Chapter 35: First Place? No!
The snow came and went quickly, and the sun came out the next day.
There was still a chill in the air, and the piles of snow along the walls and outside the barracks were the result of hundreds of new recruits working for an entire afternoon.
Today is the last day of September, and it is also the day for the first assessment of new recruits in each company before the holiday.
When calling the roll last night, Company Commander Liu Guoping said that the squads and platoons with the lowest test scores must do extra training during the holiday.
Xu Ge looked at the October class schedule and found that fighting, tactics and shooting had been added, but none of these were important.
What’s important is that the first seven days of pure rest are exciting.
"In the morning's drill assessment, our squad only ranked second in the entire company."
Before the afternoon assessment, Du Hu asked the new recruits to change into their physical training uniforms and assemble. He looked at everyone and said,
"If you don't get first place in the physical fitness test, forget about playing with your phone during the holidays!"
"Do you understand?"
"clear!"
"Go to the playground to warm up in advance!"
As the squad leader, Du Hu’s requirement is naturally not as simple as not getting the last place.
The temperature was still a little cold after the snow. Xu Ge, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, immediately got goose bumps when the cold wind blew on him. He quickly raised his legs high to warm up.
Li Dongshui next to him was slowly stretching the ligament while cursing.
"Our class clearly had the best movements during the parade assessment, but first place went to Class 7. How disgusting!"
Qi Ruibiao sneered: "Humph! Who let Li Zhi, the platoon leader, be the judge? Isn't it normal for him to give it to his own third platoon?"
"That's why I say it's disgusting! All this subjective judgment is disgusting!"
Li Dongshui said angrily, "When I was in school, I used to do very well in the arts, but I switched to science because my Chinese teacher always said my essays were off-topic. Science is so good! Right is right and wrong is wrong. I don't have to cater to personal preferences anymore!"
"My uncle told me it's the same in the army. Running for a certain number of minutes is a certain number of minutes. Pulling up on the horizontal bar is a certain number of reps. Hitting the target is a certain number of rings. One is one, two is two. It's simple and fair! But I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen!"
Kaiyoumu listened to the words of the new recruits and smiled, shaking his head: "You are so naive and cute."
Li Dongshui stopped talking and began to mutter to himself.
"I'm willing to trade Xu Ge's three years of life for passing this test!"
Xu Ge was so angry that he laughed: "You are so..."
"Assemble at the camp gate!"
With the order to assemble, the physical fitness test began.
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. . .
There are two physical fitness tests, the first is 5000 meters and the second is parallel bars and parallel bars.
Luo Shan's pre-assessment mobilization was identical to Du Hu's: "5,000 meters, pass within 19 minutes. My requirements are simple: on top of everyone passing, the entire platoon must take first place in the company!"
“Does everyone have confidence?”
"have!"
"Okay, let's do some warm-up first."
Luo Shan waved his hand, "Spread out 30 centimeters apart! Get ready for push-ups!"
"One push-up, start!"
Xu Ge: ???
No, I was just talking nonsense that night. I thought the platoon leader didn’t really believe it, did he?
No one else found the platoon leader's pre-assessment ceremony strange. After all, everyone had experienced it that night.
Xu Ge didn't know what to say about this, so he just lay down and did it silently.
I summoned the token and took a look. Physical fitness: LV2 (155/199). With my current physical fitness level, I think it should not be a problem to run into the top few.
The assessment rules are very simple. Everyone runs to the top of a distant mountain, receives a playing card from the second platoon leader, and then returns.
The entire route is a straight cement road, and all squad leaders will supervise along the way, so no one has the opportunity to cheat.
Arriving at the starting point, Luo Shan specifically sought out Xu Ge and asked, "Do you still remember our bet? If you come back first in the company, I'll let you lead the team for once, how about that?"
"Platoon leader, with our deputy squad leader here, I don't have to worry about being first!"
Xu Ge is well aware of his own limitations. With his current physical level, he is no match for Kai Youmu.
Luo Shan smiled, said nothing more, walked to the side and blew the whistle.
beep!
“Charge!”
Amid shouts, the new recruits rushed out together.
Xu Ge followed what Kai Youmu had taught him and accelerated immediately from the start, always maintaining his position in the first group.
After four hundred meters, the team had already separated.
When they reached the foot of the mountain and started climbing, there were only a dozen people left in the first group.
Xu Ge opened his mouth and breathed deeply, trying hard to maintain his rhythm and stay in the lead.
He knew that he couldn't rush to speed up and overtake at this time, because if he was not careful, he would easily be overtaken by others. The second half was the time to break out.
He looked around quickly and found that only Qi Ruibiao and Zhou Meng were still following him, but Kai Youmu was nowhere to be seen.
Where is the deputy class leader?
Xu Ge was a little confused. With Kaiyoumu's speed, he should have reached the top of the mountain by now.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Don't stop when climbing a mountain. Keep going!"
On the side of the road, squad leader Liu Fei shouted, "It's two thousand meters. Once we reach the top, we'll see the turning point!"
Xu Ge didn't think any more and continued running.
After reaching the top of the mountain, I saw someone standing in the middle of the road a few hundred meters away. It was the second platoon leader who was responsible for issuing licenses.
call!
After adjusting his breathing, Xu Ge began to slowly accelerate, overtaking several recruits in front of him one by one, and was the first to reach the turning point.
"Sure, 8 minutes and 40 seconds!"
The second platoon leader praised him and took out an Ace of Spades and handed it over.
Xu Ge pinned the playing cards on the elastic band of his pants, turned around and ran back.
Because he was the first to arrive at the turning point, he would meet everyone on the way back.
As one recruit after another passed by, Xu Ge still didn't see Kai Youmu. He even wondered if he had seen it wrong.
Finally, when we reached the top of the mountain and were about to go downhill, Kaiyoumu's figure appeared.
I saw that the other party was pulling the arm of Zhang Haoyu, a soldier in the squad, and was climbing the slope with great effort. At this time, they were already at the rear of the entire company.
Zhang Haoyu, who was being pulled, was the recruit with the worst physical fitness in the class. His face was pale and he seemed to be suffering from lack of oxygen.
While pulling Zhang Haoyu, Kai Youmu would turn around and shout from time to time: "Li Dongshui, hurry up and catch up, don't fall behind!"
Xu Ge looked forward and found that Li Dongshui at the end of the team was limping and running with gritted teeth, his face full of pain.
Soon, Kai Youmu and Xu Ge met head-on, and Kai Youmu gave Xu Ge a thumbs-up: "Well done, Xu Ge, keep going, keep leading, and come back with the first place in the company!"
Before Xu Ge could respond, the two of them had already passed each other.
Soon after, Li Dongshui also came over, glanced at Xu Ge who was in first place, said nothing, and continued to climb the hill.
Behind him, two recruits from other classes were slowly speeding up, trying to overtake Xu Ge.
Xu Ge estimated his physical strength and thought that if he started speeding up from now on, he would be able to lead all the way to the finish line.
But I don’t know why, I always feel uncomfortable.
As a result, the pace also slowed down.
Just as the two new recruits behind him were about to catch up, Xu Ge suddenly stopped, turned around, and cursed while climbing the slope:
"Fuck, it's just first place, I don't want it anymore!"
In his previous life, he was able to sacrifice himself to save his classmates. He was the kind of person who couldn't bear to see his companions in trouble.
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