At the beginning of the shelling, Jetrov stood at the observation port of the observation center, raised his telescope to observe the hiding place of the joint sniper team. But he was shocked to see that they were destroyed in a few minutes under the joint attack of German mortar fire and snipers. He only thought that this army was not as good as his sniper team, but he did not expect that they were so vulnerable and that the entire army was destroyed without a single shot.
Seeing the soldiers lying under the enemy's artillery and guns, Jetrov was so angry that he wanted to order the light and heavy machine guns on the position to fire at the same time, strafing the places where the German snipers hid, avenging their sacrificed comrades, but he was worried that the German artillery fire would be retaliated against. Once the machine gun fire point on the position was destroyed by the enemy's artillery fire, if the enemy on the other side forced to cross the Jizdra River, it would be difficult for them to block with the thin firepower on the position.
After a fierce ideological struggle, rationality finally defeated the impulse. Jetrov called a correspondent soldier and told him: "Go and tell Sergeant Matvey that there is a German sniper opposite, and find a way to kill him." The correspondent soldier agreed, turned around and ran out. Jetrov told him from behind: "When running in the traffic trench, bend down and don't let the German snipers take you as a target."
After sending out the correspondents, Jetrov felt that the situation here should be reported to the Second and Third Battalions, so they were mentally prepared, so he called the Second Battalion Department again.
When he heard the call from Jetrov again, the second battalion commander asked impatiently: "Comrade Captain, do you have anything else?" When he recited the word "captain", he also intentionally emphasized his tone.
The anxious Jetrov did not care about the other party's tone, but said straight to the point: "Comrade Major, tell you a bad news. The hiding place of your sniper team was attacked by German mortar fire and has been wiped out."
"What, my sniper team has been wiped out?" The second battalion commander, who had a disdain on his face, jumped out of his seat after hearing the bad news. He asked with a tense face: "Comrade Captain, are you all saying true?"
"Yes, Major Comrade." Jetrov replied: "In addition to the German mortar fire, there were also German snipers. I saw two soldiers fall under the sniper's gun."
"Damn it, it's so hateful." The second battalion commander asked viciously when he heard this: "Captain Jetrov, what measures have you taken?"
"I have given orders to the sniper team to let them deal with the enemy's sniper as soon as possible." Jetrov guessed what the second battalion commander wanted to ask next, so he took the initiative to say: "In order to prevent the attack from German artillery fire, I did not let light and heavy machine guns strait the possible hidden places of the sniper."
When the second battalion commander was a little angry when he learned that Jetrov had not let the machine gun shoot the German snipers hiding, he was a little angry: "What, because you are worried about being hit by German artillery fire, you have no place for the snipers to order the machine gun to shoot the enemy. I want to go to the regiment commander to accuse you and ask him to give you the punishment you deserve." After saying that, he hung up the phone without waiting for Jetrov to speak again.
Although the second battalion commander said on the phone that he would report to the regiment commander, Jetrov did not take the matter seriously at all. After putting down the phone, he came to the lookout again, raised his telescope and looked at the hiding position of Matve and others, and saw if the communications soldiers he sent had reached the designated position.
In fact, it was not necessary for Jetrov to send a communications soldier to inform. Matve and others who were hiding at another sniper point also saw the scene of friendly troops being destroyed under enemy artillery fire. Thinking of the fact that if it were not for the sniper location I had chosen and were first taken by friendly troops, they would have fallen under artillery fire and sniper rifles at this moment. When I thought about this, the people in the sniper team were shocked and sweated.
Ajik, a sniper lying on the right side of Matvey, asked Matvey with a sad face: "Comrade Sergeant, what should we do? Will we continue to snipe the Germans opposite?"
Matvey glared at the other party and lowered his voice and said, "The order given to us by the superior is to kill the enemy on the other side of the river. Before ordering us to retreat, we must carefully execute this order from our superior."
At this time, Corporal Norma, a sniper lying on the left, suddenly shouted in a low voice: "Comrade Sergeant, look quickly, there is a jeep coming from the German position!"
When Matve heard Norma say this, he quickly looked to the other side. Sure enough, he saw a jeep driving along a pothole road towards the German position. Looking at the jeep that originally belonged to the Soviet army but is now driven by the German army, a thought suddenly popped up in Matve's mind: "There must be German officers in this car. If I could stop the car, I might kill the officers in the car." Thinking of this, he quickly turned his gun and aimed at the jeep in the distance.
"Comrade Sergeant," Norma couldn't help but ask curiously: "Are you going to snipe the target in the car?"
Matvi nodded slightly, and then ordered several other soldiers: "You should closely monitor the front of the German positions. If you see the sniper appear, kill him immediately."
After assigning the task, he focused on the right front tire of the Jeep. It was two hundred meters away and there was no scope. It was not easy to hit the driving tire. Matvey was even ready to shoot two shots in a row.
With a "bang", the bullet flew towards the moving jeep. After a moment, Matvey saw the jeep swaying left and right, and drove forward for more than ten meters, and then stopped. Matvey waved his fist excitedly and shouted in his heart: "It's great, hit the target!"
After the car stopped, the German driver pushed open the door and got out of the car, walked around from the front of the car, and carefully checked the deflated tires. Taking advantage of his bending over, Mattve decisively pulled the trigger and fired a second bullet. The bullet drilled into the German driver's left temple and flew out from the right temple with a skewer of blood. The driver fell to the ground without saying a word.
"No, there is a sniper." The German sitting in the car hurriedly got out of the other side, hid in the car as a cover, trying to figure out where the bullets flew over.
Norma next to him heard Matvey shooting twice and couldn't help looking in the direction of the jeep. Seeing that the car was parked in place and was not moving, while a German corpse was lying on the ground, he couldn't help but say excitedly: "It's great, I hit it!"
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Matvey said in a muffled voice: "Don't look around, stare at the German snipers, don't let him emerge again!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ajik on the right shouted on the ground: "Look, the German sniper is emerging." After that, he pulled the trigger without hesitation. As the gunshots, a steel helmet that had just risen from the crater was shot far away by a bullet.
"Damn, you're fooled." Matvey said angrily when he saw Ajik shooting: "Didn't you see just a steel helmet? Maybe it was the German sniper who deliberately raised it with a stock to find your place."
"No, Comrade Sergeant..." Ajik was about to refute a few words when suddenly a bullet hit the ground in front of him. The splashed gravel made a small hole in his face, and blood flowed down his cheeks.
A sniper next to him saw Ajik having a lottery, quickly took out his first aid kit from his pocket and prepared to bandage Ajik's wound: "Ajik, you are injured."
Chapter completed!