Sniper

  They received a godly shooter Jiang Huiming, and everyone was very happy. Su Xiaofeng rushed to assign Jiang Huiming to his own company, but was stopped by Luo Yi. Luo Yi discussed with Xu Liangqing, letting him select a few soldiers who had a good feel for guns, along with Jiang Huiming, to form an independent sniper squad, to undergo more professional training.

  Xu Liangqing was familiar with the concept of snipers and understood the important role they played in war. He selected five soldiers, plus Jiang Huiming, to form a six-man squad led by Luo Yi, who was responsible for training. The squad included a veteran of the assault regiment named Ding Qiufa, who was good at shooting and relatively stable, so Luo Yi appointed him as the team leader to manage daily affairs.

  Before crossing, Luo Yi had a special liking for snipers and had studied relevant materials. He even simulated sniper training in a seemingly real way. Of course, at that time, there was no more free time, nor were the conditions good enough, so it could only be a symbolic attempt to find the feeling. Now an opportunity is in front of him, and he naturally won't let it go.

  "A good sniper is not just a godly gunner, being able to shoot well is only the most basic requirement for a sniper, it can be said that it's a long march of ten thousand miles... uh, of course we haven't started yet." When teaching snipers, Luo Yi originally wanted to say something motivational, but unexpectedly found that he had misused an idiom.

  "A sniper must have a strong physique and good psychological quality, and be good at thinking, able to accurately judge the battlefield situation, choose the correct target and the correct sniping strategy. Now, let's first learn how to identify the enemy's important targets, who can tell me what rank this epaulette is in the Japanese army..."

  "Taisho." Everyone replied in unison. They had been forced by Luo Wei to memorize these things for the past few days, so they could answer as soon as their mouths opened.

  Luo Yi nodded and continued to explain: "Right, a Taishō in the Japanese army is generally the commander of a brigade, equivalent to our regimental commander. If we are fighting against a brigade, then a Taishō may be its highest officer. Sniping a Taishō would be like knocking out its command system, which can have an unexpectedly significant impact on winning a battle."

  Luo Yi spent a lot of effort organizing a pile of sniper training materials, making several soldiers who were participating in the training memorize them by rote. These soldiers had never read books before and were currently learning to recognize characters in Yuan Jing's literacy class. Asking them to recite such long passages was even more difficult than asking them to run a few kilometers outdoors. But Luo Yi didn't care about this, telling them that it was an order and no matter how hard it was, they had to memorize it.

  Luo Yi hopes that through this method, these soldiers with low cultural levels can quickly grasp the relevant knowledge. He believes that the accumulation of knowledge can make their brains more flexible. When selecting snipers, Xu Liangqing had fully considered the issue of the soldiers' intelligence. Although they could not recognize a few big characters and did not even know basic multiplication, they were able to quickly accept some principles explained by Luo Yi. For the content of measuring distance and calculating wind influence in sniper skills, Luo Yi designed a very simple and easy-to-remember method, letting the soldiers memorize it directly and then understand it in practice.

  Luo Yi showed strong enthusiasm in training snipers, a departure from his previous lazy style. He lived and ate with the snipers every day, and whenever he had some time, he would take out a case to discuss with everyone, thinking about how to build a stronghold in a specific environment, how to safely enter and exit, where the opponent was most likely to hide, etc.

  Theoretical and oral drills were just one part of the sniper training, more important content was to conduct field exercises. After two weeks of lectures on sniper knowledge, Luo Yi took the sniper squad to the mountains, set up a simple camp, and began four weeks of outdoor training.

  Every day, they would play hide-and-seek in the mountains, with six people divided into two teams, attacking and defending each other. The snipers' wisdom was fully utilized as they came up with many ways to hide, making use of the natural environment beyond Luo Yi's expectations. Luo Yi acted as their referee every time, summarizing the experiences of both teams, verifying them with his knowledge accumulated in later generations, and then improving upon them.

  "Platoon leader, sniping is too much fun, it's just like when I used to go hunting." Jiang Huiming was the one who had the most fun among everyone, and at his age, he was still a junior high school student in later life, belonging to the state of being innocent and carefree.

  "Do you need to hide when hunting?"

  "Of course it's necessary. Like a wild boar, it will smell the scent. If you don't hide well and let it discover you, you won't be able to hit it, and it may even hurt you."

  "How long was your longest ambush for wild boar?"

  "Half a day."

  "As a sniper, sometimes you may need to lie in wait for three days and three nights. During this time, you must not move at all, because the other side's sniper is also looking for you. If you make even the slightest movement, their bullet will hit you."

  "No problem." Jiang Huiming said optimistically, "If the other side is also a sniper, I must be more patient than him. I've been practicing since I was young."

  To temper the snipers' mental quality, Luo Yi arranged a subject to let them each alone ambush in the mountains for an entire night. The winter nights in the south were wet and cold, with not even one star visible in the sky, and all around was dark and gloomy. The soldiers endured the cold and fear, tightly grasping their rifles, while also listening carefully for any suspicious sounds. Luo Yi told them that tonight, he would arrange several groups of people to walk by nearby, and the snipers must record what they heard as homework for this training session.

  After daybreak, the snipers who had been frozen to have purple lips walked out of their hiding places and stumbled back to the temporary camp in the mountains. Luo Yi had already cooked a pot of ginger sugar soup for them to warm up with. Everyone gathered together, sharing their experiences and insights from the ambush process, and Luo Yi found that these people had matured a bit more.

  Physical training was also an essential part of the sniper's training. Luo Yi led the sniper squad, and every day they ran ten kilometers in the mountains with heavy loads. At first, the one who couldn't adapt to this training was Luo Yi himself. In comparison, the soldiers were all from mountainous rural areas, although they weren't used to running, their physical fitness was good enough. Luo Yi gritted his teeth and persisted, and after the training ended, he found that he had become lighter and more agile, with quicker reflexes. Sometimes he would feel a little regretful, thinking that if he had such good physical fitness when playing CS in the past, he might have become the CS king of the whole school.

  Le Jialin was in charge of the logistics support for the entire assault camp, and Luo Yi specifically discussed with him to develop a field ration suitable for snipers to use during ambushes. One of them was a rice cake made from a mixture of glutinous rice flour and red sugar, which had very high calories, comparable to chocolate in later generations. In addition, there were thinly sliced dried pork and fish jerky, which also had sufficient calories and could supplement the snipers' salt intake. Luo Yi originally just wanted to find a few households in the town to help produce them, but Le Jialin saw this invention and quickly built a factory specifically for production. The products were packaged with oil paper seals and later became the standard military ration for the assault camp.

  The camouflage clothing designed for snipers was also successfully produced. This intricate garment initially made everyone burst out laughing, but when they saw the sniper wearing it seemingly disappear into the forest, they were all shocked. The experienced and knowledgeable Xu Liangqing also sighed emotionally to Luo Yi: "I didn't expect that today's camouflage technology would reach such a level, it really opened my eyes. Now I feel like I have a chill down my spine when walking in the mountains, not knowing where a sniper might be hiding."