At that moment, they all wanted to curse! Especially since there were many piles of excavated earth around their large pits, rising far above the ground. Shrapnel had torn away huge chunks of dirt from those mounds, with some fragments still embedded within them.
The moment they saw that shrapnel, they knew every one of them had been within its lethal range.
"Fall in!" Chen Shan Ming immediately blew the assembly whistle.
Only then did those bewildered soldiers react. They ran over on instinct and quickly assembled before them.
After they had lined up, Jiang Yan Hai stepped forward and spoke.
"Well? How did it feel to be covered by artillery fire?"
Jiang Yan Hai smiled at the soldiers.
"Report!" Soldier Number 52 shouted. Everyone had a number, but some people before Number 52 had dropped out, so among this first batch of fifty people, the highest number was 55.
"Speak." Jiang Yan Hai immediately motioned for him to continue.
"Instructor! How could you be so irresponsible?! Those were live rounds! How could you use them to attack us?! If we had reacted a little slower just now, then we..." The soldier could not finish the rest of his sentence.
"Then you would have been torn to pieces by the shell fragments. But look, aren't you all standing here just fine? I seem to remember someone saying just now that there was no need to train in evading artillery shells? I said it already—if you pass the assessment, you won't need to continue training."
The corners of everyone's mouths twitched violently. In their hearts, they had cursed Jiang Yan Hai bloody. What the hell kind of nonsense was that? Of course they would not need training if they passed! But what if they failed?!
If they failed, he would not