Chapter 178: Taking office
Soon, the space gave the numberers a week of adaptation time passed, during this period, the numberers' experience in the use of firearms has gone through the process from catching ducks to the initial entry, in the words of the recruit instructors, with their understanding, if they worked hard before, they could become a qualified soldier, but now the war on the front line is tense, and Germany, which is in urgent need of replenishment of troops, can no longer give them more time, and all the experience depends on the numberers to go to the battlefield to experience.
Troop trucks soon transported thousands of numbered men to various areas, where they would be baptized by the French partisans for the first time, and would become qualified soldiers before being transferred to the coastal defenses. And if they hadn't been recognized as a qualified soldier by the aborigines before the Battle of Normandy broke out, then I'm sorry, such numberers were directly judged to have failed the mission, and they might never complete the mission and be deducted all the space gains, and stay in this world, believing that all numberers have no idea of staying in this war-torn world after being whitewashed.
Hu Bin was lucky, he and a handful of other sniper career templates were sent to a specialized sniper academy for two weeks of training, the quality of German snipers was the best during World War II, which had a lot to do with the systematic training system, and each recruit selected as a sniper received a series of training to enhance their battlefield survivability.
But this does not mean that Hu Bin's rookie snipers can spend this time unharmed, if the sniper training after two weeks does not pass, the academy will let them continue to train, and they will naturally miss the time of the Normandy campaign, and even if you look at the difficulty, the training task of snipers is even more difficult than the task of exterminating the French guerrillas by others.
"Trust your instincts, trust your weapons, trust your bullets!" This was the first thing the instructor said at the regular meeting of cadets when Hu Bin arrived at the Special Military Academy in Munich. And then the hard and boring training made many numberers understand the meaning of this passage.
The sniper's training was not the target the numberers expected, but the camouflage of remaining motionless in all kinds of difficult conditions, and in the previous week, the numberers had experienced all kinds of artificially created harsh environments, and even had to control the spasms of their muscles in the biting icy water.
A few of the novice numberers, who seemed to be pampered in the real world, couldn't stand the torture and went on strike, and they were taken out of the academy by several gendarmes, and no one knows what happened to them.
Relying on their uncanny willpower and strong physique, most of the numbered ones survived the previous week's latent training, and when they thought it was finally time for shooting training. The instructors of the academy took out a test paper, which recorded the scenes of various snipers when they were in a desperate situation, and the instructors asked the students to write some escape plans for these scenes.
The question Hu Bin had was what he would do when he was discovered and surrounded by a squad of twenty enemies in a two-story building. Hu Bin actually wanted to write that he would use a few sword qi plus the stone giant ent to directly crush them, but it was obvious that such an answer would make him be locked up by the instructor.
In the end, Hu Bin handed in a plan that he had devised with great effort, first using sniping to solve the enemy's firepower, then using the detergent trap and his excellent reflexes to solve most of the enemies who rushed into the house, and finally using melee combat to complete the final strangulation.
The instructor was quite dissatisfied with Hu Bin's last one, but when Hu Bin broke the corner of the table in front of him. His plan was quickly judged to have a success rate of more than 10% and passed the consideration smoothly.
Hu Bin didn't know what kind of harassment the others had suffered, in fact, the numberers who came together these days rarely met and talked, because even the numbered person's physique was a little unacceptable because of the cruel training. Hu Bin even considered drinking a bottle of precious moon well water to relieve himself in the hardest of times.
In the last three days, the numberers finally had their final training, and they were taken to the test site in the middle of a dense forest with their full armaments. Only five paint bombs and a piece of chocolate were handed out, and they were thrown there. Before leaving, the instructor told them that a battalion of troops would come here in three days to encircle them. Some of these people wear helmets of a certain color, and their mission is to take out the soldier whose helmet is the same color as their own bullets.
This test not only tests the camouflage survival ability of the numberers, but also tests their reconnaissance, shooting and other indicators, although the assessment does not prevent the numberers from cooperating with each other, but they tacitly do not do so, because in the real battlefield, snipers are always alone.
Hu Bin hid in a dense bush, and aimed his gun at the dense grassland to the south, where weeds grew more than a meter high, perfect for the enemy to sneak into this forest. Hu Bin hadn't eaten for two days, and although the spatial ring was full of all kinds of food, he still lurked motionless with hunger, and his eyes blinked for a long time.
There are also a number of numbered people lurking in the area, but none of them know where their respective positions are, and they can only judge their respective positions by vague senses. But Hu Bin was not among them, and it didn't take much effort to get a clear picture of the living creatures in the area.
Hu Bin in the woods is like a fish in water, although the laws of this world have weakened a lot to the numberer, but some of the stunts brought by Hu Bin's half-elf bloodline have not been completely banned, he can still feel the faint and intimate pulse in the woods at this time, as long as he is close to some trees from the previous year, Hu Bin can sense the movement of all living creatures in a large area nearby.
In the early morning of the third day, before dawn, the bored Hu Bin finally found the trace of the enemy, and a company of soldiers cautiously tried to sneak into the woods with the help of half-human-high weeds, but under Hu Bin's perception, their action of turning the grass pole directly revealed their position. Hu Bin, who was tormented by hunger and other problems, suddenly cheered up, and immediately slowly withdrew from the hidden bushes using a method he had learned before that was not easy to expose himself, and began to move his stiff limbs carefully. The instructor's teachings echoed in his mind, and in the next operation, whether he could shoot or not, he could be exposed, and maintaining his body flexibility was a necessary condition for escape.
Feeling the fresh blood begin to flow in his legs and feet, Hu Bin immediately seized the time to find a tall tree and climbed up, hid his body in the dense canopy, and got the sealed sniper rifle out of the camouflage net. Aim carefully in the direction of the enemy.
At this time, the enemy's company was still advancing cautiously and slowly, they were walking through the grassland like a sieve in a standard skirmish formation, and the dim moonlight made their figures loom, even if Hu Bin relied on his perception to lock on their position and aim them with a scope, he would not be able to find their traces without careful identification.
Strong discipline, high quality, and rich combat experience. After seeing the movements of the group of soldiers, Hu Bin instantly came to these conclusions, that group of soldiers were definitely veterans who had been on the battlefield, with their light steps, confident and alert eyes, and calm expressions. All annotate the meaning of the word trained.
"Trouble! It turned out to be the elite of the SS. Hu Bin saw that the uniforms of these soldiers were different from those of other soldiers, and the swastika mark on the blue-gray fabric shone like a medal, and directly told Hu Bin who they were going to face. In fact, the academy only needs to send ordinary soldiers to evaluate these newcomers, but due to the tight coastal defense on the Eastern Front, the Allies are preparing a large-scale landing plan, so that the ordinary regiments are all transferred there, and the only SS elite division left nearby is Berlin. The mobilization of a battalion of SS troops from Berlin on the grounds of pedagogical assessment was not difficult for the Academy.
This accident of the SS did not make Hu Bin entangled for too long. His luck had always been good, and an SS soldier wearing a specially-colored helmet came into his sight. Hu Bin checked his paint bullet again and again, and when he found that the soldier was the target of his assessment, he immediately put him in his crosshairs. Begin pre-shooting preparations in accordance with the standard procedure.
"Slow your breathing, empty your mind, adjust to the error with the feeling of the wind, and gently place your finger behind the trigger. The trigger can be pulled only after the decision is made to shoot. Hu Bin prepared step by step according to the instructor's words, and then pulled his finger on the trigger and pressed it gently.
A crisp gunshot rang out from the woods, startling many of the numbered people hiding in the area. The SS soldiers, who were still slowly advancing, immediately threw themselves forward and aimed their weapons at the place where the gunfire was coming from, while the firefighters in the rear set up machine guns and kept an eye on them.
Hu Bin bit the tip of his tongue with some annoyance, and at the most critical moment before he shot, the target actually tripped over something, and the bullet flew out of his helmet, making this perfect sniper feat. When Hu Bin quickly pulled the bolt of the gun and was about to make up for the shot, he found that all the soldiers with special helmets were lying on the ground, and Hu Bin had lost the opportunity to shoot accurately at the target.
The two sides were at a stalemate for nearly ten minutes, and many of the numbered were glad that someone had detected the enemy attack in advance, and if these warriors were allowed to enter the woods, their range of movement would be much reduced, and the chances of finding their own targets would be very slim.
The chagrin after the failure made Hu Bin more and more unable to hold his breath, and finally gave up his reserve, directly opened the plug-in, and opened the eagle eye to the extreme. In the faint moonlight, the silhouette of the soldier lying on the ground hidden behind the haystack clearly appeared in Hu Bin's eyes, with the eagle's eye range bonus, the target under the scope was magnified a lot again, this time Hu Bin did not aim at the target's head, but aimed at the neck. The convenience brought by Eagle Eye made Hu Bin directly forget the instructor's words, and the aim was as smooth as flowing water, and soon Hu Bin locked the target's head on the doji, and then shot the bullet without hesitation. This is not over, Hu Bin was afraid that this was not enough, so he rewarded the remaining three fuel shells to the SS soldier lying on the ground, then patted his buttocks, confidently put away the sniper rifle, slowly dived into the woods, hid in the hole in the tree dug before, ate the chocolate, and then dozed off peacefully.
I don't know how long I slept, Hu Bin was woken up by a noisy sound, which turned out to be the voice of the instructor of the academy using a loudspeaker to summon the students.
Hu Bin, who slowly arched out of the tree hole, stretched his waist, although he felt hungry, but his mental state was much better. Got on the truck that took them back to the college, and found that there were already a lot of numbered people lying on it, the instructor seemed to be in a good mood, and handed himself a cigarette, Hu Bin originally wanted to say that he couldn't smoke, but after seeing the properties of this cigarette, Hu Bin cherished the cigarette into the pocket of his underwear.
"Split's cigarettes (consumables)
Grade: Rare
Attributes: When lit, it can provide a strong status bonus for the duration of a cigarette, and the ranged skill is +1. Perception +10, Will +10, Luck +1
Introduction: Smoking is harmful to health"
Hu Bin knew that this was his first reward for completing the assessment task. But what surprised Hu Bin was that the spatial prompt had ceased to appear a long time ago, and it was estimated that he would not spend a lot of money to reward himself with such a high attribute ability as a cigarette through the world barrier. In this way, this cigarette was made by other forces, but it can only be recognized by the space. This discovery made Hu Bin both excited and worried, and the world that the Space Sect numberers had entered seemed to be not shallow.
But all this has little to do with Hu Bin now, and he only found out after returning to the academy. There weren't many numberers who actually completed the task this time. The SS was worthy of being the number one elite army in the German army, relying on precise and tacit cooperation, taking advantage of the numerical superiority to advance in all directions and squeeze the living space of the numberers, forcing the numberers to use precious ammunition to consume the number of SS troops to delay their offensive. But in the end, the SS sent out the mass killer armored vehicles, which directly caused the numberers to collapse.
However, the instructor generously let them go, because the numberers were finally driven crazy in the face of the SS elite tactics of pressing on all sides, and then they went straight to the killing spree, using all their might. It was a one-to-seven battle loss, which made the sniper academy show its face greatly. This means that with the exception of a few unlucky ones who have to take the retake exam in a week's time, everyone else can go to the front.
Hot meals and a soft bed are the best rewards Hu Bin has received after completing the training. In the treatment of their group of elite snipers, the logistics department spared no budget and directly refurbished their equipment except for sniper rifles. Hu Bin and others originally thought that such an arrangement was purely superfluous, and a new dress and an old dress did not mean much to the numberers. But they found that their previous thinking was very wrong, and the newly issued equipment actually had attributes recognized by space.
For example, the Sniper's uniform adds protection and provides the ability to withstand thermal weapon damage up to three times a day. In this world, it is simply an artifact-like attribute. The camouflage net adds to the blurring effect, making it easier to ignore the sniper in the stationary and concealed position. The Toolbox is not only limited to the ability to repair firearms, but if possible, the numberer can even use the Toolbox they are wearing to repair the tank, but only for minor damage.
The four standard rations in the food pack can maintain the good condition of the numbered person's stomach for a week, but the effect will decrease with the amount of energy and physical exertion, but the good news is that Hu Bin can finally use the previous few portions of portable rations that are unusually rich but have no attributes as snacks.
The numberers then understand the importance of this task before entering the battlefield, and it is believed that the numberers who choose other class templates will also receive the same equipment after completing the mission. Unfortunately, there are still no additional load components available in the Academy, which makes it very itchy for those who are curious about their properties.
But Hu Bin didn't care too much about those components, if he was an assaulter, Hu Bin would still care about it, but the sniper's food bag and grenade bag components could be guessed at a glance to increase the number of rations and grenades, and the cost of starting these things was estimated to be not low, so Hu Bin directly dispelled the urge to use his military rank to take the initiative to ask, as for the future can only meet with fate.
Hu Bin had one more off-pistol than the other numberers, but in Hu Bin's opinion, this thing was of no use except for wasting a few hundred gold coins to buy bullets, but he still filled the two empty magazines attached to the pistol holster.
A group of heavily armed numbered men boarded planes bound for France at the military airfield, knowing that in a few days, the German coastal defense line on the eastern front would be ushered in an unprecedented landing offensive campaign launched by the Allies, which would directly lead to the collapse of the entire coastal defense.
The numbered men who got off the plane were quickly transferred to various units by the command at the front to await orders, and Hu Bin's rank of second lieutenant once again gave him special treatment, and he was transferred to command a company of German soldiers to defend a small town near the coastline. Although Hu Bin wondered why the command had let himself have a sniper to take over the position of company commander of that unit, it was not a bad thing to get a group of junior brothers out of thin air, and he gladly accepted the order and quickly went to the town.
Relying on an armored car on the way, Hu Bin came to his jurisdiction without much effort, but after a preliminary understanding of the basic situation of the company under his command, his brows furrowed tightly. Hu Bin's company was a full company, with a total of 183 people, but it only had one mortar and three anti-tank rocket launchers, and the mortar shells were only about 20 rounds old. The basic equipment of the soldiers is complete, but the composition is basically recruits who have served for less than two months, and only the officers at the level of platoon commander are veterans who have participated in the war for more than one year. The supply of the troops was supported by the budget balance of the nearby coastal defense line, and he often encountered a shortage of food, which made Hu Bin wonder if the space had deliberately arranged for him to come here in this way, you must know that his space ring was filled with a lot of food.
However, Hu Bin quickly saw it, he finally understood the intention of the command, and it is estimated that the top eighty percent is to see that he is promoted too quickly, and first find an idle vacancy to let himself experience and experience. However, this reassured Hu Bin, after all, these recruits could command themselves, and other armies in good condition would not have the turn of a guy with the rank of second lieutenant to be the company commander.
The town where the company was stationed was not large, and although the French residents here did not like Hu Bin and his soldiers very well, at least they did not give them any trouble. The main task of the company is not to wait here for rice, but to guard the two rapid-fire anti-aircraft cannons here. These two cannons reminded Hu Bin of the two rapid-fire city defense crossbows he once had, and he felt very cordial when he didn't come, which is why Hu Bin always likes to make do with the position where the anti-aircraft cannon is located in his spare time these days.
There is also an armored division stationed near the town, and the armored vehicle that Hu Bin rode in before belongs to that unit, this news makes Hu Bin's eyes shine, with such a powerful ally nearby, his security has increased a lot. Although Hu Bin did not know the specific location of the airborne, this did not prevent him from preparing in advance, he ordered the company to maintain double patrol personnel at night, and repeatedly carried out night emergency assembly drills, which made the company complain again and again, and the favorability of Hu Bin, the airborne company commander, dropped a lot. Hu Bin can't do anything about this, I hope that on D-Day, these German soldiers can remember him. (To be continued......)