Zhang Zhi was best with the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle and Type 56 assault rifle.
When the Sino-Vietnamese border war broke out in 1979, apart from the squad leader, who was equipped with a Type 56 assault rifle, the other soldiers in Chinese infantry squads were still generally equipped with Type 56 semi-automatic rifles.
After switching to the guns he was familiar with, Zhang Zhi seemed like a different person. He became like a wolf prowling across the mountains and forests, his eyes exceptionally sharp. A cold aura radiated from him as he instinctively glanced left and right, though no one knew whether he was looking for enemies or cover.
During target practice, his designed accuracy improved greatly. When aiming, his hit rate was around eighty percent at fifty meters and around forty percent against moving targets. Those were already relatively high hit rates.
By comparison, during World War II, the U.S. military needed approximately twenty thousand bullets to kill one enemy. During the War of Resistance against Japan, it took six hundred bullets to hit one Japanese soldier and 3,700 bullets to kill one.
Of course, those figures were the result of large-scale warfare and low weapon accuracy. Professional soldiers had higher hit rates during small-scale encounters.
In actual combat, even a veteran like Zhang Zhi could not match his training hit rate. After all, shooting people was different from shooting targets. The other side could dodge.
Even so, Wang Xuan was quite satisfied.
When he had nothing else to do, Wang Xuan had Zhang Zhi teach him to shoot. Everyone said marksmanship was trained by feeding bullets into a gun. Now that he was not short of money, he could fire as many bullets as he wanted. At the same time, he asked Zhang Zhi to practice pistol