Chapter 40 Wild horses and bugs rolling on the ground
Li Zheng felt that if he had to use any word to describe the recruits running five kilometers, it would be like a shepherd herding sheep on the grassland.
That's right.
Herding sheep.
Division E's cross-country course is natural.
Several regiments of the entire division are scattered in the mountains about ten kilometers away from the remote town of Huzhen. For the veteran Army troops, it can be said to be a geomantic treasure.
There are mountains for shooting, valleys for tactics, roads for running, and jungles for training. Everything is a pure natural first-class training ground.
The five-kilometer journey of the new regiment starts from its own camp, goes around the mountain roads around the division station, passes through the scattered camps of each regiment, then runs onto a national highway, runs along the national highway for about one kilometer, then enters from the division gate, and then
Run along the mountain road back to your camp.
It sounds simple, but it's uncomfortable to run.
Because Li Zheng has always wanted to be a soldier, he has never given up on exercising in these years.
He doesn't smoke or drink. Except for a period of hard work before the college entrance examination, he has a normal schedule for the rest of the years. He goes to bed when the lights are turned off in the dormitory at night.
There are night snack stalls around the school that specialize in student business, and they are always bustling at night. The owners of the small stalls are just doing business for the tens of thousands of students in Donghai University Town, not to mention supporting their families, and many of them have also become rich.
Li Zheng is an extremely self-disciplined person. In the more than two years since he studied at Tunghai University, he can count the number of times he has gone to late-night snack stalls on two hands.
Even when we are in love, apart from going to a milk tea shop with Shao Xiaoqian, we just watch movies, which sounds old-fashioned enough.
Even Shao Xiaoqian said that Li Zheng treated his body as a temple and kept it spotless at all times.
In Li Zheng's own opinion, do your best in everything you do, otherwise you won't do it.
Since you are going to serve as a soldier, of course you have to come in the best condition.
Before joining the army, Li Zheng knew he had to run five kilometers, so he would put on his sportswear and run five kilometers in circles on the school playground almost every afternoon.
His pace is generally 4.6-4.7, which means he can complete five kilometers by hand in about 23 minutes.
Li Zheng felt that this result was pretty good and he was very satisfied with it.
I didn’t expect that after I ran away today, I would know what a frog in a well is.
Several squad leaders will run around the column of recruits like familiar shepherd dogs. The leading shepherd dog is of course the acting platoon leader Hou Jun.
When he took his weapon out of the camp gate, he took it off again, grabbed it in his hand, and swung it in the air.
"You haven't even woken up yet? You're running like a snail. Run faster! Run faster!"
What Li Zheng admired most was not that Hou Jun could easily run beside him while waving his armed belt, but that this fellow suddenly ran to the front of the team and shouted loudly at himself and Zhang Jian who were running fast.
Encouragement: "Not bad! You guys are good! But it's not good yet, please hurry up!"
After a while, he disappeared from sight again and appeared at the end of the team. He caught Fatty Wei and grabbed the guy's camouflage uniform and pulled him forward.
While pulling back, he roared angrily: "Fat man, you have to lose weight! Fat man, you have to lose weight!"
Li Zheng thought to himself, Fatty Wei, who was running at the end, didn't know how he felt. Seeing a wolf-like squad leader disappearing and reappearing like a tireless perpetual motion machine, and looking at the backs of his comrades in front of him almost became...
A little smaller.
That feeling must be very hopeless, right?
There are two people running at the front of the entire platoon. This is the only first echelon.
Moreover, the two are old enemies, Li Zheng and Zhang Jian.
Both were surprised by each other's speed.
Ever since he was in junior high school, Zhang Jian had to be thrown to the teaching team by his chief of staff father during summer vacations to ride with the trainees and train with them. When he got to university, he studied physical education, so his physical fitness was certainly good.
But he has a weakness: his explosiveness in sprinting is top-notch, but his long-distance running ability is average.
Li Zheng's five-kilometer speed couldn't keep up with Zhang Jian, but today I don't know whether it was because he was in good condition or because he didn't want to lose to Zhang Jian. As long as the latter ran fast, he would not fall behind. Anyway, he kept about one or two meters behind Zhang Jian.
distance.
Zhang Jian knew that Li was running after him, and he wanted to get rid of him, but he couldn't.
No matter how fast he accelerated, Li Zheng just stared at him running with a livid face and gritted teeth, neither overtaking nor falling behind, just maintaining this distance anyway.
Li Zheng is not stupid.
As a law student, even if I keep practicing all year round, I can't compare to a serious sports student like Zhang Jian.
But he also saw one thing. Zhang Jian's long-distance running was not very good. When he reached the second kilometer, Zhang Jian had not been able to get rid of Li Zheng. Li Zheng understood at that time that Zhang Jian's long-distance running was his weakness.
Not much stronger than myself.
Originally, he didn't want to compete with Zhang Jian, but a small detail annoyed him.
At 2 kilometers, Li Zheng caught up with Zhang Jian and ran side by side with him.
In fact, at that time, Li Zheng felt that his lungs were freezing cold, and the wind seemed to be poured directly from his mouth into his throat and then into his lungs.
His body had already reached its limit, so Li Zheng planned to slow down and adjust his breathing to preserve some strength so that he would not lie down and be unable to run at the 4-kilometer mark.
Unexpectedly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Li Zheng running up to Zhang Jian, who was beside him, giving him a fierce look, reaching out and giving him the middle finger, and then suddenly accelerated, leaving Li Zheng five or six meters away.
Erect middle finger?
He actually gave himself the middle finger?!
Li Zheng was stunned for two seconds, and then the unknown fire in his chest surged up!
This idiot...
Why did he give himself the middle finger?
Just because he has a good training background?
Just because he is Shao Xiaoqian's boyfriend?
Damn it!
Li Zheng couldn't help but cursed in his heart.
I don’t know why, but my physical strength, which was already at its limit, suddenly started to gain a steady stream of strength out of nowhere.
He caught up with Zhang Jian again.
This time, before Zhang Jian could raise his middle finger, Li Zheng looked at Zhang Jian provocatively and raised his chin as a demonstration.
come!
Hurt each other!
Look!
Let’s see who is better than who today!
Zhang Jian had no idea that his contemptuous action would bring such unexpected consequences.
Young people have the gene for competition in their blood, so how can they be willing to be second to others?
"bookworm!"
Zhang Jian, a student from the physical education college, sighed secretly in his heart, gritted his teeth and poured his strength into his thighs. He swished forward and ran forward, leaving Li Zheng behind by a full seven or eight meters.
Soon, veteran Hou Jun discovered an interesting phenomenon.
The entire row of No. 30 recruits was clearly divided into four groups - the first group was Li Zheng and Zhang Jian who were running at the front. The two of them were at least 400 meters ahead of the second group of recruits behind them.
The second group is a group of soldiers headed by Yang Hui and Ma Teng. It has the largest number of people in the whole group, with more than a dozen.
Then came the third group, which was about two hundred meters behind the second group. There were about ten people in this group.
There are two others at the bottom of the entire team, and they are more than 300 meters behind the recruits of the third group.
One of these two people is a rich man, Fatty Wei, and the other is a good-looking pretty boy, Jiang Xuan.
Hou Jun ran next to the two recruits at the back of the trailer, pointed his belt forward, and shouted: "Look at what you are doing! The ones in front are like wild horses, and you two are just two ground bugs! Bugs