Chapter 43: The Jungle Again
Every day our brains and bodies are undergoing high-intensity learning and training, of course, the physical fatigue is not as serious as the previous hell week, but Lao Qi is always thinking about how to squeeze out our last drop of sweat and the last trace of energy, but seriously, under the training of Lao Qi, our skills and physical fitness have made a qualitative leap, even if it is psychological quality, compared with ordinary soldiers in grassroots companies, it is even more different, and my only regret is my Yu Qingyu, my Xiaoyu, Because we really haven't been in touch for a long time, from the eve of the selection of the special operations team to the entry into the devil's camp and now the group training, we don't seem to have much contact for half a month, every time I feel like I'm about to be overwhelmed in training, I think of her, and the way she appears in my mind can always temporarily make me forget my physical and mental exhaustion, let me grit my teeth and hold on.
In the group training, our elimination rate is no longer as high as before, but some people have chosen to quit, and some people have been forced to quit because their scores have been deducted, anyway, after ten days of group training, after seven days, we only have nine people left.
On the morning of the eighth day, after breakfast, we were taken to the tactical training ground, and without saying a word, we first came five 400-meter obstacles, then a quagmire fight, and then a low-lying two-kilometer crawl in the quagmire, and finally hundreds of push-ups.
The nine of us didn't know anything, we couldn't see anything sitting in the car, we could only feel that the troop carrier carrying us had been driving on the mountain road for a long time, around and around, and even in circles, which soon made us confused, and finally we simply didn't care, after all, after driving for so long, I don't know how many laps we have made, it must be this group of old birds deliberately, with the mentality that if you come, you will be safe, plus so much physical training in the morning, I was directly stunned. After sleeping for a while, I felt that my energy and physical strength had been well replenished, so I stretched my waist lazily, and I couldn't see anything anyway, so I simply asked: "Hey, brothers, where are we going to be taken?" ”
"Don't speak!" I didn't expect there to be an old bird in the car, and he pressed me back just when I asked. I had no choice but to continue to close my eyes and recuperate, after all, even if you don't close your eyes and recuperate, you won't be able to see anything.
The troop carrier was about forty minutes away, and when it suddenly stopped, Lao Qi got out of the front seat, opened the door of the troop carrier for us, and then beckoned us to take off our blindfolds and get out of the car.
The moment we took off the blindfold, the world was bright, bright and dazzling, but it was also dizzy, in this state, we consciously stood in front of Lao Qi, and then began to observe the surroundings quietly. I looked at it for a long time, but I realized that this ghost place seemed familiar, but I really didn't know where it was.
"Don't look at it! It's a hundred kilometers away from our base, let alone seen it, and you haven't even been here. "Lao Qi always seems to be able to see through our hearts, and directly dispels our thoughts with one word.
"In the process of fighting behind enemy lines, special combat personnel often need to cross no man's land because of the mission, and even encounter enemy troops during the period, and the background of this training mission is that our special combat personnel are forced to cross the no-man's land and return to the base in order to avoid the enemy's search and arrest to the greatest extent possible after the decapitation operation of the enemy." Lao Qi stood in front of our team of only nine people and pointed to the jungle in front of us.
Saying that, Lao Qi took out a crumpled map, or the civilian kind, marked a point on the map, that is, the location of our base, there is no mark on our current location, but even so, it was just a few seconds of hurried look at it for us and then took it away, and then took out the lighter and burned it in front of us, and we looked confused, how to drop, this is a few meanings.
"Instructor Wang, take away all their backpacks and leave them with 0.25 base ammunition!" Lao Qi said to the old bird of a special operations brigade beside him. "It's now 13:28 on the 7th, I order, the second squad acts collectively and must return to the team before 23:59 on the 8th, and those who fail to return within the time limit will be automatically eliminated!" Lao Qi gave us an order when the instructor checked our backpacks.
We checked our weapons and ammunition and gathered in a circle, discussing the route for a while, knowing that although all of us looked at the map, we only looked at it for a few seconds, and we didn't even know where we were now. As for weapons and ammunition, heh, in addition to the body armor and bulletproof helmets on our bodies, we only have an assault rifle and a military spur, and the ammunition is empty, and all kinds of water bottles, medicines, etc. have been collected. Not to mention the GPS and other navigation and positioning devices that are standard for special combat personnel, there is not even a compass. This reminds me of the selection of special combat personnel in the detachment at the beginning, when there was at least a compass and at least some life-saving things in the backpack, but now, except for the number of people, everything else is gone.
Our group of nine people rushed into the jungle in front of us, one by one holding the military thorn as a mountain knife, although our hands are already covered with calluses, but in this kind of jungle area, with the military thorn to open the road, less than half an hour, our hands have begun to blister, the pain I inhaled the cold air, but no way, this forest is deserted all the year round, the branches are vertical and horizontal, we can only open the road by ourselves, the right hand does not work to change the left hand, the left hand does not work and then change the right hand, The smell of countless foliage and rotting animals creeping into our nostrils is even more pronounced in this silent and uninhabited jungle.
Walking in this kind of jungle area, it takes more than three times the physical strength of the normal, followed by the consumption of water in our body, you must know that we have been training for high energy since the morning, and the water bottle has been taken away, which will be really thirsty, but this has not found a water source along the way.
We could only lick our lips from time to time, but it didn't take long for us to realize that it didn't work at all, because even our tongues were dry. There is no way, we can only lick the leaves, chew the leaves, and even use our own socks to wrap some soil containing water, and then suck our own socks, there is no way, in order to complete the task, if it is placed in wartime, this is to survive, in order to better fight the enemy.
Originally, the plan was that the nine of us planned to rest for five minutes every two hours to prevent the old birds of the special operations brigade from having the strength to break through when they came to round us up, and at first we could still insist on marching for two hours continuously, but with the continuous loss of physical energy and water, we could continue to march for a shorter and shorter time on the premise of ensuring that we still had a trace of breakthrough strength.
"Listen!" Suddenly, the team member at the front raised his hand and motioned for us to stop.
It's the clear sound of the lala, the sound of the flow of life, yes! It's the sound of running water!
The nine of us were excited at once, and one by one our eyes suddenly lit up and we wanted to rush over, yes, we were so thirsty, so thirsty that we all neglected the simplest thing - the old birds. We've been walking back and forth for hours now, and we haven't seen the old birds, and they're not so kind to give you a drink and rehydrate.
We roughly observed the surroundings, and found no trace of anyone for the time being, so we scattered and touched the direction of the current, until we reached the side of the stream, we did not find anything abnormal, which made the nine of us very happy, so one by one simply buried their heads directly in the water, and drank a big gulp of cows, which is called a pleasant!
However, what we ignore is often the most important, although the old birds of the special operations team did not ambush us next to this stream here, after all, this stream is so long, they don't know where we will come from, but this place is all installed and monitored, and we are exposed.