Chapter 303: How did I end up meeting this troublemaker?

Reporting to the platoon leader, Squad Leader Sun Chen of the sixth squad, Deputy Squad Leader Liu Ziqiang, reporting in!

The next day, the sky was just beginning to lighten.

Having received the order, Sun Chen and Liu Ziqiang rode their motorcycles over.

Lu Yang looked at their energetic expressions and nodded satisfactorily: "Do you know what your mission is?"

In unison, they said: "Give the new recruits some intensity!"

"Then you know, why did I call just the two of you and not anyone else?"

"No, know, way."

Their head-shaking motions were exactly the same.

Lu Yang smiled: "Because, for the upcoming assessment, you have more experience."

The two exchanged a glance and curiously asked: "What item?"

"Blasting feces."

"??"

"The firecrackers you set up before were deployed with great precision, the explosive charge was controlled very steadily, and the blast radius was very particular, so I am willing to call you two a demolition genius team."

Lu Yang chuckled, gave the two of them a nickname, then turned around and went to the van to get the tools.

"This assessment is based on past marches where they encountered artillery fire; the starting point is the same, testing the soldiers when they encounter sudden danger......"

Lu Yang, while searching for tools in the van, explained with his back turned.

Kang Changyi took the opportunity and grabbed Liu Ziqiang's throat.

He angrily mouthed the curse: "Turns out you bastard threw away the firecracker!"

Sun Chen followed closely, also grabbing Kang Changyi's throat, and simultaneously shouted with his mouth: "Let go of this kid!"

"Found it, here."

Lu Yang pulled out three entrenching shovels, turned around, and saw that two of the three were red-faced and ears flushed, yet they kept their previous stance without moving, as if nothing had happened.

"You two, why are your faces so red?"

"Full of spirit."

"Anti‑cold wax."

Kang Changyi and Liu Ziqiang responded in turn.

Lu Yang shrugged and tossed the entrenching shovel in front of them.

"Later, we'll dig in this area, need to dig a bit deeper."

"Report, why do we need to dig deeper?"

"Because I'm afraid of blowing up the backsides of these rookie idiots; although it's the practice explosive, it still has some power if too close, so burying it deeper is also for safety."

"Oh oh oh, I get it."

"Besides that......"

Lu Yang turned again, ducked into the silver van, and began to flip through the dotted diagram he had drawn the night before.

"Besides the defecation spot, a few other places also need explosives; for safety, the distance should be greater."

"The amount of explosive can be a bit more, the pit can be a bit shallower, but it needs to be covered with a lot of clods of earth; when detonated, the flying clods create the movie‑like artillery‑shell explosion effect."

"Strange, where did I put the drawing? I clearly remember it was under the seat......"

While Lu Yang's back was turned, Kang Changyi changed his target this time.

Like a demon seeking life, he grabbed Sun Chen's throat.

These two are both at fault, both threw firecrackers, and are no good!

"I'll choke you to death, choke you to death!"

Just as Sun Chen's face turned red from being choked, Liu Ziqiang from behind grabbed Kang Changyi's head, forcibly clamped it under his armpit, and kept striking his forehead with his skull.

"Holy shit, you're locking my throat, right?"

Kang Changyi was about to resist when he realized his two fists couldn't fight four hands; the two of them cooperated to control him, and in the process they also pulled down his pants.

"Platoon leader, platoon leader, save me, platoon leader!"

Hearing the cries for help from behind, Lu Yang hurriedly turned around.

Seeing the three of them like children, they not only pulled off Kang Changyi's pants.

They also lifted his two legs, slammed his crotch against the tree, as if playing a game called "Aluba".

"Excessive!"

"Wuu wuu wuu, save me!"

Hearing Lu Yang's stern reprimand, Kang Changyi's eyes flickered with excited tears.

Lu Yang snorted coldly: "Playing a game without me, you're opposing him!"

Then Lu Yang also joined in, together lifting Kang Changyi to grind his crotch against the tree.

When they put him down, Kang Changyi kept his legs together and couldn't even stand, obviously unable to withstand the big tree.

Originally, Liu Ziqiang, still excited, suggested lifting Lu Yang for a round of "Aluba," but Lu Yang's one shout of "Bold" firmly held him in place, daring him not to move.

Then Lu Yang rushed over, lifted Liu Ziqiang up, and the three of them spread his legs and swung back and forth against the tree.

During the process, Kang Changyi enjoyed it the most, laughing until his face was creased, working up a sweat on his forehead.

Lu Yang stopped, gave two tactical coughs, straightened his uniform, and spoke solemnly.

"All right, all right, that's about enough; we're soldiers, we need to observe propriety, and we have important matters at hand—how can this be proper!"

"Platoon leader, you're having fun too, huh?"

"That's called integrating into the collective!"

"......"

A few people, like birds let out of a cage, after a brief bout of merriment, then got down to the real work.

Setting up the scene for a simulated artillery strike is a technical task; there are particulars about where to place how much training explosive.

Without harming the recruits, one must create the most realistic explosion scene to train the soldiers' reactions to sudden crises.

It is said that last year, during a field march from the Division Training Base, they carried out this project; at that time, some timid recruits were so frightened by the sudden explosion that they wet their pants.

Later, Lu Yang found out that among them, the recruit who had wet his pants was named Chen Panpan.

Afterward, he became the Sixth Company's universal unit of measurement.

Just as Lu Yang and the others were busy setting up the assessment site, bustling with activity.

On a mountain road several kilometers away from here, the recruits were still trudging forward with difficulty.

A march of three days and two nights, over a hundred-odd kilometers, wind-blasted and dew-soaked, relying solely on their two legs.

This is not only a tempering of willpower, but also an extreme test of the soldiers' bodies.

You should know that three months ago, he was merely a group of local youths who had hardly received any training.

Having undergone just over three months of basic training, they now must follow the seniors' will, seek out their former footsteps, and undertake a trial they previously dared not even imagine.

"Stop!"

"Halt and rest in place!"

Gao Feng's voice, at this moment, became extraordinarily pleasant to hear.

These few words were the most pleasant and most longed-for they had heard on this journey.

The recruits didn't mind the dirt, simply plopping down on the ground, some drinking water, some fanning themselves.

One recruit took off his shoes, and a sour stench assailed his nostrils; he lightly tugged at his sock with his fingers, and immediately winced in pain.

Only after he took off his sock did he discover that the blood blister on the sole of his foot had burst and stuck to the sock, so that even a touch made him grimace in pain.

"You'd better take care of it now; if you keep going like this, you won't be able to walk the road ahead."

LiMin took out an alcohol spray bottle and gauze from her pack and proceeded to help him treat it.

Although the process was painful, the recruit gritted his teeth and didn't utter a sound.

At the same time, many people were helping each other, using needles to lance the blisters on each other's feet.

In just three months of getting along, everyone came to understand the meaning of camaraderie, and also knew what mutual aid and solidarity meant—that unity is strength.

Gao Feng looked on, his face full of satisfaction: "These kids finally have a bit of soldier's bearing; it's not easy."

He Zhen Tao grunted: "But just thinking that they will soon fall victim to Lu Yang's ruthless tactics makes me break a sweat for them."

Gao Feng, thinking of Lu Yang's plan, felt somewhat torn between laughter and tears.

How could he have thought to launch an attack when people are at their most vulnerable?

What a devious mindset it must take to twist the Training Section's assessment item into this sort of thing!

Pulling down pants, exploding feces—these are all despicable tricks; not to mention recruits, even if you swapped in a bunch of veteran soldiers, they'd all fall for it collectively.

"Oh dear, what a sin—how did this batch just happen to run into Lu Yang, this world‑troubling demon?"

"We'd better not leave any psychological scars, or else later, when they go to the next company, every company's instructors will have their hands full."

"I hope he can be a bit more measured and go a little easier......"

On the other side, Lu Yang, his face grimy, held an iron shovel in one hand and wiped sweat from his forehead with the other, his smile bright and sunny.

"Hehe, all done!"

"Next, we just wait quietly for the examinees to enter!"