"Windspeed ten, target speed eight, distance six hundred. Huang Hua silently recited the data in her mind, held her breath, and gently squeezed the trigger. A bullet shot out of the barrel. Xie Liang on the side also pulled the trigger and fired a bullet."

  Soon both fired five shots. Then the target officer's voice came: "Shalyov, fifty rings! Huang Hua, fifty rings!"

  It was another tie, and just as Bryukhal was about to declare the yellow flower a winner after Shyrokhov lost the first round, he heard Shyrokhov say: "This is only the first round of shooting! Now retreat another hundred meters! I will shoot at 700 meters!"

  Li Bin translated it for Huang Hua, and after listening to it, she pouted her small mouth and said disdainfully: "Seven hundred meters is just seven hundred meters! Who's afraid of whom!"?

  The second round of shooting, and the two are still tied. At this point, there is only one round left, 800 meters away, to continue the shooting competition.

  Looking out from the 4x sight of Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, the target eight hundred meters away is just a small dot. Not to mention that this target is moving and there is crosswind. It's easy to imagine how difficult it is to hit the target! Huang Hua turned his head and looked at Xie Liufu, only to see that he was already sweating.

  Seeing Xie Lü Fei like this, Huang Hua smiled slightly and then she decisively pulled the trigger, firing the first shot. She saw the target in her scope move a little. Next, she loaded the second bullet into the chamber, held her breath again and pulled the trigger once more.

  Two people fired five bullets each, this time, by feeling, Huang Hua felt that he had won. Sure enough, the scorer reported: "Xie Lao 47 rings, Huang Hua 50 rings!"

  "We won! Our Huang Hua won!" Liu Linhua jumped up excitedly.

  Buryakhal smiled and said to Li Bin, "Really can't see it, you Chinese have such an excellent sniper!" After finishing speaking, he walked up to Huang Hua and said to her, "Beautiful Chinese girl, this rifle is a gift for you!"

  After the translation was conveyed to Huang Hua, she asked excitedly: "Really?! This good gun will belong to me from now on?!" When she saw Bur Khalen's affirmative gaze, she said gratefully: "Thank you, General!"

  After returning to the living room, Li Bin said to Bulhara: "Respected General, we are in great need of this rifle. I wonder if you can sell us a batch? The quantity doesn't have to be large, just thirty guns will do."

  "This is a new product that just came out at the end of last year! Our Soviet army doesn't even have many of these equipped, and this rifle is very expensive, one costs 500 rubles, which is equivalent to $700. You don't have dollars, if you convert it to your silver yuan based on the gold price, one rifle would need around 2000 yuan." Brukhal said, "With 2000 yuan, you can buy a good machine gun! Is it worth spending that much money on a rifle?"

  The dollar was expensive at that time, but ruble was even more expensive.

  "It's worth it!" said Li Bin. "We don't have more money now, but in the future when we have more money, we will buy tanks and fighter jets."

  "Haha!" Burlak laughed, "I didn't expect your appetite to be so big! We Soviet Union have already provided a lot of aid to your National Government, and you are just the Northeast Volunteer Army, can you represent a country? Buying planes and tanks requires national representation."

  "General, this is where you are wrong! You support the National Government, but what do they do? They take your aid to fight against the Communist Party, which is just like yours, instead of thinking of ways to drive out the Japanese!" Li Bin said with a stern expression.

  "No matter what, I'm just a soldier, I can't violate military discipline to buy and sell weapons! As for the things you mentioned, they are matters between countries and their top leaders, and have nothing to do with me!" Bruhahl cut off Li Bin's words without hesitation.

  "General! My volunteer army is actually helpful to you Soviets! I know your country and Japan have never gotten along, would you like to see the Japanese imperialists occupy our three eastern provinces and border with you, posing a threat to your great Soviet Union in the future?" Li Bin asked.

  Seeing the general's hesitant look, Li Bin continued: "In the Russo-Japanese War, Russia was defeated, resulting in not only losing its rights in China but also losing the Kuril Islands. Now that we are at war with Japan, if we can defeat Japan, it will be beneficial to your country as well!"

  "But your forces are so weak and small, can you defeat the powerful Japan?" asked Burukhal.

  "We are the just war! There are tens of thousands of people standing behind us to support us! We have confidence in defeating the brutal and evil Japanese invaders!" Li Bin said.

  Buryat "oh"ed and thought for a moment before saying: "Those are political matters, I don't get involved. At the same time, I'm not an arms dealer either, buying and selling weapons isn't something I can decide on. Friends from China, let me think of a way, you can file a report to purchase from our country, rifles and such weapons, we can consider providing them to you."

  "Well, in that case, I'll thank the general first! However, we need this batch of guns as soon as possible. We only have a month's time. It took me a week to get here and it will take another week to get back. Can the general provide us with these sniper rifles within two weeks?" Li Bin asked.

  Blyukher nodded and said: "Alright, let me think about it. It's great that you Chinese have such excellent snipers, I really like it."

  After thinking for about ten minutes, Blyukher said: "Otherwise, I'll violate the superior regulations first. I'll provide you with rifles from my own army first, and then I'll apply to purchase those guns back in your name. Otherwise, if your report goes to Moscow, it will take at least two weeks for approval and transportation from Izhevsk. However, you need to write a report, and after Moscow agrees, I can lend you my rifles."

  Borodin said, Li Bin was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you so much, General! With these rifles, we can definitely guarantee the safety of your country on the Sino-Soviet border!"

  After the Soviet soldiers arranged Li Bin to the military reception station, he began to write an application report. In the report, he said "The Chinese people and the Soviet people are friends, now Japan has invaded my three northeastern provinces, not only enslaving and oppressing our Chinese people, but also seriously threatening the security of your country..."

  The next morning, this application report was handed over to Brukhal.

  The report was sent by telegraph to Moscow by Buryat-Khal, and five days later, the Moscow side replied agreeing to sell this batch of sniper rifles to Li Bin.

  During the time waiting for the report, Li Bin was very puzzled about how Liu Linhua understood Russian. After inquiring, he found out that Liu Linhua, who came from a prestigious family, was actually a university student and had studied abroad in the Soviet Union!

  And that Xiao Bo, although he came from a humble background, had actually attended university! This was because Xiao Bo's father, despite being a bandit, was willing to spend money on his education. The two met while they were in university, and Liu Linhua fell deeply in love with the handsome Xiao Bo at first sight. Later, after Liu Linhua returned from the Soviet Union, she married Xiao Bo despite her family's objections.

  After getting the reply, Li Bin handed over 60,000 silver dollars to Buluhan, which was considered a formal purchase of this batch of guns.

  Buryat Khalzan had the soldiers pack thirty rifles into boxes and dispatch a truck to take Li Bin and his men all the way to the border of Suiyuan.

  After returning to Lingyuan, Li Bin distributed these rifles to the snipers, while the old-fashioned non-professional sniper rifles used by those snipers were allocated to ordinary marksmen. At the same time, Li Bin also incorporated more than a dozen marksmen selected from new recruits into Ma Liqiang's marksman team. Those people will also become real snipers after being tested in battle.

  After all preparations were completed, Li Bin was about to lead his troops out of Lingyuan and head to the Northeast Plain for a tough guerrilla war.

  The night before departure, Li Bin convened an independent regimental officers' meeting. He said at the meeting: "But our people are really too few, and in future wars, we must try to avoid large-scale battles with the devils. We must use guerrilla warfare to harass them, disrupt their logistics and transportation lines, and constantly create trouble for the devils! Moreover, we are currently short of money, and we need to rob it from the devils. We lack ammunition, and we also need to rob it from them! Best of all, we can open up a base area in the devil's rear!"

  "Big brother, isn't guerrilla warfare what the Communist bandits use?" Hong Biao asked, "How can we use this tactic?"

  "The enemy is strong and we are weak, can we really fight them head-on?" Li Bin asked back.

  "Big brother, but we fought quite well in Jinzhou!" Hong Biao said in confusion.

  "What strength do we have in the battle of Goubangzi and Daling River? Moreover, there is also support from the Northeast Army's artillery and armored trains. In the Battle of Jinzhou, we were defending the city, using street fighting to annihilate the enemy. But what about in the future? We can't hold on to any strongholds, attacking us won't take down cities, defending and we can't hold on to our territory either, what should we do? Can one regiment have a decisive battle with the Japanese army's division?" Li Bin explained.

  Indeed, with the strength of just one independent brigade, it is impossible to engage in a decisive battle with the enemy. Next, Li Bin explained: "The Art of War by Sun Tzu says, 'When using troops, if you have ten times the strength of the enemy, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, divide them; if equal, fight them; if fewer, retreat from them; if not, avoid them.' This is a principle that ancient people understood, don't you understand it yet? In fact, fighting a guerrilla war is not something to be ashamed of! I've emphasized countless times that we must preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy's living forces!"

  Before departure, Li Bin convened a rally: "Brothers! The little devils have occupied our territory, killed our loved ones, looted our wealth and ravaged our sisters! They want to make us all slaves of a lost nation, are you willing or not?"

  "We refuse!" The crowd erupted in a roar of anger.

  "Comrades! After three months of training, our troops are about to depart for the front lines against Japan! Our troops are different from others, we can say that our troops are the most elite iron army among the righteous and brave armies! I believe my warriors' combat power will not lose to those little devils! As long as we unite together, our troops are invincible! Remember, we are the Iron Army!"