Chapter 12: Sniper's Breathing

Malan randomly placed chess pieces on the chessboard. Lei Zhen must remember each piece within one minute and put them back in their original position.

It was on this small chessboard that Lei Zhen knew what fuzzy memory was.

When a person's eyes see something, they will never completely pass things to the brain like a camera taking a photo, but will be selective.

To give a simple example, it is like we know a person's appearance and can also recognize him at a glance, but if we give ourselves a pen and a piece of paper, it is difficult to draw the person's voice, appearance, and smile.

Because until then, you will find that you may only remember that the person's nose is tall, his eyes are deep, his eyebrows are thick, and his face is hard and masculine, but you can't combine these elements intact.

Because there are too many details you ignore. In other words, the image of this person is just a picture that is filled with local details and highlights, plus your own subconscious thinking, and pieced together!

This kind of vague memory is an instinct for organisms to reduce brain load, but for a sniper who may be attacked by an enemy at any time from a distance and will dance with the god of death if he is negligent, who dares to use a rough, maybe, like this word?

When two snipers meet on the battlefield, what tests them is shooting skills, breathing control skills and ability to grasp the environment.

No wonder the Germans, who have always been known for their rigidity and rigor, can train the best snipers in the world!

By constantly remembering randomly arranged chess pieces and putting them back to their original positions, it is an intensive training that can overcome fuzzy memory.

Of course, geniuses in this world are a very rare genius after all, and people's memory is limited.

Therefore, a qualified special combat expert, the best way for them to remember the battlefield terrain in the shortest time is to superimpose their memory and the terrain map they draw casually!

These methods are simple to say, but it is definitely not an easy task to apply them to the practical field and integrate them into your instincts.

"I don't care what method you use, in short, you must be able to do it within one minute. Remember all the random chess pieces."

Malan has high standards and strict requirements.

"I don't care how much time you take to do this, but it doesn't matter. You can soak in the mud and study slowly until you can pass my assessment."

Needless to ask, this is a threat, a naked threat!

"But I think it's up to you, Lei Zhen, this first level of entry will definitely not stump you.

When you pass the test and have a certain foundation, I will teach you various skills and practical techniques. If you are really good at learning and making rapid progress, you can win time for yourself.

I can even teach you how to make the simplest rifle and grenade yourself.”

Malan's trick is called seducing it to benefit.

No matter what, Lei Zhen was destined to sleep in the mud that night. Lei Zhen really didn't know that such a trench filled with mud and mixed with rotten animals' internal organs.

It is called the "vomiting trench" in the special forces, and is a unique prop for them to welcome new recruits into the army.

No one can vomit in such a trenches. Even if there are very few new recruits who are strong in their will, once someone can't help but vomit, a chain reaction will immediately occur.

Those special forces instructors want to crack down on these young people with good qualities and abilities in terms of physical and will, but also arrogant because of their excellence. Let them lower their heads and show a modest and studious expression.

Moreover, these new recruits vomited together and made a fool of themselves in public. Naturally, they would feel that everyone shared hardships from the bottom of their hearts. Although they were very taboo in the military camp, as long as the instructors were guided by a little, it would be easy for them to form a whole.

Generally, recruits only need to soak in such an inhumane vomiting trench for two or three hours at most. When they even vomit all the sour water in their stomachs. If they become wilted, the instructor will naturally let them escape from the sea of ​​suffering.

But Lei Zhen did not play cards according to the first shocking education class that Malan gave him. He just soaked in it for several hours without vomiting, and even ate his dinner in such a place with great pleasure.

Faced with such an alien and a pervert, what else can I be polite to this teacher Ma Lan?!

From this day on, Lei Zhen slept in this vomiting trench every night.

Of course, considering that soaking in mud for twenty-four hours a day is definitely not a good behavior for health, and proper sports must be performed, Malan will suddenly appear in front of Lei Zhen from time to time, asking him to jump out immediately, carry a wooden stake weighing dozens of kilograms, and run a long-distance race around the military camp for ten kilometers.

People who have never had this kind of experience will never imagine that when their clothes are soaked in mud, they will jump up and run for a long-term running with weights, which makes them feel smooth and greasy.

After running all the way, as sweat continues to seep out of the unblocked pores of the body, the body temperature continues to increase, the slowly evaporated smell is even more exciting. The worst thing is that when you run to the end, your physical fitness has reached its limit and you must breathe in big mouthfuls to prevent the lung lobes from squeaking and thrilling, no matter how careful you are, the mud mixed with sweat on your face will flow into your mouth 100%.

"We have been in anti-chemical operations, and that's the real wonderful thing. No matter how hot the weather is, we have to wear a gas mask on our faces and receive all kinds of training.

Once we were sent to the desert and we were wearing gas masks for a 20-kilometer off-road run. The instructor gave a death order. Whoever dared to take off the mask would shoot immediately.

As a result, many people are not adapted to the desert climate. Just when they are running, 30% of them have heatstroke, and some people have vomited nausea and vomited. They are watching the instructor and continue running while slowly drinking the things they vomited into the mask.

When they finally ran to their destination and could take off their gas masks, they immediately vomited again.

At that time, we claimed to be cows, because in this world, only animals like cows would ruminate, spit out what they had eaten from their stomachs, chewed them repeatedly before swallowing them back!"

Lei Zhen ran on the wooden stake while listening to Maranti dialect. At this time, Lei Zhen finally gradually understood what the special forces meant.

If you want to live longer than others on the battlefield and let the enemy die faster than yourself, all you need is to push yourself to the limit again and again in the training field, and you can even gain your life!

A week later, Lei Zhen could finally use the sketch he had drawn casually to remember the position of each piece on the chessboard, and climb out of the vomiting trench. He looked at him who had been rushing with the water pipe for more than an hour.

There was still a foul smell on his body. Malan nodded and suddenly asked: "Lei Zhen, I heard from Commander Xie about your performance in the battle in the Sixing Warehouse, in the eyes of ordinary people. You are also considered a sharpshooter.

Tell me how to get my gun to shoot accurately?”

"Stablize!"

Lei Zhen replied: "A good shooter must maintain absolute stability when shooting with a gun. Only in this way can accurate shooting be completed.

In order to make myself more stable when shooting with a gun, I often hang bricks on the barrel and then maintain a standing shooting posture to strengthen my arm strength and toughness.

"For an uninitiated person who has never been properly trained, you have done quite well. But with this alone, it is obviously a little difficult to hit a target of 800 meters or even 1,000 meters away."

Malan said: "Since you like to hang bricks under the barrel to train your arm strength and stability. Then you should notice that as you exhale and inhale, the floor tiles will sway gently, right?"

Lei Zhen nodded vigorously, and the bricks hanging under the barrel would shaking, which means that no matter how he strengthened his arm strength and strengthened the stability between his body and the rifle, the barrel would still shake slightly. When firing a target within 200 meters.

This kind of small shaking is almost negligible. But if you want to snipe a target 800 meters away, such a subtle shaking will directly lead to the failure of the shooting.

"When a person inhales, his chest will expand, and when he exhales, his chest will contract. That is, during a breath, the gun you hold will produce a slight upward and downward pressure.

In other words, your barrel has been shaken up and down once, which may not be distinguishable by the naked eye. So you must learn to control your breathing!”

"I've tried this. When I was shooting, I tried to hold my breath and try to keep my arms from shaking.

"Lei Zhen said honestly: "But later I found that when I was practicing myself, my shooting effect was pretty good, but when I was actually using it, the effect would be greatly reduced."

Malan smiled, "Come with me."

Walking out of the room with Lei Zhen, Malan pointed to the cross erected on a Western-style building in the distance and said, "It is about a thousand meters away from us. Can you see clearly?"

Lei Zhen nodded. The target Malan chose was definitely not aimless. The size and distance of the cross were just stuck at the critical point in their sight.

I just received a special training in the vomiting trenches for a week and had to concentrate all my attention to see all the details of the cross.

"Okay, now please hold your breath and continue to look at that cross."

After holding his breath for more than ten seconds, Lei Zhen couldn't help but reach out and rub his eyes, because in his sight, the cross that could barely see the details was slowly integrated into the blur in the distance in front of his eyes.

Malan, who had been paying attention to Lei Zhen's every move, nodded slightly. She had to admit that Lei Zhen once again gave her a small accident.

According to human physiological characteristics, when observing the target at the critical point of sight, once you hold your breath, after eight to ten seconds, the sight will attenuate due to the decrease in the oxygen content in the blood.

It took Lei Zhen a full twelve seconds before a confused expression appeared on his face, which shows that when Lei Zhen held his breath, his body's stability and physiological functions were longer than normal people.

"Do you understand? After you hold your breath for a while, your vision will be affected. It's just that the target you usually shoot does not exceed the limit of your vision, so you didn't pay attention.

When you are practicing shooting, the target is placed by yourself. Even if you don’t need to observe in advance, you will know the approximate location of the target. This way, you can pull the trigger and shoot the bullet before your eyesight decreases.

In actual combat, you obviously cannot effectively regulate your breathing. When you are looking for and locking your target, you have begun to hold your breath subconsciously. When you really pull the trigger, your vision may have been affected and directly lead to a slight deviation.

”

Lei Zhen nodded repeatedly, and Malan told him that it was the problem that he was puzzled.

"Here, I want to teach you a few techniques to adjust your breathing so that when you hold your breath, you can maximize your body stability.

First of all, you must understand that the reason why your vision becomes lowered is because the oxygen in the blood is constantly consumed after you hold your breath. So before sniping a long-distance target.

You need to take a deep breath first, increase the oxygen content in your blood, and extend the time you can maintain the best vision as much as possible.

Malan put the index finger, middle finger and ring finger of her right hand on Lei Zhendi's left wrist. While she counted the number of times Lei Zhen's pulse beat in her heart, she stared at her watch.

After the second hand on the watch was circling the needle, Malan said: "No wonder you can keep your eyes stable for twelve seconds after holding your breath. The average heartbeat of a normal person is seventy-five times per minute, but you only have fifty-eight times.

It has almost reached the level of professional athletes. It is because your heart's oxygen supply capacity is stronger than that of normal people, so you hold your breath and your vision can still remain clear for a longer time.

I don't know if you have noticed that there is a brief pause before exhaling the air in your chest and re-inhaving, which is a very natural pause.

At this time, you will naturally enter a breath holding state, and at the same time your body will also achieve the most stable state.

There are two seconds for this natural breathing pause for a normal person. If I don’t make the estimation wrong, you should have a natural breathing pause of two to five seconds. “

"Of course, it is very difficult to ask you to lock the target and shoot within three seconds. So you can exhale the air in your lungs and enter the natural breathing pause. Then deliberately hold your breath.

In this way, you have the most accurate shooting time of fifteen seconds, and you can completely adjust your state during this period. Continue to adjust your state until your body enters the most stable state, and then pull the trigger."

Facing Lei Zhen's shiny eyes, Malan smiled and said, "Excellent snipers will use this empty lung technology that extends breathing naturally pauses to achieve stability when sniping long-range targets, especially when using rifles with sniper lenses to conduct long-range high-precision strikes.

As long as you practice hard, I believe you will be able to break through the bottle path of your original shooting skills soon.”

"I took a deep breath first to increase the oxygen content in my blood. Then, after exhaling the air, I deliberately breathed and shot bullets at the target within fifteen seconds... Hey, it's not right!"

Lei Zhen turned his head suddenly, looked at Malan and said, "When we broke through the Sihang Warehouse, you shot three searchlights in a row on the new garbage bridge. Those searchlights were 800 meters away from us. If you want to hit such a far-reaching target, of course you used breathing control technology.

But if you were taking the gun and falling, you didn’t have time to prepare, and you didn’t have time to take a deep breath first, then exhale, and use this empty lung technology.”

"Yes, empty lung technology can provide the body with maximum stability, but at the same time, it also takes a considerable amount of preparation time. It is only suitable for ultra-long-distance snipers.

However, in the battlefield where the enemy and our forces are mixed, the situation can be said to be changing rapidly. We often meet the enemy in a narrow road and fight an unprepared encounter.

At this time, as a sniper, the biggest task is to use accurate and fast shooting to suppress the light and heavy machine guns equipped by the opponent's firepower team.

When fighting this kind of encounter, the distance between the two sides will not exceed 400 meters at most. When I determined the enemy situation and judged that the enemy and us were about to exchange fire, I began to take a deep breath. When I raised my rifle to put it on my shoulder to form the most stable triangular support point, I had already held my breath and could pull the trigger at any time.

”

Lei Zhen widened his eyes, "In this case, haven't you had time to spit out the air in your lungs, nor did you enter that natural breath holding state?"

“Yes, in this case, there will be about half of the air in my lung lobes, so this breath control technique that sacrifices part of the stability in exchange for flexible response is called the ‘half-pulmonary’ technique.

If you have been trained for a long time, you can already treat the rifle as a part of your body in consciousness, and have the absolute confidence that you can hit it with one shot once you raise a gun. This kind of "half-lung" shooting technology with flexible reaction can achieve the high-precision sniper effect that will only be achieved when using empty lung technology.

”

Malan looked at Lei Zhen and said in a deep voice: "With your talent and understanding of shooting, you can master the empty lung technology in less than a month, but this semi-lung shooting technology will take at least two years to temper it, and you also need to shoot at least five thousand bullets on the shooting range to truly master its true meaning.
Chapter completed!