Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 1029 - 1022: Shooting a Willow Leaf from a Hundred Paces

Chapter 1029: Chapter 1022: Shooting a Willow Leaf from a Hundred Paces

"All units, take your battle positions, check your weaponry, and prepare for combat," Luo’er released Taran’s cheek and stood up to loudly command.

"Captain Luo’er, do you need our help?" Axia and Eve took a step forward, volunteering proactively.

After looking them up and down, Luo’er considered that this was a battle where their side held an absolute advantage and decided to accept their offer, nodding and saying, "Then we will trouble you two."

"Thank you for your appreciation, Captain Luo’er!" Axia smiled, carrying her gun as she pulled Eve up onto the wall.

"Ah, to waste time on things like this..." Talis, standing at a distance with her arms crossed, wore an indifferent expression and muttered to herself.

"Feng, as the reserve team, you are not to attack without my command!" Luo’er turned around and instructed Feng.

"Understood!" Feng obediently nodded his head and then stood still in place holding his knife like a wooden stake.

"Fula, this is a defensive battle, your command scope is rather small, so I will handle the commands now. You are responsible for reconnaissance and communication, and by the way, learn how this kind of battle is fought," Luo’er said, looking towards the sky.

"Right, I’ll listen to you, Luo’er!" Fulajie’er answered.

"Very good." Luo’er nodded in satisfaction and then climbed up the wall.

Standing atop the wall, he saw a flat expanse of farmland where Meila villagers had planted crops after clearing the area of trees, providing the village with some income.

However, the trees in this region had clearly been cut back quite harshly. Extending from the wall for nearly one kilometer, all the trees had been cleared. On the ground, there were targets set up to act as marks, and Luo’er roughly estimated that the distance from the wall to the forest’s edge exceeded eight hundred yards.

Therefore, he couldn’t help but ask in surprise, "Why are the trees in this area cut so far back, all the way to beyond eight hundred yards?"

"Oh," Taran explained, "since the Beastmen often attack from this direction, Grandpa said to cut them back further so it would be easier for us to aim with more time."

"Did you just, hit the Beastman in the forest?" Luo’er suddenly thought of something and turned his head to ask him.

"Eh, I don’t know if I hit him, yes, it was brother Cheng Ziang who said I hit..." Taran hesitated for a moment, then said somewhat embarrassedly.

"Not bad marksmanship at that range, hitting a target at eight hundred yards!" Cheng Ziang continued to chew on his coarse bread, shrugging as he spoke.

"Indeed..." Luo’er nodded in agreement. At a distance of eight hundred yards, he couldn’t ensure he would hit the target with a single shot, let alone Taran with a bolt-action rifle.

On the other hand, Taran was using a Lee-Enfield Rifle loaded with full-powered rifle cartridges, which were certainly more powerful than the intermediate cartridges used by the Advance Team with their Type 47s, and the trajectory would be relatively straighter, so it made sense that he was able to hit the target.

"Hehe, thanks for the compliment, Brother Luo’er." Taran scratched his head and grinned shyly, then continued to prop his rifle on the wall.

Luo’er noticed that the exterior of the wall had varied heights, with many shooting positions arranged where the militia of the rabbit-ear tribe were accustomed to placing their guns for firing.

"Taran, that rifle is boring to play with. Come here, let me show you something good!" Hu Daoke, sitting on a small stool, had set up a light machine gun at the firing position, and waved Taran over with a beckoning shout.

Because the wall was designed with Sub-beastmen in mind, it was generally low, so Hu Daoke, a tall and big man, seemed quite awkward standing on it. He had to find a small stool to sit and defend.

"Big brother, what good stuff do you have?" Taran asked as he came over, struggling a bit to reach him after slinging the rifle over his shoulder.

"Come, come, put that gun down and I’ll let you use something nice!" Hu Daoke patted his shoulder, then picked up a Browning automatic rifle from the side of the wall. He had brought the gun all the way from Snow Domain and couldn’t bear to sell it.

"This is, ah, so heavy..." Hu Daoke handed the rifle to Taran, who almost dropped it on his foot after taking it.

"It’s heavy, but it’s good stuff!" Hu Daoke said, kindly helping to unfold the Browning’s bipod and set it up on the shooting position on the wall.

"This thing, how do I use it, I can’t find the bolt..." Taran held the gun and looked it over, checking around the tail of the machine gun, but couldn’t find a structure like that of a bolt-action rifle.

"The bolt is on the side, pull it hard, hey, that’s right, then lean forward with your body, press your shoulder firmly against the stock, yes, yes, yes!" Hu Daoke tirelessly instructed beside him.

"Adjust the sight, fire two shots to try it out!" Hu Daoke pointed at the distant target and said.

"Oh!" Taran responded and began to fumble with adjusting the machine gun’s sight. Despite not being very familiar with this gun, he seemed to know exactly what to do with the sight adjustment.

"The target is at eight hundred yards, fire two shots to try it out!" Hu Daoke pointed at the distant target and said.

"Two shots?" Taran turned his head, asking with some bewilderment.

"It’s an automatic weapon; just pulling the trigger will keep it firing, you should have seen this before," Hu Daoke explained.

"This, isn’t this a waste of bullets?" Taran said uneasily.

"Hey, as long as you hit your target, it’s not a waste!" Hu Daoke waved off the concern.

He didn’t tell Taran about fire suppression because for them, bullets were very scarce, and fire suppression tactics were typically used by well-armed forces. The Advance Team always managed to ensure ammunition supply, so they took fire suppression for granted, but it was a different story for the rabbit-eared militia.

"No worries, I have plenty of bullets here, just fire away," Hu Daoke added.

"Oh..." Taran nodded hesitantly and then got into position to shoot. His stance was still slightly flawed, so Hu Daoke helped him adjust.

"Ready, fire!" Hu Daoke ordered.

Following his command, Taran pulled the trigger without hesitation. Experiencing an automatic weapon for the first time, he had no concept of burst fire and simply pulled the trigger all the way down. The Browning emitted a continuous and thunderous noise as bullets were rapidly expelled, splattering against the ground beyond eight hundred yards, kicking up tall columns of dirt.

"Wow!!" Taran couldn’t immediately get used to the continuous and massive recoil of the Browning and was nearly knocked down, just barely caught by Hu Daoke.

"Wow, that was scary; I feel like I wasted all the bullets," Taran said with a guilty expression.

"Hey, no big deal, no big deal, this happens to everyone at the start!" Hu Daoke laughed heartily, rubbing Taran’s fluffy long ears to comfort him.

Saying this, he took out a box of Springfield ammunition from the backpack leaning against the wall and handed it to Taran, "Here, I’ll teach you how to load the bullets next. If you graduate, I’ll give you this gun!"

"Really?" Taran’s eyes widened, asking excitedly.

"Of course, my word is bond!" Hu Daoke patted his chest and said.

"Enemy approaching, stay alert, but there’s no need to be too tense, only open fire when the enemy enters within a hundred yards!" At that moment, Luo’er’s calm command was heard nearby.

Hu Daoke looked outside and saw dozens of figures stealthily approaching the wall; he picked up binoculars and took a look. The fierce visage of the Beastmen made him feel sick and also deeply ashamed to be a Half-beastman.

"Never mind them, continue reloading. You’ll watch me shoot later; you don’t need to fire!" Hu Daoke turned back and waved at Taran.

"Eh, not us?" Taran pointed at himself and asked.

"Now the elites of the Advance Team come out in full force to help you kill the enemy. These enemies are just appetizers. Don’t worry about them; one of us can take care of them all. Come on, I’ll teach you how to load the bullets; in the future you also need to learn how to use automatic weapons!" Hu Daoke said with a wave of his hand.

"All units, check your weapons and ammo, don’t stick your heads out recklessly; only poke them out to shoot when enemies are within a hundred yards, aim to annihilate the enemy forces!" Luo’er leaned against the wall, continuing to command.