Chapter 61: Patience

"Kill!" Several volunteer soldiers from the company shouted and rushed towards the British defensive positions.

Shouting towards the enemy is the combat habit of volunteer soldiers. According to veterans, shouting to kill like this can boost courage, boost morale of our army, and make the enemy timid. And in the eyes of foreigners who do not understand Chinese, there is another saying.

In modern times, I have seen the Korean War written by Li Qi, which describes the shouts of the volunteers as "the unique noise of the Chinese army". Of course, I think this unique noise also includes the sound of a military horn and the sound of a small horn.

In the trenches, I held my gun at the school under the high ground like a great enemy. My eyes were staring at the rows of school buildings under the high ground through the scope, and my eyes wandered between the windows and the cracks of the door from time to time.

A 2.5x scope can see many British helmets at this distance, but I didn't dare to shoot because I believe my opponent is not dead yet. He is hiding in a place I don't know, watching quietly, ready to shoot the bullets of revenge in his hand at any time.

His goal is me!

Only then did I realize that there were too few places to hide on the position. Although there were trenches as cover, if I wanted to observe the enemy shooting at the enemy, I would have to expose my head to the snow-white moonlight. On the contrary, my opponent was hiding in the school building, and I couldn't even determine which room he was in.

I don’t know if it’s because of my nervousness or why, I seemed to feel that he had discovered me several times, so I had to constantly change my position. Sometimes that inexplicable sense of fear would make me feel a sense of giving up, but thinking about my comrades who were charging forward, I still muster up the courage to poke my head carefully.

The sound of gunfire and grenade explosions were heard, and the battlefield was soon filled with smoke, and the scenery in front of me seemed to be covered with a layer of gauze and faintly appeared. Snowflakes kept floating, as if trying to cover up the bloody and murderous aura on the battlefield.

The soldiers rushed very quickly. They held guns and zha medicine bags, and used cover to lie on and walk quickly. In a short while, they rushed to a place two hundred meters away from the enemy.

The British counterattack was not strong, and the tanks could not accurately aim at this night. Only the machine guns on it could still work, but it would be nice if half of the machine guns were not frozen in this cold night.

Therefore, the main weapon of the British counterattack was the rifle in their hands. The British army's shooting technique was really unspeakable. An ordinary soldier had a high hit rate under the interference of moonlight, snowflakes, and figures. From time to time, volunteer soldiers were shot and fell to the ground at a distance of 200 meters.

However, the combat will of the volunteer soldiers was surprisingly tenacious. They had never retreated under the bombing of American planes and cannons, not to mention that the British army was only stronger than the 38th Gai. As long as the volunteer soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground died on the spot, those who could climb would try their best to climb to the enemy's position. Those who could not climb picked up the weapons in their hands to assist them in their comrades.

Moreover, the shooting skills of the volunteer soldiers are not bad. The nickname "Three Guns and Eighth Route Army" is not a waste of time. Under my scope, you can clearly see the British troops lying under the guns of the volunteers, and then they continue to replace the new British troops...

Therefore, on one side, the elite troops who were traditionally skilled in marksmanship and participated in World War II, and on the other side, the hundreds of war surprises who had to practice marksmanship due to lack of bullets, a battle between rifles was fought in this specific environment.

The British army was better in equipment. Although the Lee Enfield rifle and the 38th Great Cap are both single shot guns, the former has a fast firing speed and a ten round capacity, while the 38th Great Cap only has five rounds, which determines that the British army has a longer shooting time.

These two advantages once allowed the British army to defeat nearly 40,000 German attacks in half an hour with more than 10,000 people in World War I. Because this battle also made the Lee Enfield rifle known as the king of single-shot rifles. In other words, in addition to semi-automatic rifles, the rifles in the hands of the British army are the best used.

This reminds me of a movie made by a famous director in modern China in the era of the Liberation War. In order to highlight the protagonist as a veteran with rich combat experience, the director asked a group of supporting actors to hold a Lee-Enfield rifle and ask the protagonist what gun it was. When the protagonist took the gun, he took it and said casually: "This is a British gun, it's not easy to use!"

This almost made me faint on the spot...

I was distracted! I quickly shook my head and pulled my thoughts back from modern times. I felt ashamed in my heart. Not to mention the marksmanship, I could not achieve the qualities that a sniper should have based on my current mental state. The reason why the competition with the expert on the other side just now had the upper hand was luck.

At this time, the volunteers advanced nearly 100 meters, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The mysterious enemy sniper had not appeared yet. Could it be that I was really killed by me or injured and lost my combat ability? At a distance of 100 meters, the volunteers could throw out a row of grenades at any time, and then rush up to fight with the British army in the smoke of the grenades. At that time, no matter how good his shooting skills were, there would be no use.

However, the closer the distance is, the more obvious the defense advantages of the British army are. Although the shooting skills of the volunteer soldiers are comparable to those of the British army, the British army are all hiding in bunkers, while the volunteers are exposed to the moonlight to charge. At the same time, they also entered the effective range of the British army's two high grounds behind the school, so the casualties of the volunteer soldiers quickly rose sharply.

Seeing one Volunteer Army soldier after another hit the ground, my heart trembled. What I couldn't stand was that I could clearly see the enemy in the scope, and could kill them under my gun to provide cover for the Volunteer Army soldiers.

One hundred meters, the casualties of the volunteer soldiers were nearly one-third, and they were falling down one after another. My eyes were so angry that I could see my eyes shaking, and my index finger, which was slapped on the trigger, was trembling gently.

Ninety meters, the soldiers advanced forward with difficulty, and almost every step was exchanged for blood and life.

Eighty meters...

"Bang bang..." I could no longer help pulling the trigger one after another, and in an instant, two British troops fell under my gun. But when I aimed at the third British troops, I felt a chill on my head, and a bullet almost hit my scalp and knocked my hat far away. Then there were waves of bursts of zha medicine bags exploded from the battlefield again.

He finally took action!
Chapter completed!