Chapter 16: The Application of the Teaching Eye
These people are all veterans, and they all come from poor families. Logically speaking, fifty kilometers is nothing to them, but this time they are a bit pressed for time, and fifty kilometers of mountain road is not easy to walk on, after all, it is a mountain road!
This is different from the five-kilometer or ten-kilometer cross-country training in later generations. Even if there are hills and slopes in those cross-country trainings, the environment will not be too bad. But where is this?
In northwest Shanxi, can the Eighth Route Army occupy the plains? It can only be in the mountains. After climbing over this hill, there is another hill waiting for you.
Therefore, Chen Xiao could only run back and forth, left and right, reminding them how to run and how to save their energy as much as possible, since he was very strong anyway.
Of course, he is not very good at running. Although he is twice as strong as an average person and more agile than an average person, this is just because he has good physical fitness, not that his skills are better than others.
But who knows how he got a new skill, the teaching eye.
"The teaching scan has begun. Thirty-eight students are undergoing a long-distance forced march training, with the target being Zhangzhuang. The scan results show that all students have failed.
First, there is no outpost in front of the marching team, so if they encounter the enemy, they may fall into an enemy ambush.
Second, students suffer from long-term nutritional deficiencies, lack of physical fitness, and disordered breathing rhythms. Even if they manage to reach their destination, they will fall into danger due to lack of physical fitness.
Please correct me, teacher!
The corrective measures are as follows:
First, the team’s outpost should advance at least three to five kilometers, so that when encountering an enemy, the team will have enough time to react after giving a timely warning.
Second, it is not enough to breathe only through the nose during a long-distance forced march, as you cannot get enough oxygen. But you cannot breathe with your mouth wide open either. Breathing through the nose and breathing through the mouth give people different feelings. Long-term mouth breathing may also cause hypoxia, so it is recommended to breathe through both the nose and mouth.
The breathing rhythm must also be controlled, two steps for one exhalation and two steps for one inhalation, and it should not be changed, and it cannot be changed. If the rhythm is changed, the rhythm will be disrupted. If the rhythm is disrupted, the human body cannot better allocate physical energy, and it will not be able to persist in the entire march process..."
So Chen Xiao ran back and forth and yelled at the people in the team:
"Liu Qiang, as a veteran soldier, don't you know that we should set out outposts when marching?
What? You were just a squad leader before, and you didn't pay attention to it because you didn't make any arrangements?
Is this a reason?
Execute it now! "
Then Liu Qiang went to make arrangements with a look of grievance on his face.
"Fang Dafu, as a veteran, your breathing rhythm is not up to standard during a long-distance forced march. How do you train normally? Listen to my command, breathe out every two steps... breathe in every two steps..."
"The last one, let me talk about you... Tang Fu... You're starting to feel dizzy! It's only 18 kilometers, and there are still more than 30 kilometers to go! It's normal to feel dizzy, because you're reluctant to exhale loudly. You haven't even exhaled the old air in your lungs, so how can you breathe in fresh air? Listen, exhale loudly, exhale all the waste air in your lungs, and then you won't feel dizzy when you run..."
"Shuangxi, don't take too big or too small steps! Follow the rhythm of everyone's steps, keep up with your breathing, and lean forward a little. You are going up a mountain, do you want to fall backwards? You are like this after only 20 kilometers. How are you going to fight in the future?"
"My school is a scout school. What is a scout? A scout is someone who finds out the enemy's situation and then reports back as quickly as possible. You can't even run 50 kilometers, so how can you be a scout and pass the information back to the main force?
These fifty kilometers are your first lesson since you came to school, and also the most important lesson. If you can't even endure this first lesson, tell me and I will return you to Captain Li and tell him that his soldiers are no good and are cowards who can't even run a forced march!
Tell me, there are still 15 kilometers left, can you still hold on? "
"Yes..." This answer has been heard countless times along the way, but this time, the voice was not so loud, and it seemed that it had reached its limit.
We walked forty-five kilometers in eight hours, which may not seem like much, but it was a long way over mountains and hills, so we did a good job.
Even in later times, a daily march of more than 50 kilometers can be considered a forced march. Of course, at the current speed, it is only 6 kilometers per hour. If marching on flat ground, it is only slightly faster than an ordinary march and cannot be considered a forced march. But this is the mountainous area in northwest Shanxi. With this speed and exceeding 40 kilometers, it can indeed be considered a long-distance forced march.
It is already very good for these students to have such a speed now, but Chen Xiao is fortunate that he picked out all the new recruits, otherwise, it would be impossible to run such a distance in eight hours.
The Teaching Eye is really powerful. It allows Chen Xiao to see which students have shortcomings in the training process and make suggestions for corrections. However, the display will only be within the distance that Chen Xiao can see.
Finally, seeing that the students were almost at their limit and estimated that they were less than three kilometers away, Chen Xiao ordered: "Everyone, take a two-hour break here to rest. We will go to the village to buy food later. We must not lose the prestige of our Scout School and the Eighth Route Army soldiers!"
At this order, the entire team's formation immediately became chaotic. Fortunately, they were all veterans and they all knew that they could not lie down or sit down immediately after stopping after a forced march. They moved slowly in the same place for more than ten minutes before they dared to sit down.
After Liu Qiang arranged the sentries in front and behind, he approached Chen Xiao and asked, "Teacher, are you really just entering the village to buy food?"
Chen Xiao said disdainfully: "I only ran 47 or 48 kilometers and it's like this. What's wrong? Do you think I don't look like someone who buys food?"
Liu Qiang chuckled and said, "Not likely! There is only one family in Zhang Village that has food, and that family is Zhang Renyi, the chairman of the Japanese maintenance association. He has surplus food at home. If you go to him to buy food, will he give it to you?
Besides, would you honestly use your money to buy food from a traitor like this?
I do not believe!"
This is a problem. Apart from other things, even entering the village will cause trouble. This is not a TV show. It is impossible to walk into the village and go to the home of the maintenance chairman and say, "Hello! I am from the Eighth Route Army and I want to buy your food!"
Do you think all the guns in other people’s homes are vegetarian?
That’s right!
In those days, a local rich man had a dozen guns, not to mention the chairman of the maintenance association who was a lackey of the Japanese. If he didn't have twenty or thirty guns under his command, he would be embarrassed to be the king of the countryside. The bandits alone could wipe out your family.
However, these people only have thirteen guns in their hands. Except for Chen Xiao, the others have no more than ten bullets. Even with these few weapons, they can't pose any threat to others!
Liu Qiang was puzzled and still couldn't understand what Chen Xiao wanted to do.
However, thinking of Chen Xiao's request for the team to rest for two hours, he looked at the sky and had some understanding in his mind.
