"Bang bang", with the sound of gunshots, one German soldier fell to Shulka's gun.
For hand-to-hand combat, a pistol is a very good piece of equipment.
Because you don't need to worry about it penetrating the enemy's body and accidentally injuring one of your own. What Shulka has to do is to identify those who are lying on the ground and struggling with each other, which is the enemy and which is one of your own, and then pull the trigger on the enemy.
Occasionally, we find two of our own people fighting together.
This may be because the helmets of the German army and the Soviet army are somewhat similar. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish them in the night, so they can't help but get confused.
Soldiers holding rifles are more embarrassed when faced with this situation.
First of all, they did not dare to shoot, because the penetrating power of rifle bullets is enough to penetrate the human body and kill another person, which means that shooting can easily cause accidental injury.
The second is that it is difficult for them to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy.
Not being able to shoot means they can only use bayonets, and the bayonet is at the top of the rifle more than one meter away from the head. (Note: The length of the Mosin-Nagant rifle with bayonet is 1.73 meters)
This means that soldiers must distinguish between ourselves and the enemy at a distance of nearly two meters, which is very difficult at night unless there are flares hanging in the sky.
However, this did not affect the victory of the Soviet army. The main force of the Soviet army simply passed over the soldiers fighting on the ground and continued to charge forward with bayonets drawn...
This approach is correct.
It doesn't mean that you don't care about the life and death of your comrades, but there is something more important on the battlefield: fighter planes.
At this time, if the forward troops stop to clear out the enemy, it will undoubtedly give the enemies in depth some time to react.
Although the reaction time is very short, one minute, two minutes, or even less.
But for the well-trained German army, it was enough for them to turn their guns and organize a new line of defense.
On the contrary, if the Soviet troops surge forward non-stop, the German troops in the depths will never expect that the enemy will come so quickly, and will not even have time to turn their guns, let alone resist.
The battle situation was exactly as Shulka thought. Although there were more enemies in the depths, they almost all focused their attention on the Soviet troops charging to the east.
As a result, the battle became simpler. The submachine gun fired a hail of bullets at the enemies, and the bayonets pierced their backs one after another.
Shulka continued to lead the troops forward.
At this moment, his feet suddenly softened and he stepped on a corpse.
There is nothing strange about stepping on a corpse on the battlefield, because the battlefield is full of corpses.
But Shulka immediately felt that something was wrong.
Because if it were a corpse, it would not react normally if it was stepped on.
But Shulka felt his muscles twitch slightly.
Only living people have this kind of reaction, and this reaction is so slight that it is almost undetectable. If it were others, they would have ignored it and moved on.
However, Shulka knew that only masters would react like this.
Because he has been able to control the conditioned reflexes of his muscles to a considerable extent, he will not react too much even in pain.
Shurka didn't think much and immediately pointed his pistol at the "corpse" at his feet.
"Corpse" noticed this immediately, stretched out his hand, grabbed Sulka's ankle and dragged Shurka to the ground. At the same time, with a "bang", pistol bullets flew into the darkness in the air.
Sulka was secretly shocked by the speed of this "corpse's" reaction.
Just now, Shurka just made a slight movement, that is, pointing the muzzle of the gun downward, but he noticed it, and in this very short period of time, he made the only correct reaction... dragging his ankle.
It can be said that in this case, no other action can save the "corpse", because Shulka's pistol is already pointed at him, and all he has to do is to pull the trigger, and then a bullet will be shot into his body.
He becomes a real corpse.
However, as soon as his ankle jerked, Sulka lost his balance.
At the moment of losing balance, people will unconsciously raise their hands... and then the bullet that was supposed to kill was fired into the sky.
If all of this was just a coincidence or unintentional, it would be nothing, but if this was done intentionally by the "corpse", then the "corpse"'s reaction was too fast.
Shurka didn't hesitate, and used his left hand to pull out the spur from his waist. Then Kankan pressed the spur against the opponent's neck the moment the "corpse" flew up.
The reason why he drew the military spur instead of continuing to use the pistol was because Shulka knew one thing: if the "corpse" could perform the same self-rescue action as before in such a short period of time, then Shulka would have no chance to use the pistol again.
The opponent will control his right hand immediately.
Sure enough, his right hand was blocked by a force, and when he was about to insert the sword into the opponent's neck with his left hand, he encountered another resistance.
"Wait, comrade!" Just when Shulka wanted to add more force to stab the opponent's neck, "Corpse" shouted: "One of my own, I am from the 1047th Regiment!"
The 1047th Infantry Regiment is another infantry regiment of the Soviet Army in Mamayev Heights besides the 39th Guards Rifle Regiment. If he can call out the number quickly, there should be no mistake.
So Shulka's men couldn't help but relax.
Seeing that Shulka was still hesitating, the "corpse" lifted up his cloak, revealing the Soviet-style military uniform inside.
"I'm a sniper, comrade!" "Corpse" explained.
Shulka then relaxed.
"Keep fighting, comrade!" Shulka said.
"It seems we don't need to fight anymore!" "Corpse" replied.
Shulka took a look and found that it was just as he said. The 82nd Infantry Regiment of the Soviet Army had joined forces with the 39th Guards Infantry Regiment. The soldiers of the two armies hugged each other and cheered for victory.
"Why are you here?" Shulka asked: "I mean, you are a sniper..."
Shulka raised his head towards the rifle with a sniper scope in his hand and continued: "Shouldn't you be farther away from the front line?"
"Corpse" shook his head, and then laughed: "Comrade Captain, sometimes the most dangerous place is the safest place! What's more, this is Mamaev Hill!"
Shulka immediately understood the meaning of these words.
Mamayev Kurgan is a highland, with a positive slope on one side and a reverse slope on the other side.
There was not much distance between the two slopes for the sniper to lurk, so he simply lurked under the enemy's nose, disguised as a "corpse."
Shulka nodded, glanced at his military rank, and praised: "You are excellent, Comrade Second Lieutenant!"
"You too, Comrade Captain!" "Corpse" replied with a smile: "If we were enemies, maybe I would be dead!"
Then, the "corpse" stretched out his hand towards Shulka: "Vasily, my name is Vasily Zaitsev!"