Instructors trained recruits in the use of anything from burning sticks to daggers to rifles to sniper rifles to bazookas.

Wang Hao also systematically learned what kind of damage modern weapons can cause, and how to achieve that degree of destruction.

And how to use and maintain the infantry's equipment: small nuclear bombs, infantry rockets, as well as various protective equipment, arson equipment and storming equipment.

There are other weapons and equipment that are not expected to be displayed here.

At the same time, Wang Hao also learned how to use many "obsolete weapons", such as loading a bayonet on a gun, or holding a military dagger, and engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

It is worth mentioning that the rifle used for simulated training is loaded with empty cartridges, but is randomly loaded with one real bullet for every 500 bullets.

Is it dangerous to do so?

Yes and no.

As long as you live, you are in danger......

Unless it happens to hit the head and lifts the entire skull up, directly causing brain death. Otherwise, with the current level of science and technology, as long as the treatment is timely, a bullet will not kill an infantry soldier at all.

No matter where it hits.

The real purpose of 500 plus one real bullet is to keep us looking for cover, especially when we know that several of the guns are in charge of instructors who claim to be marksmen, and that they will do everything they can to hit you.

Think about it, if this bullet just wasn't an empty cartridge......

Although the instructors repeatedly assured us that they would not deliberately aim for the head, accidents would happen.

This well-intentioned assurances were not very reassuring, and the real bullet turned the monotonous practice into a tense Russian roulette.

In particular, the rifle uses a 7.62mm bullet, which is a supersonic bullet.

Before hearing the sound of the rifle shooting, a metal block "boom~" passed by the ear, and then a piece of land exploded not far away.

In other words, you can hear three sounds, the sound of a bullet breaking through the air, the sound of a bullet entering the ground, and finally the sound of the gunman's position. It is clear that only the last voice is useful for yourself.

It is not an easy task to accurately distinguish these three voices and accurately hear the position of the gunner on the distracting training ground.

This feeling drives away your boredom all at once.

However, because there have been no safety problems all along, the recruits have not done their best in training at all, and eventually they have unconsciously relaxed, and the training effect is very poor.

So the chance of a real bullet becomes 1 in 200.

If we don't speed up, the chance of a real bullet appearing will become one in a hundred......

If that still doesn't work, one in fifty.

Wang Hao didn't know if such a change had really been made, it was impossible for ordinary soldiers to know, and the instructor would not tell the recruits.

But in the end, everyone got nervous again, because there was a young man in another company who had been hit by a real bullet in the ass.

When the bullet entered the human body, it was not a small hole, but it exploded through the flesh, creating a large and frightening hole.

Although he was eventually rescued, and he was also successfully healed, and returned to the training ground without any problems. But the scene of him being shot at that time still stimulated many people and rekindled everyone's desire to find cover.

The purpose of this series of training is to teach recruits to use any weapon and to survive on the battlefield as much as possible.

Systematic learning allowed Wang Hao to learn to be agile, vigilant, and always ready to deal with everything on the battlefield.

You know, on the battlefield, the overwhelming majority of people's reactions are: "Who am I?" Where am I? Who hit me! Where's the fight? I'm down! Pull me up! I'm cold! ”

This training really paid off.

Two weeks after arriving there, the instructors took away everyone's marching beds.

But when the time comes, it doesn't really matter whether there is a bed or not for the recruits.

The ground is warmer and softer than the bed, especially when the emergency assembly horn blows in the middle of the night, and the recruits crawl out to practice with rolling belts, the bed formed by the ground is really warm and soft, making people reluctant to get up.

The night meeting is about three or four times a week.

Recruits learned to sleep at any time and on any occasion, sitting and standing, and sleeping on the march.

At Camp Cowley, everyone made a major discovery: happiness is made of adequate sleep.

It's as simple as that, no more requirements.

"The melancholy rich have to rely on sleeping pills to get to sleep, and the motorized infantry doesn't need it at all."

Give the soldier a bunker and allow him to sleep in it, and he will be as happy as a worm arching into an apple—a snort.

For the soldiers, this is what they dream of.

After all this is said, one may feel that the training of the boot camp is too hard and unnecessary.

However, this feeling is wrong.

It is deliberately designed to be as strenuous as possible.

Every recruit decided that all this was unnecessary, that it was purely torture for the amusement of others, a calculated abuse, a trick of stupid imbeciles who took pleasure in the suffering of others.

It is not.

It's designed to be so meticulous, so intelligent, so efficient, that it can't be just to satisfy perverted cruelty.

It is designed to be an icy surgery that is as impersonal as the surgeon.

When selecting instructors, psychological warfare officers look for skilled and dedicated craftsmen whose skills are demonstrated to create the toughest possible environment for recruits.

That's what boot camps are all about: surgery.

Its immediate goal is to weed, to get out of the ranks those who are too weak and childish to ever become a motorized infantryman.

It's like a surgeon using a scalpel in his hand to precisely cut off the dead tissue cells of the human body.

It served its purpose.

In the first six weeks, Wang Hao's company was reduced to a platoon.

Some left without a bad record, and if they wished, they could complete their service in other non-combat units.

Still others have been forced to leave the military because of poor behavior, poor performance, or physical discomfort.

However, the most important thing is not to lose weight for the troops, save the government's training funds, and not waste money on recruits who are doomed to be eliminated.

The main purpose of the entire recruit training is to ensure that each motorized infantryman is as prepared as possible before sitting in the projection capsule and preparing for airlifting, and is qualified, determined, disciplined, and skilled.

If he's not ready, it's unfair to the Federation, but it's clearly even more unfair to his teammates.

But is it necessary to make the boot camp so miserable?

On this question, Wang Hao can only say this:

The next time I had to fight the enemy, I wanted my comrades to graduate from Camp Cowley or its equivalent in Siberia.

Otherwise, I refuse to sit in the landing module.