It's a fatal choice.

However, no one knew about the third class of the 1st Squadron at that time.

The path narrows and narrows as you walk along the open, gravel-covered mountain road, and after a kilometre the original road disappears completely, replaced by dense bushes and primeval jungle.

But even so, no one in Class 3 questioned it.

In military choices, one mistake is always superimposed on another, and in the end it will cause irreparable losses.

In the wild, the most terrible thing is the impact of the environment on people, so if you want to survive the harsh conditions in the wild, then you must have strong willpower.

Once the willpower is lost, people will produce various negative emotions due to the influence of harsh environmental conditions and a large amount of physical exertion, and the brain will become sluggish, and even hallucinations, leading to errors in judgment.

In the same way that people who survive in the desert often hallucinate due to extreme thirst, and then see a mirage, step by step towards death.

At that time, the third class had already made the wrong choice under the siege of exhaustion, hunger and thirst, and they chose to continue on the road.

This has indeed happened in the past few days. Often, the route marked on the map is on the right track, but there is a dense bush and jungle in front of you, and when you cross it in the right direction, you will find another open world in front of you.

Therefore, all the students thought that as long as they walked through this dense forest, they might be able to find the right path behind.

But this time, no one guessed the ending.

Shrubs and dense forests seemed to be boundless in the way of the third class, which made Xu Yuan, the leader of the team, have to take turns to open the way in front of the team.

Cutting down shrubs to open up pathways requires more than twice as much physical effort as normal.

Everyone's body is like a sponge that has been squeezed to the limit, and the water turns into sweat, oozing out of the pores with a bang.

In the summer, the air in the bushes was very hot, everyone was bent over, and the bark crumbs fell into the collar and burrowed into the body, and then the sweat stuck to it, and it was unbearable.

There is less and less water, and people are getting closer and closer to the brink of collapse.

There is no doubt that if the road is still so difficult, if there is still no water source, the whole class will be dragged down.

I don't know how far I've walked, and finally someone can't help but ask whether this is the way to go

Xu Yuanfu, who was already riding a tiger, was already a little irritable at the moment, and yelled at the students who questioned: "If you don't want to follow, go by yourself, there is only one way here, you have a kind of go to find another way to see!" ”

The crowd was silent again......

The team moved on......

This is a wrestling of wills, and as long as the spirit is relaxed a little, the will of man will completely collapse.

The sweat soaked the clothes, and everyone looked at the sweat dripping from the corners of the clothes, and wanted to catch and drink it with their hands more than once.

Liu Xiangdong walked at the back of the line, his kettle and the last bit of water, less than one.

So thirsty......

He unscrewed the lid of the kettle, first moistened his mouth, and a feeling of incomparably sweet and sweet penetrated his internal organs, he couldn't help it, and drank all the water in one gulp.

"Water! Water! ”

The trainees in front suddenly shouted excitedly.

This sound like a heavenly sound came, and the students went crazy, and the people who were originally listless and dragging behind all rushed to the front like arrows, and some people tripped over the vines, got up and rushed up with rolling belts.

This is a spring on the side of a mountain, and although the water coming out is not large, it has washed out a small mountain pool under the rocks over the years, two or three meters wide and more than one meter deep.

Everyone threw away their equipment, jumped into the pool, poured their heads with water over and over again, buried their heads in the water, and did not raise their heads until they could no longer hold back.

Water, the source of life.

The third class, which had rested by the spring, was once again in good spirits, and everyone forgot the question of whether this road was the correct route for marching.

People are often like this, when they taste the sweetness, they will easily ignore the most important issues.

When it was time to set off again, no one except Liu Xiangdong thought it was a wrong route.

After advancing another kilometer or so, a cliff blocked the way of the third class.

On the correct route on the map, there is no marker that such a feature will appear.

Everyone finally remembered to do the map positioning again. This time, everyone finally unanimously realized that the surrounding terrain was completely inconsistent with the terrain on the correct marching route!

By this time, they had deviated from the correct route by a full ten kilometers.

Everyone panicked, and once again gathered around and spread out the military map for careful backtracking and inspection.

Only then did they realize that everything had gone wrong from the time they had entered the valley, the stone paved road.

The road was not a road at all, but the gravel of the mountains on both sides that had been washed down by the rain for many years.

In the direction judgment and choice of path, there was only one Liu Xiangdong in the whole class who they didn't pay attention to, and pointed out the correct answer.

The mistake began at the mouth of the valley with the wide road, and the correct route was to cross an inconspicuous contour line at a 30-degree northeast angle on the right, passing over the bushy and thatched slopes that did not look like roads......

Topography is like this, the difference is a millimeter, and the error is a thousand miles.

At this time, the students were completely speechless, Xu Yuan and Chen Bin squatted on the edge of the map and looked at each other, and no one could come up with an idea of what to do.

They are faced with a dilemma – go back or move on

There was another dispute in the ranks, and most of them supported Xu Yuan and Chen Bin's proposal, completely abandoning the original route of marching, and after lowering people from the slope next to the cliff with a backpack strap of more than ten meters, they chose another shortcut to march to the assembly point.

The reason is that if you start from the current fixed location, you will only be able to take a shortcut to the meeting point.

A small number of people supported Liu's proposal. Turn back the way you came, pass through the waterhole to replenish drinking water, then return to the junction of the valley where the mistake was made, and then follow the original correct march route to the rendezvous point, 10 km from the current position back to the valley junction, 20 km from the valley junction to the rendezvous point, a total of 30 km.

On one side is 10 kilometers of shortcuts, and on the other side is 30 kilometers of starting again.

Those who support Chen Bin and Xu Yuan are in the majority.

"You can't customize your own route, you forgot what the instructor said, don't cut corners! Look! ”

Liu Xiangdong hurriedly spread out the map, pointed to the route proposed by Xu Yuan and Chen Bin, and said: "Although the distance will be shortened to the north from here, you have to cross three mountains to reach the meeting point, two of which are above 600 meters above sea level, and one of them may have a cliff, you see this contour line......

He pointed to a mountain on the map, which Xu Yuan and Chen Bin had to pass through according to their route, but the contour line on the north side of that mountain was quite dense, which meant that the slope was quite large, and it looked like a cliff!

Xu Yuan said disapprovingly: "If we turn back from here, we have to walk 30 kilometers, the distance is three times that of taking a shortcut, go this way, we must be the last class to arrive at the meeting place, not to mention how others laugh at us, our own results must be ranked last in the whole team, you are willing to be the first to the bottom of your grades, I can't, I still say the same thing, those who don't want to go turn back, those who are willing to follow me and Chen Bin!" ”

Liu Xiangdong's position was once again opposed to that of Xu Yuan and Chen Bin, and more than a dozen students stood in place and looked at each other for a long time......

Chen Bin said, "I agree with Xu Yuan's statement, we have just replenished the water, as long as there is water, we can break through!" ”

Xu Yuan stopped talking, tightened the gun on his backpack and said, "Go!" ”

Chen Bin followed.

The best trained cadets in the two classes took the lead, and the others finally wavered.

Then one cadet, two cadets, three, four......

Liu Xiangdong looked at their figures gradually moving away, sighed deeply, and slowly followed.

Two and a half hours later......

On the ridge, the ten students in the third class holding the mountain opening knife couldn't accept the fact in front of them - they worked hard and hard to finally climb over the three mountains blocking the front, but found that the last mountain was really as Liu Xiangdong said, the north side of the mountain was a huge cliff!

Now, although it is only 5 kilometers from the meeting point of the brigade - this is the distance shown on the map.

However, everyone looked at the smooth and vertical cliffs, and the dense bushes that grew below, and knew that there was no way for them to descend from such a high place to the bottom of the valley.

Chen Bin held the firewood knife, the surface of the knife was stained with some plant green juice, his wrist was a little hot, the muscles of his elbow trembled slightly, in the past few hours, they had cut down countless trees and vines in front of them, he encouraged everyone again and again, at this speed, we will soon reach the assembly point of the brigade!

But this time, he couldn't give everyone any more words of encouragement, everyone was a pre-promotion squad leader, and in the face of such a smooth cliff, without a professional rappelling line and tools, the possibility of success was almost zero.

The cadets sent to scout the terrain on both sides brought back the dismal news that the mountain had not been crossed for an unknown amount of time, and that the trees and shrubs had grown wildly into a natural barrier, and there was not even a single path.

If you have to go down from both sides, I'm afraid it's easy to get into an accident.

There is only one way, turn back!

Xu Yuan subconsciously touched his kettle. The portion is very light, and there is only more than 10% of water in it. From the first time I misjudged at the mouth of the valley to the decision to take a shortcut to the brigade assembly point, the entire third class has advanced about 15 kilometers on the wrong route.

They had completed this difficult journey with more endurance than ordinary people, and after nearly ten hours of continuous forced marching from morning to now, the will of all had reached the point of complete collapse.

From the moment they decided to take a shortcut, they had no way out, and everyone was like Xiang Yu who was in a wrecked boat, they kept cutting down the trees and vines that crossed the mountains along the way forward, kept climbing over some steep and huge rocks, and kept telling themselves that the meeting point was not far away, and cheering themselves up.

But the reality is always cruel, and military training without gunpowder is just as ruthless, and the heavens played a huge joke with them - they ventured over two mountains, only to find that they had taken a desperate path that could no longer be advanced!