Chapter 328 The sniper who persisted until the last moment
While everyone was waiting, Gioia led a strong draft horse and limped back from the depths of the forest. Behind the horse's butt, he also dragged a clean sledge.
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"Do you need me to do anything else?" Gioia asked with expectation after handing the reins to Reveli.
"I really need your help"
Revry took the cloak handed by a girl and put it on him, "You will take care of the two of them. In addition, the Germans have discovered the mine and they may come after them. You have to hide them well."
OK."
"Leave it to me, leave these to me, I will take good care of them." Gioia touched the Bobosha submachine gun on his shoulder, "Are you going to set off now?"
"Yes" sniper Daniela said in the affirmative.
"Wait me a moment"
After Gioia finished speaking, he limped into the shack. Not long after, he came out again carrying a canvas bag, "Take these, the dried meat I made myself. Also, if you need my help,
, you can come here to find me at any time, or you can go to another shack, I will take them to hide there before the fog clears, Reifli, you must know the location."
"I know it's there"
Postman Revry took the canvas bag, took out a piece of dried meat the size of his index finger and stuffed it into his mouth. Just as he was about to say something, a vague explosion came from outside the forest.
"It seems that the Germans have passed by the mine, it's time for us to set off."
Refri finally patted his good friend Gioia on the shoulder. After all, without saying anything else, he invited everyone to get on the horse-drawn sledge and disappeared in the forest shrouded in mist and night in an instant.
"Gioia, do you have any extra weapons?" A girl asked at the door of the shack, "If you have extra weapons, please give us some."
"There is also a rifle and a shotgun," Gioia thought for a moment and said, "But we have other things we can use."
"What?" Another girl couldn't help but asked curiously.
"Come with me"
The limping Gioia took the two girls half a circle around the shack, and then untied the rope from a pine tree.
With a soft "clang" sound, two sacks that could easily hold an adult fell from another pine tree not far away.
Although these two sacks were not small, the contents inside did not seem to be much. Under the curious gaze of two girls from the same village, Qiao Ya unbuttoned the buttons and poured out all the contents.
, turned out to be animal traps the size of a washbasin!
"You must know how to use it, right?" Qiao Ya looked at the two girls and asked.
"It works!" One of them nodded affirmatively, "I used to have something like this at home."
"I also have this kind of animal trap at home, but it's not this big." Another girl followed.
"You two go and change into a set of clothes in the shack," Joya suddenly suggested, "There are clean clothes in the wooden box under the bed."
As if fearing that the two girls would misunderstand, Gioia then explained, "The Germans stationed in the village have wolves and dogs. Those beasts may follow the smell and catch up. We have to find a way to kill those wolves and dogs."
OK."
The two girls looked at each other and immediately turned around and ran towards the shack. Soon after, they changed into Joya's clothes and each came back with their original clothes.
Gioia did not dare to waste time, so he pulled out a knife from his waist, cut the two people's clothes into strips of cloth, and then led the two girls to start setting up animal traps using these strips of cloth as bait.
After all the animal traps in the two sacks were arranged, Gioia immediately led them to a creek in the forest and motioned them to take a bath here and then move forward, while he himself returned to the shack and transferred some important things to the shack.
All his belongings, as well as the German uniforms left behind by Reveli, were packed and slung on his shoulders, and he limped to the upper stream of the creek to meet the two girls.
At the same time, on the horse-drawn sledge moving slowly in the forest, after repeated communication with Danila, Revry finally determined the specific location of the artillery position that the other party saw, and then shouted to the strong draft horse.
Adjusted the direction slightly.
While he was on the road, Revry asked the artillery observer Andre to inquire again and determined the observation conditions required by the other party.
Under the leadership of this careful postman, the people sitting on the sledge wrapped their cloaks tightly around their bodies and waited patiently to reach their destination. At the same time, they were also secretly vigilant, for fear that a group of Germans would emerge from some direction.
"Who wants a sip of vodka?" Wei Ran asked softly while taking off the water bottle from his waist.
"Did you bring vodka?" Nurse Lano looked at Wei Ran in surprise, "Where did you get the vodka?"
"Ignore where you got it, who of you wants to take a sip?" Wei Ran simply unscrewed the lid of the pot.
"Give me a bite"
Artillery observer Andre was the first to take the kettle, raised his neck and took a big sip, and then asked in a low voice in surprise, "You didn't add water?"
"My vodka is never watered down." Wei Ran did not take the kettle and turned to Danila, who had not had much communication with her along the way, and asked, "Would you like a sip?"
Danila, who was holding a sniper rifle, took the water bottle and took a big sip as well. Then she took out a piece of dried meat from the canvas bag among the people and threw it into her mouth. She sighed with satisfaction, "This is what I have drunk in half a year."
The most authentic vodka.”
"Refrie, do you want to try it?" Wei Ran and other nurse Llano also took a sip, then turned to the postman who was steering the horse at the front and asked.
"Of course, of course I want to take a sip." Reveli turned around and took the wine bottle, took a sip, and then returned the wine bottle to Wei Ran.
With a sip of vodka to soothe the tense nerves of these people, Wei Ran asked in a low voice, "Danila, where are you from? I mean you and Nurse Lanuo, where are you from?"
"Tyumen"
Danila leaned against the frame of the sledge and said, "We all come from the countryside of Tyumen. It's a good place. At least it's not like here. There are German planes flying overhead at any time. If you drop some, they will explode."
It’s like an iron knot.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "It is indeed a good place," artillery observer Andre said with envy.
"What about you? Where are you from?" Nurse Lano turned to Andre and asked.
"Moscow"
Andre picked up the water bottle placed between the three of them and took a big sip of vodka. He said with some nostalgia, "You won't believe it. I am a student of the Department of Mathematics at Moscow State University. If there had been no war, I would have just graduated at this time."
"Did you attend last year's parade?"
Nurse Lanuo asked abruptly. While speaking, she put away the kettle that the former had just put down and hung it on her waist. At the same time, she took off her own kettle and threw it to Wei Ran.
As a Slavic woman, she knew these men very well. If no one stopped them and they didn't arrive at their destination, they would have drank the entire bottle of vodka while smelling it on their sleeves.
"participated"
Andrei tightened his cloak and whispered in a low voice, "I participated in a blizzard. We walked through the Red Square, passed Lenin's Mausoleum, and then were sent directly to the battlefield. I also heard Comrade Stalin's
Speak.”
"You're so lucky." Revry, who was in charge of driving, had undisguised envy in his tone. He had only heard of the military parade through the radio and could not imagine what the scene was like.
“Good luck indeed”
Andre sighed, "I didn't expect that I would survive and have the opportunity to become an artillery observer."
Wei Ran, Daniela, and Nurse Lano sighed in the same breath. Obviously, the good luck in Refri's words and the good luck in Andre's words were not referring to the same thing.
In the silence of everyone, the horse-drawn sledge kept adjusting its direction in the thick fog, and finally stopped at about two o'clock in the night.
“This is it”
Revry covered the lighted oil lamp with his cloak, and with only a glimmer of light exposed, he pointed at a large angular stone next to him and asked, "Danila, can you see if this stone is where you said it is?"
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Daniela looked around the stone, and after finding a mark that seemed to be a bullet, she immediately responded softly, "That's it!"
“Then you can’t go wrong”
Revry raised his finger and pointed in the direction and said, "Since you are looking in the right direction, walk up to one kilometer in that direction and you will be able to leave the forest and enter the forest farm. That must be the artillery position you mentioned."
"Andre?" Daniella looked at the artillery observer beside her.
“The fog is a bit heavy”
Andre whispered, "With such a thick fog, you can't see anything 10 meters away, let alone one kilometer. If you want to call in artillery to accurately destroy their positions, you can only wait until the fog clears during the day."
"In that case, come with me to find Pavel first. I hope he is still alive."
Danila muttered something worriedly, and signaled Revry to extinguish the oil lamp and lead the horse to wait where he was, while he led Wei Ran and others in the dense forest in a direction that was about 45 degrees away from the artillery position.
He walked over with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
In less than 20 minutes, a ruin with only four stone walls appeared in the thick fog directly ahead.
Daniela took out the flashlight and flicked it twice. After waiting for a while and seeing no response, she immediately walked over quickly. Soon, under the light of the flashlight, everyone saw a figure lying in the corner of the ruins.
In addition to a cloak, this man's body was also covered with thick fallen leaves. Facing the wall, he drilled a small shooting hole, and the muzzle of the SVT40 semi-automatic rifle came from this
The shooting hole stretched out, facing the direction of the German artillery position outside.
Danila was stunned, and quickly pulled away the fallen leaves that he had personally covered with the other party, trying to wake up the middle-aged warrior who was still lying in his position.
However, when his hand touched the other person's body, he found that he had already become stiff and cold. Even the bandaged wound on the shoulder blade of his back had turned into a dark red color that lacked vitality.
But from the beginning to the end, this soldier with a weathered face but still a look of determination maintained the standard posture of a sniper, holding the gun in his hand, and the dew-condensed index finger was resting on the trigger guard and never left it.
In his left hand, he was holding a small book as big as a palm tightly.
Daniela gently took the book out of the other party's hand, and then discovered that it contained the observation records left by the other party during his absence.
On the last page of the book, the veteran named Pavel left a last message for him, "This gun was awarded to me by the division commander. Leave it to you. It's a pity that I only killed 23 people with it."
German. Finally, leave my body here and do as I teach you."
Stuffing the book into his arms, Daniela stood up straight and saluted. After a long time, he turned to Wei Ran and said, "Comrade reporter... can you come over and take a photo of him after daybreak? He.
..His name is Pavel, he’s a sniper, he’s from Minsk.”
