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Chapter 474 Chapter 473, Mission Completed, Let's Train Hard
The benefits of sniper rifles and snipers are no longer a secret. The leaders of the entire Eighth Route Army knew that as long as there was a sniper in their squad, with the help of a grenade launcher, they could firmly suppress the enemy's heavy machine gun positions, and victory would not be far away.

Of course, the wish is good, but the reality is that it is really hard to find a good shooter! What is even harder to find than a sharpshooter is a sniper rifle! It is said that there are not many of these things in the Japanese army, and it is difficult to seize them!
Now, the organization has obtained a large number of sniper scopes from the Russians, so the modification of sniper rifles is only a matter of time!

Just as the regiment commanders who heard the news stretched their necks, eagerly waiting for their superiors to allocate sniper rifles, the order from their superiors also came down to the division headquarters - all units of the 129th Division were to select 1000 soldiers with good marksmanship and cultural knowledge, report to Xijing Town, and participate in training!
The order was very simple, so simple that there was no stipulation on how many people each group should send out, it was just an order.

Who are the division commander and the political commissar? Although they were not with the headquarters at this time, they were still well-informed and immediately thought of the sniper scope. So the division commander raised his hand and signed a new order with a fountain pen, allocating the number of participants for each brigade and asking them to select them immediately and then report to the division headquarters.

The brigade commanders frowned when they received the order. After all, there were more than 10 brigades, and each brigade only had less than 100 people. The brigade commanders were also worried about how to divide the troops. This was a good thing. Although it was not stated explicitly, everyone knew that these soldiers participating in the training were being trained as snipers and precision shooters! Therefore, the brigade commanders made a decision without any prior agreement - whoever was stronger would go to the big competition!
As the saying goes, those who are close to water get the moon first! When the bullet production of the headquarters arsenal stabilized at 1500 rounds a day, Minister Zhang began to deliberately distribute the war reserve bullets originally stored in the warehouse to each brigade. In this way, the ammunition of each brigade increased, and the brigade commanders dared to hold shooting competitions.

When Li Yuexuan returned to the arsenal, he gathered several skilled workers and led them to start modifying the bolts. Under the operation of the workers, 100 reliable Ma Sihuan rifles and Mosin-Nagant rifles were changed to a downward-curved bolt type, and the built-in magazine was improved to load bullets from the top and change to a magazine feed.

Li Yuexuan's current gun modification skills should be the best in the world! After all, those old gunsmiths don't have his processing speed and accumulation of drawings. Therefore, it is not difficult for Li Yuexuan to modify an ordinary bolt-action rifle into a magazine-fed bolt-action rifle.

Of course, he didn't make the magazine very big, just a 10-round magazine. As for snipers, they don't need too many bullets in the magazine, but the skill to kill the enemy with one shot.

The reason for changing to a magazine is to reload faster, so that you can complete the action of changing bullets before the enemy on the battlefield to gain the upper hand. After all, the existence of a sniper scope greatly affects the efficiency of reloading. Reloading 5 bullets one by one will consume at least 5 seconds, which is a waste of time!
Li Yuexuan was busy converting ordinary rifles into sniper rifles and ordinary semi-automatic rifles into precision marksman rifles. He planned to convert the number of rifles into a ratio of one to four. That is, 100 sniper rifles and 400 precision marksman rifles. For this, he planned to spend one and a half months to complete it. The main reason was that the conversion of bolt-action rifles took time, and the semi-automatic rifles only required the installation of a sniper scope.

By the end of September, 9 sniper rifles had been modified, and Li Yuexuan personally made the final adjustments to each gun to achieve shooting accuracy within 100 meters.

At this time, 1000 soldiers selected from various main regiments, basic regiments, local regiments, county brigades, and district squads have arrived in Xijing Town and are receiving physical training, marksmanship training, sniper-related knowledge learning, concealment and observation training, and other subjects from the special operations team.

After the modification of this batch of guns was completed, Li Yuexuan immediately had them sent to Xijing Town and handed over to Tianchuan and his team. After training for these days, Tianchuan easily selected the most suitable 1000 people from the 100 trainees as sniper trainees, and also assigned them 100 soldiers as observer trainees. After determining the 100 sniper groups, Tianchuan took them to conduct special shooting training, and the remaining soldiers continued to conduct physical training and marksmanship training, waiting for the next selection.

Time soon came to mid-October, and 10 semi-automatic sniper rifles were modified and sent to Xijing Town together with the 400 assault rifles that had been intercepted in the past two months.

So, after a selection between the two, 400 soldiers were equipped with semi-automatic sniper rifles with sniper scopes, and 400 soldiers were equipped with assault rifles, forming 400 shooting teams.

In order to enhance the observation ability of these teams, the headquarters also specially allocated a total of 500 telescopes for these soldiers to use. 500 telescopes, although some are only 4x Type telescopes, that is also a big deal! From this, it can be seen that the headquarters sincerely hopes that these snipers and precision shooters can complete their training as soon as possible and return to the team. No, it is really high hopes.

With the equipment, the next thing is training! The special forces have the most precision shooters and snipers in the entire army, and the rest is to train hard, there is nothing to say about it!
Well, there is something worth mentioning, that is, all of these 1000 trainees are no longer wearing gray uniforms, but camouflage uniforms. Only the Eighth Route Army hats on their heads can still distinguish their identities. Of course, if they wear a camouflage helmet on their heads, then... they can also be distinguished.

Because all camouflage helmets are of the same style, imitating the style of Kevlar helmets, and they are very different from the Japanese helmets!

Another point to emphasize is that among all the 1000 trainees, there are 30 nurses from the field hospital who are training! That's right, those nurses under Xu Hongying were specially arranged by Li Yuexuan in the training team. The purpose, of course, is to add 5 sniper teams and 10 precision shooter teams to Xu Hongying's men.

No one had any objection to Li Yuexuan's proposal, because the nurses had already proven themselves! The heads of the headquarters all applauded in favor of this matter, which was amazing!

Time passed day by day in the intense production and training! As bullets were fired one by one, the students' marksmanship became better and better. By the end of October, snipers could achieve accurate sniping at 10 meters, and precision shooters could achieve accurate hits at 500 meters.

(End of this chapter)