There was silence in front of the observation hole, and there were no moving objects in the death zone more than 200 meters wide 150 meters away, and the German trenches and fortifications were densely packed behind. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There were obviously several thousand troops in this area, but after more than ten days of continuous excavation and construction, the German front, like its own side, built a solid and deep trench defense line with all the building materials that could be found from the rear.

In the ruins of the second floor of the train station, Sergeant Nina Pavlovna Petrova wears her jumper and hides behind a ruined wall. Through the quadruple scope of the rifle, the eyes slowly but carefully searched the German position for anything suspicious.

More than ten days ago, the 27th Sniper Detachment of the 4th Division of the Leningrad Front led by her, a total of 8 snipers supported the front line of the Vilnius railway station, and 4 of the 7 young female snipers trained by her have died in a short period of time!

Two were killed by shelling, while the other two were killed yesterday by German gunfire.

As a sniper instructor, Petrova, who is nearly 50 years old, has always treated the snipers she brought with her as if they were her own children, and the sacrifice of the children made her sad and full of desire for revenge!

In both shots, the girls were sacrificed in their sniper positions, Petrova looked at it and came to only one conclusion: the Germans also sent a group of first-class snipers.

Calmness, you need to be calm without waves, and any little mistake will be fatal!

Before entering the sniper point in the morning, she clearly warned herself that the two young men had killed double-digit Germans in battle, and that it was a trivial mistake that killed them.

"Moses, at one o'clock, the second floor on the left side of the inverted L-shaped path."

She was not alone, there were also comrade bankers who acted as her observers.

Moses, like most of the Jewish volunteer militia who were still alive, chose to stay after the front was temporarily stabilized and joined the Red Army. His family members have been evacuated to Sven Jonis, who will be diverted to Leningrad.

There are two distant relatives of Moses in Leningrad, and it is not necessary to worry if his wife and children cannot find them, Moses has already joined the Soviet Red Army, and as a family member, his wife will get a job making military uniforms in Leningrad, and she will still be able to reunite after the war.

"A minute." Moses, who spoke, was wearing the camouflage suit that Petrova had "renovated" for him, and the camouflage suit was no longer the electrician's overalls he had when he first arrived, but a new Red Army private's uniform.

Beside him was a sniper rifle left behind by a sacrificial sniper, and in front of him was a 12x magnification monocular, and according to the sergeant's instructions, the "older private" turned the telescope at a very slow speed to find the target that needed to be instructed.

On their own front, the snipers should move slightly, and there is no need to prohibit speech, even if they shout at the throat, the Germans in the distance will not be heard.

The road in the field of vision is said to be a small road, but in fact it is possible to drive a car, and there are several small houses attached to the corner, which have either been beaten to tatters by shelling or have become part of the fortifications and become unrecognizable.

Except for a few such similar buildings nearby, there should have been large vegetable patches and gardens.

"500 meters away, the first room on the right, the second attic on the left, there is half a camouflaged movable helmet." Moses observed for dozens of seconds before speaking calmly.

"Probably bait, look around."

It's a bit obvious and unreliable. If it were German snipers, they would also be very well concealed, and the flaws could only be seen in the smallest details, and the line of sight in Petrova's scope was not as clear as Moses could see through a telescope.

Three minutes later, she heard Moses' report: "Five meters to the left, downstairs on the left. ”

Petrova slowly moved the muzzle of her gun, and there seemed to be an object in her field of vision that moved slowly: it was the half of the body of a sniper in a camouflage suit.

The house blocked most of the side, and Petrova instantly judged that the opponent's observer might be on the second floor, breaking through one side of the wall, and that the helmet was nothing more than a false target pulled up and down with a rope.

"The observer may have used a hidden telescope periscope, and there were no flaws."

Hearing Moses' report again, Petrova knew that even if she waited for another three days, her opponent would not be able to show more, and the terrain was there. But the small half of the body was enough, and Petrova pulled the trigger.

The crisp sound of the gunshot suddenly rang out, and in less than a second, Moses saw the target jump and disappear in an instant, leaving a pile of miscellaneous wood, "Hit!" ”

"Withdraw!"

Just one word, the two of them moved back, stood up and walked down with their equipment.

At this moment, the shouts of several commanders sounded on the position: "Watch out for the German shelling, pay attention to concealment, pay attention to concealment!" ”

This is not the first time, and the infantry reacted quickly.

"Sergeant, it seems to have hit the thigh." Moses, who had just entered the trench and put down his hood, said to Petrova.

"That's enough for him to be honest for three months! It's a veteran, and the location is too well chosen. ”

A hit in the thigh is enough to stay in the hospital for a while: injuring your opponent in this situation is the best option, and if you are lucky enough to hit a bone or an aorta, you can even maim or even kill your opponent.

Knowing that the nearest anti-artillery concealment was the observation post of the anti-tank artillery battery, the two quickly entered along the communication trench and saw that the engineer major Comrade Ivanov was also there, and Lieutenant Shuklin was observing the enemy positions with the artillery mirror.

The cannonballs whistled as promised, accurately hitting the second-story ruins where Petrova and the others had been, and exploded violently, sending flying debris crackling and smashing around, and a foul smell of gunpowder filled the place where the smoke drifted through.

"Damn, it's mortars." Shuklin could see a faint smoke rising from the opposite side of the artillery mirror, which was left behind by the mortar fire, and judging from the sound of the shells whistling, it should be 80 mm mortars.

Each shell had its own unique whistling sound, and the artillerymen could tell the difference: there was no need for Shuklin to shout at his men, the two concealed anti-tank gun positions not far from the other exit were not moving at all, and their ZIS-3 anti-tank guns were helpless against the mortar positions of their opponents at such a distance, which were all laid very low.

The trajectory of the anti-tank gun at close range was too straight, and Shuklin could only stare dryly, but that didn't mean that the others couldn't.

The ground shook slightly, and the sound of mortar fire was heard, and three shots were fired in succession.

"It's Benjamin's side, this old guy is very accurate." Moses, who spoke, knew as soon as he heard the voice that it was a mortar position more than 50 meters away that was speaking.

Benjamin, a corporal in the dragoon mortar unit of the Second German Reich in World War I, also changed into the Soviet Red Army private uniform and remained, except that Moses' rank was infantry, while Benjamin wore an artillery uniform.

The technique of trench warfare experts in using mortars is as pure as fire, and those young gunners who have been in the army for a year or two cannot compare with him in their ability to quickly and accurately shell. For more than ten days, it was rumored that the German veteran could smash a shell into a German skirmish within 1,500 meters with his eyes closed!

It would be bragging to smash into the foxhole, but this would make Shuklin clearly see through the artillery mirror several dense explosion points more than 700 meters away, just where the faint green smoke rose.

Except for a few shells fired by both sides, there was no other sound on the entire battlefield.

"That's it, I guess Benjamin's shells didn't hit anything." Shuklin looked at the artillery mirror and said, then turned to Ivanov and said: "If Benjamin had reimbursed a few shells, it would have been enough for us to be busy for a while." ”

This was the case in the past few days, first provoked by snipers from both sides, followed by sporadic retaliatory shelling; Then, because of the casualties caused by the shelling on both sides, it soon became that the entire front was covered by artillery fire, and at least a few hundred large and medium-caliber shells were fired at each other!

In the end, the two sides were almost vented, and after Changchang found that he had suffered hundreds of white-haired shells and had not suffered many casualties, he estimated that the situation suffered by the opponent should be similar, and he would die down in confusion: Who let the fortifications on both sides rest so well?!

Both sides have become smarter, as soon as the shelling begins, no one is scurrying around in the traffic trenches, and it is not safe there; Everyone was nesting in the bomb holes and shelters, and no one could rush outside in the muddy death zone covered with mines and barbed wire, and there were still observation posts staring at them.

When everything calmed down, Ivanov and Shukrin went outside to find out what was going on: apart from the fact that the second floor, where Petrova was originally located, was blown up in an even more mess, there were no losses on the position.

Since they had entered the sniper position early in the morning, neither of them had eaten lunch, so Petrova decided to go to the gathering point to get something to eat.

"Sergeant, let's go to Benjamin's, it's May Day, and yesterday he said he would leave us something good."

Petrova felt that there was probably no chance today, "You go, I have something to do with Maria." ”

The sniper team of Maria Semyonovna Polivanova and Natalia Venediktovna Kovshova crossed the street behind the building, where the basement was also a gathering place for the snipers, who had also been on duty since Moses joined the ranks of the snipers.

After passing through the communication trenches, Moses entered a mortar position reinforced with timber on all sides.

Because it was a rare sunny day, the gunners did not cover the mortar positions with tarpaulins, and anyway, they could not see this article from a few hundred meters away, basking in the dampness. This is not the M40 50mm mortar position where Benjamin was originally located, he had been transferred to the new 82mm M37 82mm mortar battery a few days ago.

Short guns were replaced by long guns, for which there was also a telephone line for rear artillery observation posts to be used to indicate targets: the M37 82-mm mortars had a range of three kilometers.

The gunners knew Moses, "and he was in front." ”

Benjamin was in the process of reloading the newly arrived cannonballs with ****** when he was interrupted by a sniper-induced shelling, and Moses was sitting on the cannonball box sorting out the shells when he saw him. (To be continued.) )