Chapter 36 Extreme Testing
After the daily physical training, we finally ushered in the sentence in Lao Li's mouth: "Next, we will conduct the last assessment of this hell week, and we will conduct intensive training after the end, but it does not mean that there will be no more elimination!" ”
When I heard this, to be honest, I was almost moved to cry, and I was finally going to end the perverted assessment of the dog day, this kind of super-intense training assessment, it was really about to break my last tense nerve, and when I heard this, I wanted to rush up and kiss Lao Li. After all, in order to improve efficiency, there will inevitably be a scientific training plan in the later training camp, not like now, just to make you suffer and make you suffer mental torture when your body is extremely tired.
The last assessment, which the instructors call the limit test, is a further challenge to our physical and mental limits.
The whole process of the assessment is a total of 30 kilometers, during which we need to wear raincoats, wear gas masks, carry marching backpacks, carry weapons and ammunition, and carry no less than 20 kilograms of weight on the whole body, after five kilometers of armed running, carry out armed swimming, and then carry out a mountain march of 12 kilometers, cross a one-kilometer swamp area, climb a cliff about 30 meters high, and finally rush five kilometers along the winding mountain road, and finally cross two kilometers of mountain forest to reach the end of the assessment.
It may sound like a series of numbers, but in reality, for us, each number is a contest of giving up and persevering, and every zone change is a battle of falling and standing. Although it is winter, the outdoor temperature is close to 0 degrees Celsius, but under the wrapping of the raincoat and the movement without gaps, our body temperature is constantly rising, I don't know how many degrees, I only remember, along the raincoat, my sweat flowed into my combat boots like rain, and I could hear the "crunch" and "crunch" sound created by the friction between my feet and boots every step I run.
At the beginning of the five-kilometer armed attack, the remaining forty or so of us were actually nothing, but there was no old bird's loudspeaker shouting around them, and they were not used to it, but when they came to the river after the five-kilometer run, they just jumped off the river and prepared to swim in arms, and found a problem. Although our raincoat provided us with a certain amount of buoyancy, but only halfway through the swimming, the cold river began to pour from our cuffs and trouser legs into our raincoats, the temperature difference of more than 40 degrees made my whole body suddenly numb, and then pain, wearing a gas mask, I even felt difficult to breathe.
Several fighters took off their gas masks because their bodies couldn't accept such a huge temperature difference for a while, and took a few sharp breaths to ease their bodies, but then they let out a heart-rending roar, because, once the gas masks were taken off, it meant that they actively chose to give up and were eliminated. There are also those who are still holding on with the last trace of faith, but those whose bodies are obviously overloaded and can no longer be completed, finally floated in the middle of the river that is only tens of meters wide, and were carried away on stretchers by the old birds and ambulance personnel in the back escort team.
But this time, none of us dared to stop and look at them and say goodbye to them, not because we didn't want to, but because the limits of our bodies did not allow it, and all of us did not dare to leave a moment of lingering for our bodies, because we had to use uninterrupted exercise to produce heat, to resist the numbness and pain caused by this huge temperature difference, because we knew that if we stopped, even for a second, we might be lifted on a stretcher, because this is the limit of the body.
At the beginning of the five kilometers of the unarmed rush and the armed swimming, I, Lao Mao, Dunxiang, and Lao Pang have been together, but I have very poor water quality, and when I am armed in the river, although the range of action is very large, and the body creates a certain amount of heat, but the speed is far inferior to any of them. When I got ashore, I fell behind the group, and the three of them, perhaps far past me, or perhaps some of them were also carried on stretchers, and anyway, through the two holes in the gas masks, I did not see them again.
The mountain march is twelve kilometers, in fact, to be honest, this is common in the squadron before me, Lao Huang, that is, the squadron leader took us for additional training, the only difference is that the distance is different from our current situation, so I still have a little confidence, and I can only, and I must think so, I must cheer myself up, let myself temporarily forget the numbness and pain of the body, and use a large amount of exercise to generate calories to resist physical discomfort, but this requires a lot of physical strength, Every large-scale movement is a challenge to the limits of one's body.
After coming out of the river, the weight that would have been more than twenty kilograms would definitely not be less than thirty kilograms at this time, but we could not remove anything except our armbands. Like everyone else, under this physical numbness and pain, under the raincoat and gas mask, we were all battling with the discomfort and the air, so that I couldn't tell whether it was the river or my own sweat that was flowing under the raincoat, I just knew that I couldn't fall.
I ran at the back of the line, and along the way, almost every kilometer or two there were fallen or crumbling fighters, then stretchers, then heart-rending roars, and with a "stab", his armband was about to hang on the camouflage net of the national flag. I'm not reconciled, I'm really unwilling, I've stuck to this point, I can't fall no matter what. I have been silently reciting this sentence in my heart, I must have said it hundreds of times, I finally walked out of this mountain, and then finally saw Lao Mao, Dunxiang, Lao Pang and the three of them.
I shook my head vigorously and pinched myself with my fingernails, hoping to lift myself, and then quickened my pace and ran towards them, the three of them were also shaky, in fact, not much better than me. That's Dunxiang, no matter what time he can feel like he's a joke, that's it, he still wears a gas mask, and he makes a voice that I don't know what it is, "Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm" hiss - why is this tune so familiar? Oh! Isn't this Nima "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions"! That is, he Dai Dunxiang, put others aside, hehe.
Don't look at the short marshland of one kilometer, but in reality the physical strength we consume is likely to be five kilometers or even ten kilometers. From the beginning to the one kilometer down from the swamp, only thirty-seven of us were left out of more than forty people. That feeling is that even lifting a foot feels like a torment.
More than 30 meters of cliffs, if in normal times, we will not have any psychological pressure at all, more than 30 meters, a matter of minutes, but in this will become a barrier that is difficult for us to cross, because in the case of extreme physical exhaustion, let alone climbing with bare hands, even if you are empty and do not bring anything, climbing up is a difficulty and test. Without any safety precautions, it is likely to be a communication with death. And the only thing we have is a rope. We didn't dare to take much rest at the bottom of the cliff, but when we looked at and observed this cliff of only more than 30 meters, we recovered our strength a little and quickly climbed up, in fact, this is also a test of our courage, unfortunately, some people chose to quit.
In addition to the slope of the road, everything else is fine, but under the infinite circle, we really, I don't know how to describe it, anyway, it's very disgusting, like seasickness, at that time I only know the pace of mechanization, bury my head and run forward, I can't run and climb, anyway, what the two eyes can see, that is, the two eye sockets left by the gas mask, see that there is a road and move forward, running and running becomes climbing, but there are also people crawling and crawling on the ground, not moving, I know, we all know, It's so tired, it's my body really reaching its limit, and I'm glad I'm still standing.