While the German high command was preparing for simulated confrontation exercises, Finland in the northeast was engaging in an actual battle between ants and elephants with the Soviet Union.
"Hey," a Finnish soldier wearing a white camouflage uniform lowered his voice and whispered: "Simon, the Soviets are too vigilant. They are surrounding the observation group with one sentry every five steps and one post every ten steps. From this point of view,
We can’t even rely on him.”
The person who spoke was called Remo, and he and Jewini were both members of Simon's sniper team. Simon, the team leader, was responsible for sniping, while they were responsible for covering and guarding the surrounding area.
"I heard from the intelligence that there are several major generals here, and the leader is a general." Because they were far away, Simon was not worried about being exposed, and whispered back: "If there is no such defense, then there should be no
Normal."
Simon had already noticed the Soviet Union's strict precautions. However, for safety reasons, he did not take his team any closer to the location of the Soviet Senior Officer Observation Group.
The purpose of their coming here is to kill, not to be killed.
As an excellent sniper who has escaped from the battlefield many times, Simon knows the difference between courage and recklessness very clearly.
As the leader of a sniper team, he must ensure that his team remains far enough away from danger. This will not only increase the team's escape rate after the sniper kill, but also further reduce the probability of being discovered by the opponent before the sniper kill, thus
Provide concealment and success rate.
The fact that he came here with two companions has already proved their courage. But if they go further to shorten the distance, it will be a kind of stupid bravery, which only increases the possibility of sacrifice. And this
Sacrifice is completely unnecessary.
"It seems that we can't get any closer." Simon lay on a layer of white cloth and analyzed with an indifferent expression: "Although we can't go further, the Soviet observation team can't stay in the turtle shell forever.
Come out. After all, they came to the front line to observe the battle situation or terrain, and sooner or later they will leave for the front line. And our location is just on the flank of the main road, that is, on the only way they can advance. Wait patiently, I
It is estimated that the big fish will come out soon."
Although a layer of broken branches was added under the white cloth that Simon and others were lying on, and a layer of mat that was not too thin was placed between the branches and the white cloth to isolate the coldness brought by the snow as much as possible.
But staying in the ice and snow for a long time, even if Simon and others are wearing thick warm clothes, the cold weather will inevitably take away a little bit of their strength. So now Simon is completely following his own intuition and asking the group to stay where they are for a while.
.
Once his intuitive judgment goes too far and the Soviet observation group fails to show up, the sniper team will continue to lose strength in the cold snow until they lose the ability to perform the mission and are forced to return.
After waiting for about half an hour, Jiewini, who had never spoken, gently crawled along the snow to Simon: "Simon, let me just try our luck a little closer, maybe...
..."
"Shut up!" Mi Meng lowered his voice and said sternly.
Jieweini has worked with Simon several times, and he has a certain understanding of Simon's behavioral logic. After being interrupted, not only did he not show any annoyance, but he immediately obeyed Simon's instructions and shut his mouth.
Gently lower your body further.
He understood that Simon was not a person with a bad temper. Since he told himself to shut up, it was probably because the current situation required him to shut up.
Sure enough, in less than 3 minutes, Jewini, who was lying next to Simon, saw movement in the Soviet camp.
Immediately afterwards, groups of Soviet soldiers ran out of the camp one after another. Among them, they also carried 6 three-wheeled motorcycles equipped with machine guns. It was obvious that these Soviet soldiers were performing "road clearing work"
”.
"Chug, chug, chug..." The machine gun on the motorcycle fired aimlessly in all directions.
Simon understood that this was not just for fun because the Soviets had too many bullets. In fact, the reason why the Soviet machine guns fired randomly was to see if there were disguised enemies anywhere. If so,
This kind of random shooting does have the theoretical possibility of hitting.
On the other hand, this kind of shooting can also serve the purpose of alerting the enemy and putting psychological pressure on possible ambushing enemy troops, thus increasing the possibility of their exposure.
The reason why the Soviets did this was probably to provide security for the officers of the observation group who were about to appear. The big fish was about to appear!
Simon stretched out two fingers and scratched lightly, indicating to Murray and Jiewei Ni to get ready.
The three of them are all veteran hunters who are used to shooting guns and guns. Once any prey is targeted by them, they are basically sure of success.
Although Simon has a high-end sniper rifle sent from the Mauser factory, Murray and Jewney also only have the Mosin Nagant 91-30 captured from the Soviet army. However, this kind of gun is much better than the one they used before.
The blunderbuss has a long range and is very powerful. The most important thing is that after shooting, it will not emit a lot of black smoke like the blunderbuss, and will not instantly visually reveal its location.
The two of them made an "OK" gesture each to indicate to Simon that they were ready. Then, the three of them stopped communicating and lay motionless on the spot, waiting for the convoy of the Soviet Observation Group to enter the shooting range.
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As expected, the convoy of the Soviet Observation Group left the camp after the advance troops completed their security along the way. Although these advance troops responsible for the security were not reliable, they just stood on the roadside holding guns and pretending to be on guard.
But they still gave the observation group's convoy a sense of security.
After all, this area is already occupied by the Soviet army. In their opinion, the possibility of Finnish soldiers appearing here is not high. They are all a group of people who were left behind after the great purge, from top to bottom, from the leader of the observation team to the
The commander of the security force, no one was alert to the ongoing war, proposed to launch a security search on the highlands on both sides of the road.
As long as they can imagine that with the huge number of soldiers in the camp, it is not easy to conduct a search of this level, but it is definitely feasible.
And once they become more vigilant and launch a two-wing search, no matter how confident Simon and his team are, they can only leave in despair after the search begins.
But no one thought of this. Just like no one reminded the generals of the observation group to take off their rank epaulettes, the Soviet army's understanding of the sniper profession was still too shallow and too contemptuous!