The next lurking is a university question.

This is also a great feature of the Sniper...... Snipers, it's about hiding in places where enemies can't find or are hard to find, and then wait until the target appears to kill you with one hit!

As the saying goes, "the layman looks at the excitement, and the insider looks at the doorway"...... In the eyes of the layman, lurking is just finding a place to lie down, and then waiting for the target to appear without moving.

But it's not that simple......

The first is to choose a sniper position...... The location of this sniper position is not just a random one, the main reason is that our opponents are people, and maybe even enemy snipers.

This is where the problem becomes complicated...... We can't choose a position that is too sensitive, which means that the observation position and shooting angle are too good, such as the commanding heights of a high ground...... In such a position, as long as the Vietnamese army was a little suspicious or worried about the presence of enemy snipers, they would sweep through with machine guns or simply bombard with artillery fire.

And then this position should not be too bad, too bad will affect the viewing angle, or if the angle is too bad, then even if the target appears sniper, there is not much chance to kill it...... This becomes a position with no tactical value, and even if the sniper has the perseverance to lurk here for a few days and nights, it is useless.

So, what we have to do is to strike a balance between the two, which is to look for something that is not very sensitive and has tactical value.

So there are a lot of problems involved......

First of all, we have to get rid of positions that don't have tactical value, which is not an easy task because some of the high ground looks very good. And it's not obtrusive...... But it just doesn't have tactical value.

For example, the enemy in the road at the foot of the mountain to snipe. Then a jungle on the mountainside of the upper plateau may be a good choice...... This is not a sensitive area. The ability to also observe targets and control a large section of the road from this position seems ideal.

But when I really went up with a gun, I found that this was not the case...... The reason is that the depression angle between this place and the road at the foot of the mountain is too large, and the sniper must lie at a large depression angle for a long time in order to lurk here...... If it's a half-and-a-half, that's fine, and it's over after a long time...... Because the body is leaning forward, the weight of the whole body needs to be supported by the arm, so that the arm can move for a few hours. Not to mention shooting.

There may be a solution to this, which is to modify the environment a little (too much is likely to cause the enemy to be alerted) and adopt a flat lying down but the muzzle of the gun is facing down...... But when the target appears, it will be very tricky to find that because the depression angle is too large, it is almost like looking down at the target from the top, so the target is almost the size of the head......

Therefore, the best sniper position is not as high as possible, but a slightly higher five or six meters depending on the distance of the target, and a haode sniper position should be a position that most enemies tend to ignore, inconspicuous, and can quickly withdraw.

It should be said that there are not many people who can meet these conditions at the same time, and sometimes they do not even exist at all. So you have to make a choice according to your own conditions. For example, if a sniper's strength is accurate marksmanship, then he can make some sacrifices in terms of tactical value.

Once you've found a position, you'll sneak into the sniper position...... The enemy at this time is an imaginary sniper...... This is the purpose of my training for sniper units. It's about imagining an enemy sniper staring at you at all times, and every action you have to do and every step you take to climb out must be as good as you can escape from this imaginary enemy.

This requires the sniper to be careful, patient, and observant, and must make full use of low-lying areas, shadows, blind spots, etc. to cover his whereabouts when sneaking, and also be careful not to touch the bushes, crush dead branches, or alarm the surrounding small animals when moving forward......

This is something that can be said to be a handful of things, but it is very difficult to do, especially if the first step is not haode...... That is, if you don't find the right position, you won't find it until you climb to it carefully...... Oops, it's not suitable for sniping, it's too late to shift positions.

There is no shortcut to solving this problem, which is to have the fighters practice over and over again, on various terrains, sometimes during the day and sometimes at night...... Moreover, it is a practice of confronting the situation, so the practice of confronting the situation is to divide the sniper company into several groups in platoons, and while one group is practicing stealth, the other group is observing on the opposite side, and when it finds someone in a certain place, it will report the specific direction...... When you're done, swap roles again.

In this way, I practiced stealth and observation skills at the same time, and from time to time I held a round-robin competition in the sniper company, and several platoons in the company (because the sniper company had a large number of people, so they were all arranged into eight platoons) took turns to compete to see which platoon Zuihou could win and become the champion......

Although there is no substantial reward, but the soldiers are often like this, they will regard honor as more important than rewards and even life, so let this game stimulate each platoon to practice desperately, there are a few teams that lost to Sun Shan in the last competition, in order to get a good ranking next time, they even sleep on the latent position.

After sneaking into the right position like this, it's time to make the necessary camouflage in the sniper position and wait.

This is made easier by the presence of auspicious clothes...... The first is that the coarse numbness hanging on the gilly suit will play a protective role as long as this thing is far away...... Even if you stare at it with a telescope, you can't tell anything about it, especially since the gilly suit is still made of camouflage nets, so the soldiers can pick up some weeds or branches on the spot before reaching the sniper position and stick them on each other to camouflage...... It should be said that the effect of collecting camouflage plants on the spot is the best, because the plants in the same area are not much different in color or growth because of the same climate...... Basically, even the gods can't see any difference.

The hardest part is waiting, it's like we've been lurking on the battlefield before...... But the demands are much greater than what we used to lurk.

What is the old lurking...... It is said that they can't move, but in fact, the fighters will have some small movements, such as scratching and scratching, changing their posture, and so on...... The quality of ordinary armies is certainly uneven, so once there are many people, there is no way to ask each of them to be untouchable. In addition, it is also because in the past, we were dealing with ordinary troops of the Vietnamese army, and their observation skills were not so detailed, so our requirements were lower.

But...... Now the purpose of the training of this sniper unit in my hands is to deal with the snipers of the Vietnamese army, the insight of the snipers is not comparable to that of ordinary soldiers, and it is difficult for us to attract the disaster of killing with a seemingly small action, so this requires the snipers to have the determination and perseverance to move after entering the sniper position.

So this kind of training began quickly, and the training method was very simple, that is, a platoon lurked and observed, and immediately pointed out which part of the body was moved......

Of course, there have been some jokes...... Sometimes it's really not a lurking sniper moving, and it's inevitable that the wind and grass or the occasional few small animals are unavoidable, but no one stands up after the observation team shouted a few times, and Zuihou ran up to take a look...... That's no one at all!

The lurking team didn't just sit stupidly at nothing while waiting...... The body doesn't move, but the head does.

At the same time, it is also to make the waiting time faster, so the latent sniper must start to observe the surrounding terrain and carry out some necessary memory and analysis after entering the position, such as dividing it into three layers: far, medium and near, what plants and conspicuous objects are in each of these three layers, where are the enemy snipers most likely to hide, and what is the wind direction of the far, medium and near layers? What is the magnitude of the wind, how much offset should be used if the target is in these areas, etc......

You even have to memorize the locations of these seemingly ordinary plants, rocks, or caves, and then close your eyes and recall them in your mind over and over again, if you open your eyes and find that these things are different in some places, or have been moved, or have some more traces...... Then you should rejoice, this is most likely a prelude to the detection of enemy snipers.

After all that was done, it was the turn of the shooting......

So there is a saying that "one minute on stage, ten years off stage", and this is also true as a sniper...... To look at a sniper from the uninitiated, it is to shoot a few bullets and turn out several important targets...... It seems to be very relaxed, and you might even think that it was just luck, but you don't know how much preparation the sniper has put into getting these shots.

Of course, good marksmanship is also the key...... Because all this preparation is to be able to fire a few shots, and even because of objective factors, they have to evacuate immediately after firing these shots.

In other words, snipers often do not have more opportunities to shoot, so this requires that they must be able to solve the target in these few shots or even in a short time, otherwise it is likely to be solved by themselves.

But this is undoubtedly equipment-based...... That is, a sniper rifle with a long range, high accuracy and reliable performance.

This equipment is indeed there, it is the SVD sniper rifle that has been distributed to us, just in case I didn't dare to let the soldiers bring it to practice.

So, I was waiting for the batch of Type 79 sniper rifles that had just left the factory...... (To be continued......)