Red Moscow

  Chapter 214 Contest

  As soon as the shelling started, Jetrov stood at the lookout of the observation post, raising his binoculars to observe the hiding place of the joint sniper team. But I was stunned to see that they were wiped out in just a few minutes under the joint attack of German mortar fire and snipers. He only thought that this army was inferior to his sniper team, but he didn't expect that they were so vulnerable that the entire army was wiped out before firing a single shot.

Seeing the soldiers who fell under the enemy's artillery fire and muzzle, Jetrov was so angry that he ordered the light and heavy machine guns on the position to fire at the same time, strafing the hiding place of the German snipers and avenging the sacrificed comrades. There is a worry that this will attract German artillery retaliation. Once the firepower of the machine guns on the position is destroyed by the enemy's artillery fire, if the enemy on the other side forcibly crosses the Zizdra River, it will be difficult to stop them with the weak firepower on the position.

  After a fierce ideological struggle, reason finally defeated impulse. Jetrov called a signal soldier and told him, "Go and tell Sergeant Matvey that there is a German sniper on the opposite side, and try to kill him." The signal soldier agreed, turned and ran outside. Jetrov told him from behind: "When running in the traffic trench, bend your waist lower, and don't let the German snipers take you as a target."

   After Jetrov dispatched the communications troops, he felt that he should inform the second and third battalions of the situation here so that they could be mentally prepared, so he dialed the number of the second battalion headquarters again.

  Hearing the call from Jetrov again, the second battalion commander asked impatiently: "Comrade Captain, what else do you need?" When he pronounced the word "Captain", he deliberately emphasized his tone.

The anxious Jetrov didn't care about the tone of the other party, but said straight to the point: "Comrade Major, I have some bad news for you. The hiding place of your sniper team has been attacked by German mortar fire. It's been wiped out."

"What, my sniper squad has been wiped out?" The second battalion commander, who had a disdainful expression on his face, jumped up from his seat immediately after hearing the bad news, and asked sullenly: "Comrade Captain, are you telling the truth?"

"Yes, Comrade Major." Jietrov replied: "In addition to the German mortar fire, there were also German snipers attacking them. I saw two soldiers fell under the sniper's guns. Down."

   "Damn, it's really hateful." Hearing this, the second battalion commander asked viciously: "Captain Jetrov, have you taken any measures?"

"I have given the order to the sniper team to get rid of the enemy's snipers as soon as possible." Jetrov guessed what the second battalion commander wanted to ask next, and said proactively, "In order to prevent the enemy from being attacked by German artillery fire." Strike, I didn't let the light and heavy machine guns straf where the snipers might be hiding."

Knowing that Jetrov didn't let the machine guns shoot at the hiding place of the German snipers, the second battalion commander was a little angry: "What, it's because you were worried about being hit by the German artillery fire, so you didn't order the machine guns to shoot at the hiding places of the enemy's snipers." place. I will go to the head of the regiment to sue you and let him give you the punishment you deserve." After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for Jetrov to speak again.

  Although the second battalion commander said on the phone that he would report to the regimental commander, Jetrov didn't take this matter to heart at all. After putting down the phone, he came to the lookout again, raised his binoculars and looked towards the hiding place of Matvey and the others to see if the communication soldiers he had sent had arrived at the designated location.

   In fact, Jetrov did not need to send a messenger to inform. Matvey and the others who were hiding in another sniper point also saw the scene of friendly troops being destroyed under enemy artillery fire. Thinking that if it wasn't for the originally selected sniper location, if they were taken first by the friendly army, they would be the ones who fell under the artillery fire and sniper rifles at this moment. Thinking about it this way, everyone in the sniper team broke out in a cold sweat.

  Ajik, the sniper lying on the right side of Matvey, asked Matvey with a mournful face: "Comrade Sergeant, what should we do? Should we continue to kill the Germans on the opposite side?"

   Matvi glared at the other party, and said in a low voice: "The order given to us by the superior is to snipe and kill the enemy on the other side of the river. Before ordering us to retreat, we must seriously implement this order from the superior."

  At this time, Corporal Norma, the sniper lying on the left, suddenly called Matvey in a low voice: "Comrade Sergeant, look quickly, a jeep is coming from the direction of the German position!"

  After hearing what Norma said, Matvey quickly looked towards the opposite bank, and he saw a jeep driving along the bumpy road towards the German position. Looking at the jeep that originally belonged to the Soviet army but is now being driven by the German army, an idea suddenly came to Matvey's mind: "There must be a German officer in this car. If I can stop the car, Maybe we can kill the officer in the car." Thinking of this, he quickly turned his gun and aimed at the jeep in the distance.

   "Comrade Sergeant," Norma couldn't help asking curiously when she saw that Matvey aimed his gun at the driving jeep, "Are you going to kill the target in the car?"

  Matvey nodded slightly, and then ordered several other soldiers: "You closely monitor the front of the German positions, and if you see the sniper appearing, kill him immediately."

  After assigning the task, he concentrated on aiming at the right front tire of the jeep. With a distance of 200 meters and no scope, it was not easy to hit the moving tires. Matvey was even prepared to fire two shots in a row.

   There was a "crack" gunshot, and the bullet flew towards the moving jeep. After a while, Matvey saw the jeep swaying left and right, drove forward for more than ten meters, and then stopped. Matvey waved his fist excitedly, and secretly shouted in his heart: "Great, hit the target!"

  After the car stopped, the German driver opened the door and got out of the car, walked around from the front of the car, and carefully checked the flat tire. While he was bending over, Matvey pulled the trigger decisively and fired a second round. The bullet penetrated the German driver's left temple, and flew out from the right temple with a stream of blood foam. The driver fell limply to the ground without saying a word.

   "No, there are snipers." The German sitting in the car hurriedly got out of the car from the other side and hid under the cover of the car, trying to figure out where the bullets came from.

Norma, who was next to her, heard Matvey fired two shots, and couldn't help looking in the direction of the jeep. Seeing that the car was parked in place and there was a dead body of a German soldier lying on the ground, she couldn't help saying something excitedly. : "Great, hit!"

  Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Matvey said in a low voice: "Don't look around, let me keep an eye on the German sniper, don't let him show up again!"

  As soon as he finished speaking, Ajik on the right shouted on the ground: "Look, the German sniper is coming." After speaking, he pulled the trigger without hesitation. With the sound of the gunshot, a steel helmet that had just risen from the crater was shot far away by the bullet.

"Damn it, you fell for it." Matvey said angrily when he saw Ajik shoot, "Didn't you see that it was just a steel helmet? Maybe it was deliberately raised by a German sniper with the **** of his gun, just to find your position."

"No way, Comrade Sergeant..." Ajik was about to refute a few words, when suddenly a bullet hit the ground in front of him, and the splashed small gravel cut a small **** in his face, and the blood flowed It dripped down my cheeks.

  A sniper next to him, seeing that Ajik was injured, quickly took out a first-aid kit from his pocket, and prepared to bandage Ajik's wound: "Ajik, you are injured."

"Don't move!" Matvey suddenly growled: "The German snipers are still unable to determine our exact location. If you move, won't you become his target? Keep lying still and fight with the Germans." Compete patiently and see who can last longer."

  (end of this chapter)