Snipers with strong skills were chosen to form a sniper group. Zhang Taofang worked hard and improved his shooting skills considerably. They approved him a member of a sniper group. On January 29, he aimed and fired immediately after he found an enemy, only to miss with 12 bullets. However, his action drew the fire from the enemy, which almost blasted him. Afterwards, he carefully analyzed why he failed and improved his shooting ability. He shot down one enemy the second day. As he accumulated experience and his shooting skills improved, an he shot an increasing number of enemies. On February 15, he hit 7 enemies with 9 bullets, which surpassed experienced snipers. As he improved his became encouraged as the greatest among his comrade in arms. Seventy-one of the enemy had been hit when he has been in the sniper group for 40 days using 240 bullets. Before long, the Position Quick News published the news that Zhang Taofang had shot 113 of the enemy.