Start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 17 A touch of red every now and then

The huge playground is not flat, it just surrounds it, and the temporary fence covers the wilderness, making it difficult to peep around.In the open space in the distance stood a dozen crude wooden targets.

"Get ready, fight!"

clap, clap, clap...

Following an order, rows of fighters pulled the triggers, and there was a crackling sound like roasted beans, and the wooden spikes from more than a dozen circular targets on the opposite side flew in all directions.

"Check the barrel!" The drill commander standing beside shouted: "Is there any unfinished fire? Is there any!"

The platoon leaders and squad leaders went down one after another to check the soldiers under them, and soon reported the results, and no bullets were missed.

The commander waved the flag: "Okay! Each row and squad leave the field, and the next group will go!"

Xu Qing came down from the shooting position with a gun in his hand, and Yu Congrong immediately rushed out from the side:
"How is it?"

Xu Qing touched the hot barrel, feeling a little unsatisfied: "What can I do? There are only three bullets."

"It's okay, don't worry!" Yu Congrong patted him on the shoulder, raised his eyebrows and said, "I think I didn't hit all the hits the first time I hit it? Later, we gradually became familiar with each other..."

Ping He added: "It's not that they didn't hit all the targets. It's that they all missed the target."

"How did you know that?" Yu Congrong objected, "There were so many people hitting me at the time, how did you know I wasn't hit?"

Ping He said calmly: "I saw it with my eyes."

Yu Congrong still didn't believe it, and wanted to ask him for an explanation, but Xu Qing who was beside him did have a clue.

He touched the gun in his hand. When he was shooting just now, he obviously found that his eyesight and hand feeling had improved a lot. He could see clearly—although his three shots missed the red heart, they all hit the target head-on. superior.

This is the first time he has fired a gun. He had only touched a gun during his university military training before, but he had never actually fired it. However, the rich experience and knowledge instilled in the system skills became his confidence.

Seeing them, the instructor Mei Sheng came over: "What's the noise! ​​Be quiet, there will be another round of air defense training later."

Yu Congrong: "There is more? Why didn't you say it just now?"

Mei Sheng: "It was added temporarily. Yu Congrong, be honest, I heard you yelling from a long distance away, seven companies with one hundred soldiers are the most noisy of you!"

"I know, I know!"

Yu Congrong laughed.

Xu Qing asked: "What kind of air defense training do we have?"

Yu Congrong: "Just guard against the planes in the sky."

Surprised, Xu Qing didn't look at him, and turned to Mei Sheng: "...our millet plus a rifle can still shoot planes?"

"Of course!"

Yu Congrong jumped out and pointed to the sky: "We practiced this when we were fighting guerrillas. The little devils have enough planes. How can we have planes? We can only fight with guns and cannons."

Xu Qing was a little puzzled: "...Can it hit? The plane flies so high and is so fast."

Mei Sheng hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "A soldier shot down a plane before, and it was rumored in the whole army. The regiment has always been trained in this area. By the way, wasn't Pinghe near the river the year before last, and almost shot down a plane?"

Xu Qing looked at Pinghe.

"It's possible to hit."

Ping He nodded.

"However, you need to calculate the wind direction, speed, and altitude. If you are not sure of victory, it is generally not easy to fight. Once you fight, it is easy to attract more planes. I will teach you this later."

He paused, and then explained: "I hit the tail of that plane at the time, and black smoke came out from the engine, but it still wobbled and flew away."

Yu Congrong echoed: "That's amazing too!"

Xu Qing also nodded. He didn't know much about this aspect. He always thought that shooting a plane with a rifle was something for people in anti-Japanese dramas. He didn't expect such a thing to exist in reality?
At this time, the comrade commander in the distance shouted again: "The air defense training is going on below! Each person fires five more bullets, and each platoon will collect it by itself..."

Mei Sheng turned around and said to the others: "Let's go! I'll be with you. I haven't played this game for a long time."

Xu Qing was puzzled: "What are you playing?"

"You'll know later, this is our company's reserved item!"

After finishing speaking, Yu Congrong turned his head and said with a grin: "Instructor, what's the matter, are your hands itchy?"

"You're the one who talks too much! Go, grab a good seat..."

Mei Sheng made a gesture to smash his head, but he dodged with his back bent.

Xu Qing ignorantly followed them in line, took the five rounds of brass bullets that were allocated, walked to the front of the playground again, and pressed the bullets into the magazine one by one.

Mei Sheng lay on the sandbag and shouted: "Be careful, hit the sky, hurry up, but don't panic! Don't accidentally hurt yourself, and don't hit your own people..."

Yu Congrong didn't know which position he was lying on, and he couldn't see his figure, only heard his rough cry:
"Understood! Guidance Mei, we are all veterans!"

Holding the gun, Xu Qing was a little dazed. He didn't know what to fight in the air defense training. There was nothing on the playground in front of him. Could it be a target?

But he didn't have time to think about it, because the guards were already raising the flag:

"Get ready! Put—"

Something leaped into the sky in the distance, Xu Qing looked over: it was dozens of colorful balloons being released into the air under the setting sun.Outside the fence, preparations were made early.

Ballooning?
He was a little stunned by the colorful sky. These gadgets have been popular since the Republic of China, but they were just decorations until decades later. Now this era seems to give them more value.

However, the sound of gunshots was already ringing out, he quickly reacted, took a deep breath, put the gun on the sandbag, followed by pulling the bolt, raised the gun, and aimed:

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

"Snapped!"

After a round of balloons was released, the gunfire gradually faded away.Pieces of balloons drifted all over the sky and landed on the dirt-blown grass.

Xu Qing also stopped, and some around him were still made of Sanba Gaier and Hanyang, and felt that the sound of gunshots so close made his ears buzzing.

Ping He was at the side: "Have you hit?"

Xu Qing nodded: "I got hit."

Four bullets hit three balls.He could see clearly.

A rare smile appeared on Ping He's face: "That's good..."

He didn't finish, because Yu Congrong jumped up from the position: "There is one left!"

What's left?
Everyone followed what he pointed at, looked up, and found a red balloon floating in the sky.

"Who hasn't fought yet? Hurry up!" Yu Congrong shouted.

They all shook their heads, but no one answered.

He found Ping He in the crowd: "Don't you have bullets with you, come get one!"

"do not fight."

Ping He shook his head, "Save it for masturbation."

He looked at Xu Qing again.Xu Qing only left the back of his head for him: "...don't you think this picture is pretty?"

He actually had one bullet left.

Mei Sheng also put down the smoking Sakata gun: "Let it fly. It's quite beautiful."

Everyone looked at the sky one after another, and even the commander who had been yelling at the side stopped waving the flag and watched quietly.

Only Yu Congrong muttered: How beautiful is it...

Under the gaze of everyone, that little red figure slowly flew higher and higher, farther and farther, until it rose into the sky and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)