Zaitsev felt that he was being targeted. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It feels intense, but it's just a feeling. He scanned the surroundings and found no danger in sight, the nearest suitable ambush site was at least five hundred meters away from him, at such a distance that it was impossible for a Japanese sniper to hit the target, and he did not find anything unusual in that location.

However, as an experienced hunter, Zaitsev has always trusted his instincts. Even though he didn't find anything, he retracted his head.

The feeling is weakened, but it's still there.

If there really is such a powerful Japanese sniper who not only skillfully camouflages himself but can also hit targets at a distance of 500 meters, it is obvious that he does not intend to give up the prey that he has already targeted.

Zaitsev's breathing became rapid, only because of nervousness: being prey for the first time made him a little uneasy, and the enemy was a formidable character to deal with, which was further exacerbated. The excitement, excitement, and eagerness that usually arise when the protagonist of a literary work encounters an opponent worthy of him does not appear in him - this is not the emotion that a soldier produces.

Only uneasiness and nervousness are the emotions that a soldier produces, even if he is brilliant and a combat hero. Zaitsev's thoughts were no different from those of ordinary soldiers: he wished that he had not run into that dangerous Japanese sniper. Of course, the guy was hiding somewhere, already eyeing him, and Zaitsev had to step back a little and choose one of two not-so-bad endings: take out his opponent in a treacherous one-on-one battle, or quit the fight when he still had the chance.

On second thought, he chose to take the plunge.

Combat heroes can only make this choice.

Taking a hard breath to calm his mood, Zaitsev crawled along the traffic trench to the next ambush point—which he had prepared at Daninov's suggestion—with obvious caution. The trench was shallow, and if he wasn't careful, he would be exposed, and Zaitsev didn't want that to happen, because that would mean that the moment he reached the ambush point and raised his head, a bullet would go into his head.

He crawled slowly, using only his hands, moving only a few inches forward at a time, and from time to time, he would stop and wait for a while, maybe a dozen seconds, before continuing on. Despite the fact that the distance between the two ambush points was less than fifty meters, it still took him a quarter of an hour to reach his destination.

Drawing a cross on his chest, he cautiously stuck his head out.

There were no bullets, no gunshots, and the Japanese snipers did not detect his movements. Zaitsev breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was dismayed to find that he had not found the enemy - the Japanese must still be on this battlefield, hiding somewhere, the question is, where is he?

At least within his firing boundaries, there were no questionable targets.

Zaitsev had a very bad feeling. The severity of the situation went up another level, either the Japanese sniper he encountered was so well camouflaged that even his eyes couldn't make out it, or the guy was hiding too far away beyond the maximum limit of his field of vision.

For the time being, Zaitsev can't figure out the right answer, but whichever guess is right means that his chances of victory have become slim.

No one can defeat the invisible enemy.

"Hell!" Zaitsev said to himself, half surprised, half panicked, "Where did the Japanese find such a dangerous guy?" ”

His right hand immediately trembled involuntarily at the thought of how badly he was in trouble, so much so that he had to let go of the rifle and hold it with his left hand, holding it hard until it felt pain, while constantly taking deep breaths to force himself to regain his composure - it took him a long time to do this, his breathing and his heartbeat became calm, and he returned to the duel that the Japanese had begun.

"I still have a chance...... There's still a chance to ......," he whispered to himself. There was still a chance, as if he didn't find his opponent's position and the Japanese didn't re-lock him. Now the two of them were in equal positions, and the idea was the same - certainly - if they could not find a target, then wait until one of them ran out of patience, and then withdrew from the fight, or, revealed his position.

It's going to be a long-lasting contest.

Zaitsev was completely silent, waiting, although he did not forget to continue to look for traces of his opponent, but he just waited, neither making a sound nor making any movements, just hiding quietly in the middle of a pile of corpses.

He was surrounded by corpses. There is nothing strange about this, here corpses are everywhere, corpses of the Japanese, corpses of the Russians, rotten, not yet decomposed, intact, mutilated, old, new, and constantly increasing. War is not a battle of two or several people, and the commander does not wait for the snipers to decide the winner before ordering the soldiers to attack. They have much less patience than snipers.

Moreover, whether it is the Russian army, the Japanese army, or the army of other countries, there are always many "bloody generals". They already have enough guts, all they need is blood.

Of course, certainly not their own blood.

While Zaitsev waited for his opponent to run out of patience, the Japanese army organized several attacks, each time in the same pattern: first heavy artillery fire, plowing the outer defense line of the Arthur fortress over and over again, then the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese soldiers shouted slogans, rushed out of the position, and slaughtered the enemy's position with great vigour, sometimes they were crushed by the artillery fire and bullets of the counterattack halfway, and sometimes they were temporarily favored by the goddess luck and successfully broke through the enemy's defense, Engage in a bloody white-knuckle battle with Russian soldiers, but either way, they will lose and end up fleeing back to their trenches with hundreds of corpses.

For the first time since the outbreak of war, Zaitsev watched these battles out of the corner of his eye, as a mere spectator. However, he did not want to watch these battles, and after a few weeks of cruising on the brink of life and death, there were few people left who loved to watch them, and he was by no means one of them. It's just that he must always pay attention to the movements around him, avoid being affected by artillery fire, and guard against Japanese soldiers approaching him.

Of course, none of the Japanese soldiers approached his ambush point, and theoretically, it was almost impossible for them to recognize him as a Russian sniper unless they looked closely at close, but Zaitsev did not dare to be careless at all, whether they could see through his disguise or not, the Japanese who approached him were a potential threat, because in this war, in this battlefield, the Russians, living or corpse, would be attacked.

The same goes for the corpses of the Japanese.

It's not accidental, it's not being affected, it's a deliberate, targeted attack, a kind of hysterical venting. The vast majority of Japanese and Russian soldiers, both Japanese and Russian, treated the remains of the opposing soldiers in this way, for no other reason than out of their unquenchable anger and uncontrollable hatred of the enemy.

It all started when the snipers targeted the wounded Japanese and the Japanese who were trying to rescue them, and the snipers were doing it, Zaitsev himself had shot wounded Japanese soldiers, and of course Japanese soldiers trying to rescue his comrades, but Captain Daninov felt that this was not enough, and he waved Qin Lang's pamphlet, declaring that more efficient and deterrent tactics should be used. As a result, some snipers began to use wounded Japanese soldiers as bait, and even deliberately injured their targets, luring Japanese soldiers to rush out of bunkers to rescue their compatriots, and then killing rescuers one by one......

It was unethical, but the captain liked it - he even recited a poem, "Oh, the cunning enemy is to use a saint as bait to catch a saint" - and it worked at first until the Japanese stopped rescuing wounded soldiers.

Maybe it was their commander who gave the order, maybe it was the captain's tactics that had a deterrent effect, and anyway, they didn't do that anymore.

That's not the whole story, though. The Japanese were angry, and rightly so, they wanted to take revenge, and the first to suffer were the captured soldiers, who brought them to the front of the position, and cut off their heads with sabers under the watchful eyes of all the soldiers of the fortress.

So the generals were angry, "the Japanese monkeys have treated the Russian servicemen with such barbarism, and the imperial army must not tolerate such humiliation" - in retaliation against the Japanese, Lieutenant General Stessel ordered the gendarmes to execute the same number of Japanese prisoners, also at the front of the position, and also in front of the Japanese.

Then the Japanese retaliated on a larger scale, but they were left with no prisoners and almost no choice, and the corpses that were left behind in the positions and did not have time to recover became new targets. The Japanese soldiers began to shoot at the corpses of the Russian soldiers they saw, piercing it repeatedly with bayonets, even dismantling it in pieces, and even carrying the heads of Russian soldiers with bayonets to demonstrate to the fortress - what a barbaric method! Zaitsev had already seen that scene more than once, and others had seen it. It only had one expected result, and the soldiers of the fortress were enraged, and they began to do the same.

Even if it was a situation created by Captain Daninov and the snipers, no one cared.

That's it, the retaliatory actions of the two armies escalated and grew in size, and in the end, almost all the soldiers were swept up, although there were also some officers who tried to control the situation, but they soon found that their efforts were completely meaningless, because as long as the Japanese did not stop their actions, the soldiers would not stop, and extremely unfortunately, since the soldiers did not stop their actions, the Japanese would not stop.

The situation is completely out of control. The war gradually became less like a war, or rather, it was becoming the kind of war that Captain Daninov mentioned when he waved Qin Lang's pamphlet, probably the result he had been expecting, "a war without honor and humanity."

It's taking that form, very quickly, completely irreversible. Zaitsev had a feeling that, in the end, it would turn into a mass vendetta: Russians and Japanese, Caucasian and yellow, religious and non-reliant.

As long as people want to, they can always find a good reason.

Zaitsev did not know what Captain Daninov and other snipers thought of the bloody reality he had created, he himself did not like it at all.

Especially now.

He had to be vigilant against every Japanese soldier, whether he could identify him or not, it wasn't a particularly serious problem in the past, but today, a dangerous Japanese sniper has entered this battlefield, and being found has been equated with death, and in the face of such a grim security situation, no one can look at things with even a neutral eye, let alone like it.

It's terrible to create a difficult feeling for yourself.

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PS: Last week was very uncomfortable, and I was nauseated enough by some books, but unfortunately, those books were all found by myself...... (To be continued.) )