Chapter 290: Gone Completely Berserk!
Despite shooting from thirty meters upstairs to the ground, the difficulty was extremely high due to the angle, but it was much simpler compared to climbing up.
For special forces soldiers built from piles of bullets, this one point was equivalent to being given for free.
Chen Jun, representing the Capital Military Region, along with the six people behind him, successfully climbed to the rooftop using small tricks and all completed the subsequent shooting at the target.
The second project scored twelve points, plus five points from the first project.
The scoreboard led the second place by as much as 14 points!
A soldier’s venue is comparable to the battlefield, and this competition was a battle, with harsh judging and rules meant to make the competitors understand.
There are no “ifs” on the battlefield, nor opportunities to start over.
Losing is losing!
Fortunately, this project ended in the morning, and the third project would start at two in the afternoon, giving enough time for the competitors to adjust.
However, no matter how they adjusted their mentality, the pressure had already come to the heads of the other nine teams.
Team Six, ranked first with a huge advantage of fifteen total points, was like an immovable Mount Tai, pressing down on the other nine teams until they could hardly breathe.
To change this huge disparity in pressure, the other nine teams went all out.
They were determined to reverse the current situation in the third project.
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Two in the afternoon.
The competition continued.
The third competition project was bomb disposal and hostage rescue, with each participating team sending two contestants to participate in this professional skills competition.
This competition tested bomb disposal ability, whether they could dismantle the simulated bomb within the stipulated time.
It was the simplest competition relying purely on technology, so each team sent their most skilled competitors, all ambitious to take this project.
Because each team only needed to send two team members, the scoring mechanism had therefore changed.
Completing within five minutes could get full four points, within seven minutes three points, within eight minutes two points, within nine minutes only one point.
Over ten minutes was zero points!
On Chen Jun’s side, there were several who understood demolition, all trained to professional bomb disposal standards, so anyone sent up had the strength to score points.
But scoring points in this project was not the main thing; the core was to ensure getting full points.
For the sake of the most insured way to score points and secure this extremely precious overseas competition quota, Chen Jun decided to personally take action this time.
For someone like Chen Jun, who had been a soldier for multiple generations, bomb disposal was the simplest thing.
His strength was absolutely the strongest in the team!
For the second contestant spot, Chen Jun gave it to Wu Zhe.
Bomb disposal is an extremely professional technical job, requiring not only extremely rich professional foundation but also a fast brain reaction speed.
Wu Zhe, as an optoelectronics master’s top student, had a natural advantage in this aspect.
The others naturally had no objections to Chen Jun and Wu Zhe competing, after all, in the professional field, the two were indeed far stronger than the others.
Each team sent two contestants, and soon twenty competitors gathered in the waiting area.
Compared to the first two projects with maximum difficulty that made the competitors suffer and get no points, more than half of the teams were still bald with zero scores.
Bomb disposal and hostage rescue purely tested technology, really giving many competitors the ability to score points.
The competition started with drawing lots as usual, and even to ensure the fairness of the competition, later competitors would go to learn from the earlier ones.
All contestants were isolated, only allowed to communicate with the outside after completing the competition, and not allowed to return to the waiting area.
Competitors went up one by one, no longer multiple at once like before.
This competition mode was indeed fairer, with each competitor only able to rely on themselves, unable to gain experience by observing other competitors.
The downside was that the competition time would be lengthened, and with twenty competitors, it would take at least two hours at the fastest.
If the competitors’ strength varied, it might not finish in three hours.
The competition officially started at two thirty, with one competitor after another entering the exam competition, and it was already five thirty in the afternoon when all were done.
However, although the competition took some time, the results were much better than before.
Among the twenty competitors in the third round project, four got full four points, five got three points, eight got two points or one point, and only three competitors timed out with no points.
This also allowed nine of the ten participating teams to finally say goodbye to the big zero.
Because two competitors from two other teams both completed bomb disposal and hostage rescue within five minutes, getting the highest eight points.
Therefore, even though Chen Jun personally led Wu Zhe on the field, they couldn’t widen the score gap further.
The third project took too much time, so only one event was competed in the afternoon of the first day of the competition, and the fourth competition project was placed in the evening.
Nighttime rifle 200-meter moving visible and hidden target shooting, with difficulty still maxed out.
For ordinary soldiers, hitting even one shot here was hard.
But here, it required completing shooting at ten target silhouettes within one minute.
Ten shots all hitting could get the highest four points, nine hits three points, eight hits two points, seven hits one point, below seven all zero points.
Each team selected four competitors to compete, starting from Team One to shoot at the target.
Nighttime target shooting had no such thing as learning from experience; it competed on the technology accumulated in daily training, so no drawing lots like before.
Each competitor from entering the field to shoot at the target to exiting took about two minutes in total.
The shot targets were uniformly collected and marked in the target pit, and after all forty competitors finished shooting, they were sent back for the referee team to verify the targets on site.
This target shooting method was very efficient.
All forty competitors completed the competition project, including the subsequent target verification, reporting, and score registration links, adding up to less than two hours.
Chen Jun sent Cheng Cai, Tuo Yonggang, Xu Sanduo, and Wu Liu Yi.
The performance of these four was very stable, and shooting was also their strong suit, ultimately steadily securing a total of sixteen points.
Other teams also had excellent cadets performing well, with overall total points steadily rising.
However, no matter how much other teams rose, since Team Six’s performance was always so stable with basically no point loss, the points were still pulled far apart.
Team Six performed brightly in every project, with results steadily ranking first in every event.
This put enormous pressure on the other teams!
They had to gather all team members together for a meeting on the evening the first day of competition ended, to urgently discuss countermeasures for the following days.
After all, without coming up with clever moves to break the situation, it was impossible to shake Team Six.
The other nine teams were all holding meetings overnight to discuss, and ultimately all came up with certain achievements, though whether effective was unknown.
Only Team Six was completely relaxed.
Chen Jun had no intention of holding a meeting at all; after the competition ended, he took the team back to the dormitory and said just one sentence: rest well.
Sleep as much as possible, nurture energy as fully as possible.
To cope with the challenges of the following days!
One night passed.
The fifth project’s competition was in the morning, and this competition project was very special, with scarcity; each team only needed to send one competitor.
This project was “camouflage sniping”!
The rules and method of the competition were not complicated, mainly testing team and personal ability.
Each team needed to send one sniper to enter a fifty by thirty meter area for camouflage; after concealment was complete, an observer would come to find people.
The observer stood on the mountain 150 meters away, viewing this area through binoculars.
If the sniper was found by the observer within one minute, this round was zero points; if not found by the observer within two minutes, two points could be obtained; exceeding three minutes got four points.
If not discovered, shooting could begin to snipe the target silhouette located 600 meters away.
Before the competing snipers entered the field, they were allowed to use all means to make themselves more concealed.
Once stepping into the designated area, there were only two minutes to prepare, and what could be set up depended entirely on personal ability.
Since the competition area was fixed and unchanged, competitors going first had a certain advantage.
After all, going first was an unexploited piece of land, where every place could be used for camouflage and concealment, with few traces of human destruction.
But as competitors went up one by one, they would inevitably cause certain destruction to the venue.
The later ones would face more trouble, and possibly most of the weeds had already been trampled flat, making it harder to find concealment positions.
Most importantly, there was still shooting afterward, greatly limiting the competitors’ space to choose positions.
If the chosen position had terrain that was too low, after passing the observer’s check, they couldn’t move, and if unable to hit the target, it would be awkward.
So choosing position was extremely crucial, determining the final success or failure of the competition.
With such a big advantage for going first, for fairness’ sake, this competition still required drawing lots.
Chen Jun, representing Team Six, drew number six, in the middle position, neither good nor bad.
Thinking that Cheng Cai had a natural “sniper holy body” and could be fully trusted in sniping, Chen Jun felt no pressure.
However, to avoid accidents, he still decided to gather everyone for collective brainstorming.
To come up with better methods to increase the success rate.
After a round of collective brainstorming and discussion, they finally thought of a small trick that could greatly improve the success rate without violating the competition rules.
That was to pull off a “true and false Monkey King”!
Take a set of training uniform, stuff it full of straw inside to make a simple dummy, then add a helmet, ghillie suit, and sniper rifle.
Place it on the ground like this, and it really looked seven or eight points similar.
Chen Jun specifically instructed Cheng Cai…
“The role of the fake target is to cover the real target, to delay the observer’s time as much as possible, so the deployment position must be more conspicuous than yours; specifically where to place it, you can only decide on the spot yourself.”
“Rest assured, Captain, I have confidence.”
Cheng Cai was very confident in himself, with exceptionally good spirit, energy, and mind.
Team Six came up with a clever trick, while the five teams that went before them were also not idle, each showing their own special prowess.
Some specifically hid under earth banks, blending themselves with the pit.
This method escaped the observer’s eyes, but because the shooting angle was restricted, no one hit the target after one shot.
The two points in hand flew away!
Some drilled into half-person-high weed piles, the whole person disappearing into the weeds.
But unexpectedly, success and failure both came from the weeds; hiding a person in half-person-high weeds would inevitably press down part of the grass, making it particularly obvious from above.
Couldn’t even hold out for one minute!
Some simply lay flat on the lawn, banking on the most dangerous place being the safest.
Believing the observer would look in the most concealed positions and naturally ignore the safest areas, then opportunistically win the competition easily.
In the end, this kid really succeeded, holding out for three minutes without being discovered by the observer.
Because the position was very good, the target shooting also hit.
Six points full score in hand!
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The five teams that went first had varied performances and all put in effort, but some were happy and some worried, some got full points and some zero.
In the blink of an eye, it was Team Six’s turn, and Cheng Cai carried a large bag up.
The other teams at first really didn’t understand, puzzled why Cheng Cai brought so many things; a sniper’s supplies weren’t that much.
It was only when Cheng Cai deployed the fake target in the venue that everyone realized.
Exclaiming good guy!!
Team Six was almost innovating in every competition, always coming up with completely unique ideas, really opening the eyes of the other teams.
For the combat philosophy of modernized special forces soldiers, it provided a brand new insight and inspiration.
Special operations methods are what make special operations special; only by breaking traditional rigid thinking and boldly pioneering and innovating can one go higher and farther.
Cheng Cai’s true and false Monkey King camouflage method not only shocked the cadets present.
The leaders from the organizers also nodded repeatedly.
Very satisfied with this creativity!
And Cheng Cai, relying on this fake target deliberately exposed to be discovered by the observer, successfully delayed time and completed the subsequent precise sniping.
Successfully getting six points!
Breaking through the forty-point total mark.
Hidden sniping tested the special forces soldiers’ hard power in “concealment” and “shooting,” as well as the flexible matching ability of these two aspects.
Cheng Cai’s performance throughout the entire competition exhaustively showed both aspects.
And with five consecutive competitions down, the competitors felt the difficulty of this competition while fully entering the competition state.
More intense competition and gaming also cycled through one competition after another.
Moving tactical shooting, nighttime forced march decapitation, frontline infiltration reconnaissance, battlefield first aid, fixed-point parachuting, cliff climbing shooting…
One competition project after another came up, with rules and difficulty higher than the last.
Not only testing the competitors’ strength, but also testing the special operations warriors’ combat ability in various environments and different missions, sharpening their blades one by one in this showdown.
On the venue, the high and low would be clear.
Off the venue, hot blood and honor fiercely collided.
As special operations team members, the competitors would inevitably walk the path of deterring enemy armies and striking criminals; only by forging themselves strong enough could they achieve invincibility in attack and victory in battle against enemies.
And this army-wide strong showdown right now was the beginning of heading to the peak of special operations.
China’s modernized special operations would comprehensively rise from here as the starting point.
