67. Chapter 67 (1) A New Challenge

The new training is still being carried out simultaneously at the two bases in the south and north, and is divided into two training brigades, A and B. Almost all of the students who came to the Northeast were the winners of the recent assessments, and they were Team A, with a total of 360 members.

As soon as they got off the train, the biting cold wind instantly penetrated the thin clothes of Yi Fei and Liang Qing, but fortunately, there were pick-up personnel, and after several hours of turbulence, they came to a guest house of the local garrison.

When he was still on the train, Liang Qing put the black yarn on his arm on the sleeve of his shirt inside, and repeatedly told him not to tell others, nor did he not understand very much, but he couldn't resist Liang Qing, so he had to reluctantly agree.

By the last day of the month, everyone had arrived.

As soon as Xiaoyan arrived at the station, she found the bedroom where Liang Qing lived, and saw that there was an empty bed in a room for four people, so she immediately moved over, pulled Liang Qing and talked endlessly, and while talking, she turned out the specialties of her hometown, and the big bags were piled up at the head of Liang Qing's bed.

But even Xiaoyan, who was very arrogant, found that Liang Qing's words seemed to be much less, and when he was fine, he always sat quietly alone in a daze, and he lost a lot of weight, and his mental state was not as good as before.

The group of trainees who came here were selected from the two training bases in the southwest and northwest through the evaluation of the team members in the previous two months, combined with the comprehensive inspection of the instructors. Of the 360 team members, almost every student is the top trainer of the original training team, and they are also very familiar with each other, so they naturally mingle together. However, there are very few female cadets, and there are now only 24 female soldiers left out of the original nearly 600 female soldiers.

There was no time to rest, and after all the personnel had arrived, the instructor left behind at the reception immediately announced the first training subject.

The content of the training is a five-day field survival training that requires 500 kilometers of equipment with a weight of 30 kilograms. Leaving on time at noon today, each person was only allowed to bring two days' worth of food and a jug of water, as well as a map of the coordinates to the training base, and a flare gun for distress.

Different from the previous training, this time there was no collective action, and it was completely individual to set off, and the military watch was uniformly distributed as the countdown timer at the time of departure, a total of 120 hours in five days, and they were given a time limit of 125 hours. That is, to arrive at the training base before six o'clock in the evening of the fifth day. At the time of departure, the instructor here is responsible for reading the meter and recording it, and after summarizing, it will be sent to the base, and the actual time calculated after arrival is consistent with the timed time on the table.

Trainees who arrive at the training base within the specified time will be classified as the first training team, and those who do not arrive at the specified time will be classified as the second training team. All the trainees start the next stage of training content in a unified manner, and the trainees continue to self-select every day, each month is an assessment rotation cycle, and the last 20 of the first echelon are reduced to the second echelon, and the top 20 of the second echelon enter the first echelon.

After announcing some precautions for snow marching and the basic elements of survival in the snow wilderness, the instructor answered the more typical questions raised by the trainees in a unified manner, and then, seeing that there were no more questions or objections raised by the trainees, they announced that they had prepared the necessary application things, and a new training cycle officially began at one o'clock in the afternoon.

The instructor just announced the disbandment, and all the students immediately dispersed, and everyone had only one common belief, and they could bring a little more and a lot of them, and the ghost knew what trouble they would encounter on the road.

When the stipulated time came, all the trainees were taken to several military trucks in batches with their own equipment and snowflakes falling on their heads, and the rest of their personal belongings were kept and sent to the training base. Subsequently, the military vehicle drove out of the compound of the guest house and headed in different directions along the predetermined route.

As soon as they got on the bus, the instructors waiting inside began to check the names and the number of personnel. Immediately after the check, they were put in a pitch-black hood and forbidden to speak or communicate. I don't know how far to drive, the instructor began to roll call, and each student who was pointed was put on a multi-functional military watch on his wrist, and the instructor told the student that the timer had started, and then the student was rudely thrown under the car, along with his own equipment.

The car drove haphazardly along the rugged mountain road, leaving a cadet behind every five or six hundred meters.

These few hundred meters on the plain are just a bus stop away, but here is a white primeval forest, a pure, white world of ice and snow.

Nor was it the hard ground that was frozen when he was thrown down from the car, and he finally got up and took off his hood, a cold wind accompanied by snowflakes made him shiver, he looked up, snowflakes were flying all over the sky, and the world was in chaos.

The mountains in the distance and the woods in the vicinity seem to blend together, and the white expanse is intertwined with each other and cannot distinguish a clear boundary.

Yi Fei took the equipment backpack on the side and tidied it up, dug three holes in the hood with a dagger and put it back on, revealing only his eyes and mouth, and then put on his helmet and goggles. With that done, he checked the compass on his watch to orient himself, studied the map carefully, and walked forward with his backpack deep and shallow.

The roads marked on the map are not so much roads as sheep intestine trails, most of which are traces stepped on by medicine farmers who went up the mountain to collect medicine and some hunters who hunted, and the deeper you go, the more difficult it is to discern.

The snow was knee-thick, and every step was a struggle. Nor did he chop a wooden stick and staggered forward while exploring the way.

After walking for half a day and a night, I did not reach the vicinity of a river marked on the map.

The sky has been darkened, but the snow still has no intention of stopping, and the wind is getting stronger and stronger, Yifei's mask has formed a layer of frost, from getting off the car to now, it has been nearly twenty hours, he has only walked more than forty kilometers, but it has taken a lot of physical strength, looking at the boundless snowy forest, he can't help but scold: "Damn, it's spring, why is it still snowing so much." Finally reaching the top of the nearest hill, he found a leeward place and sat down, trying to breathe a sigh of relief before walking.

500 kilometers in five days means walking at least 100 kilometers a day, and it is not a set of four to five hours of rest a day and six to seven kilometers per hour, which is not a problem at all in the plains, even in the rainforests of the south. But in this ghost place, every step has to exert the strength of feeding, although there have been snow training before, but they have never seen such a large snow, and the snow in the south will melt even in winter, unless it is a high altitude of the mountain will have a long year of snow, here the geographical conditions are a severe physical and mental test for them.

A gust of wind blew, and he suddenly felt cold and piercing, in the process of climbing just now, the close-fitting clothes were soaked with sweat, and he didn't feel anything along the way, but he just rested for a while, and he didn't feel that the underwear inside had been frozen and stiff, and he immediately thought of when he was at home, in winter, some people were cold on the rope on the street after washing their clothes, and they were frozen hard after a while, like armor. Yifei hurriedly moved, picked up his backpack and walked down the mountain.

The fast-beating countdown seconds hand on his wrist watch, like a gong and drum, annoyed him every time he looked at it, and then he simply wrapped his wrist around it with a towel, not looking at it, and only adjusted his orientation with the north pointing north to the map when necessary.

Hungry, he took out the food he was carrying several times, looked at it a few times, gritted his teeth and put it back, he didn't know what else would happen to him later.

Fortunately, there are abundant resources here, especially not worried about the lack of water, when he is thirsty, he grabs a handful of snow and stuffs it into his mouth, and occasionally sees the traces of squirrels and some hares that come out to feed, and he catches a hare and two squirrels without much difficulty, and carries them to the backpack behind him together, and saves them for later when he rests.