Chapter 7 The Boring Life of Military Training
"Take a break, stand upright, look to the right... Qi, forward... See. "At half past two in the afternoon, when the sun was at its hottest, we started training. The beginning of the training is to stand in a military position.
"Third place in the second column." The instructor shouted the first time, but no one answered.
"Third place in the second column." The instructor raised his voice and shouted again.
Only then did he "sigh".
"Called by name and answered."
"Third place in the second column." The instructor called again.
"To"
"Tell me about the essentials of military posture."
"I don't know." The answer was crisp.
"Push-up preparation, twenty. Did anyone know? No one responded. At that time, the instructor only said it once, and most people didn't listen carefully, and it was really difficult to repeat it.
"All of them, push-ups ready. One order, one move. "This was the first time we were punished as a whole, and then it became commonplace.
"One......... Two......... The .........instructor counted very slowly, and these twenty push-ups seemed to take us through a century. "Let you increase your memory this time, and it won't be so easy next time." The tone was like a threat, and it was like a command. Then the instructor repeated the essentials of the military posture again, and this time everyone listened attentively. In the process of standing in the military posture, the instructor gave us the content of the training. "There are a lot of queue trainings, and we mainly practice standing upright, straddle standing, taking a break, turning and running in alignment." My head grew big when I heard this, is this military training so boring? "Oh yes, and sit down and stand up." The instructor added.
Standing on the playground against the sun, his heart is no longer here, and his eyes are wandering around. I will never forget the several encounters with that girl, and I always wanted to meet her again, so I searched for her on the playground, but so many classes were on the playground and I couldn't find her. I thought I wouldn't see her during the military training, but I saw her when I went to the toilet halfway, so I made a note of the location of their class, and I would stare at that direction for the subsequent training. It may be God's favor that I found a trace of fun in the boring military training.
Now the military training routine is the same as in class, with a 10-minute break for 45 minutes and a 20-minute break for every two classes. After the break, we started to practice walking in unison.
"First of all, we will practice swinging our arms, holding a hollow fist with our four fingers together, the thumb on the second joint of the index finger, and the back of the hand should be flat." The instructor demonstrated while speaking, "Swing the front to the belt, swing the back thirty centimeters, straighten the elbow joint, don't bend, and experience it yourself." "Everyone has their own experience, and this is also a rare time to rest, so they don't pay much attention.
"Swing your arms in unison, one move, one move, one."
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"One order, three moves, one."
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The training in our class is always slower than others, the instructor doesn't care, and we don't care. The next day, we started the comprehensive practice of walking in unison, and the instructor couldn't stand it, so the push-ups began again. During the entire military training period, the instructor had no other punishment items, only all kinds of fancy push-ups, five-finger push-ups, heart-shaped push-ups, fist push-ups, and everything. There are only push-ups that you can't think of, and there is nothing he can't do.
During the break, the instructor had a whim, "That fat man, go find me a stick." "Because Tang Yalong is very tall, the instructor lets him go every time he has something. After a while, Tang Yalong came back with a very thin dead branch, and the instructor took it with a blank look and slapped him on the ass. The branches broke immediately.
"Look for it again, I'm going to beat you up and keep beating it." Tang Yalong went to look for it slowly. "Hurry up." He smashed half of the branch in his hand. Then he said to everyone, "Isn't this a little difficult?" "Hahaha." Succeeded in making everyone laugh.
Although military training is boring, it also has so much fun. Maybe it's the so-called joy in suffering. In the next few days, we mainly practiced the three major steps, and some people even succeeded in leading the instructor off track with the same hands and feet.