Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 925 926 Sniper

Looking through the telescope, the scene in the distance is as clear as if it is right in front of you. In the trenches where smoke and dust are still rising, you can see domes with steel helmets passing by from time to time.

 About 400 meters away from this trench, there is a hidden bush. It is higher than the surrounding terrain and it is very easy to observe all the movements around it.

　　This place had been renovated two days ago. Under the bushes is a small trench. The other side of the trench continues to the reverse slope. People in the trench can quickly evacuate through this path.

In this small bunker, a lookout is vigilantly observing everything around him. He is responsible for guiding his companions to the target.

The companion next to him was putting his eyes on the end of a long scope tube at this moment, quietly looking through the lens at a Dahua soldier in the distance who was connecting the telephone line.

“That’s just an operator, it has no offensive value.” The observer said casually, as if he knew which target his partner was aiming at.

"I know, I'm just observing him. If you find an officer or a more valuable target, you can notify me." The sniper, who still had one eye closed, maintained his posture and said.

His rifle is equipped with a very exquisite high-power scope. It is an 8x scope that cannot be produced in other countries. The target is really clear.

There are very precise grooves on the scope. These grooves can help the sniper adjust the shooting angle due to changes in the wind direction - the trajectory will change due to the wind direction. An excellent sniper can adjust the advance of his shooting aim through the wind direction.

Of course, they can also help provide auxiliary aiming for attacking dynamic targets, and can also measure the height, width and width of the target through scale and distance.

Each of these scopes is expensive to make. When paired with the expensive sniper rifle below, it can be said to be perfect. The front of the lens is covered with mesh cloth to prevent reflection, and the entire barrel of the rifle is wrapped with camouflage cloth strips.

The rifle used by the sniper is definitely expensive. This rifle is a high-precision sniper rifle manufactured by the military industry department of Datang Group. It is actually not a military mass-produced model, but a small-scale production.

 Because of the almost pursuit of perfection, the production of this rifle is extremely low, and the bullets used are the finest bullets that have been carefully selected and adjusted.

Each bullet like this costs close to 1 gold coin, and the rifle and scope that fires this bullet are not much cheaper than a cannon.

What is even more terrifying is the sniper who uses this set of equipment. He has to shoot hundreds of rounds of bullets every day to maintain his feel. He has to work hard every day to train his concealment skills and master skills such as survival in the wild. , is simply an all-powerful killing machine.

 For ordinary soldiers, shooting five or ten rounds a day is considered a good amount of training, but these snipers have to shoot until they vomit every day.

 If necessary, he can remain motionless for several hours, just waiting for an important target to appear.

 In order to ensure the safety of such snipers, the Tang Empire prepared ghillie suits for each sniper, which are more comprehensive and comfortable multi-functional tactical vests. Their helmets are specially made, lighter in weight and better in protection.

"On the right! Around 23 degrees... have you seen that target?" The observer, who had been holding a telescope also covered with camouflage mesh, reminded his companion: "An officer, maybe a regiment commander."

"23 degrees... I saw the target you mentioned. The epaulettes were deliberately removed, and he was wearing a soldier's helmet... I guess it should be the battalion commander of their battalion." The sniper gave his own judgment.

"Who cares, you fire?" the observer stared at the target and asked.

“I’m ready to fire.” Pressing **** the trigger guard with his finger, the sniper pressed his finger on the trigger again and confirmed.

"Let's fight, they will probably change places soon." The observer held the telescope and stared at the target.

Suddenly, a gunshot sounded near my ears, echoing abruptly between heaven and earth. The next second, from his perspective, a flower of blood bloomed from the neck of the Chinese man wearing a military uniform without epaulettes, splattering on the face of the person next to him.

The target fell down and fell into the trench and was no longer visible. The sniper who fired took back his rifle and returned to the trench: "Let's go! This place is probably not safe."

He carried the rifle and put the backpack directly on his body. The observer packed his binoculars, then arranged the backpack and followed the sniper, leaving this very hidden position.

 Due to safety concerns, they will no longer use this position. The tactical manual stipulates that snipers are generally not allowed to return to the location where they last fired.   …

At the Dahua garrison position, when the medical soldiers rushed to the scene of the accident carrying a medical kit, they saw blood all over the ground and a lifeless body lying on the ground.

There was a hole in the neck of the man who was shot. Blood flowed out of the hole, dyeing his uniform red, and also dyed the uniforms of several people red.

 Obviously, these people tried to cover the wound of the unfortunate man who was shot, but the bullet pierced the aorta and the blood pressure was too high to cover the wound.

The military doctor walked over, knelt on the blood-covered ground, checked the person lying there, and then shook his head: "He's dead."

He knew that if he could be found, the person who was hit must be a big shot: ordinary soldiers died in battle, but it was not the turn of a military doctor like him to come.

 All the people in the trenches were silent. Of course they knew who died, that was their division commander. Attack orders have been issued frequently these days, and senior commanders often have to go to the front line to check on the various conditions of the troops.

But who would have thought that even though he was dressed as low-key as possible, he would still be found by the opponent's snipers. There is no way to seal the throat with one shot.

"The other party's marksmanship is very accurate. Seven or eight of our people have been killed in the past few days, all of them officers..." Looking at the corpse of the division commander lying there, the accompanying battalion commander looked embarrassed. He had warned about safety issues, but who would have thought that things still happened like this.

"This is not the way to go. Let's write a report and ask the higher-ups to take it seriously." Another officer glanced at the open area of ​​the trench where the division commander had just been hit, and said, "The opponent's snipers are so powerful...it will affect the frontline troops too much." Morale is up.”

"We have said it before, but we don't have any good solution here." The battalion commander spread his hands helplessly: "We can only emphasize safety to the soldiers and try not to expose our position as much as possible."

"We don't have very good means of communication here, and we didn't call for artillery support in time. By the time our artillery shells came down, the other party had already run away." While the battalion commander was speaking, someone had already found a stretcher and carried the division commander's body up. .

"It's definitely not possible to rely on artillery..." The officer who spoke also knew that he didn't have that much communication equipment down to the battalion level. When the communications troops reported to the artillery where the snipers might be hiding, the day lily was cold.

Logically speaking, the battalion headquarters should have mortars, but the Chinese Army is in such a state: most battalion-level troops do not have enough heavy weapons, and the number of mortars is seriously insufficient.

It doesn’t mean that there is no equipment, but the level of people who have the equipment cannot keep up: there is no way to quickly determine the coordinates, and the mortar support is just random.

 Those who are capable of calculation and good at artillery are all in higher-level artillery units, and they are even artillery officers. How can they be delegated to units like battalions and regiments?

"It's best to find a few snipers to kill the opponent's snipers, so as to curb the opponent's harassment tactics." He said, looking at the battalion commander who was covered in blood, and asked: " How about it?"

“That’s okay, but we don’t have snipers here either.” The battalion commander was in a dilemma. Just replenishing his troops was a problem. Where could he find snipers?

"I'll write a report and apply for some sharpshooters to come over!" The officer took the problem on himself: "This time, our division commanders are all killed, and there is no more action, how can we attack?"

There are some snipers in the Dahua Empire, but they don’t have many high-performance sniper rifles. However, after fighting against the Tang Empire, the Great China Empire still found some sniper rifles as much as possible, and mass-produced some of them themselves.

In fact, the performance of these rifles can only be called precision marksman rifles at best. They use better quality, selected Cyric Type 1 bolt-action rifles, and are equipped with 4x or 3x fixed power scopes.

An advantage of this type of fixed magnification is that it does not pursue excessive precision and can produce a sight that can meet the complex conditions of the battlefield at a low level of processing accuracy.

There are also disadvantages. This kind of fixed-magnification scope often has a very small magnification value, either 3 times or 4 times. No matter how large it is, it will be difficult to manufacture.

There are not many Dahua snipers equipped with such sniper rifles, and they are far less popular than those in the Tang Empire. In most cases, they are held in the hands of commanders and are unwilling to be easily put into use on the battlefield.

 But the current situation is that it is no longer necessary: ​​the Dahua Empire is using all its strength to attack Fengjiang. It is obvious that these Dahua snipers are also part of the effort.

After Zhao Chen saw the news that a division commander was killed by an enemy sniper on the front line, he immediately ordered the sniper unit to fight on the front line.

 (End of this chapter)