My Military Career in a Parallel World

After everyone left, Lu Ming, who had been silent, came over.

"Old Ge, it's already great that these recruits can last three kilometers. Isn't it a bit too much to run five kilometers right away?"

It’s not that Lu Ming looks down on them. Although those people on the Internet always talk about five kilometers, in reality there are very few people who can run it in one breath.

When you run alone, you can run fast or slow as you like, and no one will care about you.

But Jiang Chen and his friends couldn't do that. Didn't they see that the group of veteran squad leaders were watching them from behind? If they ran a little slower, they would be scolded immediately.

In response to Lu Ming's concerns, Ge Hongtao waved his hand nonchalantly.

"It's okay. We are all young men in our 18s and 19s, and we are full of energy."

"What do you mean young people? You eat at 12 o'clock and you're hungry at 12:30. What can go wrong if you run 5 kilometers?!"

"Besides, they are not like us. Now we live in an Internet society, and young people are exposed to much more things than we were back then."

"The more you see, the more you think. Being unconventional and pursuing self-identity are the hallmarks of today's young people."

"Today's incident is a lesson for us. Almost all of the 128 recruits in the company smoke. If we don't leave a deep impression on them, things will get messy in the future!"

Compared to Lu Ming, a military academy student who had just graduated from school, Ge Hongtao, who had been in the army for several years, obviously saw further.

"Well, what happened today was indeed a bit too much." Glancing at the toilet that was still emitting white smoke, Lu Ming nodded in agreement.

However, although he agreed with Ge Hongtao's statement, he, who was not much older than the recruits, did not agree with some of the company commander's words.

Ge Hongtao had been a company commander for nearly ten years and had commanded several military academy students. He only took a glance at Lu Ming and guessed what he was thinking.

"However, these new recruits are not without their merits. Their physical fitness may be a little worse, but they are living in a period of national prosperity, and their national pride and cohesion are indeed unmatched!"

This is what Ge Hongtao really thinks.

Apart from punching the Eagle Sauce, kicking the Russian Bear, and stepping on the older generation of revolutionary martyrs of the world's third largest military power, few people have such national pride and patriotism as the young people today.

Of course, this refers to the overall situation, not individual cases.

Foreign goods are good, domestic goods are garbage, the moon is rounder in foreign countries, and the air in foreign countries is sweeter than that in China...

These ideas were once very popular and influenced countless people.

But as time went by and entered the new century, reform and opening up were a great success, the national strength increased rapidly, the gap with foreign countries became smaller and smaller, and in some aspects it has even reached the world's leading level.

How could Jiang Chen and others who grew up in such an environment not be affected?

The army, as the most important weapon of the country, attaches the most importance to the ideological education of soldiers, and they are naturally the first group to notice the changes in this area.

Even though Ge Hongtao just criticized the new recruits for nothing, he still had infinite expectations for them in his heart.

As the company commander of the recruit company, Ge Hongtao is well aware of the importance of his work, so he has to use such fierce words to make them understand what the army is and what a soldier is.

Only by grinding away the impetuousness of the recruits can they become qualified soldiers!

Ge Hongtao would not say these words to Lu Ming who was beside him. He could only slowly understand them by himself.

Ge Hongtao is very optimistic about Lu Ming, a military academy student who has just been assigned to a company. The reason why he brought him to the recruit company this time is to let him learn more about the growth process of soldiers.

Once Lu Ming understood these principles, he would become a qualified military commander.

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On the other side, on the playground, just as Lu Ming said, most of the recruits couldn't even last three kilometers, let alone five kilometers.

In the first few hundred meters, most of the recruits exhausted their remaining physical strength under the scolding and urging of the squad leaders.

After forcing themselves to run three kilometers, almost all the recruits found it difficult to even move, let alone continue running.

However, there are exceptions to everything. Among the new recruits, there are many sports students and even students from martial arts schools who have been practicing martial arts since childhood. This distance is nothing to them.

This sudden five-kilometer long-distance run was like a sieve, screening out the personal qualities of the recruits.

The squad leaders who had been following the recruits silently took note of these situations.

"Li Qiang, your physical fitness is excellent. If he is well trained, he can be a breakthrough player. At worst, carrying ammunition and a rocket launcher should not be a problem."

In Class 5, the first person to attract the attention of monitor Li Gang was naturally the burly Li Qiang.

This guy is tall, and when he runs, one step he takes is almost equivalent to two steps of others. His speed is so fast.

What surprised Li Gang even more was that this guy had quite good endurance. After being chased by them for three kilometers, he still had the energy to continue running.

If I'm not mistaken, this guy should have practiced it!

Li Gang has a very good vision. When Li Qiang was in high school, he was the main player of their school basketball team. Although he had never practiced long-distance running specifically, he had never fallen behind in endurance.

"Next are Zhang Meng, Chu Fei, and Luo Ming. Although they haven't received professional training, their basic skills are very good. With a little training, it shouldn't be a problem for them to be assigned to a field company."

His gaze shifted from Li Qiang to Zhang Meng, Chu Fei and the others. Seeing that they were panting but still had strength left, Li Gang nodded with satisfaction.

After all, Li Gang was going to be promoted to sergeant soon. It was impossible for the new recruits he brought out to be assigned to the pig-raising class.

If something like that really happened, it would be a slap in his face.

However, Li Gang’s happiness did not last long. When he saw the performance of other recruits in the class, the smile on his face immediately disappeared.

Jiang Chen, Zhou Xinghai, He Wenjie...these few are okay. Although they are not as good as the ones in front, at least they are in the lower middle and are not at the end of the team.

There was only one person who was far behind the team.

Moreover, he was not just behind ordinary recruits, he was nearly ten meters away from the nearest recruit.

Li Gang is not the kind of person who likes to discriminate.

No matter how good Li Qiang's grades are, he will not give him any special treatment.

Similarly, no matter how bad other people's grades are, he will not look down on them as long as they have a positive attitude.

It’s just that, in the first training session of the entire company, you ranked last. This is too... It would be fine even if you could move up one place!

Li Gang seemed to have seen the playful expressions on the faces of the other squad leaders when they returned later.

"Huff, huff..." Jiang Chen was panting as he ran in the middle of the team. The pain in his legs made every step he took very difficult. The feeling of lack of oxygen in his head reminded him that his body was about to reach its limit.

The situation for others was not much better.

At this point, we can no longer say that we are running, it would be more appropriate to say that we are walking.

Everyone basically made it through the last two kilometers step by step in this way.

The moment they reached the finish line, everyone threw themselves to the ground in unison, gasping for breath, without even the strength to move a finger.

However, just a few minutes after everyone lay down, the veteran squad leaders who had been waiting on the side came over.

"What are you doing? Are you lying there like a corpse? Get up!"

"Sergeant, I...I...I really can't take it anymore, please let me rest for a while, just for a while!" Chu Fei begged while lying on the ground.

The others were not much better, all had the same expression.

Only Li Qiang performed slightly better. He did not lie on the ground like the others. Instead, he held his waist and walked around slowly.

Li Gang picked up Zhang Meng and the others one by one. Just as he was about to turn back to look for Jiang Chen, He Wenjie and the others, he saw Jiang Chen, who had been lying on the ground gasping for breath with everyone else, had stood up at some point and was walking slowly behind Li Qiang.

After looking at Jiang Chen with interest, Li Gang turned around and continued to look for other people without saying anything.

Under the scolding of the squad leaders, the new recruits were picked up from the ground one by one, and walked around the playground for a few minutes before they lined up again.

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