Chapter 297: Powerfully Crushing All Of Europe And America
This primeval forest located by the Baltic Sea has various wild beasts and even more poisonous insects, among which venomous snakes like the pig-nosed snake are the most ferocious.
Because many contestants have been bitten by venomous snakes, it has genuinely become famous throughout Northern Europe.
Even multiple contestants have died because of this!
On the first day of the competition, the Chinese Team encountered this danger.
It was already 11 a.m. at the time.
Fortunately, the attack happened during the day, giving people enough time to react.
China Team One was advancing while conducting reconnaissance when a venomous snake over two meters long appeared in front. Its triangular head clearly indicated it was extremely venomous.
This venomous snake was perhaps startled and mistook Chen Jun and his group for invading enemies.
Whoosh, in an instant.
It suddenly lunged over a meter forward and launched an attack from a hanging tree branch.
Fortunately, Cheng Cai, who was walking second, had excellent crisis awareness. Under his body’s instinctive self-protection, he shifted half a meter to the side to dodge the attack.
Otherwise, given the position the venomous snake attacked, he would definitely have been bitten in the face.
The face is too special a location; unlike hands or feet, it can’t be bound, and even preventing the venom from spreading is impossible. Cheng Cai might very well have died there.
Venomous snakes in the primeval forest are even more ferocious; after one failed strike, they don’t choose to flee.
Instead, they continue raising their heads, flicking their venomous tongues.
Hissing sounds.
They sound very eerie.
As if warning Chen Jun and his four companions: “If you dare take half a step forward, this snake lord will make you know how potent my venom is.”
Chen Jun and his four companions were indeed afraid of being bitten, but they weren’t intimidated enough by the snake to not pass.
They dared to kill extremely wicked drug dealers, so how could they fear mere venomous snakes.
Chen Jun himself could easily handle it, but to train the Steel Seventh Company’s Three Musketeers, he didn’t take the initiative to strike and instead let Xu Sanduo go.
If it had been a little over a month ago, Xu Sanduo would really have been quite afraid of snakes.
But ever since undergoing Chen Jun’s desensitization training, killing pigs daily until his hands went numb, sleeping and eating with corpses every day until his nerves became numb.
Later, he experienced the Southwest anti-drug combat, which expanded his courage unprecedentedly.
The venomous snakes he used to fear greatly now didn’t seem so scary in Xu Sanduo’s eyes; they were just a bit larger yellow eels.
Grabbing a snake’s seven-inch vital spot by hand requires technique, and Xu Sanduo definitely didn’t know it as a non-professional snake catcher.
But to deal with one snake, he had many methods.
The simplest method was using the machete he carried, which had been very helpful along the way; he slashed at the snake.
The skills honed by special forces made this slash precise, fast, and ruthless.
Even a snake famous for its reaction speed couldn’t block Xu Sanduo’s precise slash and was cut in half at the waist on the spot.
“Not bad, your knife skills are passable.”
Chen Jun didn’t stint on his praise, and the snake split into two sections wasn’t wasted.
With precise and proficient technique, he skinned it and gutted it; the remaining meat was evenly divided among the four, who ate it while walking, perfect as snacks on the march.
It supplemented the body’s needed elements, allowing stamina to recover faster.
A snake’s parasites are mainly in the skin and internal organs; eating the raw meat wouldn’t have much impact on the body.
Moreover, comprehensive checks were done before departing for the competition, and there would be full body checks after returning home. Even with parasites for a few short days, it was no issue.
Compared to venomous snake attacks, attacks from poisonous spiders and centipedes are the hardest to guard against.
Because they are small and highly toxic.
Fortunately, among the dozens of kilograms of supplies carried, there were many targeted protective drugs and sprays, providing significant protection.
Moreover, attacks from poisonous insects and wild beasts aren’t frequent; with caution, it’s manageable.
Actually, what the contestants found hardest to endure and handle was the thorns full of poison stings visible everywhere in the mountains and bushes.
Plants with poison stings are everywhere; it’s fundamentally impossible to avoid them effectively.
As long as moving in the jungle, one is destined to be constantly troubled.
Although the vast majority of these thorns have no strong toxicity and just cause pain, or even tear the skin.
But a small portion looks the same but carries strong toxicity.
Once the skin is scratched by this kind of poison sting, it swells up like a bee sting immediately, even forming pus.
That pain and itch is different from mosquito bites; it’s pure burning pain.
When Chen Jun saw the wound rapidly festering, he knew this thing was probably permanent; even after healing, it would leave black spotted scars on the body.
Fortunately, soldiers are not like actor pretty boys who rely on their faces for survival.
Body scars for soldiers not only have no negative effect but become their brand of fighting for the country.
Every brand.
Represents a share of honor.
That Chinese Soldiers can endure this difficult challenge unacceptable to ordinary people doesn’t mean all teams can endure it.
After just the first day’s competition projects, 3 teams from Western countries couldn’t accept this inhuman torment and chose to withdraw from the competition to preserve their lives.
While the Chinese Team, with the hardworking and enduring spirit that other countries’ soldiers lack, and the perseverance to face death fearlessly for national glory.
Both teams performed extremely excellently and achieved a complete victory on the first day.
They were the only two among all 24 participating teams that didn’t lose a single penalty card after the first day’s competition.
The Chinese Team strongly established a new record since the event’s inception with this result.
Whether any team can catch up to the Chinese Team in the future is unpredictable, but it’s certain now that on the first day of the competition, the Chinese Team was the strongest.
They crushed all of Europe and America, strongly asserting dignity.
Making the whole world realize from this moment that an ancient Eastern power has fully awakened and is rapidly heading toward strength.
The backward country in their memories has long become history.
Dawn of the second day of the competition.
Because the Chinese Team’s performance was too outstanding, subverting all participating teams’ cognition and setting a brand-new record in the competition.
Estonia’s major national newspapers all featured prominent photos of the Chinese Team’s eight members’ wonderful moments in the competition, accompanied by text reports, marking the first global debut of Chinese special forces soldiers.
The Chinese Team’s first-day results naturally drew close attention from all participating countries’ teams, becoming the main competitors for each representative team.
A new day.
New competitions arrived one after another.
Today’s main competition category was shooting; competitors began rifle, pistol, submachine gun, sniper rifle, etc., shooting at half-body, head, shooting hole targets, appearing/disappearing targets, fixed targets, moving targets.
This was a competition of the contestants’ military skills and also of the weaponry and equipment itself.
All countries’ participating teams were very confident that day.
The competition used NATO standard weapons, and the NATO alliance was mainly led by Europe and America, equivalent to using their own weapons.
While the Chinese Team, treated as the imaginary enemy by other countries due to the overly outstanding first-day performance.
Had never used NATO standard weapons before, with only half a day before the competition to familiarize, their familiarity with the guns was definitely far inferior.
European and American participating teams were very confident, aiming to recover the points lost on the first day today.
They didn’t believe they couldn’t compete with the Chinese Team.
European and American countries’ participating teams were full of confidence, and they indeed had reason to be, because even the Chinese Team members themselves had such worries.
Although to catch up to international levels, domestic special forces’ equipment depots had many foreign weapons.
The completeness of the weaponry and equipment depot had far surpassed years ago.
But the foreign weapons issued domestically were just tools for understanding, not the main training weapons, so proficiency was definitely far inferior to standard weapons.
Others hold guns for shooting training every day, while you only take them out for corresponding training subjects.
This difference is huge!
With only half a day to familiarize with new weapons, aside from Chen Jun, all other Chinese Team members worried the new weapons wouldn’t perform to full strength.
If they couldn’t be fully utilized in the competition, they would definitely lose points.
The Chinese Team was aiming for the championship and would pay extra attention to every point.
Thus, the team members were under great pressure!
Fortunately, once formally entering the subjects competition, the Chinese Team members quickly realized that familiarity with weapons was indeed an important factor for victory.
But the decisive factor is the person, not the object.
As long as believing in their domestic training achievements, treat the competition guns as domestic Type 95 Rifles, maintain their calm mentality, and exert 80% of their usual excellent results from hard training.
Even if not taking first in every subject, they would surely achieve good results in the competition.
As expected.
When contestants arrived at the control point and successively entered the live-fire shooting area, as international referees issued action orders to shoot.
China Team One and Team Two’s 8 members’ final results far exceeded their expectations.
China’s shooting training is the most rigorous globally; hanging water canteens and bricks on the muzzle isn’t for nothing—the steadiness of the gun in hand is impressive.
The two teams’ members entered the venue, all raising guns with swift actions, accurately capturing direction and sights, firing naturally calm, decisive.
Only hearing “bang bang bang” bursts of volley fire, various obvious targets fell in patches with the sound.
For targets with an 8-second time limit, the Chinese Team’s times didn’t exceed 5 seconds.
Especially competitors like Cheng Cai, Chen Jun, Wu Liu Yi, and Tuo Yonggang, who were even fiercer in shooting, took less than 4 seconds.
Regardless of distance, regardless of target type.
All hit and knocked down without exception!
After shooting, Chinese Team members even found that the NATO standard rifles issued for the competition were better to use than domestic Type 95 Rifles.
Although no one wanted to accept this result, the usage experience showed a real gap.
This is normal.
The 1998 Type 95 was the first version, with many rifle issues, completely different from the 2009 fully equipped Type
A weapon still in experimental research and development definitely performs worse than a mature rifle.
Their own country’s rifle being inferior to foreign ones does make one feel a bit down, but this is the value of coming abroad this time.
You don’t know how vast the outside world is without going out.
Only by deeply recognizing one’s own deficiencies can one return to basics, become stronger, and overtake on the bend to become the leader.
The various discoveries the Chinese Team made in the competition would be written into a report and submitted after returning home.
Not only would it have a profound impact on the development of modern Chinese special forces soldiers.
It would also provide great help to individual soldier weaponry and equipment research and development, military exercise competition design, and more.
And with batches of experience feedback, the country and army would benefit and gradually become stronger.
This is the core of traveling thousands of miles to compete abroad.
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The Chinese Team, using NATO standard weapons, still performed so dominantly in shooting at the target.
In contrast, foreign military participating teams, full of confidence with familiar weapons in the shooting project, produced jaw-dropping results.
Some fired but the bullets missed, not knowing where they went.
Some had only half the targets down when the time limit expired.
Others needed 10 bullets to take down 6 targets, but a contestant fired 5 bullets over a year yet couldn’t down a single appearing/disappearing target.
The watching delegation’s regiment commander was so angry his eyes turned red and he stomped his feet.
His mouth spewed a torrent of curses!
Compared to the Chinese Team’s stunning shooting results, their own country’s members performed so poorly, not even half of usual training results.
Some foreign military representatives had wild ideas, not finding reasons in themselves but picking faults with the organizers.
They believed the Chinese Team received better quality weapons, so their target shooting was so good, while their soldiers’ poor results were due to inferior rifles.
This kind of talk was laughable on first hearing, yet it wasn’t isolated.
Regiment commanders from several countries’ delegations approached the organizers to complain, demanding a satisfactory response.
Making the organizers exasperated!
Actually, these countries’ delegation regiment commanders hadn’t realized the fundamental problem was a difference in cognition of the relationship between man and weapon.
They relied more intuitively on weapon performance, while our army believed more in human mastery of weapons.
Most European and American participating teams performed well; the poor ones were just a portion, a change brought by the competitors’ abilities.
After all, there had been a day and night of long-distance assault with not even a minute to sleep midway.
The competitors’ physical and mental states had been seriously affected; those with weak willpower couldn’t hold on, and results naturally dropped sharply.
Unfortunately, just this small portion’s poor results was enough to stimulate these European and American countries’ regiment commanders.
They simply couldn’t accept their country being suppressed by the merely first-time competing backward Chinese Team; they couldn’t accept this huge contrast.
Western countries have always been committed to smearing ours; in their impression, ours is extremely poor and backward.
Losing to backward China, they truly couldn’t take it.
Unfortunately.
On the competition venue, results speak; like it or not, they had to accept it.
