The marksman in Mailer's mouth is called a sniper in Xiao Letian's mouth, a name that everyone is very familiar with, but in the nineteenth century, the word sniper did not exist.

In fact, in the 17th century, when precision optical instruments were invented, human beings have tried to connect them with firearms to form weapons that can shoot with precision.

However, because the weapons at that time were all front-loading smoothbore guns, no matter how accurate you aimed, it was useless, and aiming did not mean that the bullet would go in a straight line, so this technology did not get much attention for 200 years.

It was not until the middle of the 19th century, during the American Revolution, that some intelligent American soldiers began to carry out some small modifications of firearms, they wrapped the projectile in oil-soaked deerskin, and then carried out long-term lurking and long-distance sniping, successfully killing a number of high-ranking British officers at a distance of more than 300 meters.

At that time, there was even a new English word to describe this group of elusive sharpshooters, Sharpshooters. By the time of the American Civil War, the study of this kind of precision shooting began to be systematized, and at this time there was another term, the masked man (Markman).

The origin of this word reflects another characteristic of snipers, that is, they have been lurking for a long time, and the butt of the gun is close to their cheeks, so sharpshooters generally have to wear a hood, which is a kind of protection.

It wasn't until World War II that the two words merged into one English word, and Sniper was a sniper in the modern sense.

In Xiao Letian's memory, Germany's optical instruments are world-famous, before the First World War, Germany has begun to form a secret sniper unit, the Entente countries have suffered a secret loss on the battlefield, it turns out that the combination of optical instruments and rifled guns is simply a perfect combination, as long as there are snipers within a distance of 400 meters, all the Allied officers dare not put their heads out of the trenches.

It is impossible for Xiao Letian to ignore this kind of low-cost and effective big killing weapon, he has rifled guns, optical instruments can be imported from the United States first, and then buy German goods later, and the rest of the work is to select soldiers with excellent psychological elements for training.

In Xiao Letian's plan, if he was willing to waste 100,000 rounds of ammunition on one person, what kind of good shooter could not be trained? If it weren't for the fact that the sniper unit was formed too late, Xiao Letian really wanted to take it to the European battlefield to try.

What a cool thing it is to practice marksmanship with the lives of Europeans. However, unexpectedly, these dozens of snipers did not catch up with the Austro-Prussian war, but opened the knife with the soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The concrete fence of the SEZ is nine meters high, and although it is not as wide as the rammed earth wall, it can still stand two people next to each other, and there are many platforms built with wooden planks on which snipers can fire calmly.

In order to increase the accuracy of the shot, this group of snipers abandoned the bursting Spencer, and instead chose a single-shot Henry rifle with better performance, and it was the advanced model Winchester M1866 inside, which was an open gun during the American Civil War, and the firepower and reliability were not said.

The hand-mounted scoped rifle does not look very beautiful, but the effect of using it is really not to say, this group of Manchu cavalry flaunted their strength and ran more than 30 meters outside the wall, this distance is as simple as hunting rabbits for snipers.

"Save ammunition...... Shot to death...... This is a rare opportunity to fight...... The standard-bearer who killed them...... "With the officer's order, gunfire and white smoke were everywhere on the fence.

This group of snipers is really black, and the bullets are specially drilled in the eyebrows and hearts, as long as they are shot, they will definitely die. After a burst of gunfire, the cavalry regiment left behind more than a hundred and fifty corpses.

Mailer was already frightened, and he yelled "Withdraw...... Cover Lao Tzu's retreat...... You're all dead..."At the shout, the flag-bearer beside Mailer was shot in the heart, and the banner representing Mailer suddenly fell to the ground.

"Meller is dead...... The enemy's commander is dead...... Everyone shouted together...... "The whole battlefield was in an uproar."

At this time, they can see the backwardness of the medieval army, they can only look at the flag action, and as soon as the flag is down, the army's heart is immediately in chaos, and in Xiao Letian's new army, the flag is more often a proof that the establishment is still there, and the soldiers are all acting according to the officer's orders, and the sound of the military horn is the order.

Mailer regretted it now, he had known that there was such a powerful marksman on the wall, and he would not have charged himself if he was killed. He didn't say a word, didn't hesitate for a moment, slapped his horse and fled to the main formation, shouting as he ran, "Lao Tzu is not dead, you all give me the queen of the palace, and give me the ...... to resist"

At this time, who else will listen to him, the infantry in the trenches, lest their parents give them two legs, and they will crawl outside the trenches one by one crying and shouting for their mothers, and the new troops behind them will be stabbed like a string of sugar gourds, and after a while, the blood in the trenches will become a stream.

All the Europeans stopped, they watched this murderous slaughter with cold weapons, and they drew crosses on their chests one by one: "Oh God bless them, it's so cruel, it's the most brutal medieval war, poor ......"

Sometimes Westerners are sometimes very kind to women, when you just splashed a lot of feces on your head, you were so angry that you killed people, and now you see that there is more blood, why do you shout God again?

The ironhead in the trenches annoyed the Europeans, glared at them contemptuously, jumped out of the trench, clasped his hands in the shape of trumpets, and yelled at the wall.

", you guys... Isn't it just that there is a telescope on the gun, what kind of cow?

"How did the Prime Minister educate us? The most important thing in war is to hit the enemy's morale, not to compete in how many people you kill, you have killed a lot of enemies, but has the morale been damaged? A bunch of waste ......?"

The brothers on the city wall didn't like to listen to it, and retorted twice: "General, how do you say how to fight? We made a mistake in shooting? You draw us a way, I see what good way you have ......?"

"Phew...... Tietoutuo spat a mouthful of blood foam on the ground, "Shoot, cripple them, and create more wounded soldiers for the enemy, this is the most effective way to hit morale..."

As soon as these words came out, those foreigners who understood Chinese were stunned, "Oh God, this oriental general is too insidious......"

Tietoutuo turned his head and whispered, "Cut, you know a bird, the prime minister has a lot of bad water in his stomach, this is all the ...... the prime minister taught me"

"Don't kill the prisoners in the trenches, grab them first..."

Of course, snipers have to obey the general's orders, and in the current special industrial zone, the highest rank is General Liu Lang, and the second highest is Tietoutuo.

As the sky began to darken, the snipers had to seize the last chance to shoot, and the frequency of firing on the walls increased significantly. The Qing Demon soldiers who fled for their lives on the battlefield were unlucky, and in the sound of gunfire, they were either shot in the shoulder or in the knee, and the wails of the wounded soldiers were everywhere.

"Oh Mommy...... My feet and neck...... The foot and neck were pierced...... Folk, help......"

"My kneecaps... My kneecaps are gone...... It hurts..."

"Look at the love of stirring rice spoons in a pot, pull my brother, my calf is broken......"

"Wang Er, you are a lack of morality, you know that you run, and I asked you to smoke a lot last month...... Now you can't even save me......"

If a sniper wants to get some seriously wounded, it is not simple, just shoot at the limbs and shoulders, once the fragile joints of the human body are destroyed, it is simply powerless to count on the current medical skills.

Not only on the wall, but now there are casualties in the trenches, and those captives and Qing soldiers who are kneeling on the ground kowtow like pounding garlic, but they can't get half of Tietoutuo's mercy.

With a cigarette in his mouth and a shiny axe in his hand, Tietoutuo pointed at a captive and shouted, "Say... Do you want to die or live?" the Qing soldiers hurriedly kowtowed and shouted to live.

"It's easy to live, stretch out your hand......" A cold light flashed in Tietoutuo's hand, and the two thumbs of the captive were cut off alive.

"Ahh......h

"Next...... Are you going to die or live?"

"Ancestor, please spare me......" The captive desperately hid his hands behind his back.

"Oh, this is going to die......" With the click of an axe, the captive's half-pulled head fell off, and blood sprayed the captive behind him.

"Throw it out...... Next...... To die or to live......"

The new army and foreign reinforcements in the trenches were stupid, they didn't expect that the iron head was so ruthless, killing the prisoner was like killing a chicken, whoever didn't let him cut off his finger, he would cut off his head.

"Look at what you see, learn with me, cut off your head if you want to die, and cut off your fingers if you want to live...... Hurry up, it's getting dark, dinner will be in a minute......"

Until this time, the foreigners behind the trenches finally couldn't help it, the stench of feces and urine on his body surrounded him, and there was such a bloody and barbaric scene in front of him, and some of the bad psychogenic ones all vomited.

There were not many prisoners in the trenches, there were only more than 300 people in total, and the torture of chopping off the fingers was finally over before dark, and Tietoutuo pointed to the outside of the trenches and yelled, "Why don't you get out of here...... Are you waiting for us to cook for you? Lao Tzu doesn't raise idlers...... Drag the wounded on the battlefield away for me......"

The captives couldn't believe their ears, and if they cut off two fingers, they could get free, and whether this was a good deal or not? They couldn't figure it out.

By the last rays of the sunset, all the captured Qing troops withdrew from the battlefield, and the camps of the Qing troops in the distant west gradually lit up, and it seemed that Melle was going to fight for a long time.

The young warrior did not understand the purpose of Tietoutuo, so he leaned up to him and asked in a low voice, "General, what kind of punishment is it to cut off your thumb?

"... You know, if you don't have two thumbs, then your hands are wasted, and you can try to eat, shoot, and pick a knife without using your thumbs...... It's called science, do you understand it?"

"As for the wounded soldiers, do they have to be bandaged when they are put back? Do they have to find someone to take care of them? Will they scream in pain? Hehe...... Let them pass miserably, this is a good way to demoralize the enemy..."

Note: College entrance examination students, come on...

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