Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 262 Traditional Chinese Medicine for Strengthening the Body

You should know that the 6.5 caliber Type 38 rifle bullets used by the Japanese weighed 21 grams!

Therefore, if you carry 300 of these bullets, your weight will increase from 7 pounds to 12.5 pounds. Don't underestimate this extra 5.5 pounds; it's often the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

After all, the physical limits of an ordinary person are limited. No matter how much they train, they can only squeeze out the body's potential and end up with injuries.

Therefore, in order to prevent soldiers from becoming mobile sandbags or suffering non-combat casualties, all nations are trying to find ways to reduce the weight of their soldiers while ensuring protection and firepower.

Of course, the simplest solution is to replace them with new materials. This led to the development of bullets with plastic casings. For bullets of the same caliber, the weight can be reduced by 40%. Previously, carrying the same amount of ammunition meant carrying only 120 rounds, but with bullets in plastic casings, 200 rounds can be carried without increasing the weight, resulting in greater firepower without fatigue.

Of course, in addition to bullets with plastic casings, the US military has also introduced detachable bulletproof vests. Normally, you can carry 10 kilograms lightly, and when you need protection on the battlefield, you can add 4 kilograms, which makes you much more flexible!
In addition to new materials and design improvements, there is an even more direct approach: the use of individual soldier exoskeletons. These exoskeletons can easily support a load of 70 kilograms! It's like having a mechanical assistant to help soldiers carry things, making walking and climbing easier.

Of course, this kind of military exoskeleton is different from the powered exoskeleton armor like Iron Man's that uses an arc reactor for power, because this is a non-powered exoskeleton.

In other words, the force still comes from the soldier himself, but the force can be transferred directly from the shoulders and spine to the ground through weight transfer and other methods.

Whether a soldier is moving, lifting, or carrying something, the weight is borne by both shoulders.

Then the force is transmitted from the shoulders to the spine, then from the spine to the pelvis, and finally to the leg bones, then to the foot bones, and finally to the ground.

The leg bones are alright, since there are two of them, and they are quite thick. But the spine is different. In order to bend over, the spine is made up of individual vertebrae, which naturally greatly reduces the weight it bears.

This type of exoskeleton for individual soldiers distributes the weight directly by supporting the shoulders and arms, and then transfers it to the ground through the waist support of the exoskeleton.

In this way, the weight on the spine is greatly reduced, and it can naturally carry more things.

Unfortunately, the current situation does not allow for individual mechanical exoskeletons or bullets with plastic casings. As for detachable bulletproof plates, they are useless. After all, the US military's detachable bulletproof plates are based on the fact that there are logistics support vehicles that can carry the removed bulletproof plates on the vehicles for transport.

But now, let alone vehicles, Wang Gensheng's marines have even lost their warhorses in Dandong Village.

Despite this, none of the 800-odd Marines, each carrying a combat load of about 100 pounds, suffered from lumbar muscle strain or spinal problems.

Even though Duan Peng and Wei Dayong were each carrying 100 or 200 kilograms of weight, they didn't break their spines or backs.

All of this is due to the standing meditation practiced in traditional Chinese martial arts. Standing meditation is a great way to strengthen the waist muscles and repair and enhance the spine. Therefore, anyone who has entered the Ming Jin stage of standing meditation will experience a good repair and enhancement effect on their waist and spine when practicing standing meditation. Traditional Chinese martial arts, or internal martial arts, have always had the effect of strengthening the body, so there is nothing strange about this.

This also reminded Wang Gensheng of the ancient soldiers who wore heavy armor and fought their way through enemy lines seven times each. After all, with Duan Peng and Wei Dayong's physiques, which could easily carry two hundred pounds, all they needed to do was wear a hundred-pound suit of heavy armor and a cold weapon weighing a dozen pounds, in the era of cold weapons.

Even if he's not comparable to Lü Bu, compared to figures like Zhang Fei, he's at least a warrior on par with Hua Xiong.

As for Wang Gensheng, if he kills more people and accumulates enough physical enhancement to be ten times stronger, then he might be able to fight Lu Bu.

Unfortunately, he was matched with the wrong era when he traveled through time. In this age of firearms, what good are ten times the physical strength? He'd still be dead after a single 155mm grenade.

Perhaps a hundred times the physical strength is needed to make a name for himself in the age of firearms! However, accumulating a hundred times the physical strength would mean Wang Gensheng would need to engage in close combat, which would require taking down 100,000 people within a hundred meters. To that number, Wang Gensheng could only chuckle!
After leaving the gravel field, we jogged all the way, and it wasn't until it got dark after running for about four hours.

Wang Gensheng glanced at Wu Wanli, who was panting heavily and almost out of breath, and finally stopped. There was nothing he could do; it was normal for a new recruit to do this, even though Wu Wanli had already given all the food he brought to his brother Wu Qianli to carry.

Even carrying a rifle weighing less than ten pounds, I couldn't keep up with such high-intensity, continuous running for four hours straight.

Of course, this four-hour run was not very fast; it only covered 40 kilometers, which is far from the world record of 42 kilometers in two hours.

But don't forget, this was an average of carrying 100 pounds of weight, running continuously for four hours, and on difficult mountain trails.

Of course, the 100-pound load here refers to the average load of the Marine Corps led by Wang Gensheng, while the average load of Wu Qianli's Seventh Infiltration Company is only 50 pounds.

However, there was no other way, since these Marines were veterans that Wang Gensheng had been training since the War of Resistance against Japan. From the very beginning, he had selected the best and most outstanding recruits.

Then, they promoted martial arts, and then selected those who were good at martial arts to join the Marine Corps. Such a selection process was naturally incomparable to the Seventh Company of Wu Qianli's infiltration.

Of course, Wu Wanli, who was carrying almost no weight, was not having an easy time, and Wu Qianli and others, who were carrying weight, were also not having an easy time, after all, they had to march continuously for four hours and forty kilometers with heavy loads.

Even though the soldiers of the Seventh Company were all of high caliber and better than those of ordinary companies, they were still struggling to keep up.

However, during this rest, Yu Congrong, panting heavily, asked Li Xiu:

"Brother, you're wearing such a thick helmet, a bulletproof vest, and carrying such a big backpack. How heavy must all of that be!"

Li Xiu felt pleased to hear Yu Congrong call him "elder brother," and also felt a desire to show off, so he smiled and said:
"Not much, maybe a hundred pounds! Look at our Wang Siling, that's amazing. She's wearing full bulletproof steel armor, plus a 76-pound heavy machine gun and a lot of ammunition. Her entire set of equipment weighs over 300 pounds, and she ran for so long without even panting!"

(End of this chapter)