This afternoon, Liu Yimin spent the afternoon in the sniper platoon. When he came, Wang Tongsheng, the leader of the sniper platoon, was leading the soldiers to practice their shooting posture.

Seeing the soldiers practicing seriously, Liu Yimin was very satisfied, and after waiting for a while, he called Wang Tongsheng over and asked about the training. Wang Tongsheng reported that after the platoon was reorganized in the west, the number of personnel increased by eight, and now there are 30 people. The original 22 people were all good hands in the 18th Red Regiment and the 34th Division's top soldier company, and their marksmanship was good, and the new 8 people were found from the Red Army reorganized by the Xiangjiang River, and they were all old Red Army, and their marksmanship was also very good. However, since its establishment, the sniper platoon has not been tested in actual combat, nor has it hit targets, and the specific situation needs to be known through combat.

Liu Yimin asked Wang Tongsheng how his shooting level was, and Wang Tongsheng smiled embarrassedly and said that there is a shot within 100 meters, 150 meters depends on the target situation, and 200 meters must be a fixed target. Liu Yimin knew that this was a master, because the Red Army did not have a professional sniper rifle, and it was not easy to reach this level with ordinary rifles.

Liu Yimin asked if the other fighters could reach this level, and Wang Tongsheng still said the same thing, and he would not know until the next battle test. Liu Yimin told Wang Tongsheng that when the battle was not too busy, he would write a professional sniper textbook and lead the soldiers to train together. Now there are combat missions at any time, and the focus is on training how to find and establish sniper positions, how to discover key targets at the first time, and how to clarify the sniper sequence.

Wang Tongsheng said that I will gather the soldiers and ask the regiment commander to give a brief talk first. Liu Yimin said yes.

After a while, the soldiers gathered around Liu Yimin. Liu Yimin asked everyone to sit down on the spot and told the soldiers how to choose a sniper position, how to camouflage and conceal and transfer positions, and pay attention to covering each other in pairs. Then tell everyone that the order in which snipers snipe targets on the battlefield, the first target is the enemy sniper, but now [***] has no sense of sniper warfare, there can be no professional snipers, at best there are individual sharpshooters. Therefore, the first target of the sniper platoon when fighting [***] is the commander, especially the supreme commander of the battlefield, in view of the fact that [***] especially the soldiers of the Central Army have a weak sense of combat and weak cohesion, killing the enemy's supreme commander can easily cause confusion and even lead to rout. Therefore, the timely detection and elimination of the enemy's battlefield Supreme Commander is the primary task of the sniper platoon, and the No. 1 sniper team should be assigned to undertake this task. The second is the middle and lower level commanders who are led by the enemy to charge, and if they kill a company commander, the charge of this company may be stopped immediately, and these middle and lower level commanders must be discovered and killed at the first time, causing chaos in the enemy's organizational system. The second target was the enemy's gunners, and the enemy's artillery posed the greatest threat to the Red Army, and taking out the enemy's artillery and using it for us was an important link in winning the battle. The third target is the enemy's machine gunners, especially heavy machine gunners, which must be eliminated in time for battle. If the above-mentioned combat objectives and tasks are completed, our army will be invincible.

One of the fighters asked, "If these targets are eliminated, can they be withdrawn?" ”

Liu Yimin said: "Yes." However, the specific situation is analyzed on a case-by-case basis. If both sides are fighting, the sniper platoon should immediately launch cover fire and eliminate any targets that have a big impact on me. Let's think about it, the sniper platoon is the essence of the troops, it can be said that a bullet is an enemy, basically no bullets are missing, in the case of the enemy is defenseless, your platoon kills a round of shooting is the enemy's platoon, if each person shoots ten bullets, that is nearly three companies of the enemy. So it is crucial for the sniper platoon to go into battle. ”

Another soldier said, "Then if the troops were charged, we would not be able to aim and shoot like that as soon as we went up and fought with bayonets." ”

Liu Yimin said: "The training of the sniper platoon is to shoot calmly, shoot accurately, and use bullets to talk to the enemy, and no one is allowed to order the sniper platoon to participate in the charge and fight bayonets at any time, and the lives of 100 enemies cannot be exchanged for the life of one of our snipers." Of course, you are still far from the requirements of a sniper, and you can only be regarded as a top shooter. When our Red Army rebuilds its base areas in the future, we will try to buy professional sniper rifles with scopes and silencers, conduct professional training, and strive to take out all the targets that we think should be killed within 1,000 meters. Now the conditions do not exist, there is no good equipment, and it is impossible to conduct professional training, so we can only rely on learning and accumulating experience in battle. ”

"1000 meters? Oh my boy, what kind of gun is that? One of the fighters exclaimed.

"Sniper rifles are produced in a number of countries with a developed military industry in Europe and the United States. For example, the Soviet Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, with a scope magnification of 4 times, a combat rate of fire of 10-20 rounds per minute, and a killing distance of 2,000 meters. The German sniper rifle is the K98 rifle, which belongs to the same Mauser rifle as the Type 79 rifle in our hands, the difference is that it is equipped with a scope, and the K98 sniper rifle equipped with a 4x scope can easily shoot targets at 400 meters, and if you choose a 6x scope, you can shoot targets at 1000 meters. Liu Yimin replied.

Wang Tongsheng looked envious, as if there was a brand-new sniper rifle in front of him, rubbed his hands, and spat into the palm of his hand. Liu Yimin looked funny, so he said: "Wang Tongsheng, is it itchy?" ”

Wang Tongsheng said: "Regiment commander, you don't know, if there is such a good gun, we can shoot two miles away, and when the enemy finds out that the commander has been killed by us, we can run quietly, where are they going to chase us." ”

Liu Yimin said; "We don't have professional sniper rifles, we can make our own. Wang Tongsheng, you go to find a telescope, find a craftsman to divide it into two monoculars, and then fix it on a rifle, and try how the effect is. ”

Wang Tongsheng said: "That's it, why didn't I think of it? ”

Liu Yimin said: "A good sniper is an intellectual warrior, who must be cool-headed, observant, and think of ways at all times. You go to the new barracks to see if there are any Miao and Yao warriors who can use bows and arrows, find a few of them, and teach our soldiers that the sniper platoon can not only use guns, but also use bows and arrows to fight silently. ”

Wang Tongsheng said: "Yes, resolutely carry out the order." ”

One soldier said: "I ponder, the sniper that the regiment commander said is what we call a cold gun." We use it a lot in battle, but it doesn't have much effect. ”

Liu Yimin said: "Wrong. There is an essential difference between sniping and shooting a cold gun. Shooting cold shots is to play the role of a special shooter in battle, and it is done by chance. Sniping is the conscious training of snipers, and the conscious sniping of the enemy's key objects and key targets. Most of the time, snipers act alone from large units. What you may not know is that a good sniper can sometimes change the outcome of a battle, or even the outcome of a war. ”

The eyes of the soldiers aroused Liu Yimin's interest and began to flicker.

"Let me tell you a story, it's called the unfired shot. It is said that during the American Reading War, the British Army had a famous gun designer named Patrick #8226; Ferguson, he is also an excellent sniper. At that time, he was using an old-fashioned smoothbore flintstone gun with an effective killing range of 73 meters. U.S. snipers, on the other hand, use Kentucky rifles, which have an effective range of 180 meters. The most lethal thing is that the flint gun is a breech-loading ammunition, which is slow to reload and cannot be reloaded in a lying position, which is very easy to expose the target. The difference in equipment put Ferguson at a constant disadvantage in the confrontation with American snipers. In one battle, Ferguson, in the advantageous position of spotting the target before his opponent, did not hit the enemy because the range of his weapon was not reached, but was wounded by his opponent because he opened his gun. Therefore, he was determined to develop a breech-loading rifle with a range of more than 180 meters. Later, he finally created the world's first rear-loading rifle, the Ferguson rifle, and the various rifles we use today are his descendants. In 1776, Ferguson conducted a show shooting at an arsenal in England. Ferguson shot a cow in the eye 91 meters away with his gun. The British top brass decided on the spot to produce 100 Ferguson rifles and form a special unit with Ferguson rifles. Ferguson and this unit inflicted heavy casualties on the American troops. At one time, they were surrounded by American troops. Ferguson commanded his troops to calmly break through with a new tactic of shooting from a lying position, and there were no casualties. After a successful breakout, Ferguson spotted an American officer on horseback and turned away, and he quickly aimed at the back of the officer's head. At this time, the distance between the two people was only 114 meters, and one hit was a must. Unexpectedly, Ferguson suddenly put away his guns and ordered the troops to retreat. Did you know? The officer's name was George. Washington is now the founding president of the United States, the most powerful country in the world. ”

"Oh my God, if he had shot, wouldn't there have been any Americas?" One of the warriors exclaimed.

Liu Yimin glanced at the warrior: "History has no assumptions. But historians also admit that Ferguson gave up an opportunity to change history. ”

"Then why didn't he shoot?" The warrior continued.

"Why didn't he shoot? We are not parties and do not know what he really thought at the time. However, many people believe that Washington had his back to Ferguson at that time, and the gentlemanly demeanor of the British made Ferguson reluctant to shoot Washington from behind. Whatever the reason, Ferguson didn't shoot that bullet after all. Ironically, Ferguson was killed by American snipers at a distance of 411 meters at the Battle of Kings Hill on August 7, 1780. ”

The warrior smashed his mouth and said, "It's a pity."

"What's your name?" Liu Yimin asked the fighter.

"Report to the regiment commander, Li Buffalo, a soldier of the sniper platoon of the Red Eighteenth Regiment, reports to you. Please instruct. ”

Looking at Li Buffalo's standard military posture, Liu Yimin's eyes were full of smiles. In just a few days, the soldiers of the 18th Regiment have learned the standard military posture from him, and the power of example is endless. After Liu Yimin returned the salute, he said: "Comrade Li Buffalo, do you know, in the American Reading War, the American sniper Murphy killed Simon, a British general who led the team to investigate. Fraser, which led to the bankruptcy of the British breakout plan. The battle was a turning point in America's Reading War, and Murphy fired perhaps the most valuable bullet in human history. Therefore, if you want to be a good sniper, you can't talk about gentlemanly demeanor when completing tasks. Snipers learn to shoot their heads with guns, whether they are in the back of the head. ”

Li Buffalo said: "Don't worry, the regiment commander, my bullets are designed to hit the enemy's brains and scare them to death." ”

Liu Yimin said to the soldiers: "Think about it, if our army and the enemy encounter in the next battle, the sniper platoon can quickly establish a concealed sniper position, and then the enemy's officers, gunners, and machine gunners are killed one after another, can the enemy still fight with us?" I'm afraid that the enemy will soon collapse. ”

Wang Tongsheng said: "That's it." The soldiers of the White Bandit Army are basically drawn from Latin, and their sense of battle is extremely poor, and if there is no officer to lead them, the team will soon disperse. If the enemy is a regiment, if we enter the battlefield before the enemy prepares, and we shoot down in one round, it is very likely that we will kill the enemy's company and platoon commander, and then the battle will be one-sided. ”

Liu Yimin patted Wang Tongsheng's shoulder: "Yes." You have to figure out with your fighters how to disguise yourself so that the enemy can't find out, such as dyeing your clothes the same color as dead grass and leaves, how to find a suitable position, how to organize and match to better use your shooting skills, etc. Remember, in addition to a high level of education and shooting, the fighters who enter the sniper platoon must also have a high sense of secrecy and must not let the enemy know about our new tactics. ”

Wang Tongsheng said: "If this is done, it will be a completely new way of fighting, and the equipment needs to be improved. ”

Liu Yimin felt that this Wang Tongsheng was very receptive, and it seemed that he had the quality of special operations, so he said: "The next time there is a capture in the battle, the sniper platoon should give priority to equipping itself with binoculars, pistols, daggers, and watches, and other equipment will be gradually added." In fact, it costs a lot of money to equip a qualified sniper. We are now in the process of transferring, and the conditions do not allow it. You first find out for yourselves, especially when you take the telescope apart and put it on the rifle, and then test it immediately. If it works, you can use it first. When the conditions are good in the future, it will be assembled according to the standard. ”

Seeing that there was still time, Liu Yimin taught the soldiers to learn sign language, but he didn't expect that these old Red Army receptives were not bad, and they had basically mastered them in a short time.

Liu Yimin told Wang Tongsheng to lead the soldiers to continue practicing, and to discuss according to what he just said, it is best to practice in formation in a group of two. Wang Tongsheng said that the regiment commander should rest assured that they are all veterans, and they can understand it at one point, and they will practice seriously. Liu Yimin smiled, patted Wang Tongsheng on the shoulder, and went back to the regiment headquarters with the correspondent.

After dinner, Liu Yimin was discussing with Cai Zhong how to speed up the progress of making dry food, shoes and socks, when a correspondent from the Red Army Headquarters came to Liu Yimin and said that [***] was looking for him and Political Commissar Cai. Liu Yimin discussed with Cai Zhong, told Liu Jianli to pay attention to strengthening vigilance, and left with the correspondent.