Chapter 79: I, Gao Cheng, Am Here To Dominate The Leaderboard
The previous competitors all shot very poorly, which made the following competitors secretly relieved, but also invisibly put great pressure on them.
They were secretly happy that their opponents shot poorly, but even more afraid that they would shoot even worse.
Cheng Cai was the typical representative.
Cheng Cai had sufficient talent, and was also very lucky to meet a mentor who recognized him. His only shortcoming was that he was too inexperienced, with almost zero competition experience and social experience.
Fortunately, during the four months of special training, Chen Jun had specifically trained him on competition mentality.
When Cheng Cai arrived at the shooting position to prepare, although he was nervous with his heartbeat pounding and accelerating, fortunately he didn’t completely lose his composure, not reaching the point of trembling hands and feet.
“Pa pa pa…”
Other competitors successively began shooting at the target, while Cheng Cai was still taking deep breaths to calm his emotions.
A heartbeat that was too fast greatly affected aiming accuracy, especially for this super long distance shooting in a parabola, controlling the breathing rhythm was even more important.
Until a minute had passed.
Cheng Cai finally calmed his emotions, fully concentrating his attention on the target, starting to aim at the distant target, and gradually slowly moving upward.
Until the front sight exceeded the upper edge of the target, already aiming at the earthen barrier behind it, he then began controlling the left-right sway.
When shooting at targets beyond the limited range, the bullet exceeded the pre-adjusted drop amount of the front sight, and the kinetic energy loss would exacerbate the parabola amplitude.
The muzzle had to be a certain distance above the target to ensure the bullet could hit the goal.
As for exactly how much distance above the target, since accuracy was measured in units of 1 millimeters, it could only rely completely on individual experience and skill.
Cheng Cai himself hadn’t comprehended the skill and experience, but he had Chen Jun, this good mentor, to teach him.
Adhering to intentional aiming, unintentional firing.
“Bang~”
Cheng Cai fired.
His shooting speed at the target was the same as others, with very slow intervals between each shot.
Cheng Cai himself fired slower than other competitors, and the intervals between shots were also relatively long, which caused everyone else to finish shooting while Cheng Cai was still continuing.
He still had two bullets left to shoot, and everyone was watching him continue.
Fortunately, Cheng Cai’s talent was released, allowing him to fully immerse his attention in shooting at the target, casting aside everything external, without being affected by the outside world.
However, with only Cheng Cai still shooting, he became the focus of the entire venue.
Seeing the military rank on Cheng Cai’s shoulder, which turned out to be that of a private who had just enlisted this year, suddenly everyone in the whole audience couldn’t stay calm.
The difficulty of pistol shooting at the target was obvious at a glance; even veteran soldiers and cadres with years of experience would miss the target.
What could a new recruit do?
Just come up to make up the numbers?
The competitors and cadres from other companies below all had not even a shred of confidence in Cheng Cai, all thinking that there was definitely a good show to watch next.
This rookie was absolutely going to break the record, the kind that breaks it in reverse.
He might even shoot all misses for 0 points.
That would be hilarious then.
Regiment Commander Wang, whose face was already very dark, saw that there was actually a new recruit going up, his complexion turned from black to dark green, suppressing his anger as he asked: “That soldier, that private, which company is he from?”
The nearby chief of staff, political commissar, and a group of staff officers looked at each other in bewilderment.
They all didn’t know.
They waited a full several seconds.
Just as Regiment Commander Wang was about to lose his temper, the training section chief who had been frantically flipping through the roster finally found the information in the military rank column.
He quickly stood up and answered: “Report to the regiment commander, this private is named Cheng Cai, from Steel Seventh Company.”
“Steel Seventh Company?”
“Seventh Company?”
“Reconnaissance Company’s?”
The grandstand collectively exclaimed in surprise, somewhat unable to believe it.
You know, Steel Seventh Company was in the entire 702 Regiment, famously a gathering place for elite soldiers, where every random pick was a fine soldier, each one a desirable top-notch one.
For such a company full of gods, to let a new recruit obtain the competition qualification, stepping on dozens of veteran soldiers underfoot.
This was truly unbelievable!
They couldn’t figure it out even racking their brains!
“What trick is that kid Gao Cheng playing?”
Regiment Commander Wang also couldn’t figure out the reason, but he understood Gao Cheng better than anyone, knowing that he valued the company’s honor more than anyone, and absolutely wouldn’t mess around.
Since he selected this new recruit for the competition, there must be his reasons.
“This Cheng Cai seems to be the one who shot full rings and got third-class merit during the new recruit assessment, right.” The political commissar suddenly realized and said.
After the political commissar’s reminder, everyone’s expressions changed again.
They all stared at Cheng Cai thoughtfully.
At this moment, Cheng Cai finally finished his five bullets, completed inspecting the gun, stood up and reported, then began following the lead soldier back to the preparation area.
Because of this new recruit Cheng Cai’s appearance, this target reporting had an extra bit of different anticipation.
“Target number one, 4 shots 31 rings…”
The sixteenth competitor was like the previous ones, with unremarkable results nothing worth seeing, but from this moment on, everyone perked up their ears.
“Target number two, five shots 48 rings…”
“Ah——”
As soon as Cheng Cai’s results were announced from the loudspeaker, exclamations of surprise rang out throughout the martial arts competition venue, everyone extremely surprised by this result.
The best among the previous sixteen cadres and veteran soldiers was only five shots 42 rings.
And this new recruit Cheng Cai actually shot 48 rings.
Crushing all veteran soldiers and cadre competitors!
“Good kid, I was wondering why Old Seven picked a new recruit, turns out this kid really has some skills, this result basically, no, definitely has steadily taken first place.” The chief of staff shouted.
“Worthily the new recruit who got third-class merit, his performance is indeed outstanding, what a fine soldier seedling.” The political commissar also exclaimed repeatedly.
“Haha, Gao Cheng ah Gao Cheng, you this guy hid it deep enough, fished up such a good treasure this year, yet still ran to my office to play pitiful and give me attitude, turns out it was all to fool me.”
Regiment Commander Wang was cursing Gao Cheng with his mouth, but the smile on his face was exceptionally brilliant.
With this 48 rings result as the base, the pistol project going to the division level really had competitiveness, no need to lose face anymore.
Regiment Commander Wang could finally breathe a sigh of relief!
Contending for honor was of course something that couldn’t be given up, but under this premise, they absolutely couldn’t lose face; even if they couldn’t get honor, they had to preserve face.
The leaders on the grandstand exchanged praises, and the competitors and cadres from various companies below also exclaimed in various ways.
And Gao Cheng, as the object of others’ envy, at this time began exposing his “true nature”, not pretending at all, raising his neck arrogantly.
As if proclaiming to everyone present—
Me, Gao Cheng, this time I’m here to dominate the leaderboard, this is merely just the beginning, the good show is still to come, wait to be wildly abused and beaten by my Seventh Company.
“Look at Old Seven’s smug look, he’s just lucky to have picked up a treasure, really thinks he’s hot stuff, you’ll see later.”
As the Red Third Company commander who took first place last year, Company Commander Huang Yang was very unconvinced.
“Exactly, a new recruit shooting this well, definitely because this new recruit has sharpshooter talent, has nothing to do with him as company commander, just picked up a bargain, as for the others, heh, still the same as always, this year’s regiment competition first place will definitely still be our Third Company’s.”
The accompanying quartermaster strongly supported his own company commander, confident in defending the regiment competition first place, with a brilliant smile on his face, no pressure at all.
Little did they know.
This smile wouldn’t last long, and would soon be shattered to pieces like thunder by a result that shocked everyone, one he didn’t even dare to imagine.
And that person was Chen Jun.
Under the impulse of Cheng Cai’s outstanding results, almost no one paid attention to the results of the fifth group of competitors, all discussing this new recruit Cheng Cai as it passed.
When the last sixth group of five competitors went up, there still weren’t many people below paying attention.
Still immersed in Cheng Cai’s stunning debut, everyone was discussing Cheng Cai, and no one believed there would be better results appearing.
Except for the people from Steel Seventh Company who were still anticipating, because they knew who the “final BOSS” was.
Everyone else in the whole audience tacitly believed that Cheng Cai’s single event first place was already locked.
No suspense at all!!
It was in this inattentive atmosphere that Chen Jun and the other four competitors completed preparation, entered the shooting positions, and began shooting at the target.
