The next morning, the company conducted regular training as usual, and each squad leader brought the soldiers of his squad to the playground to assemble. Lao Hei from Class 1 was not there, so Wang Ming, the deputy squad leader, took everyone to the training.
"Comrades, yesterday, four new comrades came to our reconnaissance company. Let us all welcome the arrival of the new comrades with warm applause."
Company commander Zhao Jianming didn't say much. He said a few words concisely and then took the lead in applauding the recruits. Upon seeing this, all the veterans in the company quickly applauded and welcomed him. Even if some veterans were reluctant, they had to applaud and welcome him.
"Today's running training, I decided that we will have a competition between classes. The class that comes in last will need to do an additional two hundred push-ups as punishment."
Yesterday, company commander Zhao Jianming had heard that some veterans were unfriendly to recruits. In order to let these veterans have a sense of teamwork and train happily with the recruits, the company commander specially arranged this.
"Company Commander, this is not fair. Our company has a total of twelve classes, and there are only four recruits in total. The recruits obviously can't outrun the veterans, so wouldn't our classes with recruits suffer a loss?"
Upon hearing the company commander's decision, Lu Gang quickly stood up to object. He didn't want to let himself, the strongest man in the company, be punished because Li Xiang was holding him back.
"Lu Gang, I don't care what you think, today's training must be conducted like this. Our reconnaissance company is a team, not a place for you to show off your heroes and engage in personal heroism. So, don't make any excuses to me. Give me your best to complete this training mission." Company Commander Zhao Jianming said seriously.
Seeing that the company commander was very serious, Lu Gang had no choice but to stop talking, because he knew that if he continued to argue about what the company commander had decided, he would not end well.
"Let's start running."
Seeing that Lu Gang had stopped talking, the company commander gave the order to run.
After all the officers and soldiers of the company ran a certain distance, Lu Gang suddenly ran up to Li Xiang and said to Li Xiang in a vicious tone: "Hey, that recruit, I tell you, you run faster, if our class is because of You were a drag and ended up last, so I’ll look good on you when I come back.”
After saying that, Lu Gang didn't care about Li Xiang's attitude or expression, and directly accelerated and ran forward, leaving a shocked Li Xiang messy in the wind.
At this time, deputy squad leader Wang Ming was following Li Xiang. After noticing Lu Gang's provocation to Li Xiang, he immediately ran to Li Xiang to comfort Li Xiang.
"It's okay, Li Xiang. You don't have to worry about him. As long as I'm here, he won't dare to do anything to you. Just do your best when running, and we won't blame you."
Li Xiang was very touched by the deputy squad leader's comfort. Originally, with his own temper, Li Xiang had to be ranked last to see what Lu Gang could do to him. However, for the sake of deputy squad leader Wang Ming, I decided to forget it and try my best to show my strength so as not to hold Class One back.
So, Li Xiang adjusted his breathing and began to accelerate forward slowly. After a while, Li Xiang caught up with Lu Gang. In order to retaliate against Lu Gang's previous provocation, Li Xiang deliberately ran forward side by side with Lu Gang.
Feeling that there was always someone running with him, Lu Gang felt uncomfortable, so he turned around to see who this person was. When he saw it, it was Li Xiang chasing after him. Good guy, I didn’t expect that this kid Li Xiang actually has two brushes. However, he is just a new recruit, and he is still far behind him. In order to distance himself from Li Xiang, Lu Gang immediately speeded up.
Then, the two started a competition mode of chasing each other. After the first few laps, Li Xiang and Lu Gang were basically neck and neck. One moment, Lu Gang was running in front, and the other moment, Li Xiang was running in front. Until the last two laps were left, Lu Gang still didn't get rid of Li Xiang, so he looked at Li Xiang with admiration.
"Good boy, I didn't see it. Your physical fitness is not bad."
Li Xiang ignored Lu Gang's praise because he didn't want to say anything more to these arrogant veterans. What he has to do now is to show some strength and let these arrogant veterans see that although he is a recruit, he is not a weakling.
In order to surpass Lu Gang and take first place, Li Xiang used all his strength and sprinted forward. There are only the last two laps left, so I will try my best no matter what, and let the veterans see that the recruits are not something they can just handle.
"ah!"
Li Xiang shouted, rushed forward, passed Lu Gang, and ran in front of Lu Gang.
"Ouch! This new recruit named Li Xiang is really quite extraordinary. No wonder Lao Hei strongly recommends this new recruit to me."
The company commander standing in the center of the playground was very satisfied with Li Xiang after seeing his performance.
When Lu Gang saw that Li Xiang had surpassed him, he originally wanted to save some strength, but now he had to speed up and start running. It would be a huge loss of face if you give a recruit more balls than you.
After all, veterans are still veterans, because veterans have trained several years longer than Li Xiang. Lu Gang quickly surpassed Li Xiang and retained his position as the first in the company. After the other veterans of the reconnaissance company realized that they were surpassed by Li Xiang, they also tried their best to catch up with Li Xiang. In the end, although Li Xiang tried his best, he only managed to finish fourth in the entire company. However, compared to the entire company, such a result was quite good.
After the run, Li Xiang squatted on the grass beside the track, breathing heavily. For this run, Li Xiang has reached his physical limit. However, judging from the faces of the veterans in the reconnaissance company, it seems that they can continue running. It seems that the soldiers in the reconnaissance company are indeed like wolves and tigers as Lao Hei said.
"Li Xiang, how are you? I feel okay."
When deputy squad leader Wang Ming ran to the finish line, he found that Li Xiang had already reached the finish line, so he came to Li Xiang to care. I was worried that Li Xiang would be held back before, but now it seems there is no need to worry at all.
"fine."
Li Xiang waved his hand to the deputy squad leader and said it was no problem.
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"gather."
Company commander Zhao Jianming saw that everyone had almost rested, so he blew the assembly whistle and commented on the run.
"Stand at attention, look to the right, look forward, take a break, stand at attention."
The platoon commander finished organizing the reconnaissance company and then turned to face the company commander.
"Comrade company commander, all officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company have been assembled. Please give instructions from the company commander."
"Please rest."
The company commander gave orders to a platoon commander.
"Take a break."
The platoon commander turned around and issued an order to the entire company, and then stood in the line himself, waiting for the company commander's lecture. The company commander walked to the front of the team, cleared his throat, and began to lecture.
"Review."
The company commander gave the order, and all officers and soldiers of the company immediately stood at attention.
"Please rest."
The company commander issued the command again.
"Comrades, I was very surprised by today's training. The reasons for my surprise are as follows. First, Li Xiang, as a recruit who only participated in three months of training, ranked fourth in the company. , I am very surprised, here, I want to focus on praising Comrade Li Xiang."
Li Xiang, who was in the middle of the team, was praised by the company commander. All the officers and soldiers in the company looked at Li Xiang, and Li Xiang lowered his head shyly.
"Second, what I didn't expect is that the soldiers in our company are all elites selected from all companies in the entire regiment. However, in this competition, your third class has no recruits, all of them are veterans, and they can't even compare to the recruits. , what a shame. Could it be that I didn’t pay close attention to the training, or you, Class Three, relaxed yourself too much.”
The company commander's tone of voice became more and more serious, as if he wanted to eat people.
"You said, with your current achievements, can I rest assured when I go to the battlefield?"
The veterans of Class Three all lowered their heads in shame.
