One morning in the early summer of 1952, Zhang Taofang, a soldier of the 214th Regiment of the 24th Army of the Volunteer Army, came to the position early as usual, and suddenly, only to hear a "whoosh" sound, a bullet flew over his head and hit a stone next to him. The sudden cold gun made Zhang Taofang break out in a cold sweat, and her nerves instantly tensed up.
Although Zhang Taofang has only been in the army for more than two years, she is already a well-known sharpshooter in the whole army. However, when he first joined the army, he was a complete "rookie", and three consecutive bullets were off target during the target assessment, and he was "assigned" to the cooking class.
Zhang Taofang, who has a strong nature, is unwilling to ask the squad leader for advice when he has nothing to do, and only then does he understand that shooting is not only a technology, but also an art.
So Zhang Taofang began to train hard, as long as there was time, he took aiming at the gun, facing stones, leaves, and birds during the day, and at night against the stars and the faint lights in the tunnels, one end was one or two hours. Kung Fu paid off, Zhang Taofang's talent exploded, her shooting skills improved greatly, and she soon returned to the shooting class.
Soon, Zhang Taofang showed her skills and became a blockbuster.
In January 1953, the 24th Army entered the Shangganling position, and Zhang Taofang's 3 battalion and 8 companies were defending the 597.9 heights where Huang Jiguang, a famous combat hero in the Battle of Shangganling, died. Zhang Taofang had long heard of Huang Jiguang's heroic deeds, and looking at the desolate mountains covered with bullet craters in front of her, Zhang Taofang was surging in her heart and determined to avenge the hero with the weapons in her hand.
A few days later, Zhang Taofang received the sniper mission for the first time, but the battlefield actual combat and the training ground target shooting are very different, the distance, altitude, speed and the influence of the environment and the psychological quality of the shooter between the shooter and the target are important factors, so Zhang Taofang's first blocking failed.
But Zhang Taofang was not discouraged, he humbly asked the old shooter for advice, with his own intelligence and talent, Zhang Taofang quickly mastered the essentials, in the second mission, he used the Soviet M1944 Mosin Nagant rifle in his hand, fired 9 bullets, and successfully killed 7 enemies.
Since then, Zhang Taofang has been unable to receive anything. He gradually became familiar with the battlefield environment and the law of enemy activities, and his sniper skills matured day by day, and he gained success every time he went to battle, and soon, he sniped more than 100 enemies and became the number one sniper in the whole company.
However, snipers are also sniper targets of the enemy, Zhang Taofang soon became a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh of the US military on the other side, and the US military transferred the "ace sniper" Colonel Ike in an attempt to snipe Zhang Taofang.
On this day, the unaware Zhang Taofang came to the position early as usual, he was just about to observe the other side's US position, suddenly "whizzed" a soft sound, the experienced Zhang Taofang knew that it was the sound of bullets, he instinctively shrunk his neck, only to listen to the sound of "popping", a bullet hit the rocks around him, bursting out a string of Mars.
Zhang Taofang was shocked into a cold sweat, he touched his head, lying in the tunnel, half a day did not dare to move, because he knew that the enemy was in the dark, he was in the light, a little movement, it was possible to become a living target.
In the cruel battlefield, life and death are in an instant, especially the contest between masters, which is not only compared to marksmanship, but also the psychological quality of calm and courage that exceeds the endurance of ordinary people and great pressure.
Zhang Taofang already had this quality, he calmly waited for a while, and then used the barrel of the gun to resist the steel helmet, slowly extended the cover, testing the position of the other party, but the other party was not deceived, and did not fire a shot.
Zhang Taofang knew that he had met the master, he moved slowly, observing carefully little by little, and the opposite side was dead silent, and he couldn't see anything except the random stacking of stones.
Suddenly, Zhang Taofang saw a little bright light, which was the light on the sniper eyepiece, although it was very faint, but it did not escape Zhang Taofang's eyes. Along the bright light, Zhang Taofang found a us-made M2 sniper machine gun in a very hidden stone crevice, just at this time, the opponent also found Zhang Taofang, the M2 sniper machine gun instantly spewed out a tongue of fire, Zhang Taofang rolled and hid back in the bunker.
The M2 sniper machine gun is derived from the M2 heavy machine gun of the US army, which is the "grandfather" of the US heavy machine gun, which was equipped in 1921, but the range is far and powerful, so it has been used until now.
On the Korean battlefield, the U.S. military added a scope to the M2, and the shooting range can reach a staggering 2300 meters. During the Vietnam War, U.S. super sniper Carlos Haysk killed more than 300 people with this sniper machine gun.
The weapon in Zhang Taofang's hand is the Soviet M1944 Mosin Nagant rifle, which is called "water curtain beads" because of the crisp sound when fired, but the chamber is short, the recoil is large, the accuracy is low, and there is no scope, which is not a real sniper rifle, compared with the opponent's M2 sniper machine gun, it is simply a burning stick against a large knife.
However, in the duel between masters, the weapon in hand is only one aspect, and more importantly, the shooting technique and psychological quality.
Zhang Taofang did not panic, he chose to wait quietly, every minute and every second is as long as a century, full of thrills, but who can withstand it, who occupies the initiative.
Seeing that there had been no movement for a long time, Ike on the other side couldn't help it, and with the powerful firepower of the M2 in his hand, he began to aim at Zhang Taofang's hidden bunker, shooting at the left and shooting at the right, in an attempt to lure Zhang Taofang out.
Zhang Taofang was still motionless, but in her mind she remembered the frequency of Ike's point shooting, thinking about the battle plan, and finally, after Ike fired at a left point and turned the muzzle of the gun to the right, Zhang Taofang stood up violently, the butt of the gun against the shoulder, and immediately fired. Almost at the same time, Ike also turned the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger.
The duel of the masters was in an instant, when zhang Taofang's bullet passed through Ike's head, and the bullet shot by Ike also flew over Zhang Taofang's head.
Two of the world's top sniper masters completed the confrontation in an instant, and the victory and defeat were immediately divided.
Although the weapons in her hands are inferior to those of the other party, Zhang Taofang is obviously not fighting with weapons, but fighting with her brain.
If we talk about war strategy, China is the ancestor. The volunteer soldiers on the Korean battlefield not only had the spirit of being brave and good at fighting, but also had the courage and courage to strategize so that the enemy who could fight with the inferior equipment in their hands had to sit at the negotiating table.
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