The two sides fought for more than an hour. Seeing that it was getting late, two snipers could not hold back. They whispered to Matvey: "Comrade Sergeant, I guess the German snipers will definitely not show up. Let's go back first."
Matvey felt that there were five people huddled in this narrow area. If they were bombarded by German troops, they might be taken away. So he nodded slightly and said, "Okay, Norma stayed, and the rest of the comrades will return to the position first. Our road to the rear must be under the surveillance of German snipers. Be careful when you go back."
Ajik lay on the cold ground for several hours, and he had long since complained. If he hadn't been concerned about the sniper across the river, he would have run back to the position. At this moment, he heard Matvey say this, and immediately said with the flow: "I understand, Comrade Sergeant, we will be careful."
After saying that, Ajik carried the Mosinnagan rifle in his hand on his back, turned around and crawled towards the position in a crawling posture. The other two snipers, seeing that Ajik had taken the lead in acting, naturally did not neglect, followed him and crawled towards the position.
Jetrov, who was staying in the observation center, saw three soldiers successfully returning from the lurking place, and hurriedly asked Ajik, who was leading the way: "Where is Sergeant Matvey?"
"Comrade Battalion Commander," Ajik quickly replied: "He and Norma are still in the lurking place."
Jetrov asked in confusion: "Why aren't they coming back yet?"
"There is a German sniper across the river." Another soldier replied: "Sergeant Matvey said that the man poses too great a threat to us. If he does not destroy the other party, it may cause us losses. Therefore, he and Norma stayed behind, held on to the enemy's sniper and found a way to kill him."
After Jetrov learned about the results they had achieved from the three snipers, he was about to report to the regiment, and the phone hanging on the wall rang first. He took off the microphone and approached his ears. Sokov's voice came from the receiver: "Comrade Captain, I am Major Sokov. How is your situation? Have all the snipers sent out come back?"
"No, Mattwei and another sniper named Norma are still lurking on the position." Jetrov briefly reported the situation to Sokov and said: "They want to kill the German sniper before returning to the position."
Sokov looked out the window and saw that it was getting late and visibility was limited. Even if he found a sniper, it was probably difficult for Matve and the others to make any achievements. So he casually said, "I understand."
Seeing Sokov put down the phone, Portokin asked quickly: "Comrade Commander, what is the result of the sniper team of the first battalion today?"
"Four enemies were killed." Sokov asked after he finished speaking: "Chief of Staff, is there really no artillery in the artillery battalion?"
Potukin thought for a while and replied, "I heard from the artillery battalion commander today that they repaired a scrapped artillery. However, the shells were a little less, only seven rounds."
"What caliber artillery is it?" Sokov asked.
"76.2mm," Potukin replied quickly, "It's a cannon!"
"Very good!" Sokov immediately ordered Potukin after he finished speaking: "Chief of Staff, call the artillery battalion commander immediately and ask him to transfer such artillery to a position close to the front and bombard the hiding position of the German sniper."
Regarding Sokov's arrangement, Potukin said with some embarrassment: "We only have one cannon, but the shells are limited, and it may not have any effect."
Sokov didn't talk nonsense to him, but just said lightly: "Abide by the order!"
Soon, the artillery of the artillery battalion was dragged behind the position of the first battalion. The gunman looked at his battalion commander and asked, "Battery Commander, where should we fire our artillery?"
The battalion commander said with some amusement and tears: "It is said that a sniper lurks in front of the German position across the river. Today, he shot several of our soldiers. The purpose of our bombardment was to drive him out of the hiding place and let our sniper kill him. You are the most experienced gunman in the camp. Where do you think the German sniper may be hiding?"
The gunman picked up the telescope, looked at the other side for a while, and then said, "Comrade Battalion Commander, although the visibility is a bit low, I can still see clearly that there are many craters on the opposite side. The German sniper must be hiding in one of the craters. We can use the cannon to blast him out of the hiding place."
"I will leave this matter to you." The battalion commander said to the gunman: "You must remember that we only have seven shells. Once the shells are exhausted and the sniper has not been driven out of the hiding place, our mission will be considered as a failure."
"Don't worry, Comrade Battalion Commander." The cannon leader replied with a smile: "Don't look at the dozens and twenty craters there, but in my experience, there are no more than five craters that can hide. I am completely sure to knock him out from the hiding place."
After adjusting the shooting of the Yuan Dynasty, the cannon fired into the open space in front of the German position. The first shell fell into an empty crater and exploded, and a stream of dirt soared into the sky.
When Matvi and Norma saw the area where the German snipers were hiding, they suddenly were shelled, and their faces showed a surprise expression. They knew in their hearts that unless the German sniper was willing to be killed by the shells, it would be impossible to stay in the crater without moving. As long as the enemy moves, they will have a chance.
So Matvey said to Norma: "Norma, you and I know the crater where the German sniper is hiding. Now I will divide the work together. I will be responsible for the right side and you will be responsible for the left side. As soon as the sniper appears, he will shoot him immediately. Remember, we only have two or three seconds to shoot. Once we miss it, it will not be so easy to find him again."
"Don't worry, Comrade Sergeant." Norma replied as he aimed at it with all his attention: "As long as he appears, I will never let him escape safely."
The Soviet artillery shells landed in front of the German position. The German observation post was stunned at first, thinking that why the Russian artillery was so accurate? It was still dozens of meters away from our position. Just as he was thinking, another artillery shell landed in the open space in front of the position and exploded, raising a stream of soil that soared into the sky again.
Seeing this situation, the observation post immediately understood that the reason why the Soviet artillery shells fell on the open space and exploded was not because they had missed it, but because their target was a sniper hiding in the crater in front of the position. Thinking of this, he immediately called the German commander and reported the situation to him.
When the German commander learned that the Soviet artillery was about to kill his sniper, he was shocked. He quickly called the artillery soldiers in the rear, hoping that they could suppress the Soviet army artillery fire to cover the sniper to escape successfully.
Unexpectedly, after receiving the call, the artillery guard immediately asked: "Mr. Major, don't know where the Russian artillery is?"
This sentence stopped the German commander. He didn't know the location of the Soviet artillery. He could only ask the other party to wait and ask someone to inform the observation post and ask him to quickly report the location of the Soviet artillery.
Reported to the commander from the German observation post, and when the commander called the artillery again, the cannons of the artillery battalion fired three more shells, accurately hitting the other three empty craters. The soil raised was scattered by the sniper hiding in the crater next to him. The sniper hiding in the crater was so heartbroken that he was crying without tears at this moment. He did not expect that after being overtaken by the Soviet sniper, he did not even have the chance to show his head. Now the Soviet army actually bombarded his hiding place directly. If his artillery fire was not suppressed, he might be unable to escape today.
It was soon after that. Just as the sniper was thinking about it, the sixth shell fired by the cannon directly hit the crater where the sniper was hiding. The shock wave generated by the explosion pulled the sniper out of the crater, threw it high into the air, and then fell heavily to the ground. Just as he fainted, two bullets flying from the opposite shore drilled into the top of his head and shoulders, causing him to leave the world that he missed without any pain.
When the Soviet army was shooting, Matvi and Norma stared at the crater where the sniper was hiding. Seeing the shells fired by the artillerymen on the ground, they all fell into the empty crater. Both of them were very anxious, but they could not notify the artillerymen to adjust the shooting parameters. They could only pray silently in their hearts, hoping that the next shell fired by the artillery comrades could accurately hit the target.
Seeing one shell after another fall, both of them were almost collapsed. Just as they were on the verge of despair, the shell finally hit the crater where the sniper was hiding. Seeing the sniper flying into the air, the two of them pulled the trigger in their hands while shouting "Ula" in their hearts. Almost as the sniper landed, the bullets they fired hit the target accurately.
The artillery battalion commander saw a figure flying out of the crater through the telescope. He immediately realized that they had hit the target and completed the task assigned to him by his superiors. He quickly put down the telescope and said to the cannon leader who was still preparing to load the last shell: "Okay, comrade of the cannon leader, the sniper has been killed. Let's move quickly, otherwise when the German artillery fire comes, it will be too late to retreat."
When the artillery battalion commander gave the order to retreat, the artillery commander was not vague and immediately ordered his subordinates to stop loading. Several artillerymen dragged the artillery and ran back. As soon as they ran more than two hundred meters, the German shells roared and landed directly at the position where the artillery had just been set up.
The cannon leader felt that the land under his feet was trembling slightly, and he couldn't help but say to the artillery battalion commander with lingering fear: "Comrade Battalion Commander, fortunately you issued the order to retreat in time, otherwise we would definitely be finished today."
The artillery battalion commander was also panicked when he saw the place he was just staying in was blown into a sea of ​​fire. However, in front of his subordinates, he pretended to be calm and said: "Comrade Gunner, even if I don't give orders, we will withdraw at this moment. You must know that our artillery only has seven shells, and it will take more than ten or twenty seconds at most, and then all will be exhausted. Okay, today's mission has been completed. You can go back to the station first, I will report to the Chief of Staff."
After Matvi and Norma killed the German snipers, they did not return to the first battalion's position immediately, but continued to lie motionlessly on the lurking position. According to Matvi's idea, the German army used artillery fire to suppress the artillery on the Soviet position in such a short period of time, proving that they valued this sniper very much. There will definitely be many German soldiers leaving the position later, and then it will be a good opportunity for them to snipe.
After five minutes of rapid fire, the German artillery fired no longer, and thought that the Soviet artillery had been killed, they stopped firing. The commander who was standing on the front line saw the sniper lying dozens of meters away and did not know whether he was dead or alive, so he sent two soldiers to check it out.
The two soldiers bent over and ran to the sniper carefully. Just as they bent over to check, Mattwei and Norma pulled the trigger. Norma shot down the enemy standing on the left, and although the enemy on the right was also shot, the part of the shot was on the legs. Although they could not walk for the time being, they were not fatal.
Seeing the German soldier rolling on the ground, Norma turned his head and looked at Matvey, thinking to himself, what's wrong with the sergeant, he actually knocked the bullet aside. When he raised his gun and was about to re-sell, Mattve stopped him: "Noma, don't shoot. As long as he is still alive, the Germans will definitely send someone to save him."
When Norma heard Matvie's statement, he was stunned at first, and then he realized that he knew that Matvie did this to fish, using a wounded man to raise more German soldiers from the position, and then he would deal with them one by one. Thinking of this, he immediately pointed his gun at the German position, preparing to shoot as soon as he saw the figures of the activity.
Seeing that the two soldiers he sent were approaching the sniper, they were beaten to death and injured by the Soviet sniper. He didn't have to think too much and quickly sent two more soldiers to check the life and death of the sniper, and dragged the injured soldiers back. The two soldiers were not far from the position when they were shot dead by Matvi and Norma.
"There are snipers." Seeing the four soldiers sent in succession, they all fell down in the shortest time. If the German commander didn't understand that there was a sniper on the other side, he could buy a piece of cheese and hit him to death. After looking at the dark opposite side for a while, he asked the soldiers around him, "Who do you see where the Russian snipers are?"
"Mr. Major," replied a soldier standing beside him, tremblingly: "It's too dark to see where the bullets are flying."
"Damn!" The German commander also knew that it was harder to find the location of the Soviet sniper in such dark light than climbing to the sky. He originally wanted to stop the rescue operation, but when he heard the screams of the wounded soldier in the distance and the unknown sniper next to him, he had to change his mind and sent several soldiers to rescue him.
In just five minutes, another eleven soldiers fell under the guns of Matvi and Norma. However, due to too many corpses and too dark, one soldier finally successfully approached the wounded and the sniper. But after seeing that the sniper had already died, he carried the wounded on his back and ran towards the position step by step.
When Matvi and Norma saw the moving target, although they fired several shots in a row, the bullets hit the wounded on the back of the German soldiers. When the soldiers dragged the wounded into the trenches, they found that their companions had already been shot seven or eight times and died. He put the body aside and reported to the commander: "Mr. Major, I have carefully checked it. My sniper was shot on the head and shoulder, and almost died on the spot."
Chapter completed!