Chapter 167: Sniper Company

My first focus was on the training of the sniper company.

There are two reasons for this, one is that I like to snipe myself, so I am more concerned about it than the agent company. Another...... It's because there are a lot of subjects to be trained in the agent company, and they have to be trained well, such as individual tactics, squad tactics and the like are enough for them to practice for a while, and we have already done the training of these things before, at this time, it is just to increase the difficulty and increase the requirements to make the soldiers more proficient, these things Scar and Liang Company are very good at it, so I can completely shift my attention to the training of the sniper company first.

My first request to the sniper company was to quit smoking...... I have personal experience of this, saying that because we had a stalemate with the Yue devil in the cat's ear hole, all of us are scary to smoke, including myself...... If you don't have a few packs of cigarettes a day, it feels like time flies very slowly.

But......

Snipers often lie motionless in one place for hours, more than ten hours, or even dozens of hours...... Is this okay if you have a craving for smoking? I remember that when I was lurking in the high ground, I felt that something was wrong with my whole body because of my addiction to smoking, and sometimes I couldn't help but cry and snot flowing.

On the other hand...... Of course, smoking is not allowed when it is lurking, otherwise no one will know that there is a person hiding in the grass when the smoke comes up.

So on the first day of the official training, I gave an order: "From now on, all soldiers of the sniper company are not allowed to smoke!" ”

The soldiers were in a state of misery, knowing that the smoke was as important to them as their lives...... The boredom, boredom and depression in the cat's ear piercing are all passed away by the treasure of cigarettes, but now it is said that if you can't smoke it, you can't smoke it......

"Battalion Commander......" Even Company Commander Luo was embarrassed. He said: "Can you give it a few days?" Let the warriors quit slowly! ”

"No way!" Without thinking about it, I refused: "If you can't stand it, you can choose to quit!" ”

The warriors were silent when they listened...... Now that this force has been joined. Then quitting again is not only a question of whether you can kill the enemy, but also a matter of personal honor, and no one wants to just come in and go back like this.

In fact, a grace period of a few days is not impossible...... But I feel that this is a test of the endurance and self-control of the fighters...... That's what snipers need, isn't it? If you don't even have the perseverance to quit smoking, then you can still be a sniper.

So from the first day, I arranged for sentries to secretly monitor whether anyone was smoking in all corners of the sniper company, and sometimes even deliberately let people dangle in front of them with lit cigarettes in their mouths, just to see if their attention and the cigarette worms in their stomachs were seduced......

Not to mention, there are really people who can't stand the sneaky smoking...... Then there's not much to say, I don't care how good your marksmanship is or how good you are. Regardless of the kicking of 3721, anyway, the sniper company of more than 300 people is already overcrowded.

However, after kicking a few people like this, the fighters quickly realized that I was serious, so even if they had that heart, they didn't dare to secretly smoke again...... zuihou, even if I walked around in front of them with a cigarette in my mouth, they didn't dare to squint their eyes......

The second step is to retreat.

The reason why the retreat should be put in such a front is that there are still a considerable number of people in the sniper company who have the spirit of "not being afraid of sacrifice...... I'm going to tell them now that snipers are scared to death...... Because only by saving oneself can one destroy the enemy more quickly, and at the same time, the sniper is an asset to our army, and at the same time, it will also be the target of the enemy, so saving oneself can sometimes be more important than sniping the target.

And this is also the first step of sniping, snipers must design their own retreat route and retreat method before entering the sniper position......

This subject is not difficult to say. It's not easy to say.

It's hard to say, if you snipe on your own people's defenses...... That would almost mean that there is no need to design any routes. There are still many comrades on the defensive line who provide fire support for themselves, right? The more devils were killed, they could only suffer dumb losses, and they didn't dare to rush up.

It's easy to say...... Snipers often have to stay away from their own human lines if they want to take out their targets better. The reason for this is simple, there is fire from our army on the defensive line, and the enemy has already taken precautions against this side, so it is sometimes difficult to find an opportunity to fight only on the defensive line of his own people.

This often requires snipers to break away from the fire cover of our defenses and hide in relatively isolated positions, lurk and wait for an opportunity...... The first thing the sniper has to consider is what kind of countermeasures the enemy may have after killing the target, whether it is to blockade with machine guns or artillery fire, or both, or even send a team of infantry to outflank the ...... Then, according to these different situations, find out the enemy's fire blind spots, and design a route that can get out of the danger zone in the shortest time.

It is not very difficult to implement, because it allows sniper teams to pit each other on the ground...... One sniper team is responsible for blocking the opponent's retreat, while the other sniper team tries to break away from the opponent's fire blockade, and Zuihou is then summed up by the staff and soldiers to sum up the combat experience.

Not to mention...... This brainstorming approach can really work for two reasons:

One is that we can be considered self-made, so we have no experience to draw on at all, so there are some things that even I and the staff officer don't know if they are right or wrong, or whether they can be useful on the battlefield. This means that we have to explore while practicing during the exercise, and of course, we need to solicit the common opinions of the soldiers.

Another one...... It is not correct to say that we have no experience at all, because our sniper companies are all veterans of the 40th Division, all of whom have fought on the battlefield and are all sharpshooters...... This is the commonality of the battlefield, and if you want to survive in a place like the battlefield, you must study and summarize desperately, otherwise they will not be able to stand here to form this force at all.

As a result, the training quickly turned into a series of procedures such as confrontation drills, experience summarization, and experience verification...... To put it simply, it is to find problems in confrontation drills, and then solve them, and after solving the problems, in order to ensure that they can be applied to the battlefield, they must be repeatedly verified several times......

That being said, this was the most difficult stage for me...... The reason is that I and the staff officers have no experience as "snipers" strictly speaking, and although I have some actual combat experience, I still belong to the kind of unofficial formation, that is, non-professional snipers. Now if you want to train a professional sniper, you will naturally have a dark eye.

But now there is a bit of an eyebrow, the reason is that as a modern person, I know the tasks that professional snipers have to complete, which also provides a general direction for the formation of a sniper company, under which the fighters' confrontation drills are coordinated and the combat experience of the fighters is concentrated...... As a result, the training of the entire army was quickly put on the right track.

Among them, I was often surprised by the suggestions and solutions put forward by the soldiers......

For example, when it comes to engaging the enemy with a small detachment of the Vietnamese army, some fighters put forward such a plan:

The first goal, of course, is to disengage from the enemy...... It is quite a loss to engage the enemy's ordinary infantry at close range with a sniper, not only is the firepower not comparable to the enemy, but also cannot give full play to the advantage of the sniper rifle in long-distance sniping, so when the sniper team is facing the approach of the Vietnamese army, the first thing to think of is to retreat, not to repel the enemy.

So the fighters summed up the following steps after the exercise: the first to play a role should be the observer holding a submachine gun, the submachine gun fired a row of bullets at the enemy can play a deterrent role, at the same time the sniper throws a smoke grenade and a grenade, the purpose is to interfere with the enemy's line of sight, and then before the smoke spreads, the sniper shoots out two or three important targets of the enemy and then quickly retreats, in case they have to disperse in the retreat, they will go to the next assembly point to gather and rendezvous.

For the retreat of some special terrain, some fighters proposed to use the escape line to evacuate the battlefield...... This method is really useful, because there are many high ground in Vietnam that are very steep, so if you can climb this high ground with an escape line, and then set up the escape line in advance when entering the sniper position...... After killing the target, simply run to the escape line and grab the rope and jump down...... It doesn't get any faster and more convenient than this.

Obviously, these specific tactical methods are not what I and my staff officers can think of in the office...... I'm also acutely aware that these methods may work in Agent Corps.

In fact, to be exact, the boundary between snipers and special forces is relatively blurred, and even there are snipers in special forces, and professional snipers can be called a kind of special forces to complete special tasks, so it is not surprising that some tactical methods of the two will be interconnected.

Then difficulties arise in camouflage training for snipers...... This is not to say that the fighters do not know how to disguise, most of the fighters of the sniper company come down from the battlefield and naturally have two hands in disguise.

It's just that I don't think it's enough, because the disguises of the warriors are relatively simple, most of them are tied to their bodies with some branches or teng sticks, and then stuck branches and leaves on them...... First of all, this kind of camouflage is too cumbersome and time-consuming, and secondly, it is not firm, and if you run too much, the camouflage will fall all the way down......

So I thought...... Is there a costume that allows the warriors to camouflage quickly and haode...... In the next second, I thought of Li Li, who had just quarreled...... (To be continued......)