Chapter 811 Sniper

The two-story farmhouse chosen by Gao Qiaonan is located in a plantation just over a hundred meters east of Santo Domingo City. It was originally used as a barn and a warehouse for stacking farm tools. However, the Haihan Army killed two people in the past two days.

After arriving, all the plantation workers fled back to the city and abandoned the area. Although it was indeed within the range of the city's defense artillery, the defenders did not conduct searches for sporadic entries into these areas due to limited ammunition reserves.

The Haihan soldiers opened fire, so the special operations battalion took over the place relatively smoothly without much trouble.

Observing the city wall on the east side of Santo Domingo City from the second-story attic of this farmhouse, the line of sight is only slightly lower than the city wall. You can already see the defense situation on the city wall relatively clearly, and its appearance does not easily attract the attention of the defenders.

It is indeed an excellent observation point for battles. Other farmhouses with two-story attics like this are significantly farther away from the east city wall.

Under the eaves of this farmhouse, a red lantern with a diameter of more than two feet hangs, and its existence can be clearly seen even from a hundred meters away. According to the agreement between Delgado and Hai Hanjun the day before, as long as you see

Hanging up this red lantern means that everything is ready. Once the target is in place, the killing move will be launched outside the city.

Although he did not have full confidence in the killing move claimed by Takahashi Minami, when things got to this point, Delgado could not help but regret it. He calmed down a little, turned to Lopez and said: "Captain, I think that

A Haihan officer had entered the farmhouse before daybreak."

"How do you know?" As soon as Lopez heard the news, he immediately approached the crenellation and looked out: "Which farmhouse are you talking about?"

"The villain has seen them sending out the agreed signal outside the farmhouse. Yesterday, the villain happened to hear this while eavesdropping on their conversation..."

Before Delgado could finish speaking, Lopez, who was completely taken the bait, interrupted him impatiently: "Which building is it?"

"Sir, please look, it's the building on the east side..." Delgado stepped back so that Lopez could get a better view from the crenel.

Seeing Lopez eagerly move to the crenel to look outside, Delgado took a deep breath, quietly moved a step to the side, completely hiding his body behind the wall, silently praying in his heart that the plan would go smoothly.

When implementing, make sure nothing extraneous happens.

Qian Tiandun's special operations battalion was recruited from local Annan soldiers during its establishment. Nearly 90% of the veterans were of Annan origin. The remaining 10% of Han soldiers were basically affiliated with only

Only the Sanya headquarters has the conditions to train special arms, such as artillery, communications, etc. These Han soldiers were assigned by the Military Commission after the special operations battalion was formed, and they are considered a relatively special existence in this army.

Tang Zixing is one of these few Han soldiers. The branch he belongs to is an absolutely scarce resource in the army. The entire special operations battalion has more than a thousand troops, but his branch only has the establishment of a squad. The reason is unknown.

He, because the sniper branch has extremely high requirements for personal military quality, and the long training cycle and the cost of training for ordinary soldiers have made it impossible to expand the scale of training. Even if the militia departments select and send hundreds of soldiers every year

The elite and middle-class students participate in special training at the Sanya Army Base, but only a few trainees are able to complete the nearly half-year training period and pass the rigorous graduation examination.

Even if compared among the sniper establishments in the entire civil society system, Tang Zixing is still considered one of the best. When Morgan took the lead in establishing the sniper training system, he was one of the first batch of students and one of the very few trained.

One of the elites who was led by Morgan throughout the whole process. A considerable number of snipers who enlisted in the army at the same time as him have switched careers to become instructors in order to cultivate more elites for the rapidly expanding Haihan Militia. And Morgan, in addition to the military

In addition to working in the medical system, it is difficult to have enough time to teach students in person. Only veteran students like Tang Zixing still have the opportunity to receive guidance from Morgan during the annual refresher courses.

The weapon used by the snipers of the Haihan Militia in the early days was the imitation M1857 Whitworth rifle personally selected by Morgan. This strange rifle with a hexagonal bore has the highest shooting accuracy among long-range weapons of the era, at 500 yards.

The range of the impact point is only 0.37 feet, which is equivalent to a distance of nearly one mile. This rifle can accurately hit a life-size chest target through auxiliary means such as a scope. The Whitworth rifle is

During the American Civil War, there were many records of kills at distances of more than a thousand yards, and the actual combat results were quite outstanding.

Of course, its shortcomings are also very obvious. The front-loading rifle has a weird hexagonal spiral rifling, which is technically difficult to process and manufacture. Since it is a special firearm, its demand is not high, which in turn leads to high costs, and additional ammunition is loaded.

It is very troublesome. The shooting speed is slower than that of a cannon. The thick and long barrel makes the gun body very heavy, making it inconvenient to carry and maintain.

Starting from the second half of 1631, at the request of the Military Commission, the military industry department began to improve its structure, changing the original front chamber loading to the rear chamber, and the hexagonal barrel was also changed to a round barrel with spiral rifling.

The advanced structure. However, because the materials and processing technology are far from being comparable to the era before time travel, the barrel service life of this new rifle is not too long, and the shooting accuracy will gradually decrease with the wear of the rifling.

The production capacity of the Trinity sniper rifle has not increased much compared to the previous model. It still only maintains a production of about five to ten units per month. With the quadruple scope specially developed by the military industry department for this sniper rifle, after adjustment

The shooting accuracy within 500 meters is quite impressive. Morgan believes that before Haihan's industrial capabilities can produce rifles such as the Mosin Nagant, Springfield M1903, and Mauser K98, the Sany-type can basically be used for several years.

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This new type of sniper rifle has been gradually distributed to all troops since the beginning of 1632 to replace the old models used by snipers. Tang Zixing was also the first ace sniper in the army to start using the Trinity sniper rifle as a test of gun performance.

In the extended part of the gun, Tang Zixing received sufficient training ammunition and spare parts. In this year, as many as seven gun barrels were replaced due to excessive rifling wear, which also allowed him to have a more comprehensive grasp of this weapon.

Performance of the new gun.

Although there is currently one squad of snipers in the special operations camp, the others, including Tang Zixing's partner, are all "novices" assigned in the past two years, and their experience in actual combat is definitely not as good as Tang Zixing's. As this special team

As the leader, Tang Zixing often bears the most critical responsibilities when performing combat missions.

This mission is no exception. Tang Zixing received an order from Gao Qiaonan just last night, requiring the sniper squad to enter the preset shooting point early this morning to prepare to kill the enemy commander who appeared on the city wall. In order to ensure

To be sure, Tang Zixing also arranged for two other groups to act with him. Since they were not equipped with more advanced communication tools and could not communicate in time, they could only enter the same shooting point to ambush so that they could seize the opportunity to shoot at the same time.

The location they were in was also a small second-story attic of a farmhouse. The west-facing side had been decorated overnight, and a row of horizontal tiles had been unveiled on the roof. Since the location of this farmhouse was higher than Gaoqiao South Prefecture,

The false lurking position was set farther away from the city wall. It was unlikely that people on the city wall would notice with the naked eye that a row of tiles was missing on the roof of a farmhouse two hundred meters away. This distance was not suitable for sniper control of the Sany-type rifle.

In terms of hand, it is already within a very large shooting range.

If measured by Morgan's requirements, he must be able to hit eight out of ten shots at a chest target at this distance to be considered a qualified sniper. In order to seize the fleeting shooting opportunity, Tang Zixing also prepared three pre-loaded guns.

A rifle with good ammunition can be placed next to the three shooting positions for the second round of follow-up shooting.

For a sniper, today's weather conditions can only be described as excellent. There is neither fog that affects the visible distance nor dazzling sunlight. Although there is an occasional breeze in the sky, it does not have any impact on the ballistic trajectory.

The impact is too obvious. If there is any shortcoming, it is that snipers cannot calibrate the target through test firing in advance in order to avoid being surprised. This may slightly affect the sniper's feel and confidence.

Although it is possible to roughly delineate the range where the target may appear, the actual situation is unpredictable. Tang Zixing can only arrange three sniper teams to aim at different crenels, while three observers with telescopes are responsible for discovering the target, giving tips, and communicating

And commanded three snipers to launch an attack. This kind of combat method of focusing fire on the same target in a small group is actually a compulsory subject in sniper training. However, this is the first time that these three groups have worked together in actual combat. The effect is

How come even Tang Zixing himself is not completely sure.

About an hour after entering the combat position, the observer finally saw the target appear on the city wall - Delgado and a middle-aged officer behind him surrounded by guards. Tang Zixing saw the focus of the officer through the scope.

The yellow beard and military uniform can already confirm his identity.

"Get ready to shoot!" After Tang Zixing issued this short command, he fell silent. He had to focus all his attention on the next tactical actions, and the command was automatically handed over to the observer partner next to him.

Perhaps it was because Delgado had done a good job setting the stage the night before, or because he saw the silence of the enemy positions outside the city, Lopez was not too wary of what Delgado said.

After the performance, he really leaned towards the crenel indicated by Delgado, stuck his head out and looked out, unaware that he had become prey in the eyes of some people.

Lopez was not actually afraid of any plans to assassinate him outside the city. At least he did not see any soldiers on the other side within his field of vision. Even if someone told him that there were muskets aimed at him outside the city at this time, he probably only

Will you sneer at it - the hit rate from thirty meters away depends on your face, why should you be nervous?

But at this moment Lopez felt a pain in his chest, and then heard a gunshot in his ears. He slowly lowered his head and saw blood pouring out of the hole in his right chest. He looked at him blankly.

Outside the city, not a single person could be seen as far as the eye could see, and there was no idea where the black gunfire was taking place. At this moment, the second and third gunshots also reached the top of the city, and one of them fired

It hit Lopez on the right shoulder, and the other shot came up empty.

The guard standing behind Lopez realized something was wrong and quickly reached out to support his slowly falling body. However, the shooting outside the city did not stop, and two or three more bullets hit the wall near the crenellation.

Go up and hit him, causing debris and stone chips to fly everywhere.

"Fire! Fire!" the guard captain shouted, but he actually didn't know where the enemy was and where to fire. It was just a subconscious reaction.

"Retreat!" At the same time, Tang Zixing, who succeeded in one blow, also issued an order to his companions. Just now, the observer had confirmed the results of the battle through the telescope, and at least two bullets directly hit the target. After the target's figure disappeared, Tang Zixing

He also knew that there would be no chance to continue the pursuit. The top priority was to retreat to a safe area as soon as possible, because he could not confirm whether the enemy troops on the top of the city had discovered the hidden spot where he was. If he aimed at this place to attack

rounds of shelling, the risks they need to bear are still quite high.

Delgado was standing less than one meter away from Lopez when the incident occurred. From the time Lopez's body was exposed at the crenel to the time he fell after being shot, it only took three to five seconds. Delgado

Originally, he thought Takahashi Minami's plan would not be easy to implement, because it was too difficult for a rifle to accurately hit the target at a long distance. He had even thought about the follow-up plan if the plan failed, how to create chaos in the city to disrupt the situation.

City defense deployment, but the Haihan people really did what Takahashi Minami said. Seeing Lopez lying in a pool of blood, Delgado suddenly felt lucky. If he had not changed his position in time to join Haihan, but

If you follow the Spaniards and defend here, you will probably end up like this, right? If you don't even know how you died, how can you talk about counterattack?

The guards dragged Lopez away from the city wall in a chaotic manner, and then a group of gunners came up and prepared to fire at targets they did not know outside the city. Delgado remembered Takahashi Minami's instructions to guide the defenders' cannon if necessary.

After bombing the false lurking point, he loudly said: "The enemy is in that house with the red lantern hanging. I saw them. Fire at that house!"
Chapter completed!