Everyone's been reborn, who'd still want to join the army!

Chapter 65! Practicing, huh? [Please read on! Please vote!]

"Stand up straight! Are you boneless? Can't you even stand up straight?"

"Keep your hands pressed firmly against the seams of your pants, don't slack off!"

"If you dare to slack off again, believe me, I'll make you take off your gloves and train barehanded!"

"Lean forward, lift your heels off the ground!"

"..."

After morning exercises.

The new recruits, working in the dark, cleaned up both the indoor and outdoor areas, ate breakfast, and then began their first training exercise in their military career.

That's right, it's a queue!

The basics of queuing are known even to those who have never served in the military.

This is the military posture that best showcases the spirit of soldiers!

Military posture is the foundation of all drill subjects.

Once you've mastered standing at attention, practicing other drill subjects becomes much easier.

If you can't stand at attention properly, your marching skills will never be good!

This means that without exception, the first lesson for every new recruit upon arriving at the military base is to stand at attention.

Many people who have never served in the military often have misunderstandings about military posture.

It's just standing, right? At most, you're standing a little straighter. What's the effort involved? You can easily stand for a few hours.

If someone who had served in the military heard this, they probably wouldn't even bother arguing with the other person.

He's a complete novice; it's a waste of time to even talk to him!

What may seem like a simple military posture is actually quite difficult to stand properly.

Every part of your body needs to exert force!

Furthermore, to avoid dizziness and pain caused by standing for long periods of time.

When standing at attention, the heels must not touch the ground, and the entire body weight must be supported by the balls of the feet.

This could be fatal!

When new recruits are at home, who would just stand on the balls of their feet when they have nothing to do?

These habits, accumulated over more than a decade, are the hardest to break!

The squad leaders in the army were well aware of this and had even developed a set of effective "corrective measures".

"Come on! Stand up!"

"Heels off the ground! Don't even think about sneaking in!"

On the road next to the main building.

Ye Pengfei led the new recruits of the third platoon, along with everyone in the company, to begin specialized training on "keeping the body leaning forward."

The training method was also very simple: standing at attention.

But this time, instead of standing on the ground, they ran to the curb next to the lawn and stood there!

Under Ye Pengfei's command, the new recruits stood on the curb, which was a dozen centimeters off the ground, with bitter expressions on their faces.

Ye Pengfei also personally adjusted the positions of each new recruit in the class to ensure that everyone stood in a straight line with their heels off the ground.

Now the new recruits won't be able to slack off anymore.

With the heel completely off the ground, there's no leverage to use, and if you try to lean back, you'll fall straight to the ground!

This standing position is much more tiring than standing on flat ground, as the only area that can actually support the body weight is a small area around the toes.

In less than ten minutes, even Li Jiahao, who had already undergone formation training, felt a cramping pain in the soles of his feet.

If someone wants to be lazy and secretly tries to move their feet up a little,

Hey! This is what the class monitors have been waiting for!

"Wow! Pretty clever, huh? You even know to move your feet inwards?"

"Come on, let me find you another spot!"

After the squad leader finished adjusting, the new recruit's foot was half hanging outside the air, and the feeling was indescribably sour and uncomfortable!

Occasionally, new recruits would let out a pitiful cry of pain as they fell to the ground due to leg cramps.

At this moment, all the class leaders seemed to have reached a consensus, each one more heartless than the last!

"What the heck? A muscle cramp?"

"You haven't been standing enough! Move around a bit, and stand for another half hour when the pain subsides!"

Upon hearing this, the recruit, who had been planning to feign a cramp and take the opportunity to slack off, was so frightened that he quickly abandoned the idea.

Time passed slowly.

In this training that resembled torture, the recruits felt that every minute and every second was extremely agonizing.

When the whistle signaled the end of the first training session, many new recruits had only one thought in their minds.

Why did I join the army?

"How's it going over there? Are they practicing military posture too?"

"Yeah, I saw you guys were taken to the dorms and you're standing by the roadside?"

"Don't even mention it! My toes are completely numb from standing so much!"

"..."

While going to the toilet, new recruits from different companies gathered together and shared their tragic experiences.

As they were chatting, someone suddenly brought up Chu Zhao and the other person who were being held in solitary confinement.

"Does your company have two new recruits who are in solitary confinement?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"I want to find out why they were put in solitary confinement."

"This awful military posture, I can't stand it for even a minute longer!"

These words drew echoes from countless new recruits, whose tone was filled with envy for Chu Zhao and his companion who were confined to solitary confinement!

Upon hearing this, Li Jiahao immediately sneered and mocked with disdain.

"Anyone willingly wants to be put in solitary confinement?"

"I think you've had it too easy!"

"Do you know what solitary confinement is like? There aren't even windows! You might even have to sleep on the floor, waking up with aches and pains all over, and nobody will talk to you!"

"An ordinary person, once put in solitary confinement, wouldn't even last a day, just a few hours, and they'd be crying and screaming to get out!"

Among the new recruits, Li Jiahao was somewhat well-known, as many people knew he was a veteran who had enlisted twice.

Seeing that he had said that, the recruits who had initially envied Chu Zhao and his companion immediately abandoned their thoughts and said with some relief.

"That's true."

"Standing at attention is tiring, but at least you can move around a bit, and if you get bored you can chat with someone."

"If I were really put in solitary confinement, I don't think I could last even an hour!"

"That's right!"

Seeing that the other party was being so cooperative, Li Jiahao nodded with satisfaction, then lowered his voice and said mysteriously.

"Don't think that just because they're in solitary confinement, they don't need to train."

"Where in the military do you find such a good deal?"

"Once they get out of solitary confinement, they'll both have to make up for all the suffering we've endured!"

On the other side...

Chu Zhao, who had been busy until the early hours of the morning, finally opened his eyes.

I glanced at the time on my laptop, still half asleep—goodness, it was already past nine!

"Platoon leader?"

Chu Zhao tentatively called out towards the door, and immediately received a response.

"woke up?"

"You little rascal, you stayed up way too late! You weren't even awake by breakfast time!"

"Luckily, the cafeteria has lunch boxes, otherwise you wouldn't even be able to get a hot meal."

As he spoke, the platoon leader opened the door to the solitary confinement cell and handed Chu Zhao a cylindrical stainless steel lunchbox.

"Eat first, fill your stomach before you get busy!"

"Just call me if you need anything, I'll always be outside the door."

"Yes, sir! Thank you, platoon leader!"

Chu Zhao happily accepted the lunchbox, quickly washed up, and then sat on the edge of the bed, opening the lunchbox.

The breakfast was very simple.

A bowl of rice porridge, a few steamed buns, plus four or five kinds of pickled vegetables.

Hungry Chu Zhao grabbed a steamed bun, ready to devour it, when he was drawn to the angry shouts coming from outside the window.

"Never learn your lesson, huh? You dare lean back like that?"

"Come on! Show me another one!"

Curious, Chu Zhao peered out the window and immediately broke into a smile, as if he were enjoying a good show.

Yo!

Are you practicing?