Chapter 14: Chen Shaoqin shoots at people on the training ground

  "You're probably thinking too much, I'm Chen Shaoqin, although I'm just a small person, but I'm not someone who gets nervous when things happen, come on! Chen Shaoqin's face showed no fear, his gun skills were second nature to him. This old man dared to compete with him in gun skills, which made him curious about how good this guy's skills were."

  "That's settled!" Seeing Chen Shaoyin's confidence, Liu didn't say anything more and simply beckoned someone to bring over four guns: a formal rifle, a Type 38 rifle, a German-made Mauser pistol, and a Japanese-made Nambu Type 14 pistol. He placed them in front of Chen Shaoyin and said, "Brother, choose your gun!"

  "Four guns, with varying ranges and recoil forces. The Japanese-made Type 38 rifle has the longest range, followed by the Chinese-made Chiang Kai-shek rifle, then the German-made Mauser pistol, and finally the Japanese-made South 14th. As for the recoil force, the German-made Mauser pistol is the most difficult to control, with a strong kick that can easily affect accuracy, making it the hardest to shoot among these guns. I choose the Mauser pistol!" Chen Shaowen saw these guns, compared them once, and chose the most difficult-to-shoot Mauser pistol, revealing an arrogant expression on his face, clearly challenging his opponent.

  "You chose such a gun, I feel like I'm bullying you. To be honest with you, our shooting range uses live targets, all at a distance of over 300 meters, and the Mauser pistol in your hand is not even within your shooting range at this distance. The bullet will fly out in a huge arc. Before our competition begins, let me give you another chance to choose a weapon!" Seeing Chen Shaobin choosing the most difficult-to-shoot Mauser pistol, Liu seemed to feel a little uneasy.

  In this case, if he were Chen Shaoyin, his first choice would be the Japanese Type 38 rifle with the highest accuracy. The distance of the shooting range is within the range of this rifle, and it can fully demonstrate the shooter's accurate marksmanship. So he decided to give Chen Shaoyin another chance to turn around, so as not to say that on his home ground, he created an unfair match with all environmental advantages.

  "The gun is my own choice, whether I hit or not is my own business, so don't bother Master Liu with it!" Chen Shaoyin had a nonchalant expression, seemingly ignoring Old Liu's kind intentions, and continued to insist on choosing that Mauser pistol to compete with Old Liu in marksmanship.

  "See you on the battlefield then!" Lao Liu was furious at Chen Shaoyin's arrogant gaze. Having been the king of the mountain for so many years, he had never met someone as reckless as this. So if he won against Chen Shaoyin this time, he would definitely make him pay a heavy price and let him remember for the rest of his life not to be so recklessly arrogant in front of others.

  Liu said that and left the hall first, went directly to the empty space near the bamboo building, while Chen Shaoqin and Xue Yumei were also taken to the empty space by someone later.

  Chen Shaoqin and Liu the Cripple stood in the same row, while opposite them were two men, each with an apple on their head, standing still and unwavering at a distance of three hundred meters, waiting for Liu the Cripple and Chen Shaoqin to shoot and knock off the apples on their heads, so as to verify whose marksmanship was better.

  Xue Yumei was arranged to watch from the side, watching them compete in marksmanship. When she saw someone using a person as a target for shooting apples, she immediately broke free from her captor and ran to Liu's face, shouting at him: "Are you crazy? They are all your brothers, won't you consider their safety?"

  "I'm very confident in my marksmanship, because I shoot east and absolutely won't shoot west. If I want to hit an ant on the wall, I absolutely won't hit a stink bug on the wall!" Lao Liu didn't take Xue Yumei's words to heart at all, but instead felt somewhat disgusted by her advice. If it weren't for the fact that he was trying out his gun skills with Chen Shaoqin, he wouldn't have had the patience to listen to a little girl like her prattling on!

  "What if? What if this one mistake with your gunplay costs your brother his life at your hands, how can you bear it?" Xue Yumei had never seen anyone take lives so lightly before, and she couldn't just stand by and watch such a thing happen without being moved.

  "You're too noisy, affecting our big gun!" Liu Ming's protest and disgust towards Xue Yumei were evident. He immediately commanded, "You two help me take her to the side, so as not to affect us again!"

  Two bandits heard the boss's summons and immediately ran over, carrying Xue Yumei to one side. Seeing that his subordinates had eliminated the noise, Liu the Rascal turned around and said to Chen Shaoyin, "Sorry about this, we can continue now!"

  "Actually, I think..." Chen Shaoqin knew that Xue Yumei's words made a lot of sense, but the arrogant guy in front of him wouldn't listen. So he thought to persuade the other party well and let them change their method of trying out guns, after all, they couldn't joke with people's lives. After all, the brothers under Liu's gang were also someone's children, and they were all parents' beloved ones. None of them had the right to control their lives in their hands.

  "Here, I'm in charge. If you want to say that I shouldn't joke about taking lives, then don't say it. I won't listen!" Liu the Crooked seemed to understand Chen Shaogin's meaning at once, and without waiting for Chen Shaogin to express his thoughts, he preemptively covered Chen Shaogin's mouth. Anyway, he didn't want to hear any more words that had nothing to do with this gunplay competition.

  Chen Shaoqin was helpless and had to give up persuading. However, at this moment, Liu the bandit immediately picked up a 38 large cover, almost without aiming, and fired at the forehead of a bandit soldier in front of him. The bullet, with a loud "bang", penetrated the air resistance, following the trajectory line, shot into the apple, and in an instant, the apple shattered on one side, spinning twice on the bandit soldier's head before slowly falling to the ground, rolling several times before stopping beside the bandit soldier's right foot.

  Chen Shaoqin didn't hesitate, raised his hand and lifted the Mauser pistol, immediately pulling the trigger. The bullet shot out with the gunpowder, rushing towards the bandit soldier's head, but it didn't hit the apple on top of the bandit soldier's head. Instead, it penetrated the pillar wall behind him. At the spot where the bullet passed through the pillar wall, a faint smell of scorching remained, and even a wisp of smoke rose up.