Chapter 28: Destroying the Troops (5)

  However, after the new recruit training ended, he was assigned to a demolition base, which was far from his ideal. He felt hopeless and didn't even know how to write to his girlfriend about it. Other university students like him were mostly assigned to their ideal posts, making him feel unfair. His performance was known by his squad leader, who had consoled him before, but every time he just said "I know", without any change. He never thought that with such an attitude, in a high-risk demolition team that requires focus and dedication, a big accident would happen. Until one day, during the operation, due to operational errors, the bomb exploded, and his squad leader's legs were blown off, leaving him permanently disabled. At that moment, he felt extremely guilty, and another burden was added to his mind.

  However, his squad leader said to him as he was leaving: A soldier who doesn't want to be a general isn't a good soldier. There's nothing wrong with that. But the first rule for soldiers is to obey orders. As long as it's what the army needs, there's no choice in what you do. Someone has to be a general, but someone also has to be a soldier. Otherwise, the generals will starve too.

  The soldier said: Sorry.

  The class leader smiled and said, "What are you afraid of losing? You don't need to say sorry either. We all came into this world with nothing, what else do you have to lose in the future? Don't apologize, if you were still a soldier for one day, you would also do this for your comrades."

  The words of the class leader opened up the knot in the soldier's heart, and he wrote a letter to his girlfriend telling her the actual situation. In the letter, he said: "Maybe I really can't become a general, which will disappoint your father, but the army has also told me that a soldier's duty is to obey orders. If no one comes to be a soldier, then the general becomes useless and will starve to death. I am a demolition soldier, and I am proud of it."

  He did not think that because of this letter, he would marry the woman he loved. The woman's father agreed to their marriage.

  "What I'm saying is, if you've really tried your best and things still haven't improved, then when you look back on your experiences in the future, you won't regret it." Wei Qidong smiled: "I was that soldier back then."

  "What? Is it you?" Xiao Lie was somewhat taken aback.

  "Hehe, why not? Although you can't do what you want now, it doesn't mean you have to give up. Nobody says for sure until the end. As long as the work isn't finished yet, even if there's only one second left, don't let go."

  After hearing Wei Qidong's words, Xiao Lie suddenly had a sudden feeling of openness, the depression in his heart was like dark clouds covering the sky, now, his sky was clear and sunny.

  "What we don't lack in our base is weapons and ammunition. Although they are brought here to be destroyed, some of them still have good performance. As for how to destroy them, that's up to us to decide. And the training equipment in the base isn't like other troops where someone always fights with you over it. Hehe, sometimes, planning is everything."

  After hearing Wei Qidong's words, Xiao Lie's eyes lit up and he kept saying thank you, class leader, thank you, class leader.

  Tang Fei, Li Xiaoqiao, Gu Yu and Gao Yuan Shan lay on the mountain, sunbathing. In the shooting range below, gunshots rang out from time to time, and the person holding the gun was none other than Xiao Lie.

  "What did the class leader say to Xiao Lie that day? This kid has been training on the field or at the shooting range every day, it seems like those bullets have a grudge against him, he's not comfortable if he doesn't hit them." Tang Fei said.

  "What's with that? When we first came here, it wasn't like this. We'd play with guns and throw hand grenades for no reason. Less than a week later, we were done, and got bored." said Li Xiaoqiao.

  "Could it be that Commander Lin wants this kid to participate in this year's Grand Tournament?" Gu Yu asked.

  "Alright, every year we're just going to fight for oil, it's always the same old thing. Although we face a mountain of guns and ammunition every day, but even an old veteran from their war-torn troops is not as good as us." Gaoyuan Shandao: "I don't accept that!"

  "Alright then, you don't believe me? Then why do you like to sunbathe every day? If you want to be a scout, you have to train too." Tang Fei said.

  "Alright, alright, if it weren't for you guys always holding me back, I would have been a godly marksman long ago." Gao Yuanshan said.

  "Is that so, High God Gunner? Then why are you still lying here? Go downstairs, there's already someone waiting to practice with you."

  Since talking to Wei Qidong, Xiao Ran's heart suddenly became clear. Yes, it seems like the ideal has abandoned you, but have you really put in effort? Have you tried hard? Who says that once you've given up, you'll stay here forever? If you don't prove yourself, others can't help you no matter how much they want to.

  In this world, there is a kind of person who will not give up even if there is only one-thousandth of an opportunity. Xiao Lie is such a person. Here, there are more opportunities than other wild battle teams, although the control over guns and ammunition is also very strict. However, for those piles of guns that need to be destroyed, it's always possible to find some good parts to assemble a gun, not to mention the bullets that need to be destroyed. Xiao Lie suddenly discovered that he was actually guarding a treasure mountain, compared to other wild battle teams, he was already in a happy harbor.

  The demolition base is not a combat unit, but it's also a place where dragons and tigers hide. The officers and soldiers repeat their work day after day, year after year, and the old soldiers are extremely familiar with their work content. An old soldier at the gun destruction station can tell which part of the gun has a problem just by looking at it briefly as soon as he receives a gun. This knowledge is not something that can be learned in a field combat unit, because such skills require continuous experience with countless guns with different problems over a long period of time. Not to mention their speed in disassembling firearms. After being greeted by Wei Qidong, the old soldier unconditionally passed on his experiences to Xiao Lie without reservation, which moved Xiao Lie deeply.

  "What if we don't have hand grenades on the battlefield?" Wei Qidong said, "Although we don't have hand grenades, as long as we have bullets and shells, we can make hand grenades. For example, if there is a mortar shell nearby."

  Wei Qidong said as he picked up a 60mm mortar shell. Then, with his hands, he twisted the detonator open and took it out. After pinching something inside the warhead, he twisted the detonator back on. At this point, he violently slammed the mortar's detonator to the ground, causing Xiao Lie's face to turn pale. Anyone who wasn't a military novice knew that after a shell was fired, its explosion relied on the warhead's detonator. If you weren't careful and bumped it, it would kill people. Wei Qidong seemed nonchalant, tossing the shell far away in an instant.

  Rumble!

  The shell exploded immediately.

  "Do you know why? It's actually very simple, I just added its fuse timing. You can do it too. As long as we use our brains, we can create what we want."

  "Do you know the pros and cons of 56 semi, 56 assault, 81 rifle, 95 sniper, and 03 sniper?" Wei Qidong asked.

  "Report, I've only used 95 Octane before, haven't used any others, but heard that many people scold those who use 95 Octane."

  "Is it what you saw online?"

  Xiao Lie nodded slightly.

  Many people like to linger in the past, nostalgic for so-called classics, but times are progressing. Only those who have truly come into contact with guns will understand. Let's talk about the Type 56 first. The Type 56 is divided into the Type 56 semi-automatic and the Type 56 automatic. Any shooter with even a little training will feel that the Type 56 semi-automatic is absolutely more user-friendly than the Type 56 automatic. The Type 56 semi-automatic can form effective kills at distances of 400-600 meters without any auxiliary sighting devices, making it suitable for use as a makeshift sniper rifle. On the other hand, the Type 56 automatic has low accuracy and strong recoil, so while its continuous fire is far superior to the Type 56 semi-automatic within 100 meters, beyond 300-400 meters, the Type 56 automatic's rapid fire can be said to have no accuracy at all. Although the killing power of its caliber exceeds that of NATO calibers, what use is a bullet that doesn't hit the target and flies into the sky?

  Let's talk about the 81 again. In fact, the 81, apart from making some minor modifications to the stability of the gun, inherits all the advantages and disadvantages of the AK-47, AK-74, and 56 assault rifles: the bullet has great killing power but lacks armor-piercing ability, the recoil is large and accuracy is low, close-range continuous fire is fierce, but at a slightly longer distance, the effect is greatly discounted.

  Our 95-style may be the most scolded one, and it's not an exaggeration to describe it as "bad reviews like a tide". However, after actual combat, its advantages become apparent. Firstly, of course, the steel core bullet brings high accuracy, strong continuous firepower, and strong armor-piercing capability, which can easily penetrate the US military's Kevlar helmets and bulletproof vests at a distance of 400 meters. When the caliber bullet enters the human body, especially when it hits bone, the small-caliber bullet with poor directionality is very easy to roll around in the body, especially after being shot at close range, resulting in "one eye in front and one hole in back" which is quite normal. Therefore, the 95-style can easily extend the actual effective killing distance of the 56 rifle and 81 rifle from less than 200 meters to about 400 meters. To know that in war, this 200-meter effective killing distance can save many precious lives.

  Some people like to criticize the 95-style for its high prone shooting height, which is true, but remember it's only when prone! However, in actual use, since the 95-style magazine is located at the back, it's basically within the shooter's chest, and when lying down in a trench or behind cover, the barrel can be completely pressed against the cover. On the other hand, the AK-style forward-mounted magazine of the 81 rifle causes the shooter to have to adopt an uncomfortable prone position with their legs bent at an angle, only exposing part of the barrel above the cover. Who wants to expose themselves? OK, take a step back and use the "bow waist" posture, but in usual combat situations, only when hastily engaging the enemy without any cover would one lie down flat on open ground, and under such circumstances, who is slightly higher or lower is no longer important.

  So it's actually the 81 rifle that easily exposes itself. Another criticism of the 95-style is that it's not handy, and people don't know how to hold the bayonet properly. This is indeed a common problem with bullpup rifles, but looking at how the US military once canceled bayonet training only to reinstate it later, one can say that while close combat may not be entirely useless, its frequency, scale, and importance have already decreased significantly in future battles.

  As for the 03, I won't say much. As a member of the caliber family, it has all the advantages of the caliber, although the parts that can be replaced with the 95 are very few, but it can still be considered as a supported version of the 95, solving the habit problem of Chinese soldiers who are used to AK guns. The optimized gun machine also solved many shortcomings of the 95. Some people say they don't like the 03 because: they don't like that trumpet mouth.

  "In my experience, if I had to go into battle in the next minute, for field combat I would choose the Type 03, for urban warfare and airborne operations I would choose the Type 95."

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