Chapter 33 Talented New Recruits

"Hey! New recruits are good! You've fired more than a dozen shots. Tell us how many Japanese have you killed?"

An old soldier with several holes on his uniform, a black face and half a cigarette in his mouth came over and teased.

"Don't be scared, new recruits. Tell me a number to open the eyes of old Zhou. I can't stand this kind of dog who doesn't know how to do it himself but doesn't allow others to do it."

Another old soldier seemed to be helping Niu Er, but the ridicule in his words was obvious.

"Yes, just say a few, no one can see it anyway, haha!"

Several old soldiers laughed while teasing Niu Er.

There was not much malice, but it was obvious that they looked down on Niu Er.

The days of fighting have made the soldiers' nerves tense, and there are not many ways to relax them.

The old soldiers teased the new recruits and watched them blush and feel helpless. In fact, it was one of the ways for the old soldiers to relax themselves.

Seniority is valued in the military. In some warlords’ units, veterans bully new recruits and make them pour out foot washing water. This level of teasing is definitely very humane.

This is because Tang Dao is here. If Tang Dao is not here, the poisonous mouths of several veterans may have made fun of Niu Er, a new recruit who seems to be a little different at the moment.

Niu Er’s face turned red, but the 18-year-old youth seemed to have matured a lot after experiencing the battlefield last night. Although the blood vessels on his neck suddenly thickened due to anger, he resisted turning back and his eyes were still fixed on the crosshairs.

He always remembered what Tang Dao told him: "A sniper, before you kill your enemy, you are a stone in your lurking point until the target appears and you pull the trigger."

Looking at Niu Er’s reaction from the corner of his eye, Tang Dao showed a satisfied look in his eyes.

In Tang Dao's eyes, apart from the two commanders, the more than 400 officers and soldiers in the Sihang Warehouse are elite in terms of skills, tactics and fighting will, but there are not many who can be called excellent. Perhaps Lei Xiong can be considered one of them.

That guy, in the words of the future, is: God has given him food to eat, he just has the talent to become a soldier. If he is put in the future and trained for five or six years, even Tang Dao dare not say that he will win.

However, there are still a few people here who have the potential to become excellent.

Yang Xiaoshan and Niu Er are two of them.

Old soldiers like Lao Bing Youzi and Lao Hei, although they are much stronger than the two recruits now, their talents have limited their ceilings. Unless a miracle happens, there will be no great progress.

Yang Xiaoshan is flexible in mind, strong in body, tough and enthusiastic in personality, and has enough team spirit in his bones. He is an excellent comrade-in-arms. Needless to say, Niu Er, a cannon fodder recruit supplemented by the Hubei Security Corps, also gave Tang Dao a great surprise.

This little guy, who used to be scared to death by a charge by the Japanese army, overcame his psychological barriers with the lives of two brave Japanese soldiers. He even had the same "defect" as himself in that time and space.

Because of that defect, Tang Dao was judged as physically unqualified by the hospital where he was recruited. If it weren't for his father's old comrade who took the back door, Tang Dao would have almost no chance to enter the green military camp.

Tang Dao's eyesight is uneven, with 1.5 in the right eye and only 0.5 in the left eye. But no one expected that this person who was judged by the physical examination doctor as unable to serve in the army would become the king of single soldiers and snipers in the Mobei Military Region ten years later.

Tang Dao once sniped the leader of the mob at a distance of 500 meters, with one shot in the head!

Such a distance is nothing for many ace snipers. The longest distance recorded is even more than 2,000 meters. Even ordinary snipers start at more than 800 meters.

But in fact, Tang Dao, who was lurking in the desert Gobi, had only an old 56.5mm rifle snatched from the thugs, without a scope, and no modern tools for measuring wind and temperature.

He relied entirely on his naked eyes and the sight, and sensed the wind speed by the distance of the fallen dry grass, and sensed the temperature and humidity by his own skin, and shot the enemy at a distance of more than 100 meters from the effective range of the 56.5mm rifle!

That was a completely mythical sniper case. Countless people imitated it, but never surpassed it.

The main reason for all this is naturally due to Tang Dao's hard training, but the extremely uneven vision defect turned out to be the main factor.

Some people may think that snipers open one eye and close the other when aiming and shooting, and it is completely enough to keep 1.5 vision in the right eye, especially with the help of a scope.

In fact, this is a wrong perception.

If one eye is closed, the vision will be blurred when it is suddenly opened. At this time, if there are enemies around, it will be absolutely fatal.

All snipers look at the scope with one eye and observe the surroundings with the other eye.

While receiving such training, Tang Dao accidentally discovered that his right eye could see much farther than usual, and he could clearly see targets 400 meters away.

After countless quiet comparisons with his comrades, Tang Dao finally determined that once he entered the sniper state of aiming with one eye and observing the surroundings with the other, the uneven vision defect actually became a wonderful vision amplifier, and his visual range was 150 meters longer than that of ordinary people.

With a scope, it was even more powerful.

Niu Er has this once unique ‘defect’ of Tang Dao. His right eye is normal, but his left eye is glaucoma. He can hardly see at night, and his vision is only 0.3 at most during the day. This is the result obtained by Tang Dao after he learned about it at night and made a vision board to test him.

That also means that he also has the talent to become a super sniper, especially in this era without scopes. The sight distance exceeds 150 meters of ordinary people, which means that he can pull the trigger of death 150 meters before the opponent.

And just having talent is not enough. What makes Tang Dao even more happy is that this young man who has just broken through his psychological barriers is actually not a novice in shooting. Before he was caught to join the army, he was a hunter in Dabie Mountain and used hunting rifles and bows since he was a child.

After getting familiar with Tang Dao, the platoon leader, Niu Er recalled his gains with a bit of shyness and pride. Tigers, wild boars, black bears, and wild wolves were all his prey. There was even a tiger skin that was valued at more than 200 yuan because it had no holes.

But this windfall did not fall into Niu Er's hands. In the end, it was taken away by the county magistrate, who gave Niu Er 10 yuan of hard-earned money, but that also allowed Niu Er and his family to spend a year happily.

Some legendary experiences made several veterans grin. If they didn't know that this kid was introverted and didn't talk much, they would definitely think he was bragging.

You know, it is extremely difficult to hit a tiger that can run at more than ten meters per second, and if you want to leave no holes, you must hit the tiger's eyes to achieve that effect, especially with a hunting rifle with a range of only 80 meters.

With such shooting skills, why did he get scared to pee his pants on the battlefield?

The veterans didn't believe it, but Tang Dao did. Putting aside the fact that Niu Er had a natural talent for shooting in terms of vision, his example was not an isolated case.

More than a decade later, on the snowy battlefield in northern China, there also appeared a sniper like Niu Er.

Because he had the background of being a hunter, in that extremely cruel battlefield, the sniper took 32 days to shoot a total of 436 bullets with a Mosin-Ganna rifle, killing 214 enemies.

Because of his existence, the high ground where he was located was called the "Death Highland" by the opponents who were armed to the teeth!

Therefore, Tang Dao simply took advantage of the opportunity of the lieutenant colonel's tactical deception in the early morning to conduct special training for the two young people he was most optimistic about, and by the way, to see what Niu Er's real shooting level was.

After all, he was not a rookie who just dropped his shotgun and picked up the Zhongzheng rifle. He had been using the Zhongzheng rifle for more than ten days, right?

Look, after observing just now, after more than a dozen shots, Tang Dao already had a plan in his mind.

The distance of 400 meters may be too far for Yang Xiaoshan at present, but for Niu Er, who has talent and foundation, it is really not as far away as the veterans imagine.

What's more, the Japanese army has a vanguard squad that has penetrated to a distance of about 350 meters, and is now in a dilemma!

"What are you guys talking about?" A lieutenant with a leopard head and round eyes walked down the stairs and shouted at a few veterans who were smoking and teasing the new recruits.

Looking at Tang Dao who turned his head, he had a dark face: "The third platoon leader trains new recruits, what's your business? Get out, get out, all of you."

The person who came was Leng Feng, the deputy company commander and the platoon leader of the first platoon. Tang Dao sighed slightly in his heart. No wonder those veterans dared to tease Niu Er in front of him. I'm afraid they wanted to vent their anger for their superiors!

Think about it! As the deputy company commander and platoon leader of the main company, he didn't even get to attend the military meeting, but Tang Dao, the new guy, got this honor. Who wouldn't be angry?

That's not all. When Shangguan Yun left the warehouse to ambush the Japanese army, he didn't use his platoon but used Tang Dao's platoon.

Yes, Tang Dao is strong in personal ability, but he can't be said to be strong alone, so let the platoon suppress the platoon! Lieutenant Leng Feng and the entire platoon, who are used to being the sharp knife, are of course the most unhappy group of people with Tang Dao.

This is an unavoidable psychological fluctuation. Every unit has its own potential rules, and Tang Dao is the one who breaks the rules.

Unless Tang Dao is willing to follow the rules and let everyone admit it little by little.

But obviously, on such a battlefield, Tang Dao can't have that time.

In this case, it must be strong enough, strong enough to make the enemy despair, and strong enough that even its own people can't catch up and completely convinced.

So, looking at the lieutenant striding over, Tang Dao grinned and threw the telescope to Leng Feng: "Lieutenant Leng, how about we make a bet?"

Ps: Today's chapter is 3,000 words, so I will update it once. Otherwise, it will be 6,000 words. In the new book period, I will keep the number of words down a bit. I hope you understand. I will continue to update it twice tomorrow.