During the military academy, no matter what period of time, there is persistent physical training, such as running laps every morning exercise, gradually increasing the amount of training, in the past, it was a constant speed of running for ten laps, now it is necessary to run more than 20 laps, and the speed must be changed in the middle, one will sprint, the other will be at a constant speed.

In the later stage, weight-bearing running was also added, backpacks, water bottles, rice bags, etc.; In order to prevent students from being too boring to train their physical fitness, the school has added interesting sports activities.

Mainly basketball, football, swimming, etc., basketball has always been the strength of the Whampoa Military Academy, and in the competition with other universities on weekdays, it is basically a sweep of the opponent, and there are several national players in the school team.

Note: Later, in 1936, several people represented the national basketball team in the German Olympic Games; At that time, Wang Shixuan (9th phase), Guo Zhen, and Bao Wenpei (10th phase) of the Chinese basketball team attending the Olympic Games were all Whampoa Military Academy cadets.

Football in military schools is also very powerful, but at that time, football was not carried out much, and many people did not know the specific rules, but these big ball sports were very good training for physical fitness.

Sangou is not good at basketball and football, mainly because he has rarely been in contact with it before, and now he is learning and selling, at most he is also a substitute, running a few times on the court and grabbing a few times, but he has never been able to grasp the essentials, so he is naturally not interested.

It's swimming, Sangou likes it very much, and it's also very good at it, and the school doesn't like football and basketball for swimming, and it's completely up to the students' interest to participate.

There are requirements for swimming, all students must learn the most basic swimming, foot students, but also armed swimming, single person carrying equipment, reduce swimming noise to successfully cross the river.

The school was equipped with an indoor swimming pool, which was the most advanced in the country at that time; also invited a special swimming instructor, who was Shi Xinglong, a famous swimmer who crossed the Yangtze River.

The three dogs can plan, dive, turn their bellies, and lie on the water, which are all non-standard child's play in the eyes of Instructor Shi, and they are non-committal.

Instructor Shi taught everyone the most basic freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly, backstroke, etc., which opened Sangou's eyes and realized that there are still so many famous places in swimming.

However, Sangou has the foundation to be interested, and he learns quickly, and he quickly mastered these technical essentials. As for the minimum requirement of the school, each person has to swim 100 meters, which is not a problem for Sangou.

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Time flies quickly in a tense and busy rhythm, Sangou has been in the military academy for more than two months, and it is the New Year's Day of the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1935) in a blink of an eye.

The second trimester of the military academy was gun training, and each of the three dogs received a German 1898 rifle, each gun had a unique number, and the school regulations required that the individual gun number be memorized.

After everyone got this kind of rifle that was the most advanced in the world at that time, they felt different, like Qin Yuanshan, Deng Bingchun, Du Bingwen, and other people who guarded the army's moral armament division, and they didn't feel anything, because they usually used such weapons.

Rich and high-tech soldiers like Cheng Shijie and Cao Zeyuan feel that such weapons are very commonplace, and they usually don't look at them very much.

For Tang Chengliang, Sun Liechao, Zhang Chengxun, Zhang Chengyi, Pan Yulin, Zhao Mingjun, and Wei Yuncheng, even though they are people from the half-descendant army, they also feel that this gun is very useful, because not all of their troops can be equipped with such guns, and there are also many miscellaneous guns and ammunition.

People from the local rich army like Duan Qianli, Xiong Zude, Wei Zhiyong, Li Zixiong, and Ruan Yuanying, even if they think that such guns are easy to use, they will not be very envious, they have seen a lot.

But for Hong Dabiao, Xiong Baikui, Yan Shizhang, Li Yancheng, Jiang Decheng, Zhang Zongwei, Cheng Ruidong, Zhang Xinkang, Fu Lianhu, Hao Guanying, etc., all of whom belong to the poor and bare-ass miscellaneous troops, receiving such an advanced weapon, it feels like asking Hanako to pick up a treasure, turning over and over, playing with a gun non-stop.

And Sangou took the gun very ignorantly, what a good gun is a bad gun, his eyes are black, he doesn't understand anything, he doesn't know anything, and he can't name any of the parts on the gun.

I probably only know that when I was a child, I saw birds used by adults for hunting, and I seem to have heard of gun barrels and wrenches (triggers), but I really don't know anything else.

Except for Fu Lianhu and Hao Guanying in the same army, how did others know that he was a fake officer, seeing that he was so calm, he thought that Sangou was an expert who had seen a lot of guns.

This is the first time in Sangou's life that he has touched the gun, and since then, whether Sangou agrees or not, this gun is like an extra organ growing out of Sangou's body, and it is almost inseparable for most of his life until he dies......

Firearms instructor Li Zhenxiong briefly explained this kind of rifle, the German-made 1898 rifle, the rear-loading rifle of the rotary locking bolt designed by the German Mauser (AER), weighing 39kg (kg), length: 11 (m), bullet size: caliber 792 (mm), cartridge case length 57 (mm), generally called 79 bullets, ammunition feeding method: 5 rounds built-in magazine, muzzle velocity: 755 / s (m / s), ruler range: 2000 (m), effective range: 800 (m).

Author's note: In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), the state purchased a batch of rifles of this type, and the Mauser Company sent drawings to manufacture the Zhongzheng rifle based on the standard rifle in the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935). The Zhongzheng rifle was the first standard rifle in China, and became the main rifle of the Chinese army during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression together with the Hanyang rifle (Type 1888 rifle). Both were 792 calibers, which at that time were commonly known as 79 rifles.

The Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle that was heavily equipped before was an imitation of the German-made Mauser Type 1888 rifle, which was mainly produced by the Hubei Hanyang Arsenal, so it is generally called Hanyang-made. At the same time, because the German-made 1888 rifle imported in the early stage used a full-length barrel sleeve, and the domestic imitation in the early stage also used a full-length barrel sleeve, so its early gun type is also called the "old sleeve".

In 1904, the Hanyang Arsenal improved this gun by removing the sleeve of the barrel and replacing it with an upper handguard and a bayonet court under the front guard.

However, the 1888 type still has problems such as difficulty in loading and unloading, poor reliability of the shell, and easy to blow up the chamber, and the 1898 type used now is much better; Therefore, those veterans naturally like it.

"As a soldier, the gun is your second life, and you must be familiar with and maintain your second life, otherwise, on the battlefield, you will not have so many lives to die."

While emphasizing the importance of the gun, Instructor Li skillfully took out the disassembly tool in the butt, disassembled all the parts of a rifle, put it on the table, and explained it one by one.

The barrel, butt, bayonet, etc. are relatively simple, and the three dogs can see and understand, but what kind of receivers, bolts, safety buttons, firing pin springs, firing pins, bolt shoots and springs, throwing shells, blocking pins and trigger shafts, magazines and trigger retainers, and support springs...... There are more than 30 parts, and the three dogs are only dazzled and confused.

Most of those veterans are idiots who love guns like their lives, and they often dismantle their guns and wipe them, but how can they be as professional and skilled as firearms instructors, and they can't help but listen to the lectures attentively.

The instructor used a bristle brush to wipe the oil of the oil can, wiped each part one by one, explained the function of each part, and finally installed it one by one, completing the teaching process of dismantling the gun, wiping the gun and loading the gun.

The homework after class is to require everyone to be proficient in memorizing and disassembling all parts of the gun, and to wipe the gun once a day; The final assessment is to disassemble and assemble the gun within two minutes blindfolded.

Sangou touched the gun for the first time, looking at the group of gun masters around him, the pressure was very great, for fear that he would not be able to pass the final assessment, so he had to disassemble and ponder as soon as he was free, and those who forgot to sleep and eat were about to become crazy.

(End of chapter)