Chapter 0244: First Snow
For the first time, these former elites had a nervous consciousness.
They are standard loads, but most of them complete the task in about forty minutes. It even lasted forty-five minutes.
Ten kilometers, although it is not certain whether it is accurate, but they set off together, although the instructor and a team of old birds who started at the end were less than 50 meters behind, but in the end they could only watch from a distance to reach the finish line first.
And they don't suspect that these people are cheating, because the weight of their backpacks is twice the weight of their own backpacks, which has been confirmed, and they follow the footprints behind the instructor, and there is no shortcut.
In the first assessment, in addition to the captain, and then the twenty or so old birds who followed the instructor alone, only thirty or so of the remaining followed the first phalanx, and completed ten kilometers in the specified time, that is, in thirty-five minutes, and the rest were all added one point.
Back at the camp, the rookie who received the punishment had already let everyone know, the instructor, and even the captain, those old birds' backpacks were twice the weight of their own backpacks, and they were still ahead. I also know that in terms of body, these former elites are not better than others.
Knowing the shortcomings, while making up their minds to catch up, they all hope to regain face in the next training and take off the rookie hat.
Before lunch, they received a small mattress wrapped in a blanket with roe deer or rabbit skin, and lay on the ground for two hours, resting completely, and lying on their stomachs stiff.
But that didn't stop them from being ashamed. Since it is military training, there must be obstacles, shooting, and martial arts, and there is no shortage of good players, there is no shortage of champions of the troops, and there are even champions of division-level competitions.
But in the afternoon training, they were dumbfounded again.
After a hearty lunch, they ran back to the barracks with standard loads, leaving dozens of ordinary soldiers to guard the camp and install those training equipment.
As soon as they arrived at the shooting range, they were divided into ten groups, each with two squads of forty people, and at a small shooting range, they began to shoot to the bottom of the elimination.
And in each group, in addition to the captain, there are two old birds who follow the instructor.
With the order, the gunfire rang out on the shooting range.
One magazine per person, three targets at 50 meters, and after shooting in turn, everyone was stupid.
Their best result was 297 rings, and the captain, the two old birds, were both standard full rings and 10 rings.
In particular, the instructor also personally participated in the shooting, and the intensity of the gunfire was almost continuous, not a single shot, and this was also a full ring.
Where are you looking for this group of perverts......
These elites are a bit of a hit. You must know that the gap between the body and the body can be caught up in a short time, but shooting is not so simple, how many bullets do you need to feed the gun full ring?
How did they know that these old birds train normally, and one person does not finish one or two hundred rounds of ammunition every day, and once they train, they have to pack the recovered bullet casings in boxes, and practice aiming on their stomachs for at least two hours, and they kneel to shoot the muzzle of the gun and hang the stone, weighing five kilograms, and it takes two hours at a time.
After the shooting hit them, after returning to the camp over there, their thoughts of shame were again frustrated.
The instructor didn't go up, and the veterans who followed him, one by one, fought two or three, especially the one who led the team, and actually arrogantly picked five people, all of whom were strong in martial arts, and they were all beaten down.
Although there were no extra points for the afternoon shooting, all of them met the minimum requirements of 295 rings, but this will completely trample on the soles of the feet that just found the face.
It's just a warm-up, it doesn't give them extra points, it's supposed to be the first day, and if it hits them too hard, it will be counterproductive.
Therefore, Xue Lang only added points to most people in the first round of cross-country, and the day after that, he didn't make these rookies too ugly.
But this is only the first day.
By the next day, these elites were holding back the fire in their bellies, trying to regain face and dignity, but they were tortured by double training again.
The next day, the collective was given an extra point, and all items did not meet the standard. Including off-road with increased loads, rapid-fire including tactical ramps, including obstacles.
As long as one of the three items does not meet the standard, even if the training for the whole day is not up to the standard, one point will be added.
Moreover, the next day begins, and the devil's training begins.
The rookies only sleep three or four hours a day, and they train desperately regardless of black and white.
Who can have complaints? Even the instructors followed, saying that they were training them, so why not lead them to train? Besides, they carry 95 on their backs and double the ammunition, and from the fourth day onwards, the high-precision sniper of one color adds 95, not to mention the two types of magazines in the backpack, which are also double.
If you can't complete the training subject, then you really can't do it.
As the training task intensified, and as the torture began, gradually, the rookie team of 400 people decreased, and by the ninth day, only 60 of the 400 people remained. But among the sixty people, there are also 30 people who have already scored seven or eight points, and there are nine points, and two or three points will graduate.
After high-intensity training, everyone has become numb, forgetting to think, forgetting the idea of finding face, and the only thing left is to persevere.
On the eleventh day, thirty-four of the remaining sixty were eliminated, leaving only twenty-six. Tonghai is also among them.
It was only then that these exhausted rookies knew that they were not lucky to be left behind, but the most tortured. The reason why they didn't see those eliminated again was because a few days later, they didn't return to the barracks, and they were in the black wind.
It wasn't until the last batch of eliminated soldiers who followed the logistics left, and they were announced to be the elite of these rookies, that is, the elite of the elite, these exhausted guys didn't know that there was no elimination of feelings, and those who were eliminated still received rigorous training in the barracks, and they also knew why the captains who led the team left in the continuous integration of the team, and the feelings went to the side to bring the elimination.
But they didn't have much excitement, because, in the gradually increasing training, the instructors, the old birds who followed the instructors, the captains, they always carried more weight than them, although they trained together, the amount was not the same.
After the selection, everyone returned to the barracks, saw the eliminated brothers there, and everyone made a fuss, and then, a sumptuous New Year-like meal began in the bonfire and in the cold wind.
This night's feast, the whole roasted whole sheep, the whole soil-raised stupid chicken, different from the previous domestic pork, fish and beef, and fresh vegetables, let these guys who almost squeeze their bodies completely open their appetites and eat a good meal.
The only disadvantage is that there is no liquor, one family, at most three bottles of beer, in order to reduce the oiliness, but not to make everyone happy.
These chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep are naturally not supplied by the military, but from Xue Lang Farm, and the taste is naturally different from those additives of chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in the market.
Xue Lang and the others did not eat Xiaozao alone, and followed these soldiers to eat in the restaurant.
The reason why this will end the selection and not eliminate the 26 people to the expected 20 is because the forecast is for light to moderate snow tomorrow tonight, that is, the first snow after the freeze is coming.
In the first snow, during the period of time after it fell, Xue Lang decided to let these guys who had been tired for more than ten days relax, and wait for the snow in the black wind mouth to be thick enough to meet the snow training, and then start.
time, that is, one night a day.
Sure enough, when the wine was half-drunk and the food was stopped, a little snowflake fell from the sky.
In just a few minutes, the wind stopped completely, and the snowflakes also obscured the dark sky, and the large swaths were fluttering and falling.
Xue Lang and Cheng Weiguo, as well as the person in charge of the special police and armed police, left the banquet and stood outside the house.
Seeing that the sky was full of whiteness, and watching the ground gradually lose its color and become equally white, Cheng Weiguo asked curiously: "I said brother, how do you know that there will be snow in January?" ”
Xue Lang smiled, pointed to the sky and said: "Under this sky, I have lived for twenty years, and after the freeze every year, even if there is no snow outside, this mountain will snow, just the size, and the time has never exceeded a month." This year, the first snow is only a little bigger, and it is estimated that the average snowfall thickness will be more than 20 kilometers. ”
"This is called Ruixue?"
The person in charge of the armed police special police looked at the fluttering goose feathers and snow, and asked casually.
Xue Lang shook his head: "It's not good to say." ”
Xue Lang didn't know how to divide Ruixue, but he still understood that the snow in the first field was so big, and the spring drought would definitely ease next year. But whether it's good or bad has to look at the end of the year, if there is heavy snow after the year, and the fireworks are more powerful, then it is not called Ruixue, it is called a snow disaster. There will be no spring drought in the beginning of spring, and if the snow is not handled well, it will delay spring ploughing, and there will be spring floods.
But no matter what, the snow in the first field is so big, even outside the black tuyere, it can meet the training requirements, and the snow in the black tuyere will exceed half a meter. Just because there's no wind here doesn't mean there, even though it's less than 10 kilometers away.
The heavy snow did not stop all night, and the next day, the heavy snow, still fluttering, although not as heavy as the night, did not stop.
The mountains, lost in the snow, the sky was so gray that even the cries of animals and birds could not be heard, and the whole mountain seemed to be asleep.
On this day, both rookies and old birds enjoyed the feeling of a long-lost class, everyone in the cafeteria, piled all the tables to one end, stools arranged in the layout of the conference room, and listened to Xue Lang explain the knowledge of snow survival.
These are not old birds or rookies, and they are completely different from the snow experience accumulated by the troops for many years.
These, in addition to what Xue Lang learned in the Snow Wolf Commando, are Orion's many years of experience in running mountains, although soil, there is absolutely no modern auxiliary facilities, and it is more practical to rely on experience and soil methods to solve the problem of snow survival.
There were more than 500 people in the whole venue, but none of them thought about it, because everyone knew that this kind of training would not be too much, and they would enter practice after the lecture.
It snowed heavily, and it fell all day, and the lessons continued, except for eating, and they kept talking. Including how to hide one's own smell in the snow, including how to hide the smell of gunpowder in the barrel of a gun, these are the experience of hunters, and they are definitely not something that can be learned in the army.
The most important thing is to make a fire, although everyone has not practiced, but they are all in the third temperate zone, that is, the troops are stationed in areas with snow, we all know that in winter, even the dead leaves will stick to the snow particles, in addition to splashing oil or using oil paper and other ignition, directly use dry grass and leaves, it is also difficult to quickly make a fire.
When it was almost dark, the snow finally stopped, and the ground was at least twenty centimeters thick. The treetops were also covered with a thick layer of snow, and it was as heavy as a snow hat.
All the weeds were bent, so that the ground was very flat as far as the eye could see, and there was no other color, except for the trunk, which was white.
Xue Lang saw that the snow had stopped, and before the wind rose, he ended the talk of the cultural class, took everyone out of the cafeteria, and asked everyone to divide into groups, looking for materials that they thought could cause fire, and had a practical operation on the playground.
Half an hour later, the crowd returned one after another.
Everyone learned a trick of looking for dry branches and leaves in the hollows of dead trees, where there is no snow and is definitely a good material to start a fire.
But when everyone saw Xue Lang carrying a section of three or four meters of dead trees, and the middle of the tree was full of foam in the middle of the insect theft, they didn't know what he was doing.
Piles of bonfires were lit, making the white world more warm, and the fire reflected everyone, and in the dark, Xue Lang asked everyone to gather around and teach everyone one last lesson.
He asked the person in charge of the armed police, who could smoke, to light a cigarette, smoked about half of it, and put it in a bucket of dead trees, and then piled up hay and branches.
You don't know what you mean, that's it?
But when Xue Lang finished talking that there were no matches, lighters, or guns in the wild, and he used the bullets that had been pulled out to make a fire, and he could only use a magnifying glass, or use ice to polish a concave-convex mirror, use sunlight, and use dead wood to start a fire, the dry firewood pile smoked, and in just a minute or two, the open flame came out, and then the hunt burned.
Everyone is very curious when they see the blazing flames, I don't know what the truth is, no one cares, a cigarette butt can ignite it?
Xue Lang smiled and patiently explained to everyone what the principle was. Those dead trees that have been stolen by insects are actually still wood-based, which is equivalent to sawdust, so it can catch fire when it sees it, and there is a bit of the principle of cotton catching fire.
This makes these old birds and rookies know that in addition to the dead leaves in the tree hole, there is also the dry moss on the trunk that is suitable for igniting fire, and this kind of dead wood is the best material for ignition. If at night, if you are worried about an open flame, you can also use dead wood instead of firewood, the open flame is very weak, but the temperature is not low, and there can even be no open flame.
And usually there is no tool for ignition, after finally making a fire, to leave the campsite, the way to take away the fire is a kind of fungus in the mountains and forests called Lao Niu Gan, the scientific name is Pinggai Ganoderma lucidum, the dry light is not an open flame, can be a day or two without extinguishing, sprinkle a little dry moss or dead tree foam, a blow, you can go.
These fresh knowledge made the old birds and rookies feel very novel, only to know that it is not so difficult to survive in the wild, and only then did they know that wisdom is really in the folk.
Just when everyone was absorbing this knowledge in a new way, and expected that soon, they would be tested, in the snow, without fire tools, without tent sleeping bags how to survive the cold, an operator ran to the front, one stood upright, and reported loudly: "Report No. 01 chief, there is your phone!" ”
Cheng Weiguo, who was listening with relish, turned his head and glanced at the operator puzzled, not understanding why he didn't directly explain what the phone was, but then he waved his hand and didn't speak, but squeezed out of the crowd and rushed to the barracks headquarters.