Some time ago, a movie "Sniper" was released and received widespread attention from everyone.
Although the setting in this movie is only a small battle, the 7 snipers in it have an unstoppable momentum.
Sniper movie
With a few snipers, we all told us about the biggest sniper battle in history.
But after all, movies are still movies, is there such a person in reality?
In fact, as early as 2018, foreign forums released a post, the title of which is who is the world's most powerful sniper, under the discussion of a group of foreigners, the final title of the first place was given to the mainland sniper - Zhang Taofang.
They used a string of concise English to tell the "miracle" that Zhang Taofang had created in the Korean campaign.
The weapon Used by Zhang Taofang in the campaign was an M1944 Mosin Nagant.
There is no scope on top of this gun, it is all machine sight.
But even if there is no double mirror on this gun, he is also very prominent in the battle.
Mosin Nagant
Zhang Taofang, with her own talent, single-handedly killed 214 enemies, becoming a "nightmare" in the hearts of countless US troops.
In fact, according to Zhang Taofang's performance in the battle, no matter which battle he puts in the world today, it can be called a "miracle".
Because of these things, Zhang Taofang is also known as the "Chinese sniper god".
Zhang Taofang
With the passage of time, the current generation of "sharpshooters" has left us, but the gun he once created is still alive, and now lies quietly in the Chinese Military Museum.
Maybe the gun can't make words, but its survival will remind the world of what happened to it, and tell the world lightly about the glory it and its master have created.
Sharpshooter Zhang Taofang's boyhood
In July 1931, Zhang Taofang was born in a small village in Xinghua County, Jiangsu Province, and was a local person with the famous mainland painter Zheng Banqiao.
Zhang Taofang's family is relatively poor, and her parents rely on farming to support a large family.
Zheng Banqiao
In the second month after Zhang Taofang's birth, the Japanese army began to invade the territory of the mainland, and since then the mainland has entered the period of resistance.
With the japanese plundering of the mainland's territory, the land burned and killed, and the smoke of war filled the entire territory of the mainland, and the people had to experience displacement and family destruction.
Zhang Taofang grew up little by little in this kind of heinous war, because of the step-by-step invasion of the war, he and his parents had no choice but to escape around and sleep in the wind.
When he was young, the most common thing he heard adults say was, "The devil has come in!" Come on! ”
Helpless, forced by reality, Zhang Taofang had to wander with her family all the way, and finally they arrived in Shanxi.
Small anti-Japanese armies were everywhere in Shanxi, and they decided to find a place to live here.
Because he watched these things from a young age, watching the Japanese army harassing and burning and plundering the people, his anti-Japanese determination became stronger and stronger day by day, and for this goal he also specially participated in the anti-Japanese children's regiment organized by the township villagers, and later became the leader of his regiment.
He is very intelligent and cute, so he has also won the love of many People's Liberation Army.
His daily task was to take the other children outside the village with him (scouting), and from time to time they would sing together the mountain songs they had specially created for this purpose.
As soon as he saw Rikou outside the village, he must immediately run back to the village and tell the Red Army in the village that Zhang Taofang's childhood was like this.
Although life was very difficult and difficult, he thought in his heart that as long as he could make a little contribution to the country and the anti-Japanese resistance, it would be worth it, so he did not feel that such a day was bitter, on the contrary, he was happy that he could contribute to it.
Zhang Taofang was like this, he experienced two wars, namely the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation.
When the mainland was just established, Zhang Taofang had just celebrated her 18th birthday.
By 1949, he had become a platoon leader in our militia company.
After the founding of New China, the mainland is now different from what it once was, and the whole continent has a new face, and at this time there is no feudal imperialism and exploitation by landlords.
After experiencing a lot of tribulations, the people finally had a smile on their faces.
The newly established China, which developed extremely rapidly under the leadership of our Party organization, was rejoicing in their hearts at this time, and felt that the economic development of the mainland should soon be on the right track.
But who would have thought that not long after that, war would break out next door to us.
North Korea and South Korea are at odds, and both sides want to be able to unify the country, but no one wants to, so they start to think about using force to solve this problem.
North Korea was in a better position, but when he was preparing to take South Korea down completely, the United States intervened.
At this time, the United States and many capitalist countries in the world built an army, later known as the "United Nations Army", hid his inner thoughts, and participated in the "Korean Campaign" with a "humanitarian" face.
With the strong participation of the United States in the war, the good situation in North Korea began to fall towards South Korea.
The United States and other coalition forces helped South Korea reach the border between China and North Korea, and the United States ignored many warnings issued by the mainland government one by one, constantly invading the mainland's airspace and constantly dropping bombs downwards.
The territorial security of the mainland and the lives of ordinary people at the border have been severely coerced.
Because of this, the mainland had to send troops to defend the mainland's territory and the safety of the people, resist the invasion of the United States, assist North Korea, and fight the United States back to his hometown.
On October 25, 1950, the Continental Army launched its first campaign to aid Korea.
As we all know, if we want to talk about the countries in the world that are on the front line of development, we must have a place for the United States, which shows that its AMERICAN war equipment must be extremely powerful, the social development of the United States is very rapid, the aircraft and artillery should be complete, and the navy, land, and air force will be quite sophisticated.
However, at this time, the mainland has only been established for a long time, and it has just gone through the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, everyone has already made some efforts, the development of the mainland society is not friendly, the configuration of soldiers and soldiers is still "millet plus rifles", artillery and air force and navy are not to mention, one is more "miserable" than the other.
However, even in the face of this situation, the Continental Volunteer Army and the American Army fought four rounds and four large and small battles.
Little by little, the shortcomings of the US army were exposed, and the enemy and our army had a simple "preliminary understanding."
Zhang Taofang was not allowed to be punished with a gun
In September 1952, the 24th Army of the Red Army's guerrilla army was reorganized into a volunteer army and went to Korea to fight under the orders of the upper echelons.
At that time, the soldiers in the army did not know where they were going, and even some of the elderly veterans at that time did not know these things, but they just received a military order issued from above and began to set off in a frank and frank whole army.
At this time, Zhang Taofang had already followed the army across the Yalu River to its strategic location of Yuanshan for garrison.
After the garrison, the army immediately conducted the training of the whole army in a small village around, and at this time, Zhang Taofang's 72nd Division, 214th Regiment, 3 battalions, 8th Company also began training.
At this time, because he is training for the first time, the first thing to do is to "shoot targets".
In fact, two months ago, he had already been arranged for sniper training and practice, and in fact, this time he could definitely complete the training perfectly.
However, Zhang Taofang's heart was very anxious at this time, because he now had a new gun.
He was now given a Soviet gun, a type of gun he had never been exposed to before.
And after the army began to regroup, it marched forward every day, with almost no rest time.
In addition to this, because he was still a correspondent in the team, there was a bunch of usual chores, and there was no time for him to think about the new gun.
This time the test was very sudden.
At this point, while he was thinking in his mind, the company commander had already called out his name and said to him: "Each of you will be given three bullets, so I don't need to say what it means, which means that each of you has only 3 chances to shoot."
Everyone was like this, it was inevitable, he could only harden his scalp and stare intently ahead.
With three thuds, the bullets shot forward in turn.
0 rings, actually 0 rings.
The commander of the company saw that there was no trace of a bullet on the target, and his heart was very shocked.
But Zhang Taofang has a number of targets for herself, and her heart is always looking for reasons, how can this be, and how the gap between it and the previous gun is so big.
He immediately expressed disbelief and said to the company commander: "There must be something wrong with this gun, this gun is not ok."
But the ordnance man on the side saw and examined the barrel of the gun and said: "This gun is the equipment that the Soviet Union has aided us, and it has been inspected by our army, and everything is normal."
The company commander saw his achievements and immediately punished him to help in the cooking room.
He held the old-fashioned Mosin Nagant in his hand with a confused face: "When I used the Type 38 rifle to practice before, the results were not so bad, how can I change to a better weapon now, the gap is so big."
He had been thinking in his heart, he felt that he could not do this, if the marksmanship had been so bad, he would not be able to go to the battlefield at all, he could only be a correspondent, and he would not even be able to touch the barrel of the gun in the future.
Zhang Taofang has been thinking about it, and his heart is extremely anxious, and he secretly made a vow in his heart: "We must train our guns well and fight a few more devils on the battlefield."
After receiving the punishment, he returned to the team, but by this time, there was not so much training time left for him.
But he never got an answer in his heart, and he still thought about it in his head.
The comrades-in-arms found that since he was punished, the whole person did not feel quite right, holding a gun in a daze all day long, and constantly raising the gun to aim and then put down and aim again, one shot was an hour.
The path of the sniper god has quietly opened
It turned out that Zhang Taofang had set himself a training method, that is, aiming at an object, which could be anything, could be a person, could be a thing, and did this only to improve his concentration.
Of course, in order to avoid accidentally misfire, he did not install a bullet in the barrel of the gun.
The Mosin Nagant is a non-automatic rifle because it pulls the bolt again after each shot it fires.
For these reasons, it is almost infallible, and if it is not hit in the front, there is no time to go up to the back to make up the gun.
In fact, before the automatic rifle was produced, it was very famous, but the rate of fire and accuracy of this gun were very different from sniper rifles.
After several days of training, Zhang Taofang found that the chamber of this gun is very short, and its recoil is quite large.
Therefore, before the gun can shoot the bullet, he must remain intact, otherwise he will be shot.
Of course, this is also the most difficult place, the recoil of this gun is so large, how can it maintain this motionless posture?
Therefore, Zhang Taofang has made a request to herself since then, and she must stare dead when aiming to see how the accuracy of the gun jumps out of the target and stabilizes.
On the way, he would not let go of the trigger and the arm remained the same.
Not only that, in order to exercise his arm strength, he also deliberately made two sandbags, two sandbags hung on his arm when he raised the gun to aim, in the beginning, in fact, he could not last long, but as he trained day by day, he was finally able to hold on for several hours without moving.
It's better than being able to pull the trigger without fail.
Zhang Taofang himself is also very talented, with a pair of eyes that a sharpshooter should have, that is, he can see things in the distance very thoroughly.
When it was dark, he aimed at the little light that was lit up outside.
World War I fame
On October 14, 1952, our army and the US army began a fierce battle at the Shangganling position.
In this land, the enemy and our army suffered a total of more than 30,000 casualties, and the souls of tens of thousands of people rested here, which is also the origin of "Sadness Ridge".
After another fierce battle, both sides suffered heavy losses, and by this time the commander of the 24th Army, Pi Dingjun, had come to the battlefield on the front line.
Seeing that the next round of fighting was about to begin, he immediately picked up the telescope and went to the distance to observe the movement of the enemy army.
At this time, the US military has changed another wave of new soldiers, but this wave of new American soldiers does not have a sense of urgency that a big war is imminent.
They chatted very leisurely, even sang songs, and even relied on the land to bask in the sun with joy at the meal, a series of acts that did not even take our army into account.
After Pi Dingjun read it, he simply flew a fire directly from his body to the top of his skull, and he was indignant, and then threatened: "Shut them all up for me, give them a little color quietly."
Then he picked 4 snipers in the army, thinking of teaching the enemy a harsh lesson.
Zhang Taofang was in the 9th class at that time, this class is a reinforcement class, the strengthening class is a class with better strength in the team, the usual training is different from other triggers, and it will be more and more bitter. At that time, the task of their class was to stick to position 7.
Three snipers in their squad were picked out, but there was still one left, and the squad leader looked at the members of the team and suddenly saw Zhang Taofang, thinking about his practice day and night, so he handed over his name.
However, after the company commander saw the list submitted by the squad leader, he could not sit still immediately, because he saw Zhang Taofang's three words.
He also remembers that some time ago, he hit several 0 rings.
Hurriedly walked toward Zhang Taofang and said to him:
"I still remember your last record of three 0 rings in a row, if I can hit the target you pointed, you can only go, otherwise it is not sent to death." 」
Zhang Taofang immediately shot in the direction pointed by the company commander, and the other company commander was shocked that he actually hit all of them, and even hit a live target, and the falling branches in the air were shot down by him.
Lü Changqing, a comrade-in-arms who was far from him, later recalled: "At that time, there was no special sniper training at all, usually, after the squad leader arrived at the position with the new soldiers, he would teach on the spot how to calculate the length of the interval and set the ruler.... Then it will point to a target and let you practice."
The recruits who had just arrived found that they could not use telescopes at all when measuring the distance, so that they would be easily discovered by the enemy, only to see the squad leader stick out his thumb, connect the thumb in his right eye to the target he wanted to hit in a straight line, and then open his left eye, close his right eye, and infer the distance of the target according to the error between the two.
This was originally a way for artillery to measure distance, but it can also be used in snipers.
World War I fame, known as the "Sniper God"
Not long after, Zhang Taofang took up her own sniper life.
When he participated in the battle, he killed 71 enemy soldiers with 240 penalties in more than 40 days, directly becoming the No. 1 sniper with the highest hit rate in the whole company.
This achievement spread throughout the army, and even the director of the bureau, Pi Ding, was amazed when he heard it.
Then he took out a pair of shiny leather boots and said to the staff officer next to him: "Take this pair of leather shoes with you and go to the front line to see Zhang Taofang."
The staff officer came to the front line with the entourage taking pictures with his leather boots, and when he saw that Zhang Taofang was about to shoot, he quickly picked up the camera hanging around his neck and took pictures of him.
Immediately heard a thudding sound, the enemy was shot and killed, the reporter did not react too much, and then saw Zhang Taofang shooting again and again, only to see the other two enemies fall to the ground again and die.
Zhang Taofang's previous achievements were absolutely true, and even the chief of staff deliberately handed over the boots to him before leaving.
Zhang Taofang was very fond of the boots after she got them.
Later, when he went to see Pi Dingjun, he also specially brought these boots, which contained 211 shell casings, which also symbolized that he killed 211 enemy troops.
But After reading it, Pi Dingjun said without hesitation: "You are the 214 regiment, you should kill 214 enemy troops."
This was effortless for Zhang Taofang, and after returning to the position, he successfully killed 3 enemy troops and successfully completed the task of killing 214 enemy troops.
After the Korean War, what happened to Zhang Taofang?
Zhang Taofang fought alone for 32 days in the war, fired 442 rounds of ammunition, and killed a total of 214 enemy troops, which was called the highest achievement in the battle of sniping the enemy with a cold gun, and was unharmed.
It is precisely because of these that he is known as the first of the "world's top ten snipers".
Later, he was awarded the honorary title of special meritorious service hero and second-class hero by the state.
Later, in 1954, Zhang Taofang studied at the Air Force Aviation School and later became a fighter pilot.
When Zhang Taofang was old, there was always one thing in his heart that he felt very regretful, that is, after he retired, he never picked up a sniper rifle again.
On October 29, 2007, Zhang Taofang finally died at the age of 77 due to ineffective rescue from illness.
After his death, his tombstone was inscribed with his favorite verses.
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