Chapter 351: We Are the Messengers of Death
This is the world of snipers, and even the cadets who can't go to the front line tonight have marksmanship that is the envy of ordinary soldiers, and they have heard of Vasily's "use your hands" to aim at them, but the long-term military training has made them forget what it is to feel. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Gurov showed the new trainees what it means to aim with their hands - three shots, which smashed a wine bottle thrown into the air from 50 meters away, which made the trainees from the Siberian forest applaud loudly.
Gurov shot with the gun in his hand, and he didn't aim with his eyes at all, and both he and Zijin had this trick. Sidorenko wasn't as good as the two of them, but it was no problem to hit a walking man within 150 meters: he was more like Vasily, a standard sniper, than a freak trained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs!
With such a rapid and accurate shooting capability, of course, they do not need a PU sight with a magnification of only 2.5 times: if they are in the forest, they do not have time to aim at a close-range target that suddenly appears, and they should be sure to put down one by one, so that the zoom sight with a magnification of 3 to 8 times can better perform its task -- sniping at a long-distance target.
What is the value of the existence of snipers? To make the enemy pay the maximum price with the least cost, this is the fundamental purpose of the existence of snipers. Whether it's designated sniping, patrol hunting, non-hard equipment destruction, team observation and vigilance, and fire support, a sniper is a lingering fear on the enemy's head, like a sharp sword that will fall at any moment! When targeted by a sniper, the will to fight of any unit will be greatly affected, because from that moment nothing is safe, maybe the next moment there will be a bullet that will end your life.
Perform a designated sniper mission, either as a sniper or as a team of 2 people, one of whom scouts and one snipers. This time Vasily found them three observers according to the characteristics of the three, none of them equipped with sniper rifles, but carrying AK47s. Like Sergeant Ivan, an observer assigned to Sidorenko, whose home is in the far Taiga forest area of the Far East, he can use an ordinary AK47 assault rifle as a sniper rifle within 300 meters. But strangely, Ivan's long-range shooting ability was average, and he was sent by the troops to be trained as an observer -- he also had the ability to track and observe that he had cultivated in his hometown, and the traps he had laid were not spared from rabbits to bears.
This time, the school carried out the orders of the military region, not some task such as targeted killing, but patrol, hunting and sabotage, which required them to take the initiative and freedom to ambush any target worthy of being killed, adapt to the confusing and unpredictable battlefield environment, and kill on their own, which can achieve miraculous results. The measure of a sniper's success is not how many people he shoots, but how much impact he can do on the enemy! Destroy the morale of the enemy!
The snipers of the Finns were terrible, and in the northern forest regions only the snipers of the Red Army were evenly matched - the elimination of the fascist snipers was their primary goal!
Gurov gave a temporary lesson to the students after the school robbery, and it was a good opportunity to get the guidance of the masters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and everyone asked for advice seriously. In fact, there was nothing to teach, Vasily and the teachers had already taught them everything they needed to know.
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The Red Army position, 50 kilometers north of Lake Ladoga, welcomed four reinforcements here at midnight. Four people support an infantry battalion, which in normal times the infantry comrades will definitely be angry and scolding, but this time it is different, because it is a sniper who comes.
These are four snipers with green and yellow strips of cloth from head to toe, back, and hind legs, and their faces painted black and green, and their sniper rifles are also wrapped with wisps of cloth - such outfits can immediately blend in with their surroundings when they enter the forest.
The person who came was a master sniper of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and when checking the documents, the infantry commander was stunned for a second: it was not the style of the Ministry of Internal Affairs documents that he had seen before, one of which clearly stated that he was a member of the Kremlin Guard, and the other was simply a "Cheka" work card.
Zigin and Shidorenko are in a group, because Zigin was the first to join the "Cheka", and he has always used the "Cheka" certificate, but it is indicated by his work unit later. More than 90 percent of the "Chekas" were soldiers, and it was not surprising at all that Zigin had such an identity document - certainly not surprisingly, but not surprising to the top of Moscow, but to an ordinary infantry commander.
"How did the Cheka people get here?"
The Finns have not been showing up for more than a day, and the infantry here is completely on the defensive, with a little nothing to do. Zigin didn't want to be idle: the Finns didn't come to them, and they wanted to make the Finns unstable.
The infantry battalion commander can not command these masters, and since they want to go, they will not be blocked.
"If there is no big offensive by the Finnish army, maybe we will be back in a week." Gurov put aside such a sentence and took his observers and Shidorenko's team to act separately.
The darkness completely obscured the figures of Sidorenko and Ivan, and the two of them melted into the endless forest like ghosts in the night, which would be their hunting ground.
Bypassing several Finn posts overnight, Shidorenko did not want to waste time on these low-value targets: after dawn, a sniper position was set up on the side of an improvised road in Finland.
Ivan's position environment is very good, it is only less than 100 meters away from the road, and it has been able to control the position of a kilometer away from the left, once it is necessary to retreat, there is a vast forest behind it, as long as you drill inside, don't want to find the target except for the military dog. Ivan didn't think it was safe - a safe retreat was his concern, and he set two traps with a pull-out grenade behind him.
Such a task does not require the construction of overly complex positions, just a place that is concealed enough to block machine-gun bullets: the two of them wait behind a protruding mound of dirt, completely blending in with the grass and fallen leaves in the woods.
"Lonely and long" -- long-term survival in the wild requires convenient and safe shelter: The selection of positions must give full consideration to the needs of long-term concealment, not only to be close to water sources, but also to ensure that it is dry and does not accumulate water on rainy days, and that it is cool and ventilated on hot days. Ivan deserves to have grown up in the forest, and the place he chose exactly met the requirements of a sniper, which made Sidorenko very satisfied.
An hour later a convoy passed the road, and Shidorenko did not attack, which did not meet the conditions. At six o'clock in the morning, a motorized convoy apparently carrying supplies came into view.
He pointed his hand in the direction of the convoy and whispered to Ivan on the side: "Fire at 200 meters, if you run with them, don't move." ”
Ivan nodded.
A total of 21 Finnish infantrymen, the sergeant leading the team was on the first wagon, and when he reached 200 meters, Sidorenko pulled the trigger. The silence of the morning was broken by the crisp sound of gunfire, and almost at the same time, the Finn was shot through the head and fell backwards!
Quickly aiming at the target that was about to jump under the car, the bullet overturned the Finn entirely. The Finns, as if aware of Sidorenko's position, did not run away, but shot at the carriage.
The shot from the approximate position was not at all a threat to the two men, and it was only after the first magazine had been exhausted that Shidorenko signaled to change places. The Finns did not dare to move at all, they understood that they had met the snipers of the Russians! If you don't come out of the carriage, the sniper won't have a problem, and if you run, you'll be shot.
But the Finns' minds were turning a little slower, and after a minute or so of silence, a dense burst of fire came from the flanks - if they had chosen to abandon the carriage and go into the forest at once, they would have lived longer. Shidorenko and Ivan touched their flanks, and Ivan's precise shot came into play - knocking out ten in less than 8 seconds from 100 meters away!
The Finns finally understood how to save their lives - and they went into the forest on the sidelines.
"Heavy soldiers, it's boring." Shidorenko did not pursue at all, the military horses pulling the cart would be really stimulated, let go of the hooves and run away with the car that no one was pulling.
"We should have shot the horse twice."
"Who would have thought that it would continue to study." Ivan said when he was retreating immediately after Shidorenko: Hitting horses exposes the enemy, which is not in the textbooks. And Shidorenko did not expect that the Finns would hide behind the carriage instead of going into the woods, their brains did not turn a corner, and it seemed that they would have to learn more in real combat.
The bodies of 17 Finns were all around the road, and since Sidorenko had no intention of getting the badges, Ivan didn't have to risk them - and four more had run, and the snipers wouldn't let themselves be exposed in such a situation, and it wasn't worth the risk for a few badges.
Heading north along the forest on the left side of the road, according to the two men's estimates, the destination of the wagons pulling the equipment should not be far away, and there might be a worthwhile target.
They were right, at noon a village appeared in front of them, with a large number of Finnish troops, and more importantly, a makeshift airstrip on the side, where two small planes were parked.
"The Finns' front-line artillery observation airfield, do it again at night, and rest now." The woods are less than 200 metres from the airfield and the village, and the late supply convoys will let the people know that there are small Red Army units moving and that the airfield should be on guard - but it would be useless in the night.
It won't be dark until after 10 p.m. tonight, and Shidorenko and Ivan each have five hours to take turns sleeping in the beauty - don't worry about mosquitoes, they have the best insect repellent. (To be continued.) )