"A little direction, fat machine gunner" As soon as Mao San, who was serving as a sniper observer, said something, Ma Quan, who was lying next to him, had already pulled the trigger, the muzzle of the gun jumped slightly, and the fat machine gunner who was locked by Mao San leaned back and disappeared into the binoculars. Mao San's sniper squad was the most advanced group of snipers, and Ma Quan, who was the main shooter, had already emptied four magazines, and a full 20 soldiers of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army fell under his guns.

Unlike other snipers, in Ma Quan's target ranking, he always likes to hit those targets that pose a threat to himself and his companions first, and as for enemy officers and other targets, he will piggyback on a few at most. Officers, heralds, gunners, machine gunners, and then ordinary soldiers, which is the order of the other snipers' targets, but Ma Quan is the herald and ambulance who hit the enemy first, followed by the machine gunner and gunner-grenadier, and finally the turn of the officer and ordinary soldier.

Ma Quan is the fastest one among this batch of reserve snipers, even Zhang Jinquan can't compare to him, while other snipers lock on and knock down two targets, Ma Quan can often knock down at least 5 or more targets, which is why the sniper instructor ignores the reason for Ma Quan's abnormal target ordering. When Mao San was looking for the next target, Ma Quan, who was lying in the shallow pit, fired another shot, and a junior officer in the opposing position fell on his back, and the bullet shot by Ma Quan went through the telescope and exploded the head of the Japanese officer.

The miraculous attack of the sniper unit made the officers of the 20th Division on the front frenzied, the soldiers could be afraid and cowered, but they couldn't, they were officers, officers representing the emperor's will. The opponent's silent attack lasted less than ten minutes, and the 20th Division suffered more than 2,000 casualties, among these 2,000 people, there were very few officers, and the most casualties were those fools who were so strong and strong, as long as they dared to expose their bodies to cover, they would definitely become the next unlucky ones to be shot and fall to the ground.

In order to dispel the panic in the hearts of the front-line soldiers, the 20th Division organized some junior officers to fire back instead of machine gunners, and the senior officers in the 20th Division had already judged from the bullet holes on the bullet soldiers that the opponent had used a sniper offensive, and whether it was a light machine gun or a heavy machine gun, the sniper of the opponent could be suppressed, and the machine guns could be concentrated together and the use of scattering on the speculated area could cover the area where the opponent's snipers were hiding. Whether or not they can shoot the opponent's snipers is still second, the 20th Division is to suppress the opponent's snipers, and then send a small elite squad to go up and engage in melee combat with the opponent's snipers.

In fact, Japan was the first country in Asia to have snipers in its combat units, and in some respects, the Japanese army's elite snipers have surpassed their teacher, Germany, and they are more suitable as snipers than their teachers. The reason why the Japanese army did not have a large number of snipers like Zhao Zhi was mainly because of the lack of materials, and the cost of training and equipping a sniper was at least enough for the Japanese army's main combat unit to have an extra squad of ordinary soldiers.

With the birth of the Thunder Sniper, sniper courses were also set up in Japan's military academies that train reserve officers, and the Japanese army headquarters did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to invite senior sniper instructors from Germany to teach sniper tactics. The tank division that came later had a Japanese sniper unit of 100 people, although they were only cadets who had not graduated from the sniper school, but this did not prevent them from fighting, compared to those ordinary soldiers who had lost the heart of battle, these sniper cadets called the 20th Division a lifesaver to turn the situation around.

"Gentlemen, I would like to say that you are too optimistic, the other side will definitely not have less than 200 snipers, and their ability is much stronger than these students of mine. For the sake of the future of these children, I still hope that you will consider withdrawing them, otherwise I cannot guarantee what the outcome will be. The German Slimhausen, who served as a sniper instructor, did not agree to send his students into battle, and after examining the bullet holes in some of the fallen soldiers, Slimhausen was already recoiled that even he himself could not deal with such a large number of opponents, let alone novices who had only been trained for half a year.

Of course, the 20th Division, which had no way out, would not agree to Slimhausen's proposal, and of course they did not expect these sniper cadets who had not yet graduated to defeat the other side, they just needed someone to contain the opposing snipers, so as to win opportunities and time for the melee troops advancing from the flanks and covertly. "Instructor, wait for our good news." The disguised sniper cadets bid farewell to instructor Slimhausen with the enthusiasm and persistence characteristic of young people, and then entered the front line of the defense line with the help of various covers on the battlefield, ready to face off against the opposing snipers.

The duel between the snipers is obviously not as thrilling and blood-boiling as in regular combat, and most of the time, the snipers on both sides spend time constantly moving and searching, and spend a lot of time waiting and catching. Snipers must endure loneliness and waiting, this is a phrase that every sniper will say when he is trained. The Japanese sniper students may not have been skilled in tactics, but the Japanese made up for this shortcoming, and in the first round of the duel between the two sides, the casualties between the Thunder reserve snipers and the Japanese sniper students were almost equal.

"Squads numbered 50 or more stop attacking and stand by collectively, and do not fire without an order, squads numbered 30 or higher turn to observers to find the position of the opponent's snipers, and squads below the number 30 act as the main attackers to clear the opponent's snipers." The casualties of the snipers in the actual battle did not surprise Zhang Jinquan, but the casualties in the first round of sniper duels exceeded 30, which made the confident Zhang Jinquan a little difficult to accept. As a sniper instructor, he has the right to make adjustments to the tactical arrangement of the snipers, and after obtaining Zhao Zhi's consent, Zhang Jinquan takes the elimination of the opposing snipers as his main task.

"Go to the two hundred squads to go to the two wings of the snipers, to prevent the Japanese from playing tricks, I think they will send snipers to entangle with us, it will never be as simple as a sniper duel, pay attention to the changes on the battlefield." Zhao Zhi is definitely the originator of the best small-scale combat in this era, and since the first encounter with the Japanese army in Shanxi, Zhao Zhi has been studying the tactics of the Japanese army every day. In this case, the 20th Division of the Japanese Army dared to send snipers to entangle with its own side, obviously with other plans.

Among the snipers who were divided into 100 teams by Zhang Jinquan according to the squad establishment, the snipers below the number 30 were all war veterans who had three combat experiences, and their psychological endurance was by no means comparable to that of the recruits, coupled with the new weapons and equipment equipped with the Thunder snipers, in the second round of the duel between the two sides, the snipers of the Thunder won 0 to 24. The sniper duel lasted only two rounds, and more than half of the sniper students on the Japanese side had already suffered casualties, and panic and impatience began to spread among the Japanese sniper students.

The next thing is much easier, 30 teams of 5-person Thunder snipers began to focus on searching for the remaining more than 40 sniper students on the other side, 60 against 40, this is a battle with extremely unequal strength. "You madmen, they're just children, and you're the ones who killed them." Just five minutes later, Slimhausen left the forward position of the 20th Division with tears on his face and a female cadet who was about to die, and the whole duel lasted only half an hour, and more than 100 snipers he had trained for half a year were shot and killed by the opposing snipers.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The forward position of the 20th Division suddenly burst out with mortars, and they still couldn't accurately lock on to the position of the Thunder Sniper, but what they originally wanted was the smoke and fire that rose after the mortar shells landed and exploded, because only in this way could the elite squads they sneaked in from both flanks have a chance to engage in close combat. The soldiers of the elite squad of the 20th Division, who had infiltrated from both flanks, shouted Long live the Emperor, and although they did not know the location of the Thunder Sniper, they clearly wanted to solve the problem with the light machine guns they carried.

The dense rain of bullets rushed towards the melee squad of the 20th Division, and the 100-man mercenary team that Zhao Zhi had arranged on both flanks in advance finally came in handy. Compared with the Browning machine gun equipped by the 100-person squad, the 100-type submachine gun in the hands of the 20th Division melee squad is nothing at all, Browning's toughness is the first time that the 20th Division has been taught, and the Browning machine gun that gave the Japanese army a headache on the Nanyang battlefield also gave the 20th Division melee squad a great surprise this time.

"Tell our snipers to pull back, the situation has changed a bit, and our deployment needs to be slightly adjusted." After defeating the opponent's melee forces, all the snipers were ordered to withdraw by Zhao Zhi. It was not that Zhao Zhi intended to withdraw these snipers, but Zhao Zhi had just received a battle report from China, and Wang Yaowu, who was eager for meritorious service, fell into the trap of the Japanese army, and the entire 74th Army was surrounded by two Kwantung Army divisions that suddenly appeared on the Hejian line between Baoding and Cangzhou.

It is said that Zhao Zhi should not worry about these things, there is still a youth army with more than 200,000 people in the Shandong Theater, but the youth army is now difficult to protect itself, and the Hebei Japanese puppet army, which has been patient, has finally accumulated a lot of money and surrounded the main force of the youth army in Xushui, north of Baoding. The total strength of the Japanese puppet army in Hebei exceeded 400,000 people, and the youth army was firmly surrounded in Xushui, and the northeast station of the military command also got the news that there were two Kwantung army divisions heading south to Hebei, and if they were rushed to Baoding, the youth army and the 74th army would not be able to avoid this bloody battle.

"Call Tang Lei to come to the headquarters, it's time for them to go to the event." The appearance of the Japanese tank division made Zhao Zhi see the dawn of controlling Kyushu Island as soon as possible, although those were light tanks, but they were still unbreakable in the face of the Kagoshima resistance forces that lacked heavy weapons, so Zhao Zhi planned to directly use Tang Lei's Qingfeng troops to solve the enemy on the opposite side once and for all.