Chapter 7 Gun
Himmelstoss woke up Lu Mingfei and his group and asked them to gather outside the barracks. When Lu Mingfei thought that Himmelstoss was going to train them to salute again, Himmelstoss actually took them to the armory to collect their guns.
The Prussian standard rifle G98 was longer and heavier than Lu Mingfei had expected. He touched the gun he had just received with some excitement. After all, no big boy could refuse such a big toy. Besides, it was extremely difficult for him to touch such a real gun where he used to live.
This should be the second time that Lu Mingfei touched a real gun. The first time was during military training in his freshman year of high school, when he fired a few shots with a Type 95 submachine gun. Since then, his only knowledge of guns has been through movies and games.
"The gun is your second life on the battlefield! You must love it as much as you love your own life. If you lose your gun on the battlefield, then there is no reason for you to live."
"Before you learn to shoot, you must understand every part of the gun in your hand!"
When Lu Mingfei and his group of new recruits were excited about owning a real gun, Himmelstoss's words pulled them back from their excitement. He led Lu Mingfei and his group to several long tables.
"The structure of a gun consists of a barrel, bolt, trigger, stock, magazine, sights, and receiver. No one will maintain your guns for you all the time on the battlefield. A gun that can't be fired is no more useful than a fire stick!"
"So you must understand the firearms in your hands, know how to maintain them, and know how to repair them when they are damaged or jammed. Watch how I do it." Himmelstoss picked up a rifle and began to disassemble it part by part, and then reassembled it intact.
"Do as I just did!"
Lu Mingfei and his group began to dismantle their own guns in the same way that Himmelstoss had just dismantled the gun in his hand. Since most of them were touching a real gun for the first time, the movements of dismantling the guns were very unfamiliar.
Himmelstoss looked at how clumsy Lu Mingfei and the others were, and cursed them as a bunch of idiots.
"You bunch of idiots, the old lady next door can do better than you. If anyone can't completely disassemble the gun and put it back together before lunch, then he doesn't have to eat lunch. Useless people don't deserve to eat lunch!"
"Don't even think about being lazy or cheating. I'll come back to check!"
Himmelstoss's threat was still very effective. They had physical training in the afternoon. If they couldn't even eat lunch, who knows if they could survive the afternoon physical training.
After saying these words, Himmelstoss left to enjoy his breakfast.
Some recruits began to panic. Their already unfamiliar movements and nervousness caused some parts to fall to the ground. While they were squatting on the ground looking for the fallen parts, they disturbed other people. Those recruits who were originally disassembling the guns in an orderly manner also began to become flustered.
Lu Mingfei was originally recalling how Himmelstoss disassembled the gun, but he was suddenly bumped by another recruit who was squatting on the ground picking up spare parts. His mind went blank in an instant, and he completely forgot the steps of disassembling the gun that he had vaguely remembered.
Lu Mingfei was a little panicked. He still remembered the feeling of hunger last night and he didn't want to experience it again.
"Lu Mingfei, calm down, calm down..." He took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He solemnly stroked every corner of the gun in his hand, hoping to find a starting point.
As he devoted his body and mind to the task, his pupils silently began to turn light gold. No one noticed this change, not even Lu Mingfei himself.
As Lu Mingfei's pupils changed, he suddenly realized that the gun in his hand seemed to have turned into a three-dimensional model in his mind. In his mind, every part of the gun was constantly disassembled and reassembled, and gradually he began to know every part of the gun thoroughly.
Lu Mingfei tried to disassemble the gun in his hand according to the steps in his mind. His originally slow and clumsy movements instantly became smooth and flowing, even faster and better than what Himmelstoss had done just now.
He looked at his hands in disbelief. He took the gun apart and put it back together again, repeating this several times before he dared to believe that he had really done it.
At this moment, a gun barrel fell from the table to Lu Mingfei's feet, and a man squatted down to pick it up.
That was Kemmerich. He picked up the gun barrel from the ground, and then hurriedly stuffed the barrel into the half-filled gun, but it just wouldn't go in. His baby face was sweating with anxiety.
"Kemmerich, you installed it wrong." Lu Mingfei saw that Kemmerich had installed a part wrong, which caused the barrel to not fit in. He patted Kemmerich on the shoulder and took the gun from him.
"Kemmerich, this is how it should be installed." Lu Mingfei disassembled the gun that Kemmerich had half assembled, and then slowly demonstrated to Kemmerich the correct installation method step by step.
"Kemmerich, try again." Lu Mingfei placed the disassembled gun on the table and motioned Kemmerich to try again.
Kemmerich began to install according to Lu Mingfei's previous steps, and soon the disassembled gun was reassembled.
"I did it! Thank you, Hans!" Kemmerich said excitedly as he looked at the complete G98 rifle in his hand.
"It's nothing." Lu Mingfei scratched his face with some pride.
"Um...Hans, can you demonstrate it again?" Paul's voice came from the side, and Lu Mingfei realized that everyone around him was looking at him.
These people were attracted by Kemmerich’s cheers just now. They stared at Lu Mingfei with hopeful eyes, and Lu Mingfei felt a little embarrassed.
He disassembled the gun in his hand piece by piece and added his own explanation.
No one around spoke. He stared at the movements of Lu Mingfei's hands and listened carefully to Lu Mingfei's explanation.
After listening to Lu Mingfei's explanation, they began to disassemble and reassemble the guns in their hands. Lu Mingfei stood aside and watched them. If there was any mistake, Lu Mingfei would point it out immediately.
"After all this time, have you pigs figured out how to disassemble and install guns?"
"Now take down the guns in your hands and reassemble them! I will keep a close eye on you! If anyone fails to complete it, his lunch will be cancelled! Do you understand?" Himmelstoss's devil-like voice sounded again.
The contract is about to be signed. Friends who have not invested can invest.
(End of this chapter)
