Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 67 Winter Military Training

Of course, Wang Gensheng also knew that according to the plot of Bright Sword, Li Yunlong should be conducting winter military training in the independent regiment at this time!
After all, in winter, because of heavy snow blocking the roads and transportation being inconvenient, there is no need to worry too much about the attacks of the Japanese devils. In addition, there is no farm work to do, so it is naturally the best time to train soldiers.

At this time, Li Yunlong's independent regiment held a bayonet fighting competition and a grenade throwing competition within the regiment, from which many soldiers with accurate grenade throwing skills were selected.

So Wang Gensheng naturally started the same bayonet fighting and grenade throwing training in the New Second Regiment.

Of course, Wang Gensheng actually wanted to start shooting training in the New Second Regiment. After all, this is the era of hot weapons. If you can't shoot, no matter how accurately you throw grenades or how good you are at fighting with bayonets, it won't work.

No matter how far you throw the grenade, it can't be thrown more than two or three hundred meters. If you want to fight with a bayonet, the Japanese have to be willing to fight with you!
Therefore, it is very important to conduct shooting training to improve the shooting accuracy of the soldiers. Unfortunately, apart from knowing that shooting must follow the shooting principle of three points and one line, and paying attention to the fact that the bullet will fall with distance, Wang Gensheng knows nothing about the rest of the shooting techniques.

But it doesn’t matter, because although Wang Gensheng doesn’t know it, he has a sharpshooter named Baili Xiu who never misses his target!
"You asked me to teach you shooting techniques, shooting experience, and what to pay attention to when shooting! But I usually shoot based on my feeling! I don't have any feeling to follow!"

Baili Xiu was a little dumbfounded when he heard Wang Gensheng's request. After all, he didn't usually think of following any rules when shooting!
Seeing Baili Xiu like this, Wang Gensheng naturally understood that this was not Baili Xiu deliberately concealing something, but that he was just like this. From the rope musket he used to play with to the bolt-action rifle he used to play with, it was all due to his talent. So Wang Gensheng thought about it and brought Baili Xiu to a soldier. After asking the soldier to raise his gun and aim, he asked Baili Xiu:

"Well, do you see any difference between his gun-holding and shooting posture and yours?"

After hearing Wang Gensheng's words, Baili Xiu carefully watched the soldier raise his gun and shoot, then he spoke:

"His gun is shaking too much. His body and hands are not steady. He can't shoot like this. He has to hold the gun steady to shoot!"

As Baili Xiu spoke, he raised his Type 96 sniper rifle. Wang Gensheng compared it carefully and found that it was indeed true. Wang Gensheng's posture of holding the gun was very steady, and the muzzle did not shake at all. In order to verify the stability of Baili Xiu's aiming, Wang Gensheng also took out a bullet and placed it on the upper end of Baili Xiu's gun muzzle.

Now Wang Gensheng understood how steady Baili Xiu's gun was when he aimed, because the bullet above the muzzle of Baili Xiu's gun did not move at all.

On the other hand, the soldier couldn't even hold the bullet on the muzzle of his gun; it was immediately shaken off when he put it on.

So the whole group had another gun holding stability exercise. The method of the exercise was very simple, that is, when standing and shooting, place a bullet above the muzzle. If it falls, it means you have failed.

Of course, in order to verify Baili Xiu's statement that sharpshooters hold their guns very steadily, Wang Gensheng specially selected ten soldiers who held their guns very steadily from the entire regiment, and had a shooting competition with ten soldiers who shook their guns severely.

Of course, bullets are precious, so each person only has three bullets. The result of the competition is naturally clear at a glance. The soldiers who hold their guns steadily all hit the bull's eye, while some soldiers who hold their guns shakily have difficulty even hitting the target.

Wang Gensheng used this experiment to convince Kong Jie to add a rifle aiming drill to the regiment's training. The passing standard was to hold the bullet upright for ten minutes without dropping it. The results of this winter training were quite encouraging. Ten lucky soldiers randomly selected from the entire New Second Regiment took part in the live-fire shooting test. All ten soldiers were able to aim at the 100-meter standing target, but only one in five hit the bull's eye.

Of course, this is already pretty good. After all, being able to hit the target means that you can hit the Japanese at a distance of 100 meters, and being able to hit the center of the bull means that you are capable of shooting the Japanese in the head at a distance of 100 meters.

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"Damn it! How on earth was this battle fought? 200,000 against 100,000, and it ended up like this? Over 40,000 dead, over 30,000 captured, and the Japanese only lost around 600. This...?"

Wang Gensheng, who had already moved into the headquarters of the New Second Regiment and lived in the same yard with Kong Jie, heard Kong Jie's voice and went to Kong Jie's room. He then saw Kong Jie reading a military newspaper and cursing.

Wang Gensheng also took the newspaper from Kong Jie's hand out of curiosity and started reading it. After reading it, Wang Gensheng compared it with the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in his memory and immediately understood it.

This turned out to be the famous Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The failure of this battle naturally led to the loss of the Kuomintang army's last anti-Japanese outpost north of the Yellow River, making the area north of the Yellow River directly become the territory of the Japanese devils.

And more importantly, without the attraction of the Nationalist Army, the Japanese would naturally turn their spearhead and main energy towards the Eighth Route Army who were causing trouble and fighting guerrilla warfare in rural areas.

This was extremely bad news for the Eighth Route Army, which was developing at a rapid pace. However, things had come to this point and there was no way to turn the situation around. After all, when Wang Gensheng traveled through time, he was just an ordinary front-line cannon fodder-level soldier.

After a year of hard work, he finally became the deputy leader of a ragtag group, so naturally he had no way of changing the major group battles in history like the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain.

Although he had no ability to change the big one, he could still make some changes in his own area. Wang Gensheng immediately said:
"Captain, the Korean army's aggressive tactics aren't good for us! I'm sure the Japs will launch a fierce raid on our Eighth Route Army base. We need to make plans in advance, like launching underground warfare as soon as possible to foil the Japs' raid!"

But when Kong Jie heard this, he sighed and said:

"I've already told the higher-ups about your tunnel warfare strategy to counter the Japanese raids, and they've also suggested it to the various bases. However, since the Japanese raids weren't very intense, the various bases haven't been very proactive in implementing it."

After hearing what Kong Jie said, Wang Gensheng understood that digging tunnels was not an easy job. Therefore, the ordinary people in each village felt that the Japanese had not yet entered the village, so there was naturally no need to dig so hard.

But if we don’t dig it up now, and wait until next year, in 1942, when the Japanese invaders launch a large-scale sweep, it will be too late!

(End of this chapter)