Section 28 The establishment of the sharpshooter
Through the shooting competition, Long Qian selected ten people from the four companies, established a sharpshooter team, and appointed Xu Gongzhi as the captain.
These soldiers were the elite of each company, and Wang Mingyuan and other company commanders immediately expressed their dissent. Elite soldiers are the wealth of the companies, and no one wants to siphon them away.
For this reason, Long Qian summoned the commanders of each company and the members of the sharpshooter team to hold a meeting and talked about his intention to establish the sharpshooter team and his plan for using the sharpshooter team in the future.
Recently, the meeting has become the most significant symbol of Long Qian, and general issues are discussed and decided at the meeting. People who were confused or amused by it at first liked the format. But Long Qian strictly stipulates the method of the meeting and the discipline of the meeting, and the most important one is that once a resolution is formed, even if you oppose it, it must be implemented unconditionally.
"In modern army tactics, there is a very effective tactic, and that is sniping. Sniping is different from blocking, blocking is passive and helpless, for example, we are trapped in Mengshan to resist the officers and troops in the Tianmen area, which is a typical blocking battle. But sniping is active, active, generally individual and small, and its operational purpose is to eliminate enemy commanders, soldiers in important positions, such as machine gunners, gunners, etc. The purpose of the sharpshooter team was to train snipers. In the future, they will either act alone or be part of each company. The role of a good sniper is difficult to describe in words, it is not comparable to a few, dozens of ordinary soldiers. Long Qian introduced his original intention and mission of establishing the Sharpshooter Team.
Xu Gongzhi and other members of the team who were selected as sharpshooters became excited, and their faces were filled with pride.
"But a sharpshooter is not the same as a sniper." Long Qian glanced at the triumphant Xu Gongzhi, "A sharpshooter is the foundation of a sniper, and it is impossible to become a sniper without accurate marksmanship." In sniper tactics, there is usually only one chance to fire at a selected target, which requires the first hit. The premise of guaranteeing a starting hit is that you must hit every shot. But in addition, there are many things that snipers have to master, such as makeup, concealment, choosing positions, measuring distance and wind speed, identifying their own sniper targets, and must also have strong individual combat skills and field survivability...... It is very difficult to train a qualified sniper, and it is impossible for me to use a sniper as a one-time consumable. What I mean by that is that you get beaten to death after completing one or two missions. So, you're still a long way off, Xu Gongzhi, you understand? ”
Xu Gongzhi stood up and replied loudly, "Understood." ”
"No, you don't understand. But you just have to understand that you need to learn more to be a sniper. Long Qian waved his hand and asked Xu Gongzhi to sit down.
"Commander, after going around, these soldiers will not return to my company in the future." Seal the country pillar road.
"Whatever yours and his, they all belong to the Mengshan Army." Long Qian said coldly, Shantou Doctrine can't be talked about yet, but it must be paid attention to, "In the future, you will understand how useful a sniper assigned to your company is." ”
Feng Guozhu, who had been trained, glanced at Wang Mingyuan, and saw that the old man was half-squinting and pretending to be listening to Long Qian's speech, and said in his heart Fuck, this kid is getting more and more cunning, I always stand up for him, and he is a good person there. His company was drawn out of three, and I only had two, and I don't believe he doesn't feel distressed.
As a result of the meeting, of course, no one could stop Long Qian from forming a sharpshooter team.
Long Qian served as the instructor of the sharpshooter, he set up the training subjects and training syllabus for the sharpshooter, the basic physical training is similar to that of an ordinary company, once a day for more than ten miles to run the mountain with weights, a hundred push-ups a day is a must, and the rest makes people who occasionally visit the training of the sharpshooter feel bored.
Long Qian was not in a hurry to increase the amount of live-ammunition training, on the one hand, he gave targeted guidance and practice to their arm strength and camouflage survival knowledge, and on the other hand, it was similar to the education of cultural classes, training them how to find the most valuable targets in the enemy's ranks, and how to judge the enemy's commanders and combat backbones. Gradually, the content became more difficult, and with the increase in the amount of live ammunition shooting, how to calculate the wind speed, the influence of the wind direction on the shooting, how to calculate the amount of advance, etc., in the eyes of Xu Gongzhi, the content that was somewhat difficult increased.
Xu Gongzhi's sharpshooter team was most interested in the camouflage technique that Long Qian had taught them, because at first Long Qian's problem was to order them to rush to the designated place to find him in an hour, but they failed to find it within the allotted time three times. Once Long Qian actually hid in a sewage pit after a flash flood, on which the drowned small animal carcasses floated, looking extremely disgusting. Long Qian was holding a blowpipe made of plant rhizomes, and his body was all hidden in a puddle, and ten people walked around in a daze and couldn't find it. When Long Qian himself came out of the puddle, they were taken aback.
"Xu Gongzhi, if it's a real battle, you've already died once." Long Qian began to reprimand like that, "Snipers are meant to appear in places where the enemy can't think of them, protecting yourself is the premise of destroying the enemy, think about it yourself, you can wash your body if it is dirty, and can you still fix it if your head is opened?" ”
The ensuing training made the Xu Gongzhi miserable, in their opinion, the motionless and still lurking was the hardest, not allowed to sleep, not allowed to move, just staring at the fleeting target that might appear in front of them. The only two telescopes were there to watch, and whoever moved and who was exposed was immediately written down, and those who made ten mistakes were expelled from the sharpshooter team.
Individual combat is followed by two-player or three-player cooperation, where you need to master various gestures and learn various insect chirpings that represent different meanings. Basically, verbal conversation is forbidden after entering the combat area, and all information communication needs to be silent or disguised. These trainings were also extremely boring for the Xu Gongzhi.
The only thing that excites them is live shooting, and every day they shoot ten bullets, which makes the stingy Song Jinguo deeply distressed. Xu Gongzhi's sharpshooter team really wanted to learn Commander Long's otherworldly marksmanship, but Long Qian gave them no secrets, everything can be controlled, distance calculation, climate influence, and firing stability can all be mastered through training.
Where to shoot, head, or chest? Long Qian generally requires a shot in the head, unless there is a special requirement, such as to hurt the target without killing it.
There are also the skills to escape, including self-rescue and mutual rescue. Many times, snipers will expose their targets after completing a sniper mission, and will be suppressed by enemy heavy firearms. After understanding the danger of the sniper, the opponent will not hesitate to use all means to eliminate the sniper. Therefore, snipers must learn to escape after completing the mission and save themselves and each other after being injured. This is a series of systematic training, but Long Qian can only give them a start, the team members need to explore their own experience, and then communicate with each other. They must set subjects with each other to simulate the completion of tasks in various situations, including the selection of positions, alternate positions, escape routes, as well as camouflage.
The team members must master individual combat skills that are stronger than the average soldier. This includes hand-to-hand combat and white-knuckle combat. No one dares to say that snipers do not encounter close combat.
The training went on in fits and starts for about two and a half months, during which time Long Qian eliminated three players who he considered unqualified. The first batch of seven qualified team members were considered graduates, and three of them were appointed by Long Qian as instructors to train the next batch of team members. The second batch of training teams has a new name, which is the sniper training class.
"Everything is subordinated to the big picture of the operation. This requires you to grasp the purpose of the battle better than the average soldier, and then complete the sniper mission according to the requirements of your superiors. Remember. The Sniper is not a killing machine, but one of the guarantees of victory for the whole team. This requires the sniper to know which targets must be killed and which are not. I will not trade a well-trained sniper for an unworthy target for the enemy. In an army, victory is the only goal, anyone is a pawn to ensure victory, and your task is to eliminate the most threatening targets for the battle, the enemy's commanders, soldiers in important posts, and the backbone of the battle...... It doesn't matter what other people think of you, when the next battle starts, they'll understand what a sniper is all about. ”
Since the establishment of the sharpshooter team, Long Qian has issued a series of preferential treatment orders, such as the amount of live-ammunition training that ordinary soldiers envy, such as sewing special clothes for them. The funniest thing is that the female soldiers of the logistics group sewed according to the pattern drawn by Long Qian, such as the colorful butterfly clothes of Lao Laizi on the stage, which made the soldiers of the Mengshan Army deeply amused, but the sniper put on this funny hundred clothes and hid in the bushes, and a group of people couldn't find any trace of him, so they understood the magic of that dress.
Long Qian did not yet have the conditions for a live-ammunition confrontation, although he really wanted to come to such a confrontation exercise to test the results of his military training.
"Don't say strange things, you will see their power." Recently, Long Qian's interest has shifted to the training of the staff team, and he said confidently about the occasional complaints from the company commanders about the sniper team, most of which is the waste of bullets.