Scout

Chapter 4 The Push-Up Competition

The Fifth Reconnaissance Company has a 32-inch TV, which may be the only thing the soldiers can have for leisure.Although they can only receive one set of programs in the mountains and only watch the news, everyone enjoys watching them. After all, this is the only way to relax after tiring training.

After watching the news that day, everyone gathered indoors for nighttime physical training as usual, such as squatting and standing up, stomach lifting, push-ups and the like.

When the recruits were lying on the bed one by one with their legs raised straight up at a 45-degree angle to perform abdominal exercises, the squad leader Zhao Qiang secretly winked at Dong Changchun, and Dong Changchun immediately laughed and got up and shouted: "Everyone stop, Stop, everyone! Get down, get down, everyone. What about you, don’t do it, come down quickly!” As he spoke, he pulled everyone in the class to their feet.

"Dong Changchun, look at your fat body, it's fine if you don't exercise, don't make trouble for me here!" Zhao Qiang shouted.

Dong Changchun, private class.In fact, he is not fat, but he is a bit stronger than ordinary people, and his head is big, so he looks a little fat.At this time, he giggled and said, "Squad leader, I just have a suggestion."

Zhao Qiang saw that Li Weiguo and the four recruits had surrounded him, so he asked, "What's your idea?"

"Squad leader, don't you think this kind of training is too boring, how about we have a competition?" Dong Changchun asked.

"What competition?" Zhao Qiang asked back.

"I don't want to talk about competitions. First, let's see if these recruits are good." Dong Changchun's face flashed a sly smile, and his eyes turned back and forth on the recruits.

"Tell me what kind of competition it is first." Yu Shumi asked.

The monotonous training was indeed not as interesting as the recreational competitions. All the recruits, including Li Weiguo, showed interest.

Dong Changchun saw that the recruits had gradually taken the bait, so he said, "Actually, it's nothing. There are four of you recruits, and we have four veterans plus the squad leader. The recruits and the veterans each sent a representative to compete in push-ups. You see How about it?"

"Competition push-ups?" The recruits showed a hint of timidity. They knew that it would be difficult to beat the veterans in push-ups.

"Forget it, forget it!" Dong Changchun waved his hands suddenly and shouted, turned around and lay down on his bed, and said with a disappointed face, "It's really boring. I didn't expect these recruits to be worthless. Hey, I wanted to say If the recruits win, then I will wash the feet of the whole class for three days, and now it seems that it is meaningless."

"What, footwashing water for three days?" Yang Xingbing screamed, turned around and winked at the recruits and preached.In the army, recruits have always served veterans, and it has been the turn of veterans to serve recruits, and they still wash their feet. This is a chance for them to feel proud.

Recruits look at me and look at you, no one dares to answer.Although this opportunity is rare, the chances of winning are not great. Everyone has no idea, so no one dares to fight.

"Forget it then, none of these recruits is worthwhile." Dong Changchun fanned the flames aside.

Li Weiguo turned his head and looked at the other three recruits. No matter what the others thought, he was planning to make a career in the barracks. How could people say he was worthless?Isn't it just doing push-ups? He won't be intimidated by this.

"Okay, I'll come!" Li Weiguo shouted.

As soon as the other three recruits saw Li Weiguo standing up, they immediately shouted: "Who said we have no seed, we will participate in this competition, Weiguo represents us, who do you send?"

"That's the only way to be interesting." Dong Changchun rolled over and sat up.He winked at Zhao Qiang, he didn't expect Li Weiguo to be fooled so easily, he lost his composure after only a few words.He stared at Li Weiguo and said, "If our side loses, I will wash the feet of the whole class for three days. What will you do if you lose?"

"If I lose, I will wash the feet of the whole class for three days!" Li Weiguo responded casually.

"This won't work." Dong Changchun shook his head and stood up, "It's my job to wash feet, you can't be like me, you change it!"

"Change to another one?" Li Weiguo thought for a while and said, "Then what do you think?"

Dong Changchun laughed: "Well, if you lose, how about twice the training volume of the others?" "Twice the training volume!" The other recruits were startled, and the usual training If they barely survived, if they did twice as much training, wouldn't they be exhausted?At the same time, the recruits also realized that this was a trap aimed at Li Weiguo.

"Weiguo, I think it's better to forget it, don't compare." Yu Shumi reminded in a low voice.

"Why, don't you dare?" Dong Changchun snorted disdainfully, and continued to speak fiercely, "I already knew that you didn't have seeds, so don't compare if you don't have seeds. Anyway, I don't want to wash your feet."

"It's not that there is no seed, but it's too unfair. Who can stand up to twice the amount of training?" The recruits protested.

"If there is no seed, there is no seed. Why do you find so many reasons?" Dong Changchun said and sat down on the bed. "If you win, then naturally you don't have to do twice the training."

It's fine if you don't lose, how easy it is to say, but who can predict the result of the competition?
Li Weiguo just couldn't swallow this breath, and shouted in a deep voice: "Okay, I promise you, if I lose, I will do twice as much training as other people." Suddenly, he immediately realized that he had been tricked.It's obviously a recruit against a veteran, but why if you lose, you have to do twice as much training as others, and the other recruits don't matter at all?At this time, he changed the subject: "But I have one request, that is, I will decide the candidates for your side."

"It doesn't matter, as long as they have no opinions." Dong Changchun agreed indifferently, and secretly glanced at Zhao Qiang again, showing a look of satisfaction.

"I'll choose you." Li Weiguo stared at Dong Changchun and said.

"Me?" Dong Changchun looked at Li Weiguo unexpectedly.

Li Weiguo had observed these veterans a long time ago. From the training in the afternoon, he could see that Dong Changchun's military quality was the worst among all the veterans in the class. In addition, he looked a little fat, thinking that he must be doing push-ups. Will not be as good as others.Li Weiguo smiled softly: "If you lose, either you will wash your feet or I will do twice the amount of training. This is a matter related to the two of us. Are you planning to leave it to others?"

Dong Changchun shook his head and smiled, stood up and shouted: "Okay, you are smart enough to choose me as the worst person, then let the two of us compare." He stretched out his hand, "Please, you go first Come on, let me see how many push-ups you can do."

At this time, Li Weiguo kept an extra mind. Those who did it first had no idea and didn't know how much the people behind them could do. This created pressure invisibly, and it was far less relaxed than those who did it later.Thinking that he had already fallen into the trap, he couldn't go deep into it, so he shook his head and said, "You are a veteran, so you should come first."

This competition was proposed by Dong Changchun. Of course he is not stupid. Those who know it later will have the upper hand. Seeing that Li Weiguo has also seen through this point, he smiled softly: "I don't think we should be humble here anymore, or come together."

"Okay." Li Weiguo nodded in response, this is the most fair way.

Then the two put forward some competition rules, such as every movement must be in place, and the time between stays should not exceed five seconds. Push-ups.

The recruits onlookers can be said to be more nervous than Li Weiguo, and they will count every time they do one.

"One hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and two, one hundred and three..."

Li Weiguo listened to the counting of the people next to him, and his body sank again and again with the bending of his arms, and then was propped up again.

Li Weiguo and Dong Changchun were still evenly matched in the first hundred moves, but as the number of times increased, Li Weiguo's movements began to slow down.He kept watching Dong Changchun opposite him all the time, and found that the other's movements were as regular as ever, every time was very standard, as if he wasn't tired at all.At this time, he had already guessed the final outcome. Dong Changchun was not as weak as he appeared on the surface. He was very strong, at least above himself.

Before joining the army, Li Weiguo often exercised. At that time, he usually insisted on doing [-] push-ups and would not continue to do so. After three months of recruit training, he was able to do [-] push-ups in one go. It's just that I have never tried how many push-ups I can do at most.

Li Weiguo was fooled, and he fell into the trap from the very beginning.

That's right, Dong Changchun's performance during the training was worse than any veteran, but that was just for show. Since the training in the afternoon, he began to design traps for Li Weiguo to sneak into it.

Dong Changchun is not weak at all. Compared with the rest of the squad, he may be a little worse than the squad leader Zhao Qiang, and the other two veterans are not as good as him, otherwise he would not have been sent to participate in the scout competition in the army last year. It's just that Li Weiguo didn't know this, so he fell into the trap.

Li Weiguo did [-] push-ups. He didn't know how many more he could do, so he just kept doing it.

"Why, can't you do it?" Dong Changchun looked at Li Weiguo with a mocking face.

"Weiguo, hold on, don't lose!"

"Persevere. Weiguo, we believe you can do it!"

"Weiguo, come on!"

……

The other recruits cheered for Li Weiguo.

After such a long period of competition, the dormitory where Li Weiguo lived was already full of spectators, and the situation of the two people's competition even spread to the company headquarters.

The company commander Wang Feng sat in the office and drank tea leisurely, smiled at the instructor opposite, and said, "Old Huang, it's true. If the kid really wants to lose, he has to train twice as much as others?"

Huang Rui was obviously not as relaxed as Wang Feng. He said anxiously: "It's true. Now that kid has done more than 300 push-ups, and he is still doing it!"

"More than 300?" Wang Feng put the teacup to his mouth, nodded slightly and said, "Well, for a recruit who has just joined the army, it is very good to be able to do more than 300 push-ups in one go, but... "He stopped here, shook his head lightly and smiled, and then drank his tea again.

Huang Rui knew what Wang Feng wanted to say, but in the end the loser would definitely be Li Weiguo. He also knew this very well. After all, he had been in the company for half a year, and he still had some understanding of Dong Changchun's military quality. .

"Old Wang, do you think that kid will really keep his promise?" Huang Rui asked suspiciously.

"What do you think?" Wang Feng put down his teacup and asked back.

Huang Rui sighed softly, and said: "According to my observation, that kid should be a man who keeps his word, but... twice the amount of training, isn't it too difficult for a recruit? He can persist come down?"

"We'll know when the time comes." Wang Feng seemed confident, turned his head and glanced out of the window, thinking in his heart: It's almost a result.

The result of the competition between Li Weiguo and Dong Changchun came out soon. When Li Weiguo did 360 eight push-ups, his arms trembled tremblingly, as if a heavy force was pressing on him. When pushing the force up, Dong Changchun from the opposite side shouted: "You have exceeded five seconds!" He jumped up, with a triumphant smile on his face, and continued to shout: "Boy, you lose!" Now, you will have to do twice as much training as others in the future!"

"I lost!" Li Weiguo was discouraged, his arms went limp, and he lay on the ground with a bang, gasping for breath. He had never felt so tired. He might not have noticed that his clothes had It has been completely soaked in sweat, and the ground is also dripping with sweat.

"lose..."

"It's such a pity, I've already done 360 ​​eight, and I just lost like this."

"360 eight, really amazing, this kid actually did 360 eight push-ups in one go!"

"Excellent, I may make a hundred at most, and I won't be able to do any more."

"Me too."

"If there is no time limit, then I think he can do more!"

"Yes, I also believe that he can do it!"

"Well, that's amazing."

……

The people around kept talking.

Zhao Qiang, who planned the competition secretly, was also taken aback. He thought that Li Weiguo would lose within 360 push-ups at most, but he didn't expect to be able to insist on doing [-] and [-] push-ups in one breath.Zhao Qiang's opinion of Li Weiguo changed slightly, he didn't seem to hate him as much as before, he picked up his teacup, walked up to Li Weiguo and squatted down: "Come on, drink some water."

Li Weiguo had already consumed almost all the water in his body, at this moment he picked up the teacup and poured it into his stomach in one gulp, smacking his mouth as if it still didn't quench his thirst.He sat up propped up, returned the tea cup and said, "Thank you." At the same time, he glanced at Dong Changchun, and then said, "Don't worry, I will never cheat. Starting tomorrow, my training volume will be that of other recruits." twice as much!"

"As you like!" Dong Changchun showed indifference again, as if this matter had nothing to do with him at all, picked up the teacup and poured water, the match just now made him extremely thirsty.

"Okay! Don't look at it, what's there to see? Go back and wash up, and prepare to turn off the lights and go to bed!" Zhao Qiang coaxed away those guys who had nothing to do to join in the fun.

(End of this chapter)