Chapter 8 The New Company Commander is a Sharpshooter
Chu Tianshu's eyes lit up. The Sichuan Army did not care about equality among officers. Although he and Zhou Xiaoshan were both provided with special meals by the battalion headquarters, he felt uncomfortable seeing the soldiers eating bland and tasteless food!
"You and I get along well, let's get along as brothers in the future. Let's not talk nonsense, this stuff is really good, rich in protein and nutritious! But it must be cooked thoroughly, otherwise it is easy to have bacteria and parasites. We are from Sichuan, ginger and chili are everywhere, just like cooking fish, use ginger and chili to suppress the fishy smell, it tastes very good!"
"real?"
"Keep your voice down and keep it a secret. If the three students get caught, we won't be able to get any cheap meat!"
The two people from the guard battalion were in cahoots with each other and their smiles were so evil!
"By the way, I'm going to assess the soldiers' training this afternoon. I'm going to pick out the soldiers with good marksmanship and eyesight, as well as the grenadiers and good observers. I'm also going to get a feel for the Third Guard Company. Do you want to go with me?"
"Where?"
"On the other side of the river, at Qingcaoba, report to the General Staff. Starting this afternoon, for seven consecutive days, the Third Company will organize live-fire shooting!"
"Don't try to show off your abilities until your wounds are healed. Don't do those things that you have to demonstrate yourself. You are not allowed to participate in the training. You can do the work of finding out the basics. I will report to Commander Qin and the Training Department! I will be free this afternoon and come over to take a look!"
Watching Zhou Xiaoshan salute and turn to leave, Chu Tianshu shouted worriedly from behind!
"Don't be in a hurry, you might hurt the wound!"
No hurry, the situation is urgent, how can I not be anxious? Now it is December 1934, and in less than three years, the Lugou Bridge Incident will break out, and the Sichuan Army will be dragged to the anti-Japanese battlefield. The 66th Division will end up in Teng County, and Zhou Xiaoshan is unwilling to accept this!
More training subjects and more equipment mean more possibilities for tactics!
Without adequate training, let alone destroying the Japanese invaders, it is still a big question whether I can survive until I die in Teng County. Maybe I will be killed in the battle of Niangzi Pass!
Quickly finished the company’s simple lunch!
Zhou Xiaoshan, with several guards from the company, carrying a target, boarded a small boat to the other side!
In the afternoon, Deputy Company Commander Liao Chengbing brought three platoon leaders and all the officers and soldiers of the third company to the shooting range and was shocked!
Are you kidding me!
Target at a distance of two hundred meters!
How many people can hit it?
Isn't this a waste of bullets?
Make arrangements regardless of the consequences!
Twenty people in a row stand out and lie down ready!
Each person has two bullets and shoots upon command.
The Sichuan Army seldom practiced live-fire shooting, and when they did, it was always at targets within 50 meters, and 100 meters was even rarer. The soldiers of the Third Guard Company had never fired a target within 100 meters, let alone 200 meters. Looking at the confused faces of his four subordinate officers, Zhou Xiaoshan sighed!
"You think I don't know that two hundred meters is the minimum safe distance for artillery, right?"
Zhou Xiaoshan grabbed a handful of river sand, raised it to his chest and let it fly!
The grass dam is calm and windless, the river sand is slowly falling, the warm winter sun and the river dam are windless. There is no easier way to achieve good results than in this weather!
"What does artillery safety distance mean?"
"That is the distance at which soldiers without scopes can achieve their best results! Beyond two hundred meters, you have to rely on guessing!"
"What is a scope?"
Zhou Xiaoshan didn't say anything. He took a rifle from a soldier, loaded the bullet, and began to aim at the target two hundred meters away. In the eyes of several puzzled junior officers, he seemed even more mysterious!
The rifles used by the 66th Division are Sichuan-made Mauser rifles!
Marshal Liu worked hard for decades, took over the Sichuan Arsenal from the Beiyang warlords, intercepted Liu Wenhui's purchase of production equipment, and robbed the Guizhou warlord Hou Tanzhi's arsenal in Chishui, before he put together the Sichuan-Kang Pacification Office Weapons Repair Shop (commonly known as the Chongqing Weapons Repair Shop).
Many people look down on Sichuan-made rifles. In fact, Sichuan-made Mauser rifles are no worse than the equipment of Yan Xishan’s Taiyuan Arsenal!
They are all the same imitation of the old Hanyang-made sleeve, who is looking down on who?
It was just that Chiang Kai-shek forced Marshal Liu to forbid the Chongqing Weapon Repair Factory from producing weapons one year before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. He abolished the factory and stopped production for a whole year. As a result, the Sichuan Army that went out to fight against the Japanese were left with only broken fire sticks, and even swords, spears, and matchlock guns!
Of course, when shooting beyond two hundred meters, the accuracy of this gun is also very poor!
It was not meant to be used as a sniper!
Within two hundred meters, the accuracy is still very good!
After firing two shots, the recoil pulled at the wound on his back, which was a little painful. Zhou Xiaoshan stood up and signaled the messenger to raise the flag and ask the soldiers in the target trench to report the target!
"First shot, five rings. Second shot, eight rings. All on target!"
Is this a good fight?
Unfortunately there is not even a ten ring. The accuracy of this gun at 200 meters is problematic and needs to be calibrated!
There's no point in proofreading, the bullet's accuracy is also poor!
Zhou Xiaoshan was not satisfied with his result. If he had a gun with a scope, he would be able to hit the ten rings at three or four hundred meters!
The soldiers opened their mouths wide with expressions of disbelief!
Whether they were lying on the ground or standing in line, they were all stunned. The new company commander was a sharpshooter?
The three platoon leaders didn't believe it at all and ran to the trench 200 meters away to see the target!
Seeing the flag signal, Deputy Company Commander Liao smiled and made a request to Zhou Xiaoshan!
"Captain, they don't believe you just shot at the two targets. They say you cheated and asked you to shoot again!"
"Any better guns?"
"In the divisional armory, there are more than a dozen new Mausers brought back by Chief of Staff Qin? They are used by the officers of the headquarters for target practice!"
A clerk from the warehouse management office excitedly brought up the gun he had taken out for shooting!
It can be seen that this person is here just for the fun of target shooting!
Isn't this the official version?
It seems that Chiang Kai-shek will name it after himself this year or next year.
Looking at the first standard rifle in Chinese history in his hand, Zhou Xiaoshan felt a little emotional!
This gun was regarded as the brother of 98K in later chicken-eating games!
That’s because the 98K, plus an eight-fold scope and a silencer, is equivalent to eating chicken tonight!
What nonsense! In terms of seniority, the German Mauser 1924 rifle, which was modeled after the Chinese rifle, can be considered the cousin of the 98K!
In general, the Zhongzheng was produced with the help of the Germans. It has a strong German bloodline and is infused with reliable precision!
With a ruler, the maximum design distance is one thousand meters!
The crosshairs are two to three hundred meters, no problem at all!
But the requirements for snipers are too high!
However, Zhou Xiaoshan was very lucky that he could hit the enemy 500 meters away with this rifle!
"Captain Liao, help me raise the flag and give the order!"
"good!"
In order to avoid accidental injuries, the soldiers who reported the targets saw the command flag and replied to hide in the future. What's more, the three people who reported the targets today were all platoon leaders under their command!
"You can shoot! "
When Deputy Company Commander Liao saw the other side respond to the command flag, the three platoon leaders leaned into the trenches and hid quickly!
Zhou Xiaoshan was too lazy to waste time and fired immediately!
The moment the bullet left the gun, he knew that this shot was better than the previous two!
really!
Deputy Company Commander Liao calls for target reporting!
"Two hundred meters, one shot, ten rings!"
Everyone was shocked!
How can it be?
The Guard Battalion had never shot at a target at a distance of 200 meters!
It’s not a legend, nor is it a make-believe story. The sharpshooter is the new company commander of the third company!
