Chapter 749 Recruit Training
"Stand up straight! If anyone keeps dangling around, run a circle!" The instructor loudly scolded the recruits who were undergoing formation training. His eyes were like a hawk, patrolling back and forth among the crowd. If he saw that someone's posture was not correct enough, , then the unlucky guy will immediately be punished by running circles around the playground.
Sun Zhen was also among the crowd, staring at the back of the head in the row in front and standing straight. He estimated that he had maintained this posture for two sticks of incense, and some parts of his body had become stiff. However, he still persevered hard and did not want to be expelled from the team at the last moment.
As a long copper whistle sounded, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief and began to move their numb hands and feet. Compared to the beginning of the training, only about half of those who passed the test remained, and those who did not persist to the end received corresponding punishment measures.
Sun Zhen breathed a long sigh of relief, quickly moved his neck and waist, and then went to the side to drink water and rest. It has been half a month since he had been doing queue training like this. The seemingly simple training content can make people feel tired very easily, even more tiring than when he went to the fields to do farm work. After all, you don't have to wait until your physical strength is exhausted when doing farm work. He only stopped to rest, but this training seemed to be designed to drain the trainees' physical strength again and again.
At first, Sun Zhen didn't quite understand the purpose of this kind of training. Shouldn't being a soldier be practicing fighting skills such as swords, guns, bows and arrows to kill enemies? What's the use of standing in queues for half a day and starting and walking in various queues? Sun Zhen is not the only one who has this kind of doubt. He knows that most of the new recruits in training don't understand it very well.
But later, the officer in charge of training them, Gao Qiaonan, impressed Sun Zhen with a lecture during a break. What Gao Qiaonan said was simple and direct: If you can't stand up on the training field now, after you go to the battlefield, I'm afraid it has already become a piece of loose sand! All basic training is to enable you to follow orders and prohibitions on the battlefield in the future, so that you can use collective strength to save your own life and kill the enemy.
Although Sun Zhen, who has never set foot on the battlefield, is not fully able to understand the meaning of Takahashi Minami's words, he at least knows that the training he has received so far is not a meaningless waste of time. Sun Zhen heard that this short officer with the surname Gao was actually a Japanese pirate. After joining the militia, he relied on his military exploits on the battlefield to rise from an ordinary soldier to his current position. For the recruits who joined the militia as new immigrants, it is undoubtedly a very inspiring story. It means that everyone in the Haihan militia will have the opportunity to become successful, and maybe they can be like Takahashi Minami in the future. Likewise, he became a senior military officer with military power.
Of course, the person who spread this story would not tell the audience how many battles Takahashi Minami went through and how many fights he experienced before relying on his extraordinary performance to accumulate enough merits to be promoted. In addition to his personal bravery, what is more important is that he has always maintained a high degree of loyalty to Haihan, allowing the military brass to safely hand over command to him.
There was queue training in the morning, combat skills training in the afternoon, and after dinner there was intensive ideological study in platoon units. The whole day was fully arranged. For a recruit like Sun Zhen, there is no room in his mind to accommodate other things. Just training and learning every day makes him feel exhausted.
The pace of life here is completely different from Sun Zhen’s old environment in Dengzhou. You can see all kinds of slogans and slogans everywhere you look in the camp, such as “Sweat more in peacetime, fight more.” "You will bleed less when you are a soldier", "You will not be afraid of death if you are a soldier, but you will not be a soldier if you are afraid of death", "Shedding skin and flesh will not leave you behind, you will bleed and sweat but not shed tears", "Always want to fight, do everything for fighting, dare to fight tough battles, and ensure victory", "Honor, responsibility, faith, will, spirit, value"...
Various slogans can be seen every day when you open your eyes. Every day, they have to do exercises in the morning, turn off the lights at night, and shout slogans collectively before eating three meals a day. When Sun Zhen came here, he was just an ignorant farmer, but just over ten days have passed, and now Sun Zhen can recite a dozen propaganda slogans at any time. Although Sun Zhen still doesn't understand Haihan's social structure and doesn't know what the executive committee actually is, this does not prevent him from starting to regard himself as a member of Haihan's collective. And as the training deepened, Sun Zhen gradually began to realize that the Haihan Militia he belonged to was definitely not just a private armed force maintaining order in the countryside.
The instructors responsible for training new recruits are all veterans who have served for more than three years. Most of them enlisted in Annan and have participated in many military operations involving Haihan militia since the Annan Civil War. During the training, these instructors would occasionally talk about their previous combat experiences, telling how the militia army maneuvered in all directions and swept across all directions. Only then did recruits like Sun Zhen realize that the army they were joining had such rich combat experience, and that the risks of joining this army were real.
There were also some wanton people who asked to be discharged from the army and left, and they actually did it - they were taken away by the military police wearing red armbands. As for where they were being taken, the officers remained gloomy and did not say anything, and others did not dare to ask. Anyway, no one with any sense would make such a request foolishly. Thinking about how much energy and financial resources Haihan spent to get people to be trained here, how can they just leave casually with just a few words? This is a serious army, not some kind of temple where you can come and leave as you please.
Sun Zhen didn't want to retire because of this. He had learned about the difference in treatment for immigrants before and after naturalization through various policy presentations these days. Even after naturalization, there was still a significant gap compared to the treatment as a soldier. When a soldier is promoted to a higher level, the level of salary increase is far greater than that of a laborer. And the most important thing is that promotion of military rank mainly depends on military merit. Rather than the number of years in the army, if you are lucky enough, you may be able to get promoted based on military merit after one or two military operations.
The platoon leader of Sun Zhen's current platoon joined the army at the end of last year and was still very junior. However, he made meritorious service in the Penghu Battle in May this year and was promoted to platoon leader. Second Lieutenant Tang, who had taken Sun Zhen to the registration review, had only joined the army half a year earlier than the platoon leader. His promotion to the position of second lieutenant and company commander was due to his two military trainings in Nanjing last year in May and July. Excellent performance in the Battle of the Island. These vivid examples give enough confidence to the recruits who are motivated to make progress, making them convinced that they will have the same opportunity to get the same promotion opportunities if they stay.
Regardless of whether the Haihan Militia members are killed or injured, they will receive corresponding pensions. If they are discharged due to injury, there will be follow-up arrangements to ensure a stable income in the future. For example, accepting external employment to become a military consultant for an allied country, a personal security consultant for wealthy businessmen and high-ranking officials, or serving as a grassroots cadre in the area under Haihan's rule, serving as a village mayor or mayor. In addition, the military also has a large number of positions where wounded veterans can be placed. For example, military workshops are currently being gradually constructed in various garrison areas. These workshops do not manufacture weapons, but are mainly responsible for repairs. People with experience in using weapons will undoubtedly It is an excellent choice for employees, who can quickly start working after only short-term technical training.
There is no doubt that the protection that the Haihan Militia can provide to the soldiers has caused a big impact on these new recruits. This basically means that "as long as you don't die, Haihan will always support you", and those who died in battle can also receive perfect care. After the recruits entered the camp, they were taken to the newly built "Haihan Militia Heroes and Martyrs Memorial Tomb" on the island to visit and study. Here are buried some of the bones of Haihan soldiers who died in the two battles of Nanri Island and Penghu last year. The reason why there are only some is because the families of some of the fallen soldiers are in Hainan Island, and their bones have been transported back for burial; others were missing during the naval battle, and their bones have been unable to be found. Bringing these recruits to visit is not to stimulate their "patriotic enthusiasm", but to tell them that everyone who died fighting for Haihan will not be forgotten. Even if they are alone, someone will burn incense for them regularly after their death. Burn candles, pay tribute, and don't worry about dying on the battlefield without anyone taking care of your funeral.
The officer who led the team at that time once said to the recruits: "One day, some of us will die on the battlefield and will be buried in such a hero's grave to accept the worship of those who come after us. Don't worry about becoming a lonely ghost. , people will pay homage to the martyrs here for generations to come. Think about it, can you get such good treatment as a soldier elsewhere?”
Not to mention the treatment in terms of food, clothing and housing. They can see greasy meat every time, all the clothes they wear are distributed uniformly, and they have clean and tidy barracks to live in. Even if this kind of treatment is not comparable to their life in their hometown, at least it is better. Far better than the hard days during the escape. Apart from the intensity of training, the recruits really don't have much to complain about the life in the military camp here.
Sun Zhen's strong physique and hard-working personality soon made him stand out from the newly trained recruits, and he was selected into the special reserve company trained by Qian Tiandun himself. Of course, it is said that Qian Tiandun is personally responsible, but he is only responsible for supervising the training situation. Now that he is in a high position, he no longer has to personally demonstrate and give instructions one by one. Naturally, other naturalized officers are responsible for implementing the procedures. The training plan he specified.
Since entering the reserve company, Sun Zhen feels that the amount of training has more than doubled than before, especially the physical training that is simply life-threatening. I get up and gather around six o'clock every morning, and run ten laps with weights on the playground as a preparation before breakfast. The morning is all about combat skills training, such as climbing up and down hooks and ladders, climbing ropes, climbing over high and low wooden frames, mixed martial arts, etc., and the afternoon is shooting training, which also includes knowledge and familiarity with various firearms, and also requires Learn basic firearms repair and maintenance techniques. After dinner, there is a ten-lap weight-bearing run as the end of the day's training. In addition, there is a long-distance swimming training every three days, a cross-country march training around the Penghu Islands every seven days, and a three- to five-day wilderness survival training every month, located in the Penghu Islands. Somewhere on an uninhabited island.
The formation training received when he first joined the army was relatively reduced after entering the reserve company. This was also an adjustment based on the special tactics of the special operations forces. In addition, the ideological study courses that are conducted every night will also be reduced and replaced by various skill training courses, such as reconnaissance, communications, navigation, etc. Most of these more difficult courses were taught personally by Qian Tiandun and Chen Yixin in turn.
Although Sun Zhen was educated and literate, he could only understand a small part of these professional courses. When he first saw the military contour map, he was confused. However, he was not discouraged. Anyway, he would write it down first and then talk about it later.
I have to say that some people really have talents that they can learn by themselves without any teacher. Sun Zhen’s talent is survival skills in the wild. Although he is not even good at reading military maps, he can use various natural conditions to identify directions, rely on a saber to obtain food in the wild, build his own temporary shelter, and even use the crude salt-drying method to obtain food from seawater. Get the salt you need to survive in the wild.
In the first wilderness survival training in October, Sun Zhen received the highest evaluation among all reserve companies. Qian Tiandun even commented on Sun Zhen with the comment "much better than when Takahashi Minami first came in". Real performance. Others' wild survival training only lasted three days, but Sun Zhen still maintained an excellent mental and physical condition after five days, and even had some small food reserves through hunting. Although Takahashi Minami was a little unconvinced by his boss's evaluation, he also admitted that Sun Zhen seemed to have a certain talent in this area.
"I've liked playing outside since I was a child, I'm used to it!" After the training, when Sun Zhen was asked about his performance, he responded to Qian Tiandun's question with this simple answer.
This perfunctory-sounding answer, instead of offending Qian Tiandun, actually gained his favor. Qian Tiandun was a scout before. When he received wilderness survival training, the instructor also spoke highly of him. At that time, his understanding of himself was actually very similar to that of Sun Zhen now.
Some people can perform beyond ordinary people in certain aspects without special training. Qian Tiandun believes that he is such a person, and now he has found another one of his kind.
"If the recruit training period is over and his tactical command assessment can reach excellence, then I will lead a small team for him." Qian Tiandun expressed his love for talents to Chen Yixin in a casual conversation.
(End of chapter)