The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 511: Even more powerful than a tiger!!!

In the rotation troops, the scouts of each round and the newly formed special forces, who served as the vanguard, were the first to obtain and be equipped with new weapons and equipment.

During the Battle of Two Mountains, the front command successively formed 15 reconnaissance battalions in various armies.

Later, in the rotation war that lasted for more than ten years, these fifteen reconnaissance battalions participated in the war one after another and achieved brilliant results.

The Xia army was well-commanded and its soldiers were well-trained and fearless, which was one of the reasons for its brilliant achievements.

Furthermore, the continuous updating of new weapons has also made great contributions to it.

The year before last, after the Xia army had given the "ungrateful wolves" a good beating, they returned to the capital in mid-March.

But the battle was far from over. Subsequently, the two armies launched a two-mountain war that lasted for more than ten years.

On the Nara battlefield of L Mountain, the enemy took advantage of the geographical advantage of Hill 167 to frequently launch sneak attacks on the Xia army, causing constant trouble for the Xia army.

In order to eliminate this stronghold of the Vietnamese army, at the end of December last year, the "Night Tiger Regiment" known as the sniper group was ordered to come to the front line.

In early January this year, the front command ordered the "Night Tiger Regiment" to eliminate this enemy stronghold.

After receiving the order, the "Night Tiger Regiment" was sent to carry out the mission by a reconnaissance battalion formed by the regiment's sharpshooter Red Fourth Company.

At 7 a.m. on the 7th, the operation officially began, and the enemy used artillery to frantically bombard the 4th Company.

By about 5:30 in the afternoon, the enemy had fired more than 8,000 shells.

However, nearly 300 enemy troops were still killed by Xia's army.

The sharpshooter Red Fourth Company also paid a heavy price, with more than 30 people killed or wounded.

There was a reason why the Red Fourth Company was able to capture this high ground stronghold and wipe out more than 300 enemy troops despite the enemy's fierce bombardment.

The "Night Tiger" Regiment is also known as the Wei Aiguo Regiment. The reason why this regiment is named after Wei Aiguo is because of his name.

This is because Wei Aiguo, who came from this regiment, was known as a sharpshooter and climbed Tiananmen Square six times after liberation.

Wei Aiguo is a remarkable person. He has even had an entire troop unit named after him. You can imagine how powerful he is.

Because his family was too poor when he was a child, in 1942, 16-year-old Wei Aiguo joined the Eighth Route Army.

When he first arrived at the army, the Eighth Route Army was poor, and the squad leader only gave him two bullets as a rookie.

Wei Laiguo held these two bullets as if they were treasures every day.

But he lost one bullet while crossing the river. He was unwilling to give up and went back to the river to search for bullets.

After searching for a long time without finding the bullet, Wei Aiguo kept crying as he marched.

This rookie who treated bullets as his precious treasures later became a sharpshooter.

But when he shot at the enemy for the first time, he missed the enemy with two shots and almost lost his life.

At that time, Wei Aiguo and the "little devil" were only about forty meters apart.

Wei Aiguo raised his gun and fired. He fired two shots but missed both targets. Wei Aiguo thought, it's over, I'm out of bullets.

Fortunately, the "little Japanese soldier" didn't know that Wei Aiguo only had two bullets, and he ran away quickly after being frightened.

Otherwise, how could a child like Wei Aiguo beat an adult?

Wei Aiguo was sad for several days because of this.

He began to realize that without superb shooting skills, no matter how many bullets he had, they would be of no use.

From then on, Wei Aiguo began to study and practice shooting techniques hard.

Whenever he heard that someone in the army was good at shooting, he would pester that person to teach him.

In this way, Wei Aiguo made rapid progress and became a platoon leader three years later. In July, his company received a tough battle.

At that time, they were responsible for blocking the Kuomintang army in Langezhuang.

On this day, Wei Aiguo and his men had just arrived at their destination when two companies of the Kuomintang army attacked.

Wei Aiguo picked up his Type 38 rifle, used the grave as cover and joined the battle.

He killed an enemy soldier with every shot he fired, and the enemy's formation was soon disrupted.

After hiding in the fields and observing for a while, the enemy discovered Wei Aiguo's hiding place and immediately concentrated all light and heavy firearms to attack Wei Aiguo.

When Wei Aiguo saw that things were not going well, he immediately took his men and hid.

Then he ordered the soldiers to take off their military caps and hang them on rifle cleaning rods or corn stalks.

When the enemy discovered these military caps, they immediately aimed at them and shot at them crazily.

While the enemy's attention was diverted to the military caps, the soldiers aimed at the enemy and fired at them, and Wei Aiguo began his roll call performance again.

The enemy soon discovered that these "PLA" troops would not fall no matter how hard they were beaten, and they knew they had been tricked.

However, they didn't know where the PLA's real bodies were, so they had to bombard Wei Aiguo and his men's positions indiscriminately.

Wei Aiguo was knocked unconscious by the artillery fire. Around two o'clock in the afternoon, a heavy rain woke him up.

Wei Aiguo rubbed his eyes and saw a Kuomintang officer waving a small flag to direct the battle more than a hundred meters away.

Wei Aiguo picked up his Type 38 rifle and fired. The bullet hit the Kuomintang officer's hand. He threw away the small flag and ran away.

At this time Wei Aiguo had already woken up. How could he let the enemy get away like that? He fired the second bullet and the Kuomintang officer was killed on the spot.

In this battle, two enemy companies were almost wiped out by our army.

Wei Aiguo alone killed almost an entire company of enemies. He killed 135 enemies with 110 bullets.

He also praised Wei Aiguo for being amazing.

Wei Aiguo achieved another good result in the second year.

In April 47, the 4th Division of the Guo Army was beaten by the Huaye Army and fled in panic. Zhou Tai ordered Hu Lian's 74th Division to rush to its rescue.

The superiors ordered the 9th Column to block the attack, and the 4th Company where Wei Aiguo was located was responsible for garrisoning Tiantai Mountain and Heishan.

Wei Aiguo himself led two platoons to garrison Heishan, and asked the deputy company commander to lead a platoon to garrison the less important Tiantai Mountain.

On the 19th, the battle started. The enemy's 11th Division attacked with an entire brigade and regiment. The battle was extremely brutal. After seven days and seven nights of fierce fighting, the 4th Company killed and wounded more than enemy soldiers.

Among them, Wei Aiguo alone killed 92 people, and he achieved this record with only 136 bullets.

After these two battles, Wei Aiguo was called a sharpshooter by our army, and he was promoted step by step to the regiment commander.

Wei Aiguo did not hide his skills, he always taught them to the soldiers around him without reservation.

Under the leadership of Wei Aiguo, the "Night Tiger" regiment produced one sharpshooter after another.

These snipers arrived at L Mountain and immediately played a huge role.

One day, the telegraph operator delivered a telegram to Liu Zhiye, the front commander.

This is an enemy telegram that our army uncovered.

"There is a mysterious sniper on the Xia army's position. In just one month, this man has killed 30 of our troops and injured one. Hurry up and support us!"

It turned out that the telegram showed that thirty enemy soldiers might have been killed by the same person on our side.

Another person may also have been injured by our sniper.

Liu Zhiye thought about it and realized that he had not received any reports from various units saying that a certain soldier had killed thirty people!

He suspected that the telegraph operator had made a mistake, and after repeatedly checking with the operator, he confirmed that the telegram was accurate.

Liu Zhiye immediately asked each unit to organize personnel and compile a new battle record.

The battle results were quickly counted, and it was found that Xia Jun did not have a sniper like his soldier.

However, Liu Zhiye soon discovered a problem.

There has been no recent attrition, but the Night Tigers' statistics show one man missing.

Liu Zhiye directly called "Ye Lao Hu" to ask what was going on.

The leader of the "Night Tiger Regiment" replied that when the battle results were being counted, a soldier named Fan Tianlei was not present.

At that time, everyone thought he was sick, so they went to the barracks to look for him, but found that there was no one there. Now people have been arranged to look for Fan Tianlei.

When Liu Zhiye heard that a soldier was missing, he immediately went to the "Night Tiger" Regiment to personally take charge of the search.

What if this Fan Tianlei is the sniper? What if something happens to Fan Tianlei? Liu Zhiye was very anxious.

According to the soldiers, Fan Tianlei was usually taciturn and serious. He would be full of energy when there was a battle, and would rest in bed when there was no battle.

Because Fan Tianlei is not very sociable, no one pays much attention to him. It seems that no one has seen Fan Tianlei come back in the past few days.

Some time ago he went out early in the morning and came back after dark.

After hearing the soldiers' report, Liu Zhiye became even more nervous. It would be bad if something went wrong with Fan Tianlei.

Just when Liu Zhiye was very worried, the soldier who was sent out to look for Fan Tianlei brought a middle school student who looked a little listless to him and said that this was Fan Tianlei.

When Liu Zhiye saw Fan Tianlei, he was a little stunned.

I saw that Fan Tianlei had messy hair, was not tall, and was thin and small.

Liu Zhiye was wondering in his heart: "How can this guy be a sharpshooter?"

This is very different from the image of a sharpshooter that Liu Zhiye imagined. He doesn't have to be tall and mighty, but at least he should be a spirited young man.

Well, we can’t draw conclusions based on appearance alone. We have to look at their actual performance to see whether they have real abilities.

Liu Zhiye couldn't help but ask the man in front of him a few questions: "Are you Comrade Fan Tianlei? Where have you been these days?"

Fan Tianlei didn't recognize Liu Zhiye and didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he turned his gaze to the head of the group.

The regiment commander coughed lightly and said, "Comrade Fan Tianlei, this is our front-line chief of staff, Comrade Liu Zhiye. The leader asks you a question, you must answer truthfully!"

Fan Tianlei was shocked when he heard this. He didn't expect that his matter would attract the attention of this big shot. He hurriedly responded with a stutter: "Hello, Chief! I... I am Fan Tianlei..."

Fan Tianlei admitted to Liu Zhiye that he had killed dozens of enemy soldiers, but he did not count the number.

He has been at that sniper point for many days.

Because of the long-term mental stress and the fact that he had not eaten for several days in order to snipe the enemy, Fan Tianlei fainted after a heavy rain.

When the soldiers found him, he was still unconscious.

Seeing that Fan Tianlei was so weak, Liu Zhiye asked the soldiers to send him to have a good rest, and arranged for military doctors and nurses to take good care of him.

Fan Tianlei, who later became the brigade commander of the "Wolf Fang Special Operations Brigade", met Liu Zhiye for the first time.

In the following decades, Fan Tianlei's performance did not disappoint Liu Zhiye.

However, when they met for the first time, Liu Zhiye had an average impression of Fan Tianlei.

He felt that Fan Tianlei looked very timid. He didn't even dare to look at him straight in the eye. He also seemed very nervous. He didn't look like a warrior who could kill the enemy at all.

Therefore, Liu Zhiye still didn't quite believe Fan Tianlei's battle record.

He asked the "Night Tiger" group to verify it carefully after Fan Tianlei recovered.

After a few days, Fan Tianlei recovered.

The regiment headquarters asked him about the situation and after checking the number of bullets, they found that Fan Tianlei had used a total of 79 bullets in his Type 31 sniper rifle.

This is consistent with the enemy's telegram saying 30 people were killed and 1 was injured.

The observers arranged by his superiors to follow him also reconstructed the situation at that time to confirm it.

According to observers, the effect of Fan Tianlei's first sniper attack was very poor. Although he hit the target with one shot, Fan Tianlei was in a trance for several days afterwards.

At the request of the regiment, Fan Tianlei had to tell the leaders the entire process of the sniping, recreating the style of a sharpshooter.

It turned out that this was Fan Tianlei's first time on the battlefield.

It was a day in mid-September.

Fan Tianlei began to look for a favorable sniping location. After finding it, he first cleared the surrounding mines, clearing more than 60 mines in one go.

Subsequently, Fan Tianlei determined seven observation points and carefully selected nine shooting positions so that he could change the observation points and design positions when the situation changed.

In the next few days, Fan Tianlei did not immediately snipe the enemy.

Instead, he acclimated himself to the environment at the sniper point, maintaining his aiming posture for the entire day each time.

L Mountain has a subtropical rainforest climate, and in summer and autumn, it is extremely hot on sunny days.

Mosquitoes are flying everywhere and insects are crawling everywhere.

The ground is very wet on rainy days, and Fan Tianlei needs some time to adapt.

That afternoon, Fan Tianlei felt that everything was ready and he could start the sniping work. He lay motionless at the sniping point, waiting for the target to appear.

The enemy did not disappoint Fan Tianlei and soon appeared within his sniper range. However, Fan Tianlei disappointed himself.

Before, Fan Tianlei had been training in the army to shoot at targets, and had never shot a living person before. Moreover, he had never even been in a fight. He hesitated whether to pull the trigger.

Seeing that Fan Tianlei was distracted, the observer immediately nudged him with his elbow and said, "Hurry up and fight. You can go home after the fight." Fan Tianlei stopped hesitating and quickly convinced himself that I am a soldier and it is my duty to destroy the enemy.

Bang! Fan Tianlei fired his first bullet at a living person, and the enemy fell to the ground.

After Fan Tianlei returned to the barracks, he suffered from battlefield psychological syndrome. He felt nauseous and vomited, couldn't eat, and had nightmares all night long.

During those days, Fan Tianlei was in a daze all day.

However, Fan Tianlei, who was able to grow into an excellent sniper, naturally had very strong psychological qualities, and he soon came out of his psychological shadow.

Since then, Fan Tianlei has been resurrected with full health.

Going to the sniper point every day is as easy as punching in for work. As long as there are enemy troops within his sniper range, it is almost impossible to leave alive.

In the following days, the enemy began to appear at night. Fan Tianlei told the observers not to come and decided whether to return to the barracks at night based on the situation.

Seeing that Fan Tianlei had already got into the state and that this sniper point was very hidden and would hardly be discovered by the enemy, the observer agreed.

After the observer left, he thought Fan Tianlei had completed the task quickly and did not come to find him.

It was not until Liu Zhiye discovered something was wrong and asked for statistics on the battle results that the "Night Tiger" regiment discovered that Fan Tianlei had not returned. Under the leadership of the observer, they found Fan Tianlei.

Although Fan Tianlei won numerous honors later, he almost missed it this time.

It would also be impossible for him to meet the mentor in his life, although even without Liu Zhiye's support, Fan Tianlei could still make a career in the army.

But the growth speed behind this is completely different with and without people.

It is no coincidence that Fan Tianlei has such good marksmanship.

Fan Tianlei joined the army last year and was assigned to the "Night Tiger Regiment".

As soon as he joined the army, he was deeply attracted by the sniping skills of the old commander Wei Aiguo.

Fan Tianlei regarded Wei Aiguo as his role model.

He particularly admired Wei Aiguo's superb shooting skill, which made Fan Tianlei determined to become someone like him.

Therefore, Fan Tianlei spent a lot of time every day practicing his shooting skills.

In his opinion, things like lifting bricks, doing push-ups, and long-distance running are all homework that must be done every day.

As time went by, Fan Tianlei had a firm grasp of the basic skills.

At that time, Wei Aiguo had already served as deputy army commander, and Fan Tianlei was unable to directly ask Wei Aiguo about sniping issues.

However, he did not lose heart and showed the same enthusiasm as Wei Aiguo did back then.

The power of example is infinite!
Whenever Fan Tianlei heard that someone had good sniping skills, he would pester that person to learn from him.

Before long, Fan Tianlei mastered a unique skill.

Moreover, Fan Tianlei came at a good time, as the army sniper was using the Type 79 sniper rifle which had just been issued and had not yet been put into service.

This is new equipment and we don't have much experience with it.

Most snipers can only hit targets within seven or eight hundred meters, and it is very rare for a sniper to hit a target more than a thousand meters away.

However, Fan Tianlei does have talent.

Not only could he use the 79 sniper rifle to accurately hit targets a kilometer away, he could also control the dispersion of bullets to within the size of a pear.

In this way, a new recruit actually overtook the veterans by using new equipment.

Fan Tianlei's unique skill soon reached the ears of Deputy Army Commander Wei Aiguo, who personally went to the company to ask Fan Tianlei if he wanted to learn sniping techniques from him.

When Fan Tianlei heard this, he realized that this was what he had always dreamed of. He was so happy that he was speechless and just nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

Under Wei Aiguo's guidance, Fan Tianlei's sniping skills improved by leaps and bounds, and he soon won first place in the division and first place in the army in the sniping competition held by the army.

After investigation, Fan Tianlei's record was indeed correct.

Liu Zhiye personally applied for the second-class merit for him and promoted him to join the party on the spot. From then on, Fan Tianlei came into his sight.

In order to personally verify Fan Tianlei's marksmanship.

One day, Liu Zhiye called Fan Tianlei to an open space.

Liu Zhiye picked up a stone and asked Fan Tianlei to turn his back to him.

After he threw the stone out, Fan Tianlei turned around and shot.

At this moment, Fan Tianlei, who had always been a little timid, suddenly changed his demeanor.

The eyes were like those of an eagle, and they quickly spotted the stone falling from the air.

Then he turned around, raised his gun, and there was a "bang" sound. His movements were very smooth and the intact stone was smashed into pieces in an instant.

Liu Zhiye likes Fan Tianlei more and more, but Fan Tianlei is about to be transferred.

Liu Zhiye then asked him: "Xiao Fan, do you want to change your environment? I will soon be assigned to the Yanda Military Region. I plan to set up a professional rapid reaction force at Yanda, and I urgently need a large number of outstanding talents with actual combat experience..."

Fan Tianlei was very touched that such a high-ranking leader like Liu Zhiye valued him, and wanted to agree to the leader's request, but he was reluctant to leave the front line immediately.

"Chief, I..."

"It doesn't matter, just think about it slowly!"

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(End of this chapter)