Chapter 516: A Gap That Can't Be Ignored
The approach of the Volunteer Army Command was not unwise, and the effect was quite good, and many sharpshooters who hit with one hit did emerge in the brutal fighting.
Although the troops entered the Korean war for less than three months, they were not even proficient in basic shooting operations at the beginning, and now they are not proficient in the magic of shooting where to shoot, which makes the front-line troops amazed at the same time, but also makes the enemy on the opposite side frightened, so that they do not even dare to go out of the position to go to the toilet at the most basic level, so as not to be sent to hell by this Grim Reaper.
What's even more commendable is that this little soldier surnamed Fang used only the most basic Soviet-made Mosin Nagant rifle, no scope, no rangefinder binoculars, only a pair of perceptive eyes and a pair of stable hands, but what he achieved was a record that made countless people look sideways - a kill record of 152 people!
There are still many sharpshooters similar to the little soldiers surnamed Fang on the Korean front, and it is precisely because of their existence that the original unfavorable situation has been gradually reversed.
Faced with the gradual reversal of the situation by the volunteers, the US military was naturally unwilling.
Movement warfare can be inferior to the Chinese army, after all, the terrain in the north of Korea is not conducive to the mechanization of the American army.
The fortification of positions can be inferior to the Chinese army, after all, the American soldiers are not as deadly as the Chinese soldiers.
But if the sniper warfare between positions is not as good as the Chinese army, not to mention that other countries will look down on their boss, even the United States itself will despise itself.
Although the United States is not the originator of sniper warfare, throughout World War II, the United States' sniper warfare was also throughout the whole process, and its experience was not much worse than that of other participating countries, and its technology was even the best among them.
As for the post-war period, among the countless technical personnel recruited from Germany, there were many senior experts who had in-depth research on sniper warfare, and with their help, the United States made great strides in sniper warfare, and today it has far occupied the leading ranks in the world.
And China dared to argue with the world's top sniper power with a few bolted old guns in its hands, which is simply Tai Sui's head breaking ground, which is really tired and crooked.
Therefore, the U.S. military quickly selected a group of veterans who were proficient in sniper warfare from the army and marines, including many sniper experts who had participated in World War II, and gathered them together and sent them to North Korea.
At the same time, the "Springfield" rifle, which is suitable for sniper warfare, has been improved, more precise scopes and rangefinder telescopes have been added, and the structure of the bullet warhead has been adjusted.
The barrel has also been adjusted accordingly, thickening the wall and increasing rifling to accommodate the high impact of the new sniper bullet.
Not only that, the U.S. military also frantically modified the M2 heavy machine gun with a 12.7mm caliber into a sniper, equipped with a scope, filled with a buffer device, reinforced the support frame, and cooperated with 8 rifling wires in the barrel, so that the M2 heavy machine gun has a strong long-distance sniper ability.
It is no exaggeration to say that the power of the M2 is no less than the "Bartlet" heavy sniper rifle that appeared decades later, and in the case of continuous shooting, the firepower output is even more ferocious than the "Bartlet".
Relying on this set of super configurations from hardware to software, the US military has regained the situation, and while inflicting great casualties on the volunteers, it has also curbed the frequent cross-border infiltration activities of the volunteers.
For a time, it even affected the ongoing armistice talks in Korea, making the US military, which was disgraced because of Shangganling, very proud for a long time, thus making the US side's attitude more and more tough and arrogant.
War is a continuation of politics.
If you can't reach the goal at the negotiating table, you have to extend it to the battlefield to get it.
Seeing that the U.S. military was gradually hardening due to sniper warfare, the Volunteer Army Command also became ruthless, constantly selecting sharpshooters from various units to enrich the front line and confront the U.S. military.
However, the Chinese army has no formal experience in sniper warfare at all, and in the past, it worked hard to train commanders and fighters in shooting skills against the enemy with one shot in order to save bullets.
So there are sharpshooters in the volunteer army, but there are no professional snipers.
The distance within 200 meters can be very accurate, but 500 meters away can only look at people and sigh.
Relying on the close cooperation of the sniper team, the US military can not only accurately observe the target at a distance of 500 meters, but also easily kill the observed target with a special sniper rifle.
If you use a heavy sniper rifle modified from the M2 heavy machine gun, it is not a problem to hit the target at a distance of 800 meters.
Experience, technology and tactics, the volunteers are all lagging behind.
If it weren't for the iron will and fighting spirit of the volunteers themselves, if they were replaced by other armies, it is estimated that they would have been demoralized by the snipers of the US army, and they would have collapsed for thousands of miles.
However, the Volunteer Army Headquarters was still worried, and on the one hand, it accelerated the frequency of troop rotation in order to ensure morale, and on the other hand, it stepped up efforts to study the corresponding tactics in order to find better tactics against the enemy.
It was under this circumstance that Zhu Yingqi received a notice of brainstorming, because he not only served as the director of the Support Bureau of the Logistics Department of the Volunteer Army, but now he is also the representative of the Baiyun Factory.
And after Zhu Yingqi received the notice, he only thought of Bai Yi, except for this young man, it is estimated that no one can solve the urgent needs of the volunteers in terms of technology, so Zhu Yingqi took the Air Force transport plane to the capital without saying a word and came to Bai Yi for help.
"That's the way it is!"
After the basic briefing, Zhu Yingqi breathed a long sigh of relief, took off the hat on his head, rubbed his somewhat bald forehead, and couldn't help but sigh, and then said: "At present, the casualties on the front line are not as heavy as in the previous battles, but the precarious tension still makes it difficult for the soldiers, and casualties can happen at any time. ”
Zhu Yingqi pointed to his eyebrows, and his tone became more and more sad: "The whole head is broken, his family, and my family used to be a health team, after receiving the notice, he was ready to go to the border to pick up the corpse, when passing by where I was, holding the four-year-old child and telling my family that Lao Pan had survived the 20,000-mile Long March, eight years of resistance against Japan, and three years of liberation, but he didn't survive in North Korea, I was in the back room, I heard me......"
As he spoke, Zhu Yingqi raised his head upward, tears rolling in his eyes, but with the next sentence, he was stunned: "I don't say anything about revenge, I just want to do what I can to let more comrades-in-arms and soldiers go home safely!" ”