While it was still dark, everyone was pulled out again.
To participate in the troop’s take on entertaining new recruits, that is, the physical fitness test, and each troop’s gimmick was still different.
This tank unit, for example, was asking each recruit to drag a thirty kilogram ammunition box and crawl through an obstacle course. There is less than forty centimetres of space, and above their heads is crude barbed wire, the kind that will definitely break their face if they scrape on it.
Firstly, there was a demonstration by two veterans, one took twenty-one seconds and one took thirty-one seconds, the difference was quite big. In fact, this should be the strongest and weakest benchmark for this troop!
Have pity for a moment that thirty one second soldier, was personally pulled out by the company commander to perform what is called …… a team!
Yuan Heng had a hard look on his face and felt that it was too much, even if it took thirty one seconds, that was still fast enough! After all, that obstacle course, it was more than twenty metres long, right?
Although Wu Litao was also a prick, he had lost his entire person today and was now at the stage of wanting to regain face, so he only felt like leaping into action.
Company Commander: “The obstacle course is twenty metres long, and the time to pass the standard is ……”
The crowd held their breath at once.
Company Commander: “Within one minute!”
Yuan Heng breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, one minute is okay! After all, it’s only twenty metres!
Li Tiezhu also rubbed his fists, this first, I’ll take it!
The company commander added, “The last two of today’s test will not be eligible to participate in the next professional training!”
The artists immediately tensed up, it can be imagined that the last two must be among them. After all, a random veteran here had better physical strength than them, except for that animal Li Tiezhu.
The test started right away.
As soon as Wu Litao carried the ammunition box, he let out a wow, “It’s too heavy, isn’t it? Thirty pounds so heavy?”
Liu Yuan whispered next to him, “It’s thirty kilograms, big brother!”
Pop-up:
“Twenty-one seconds that dude is too fierce!”
“Dock Li Taotao, the time has come for you to prove yourself! Ollie here!”
“Dock Li Taotao: prove that you really can’t?”
“Looking forward to Li Tiezhu’s results.”
“Serious Brother should be able to make it to forty seconds!”
“Thirty seconds or so, one minute is the passing line for water release, strictly it should be forty seconds.”
“Thirty kilos I can’t even lift!”
“This barbed wire is so low ah ……”
“Luckily Du Haibo was kicked out, otherwise, the thickness of him lying down would be higher than the barbed wire.”
“Can’t stuff it in, can you?”
“Crap! There’s a picture ……”
Drip~
With a whistle, the test began.
Only to see six artiste recruits drilling into the barbed wire obstacle channel at the same time, just a start, Li Tiezhu was one body position ahead.
What is this?
When I was a child, when the old man went to help people hit the stone, Li Tiezhu also dragged the ground foundation stone, that thing a small piece of more than a hundred pounds!
Liu Yuan is also not willing to show weakness, closely chasing Li Tiezhu, looks thin and weak, but he is very flexible, coordinated, explosive force is also good, after all, young well.
The last two are the old grandfather Zhang Yifeng and …… weak dock Litao, although determined to snow shame, but he really do not have the strength, the ammunition box in his hands with the roots on the ground like.
Zhang Yi Feng although his legs and feet are not very flexible anymore, but because of years of fitness and basketball, the core strength is still good, although slow, but still continue to move forward.
Li Tiezhu’s action frequency at this time has been so fast that the shooting screen is a little bit of residual shadow, a little bit like swimming in the grass on the frame.
Because the speed was fast enough and the power was big enough, the ammunition box was brought forward and jerked forward, the inertia was forward, but it was a lot easier than when it started.
In the microphone, Li Tiezhu gasped like pulling a bellows.
“Report!”
Crossing the finish line, Li Tiezhu popped up miserably, and with a pull of his hand, the ammo box came to a drifting brake on the ground.
Li Tiezhu’s time came out:
23 seconds!
The veterans also looked at Li Tiezhu, this achievement is also among the top among them, and this is still the result of Li Tiezhu not having gone through a long period of training, if he practised for a while longer, it is estimated that he can compete for the first place.
Pop-up screen:
“Serious Brother is really not a human being!”
“It feels like he can surpass that twenty-one second big brother with a little training.”
“Not necessarily.”
“Brother Pillar is really fierce, a match for the young Fan Xiao Huang.”
“Otherwise it can beat two with one and still catch one?”
“Li Tiezhu I want to give you a monkey!”
“Song Zhu’er: get in line.”
Second place Liu Yuan: 34 seconds.
Third place Guo Xiaoxi: 43 seconds.
Fourth place Zhang Yi Feng: 59 seconds.
Fifth place Yuan Heng: 62 seconds.
Sixth place Wu Litao …… was still crawling.
He seems to be very uncomfortable in this narrow space crawling, coupled with the strength is too small and willpower is not strong enough, and now appears to be a mess, and has even risen up the idea of giving up.
Li Tiezhu was furious, you say you can not compare to other people, even grandpa Zhang can not compare?
Well, you really can not compare.
For this disciple, Li Tiezhu did not know much about it before, but through this period of contact he understood it, and in general the three views are very positive, but contradictory.
He is very rampant, but also very wimpy, he is very outspoken, but also very timid, and actually afraid of ghosts.
“Dock Litao, hurry up! No resting!”
Li Tiezhu yelled, Doing all the shameful things, I was unlucky in my eight lives to meet a disciple like you.
After hearing his master’s voice, Wu Litao still made an effort, looking as fierce as a wolf, but in fact, he was still in the same place, pestle and mortar.
The other artists encouraged:
“Cheer up!”
“Persistence is victory!”
“Don’t give up! Don’t give up!”
“You can do it!”
Seemingly feeling the strength, Wulitao started to climb up.
When the programme was broadcasting here, I don’t know what was wrong with the programme team’s post-production, but they made an upscaling sequence, which was a slow-motion image of Wulitao’s painful perseverance, and it was also accompanied by music.
“Run forward, facing cold eyes and ridicule, the vastness of life ……”
That’s right, it was Li Tiezhu’s song “Chasing Dreams with a Red Heart” that he wrote for the Company of Heroes.
Later, when Li Tiezhu watched the programme into the film, that speechless ah, directly said: “This song …… Dock Li Tao he does not deserve! It is also true that, with the programme group’s habitual sensationalism of the dog routine, even if Du Haibo did not quit, crawling for three minutes, they will use this music to sensationalism. That said, have they bought the rights to this song yet? No, I have to get them to shell out another copy ……”
The pop-ups were also divided into two factions:
“Suddenly so moved ……”
“This is the spirit of the troops.”
“Hearing this melody reminds me of cute rabbits.”
“It would be even better if Li Tiezhu sang it live.”
“Li Tiezhu: Wu Li Tao he doesn’t deserve it.”
“I don’t think he’s worthy either.”
“I admire Dock Litao for scolding Chuan Chancellor, but it really pulls down on training.”
“If Du Haibo was still around, he would definitely be the last one ……”
“Crap! It’s disgusting to think about.”
“Using it on him is an insult to the song!”
“Look, Li Tiezhu’s face is black.”
In the end, Wu Litao reached the finish line in last place after clocking 97 seconds, almost deflated.
Li Tiezhu shook his head straight.
When interviewed afterwards, Yuan Heng said, “I didn’t expect to have to drag such a heavy ammunition box and climb that barbed wire fence, probably because I couldn’t use my strength due to my foot injury …… This project is kinda hard for me.”
Li Tiezhu was right next to him, “Maybe it’s a bad back.”
Yuan Heng: “……”
Li Tiezhu: “The waist is the core strength!”
Wu Litao said, “I have the strength, I can do it! That ammo box doesn’t work, my one is new, theirs is old, the old one wears slippery, the new one has a lot of resistance, junior high school physics says …… I just don’t understand, why can’t we put a few wheels on the ammo box?”
Li Tiezhu: “Why don’t we just give you a donkey?”
WU LITAO: “Donkey will creep forward?”
Li Tiezhu: “Just like you, no. Shame on you, you still want to show your face? If I were you, I would be ashamed to speak.”
Wu Litao: “I’m not going to say anything.”
Li Tiezhu: “If you let Yang Feiyue come, you can casually enter the passing line for a minute.”
Dock Litao completely lost his face.
Pop-up:
“Yuan Heng is so fond of making excuses.”
“He’s smart, just not serious or hardworking.”
“It’s still Dock Litao who is good at making up shit without excuses.”
“Tie Zhu has started disliking him, haha ……”
“The dislike of the emperor is still deep, even his own disciple is not spared.”
“Serious brother is not recognised by all six relatives!”
“Seriously, if Feiyue’s sister comes, it’s really stronger than Wuli Tao!”
“Just kidding, that’s the number one dried up person in the entertainment industry in the ancient and modern world ……”
“I didn’t know why Yang Feiyue was so hot before, but now I think it’s impossible for her not to be hot!”
“Yang Feiyue and Li Tiezhu are totally the same thing, God is filling the rice.”
“Did no one realise? Wu Li Taotao is still wearing a five kilogram sandbag vest!”
“Others are thirty kilos, he’s forty kilos.”
“Thirty-five kilos!”
“Then it can’t take ninety seconds to finish climbing.”
“Indeed it can’t, but he didn’t mention the vest thing at all when he was making excuses later, his character is still okay.”
“I think he forgot about the vest ……”
“Infected by Li Tiezhu?”
“No! This is not called contagion, this is called division.”
“Hahaha ……”
During the programme, the soldier in charge of timing informed the results and rankings, Yuan Heng and Wu Litao lowered their heads, disgraced again.
The company commander, however, came to Li Tiezhu first, seeing that he was already not red in the face or out of breath after this short period of time, he was even more delighted and said, “Tiezhu, is the physical fitness still good?”
Li Tiezhu: “This distance, running ten times is trivial.”
Company commander: “You have practiced before? You look very skilled.”
Li Tiezhu thought for a moment, “I practiced a few times when I was filming Soldier’s Assault, but the rest is child’s labour.”
Company Commander: “What child’s kung fu?”
Li Tiezhu: “When I was a child, I climbed the bushes to catch birds with a net, and every winter I could catch a lot of them, and plucked their feathers and smoked them up for my old man to drink.”
The company commander laughed loudly, Li Tiezhu this is his ideal soldier, suffered, good health, read a book, but not too smart. It’s just that it’s a bit of a shame that this one is already a big star.
Pop-up screen:
“Catching birds? Catch what kind of bird?”
“The kind of bird that Zhao Silu catches?”
“Zhao Silu: It really wasn’t me, I’m a calm, steady, dignified person, how could I possibly catch a bird? What would I catch a bird for!”
“There’s something about this wave of pop-ups ……”
The company commander put aside his regrets, became serious once again, and began to summarise:
“The last two are Yuan Heng and Wu Litao, you two, will not be eligible to participate in the next professional training.”
This was followed by dinner, activities, and bedtime.
Yuan Heng was a bit demoralised, but didn’t think much of it, he wouldn’t be expelled.
Wuli Tao, on the other hand, was deeply ashamed of himself. He was a person who had the best face, but on the first day of coming to the Tank Corps, he lost his face twice, so he was really angry.
What can he do?
Go to bed and sleep, dreaming of everything, do not sleep can not, three days of holiday play too high, not to mention the physical weakness, dark circles under the eyes is also heavier.
“Hey!”
Li Tiezhu called out to Wu Litao.
Dock Litao thought that he was going to be lectured by his master again, and stood obediently.
Li Tiezhu untied his five kilograms counterweight vest and said, “Still wearing it for sleeping? There’s no point in wearing it for sleeping.”
Wu Litao lined up his brain, “Right! I said why I can’t climb fast enough! Forget it, no excuses, I’ll make sure to make a clean sweep tomorrow!”
Li Tiezhu: “Renewing the previous shame is more like it!”
Wu Litao opened his mouth and didn’t say anything, it’s better not to make a flag, hitting the face is really painful ……
Although he is often hit in the face, he does not like to be hit in the face.
Moreover, Dockley Towers felt that in the past, if he was hit in the face, it was fine, he took it by himself and that’s it, it’s not the same in this show, it would involve his master.
So, he decided to be self-improvement, must become an elite tank soldier!
No, it’s better to be an ordinary tank soldier, just pass!
Oddly tired.
It was really tired, not long after that Dock Litao lay down on the bed and snored, and at this time it wasn’t even lights out yet.
There are still more than forty minutes from lights out, everyone is also bored, two veterans while holding dumbbells fitness, while shouting to compete with Li Tiezhu, was stopped by the platoon commander.
“In the middle of the night you guys compete in martial arts? Don’t invite the pickets to come, they still think that our platoon is fighting and brawling, we’ll compete in the daytime. Besides, it’s almost bedtime, and you’ll have to take another shower after a sweaty fight.”
The veteran had no choice but to nod his head and said, “Then what are we doing? The intensity of today’s training is so low, none of them are sweating, I can’t sleep.”
Yuan Heng revealed the expression of said dog, and still said Tibetan mastiff: “Still low? This training intensity is still low ah?”
Veteran: “Not low?”
Li Tiezhu also playing dumbbells: “Still not low?”
Platoon Commander: “No five kilometres of armed cross-country, no changing tracks for tanks, no physical training, no full-speed assault training …… all day long to play with you guys, this training intensity is high?”
Yuan Heng was dumbfounded, “……”
Liu Yuan laughed, revealing a pair of small tiger teeth, “I think it’s okay, as long as I can open the 125 mm gun on the tank, let me do anything.”
Of course, after the physical training was not put into the programme proper, the programme team reminded everyone can properly relax.
After some discussion, it was felt that we could sing before lights out, which was supposed to be dormitory activity time.
At this time, the snoring of Wu Litao on Li Tiezhu’s upper bunk sounded.
Platoon Leader: “Wu Litao is asleep, it’s not appropriate for us to sing.”
Guo Xiaoxi said: “He just fell asleep and we started singing, what is this called?”
Li Tiezhu: “This is called grave bouncing!”
“Hahahahaha ……”
The crowd burst into laughter, the artists have been used to Li Tiezhu’s iron words, the platoon leader and the two veterans are refreshing, laughing off the gas all.
Stop laughing, the platoon leader is also eager to try, grave bouncing or something, sounds exciting.
“Let’s sing a little quieter, right? Liao Long, go next door and borrow a guitar.”
The platoon leader was still a child! What bad thoughts could he have?
Veteran Liao Long drove to the next door, and in a short while brought back a guitar, as well as …… ten fans from the next door dormitory, Li Tiezhu’s fans. Overly enthusiastic, since on the group photo and want to sign, as long as Li Tiezhu s, the other few were directly ignored by them.
This …… is also no way, who let Li Tiezhu is the most red in the army!
He is still the one in the minds of many soldiers – soldier king Xu Sanduo!
This is not, a number of even do not know what Li Tiezhu’s real name, only tube Li Tiezhu called Xu Sanduo, that is called a cordial.
Yuan Heng’s eyes got hot and said, “Hey! Don’t you guys recognise me?”
A certain soldier: “You look unrecognisable, what does Uncle do? I don’t recognise.”
“Me neither!”
“Me too ……”
“Mee-too (Me-too).”
It’s okay if he doesn’t know himself, Yuan Heng can tolerate it, after all, he’s not a big name star, but the uncle is over the top, isn’t he? He is only more than thirty years old, these soldiers …… twenty jangdang years old ……
Yuan Heng lost the desire to speak.
Then, began the singing session, leisure time, and it is impossible to sing what unity, too exuberant to sleep, so the soldiers began to sing their favourite pop songs. Li Tiezhu accompanied them on the side, for three years, Li Tiezhu was forced by Zhang Xiaomeng to listen to other singers, some of which he still knew, and if he didn’t know how to do it, he gave the guitar to the soldiers who knew how to do it.
One of the soldiers from New Tibet sang a Tibetan song, very, very beautiful, his voice was as vast as an eagle.
Li Tiezhu praised it profusely.
After the three soldiers sang, it was the turn of the artiste team’s side, Guo Xiaoxi came with a corny song “Goodbye 1997”.
But not anymore?
In 1997, many soldiers here, including Li Tiezhu and Liu Yuan were not born.
Guo Xiaoxi sang well, sang and asked Li Tiezhu: “Tiezhu, have you heard this song?”
Li Tiezhu: “Never heard of it, that year …… I should still be in my dad’s body.”
Guo Xiaoxi was disliked.
The oldest Zhang Yifeng, however, suddenly burst into laughter, and even jumped out of bed with his bare feet to high-five Li Tiezhu, watching Li Tiezhu dislike people, really fucking cool!
Guo Xiaoxi was unconvinced: “When this Grandpa Zhang became famous, your dad was probably still in your grandpa’s body.”
Zhang Yi Feng ignored Guo Xiaoxi and glanced at the top bunk of the still snoring Wu Litao: “This kid sleeps deeply enough ah, these three days of holiday are doing what to go?”
Liu Yuan smiled without saying anything, and his smile was weird.
Zhang Yi Feng: “It’s just you, Liu Yuan will sing the next song.”
Liu Yuan: “……”
Pushing back, Liu Yuan cured himself by ordering a song of Li Tiezhu’s – A Diao.
Li Tiezhu raised his eyebrows …… good courage!
Dare to pick this song, most of them are female singers, the last three years this song has been covered countless, but no male singers dare to challenge, could it be that this Liu Yuan out of acting skills are good in addition to a good voice?
Other people also look a little excited, mainly because this song is high ah, all like to see the dock Li Tao was woken up.
As soon as Liu Yuan opened his voice, it was like a cluster bomb, causing the others in the room to go up in smoke.
Crap!
It’ll kill you, big brother!
Isn’t it too much for you to fucking do this in the army?
This is a weapon of mass destruction as well!
In a trance, Li Tiezhu saw Liu Xiaohua, and it is true that they are all ruthless people surnamed Liu.
In the end, Li Tiezhu still reacted quickly, lost his guitar, and went up to cover Liu Yuan s mouth, pleading: “In the middle of the night brother you are inappropriate …….”
Yuan Heng came over: “It’s easy to scare the friendlies.”
Zhang Yi Feng: “Good guy! This voice gave me a howl, instantly not sleepy!”
Guo Xiaoxi: “It’s really a grave bouncing ah!”
Platoon Leader: “Talent!”
Veteran Liao Long got up and glanced at Wu Li Tao: “Hey! Actually did not uncover the coffin and get up, but instead the snoring is gone. Liu Yuan this song …… specialises in treating snoring ah!”
Anyway, everyone did not dare to let Liu Yuan sing, Li Tiezhu threatened him not to open his mouth before letting go of him.
Liu Yuan: “Did I …… run out of tune?”
Li Tiezhu: “This is not the problem of running tone, this is …… nuclear radiation!”
Yuan Heng’s mouth is also poisonous: “Li Tiezhu gave Diao the soul, Liu Yuan gave Diao a hammer.”
Platoon leader: “Right!”
Liu Yuan silently pulled out his mobile phone, clicked on the scarf, and quietly focused on a topic – what is the reason for singing out of tune?
Next, everyone naturally surrounded Li Tiezhu.
In fact, everyone wanted Li Tiezhu to sing at the beginning, after all, in the army, almost seven out of ten are Li Tiezhu’s fans, even if they are not fans, they are also fans of “Soldier Assault”.
When Soldier Assault was broadcast last year, many troops organised a group viewing, just like the original That Year That Rabbit Those Things.
Soldiers watched and laughed, cried, understood, and naturally remembered Li Tiezhu.
In the eyes of this group of passionate young soldiers, Li Tiezhu is a light, a guide and warmth.
And they do not know that Li Tiezhu is very modest, he knows that he …… is not worthy.
Li Tiezhu smiled modestly, holding the guitar, and asked, “What song?”
“A Diao!”
“Chasing the dream red heart.”
“I like to dream back to the Tang Dynasty …….”
“It’s the middle of the night, just sing something slow like East Windbreak.”
“How about “Teenager”?”
Everyone has their own favourite song, and it is difficult to adjust to the crowd.
Li Tiezhu thought about it and said, “Just now Liu Yuan sang A Diao, although he was silenced by us after singing only one line ……”
The crowd laughed, and Liu Yuan could only smile bitterly.
Li Tiezhu said, “A Diao turned seventeen last week and is now in her first year of high school. She watched this programme of ours and told me in WeChat that in the next two years she will first take a break from her studies to come to the army after she gets into university, because the army has a stipend, and she doesn’t have to worry about tuition fees if she saves a few years to go back and continue her studies.”
The crowd’s laughter disappeared, many people know the story of A Diao and the origin of the song.
All the copyrights and income from the single of the song “A Diao” were included in the A Diao Education Fund.
Li Tiezhu said, “She wants to give the extra money from the A Diao fund to other children who can’t go to school, and has now supported seventeen of them. Moreover, she said she would also study hard in the future and then do charity work. å—¯…… I gave her a word at the time, a word I didn’t understand either. I said: go for it! You’re aiming for the stars. Copied online, haha …… I’m not very educated anyway.”
Everyone, however, was touched, not because of Li Tiezhu’s good deeds, but the strength of the ill-fated A Diao.
Li Tiezhu said, “After coming to the army, I do gradually understand that our goal is – a starry sea! Therefore, I recently wrote a song dedicated to the martyrs who paid for our blood, including our troop’s martyr General Jingyu. The title of the song is ‘Starry Sea’, today, for the first time, I hope you like it, and I also hope that the audience in front of the screen will like it.”
After saying that, Li Tiezhu played the guitar.