"Want one?"
On the grass beside the shooting range, Jeffrey took out a box of chewing gum from his pocket and handed it to Zhuang Yan.
Shaking his head solemnly: "Thank you, I can't get used to your chewing gum."
Jeffrey smiled, poured one out and threw it into his mouth.
He knew that despite Zhuang Yan being polite to him in public, in fact...
The PLA veteran in front of me, like myself, must have had the opportunity to meet him at some point, but not on this occasion.
"First of all, I want to congratulate you. Your team seems likely to win first place." Jeffrey said modestly.
"Talk to me in private just to congratulate me?"
Zhuang Yan knew that people like Jeffrey would not really believe in congratulating the PLA, but he still followed his words.
Jeffrey laughed too.
They are all foxes of thousands of years, no one should play the role of Liaozhai.
"I still remember when your snipers went to participate in the international competition for the first time. We didn't participate, but I was an observer at the time and watched the whole process. I was deeply impressed."
Zhuang Yan smiled and said nothing.
"Back then, all you used were imitation guns, with an accuracy of over 3MOA. The results were abysmal, and you were treated as a living fossil joke. In the blink of an eye, you already had your own high-precision snipers, although they were still based on the Remington 700. It’s a bit of inspiration, but it’s there after all. I saw it and your gun is very good.”
Zhuang Yan said: "Progress will never stop."
Jeffrey was silent for a moment and suddenly said: "Zhuang, first of all, I am very grateful to you for lending us the electronic balance, but have you ever thought about it, if we hadn't unified the ammunition, your chances of winning would actually be very small."
Zhuang Yan smelled the arrogance in Jeffrey's words, and simply said bluntly: "There are not so many ifs. If we had your equipment when we resisted U.S. aggression and aided Korea, none of your 1st Marine Division would have been able to escape."
Jeffrey was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that Zhuang Yan would fight back so directly and forcefully.
Zhuang Yan continued: "Of course you didn't come to me to rekindle old friendship. We don't have a deep friendship. Let's just tell you. What do you want to do?"
Jeffrey hesitated for a moment, then spoke: "The second place is already a big improvement for you, isn't it?"
Zhuang Yan sneered in his heart, and finally showed his cards.
second?
runner up?
Really...
"No wonder you call it the United States. You think it's too beautiful." Zhuang Yan couldn't help but laugh: "You mean, you want us to listen to you and settle for second place instead of competing with you for first place? Why don't you start from that? Want to consider the problem from a better perspective? Wouldn’t it be better for us to compete benignly and fairly and speak based on our abilities?”
Jeffrey said: "How can there be fairness in this world? Especially between you and me, is there fairness? Don't be naive."
Zhuang Yan said: "Did you tell Lao Maozi and the others these words?"
Jeffrey shook his head: "They don't deserve our attention. They lost long ago."
Zhuang Yan said, "Then you think we will definitely listen?"
Jeffrey said: "The profession of sniper originated in our country, not you. The sniper profession you are learning now is also learned from us. What's more, looking around the world, among all the armies, the sniper profession is the most systematic and segmented. We are the most scientific, do you think you can win?"
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
He laughed solemnly, laughing so hard that he couldn't stand up straight.
Jeffrey looked at him smiling and asked after a long time: "Why are you laughing?"
Zhuang Yan said: "I laugh at you Americans who are really arrogant. First of all, I want to correct your statement. What you said is not entirely correct. There are three origin theories for the sniper profession. One is that it originated in the United Kingdom and originated in 1773. A game played by British soldiers stationed in India around the time where
Soldiers often hunted a small, agile bird called a Snipe. Because the bird is so difficult to hit, those who are good at it are called snipers in English. "
"The other theory is yours, which originated during the Civil War. The other theory originated from Germany during the First World War in Europe. As for who of you is right and who is wrong, I am not interested in knowing, but you are always stubborn It would be too arrogant to think that these are your patents and inventions."
Jeffrey's voice was colder than the rain: "No matter which origin theory you have, it was not created by you Chinese, was it?"
"No." Zhuang Yan kept smiling at first, but suddenly stopped laughing.
Jeffrey suddenly felt that the solemnity in front of him had changed. It suddenly became intimidating. The previous peace was gone, replaced by a steel-like coldness that made Jeffrey feel chilly.
"Modern snipers originated from the West. However, it does not mean that we in China do not have the concept of snipers, but we are not called snipers. China also has a long history, and there is also a long history of wars. Listen Have you ever heard of an idiom called "A hundred steps can pierce the Yang"? "
Of course Jeffrey didn't know, so he could only shake his head.
Zhuang Yan continued: "In the Spring and Autumn Period of ancient China, the general of Chu State adopted You Ji, who was a famous marksman. He could shoot through the willow leaves marking the mark from a hundred steps away, and once shot through seven layers of armor with one arrow. "Warring States Policy" It is recorded in "The Policy of the Western Zhou Dynasty": "There was a man in Chu named Yang Youji who was good at shooting. He could shoot at a willow leaf at a hundred paces and hit the target with hundred hits." This person's nickname was "raise an arrow", and one arrow was enough to win. If we look into it more deeply, Its essence is a sniper in the cold weapon age, isn't it? "
After hearing this, Jeffrey could only shake his head again.
Zhuang Yan said: "Don't think that you can overlook all living beings just because you have made brilliant achievements in modern times. The United States is only four hundred years old. How old is China? Five thousand years. In history, four hundred years is just a drop in the ocean, and it is only a short period. A moment. A moment of glory does not represent eternity. My friend, remember my advice. The United States is very powerful, but it will eventually die of its own arrogance."
Jeffrey's head was buzzing from the output of Zhuang Yan, and he found that the methods he could achieve in other places did not seem to work in front of the Chinese.
In the end, he had to put on his toughest stance: "Zhuang, we can cooperate, okay?"
"Cooperation?" Zhuang Yan laughed again: "What you mean by cooperation is that you are always number one and don't allow anyone to surpass you, right?"
Jeffrey thought for a while and finally admitted: "If you want to think so, that's right."
Zhuang Yan pointed to the shooting range in the distance: "We don't recognize your tactics. We only recognize our strength. We'll see you on the shooting range. Let your strength speak for itself."
Jeffrey spread his hands: "If that's the case, then it means we can't reach an agreement?"
Zhuang Yan said: "If we have different paths, we will not conspire against each other."
The two broke up unhappy.
Zhuang Yan stepped on the slippery grass and returned to the shooting range.
As soon as I arrived, I saw Zhong Zhipeng walking over with a dark face.
"I've long felt that I can't trust Lao Mei."
He said, handing over the electronic scale in his hand.
"Look, they sent it back, but it was damaged. They said the K country team borrowed it from them, and it was broken when they came back after borrowing it."
Zhuang Yan took it and looked at it, and found that there was a mark on the corner of the scale, which had obviously been dropped.
But this is grass. Unless it accidentally hits a stone, there will be no such traces.
He looked towards the seal and saw Jeffrey raising his hand, smiling and waving.
Haha, it seems that K country is taking the blame.
