Red Moscow

  Chapter 786 Sniper Squad (Part 2)

  With Yegor as the guide leading the way, Sokov and the others accelerated their progress. It took less than five minutes to arrive at a half-collapsed building. Sokov looked around and asked Yegor who was standing in front: "Lieutenant, is your battalion command post here?"

   "Yes." Yegor nodded and pointed to the ground with his hand: "The battalion commander's command post is in the basement at our feet."

  Sokov looked down and saw that the building was near the street, and there was a row of transom windows slightly higher than the ground, which should be the basement where the battalion headquarters is located. He raised his head and asked Yegor, "Lieutenant, are there any exits from the basement?"

"Two!" Yegor held up **** and explained to Sokov: "There are two units in this building. In order to hide the troops, the battalion commander has ordered someone to open up the basements of the two units. ..."

"It's not enough to open the basements of the two units," Sokov shook his head after Yegor finished speaking, and said, "The exits of the basements are all inside the building. Once the enemy's artillery blows the building down, You'll be trapped in the basement."

   After setting up the accompanying soldiers, Sokov and Sergey followed Yegor into the building. There were quite a few soldiers sitting in the corridor. They were resting their backs against the wall with their eyes closed. When they heard footsteps coming from outside, they realized that it was Yegor who came in with an officer.

   "Hello, comrades!" Seeing his arrival, Sokov had already alarmed the soldiers in the corridor. He quickly stopped and raised his hand to greet them: "You have worked hard!"

  The soldiers only knew that a commander had come, and they never dreamed that the person who came was the division commander. After a short silence, everyone shouted in unison: "Hello, division commander!"

Sokov shook hands with the soldiers present one by one, chatted briefly with them, and finally said: "Comrades, you will continue to fight the enemy after dawn, so you should rest early." After sitting down to rest, Sokov followed Yegor into the basement.

Andrei, who was busy, saw Sokov walking in, he quickly stepped forward two steps, raised his hand in salute, and then reported respectfully: "Comrade commander, Captain Andrei, the commander of the new third battalion, reports to you, Welcome to my place to inspect the work."

"Comrade Captain, how is the situation here?" Sokov went straight to the table, pulled a wooden stool and sat down, looked up at Andrei and asked, "Has the enemy launched a large-scale attack on you?" what?"

"No, Comrade Commander." Andre shook his head, and replied: "The enemy launched attacks on us continuously, and after suffering a great loss, they adjusted their deployment. , using infiltration tactics to compete with us for positions.”

  "The enemy is not a fool. When they see that one tactic doesn't work, they will definitely use a new tactic to deal with you." Sokov asked with a normal expression: "Comrade Captain, what tactic did you use to deal with it?"

   "Comrade Commander," Andrey replied: "We are using the tactics you proposed before to deal with this infiltration tactic of the Germans!"

  Andrei's words confused Sokov. He asked in puzzlement, "The tactics I proposed? Comrade Captain, are you mistaken? When did I propose new tactics to you?"

"Comrade commander, have you forgotten?" Seeing Sukov's dazed look, Andrei quickly explained to him: "You told us before how to fight in the streets. Arrange sniper attacks on the streets that the enemy must pass through." Hands, machine gunners, and anti-tank fighters, use snipers to kill important targets, use machine guns to shoot groups of enemies, and use anti-tank fighters to blow up enemy tanks... The enemy is helpless against our defense, they have to stop Offensive, and gestured at us..."

  Hearing this, Sokov couldn't help interjecting and asked, "It's because of the enemy's gesture that you let Vasily and the others form a sniper team to destroy the single enemy."

"Actually, I didn't want to form the sniper unit, but Vasily suggested it." Andrei is not a person who likes to take credit for his subordinates. He truthfully reported to Sukov: "He came to the camp in person. The Ministry, and I studied for an hour, and decided to form a sniper unit, with the fighters who stick to the Vasili building as the mainstay, and then draw sharpshooters from each squad to form a sniper team, hidden in every corner of the defense zone, and sniper out. The Germans in sight now."

   "Your results are very good," Sokov couldn't help asking when he thought of the amazing record of killing more than 400 German soldiers in three days: "Among so many sniper teams, is there any one that performed particularly well?"

   "Yes, Comrade Master."

"who is it?"

   "Zina and Susanna from the guard company." After Andre finished speaking, he asked tentatively: "Comrade commander, do you need me to call them over?"

   Hearing the names of two women, Sokov was curious about who they were, so he nodded and agreed to Andre's proposal. While Andrei sent someone to call Zina and Susanna, Sokov turned his head and asked Seryozha who was standing beside him: "Seryozha, what's the matter with these two female soldiers?"

"Misha, why did you forget, these two female soldiers joined in Kursk." Seryozha approached Sokov and whispered in Sokov's ear: "The two have good marksmanship, and the comrades of the friendly army And beat each other in a shooting match."

After being reminded by Seryosha, Sokov really remembered the two female soldiers, so he said "Oh", and said, "It turned out to be the two of them. I really didn't expect that they would come to the New Third Battalion." Come."

"At that time you were recuperating in the health team, and all affairs in the brigade were in charge of Colonel Witkov sent by the superior." Seryozha explained: "So the two of them went to the third battalion with the authorization of Colonel Witkov. of."

   Not long after, two heroic female soldiers walked in from the outside. When they saw Sokov sitting at the table, they couldn't help showing a surprised expression on their faces. Zina hurriedly stepped forward, raised her hand to salute Sokov, and asked excitedly, "Mr. Comrade, why are you here?"

"I came to inspect the third battalion. I just heard that the two of you are here, so I asked Captain Andrei to call you to meet." Sokov raised his hand and looked at the two female soldiers, and asked with great interest. : "Are you used to life here?"

   "It's just that there is no place to take a bath, and I feel a little uncomfortable." Just after Sokov asked the question, Zina blurted out, "It would be great if there is a place to take a bath."

When Sokov heard that Zina mentioned taking a bath, he remembered a movie about the defense of Stalingrad that he watched in later generations. A group of Soviet soldiers guarded a building. In order for the heroine to take a bath, they went outside to find it. A bathtub filled with water. This kind of thing that is easy to do in peaceful times, those soldiers have spent a lot of effort to complete it.

But before Sokov could speak, Susanna pulled Radina's sleeve with her hand, and said to Sokov with a smile on her face: "Mr. Comrade, Zina is talking nonsense. There is no condition for taking a bath right now." .”

  Andrei next to him was afraid that Sokov would blame the female soldiers, so he hurried out to smooth things over: "Since the enemy blew up the water tower on Mamayev Hill, the water supply in the city has been completely cut off."

"Water supply cut off?" If Andre didn't mention this matter, Sukov really didn't think about how to solve the domestic water supply of the residents in the city, and asked quickly: "The residents who stayed in the city, how did they do it?" To solve the water problem?"

"The tap water supply was cut off, and the residents could only fetch water from nearby rivers or wells. Fortunately, there are several small streams leading to the Volga River in the city, otherwise the residents would not even be able to drink water." Andre finally added, "Comrade commander, depending on the weather, it may snow tonight. Snow accumulation can also alleviate residents' water difficulties to a certain extent."

After chatting with Andre for a few words, Sokov saw that the two female soldiers were still standing at attention, so he waved to each other and said, "Since Zina and Susanna are acquaintances, there is no need to be so restrained." , sit down. I want to hear about the results you have achieved.”

"Comrade commander, you may not have thought of it." As soon as Sokov asked the results of the two female snipers, Andrei said excitedly: "During the daytime battle yesterday, the two of them killed almost twenty enemy."

   "What, the two of you killed almost twenty enemies?" Sokov showed a surprised expression on his face: "This is simply unbelievable."

   "Susanna," Andre turned his head to look at Susanna, and said to her with a smile: "Report to Comrade Commander how you eliminated the enemy yesterday."

Susanna agreed, and began to report to Sokov: "Yesterday morning, after accepting the mission, Zina and I hid in the ruins of a street in the north. ... At noon, there was a three-wheeled motorcycle The car was coming down the street with three German soldiers in it, one of them an officer in a sidecar. Seeing a few enemies coming into range, Zina asked me who to shoot first?

  I looked at the surrounding terrain, and there are bricks and rubble everywhere. Once we shoot, the enemies who are not hit will jump out of the car and hide in the nearby ruins, making it difficult for us to eliminate him. So after a short thought, I told Zina to shoot first at the German soldier sitting behind the motorcyclist and the German officer who was already sitting on the sidecar. "

   "Susanna, why did you choose this way?" Hearing this, Seryozha couldn't help interjecting and asked, "Can you tell me your reason?"

Susanna nodded and continued: "If we shoot at the rider driving the motorcycle first, the motorcycle will lose control, causing the bullets fired by the other shooter to miss the target. Instead, we shoot directly at the soldiers behind the riders, and the soldiers sitting on the motorcycle. None of the officers in the sidecar would cause the car to change, so we would have enough time to take our time and kill the driver after the first shot."

   "Well, it makes sense." After listening to Susanna's explanation, Seriosha found it very reasonable. After nodding his head a few times, he urged the other party: "Susanna, please continue."

"I chose the officer sitting in the sidecar, and Zina chose the soldier sitting in the back seat." Susanna went on: "But when we pulled the trigger, there was a little accident. As the bullet was ejected, the motorcycle was jolted by a brick, so that the bullet I fired did not hit the officer in the chest, but only hit his shoulder. The officer grabbed the shoulder and rolled out of the sidecar. The car hadn't stopped yet, and he stopped after rolling a few times on the ground.

  Zina's movements were swift. After she killed the German soldier sitting in the back seat, she shot down the car again. Seeing me raising my gun to aim at the officer who was crawling on the ground with hands and feet, I was about to shoot, but I stopped him. "

"Susanna refused to let me shoot. I was quite puzzled at the time." Zina added without losing the opportunity: "The wounded officer is simply a living target. At such a close range, let alone us snipers , even a fighter with better marksmanship can easily hit the target."

"I didn't let Zina shoot because I thought that officer was still useful." Susanna said, "I planned to use this officer as a bait to attract more German soldiers, so I asked Zina to give him a shot." Two legs shot, leaving him lying on the ground unable to move...

   There were quite a few German soldiers nearby. When they heard the officer's screams, they rushed over and tried to drive him away. But how could Zina and I let go of such a good opportunity, so we knocked down the enemies that appeared within our range one by one like shooting a target.

   Just like that, we killed more than a dozen enemies in one go. Just when I was considering whether to keep the bait of the German officer, he decisively drew his gun and shot himself in the head in order not to let more soldiers die..."

   "Oh, what a pity." Zina sighed and said, "If I shot and broke his hands earlier, so that he didn't shoot himself, we could destroy more enemies."

The tactic used by Susanna and Zina is a tactic commonly used by special forces in later generations. After they shot an enemy, they did not kill him, but used it as a bait to attract more companions of the other party to rescue , so as to achieve the goal of destroying more enemies. And the only way to crack it is to commit suicide by the wounded who are used as bait by the snipers, in order to save the lives of more comrades in arms.

"Susanna, Zina, your performance is good." Sokov nodded at the two, and said with a smile: "When I return to the division headquarters, I will tell the political commissar about your affairs and ask him to apply for a commendation order for you. .”

Sokov's words made the two young girls smile. Zina touched Susanna with her arm and said excitedly: "Susanna, did you hear that? The teacher said that when we return to Mamayev Post, we will give you a hand." We apply for a commendation order."

  Susanna was overjoyed when she heard the news that she was about to receive an award, but she did not forget the regulations in the regulations. She stepped forward quickly, straightened her body, raised her head high and said, "Serve the Soviet motherland!"

   "Susanna, Zina, you have done a good job." Sokov said approvingly, "I will ask the Political Department to sort out your deeds and publicize them within the division, so that everyone can learn from you."

  (end of this chapter)