The sun is blazing in the sky, and the flowers, plants and trees in the mountainous areas of southern Shandong are drooping and looking depressed. It has already entered summer, and the air seems extremely hot and unbearable.
It has been nearly two months since the Japanese Skeleton Special Forces were destroyed, and sniper Zhang Hai has almost fully recovered from his injuries.
Although he cannot return to the Flame Special Forces Brigade to perform combat missions for the time being, he is not idle now, that is, training a group of newly selected snipers according to high standards.
Yang Ling now deliberately cultivates a group of strong elite small troops, and then deploys them to fight in areas bordering the Japanese and puppet troops to carry out combat missions against the Japanese and puppet troops.
Nowadays, there are not only sniper teams trained by outstanding snipers such as sniper Zhang Hai, but also demolition teams, infiltration teams, plainclothes teams, etc.
With sufficient logistical support, the brothers' training enthusiasm was extremely high, and the training progress was very rapid.
Although the weather was sweltering and unbearable, the sniper team led by sniper Zhang Hai did not retreat to the barracks to rest, but continued to perform lurking missions in a bush.
There are more than fifty people in this group of carefully selected snipers, and they are all veterans with good marksmanship.
Although their marksmanship is good, to become a real sniper is not just as simple as maintaining the accuracy of marksmanship, but also camouflage and lurking, the maintenance and use of firearms, speed, awareness, and the ability to operate in different environments.
Fighting and many other combat abilities.
Now these more than fifty selected sniper team members have been lurking in the bushes for a day and a night, but instructor Zhang Hai still has no intention of letting them end.
Zhang Hai was training the endurance of his sniper team members. After all, it was common for snipers to lie dormant for several days in order to kill their targets.
How to keep one's body muscles in a relaxed state while lurking so as not to become stiff, and how to eat and drink water to solve one's own physiological problems while lurking are all tests for snipers.
In a duel between top snipers, any slight negligence will bring them fatal danger, so Zhang Hai's training for his brothers is also extremely strict now.
When the brothers first lurked for a few hours, they couldn't stay any longer. They either felt itchy and couldn't help scratching it, or they stayed on the ground for a long time without moving, causing their whole bodies to feel numb.
But now after the brothers have gone through a period of latent training, not only have they been latent for a longer time, but they have also learned the techniques of latent training.
In the crosshairs of sniper instructor Zhang Hai's scope, the brothers wearing camouflage clothing lurking in the bushes are like sculptures, almost blending into the surrounding environment.
However, some of the small adjustments made by the brothers to prevent their bodies from lying stiff for a long time were not able to escape the eyes of the sniper instructor Zhang Hai, and they were memorized by him.
When the sun rose and set, and darkness fell again, Zhang Hai finally walked to the bushes and announced that this time the sniper and lurking training was over.
"Everyone, come out. The training is over."
After hearing this, the brothers lying on the ground breathed a sigh of relief as if they had been granted amnesty, and one after another came out from various hiding spots carrying guns to gather.
When sniper instructor Zhang Hai saw the brothers gathered together, he also suppressed his smile and became serious.
After Zhang Hai completed the task of killing the Japanese Skeleton Special Forces, he and several other brothers were awarded the title of combat hero by the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps. It can be said that it was extremely glorious and made the brothers in the sniper team particularly admire him.
But Zhang Hai himself knew that he almost died in the mountains, and now he only saved his life, so he had strict requirements for his brothers, hoping that they could come back alive in the future.
Zhang Hai made some comments on each sniper team of the sniper team and pointed out the problems they had without concealment.
The brothers thought that they had done a good job in lurking training this time, but when Zhang Hai pointed out their shortcomings, each of them stopped smiling, lowered their heads, and began to reflect seriously.
Zhang Hai gave his speech for more than an hour before announcing the disbandment. The exhausted brothers breathed a long sigh of relief.
The brothers dispersed to rest, eat, and sleep, but a messenger found Zhang Hai and informed him to go to the General Command for a meeting.
Zhang Hai did not dare to delay and immediately went straight to the conference room of the General Command. When he arrived, more than ten officers were already sitting in the conference room.
The officers who came to the conference room for this meeting were all officers in charge of the demolition team, plainclothes team, and intelligence team of the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade.
"Is there a mission?"
Seeing that the people coming were officers from the Flame Special Warfare Brigade, Zhang Hai pushed Grizzly Xiong, who was the commando instructor next to him, with his elbow, and asked curiously.
"You ask me, how do I know? I just got the notice." The tall Grizzly shrugged and spread his hands helplessly.
Zhang Hai turned his attention to other familiar brothers. These brothers all shook their heads, indicating that they did not know what was going on.
Fortunately, soon, Wei Qing, the captain of the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade, and Liu Sheng, the staff officer of the Intelligence Department, walked into the conference room surrounded by Yang Ling.
Seeing Yang Ling and the others coming in, more than a dozen officers from the Flame Special Warfare Brigade in the conference room stood up and saluted.
Yang Ling walked to the main seat and returned the greeting, then pressed her hand downwards, signaling Zhang Hai and the others to sit down. Zhang Hai and the others sat down neatly, sitting upright and not squinting.
"I called everyone here today just to ask how your training has been these days? Can you participate in the battle?" Yang Ling didn't mince words and went straight to the point and asked about their training results.
Yang Ling has been busy these days commanding the two main combat battalions to carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the bandits around Xiaoqingshan, and has no time to pay attention to the training of the Lieyan Special Forces Brigade.
Now that the surrounding bandits have been wiped out, the guerrilla zone they control has expanded to more than thirty villages, and it can be said that they have completely established a foothold in the mountains.
In the next stage, Yang Ling's main task is to recruit troops to restore their strength and prepare for re-entering the mountainous area.
However, in recent times, many spies and spies of the Japanese and puppet troops have been infiltrating into the mountains, which has made Yang Ling very annoyed.
The Japanese's Fiery Special Forces Brigade had just been wiped out some time ago, and now the Japanese and puppet troops are getting ready to take action again. It's not a problem to be passively beaten all the time.
However, if a large force is sent out to fight, whether it is food or ammunition and other material reserves, the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps is currently unable to support a medium-sized battle.
Because of various reasons, Yang Ling finally decided to send the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade out to teach the Japanese and puppet troops a good lesson and make them remember longer.
So he called these training instructors over. The main purpose was to inquire about the results of the training, and if possible, let these new team members follow them for actual combat experience.
Although Zhang Hai and others participated in the combat mission against the Japanese Skeleton Special Forces in the previous stage, they could only be regarded as a miserable victory and many brothers were killed.
They were holding back their breath and had nowhere to vent, so they could only train the new team members so hard that they screamed.
Now they all became excited when they heard Yang Ling asking about their training situation and whether they could participate in the battle.
"Sir, our plainclothes team has completed the first phase of training and is fully ready to participate in combat!" Before Zhang Hai could speak, an officer stood up impatiently.
These new members of the Flame Special Operations Brigade are also compared to the Flame Special Operations Brigade. After all, they are all veterans selected from the regular troops, and their combat effectiveness is not weak.
Now that he has undergone more systematic and comprehensive training in the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade, he is more than enough to participate in battle.
"We commandos can join the fight!"
"The reconnaissance platoon can also join the battle!"
"The sniper team can participate in the battle!" Zhang Hai also stood up and patted his chest to assure him.
Their sniper team has the largest amount of ammunition destroyed among all the training units. Each brother consumes more than thirty rounds of bullets almost every day.
Fed by so many bullets, almost all of the sniper team members who were originally good at shooting, whether it was moving targets or fixed targets, are now sharpshooters.