"Sniping?" O'Connor exchanged a look with Harrington, "Like the Kentucky riflemen did during the Revolutionary War?" ”

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During the Revolutionary War, Kentucky riflemen in the Continental Army took advantage of the range and accuracy of their front-loading rifled rifles to perform a number of sniper missions, killing many British commanders in battle. General Flesser; In reality, though, they're not really snipers - strictly speaking, Kentucky riflemen aren't snipers but sharpshooters, and while the two terms are often confused in translation, they don't actually mean exactly the same thing...... Or position, but if you want to be a sniper, you need a lot more than shooting skills.

The first is skills, in addition to shooting skills, snipers also need to master camouflage, wilderness survival, first aid, stealth...... There is also reconnaissance, because sometimes they also need to undertake battlefield reconnaissance and surveillance tasks, so snipers must also understand the map, and then they must also have a good psychological quality, after all, unlike ordinary soldiers, snipers can always clearly see every target they kill......

Qin Lang took a moment to explain to O'Connor and Harrington: what is a sniper in the modern sense, the tasks they can perform, and the standard mission methods, but he still retains some secrets and does not tell all the knowledge he has - O'Connor and Harrington are not stupid, if they say it too clearly, they can complete the sniper tactics and rules without any advice from him.

He had to think a little more about himself.

“…… For the time being, I can only think of this, and the specific tactics and rules need more time to be conceived, but I think it is necessary for us to form a special tactical team of this kind. Using this passage to end his speech, Qin Lang stopped and looked at the other two people in the office, waiting for them to express their opinions.

No, he doesn't need their opinions, he just needs their nods in agreement.

But O'Connor and Harrington thought about it for a moment. It must be said that Qin Lang's special tactics and his request to form a task force to carry out such tactics did not surprise them, as long as O'Connor and Harrington could get the same idea after a few weeks of serious consideration, the only problem was that they never thought about it that way. But the mission rules mentioned by Qin Lang, but more importantly, his skill requirements for snipers, will be too high?

"I can understand the importance of shooting technique and physical fitness to a soldier who takes on such a task, Qin," O'Connor spread his hands, "but the others, mental quality, camouflage skills, wilderness survival skills, basic first aid knowledge...... I haven't even heard of these terms, and you want our soldiers to master them...... Qin, although very reluctant, I must point out that it is crazy. ”

Harrington nodded approvingly.

Qin Lang raised his eyebrows almost imperceptibly. "But these skills are necessary for the members of the sniper team to carry out their missions."

"However, they are beyond the reach of a soldier." O'Connor shook his head.

"And it is likely that it will be more difficult and time-consuming to train a soldier like this than to train an army second lieutenant." Harrington also warned, "The investment is huge, and you're going to have to raise their salaries." ”

"There's also potential damage." O'Connor went on to offer a second warning, "If such a sniper group that we have carefully cultivated is lost in battle, or if its members suddenly leave the company, it will cause serious losses." I don't think the company can afford it. ”

Qin Lang admitted that they were all right, and his requirements were indeed very high, which would make it difficult to carry out training. Moreover, soldiers at the end of the nineteenth century generally did not have a good basic education. A hundred years later, an American soldier would only need five weeks of training at Fort Benning and pass it – though more than half of the elimination rate would be able to become a rookie sniper, while his mercenaries would need at least ten weeks of intensive training to do so, and possibly longer.

But he won't change his opinion.

"None of that is a problem, the most important one is that we need these kinds of soldiers." He insisted, then reminded, "And the average mercenary has already mastered a considerable part of the skills they need to master, and the next thing to do is to strengthen them." ”

Intensified, more and more strenuous training, but there is always someone who can endure it, and he will get the soldiers he wants.

Qin Lang wants to do this.

O'Connor and Harrington exchanged glances again. Obviously, it was impossible for them to insist on anything in this situation - since Qin Lang's attitude was so resolute, it was almost impossible to stop him unless the matter was submitted to the board of directors for adjudication, but the board of directors ...... Even without considering the well-known fact that three board members were not there, O'Connor did not want to see representatives of the five consortiums.

They are always people outside the company, and one day, they will be completely set aside.

"In that case, I'll start the selection process among the mercenaries immediately." O'Connor said, "But, you know, we have four brigades in Canton Bay. ”

"In the troops in Guangzhou Bay, I will let Yi Shui be responsible for selecting snipers." Qin Lang nodded at him, "Sean, everything here is up to you." ”

"But what about training?" Harrington asked.

"I'm afraid the initial training will have to be done by me."

"You're really going to get yourself in trouble, Qin." O'Connor shook his head and let out a long sigh. There are still too few people in the company who can make a difference.

He then left with Harrington and returned to their own office to discuss the specifics of the selection process. After the end of the holiday from Christmas to New Year's, the official selection can begin.

This was almost a Christmas gift for Qin Lang, and he also received another Christmas present: the Umbrella military advisors, who had just arrived in China two weeks earlier, had their first contest with the German military advisers of the Beiyang New Army, and had achieved a small victory in the confrontation on paper.

Of course, it was only the military advisory group that thought it was a victory, the Germans insisted that the two sides ended up in a draw, and Yuan Shikai, who was in charge of training the new army, gave them limited support - but more often than not, Qin Lang thought that he was appreciating the infighting between the two groups of foreign devils - and the reason for the disagreement was not complicated at all: the German advisers believed that there was not enough evidence to prove that the infantry could withstand the cavalry attack with the support of barbed wire and trenches, and inflicted heavy casualties on the cavalry, And they scoffed at the fact that American advisers had placed troops in trenches.

"A true warrior should face the enemy's bullets and bayonets, and only the cowardly should hide in the trenches", Qin Lang felt that only the generals of the Japanese Army would make such a declaration, but this was the comment of one of the German advisers relayed by Shepard, and if you think about it carefully, the soldiers of all countries in this era are such madmen - except for the Americans, the cowardly Yankees during the civil war liked to hide in foxholes and trenches, and as a result, they won, and "bravely marched forward in the face of the enemy's bullets and bayonets" of Southern warriors lost the war - so the American Southern sentiment is by no means without reason, at least visually, the Southern soldiers are more flamboyant and more exciting......

Despite the fact that the enthusiastic audience almost never needs to go to the battlefield to face enemy bullets and bayonets.

Qin Lang wanted to laugh very much, but in the end, he couldn't help but laugh out loud and continued to read the valuable telegram sent to him by Shepard, in the last part of this telegram of 3,000 words, the major said that after the New Year, they would have a second contest with the German advisers, and each side would command a thousand soldiers to conduct an actual combat exercise, of course, if there was no accident, the Germans would complain angrily that the Americans were as timid as mice.

The Major was full of confidence, and so was Qin Lang, but he finally decided to remind Shepard a little and keep him vigilant, after all, behind this contest was a gamble between him and Morgan, and Qin Lang didn't want to accidentally lose the Hommel Food Company.

He wrote a reply to the Major, but he could only send it after the New Year, because most people were now on leave - including his secretary. So it also made him even more interested in getting a Tesla radio.

Of course, Morgan had promised to sell him four experimental radios, but that would also have to wait until after the New Year. Although the railroad was still in operation, the technicians who assembled and commissioned the still delicate installations were on leave, and no problems could be solved without their help.

"Damn Christmas." Qin Lang muttered in a low voice, changed to a more comfortable position in his chair, rested for a few minutes, and then began to continue creating his sniper and camouflage textbook. Unfortunately, he wasn't very good at writing, and he often stopped to think about which word to use, or simply sat there in a daze, so the whole creative process seemed very slow.

When it was completely dark, Qin Lang found that he had only written a thousand words; Undoubtedly, too little.

"Maybe I should have hired a professional writer to help me with it, but ......," he sighed, shook his head and shook the thought out of his head, and got back to work.

It's the only thing he can do this Christmas. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )