after a five-kilometer trek. Five points will be deducted from each of you!" Yuan Lang's voice came out from the loudspeaker again.

Damn, I run so hard and still get points deducted? Is this fair?

"What? You're not convinced? Have you forgotten what my soldiers did to you during the confrontation? What right do you have to be dissatisfied? Here, the most evil of the evil ones are the best of the best. That's the logic of survival!"

"Forget it, it seems like you can't run anymore, so I'll take proper care of you today. Qi Huan, let them drive up and let them take the bus back!"

Yuan Lang drove the car in a dashing manner and drove away amid murderous gazes.

(End of this chapter)