Gong Jian took a deep breath. Only he could understand what kind of extraordinary talent it took to hit what counted as a moving target from 2,400 meters away!
The Type 10 Rifle was certainly a good weapon, but because it was a semi-automatic sniper rifle, its accuracy could never compare to a bolt-action rifle like the TAC-50, which held the international record for the longest sniper kill.
Because an assault rifle's accuracy could never surpass that of a bolt-action rifle, unless there was some massive technological breakthrough one day.
Yet Jiang Yan Hai had forcibly extended its maximum effective range by nearly 1,000 meters!
And he was still a recruit!
What kind of talent was that?!
Perhaps, just as he had jokingly said earlier, even genius was not enough to describe his talent?
He had really found a treasure!
Perhaps such talent came from that genius-like brain of his. Things like data calculations alone took ordinary soldiers a long time to learn, Gong Jian knew that.
But Jiang Yan Hai did not even need to be taught. He already knew how!
Perhaps people like Jiang Yan Hai could not be mass-produced, but then again, the people who reached the very top in any field could never be mass-produced.
And Jiang Yan Hai already had the talent and the natural gifts to become such a person! All that remained was the most elite training!
Before, whenever Gong Jian came across a good soldier, he felt that the Sharpshooter Fourth Company would be suitable for him.
But for Jiang Yan Hai, for the first time, Gong Jian felt that his Sharpshooter Fourth Company might not be suitable for him!
"Thank you, everyone." Jiang Yan Hai had already stood up and thanked all the comrades cheering behind him.
Seeing the faint, seemingly embarrassed flush on Jiang Yan Hai's face, Gong Jian could not tell for a moment whether he was acting or if it was genuine.
Because in his impression, Jiang Yan Hai did not seem like the type to get embarrassed.
Still, whether it was real or fake, it showed that Jiang Yan Hai was not only formidable technically, but also had extremely high emotional intelligence.
"Report!" Jiang Yan Hai called out loudly.
"What is it?" Gong Jian came back to his senses and looked at Jiang Yan Hai in confusion.
"Instructor, why not let everyone try it? We normally do not get access to this rifle," Jiang Yan Hai said directly.
"Yeah, Instructor, let us try the rifle too."
"That's right, Instructor!"
The soldiers behind them immediately grew excited. After all, these were not weapons they could just play with whenever they wanted. The Type 10 Rifle used specialized high-precision sniper rounds.
An ordinary 5.8mm bullet cost around one yuan, but a specialized high-precision sniper round for the Type 10 cost more than one hundred yuan each. There was no way they could be allowed to fire them as freely as they trained with Type 95 rifles!
Not even the Sharpshooter Fourth Company could do that.
"Fine! I'm making the call today. Everyone gets to try the rifle!" Gong Jian immediately smiled. This kind of atmosphere was a good thing.
Once Gong Jian gave the word, Jiang Yan Hai smiled and handed the rifle to He Chen Guang, who had rushed over first.
After that, everyone fired a few shots. Naturally, none of them could achieve results like Jiang Yan Hai's, even though the Type 10's optical sight came with built-in computer-assisted calculations.
After a morning of shooting practice, Jiang Yan Hai had more or less integrated into the Sharpshooter Fourth Company.
And in less than a week, Jiang Yan Hai had thoroughly earned the respect of every comrade in the Sharpshooter Fourth Company through his own strength. No matter what kind of training it was, his results were almost always among the best—Physical Training, shooting training, all of it.
As for training that required knowledge, such as topography, there was even less need to mention it. Jiang Yan Hai's reactions were faster than even some instructors'.
Many scenes in television dramas were glossed over, but in reality, much of the training was never shown at all. For example, the Sharpshooter Fourth Company was actually a mechanized infantry company. Their usual training involved not only marksmanship, but also large-scale regional combat exercises such as infantry-armor coordination.
Of course, Jiang Yan Hai was now considered a sniper, so a sniper's operations were naturally different from those of ordinary infantry.
There was also another point: Jiang Yan Hai now had three guns. He and Instructor Gong Jian had gone through great difficulty to secure them. One was the Type 95 assault rifle, standard issue for infantry companies, while another was the Type 10 Large Caliber Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle Jiang Yan Hai had used before!
The reason Jiang Yan Hai had been issued this rifle was naturally due to his formidable sniping ability. During the shooting training of the past few days, he had earned the right to carry it through his own strength.
It had to be said that everyone else in the company was equipped with Type 88 sniper rifles. Only Jiang Yan Hai used the Type 10 Rifle.
The last weapon was a Type 92 pistol. Pistols were standard issue for all snipers.
Even so, Jiang Yan Hai's everyday load had already exceeded forty kilograms!
Many people watching television only saw soldiers fully equipped, without knowing what they were carrying. Snipers carried some of the most equipment among infantry.
For example, their backpacks contained notebooks and pens, high-proof alcohol, night-vision devices, positioning devices, medicine, maps, binoculars, communications equipment, camouflage paint, rope, thermohygrometers, mini HD cameras, and more, because snipers often carried out important reconnaissance duties.
There was also close-worn equipment: camouflage clothing, commonly known as a Ghillie suit, camouflage nets for concealing sniper positions, specialized sniper gloves, magazines, high-powered flashlights, compasses, Sniper Watches, canteens, sun-protection clothing, raincoats, specialized knives, pistols, and pistol magazines.
Depending on the mission, they might even be equipped with highly toxic poison, compact powerful crossbows, three to four High-Explosive Grenades, one to two Smoke Grenades, one to two Flashbang Grenades, sniper rifle maintenance equipment, rangefinders, data cards for recording ranges and bullet trajectories, and so on.
It could be said that a real sniper carried at least dozens of different kinds of equipment. Although the Sharpshooter Fourth Company was only a mechanized infantry company and not Special Forces, the snipers here had only the most basic equipment.
But even so, counting ammunition and everything else, Jiang Yan Hai's load had already exceeded forty kilograms.
If not for his powerful physique, which allowed him to take first place in the entire Fourth Company during armed cross-country runs even while carrying more than forty kilograms, Gong Jian probably would not have agreed to issue him the Type 10 Rifle.
Just like that, when Jiang Yan Hai had been in the Sharpshooter Fourth Company for exactly two months, Gong Jian finally came looking for him.
"Special ammunition will be issued every day. Do you want to switch to a Type 88 sniper rifle?" Since it was just the two of them, Gong Jian spoke directly.
The moment Gong Jian said that, Jiang Yan Hai instantly thought of the exercise he had seen in the television drama. It was after that exercise that Fan Tian Lei recruited He Chen Guang, Wang Yan Bing, and Li Er Niu into the Special Forces.
The exercise had begun very quickly in the television drama, but this was reality, so it should be about time now.
"An exercise?" Jiang Yan Hai immediately asked.
Gong Jian felt a little helpless. Seriously, Jiang Yan Hai was too smart. He and Li Er Niu were practically two extremes. Something like this could not be hidden from him at all.
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