Seeing that Sokov had just praised Vasily for a few words, Sidorin sent him and Ji Na back to rest, so he asked in confusion: "Comrade Brigade Commander, I don't understand that Vasily has achieved such great results today. Even if he can't award him any medal, at least he can give him a military rank?"
"My Chief of Staff," Sokov asked with a smile, "What rank do you think we should grant him? Private, corporal, sergeant or higher?"
Before Sidolin answered, Sokov asked and answered: "Although Vasily sniped a colonel and a major today, it was his first mission after all. The rank he rashly awarded would definitely cause dissatisfaction among other soldiers in the sniper team of the Guard Company."
Sidorin agreed with Sokov's statement very much. The guards even the soldiers in the sniper team can achieve more or less results every time they go out to perform missions. Although they have never killed German officers at the school level or above, the number of enemies they killed is also quite large. They have never received any rewards to them. If they are awarded medals and promoted to a new recruit who has joined less than 24 hours, they will definitely feel resistant.
Thinking of this, Cidolin nodded and said, "Comrade Brigade Commander, you make sense. I think the matter of granting military rank is temporarily released, but we have eliminated two German academy-level officers, but it is an amazing victory. I suggest that I report to Commander Choikov immediately."
Before Sokov could make his statement, Belkin rushed to say: "The Chief of Staff is right. The German commander is different from our commander. Our command is usually only three or four hundred meters away from the front, while their regiment-level command is at least five or six kilometers away from the front. It is very difficult for us to kill a colonel. Vasily's results today were an amazing victory, and I agree to report to the Group Army Command immediately."
Sokov picked up the microphone and asked the communications troop to connect to the Army Command. When he heard Krelov's voice coming from the receiver, he immediately said, "Hello, Comrade Chief of Staff. I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, and I have important situations to report to you."
Krelov heard that it was Sokov's call and couldn't help but feel a little shocked, thinking to himself: "Is there something wrong in Mamayevgang?" But he still tried his best to ask in a normal tone: "Hello, Comrade Sokov, what's going on in your place?"
"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov heard the panic in Krelov's tone, and knew that he misunderstood his intention to call, and quickly explained: "I call you not because something happened to us, but because of great results. I want to report to you."
"Great results?" Krelov heard Sokov say this, and quickly rushed to Cuikov, who was sitting opposite him, and turned his ears to the receiver. He wanted to hear what the good news was like. "Tell me, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, I have any good news to tell us."
"The sniper team we sent today has achieved great results in the railway staff dormitory area." Sokov said to the microphone: "They shot dead 19 German officers and soldiers, including Colonel Lenggek, the commander of the 21st Grenadier Regiment, and Major Haydn, his battalion commander."
"This is really an amazing victory." Krelov became excited after listening to Sokov's report: "German officers are all afraid of death. They always set their commands far away from the frontline, so it is difficult for us to eliminate high-level German commanders. What is the name of the soldiers who serve as snipers? I want to remember their merits!"
"One is Corporal Zina, who is the leader of the sniper team of the Guard Company." Sokov said: "And another new soldier named Vasily came to Stalingrad last night. He is a hunter from Ural, and he killed two German academy officers with his own hands."
"This is amazing." Krelov said in surprise: "It's amazing that a soldier who has just joined the army has achieved such results when he goes on a combat mission for the first time."
Military Commissioner Gurov, who had just returned from the grassroots company, was worried about how the increasingly deep morale was. Suddenly, he heard a new soldier who had just entered the city less than a day and actually killed 19 German officers and soldiers with another sniper, including two school officials, and couldn't help but lit up: "Great, this is simply great. Comrade Commander, I think the results achieved by Vasily should be vigorously promoted throughout the entire army to inspire the morale of our army."
"This is a good idea." Although the 62nd Army has a lot of numbers, most of the troops have basically lost their combat effectiveness due to heavy casualties. Cui Kov was also worried about the low morale of the troops. At this moment, he heard Gurov's proposal and nodded quickly and echoed: "Military Comrade, you are right. We should promote it within the entire army to use this matter to boost the morale of our army."
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Just as Sokov reported the results of Vasily to the Army Command, Jina took Vasily back to the residence of the sniper team on the next floor.
The sniper team turned out to have six people. Except for Ji Na and Susanna, the rest were male soldiers, and they all had rich combat experience. They completed their sniper missions early, returned to their residences one after another, and began to clean up and maintain the sniper rifles they used to ensure that the guns could maintain their best condition at any time.
After Susanna and another male soldier returned from the mission, they saw that there were only three male soldiers sitting in the room, but they did not see Ji Na's shadow, so they asked curiously: "Comrades, have you seen Ji Na?"
"I didn't see it." As soon as she finished speaking, two soldiers shook their heads and replied.
"Comrade Commander assigned a task to Ji Na." Another male soldier said with a wry smile: "I asked her to take a new soldier who had just arrived in the city for less than a day to go to the station staff dormitory area to perform combat missions."
"What? The company commander asked Ji Na to take a recruit to the railway employee dormitory area for missions?" Susanna couldn't help but open her mouth in surprise when she heard the news: "How can the company commander ask Ji Na to take a new soldier to carry out missions? Don't he know that the fierce battle there is, isn't it equivalent to letting them die?"
"Oh," the male soldier sighed and said, "I hope God bless you, Ji Na can come back safely!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ji Na's familiar voice came from the door: "Hello, comrades, I'm back!"
"Jina, you can come back." Seeing Jina appearing at the door, Susanna cheered, rushed over and hugged her, and said excitedly: "I heard that you took a recruit to the most dangerous place to perform the mission, but I was frightened and I thought you wouldn't come back."
"How could it be?!" Ji Na grinned and said, "If I find that the situation is not good, I will try my best to withdraw it." After saying that, she raised her hand and slapped her twice, attracting everyone's gaze, she continued, "Comrades, please come here, I will introduce you to a new comrade."
Although some soldiers from the sniper team had seen Vasily, they surrounded him when they heard Ji Na say this. Ji Na saw everyone, pointed at Vasily who was standing beside her and said to everyone: "Comrades, I will formally introduce you to everyone, his name is Vasily Zaitsev, who is a hunter from the Ural Mountains."
"Jina," the male soldier who had just spoken to Susanna looked coldly at Vasily with a silly smile, and asked in a disdainful tone: "He went on a mission with you today, didn't he hold you back?"
"How could it be, Lerke." Jina heard the sarcastic meaning in the tone of the male soldier and hurriedly said to him: "We have killed a total of 19 German officers and soldiers today, including a colonel and a major, all of whom died under Vasily's gun."
"It seems that he is lucky." Leirke said in a sour tone: "Two German school-level officers broke into his gun."
"It's not that he is lucky, but that he has strength." Ji Na said seriously at Leirke's expression: "These two officers were killed by him at a distance of more than 300 meters, and they were all shot. If it were you, Leirke, could you hit the target?"
Lerke's face turned red a little, and he thought to himself: "If the distance is 150 meters, I can guarantee an 80% hit rate; if it is 200 meters, I might be able to guarantee a 50% hit rate; but if it is 300 meters, I'm afraid I can't do it."
"Vasily, you are so amazing." Susanna heard that Vasily achieved such a good result on the first day of mission, and she couldn't help but shine. She grabbed Vasily's hand and shook it hard and said, "I thought you would drag Jina down, but I didn't expect you to be so good."
"Susanna, actually, when I went on a mission, my thoughts were the same as you." When Ji Na said this, she glanced at Vasily quickly, and a blush appeared on her face: "I thought he would be a burden to me. Not only could he not achieve the results, but it might also put me in danger. But when I saw him killing the German colonel cleanly and then shooting a German lieutenant in the second shot, I knew I was wrong, and it was outrageous. He was born an excellent sniper, so outstanding that all of us could not compare with him."
In the entire sniper team, Ji Na's sniper level is the highest, and no one has ever received such praise from her. Except for Lairke, three other male soldiers walked forward and reached out to Vasily to express their welcome to officially join the sniper team.
"Lerke!" Ji Na saw that the other male soldiers were getting close to Vasily, but Lerke, who spoke rudely, stood aside and stared blankly. He quickly lowered his voice and called him, and winked, signaling him to go over and say hello to Vasily.
Seeing Jina's eyes, Leerke could only grit his teeth and walk to Vasily and said apologetically: "Comrade Vasily, please forgive me for my impoliteness just now. I apologize to you."
Vasily grabbed Lerke's hand and said rationally: "Comrade Lerke, if I am in your position, I will have the same concerns about a newly joined recruit. From now on, we will be comrades-in-arms. I hope we can fight side by side in the next battle."
Chapter completed!