Chapter 164: Selecting Weapons
It wasn’t just the Ostrich who couldn’t resist his curiosity; even Chang Ning, who always prided himself on being steady, crowded together with everyone else, heads huddled, peering at the white paper in Geng Jihui’s hand to see what medicine Gao Zhong Dui was selling in his gourd.
It clearly stated the training start time and their early mission as the Blue Team. As for annihilating the Red Team or holding out for half an hour under the Red Team’s attack, those were their ultimate missions.
The outline specified that they, as the Blue Team military unit simulating foreign military, had an early mission to kidnap a hostage from a team of people.
But the specific details, like the identity and location of the hostage they were to kidnap, weren’t written.
“I thought it would tell us something, but there’s nothing. It’s covered way too tightly.”
After reading the content on the paper, the Ostrich was immediately greatly disappointed, muttering under his breath.
“Actually, it’s not bad. At least it told us the confrontation start time and the early work.”
Xiao Zhuang didn’t show any worry at all. His little eyes scanned back and forth between Geng Jihui and Chang Ning a few times.
In his view, if the sky fell, there would be tall people to hold it up. He was just a little Assault Specialist.
With Chang Ning and Geng Jihui, the two big shots in the team, what was there to fear!
“It’s fine. After all, this confrontation training is aimed at assessing us. They can’t reveal all the intelligence to us.
This situation is the most normal.”
Chang Ning said, just as he himself had said, there was nothing to complain about. The most important thing now was to discuss their respective firepower allocation.
“Indeed, as Chang Ning said, now is not the time to worry about how much intelligence Gao Zhong Dui revealed to us.”
Geng Jihui beside Chang Ning fully agreed with Chang Ning’s statement.
“Heh heh, I told you the Ostrich has small brain capacity, but he just doesn’t believe it.”
Noticing the slightly awkward atmosphere around everyone, the Medic chuckled and teased the Ostrich.
“You damn Medic, if you don’t tease me, you feel uncomfortable all over, right?”
The Ostrich was also quick-witted and played along with the Medic, pretending to make a move to hit him.
The scene gradually turned into a chaotic mess.
Everyone happily joined in the playful fun. As long as the leader wasn’t there and the Military Police didn’t see, there wouldn’t be any trouble.
Besides, they were soldiers, not killing machines. If all of Wolf Fang’s combat personnel had an unapproachable demeanor, it would be suffocating.
Living and training in such an environment, it wouldn’t take long to go crazy.
Not to mention Chang Ning who had a cheat, anyone in such an environment couldn’t stay long.
With the Medic’s interruption, the awkward atmosphere completely dissipated.
“Alright, stop messing around. We still have serious business to do.”
Tomorrow the Red vs. Blue confrontation would start. Recently, he’d heard Ma Da and Gao Zhong Dui hint openly and covertly that this Lone Wolf Red vs. Blue confrontation training seemed to have a big impact on Wolf Fang’s future, which put enormous pressure on Geng Jihui’s heart invisibly.
“Relax, tomorrow no matter the result, as long as we show our strength, it’s fine.
Wolf Fang’s future isn’t for a little Team Leader like you to worry about.”
Seeing Geng Jihui in low spirits, Chang Ning figured out what he was thinking with a little thought.
It wasn’t that Chang Ning was so amazing; as long as two people were familiar and understood each other enough, guessing each other’s thoughts wasn’t hard.
“I got it.”
His inner thoughts were seen through by his comrade, and Geng Jihui wasn’t good at sharing. He didn’t want Chang Ning to worry about him, so he gave Chang Ning a somewhat forced smile.
Facing huge pressure, making him smile brightly and sincerely at such a time was obviously too much for him.
Fine!
Seeing Geng Jihui’s expression, Chang Ning knew he’d spoken in vain. The pressure in this guy’s heart was no small matter.
Hearing the Team Leader’s call, the Ostrich, the Medic, and others who had been laughing and playing around immediately gathered.
The seven sat in a circle on the grass.
“Tell me what weapon equipment you need, so I can report it up.
If we’re late and the weapon equipment doesn’t meet this confrontation training’s requirements, causing a delay and making Wolf Fang lose face in front of the Leader, that would be a big deal.”
Geng Jihui looked serious, wanting everyone to recognize the severity of this event.
Gao Zhong Dui had mentioned in advance that the Blue Team would use foreign military weapons and equipment this time. There were many good foreign military weapons, which dazzled Chang Ning and the B Group crowd, and they still hadn’t chosen their weapons.
They hadn’t expected that one day they’d be troubled by having too many good weapons.
In all their time since enlisting, this was the first time fighting with such abundance.
“Chang Ning, you go first.”
After waiting a long time with no one speaking, Geng Jihui had no choice but to pick on Chang Ning.
“Xiao Geng, there are too many good weapons, I don’t know what to pick. How about we go to the armory tomorrow to choose?”
Chang Ning probed.
“You think pretty, huh, neat!”
Geng Jihui couldn’t help rolling his eyes at Chang Ning. This guy really dared to think. Gao Zhong Dui hadn’t said they could freely pick from the armory.
Without He Da Dui’s permission, even Gao Zhong Dui himself couldn’t enter the arms dealing heavy ground.
“Then HK416.”
After thinking it over, Chang Ning still chose this world-famous gun. Who could blame it being 2006 now.
He wanted to choose the SCAR, either light or heavy version. This gun could be modified into sniper form, matching his shooting mastery perfectly.
Unfortunately, SCAR only started small-batch production in July 2007; he couldn’t get it now.
Not to mention the performance of SCAR and HK416, just their slender gun body designs hit Chang Ning’s aesthetics right away.
With the system’s shooting mastery support, Chang Ning could maintain sufficient lethality within any gun’s effective range, so he valued the gun’s looks highly.
Moreover, all those world-famous guns had looks that held up; every one was handsome.
After recording Chang Ning’s request, Geng Jihui looked at the others. Their requests varied, but everyone’s choices were similar.
Chang Ning, Xiao Zhuang, and Qiang Zi all chose HK416. Lao Pao, as the Demolitionist and firepower hand, chose Russia’s PKS.
This gun was similar to our army’s 80-style machine gun, which he was used to handling.
The Medic’s choice puzzled everyone a bit; he picked the AK-74.
Seeing everyone’s puzzled looks, the Medic chuckled, “You know my old man is the dean at the General Hospital air force total institute, so I often saw some guns as a kid.
Especially the 81 bar, so familiar I couldn’t be more familiar.”
Hearing this, everyone understood. It was the same situation as Lao Pao.
Considering the Medic was the Ostrich’s Observer, Chang Ning still suggested: “Think about it again, choose a sniper rifle.”
“The training outline Gao Zhong Dui gave us states clearly that for this confrontation, we only need the Ostrich as one Sniper.
Pulling me out adds one more firepower point, increasing our winning probability.”
The Medic rejected Chang Ning’s suggestion.
Seeing the Medic had made up his mind, Chang Ning didn’t persuade further.
When it was the Ostrich’s turn, this guy chose a TAC-50.
Chang Ning’s face darkened immediately, and Geng Jihui punched him.
This guy didn’t even look at the situation, picking TAC-50 regardless.
This was a high-precision sniper rifle, using rotating bolt action, magazine capacity 5 rounds, total weight 11.8 kg.
Just from these specs, it wasn’t suitable for this confrontation training: firing rate too slow, and heavy.
With the Ostrich’s stamina carrying the TAC-50, once they ran into Gao Zhong Dui’s team, it’d be delivering vegetables.
They were the Blue Team, playing foreign military kidnapping a hostage. The initiative wasn’t in their hands; carrying that weapon was no different from a live target.
With the Ostrich’s stamina, how long could he run carrying this gun? Once stamina depleted, how to deal with A Group.
This confrontation training had clear combat loss limits for their B Group.
Even if they annihilated A Group then, losses over half would still be a loss.
“Fine, fine, I’ll switch, alright!”
Since everyone disagreed, the Ostrich reluctantly replaced TAC-50 with M110.
Main weapons settled, the rest—camouflage uniform, bulletproof vest, steel helmet, handgun, hand grenade—didn’t need to be so strict; just go with everyone’s preferences.
