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Chapter 1235 Hidden Rules (First update, please subscribe)
"Da da……"

When the recruits began to run following the sergeant's order, the sound of their feet on the ground was like beating a drum, and the earth became the drumhead.

Such a scene is very common in the recruit training center. These recruits not only have to carry K98 rifles, which are only used for recruit training, but also carry various material models in their backpacks to ensure that they are marching with marching weight.

The weight of the marching load is more important than the combat load. The marching load requires carrying some supplies, weighing 32 kilograms.

This weight is not actually heavy. According to the Marine Corps' endurance standard: an ordinary Marine has to carry 70 kilograms of things and walk about 15 kilometers. This load is simply unbearable for ordinary people, which is why the Marine Corps has the title of "amphibious all-terrain bipedal beast".

For these recruits, whether it is carrying a 32-kilogram load or a 30-kilometer forced march, it is a test of will.

Just over an hour after setting off, Zhao Hechuan was panting and sweating like everyone else, but his legs did not stop.

"Give up?"

The sergeant at the side suddenly ran over and yelled at a new recruit.

"You can't do it anymore, just give up! You are already so tired, just give up, just give up, go back home and be a good kid..."

There was no encouragement, only discouragement. Faced with such persuasion, the new recruit who looked a little thin was yelling there.

"I'll never give up, sir!"

As we all know, they can give up, but after giving up, they will be ordered to postpone their military service. This postponement of service is different from postponement due to physical or academic reasons, and it is even more different from official postponement - while ensuring the size of the army, many people do not serve as soon as they turn 18, but will be decided by lottery after they have enlisted based on their physical condition and the number of conscriptions this year. Some may be postponed for several periods.

However, for those who are retired due to training reasons, the "reason for retirement" will be clearly written on their enlistment books, which means that a stain will be added to their life resumes - no one will regard a soldier who has not passed the "bone grinding" as a man.

Serving in Southeast Asia is compulsory for all men, and there is almost no room for exemption. Although you will not be given any treatment or preferential conditions just because you serve in the army, in universities and in society, people will still give them certain rewards based on their performance in the army, especially in companies. Because most of the company executives have a background in the Allied Task Force, they attach great importance to the performance of their subordinates with military experience in the army.

Every society has its unspoken rules, and in the Nanyang Army, the unspoken rules are very simple - you can go slower, but you must learn to persevere.

Persistence is the most basic quality of a man.

Because of this, everyone will grit their teeth and persevere during training. After all, no one wants to turn their life into a joke, especially for young people who want to enter large companies. They need a good service record to prove themselves.

Gradually, the team was left behind, with some pioneers in the front and some lagging behind, and some even lagged behind the front team by an hour or two.

After a forced march of thirty kilometers, the new recruits who entered the recruit training center were already severely exhausted. Not only were they physically exhausted, but they were also mentally exhausted to the extreme.

As soon as thousands of new recruits returned to the training center, their legs went weak and they fell down as soon as they stepped onto the training ground. Then they gathered in groups of three or five, falling, lying or sprawling on the training ground of the training center.

When the last recruit entered the training center with a heavy backpack, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. The bright moonlight was pouring down from the sky. Several bonfires burning on iron barrels on the training ground were burning with raging flames. The fiery red flames and sparks kept bursting out, illuminating the entire training ground red.

"..."

Suddenly, passionate drumbeats were heard in the training center. These exhausted recruits were stunned at first, then they seemed to understand something, and they stood up one after another, dragging their tired bodies, and then quickly lined up.

Although the recruits had not yet been trained, they quickly lined up. At this time, the lights were turned on, illuminating the podium made of ammunition boxes, and the sergeant walked slowly onto the podium.

When the drill sergeant walked to the podium and stood behind the microphone, he looked around at the recruits who were still gasping for breath.

The exhausted recruits also looked at the sergeant major and began to hold their rapid breath unconsciously.

Looking at the tired, hungry, and even exhausted recruits below the stage, the sergeant's mouth curled up - because they were trying hard to stand up straight and try to line up more standardly.

It's already ten o'clock in the evening.

These new recruits, who have undergone a 30-kilometer forced march, have not had the chance to sit down and have a proper dinner until now.

This is a ceremony specially prepared for them!

As is customary, the drill sergeant gave a brief speech to the recruits:

“I would like to congratulate everyone on the first trip. You have survived the 30-kilometer forced march with your courage and willpower and have successfully arrived at the training center.

In your future training and military career, I hope you can pay attention to some important things around you.

If you want, you can recall the comrades who are standing by your side today. It is their unremitting personal courage that inspires you and gives you the courage not to give up.

Recall what they look like and remember their names.

Think back to the pain and gains of “grinding bones” and the fire burning before you. I hope that in your future training, you can be as persistent as you are today and never give up.

I wish you will become stronger through hard training.”

At this time, the passionate drum beats sounded again on the radio, and the music of "Song of the African Corps" immediately resounded throughout the training center. This German military song was extremely popular in the Nanyang army. After all, it was also a tradition during the Allied Task Force period. When the task force arrived in North Africa, they received training from captured German instructors, and the prisoner training team also had a military band. Therefore, after slightly changing the lyrics of "Song of the African Corps", it became the military song of Nanyang.

This passionate military music had a profound impact on the Nanyang Army. When they were surrounded in Bastogne, the search team also sang this song to resist the German attack. For the rest of their lives, the "Our Rommel" became the "Song of the African Corps" and became the repertoire of the Nanyang Military Band. It was also the song for new recruits to enter the training center.

I have to say, sometimes history is so magical.

Under the bright moonlight, under the blazing bonfire, and to the stirring music of the "African Legion Song," buckets of food were brought in, without tableware or chopsticks. Even the rice, vegetables, and meat in the buckets were dumped directly onto the ground.

The aroma of food filled the training ground. The hungry recruits drooled as they looked at the food on the ground. They immediately turned into hungry wolves, pounced on it, grabbed the food from the ground and started eating it in big mouthfuls.

At this time, no one thought the food on the ground was dirty, but just smelled good. In fact, this was also part of the military training. In the following training, all the training was close to actual combat. They not only had to train on the training ground, but also in the muddy swamp, and even on the "battlefield" full of animal entrails and full of rotten smell, letting bullets fly over their heads and eating hard-to-swallow food with dirty hands on the stinking battlefield.

Everything is close to actual combat, which is the biggest feature of the training of Nanyang recruits. Finally, after four months of training, these recruits will be transformed into real soldiers.

Then, they will be dispatched to various places, and even the "military police" may be sent abroad - after all, there are many overseas territories of varying sizes in Nanyang.

In fact, it is not only soldiers who are trained in the training center, but also agents from the Secret Intelligence Service. They also need to be trained here, and the training they receive is even no less than that of soldiers. After all, the cruelty on this front is even far greater than that on the battlefield.

While the agents of the Secret Intelligence Service were training here, in the office of the Secret Intelligence Service, Jia Wentao was flipping through the reports in his hands. As the deputy director of operations of the Secret Intelligence Service, he needed to review and formulate many secret operations.

Just as he was flipping through the report, a European agent in his thirties or forties walked in and gently placed a report on his desk.

This person is Li Bai, whose German name is Heydrich. He was an intelligence officer of the Third Reich Military Intelligence Agency and one of the longest-serving agents of the Secret Intelligence Service. Now he basically no longer performs overseas missions.

His name is very common in Southeast Asia, especially among European immigrants. These European immigrants always like to use some historical figures of Tangshan as their own names, and some even directly give themselves names like "Emperor Taizong of Tang".

Perhaps this is the difference between Europeans and the Tang people. The former prefer to use the names of celebrities to show respect for them, while the Tang people avoid using the names of respected people.

However, there is no need to force yourself to get used to this thing.

After reading the report just delivered, Jia Wentao smiled and said:
"Li Bai, do you think it is appropriate to send him to Germany to carry out this mission?"

After thinking for a while, Li Bai said:

"He is a very suitable candidate. I think there is no one more suitable than him. He has just finished training at the training center. Let him go to Germany to carry out this mission to relax, and he will work there for a long time in the future."

Nodding, Jia Wentao walked out from behind his desk, went to the window and looked outside, then said:

"This mission is not complicated, or at least not risky. He just needs to show his true self to the world. Well, let him do it!"

In fact, the work of the Secret Intelligence Service is not just about collecting intelligence. Sometimes it also needs to perform some special tasks, just like this task, which looks very simple, but is not that simple.

Looking at Li Bai standing in front of the desk, Jia Wentao smiled and said:

"He is very familiar with Germany and I believe he can accomplish this task."

Li Bai also said:

"That's what I mean. He was born in Germany and studied there. He is familiar with German affairs. There will be absolutely no problem for him to go to Germany to carry out this mission."

Looking at Li Bai, Jia Wentao nodded and said:

"Do you have any other ideas about this mission?"

"I don't have any opinions, I just cooperate."

Li Bai said with a smile.

"Sometimes we always have to cooperate with the company to do something, after all. Most of the time, they are the ones who cooperate with us. Well, let's help each other."

The reason why he said this is that in many cases, agents of the Secret Intelligence Service would enter other countries as corporate employees, and this process requires the full cooperation of the company.

Moreover, several large companies in Nanyang have their own intelligence agencies. To a certain extent, the speed at which they collect intelligence is even not inferior to that of the Secret Intelligence Service, so the cooperation between the two sides is extremely extensive.

"Um,"

Nodding, Jia Wentao said:

"Indeed, we do need to cooperate with them. Okay, let's try our best to help them realize their wish."

(End of this chapter)