"There is nothing difficult in the world, but I am afraid of those who have a heart." In a very simple sentence, how many people really practice him? And the people who really do it are heroes and good men with great perseverance, and they must not be treated as ordinary people.
Zhang Taofang is a sniper who really came out of the tempering, and he didn't know how much suffering he had suffered in order to practice sniping. When he came up with real results, the military commander Pi Dingjun thought it was a cheating misreport, and when the investigators walked to the battlefield, Zhang Taofang killed three American troops on the spot, and the investigators believed that he was a real sniper.
North Korea
After World War II, the world was divided into a capitalist camp headed by the United States and a socialist camp led by the Soviet Union. It was in this context that North Korea was split in two.
In June 1950, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north announced that Syngman Rhee's forces in the south would launch an offensive against North Korea with the Americans. Soon, the United States gathered fifteen armies to launch an attack on North Korea. On the eve of the war, New China issued many statements demanding that the United States must not cross the 38th Line, otherwise it will participate in the war by force.
The Americans are arrogant, and not only do they ignore the demands of new China, but they also drive warships into the Taiwan Strait in an attempt to prevent our army from liberating Taiwan, and at the same time send military aircraft to bomb northeast China.
In 1950, the Chinese Volunteer Army, commanded by Peng Dehuai, crossed the Yalu River to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
recruit
Zhang Taofang is a native of Xinghua, Jiangsu Province, born in 1931, and is a fellow villager with Zheng Banqiao. Zhang Taofang lived in the shadow of the Japanese in her childhood, and she spent all her energy every day in order to survive, and she really had no conditions to learn calligraphy and painting like her fellow countrymen.
In 1951, Zhang Taofang decided to join the army and became a glorious soldier in the People's Liberation Army. After the outbreak of the Korean War, Zhang Taofang's 24th Army was ordered to fight in North Korea, and zhang Taofang, a new soldier, stepped into the Korean battlefield.
The 24th Army arrived at Wonsan garrison in September. In mid-September, Zhang Taofang's company conducted its first live-fire training after entering the Korean War. Zhang Taofang was not very confident, and he used a new gun, Mosin Nagant.
When practicing target shooting in China, the Japanese use three or eight large covers, and the minimum of three shots is usually more than 20 rings, and in North Korea, the first target practice is all moped and three large burnt cakes are eaten. The company commander was angry, and the consequences were severe. Zhang Taofang went to the cooking class to cook.
Zhang Taofang's marksmanship should not have been so bad, but after entering the DPRK, he rushed every day, and he was a correspondent of the company, how much time could he have to "get close and intimate" with Mosin Nagant behind him?
Hard
After returning from the cooking class, Zhang Taofang thought about it, being a correspondent all day "close" to the chief, how to "get close" to Mosin Nagant? So he decided to go back to his class and become an ordinary soldier.
Just as the so-called "no crazy devil can not live", Zhang Taofang, who returned to the class, was completely crazy. He held up the gun all day, saw what was aimed at, and hung two bags on his arms, each weighing several pounds, so that his arms would no longer tremble and the gun would be more stable.
At night, he stared at the little oil lamp in the fortification for several hours. When Zhang Taofang felt that he no longer trembled when he took the gun for a long time, and his eyes did not squint and his heart did not beat when he shot, he felt that it was almost over.
The technology is there, and the experience is still much worse. He also specially learned from the old sniper how to hide himself, how to hit mobile targets, especially how to hit the enemy up and down the mountain. The seniors told him that those who go up the mountain will hit their feet when they aim at their feet, and those who go down the mountain will hit their heads when they look at their feet. Zhang Taofang began to practice her skills all day again, and finally it was almost time to go to the front line.
Cold gun
On the Korean battlefield, our army was forced to carry out the "cold gun and cold gun campaign," and the so-called cold gun cold gun is to shoot coldly when the enemy is not paying attention, in order to achieve a deadly effect.
Zhang Taofang was very nervous when he went to the battlefield, and he was worried that he would eat a few more burnt cakes, and his conjecture was fulfilled. Zhang Taofang began to aim, aimed for a long time, and as a result, the shot did not kill an enemy, and the enemy was also frightened enough.
Zhang Taofang became more and more anxious, and even forgot to measure the distance, but fortunately, the squad leader stopped him in time and let him sink his heart and slow down. Zhang Taofang shot three people for the second time, but hit one, but it was the first person who was aimed, how did the second one get killed? Zhang Taofang was depressed.
Zhang Taofang's opening was a coincidence, but in the subsequent cold gun campaign, he actively summed up his experience, and his marksmanship was getting better and better. On February 10, 1953, Zhang Taofang fired 9 shots and killed 7 people, surpassing many old snipers. By the end of February and the beginning of March, Zhang Taofang had killed 71 enemies with 247 rounds of ammunition.
The commander of the 24th Army discovered the benefits of the cold gun campaign and organized a sniper training course. After returning from the training class, Zhang Taofang's results improved by leaps and bounds, killing 140 enemies with 212 rounds of bullets, becoming a legend in the whole army.
Pi Dingjun was surprised that his troops had such a clever sniper, but he was suspicious of Zhang Taofang's achievements, after all, there had never been such a powerful figure in the army before. He called the military staff officer to his side and asked him to examine Zhang Taofang's achievements, and if it was true, he gave him Pi Dingjun's newly issued boots.
Zhang Taofang was not surprised or indignant about the fact that the military staff officer came to see his shooting, and after he arranged the staff officer, he took the gun himself and went to the sniper station, killing three American troops on the spot. The military staff officer was very convinced, and gave Pi Dingjun's leather boots to Zhang Taofang to encourage him to create glory again.
Pi Dingjun knew Zhang Taofang's record and said to Zhang Taofang: "Your regiment is 214 regiments, you can kill 214 enemies, even if you win a big victory!" ”
Zhang Taofang was very attentive to the goal set by the commander, he began to stare at the US position every day, and finally killed 214 enemies in 32 days, successfully breaking the sniper record of the volunteer army and becoming a veritable "sniper god".
In 1953, zhang Taofang, a sniper god, was awarded the title of "Second-Class Sniper Hero" by the Volunteer Army Headquarters. The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK awarded him the "National Flag Medal of the First Class".
brief summary:
Looking back at Zhang Taofang's excellent performance on the Korean battlefield, although there are reasons for his talent, his hard practice in shooting is also an important factor.
In fact, Zhang Taofang's practice time is not long, that Mosin Nagant in addition to Zhang Taofang himself used by three other people together, that is to say, four people share a gun, it is in this environment, Zhang Taofang can still kill 214 enemies in 32 days is enough to show the difficulty of his training.
In addition to being a sniper, Zhang Taofang was later the first pilot of the 24th Army. In that year, the volunteer army selected pilots throughout the army, and a total of 198 people in the 24th Army passed the initial examination, and in the end, only Zhang Taofang successfully passed the selection to become a pilot.