Chapter 11: Hardwood Training

When the first rays of sunlight illuminate Mount Geyue. A terrible whistle sounded, and several burly officers in American uniforms stood on the playground in front of the barracks and watched the soldiers rushing out of the barracks without a single expression on their faces. "My name is Eugene, I am the instructor of your physical training and combat formation, these few around me are the instructors of your other subjects, you now have 2,500 people, in the next three months, we will eliminate 1,500 people from among you, if you want to stay here and become the strongest person in the Chinese army, then please give all your energy to cope with the training" The burly Eugene stood in front of the queue with a tin horn and loudly gave the first lesson to the soldiers who came to the training in Chinese.

The recruited soldiers had long heard that there would be foreigners among the instructors, but they did not expect that their training would have so many subjects, not only the necessary physical fitness and firearms training every day, but also the battle formation and sign language, the production and use of explosives, the operation and data measurement of mortar grenadiers, sniper tactics and the concealment of battle positions, and the most perverse of all, what kind of topographic survey and mapping appeared. Most of these veteran ruffians in the army are illiterate guys, and they know what kind of mapping and calculation of the coordinates they have, and Shangfeng deliberately sent them to these big-nosed foreigners to play with.

"Quiet" Yu Dazhi, who smiled evilly, snatched the iron horn in Eugene's hand, "My name is Yu Dazhi, and I will be your assistant to the chief instructor from today onwards, what Instructor Eugene said just now is very good, but he forgot to say the most important thing, those of you who were eliminated because of evading training will be sent to the front line to build fortifications, since you are not suitable to be a soldier, then you should take a hoe and shovel to do your part for the country" Yu Dazhi looked at the soldiers below with a smile, and suddenly continued with a cold face"If you don't want to build roads, then go to the front line and bring back the heads of 10 little devils for me."

As soon as Yu Dazhi's words fell, Zhang Jinquan, who was standing beside him, raised his hand with his sniper rifle and fired three shots, and the three birds that happened to fly through the air fell in response to the sound and fell directly into the ranks of the soldiers. The soldiers in the uproar closed their mouths in unison. It is not a big skill to shoot down birds with a gun, and many veterans and officers in the army can do it, but it is really rare to shoot three birds in succession with a rifle like Zhang Jinquan, and it seems that these instructors are not mediocre.

After the release of Yu Dazhi and Zhang Jinquan's dismounting, the first day of training began, the soldiers were divided into several teams according to a team of 200 people, a corner of the training camp playground was piled with thick 5-meter tree trunks, and the soldiers of the whole training were required to carry those tree trunks around the playground in groups of 5 people, and if they did not run 20 laps or did not finish within the specified time, breakfast would be halved. The soldiers who had been ordered were divided into groups of five according to their own relatives, and ran around the playground the size of a dozen football fields with thick tree trunks.

"Fast, fast, accelerate and accelerate, you are too slow, even the old man and the old lady are faster than you" Yu Dazhi and a few of them rode three-wheeled motorcycles and kept urging the soldiers to speed up, and the groups of people who ran at the back were scolded by Yu Dazhi and blushed, but they had never received such training, and they didn't adapt to it at all for a while, and they were in a hurry and ran slower and slower.

At first, the soldiers carrying the stakes could still run neatly on the playground in the order of their respective squads, but as time went by, some of them with poor physical fitness could no longer hold on, and their steps began to stagger a little. As long as one of them is lazy or disrupts the rhythm of action, several other people in the same group will be affected, making the already slow speed even slower, and even someone will be injured.

"The last 200 people who ran this morning washed the clothes and socks of the 200 people who ran first to the finish line, and the last 200 people who ranked in the first three days of hardwood training will be eliminated from the training camp, you have to seize the opportunity, don't let me kick you out of the training camp and lose your life" Yu Dazhi, who was sitting in the motorcycle sidecar, smiled strangely, and kept stimulating the soldiers with ugly words. I think when my husband trained them in Shanghai, he had to run 10 kilometers alone with a 2-meter stake, and after the run, he had to continue other training, and the guys in front of him were much better, and the 5-meter stake was carried by 5 people.

Slowly, the soldiers on the playground opened up the distance, the fastest group has already surpassed the slowest group by a whole circle, Yu Dazhi squinted his eyes and sat in the sidecar and looked at these guys quietly, he would have been tired of shouting, if it weren't for his own husband who had to do this, he would have hid in the shade of the tree with Eugene and them to play cards and drink tea. Thinking of the unkindness of Eugene and their guys, Yu Dazhi couldn't help but turn his head in annoyance and looked at the big trees at the gate of the camp.

Finally, some people couldn't run, and the last group of people simply threw the stakes on their shoulders, and lay on the ground panting like dead dogs, no matter how Dazhi screamed and scolded, but they didn't want to get up and run again. "Drag it down" Yu Dazhi beckoned, and the gendarmes who had been waiting for a long time pounced on him, dragged the groups of people lying on the dead dogs out of the camp, and threw them directly into a truck and pulled them away. The 100 gendarmes in the camp were specially asked by Zhao Zhi to come to Chiang Kai-shek, and the soldiers who came for training were not afraid of Yu Dazhi, but they really couldn't afford to offend these cold-faced gendarmes, and who didn't know that these gendarmes were the heart and soul of the chairman.

The killing of chickens and monkeys had an effect, and the guys who also wanted to pretend to be dead to evade training couldn't help but speed up, for fear that they would become the next guy dragged out by the military police, in case they would be sent to the front line to build fortifications as the instructor said, so it would be safer to stay here for training. The soldiers who had finished the training were drenched in sweat, and they had also had running training, but it was only a bare run, at most with their rifles, and it would have been like this to run with a stake, and it was a run of 5 people, and many of them had their shoulders worn out by the rough bark of the stakes.

"It's too slow, you're too slow" Yu Dazhi stood in the motorcycle sidecar and scolded viciously, according to Zhao Zhi's training syllabus, among the more than 2,000 people in front of him, only half of them completed the training task within the specified time, and the other half of them did not meet the standard at all, and the group of people who finally reached the end was a full half an hour slower than the first group. Just like this kind of physical fitness went to the battlefield, Yu Dazhi really didn't know how many of them could survive, but fortunately, these guys still gritted their teeth and persevered, which somewhat made Yu Dazhi's heart feel a little relieved.