When Father Fu saw Ye Jian standing at the shooting range with the other ten male soldiers, his eyes had a deep smile. Looking at his daughter, he seemed to see his wife’s sassy and heroic posture.
“Jian’er and her mother are really the same, but she looked a bit tougher than her mother. Back then, as long as Hong Mei was on the shooting range, the other male soldiers were a little afraid to pick up their guns.”
Standing aside, Father Fu watched Ye Jian quickly reload her gun while chatting with Principal Chen. He didn’t know how long Father Fu sat quietly last night. At 6 o’clock in the morning, after Ye Jian ran two laps, she saw Father Fu doing stretching and preparing for a morning jog.
Upon seeing this, Ye Jian, who had originally finished her morning run, simply accompanied her father. The two father and daughter ran for three kilometers. They only went to the cafeteria to eat together after they were soaked in sweat.
After the meal, Ye Jian changed into her usual training uniform and went to the shooting range with the ten male soldiers.
After Principal Chen’s reminder, Ye Jian only realized that she hadn’t practiced shooting moving targets for a long time. Ye Jian was initially worried that she would forget how to do it well, but when she picked up the rifle, the feeling of shooting suddenly surged in her hands. Even the rifle in her hands seemed to feel her blood surging, and it was as if it had come alive.
The moving target was not the only thing that was moving; the shooter was also moving because the shooter had to move together with the target’s position. Only this way, the bullet could be shot straight forward. In between, the shooter also had to reload and change guns.
The shooter had to use a rifle for long-range targets, a pistol for short-range targets, and sometimes the shooter needed to fire both guns at the same time to hit the target.
Today, Ye Jian and the others would be changing between rifles and pistols. Now they were standing shooting with rifles on their backs and pistols in their hands.
The sniper base was a place for training snipers. Since Principal Chen became the Chief Instructor, all the training methods had been changed.
He didn’t like fancy guns, wrong usage of guns, wrong postures, singular fire guns… After Principal Chen’s drastic transformation of the rules, even the coaches who served as snipers had devoted themselves to the new training methods.
Principal Chen was a world-class sniper; even if he had long retired from the army, he was still excellent and on point with his sniping skills.
Now Ye Jian and the others were standing at a 150-meter target position. They stood upright with one foot on the side, with the base of their thigh at a 35-degree angle, holding the gun with both hands, aiming at the target.
Principal Chen did not order them to fire yet, so a total of eleven snipers, including Ye Jian, had to maintain this posture motionlessly.
“Many troops tend to ignore the basic skills during the training period. And I immediately noticed this same problem when I came here. They had forgotten the basic skills and naively thought that they still knew the overall technical skill.”
“It was a naive thought and wrong behavior. I spent half a month directly letting them know that without basic skills, a sniper is basically a living target waiting for the enemy’s bullets.”
“When Ye girl was fourteen years old, she followed me and started practicing basic skills. Her wrists were not in the right form at first. I had her carry weights. She started with one kilogram in one hand first and then gradually increased to five kilograms. Now Ye girl can hold any kind of sniper rifle well because she had developed the right tactics early. With her body being able to work with conditioned reflex, no matter what kind of sniper rifle is in her hand, all of them would weigh the same to her. Even if it is a sniper rifle snatched from the enemy, she can still use it properly.”
Principal Chen deliberately let Father Fu know how Ye Jian used to train. He didn’t conceal anything at all.
As a father, it was only natural that he wanted to know everything about his daughter’s past. Principal Chen believed that there was nothing to hide from Father Fu.
