“There’s sand in the throttle valve and manual insurance. There is no way to retreat. You must take the sand out first.” Ye Jian carefully checked the rifle and then told Crane the root cause of the moray rifle failure. She ignored Xia Jinyuan, who was taking glances at her.
When avoiding the army dog earlier, Pigeon fell directly into a bunker and accidentally had his rifle caught in the sands, resulting in a situation where the bolt was stuck.
A member of the Storm Platoon, code-named “Moray”, looked a little uncomfortable. Guns were the life for a soldier. Because of his one mistake, he had caused Pigeon’s rifle to have problems. He would take the initiative to receive necessary punishment when they returned later.
The careful Ye Jian noticed that he was feeling uncomfortable, but this was not a matter that she could console him. Failure to protect your own gun was equivalent to failure to protect your own life. It was normal that he was not in a good mood.
Ye Jian brushed out the fine sand and reassembled the gun. On the other side, Xia Jinyuan and Li Jinnian, who had been talking about their experiences, continued chatting, “The desert is much more dangerous than the Gobi. You’ll only risk yourself if you don’t do necessary preparations beforehand.”
“The desert is windy, the ground is soft, and dust storms can cause desert vortexes. How do you familiarize yourself with the characteristics of wind and sand and know the weather changes in advance? The only way you can know all these is when you walk into the desert or the Gobi, then you can truly master this skill with more experience.”
“Gobi and desert training mainly includes training in life, mobility, technology, tactics, and logistics. Logistics can be omitted directly this time, but the rest of the training is essential.”
Life training includes being familiar with the characteristics of wind and sand and the laws of weather changes. This was also the Storm Platoon’s weakness. They urgently needed to understand not only life training but also mobility, technology, and tactics training. They needed to understand all these in order to improve.
Li Jinnian listened very carefully, Xia Jinyuan also spoke in detail.
The mobility training this time mainly focused on how to march through the gravel and loose sand areas as quickly as possible and how to deal with environmental changes and emergencies, such as military dogs tracking and search!
Tactical training was to master the characteristics and principles of offensive and defensive combat in the Gobi and deserts and improve coordinated operations, like the joint formation of the two teams. This was to let them have experience in coordinated/joint training.
The two captains talked for about five minutes, and then Ye Jian’s voice came from the headset, “Everyone, check if there is any problem with your rifle. I suspect that the guns given to us by the military are all deliberately broken. There are already three rifles that are blocked with sands here.”
Every rifle had strict experiments in harsh environments such as wind and sand, and rain during their production. The rifle in their hands was also an advanced rifle. After being designed, they would be tested using the simulated wind that blew over 12 levels. And they would not only be tested once or twice but countless trial tests.
Now they had just run wildly in the Gobi with their rifles, and yet, three rifles were already blocked with fine sand… This was too odd! How could a rifle that had been rigorously tested be easily blocked by fine sand.
That was why Ye Jian immediately knew that it was the military’s plan.
As soon as she fell silent, a minute later, several voices gave their feedback,…no doubt, their guns all had problems!
“So ruthless! They even give us broken guns! Now I’m sure that there must be an ambush in front!” J5 said with a smile; even his voice was full of excitement, leaving only his cold expression on his painted face.
