Leningrad, a hidden stretch of U.S. defense.

Herbert was an excellent night sniper and was part of the 188th Division of the United States Army. Before the United States officially sent troops to the war on a large scale, he participated in the defense of Stalingrad as an ace sniper.

In that hard-fought battle, the Germans preferred to attack in the darkness of night and take half a street or two buildings. As a night sniper, he can often shoot with just a faint moonlight, or even just a little sound, a dark shadow.

During those three months of fighting, he had killed 72 of his enemies, all of them during the night. Although he lost the battle and lost Stalingrad, he received a large number of medals and was welcomed like an ace hero when he returned to the United States.

Later, with the opening of the second battlefield in Europe, he was again sent back to the European front as an excellent ace night sniper. The biggest role of a sniper is not in the field position, but in urban street fighting, especially in plains and mountainous areas like Europe.

"Hahn, keep an eye out."

As an ace sniper, Herbert enjoyed the benefits of high technology, first of all, the company commander assigned him a special observer, and secondly, he allocated a single soldier infrared night vision device as the special equipment of this two-person night sniper team.

"Damn, it's so quiet tonight."

Hahn was a little sleepy, it was indeed too quiet tonight, quiet enough that in the same amount of time, he could usually find two or three enemies, but tonight, there was nothing unusual at all.

He meowed the infrared scanner in front of him, put his eyes together, and searched carefully, but still found nothing, and it was surprisingly quiet.

However, for battlefield veterans, the absence of anomalies is often the biggest anomaly.

"Nothing was found."

The trained Hahn said in the lowest possible voice, the kind that would not be possible to hear from two meters away.

The two were on the third floor of a four-story building, the fourth floor had been cut off by shells, and the room to the left of the third floor had become a sniper point.

The sniper's position was natural, and a mortar shell blasted through half of the wall, and Smith's falcon-like eyes re-examined the situation outside, and then retracted behind the wall, and Hahn took advantage of it to rest.

"Hahn, tonight's situation is very abnormal, the company commander must have found out, we must be more vigilant, don't be touched by the Germans, it's 1 o'clock in the morning, cheer up, it's dawn soon."

Hahn, though a good observer, is still inferior to Smith, and he has to warn.

"Are the Germans going to launch another midnight offensive?"

Hahn spat out, the Germans love to engage in this kind of trick the most, but the American and Soviet troops are most afraid of this kind of night battle, often the streets and buildings are taken away by the Germans at night, and the Allies can launch an attack in the early morning, relying on strong firepower to support the attack and get it back.

"Who knows, we have this guy, and the wind and grass in the neighborhood can't fool us." Smith picked up the kettle in the corner, took a few large sips, handed it to Hahn and motioned for him to drink, "Change the battery, let's continue." ”

The infrared scanner was powered by a high-power battery, and the two men rested for two minutes before plunging into a highly intense night hunt.

Tonight, however, was a strange situation, and until about 3 a.m., the Germans did not move.

The Germans did not move, but the Allied positions behind the two men did have positions.

“￥%……”

There was a low vibration over the special individual radio station specially assigned to the two, and Hahn put on his headphones and heard the latest orders from the rear.

"Division Commander Roman ordered everyone to rise up and defend their positions, and the command thought that in such an abnormal situation, the Germans must have made a big move."

Hahn put down his headphones and said in his lowest voice.

The so-called rising to defend the position means that everyone usually sleeps in the hole or tunnel, and there are some strong buildings that will be used as garrisons, and when they get up to fight, they have to be deployed in the ruins and dilapidated buildings.

"I'm going to sleep on the ground tonight."

Looking at the time, it was three o'clock in the morning, and according to the habit of the two, Hahn rested for a while first, and Smith was on duty, and then rotated.

Smith was sensitive to time and found that it only took Hahn 2 minutes to fall asleep, and twenty minutes later, when Smith looked at the infrared for the eighth time, he noticed something unusual.

This anomaly does not come from the ground, but from the air.

"It seems to have the sound of an airplane."

Smith's hearing was so sensitive, as an ace sniper, his hearing and eyesight were far better than the average person, he looked up and followed the sound, only to see a little red spot in the sky, and immediately determined that it was a plane flying in the night sky.

In just a dozen seconds, the sound of the plane became louder.

"Damn, it's the night planes of the Germans."

Although this is not the first time for the Germans to come to this set, and night bombing is a regular thing, Smith still hates it, after all, no matter how good a sniper is, he can be blown to ashes by an aerial bomb.

"Hahn, wake up, there's a situation."

Smith kicked Hahn, who immediately woke up in reflex, and after staying in the battlefield for a long time, he immediately spotted the night raiders.

"It's like there's a lot of it, and it's hard to spot the damn Germans every time they put the planes so far ahead."

Hahn complained that the Germans secretly placed their planes on grass or roads to avoid Allied radar warnings as much as possible, and that the large truck technology that the Germans acquired from the Chinese allowed them to often haul planes around with hundreds of large trucks.

These planes must have been flying from extremely close proximity to the front line.

"Da Da Da ......"

"Woo woo woo ......"

Sure enough, as soon as the German planes arrived, the Allied air defense alarm sounded, all kinds of huge searchlights began to clear the sky, the air defense units began to counterattack according to the poor lighting, and the airfields in the rear urgently set up a group of planes to intercept them.

This time, however, the Germans seemed to be just running around, not attacking those anti-aircraft positions and exposed strategic points, but flying everywhere, stirring up chaos throughout Leningrad.

"The Germans are too perverse."

Twenty minutes later, when the third wave of German night raiders flew overhead, Captain Smith and Hahn couldn't help but wonder that in the past, the German night raider planes had attacked and bombed with the most dangerous low-altitude dives, but tonight they were running all over the city, ignoring ground targets except for the Allied night raiders.

After another ten minutes, Smith's eyelids jumped, and he listened intently, half-loudly, and said with a serious expression, "Damn, there are a lot of bombers coming from above, God, I hear them differently." ”

Herbert reacted so quickly that the smartest thing to do was to hide when a huge group of bombers arrived, and there was a tunnel on the first floor of this building that led to the sewers.

The two quickly packed up their sniper rifles, infrared scanners, and radios, and rushed into the basement in just over 30 seconds, very fast.

Entering the sewers, the two had nowhere else to go, and Smith put a periscope here to see the situation on the ground, and Leningrad seemed to be lit up with searchlights blazing.

"What's that?"

As soon as he got to the periscope, Herbert noticed a strange thing, and it was not difficult for him to see that many 'bombs' had fallen from the sky at this time, but these falling bombs, although they also exploded, were too quiet, and there was almost no smoke and fire.

The next moment, he felt cold in his hands and feet.

"Gas bomb !!"

The two of them scrambled to remove the gas masks from their waists, and by this time there had already fallen from the sky with enough gas bombs to suffocate the Allied soldiers on the ground.

"God, it's all gas bombs!!"

"Quick, get into the underground!!"

…… Suddenly, the whole Leningrad was like a thunderstorm on the ground, and a large number of American, British, and Soviet troops began to move towards the tunnels, basements, and underground waterways.

According to the previous poison gas warfare, as well as related common sense, most American, British, and Soviet soldiers believed that the poison gas would dissipate relatively quickly, but this time, as deaths began to appear in underground waterways, tunnels, and basements, people realized what a ferocious poison gas bombardment it was.

"God!!"

Smith suddenly smelled a strange smell, with his agility, he instantly reacted that it was a poison gas leak, and then looked at Hahn on the side, it was actually difficult to breathe.

He hurriedly dragged Hahn into a pit in the side wall, where there was a cave house, which was only enough oxygen for two days after being cut off from the air, but it was better than waiting to be poisoned.

But not all of them were so lucky, only some of them ran into the ground and hid well, and most of the Allied soldiers were put down on the spot by the unprecedented poison gas bombardment.

…… At four o'clock in the morning, at a secret site 200 kilometers from Leningrad, here was the temporary headquarters of General Patton.

"General, the Germans brazenly launched a poison gas attack on us, and five strategic points, including Moscow, Leningrad, Villararo, etc., were attacked by super-large-scale poison gas."

Patton had just slept for less than three hours when he was screamed in a hurry, and he was almost not frightened on the spot when he heard the words, the super-large-scale poison gas bombardment, did the Germans really go crazy.

"Order, the officers and men in the attacked areas should save themselves, and the air force will arrange for the airdrop of some drugs to disperse or condense poison gas......"

Patton's first reaction was to give the order to rescue and save himself, then he calmed down, realized that the problem was indeed too serious, and hurriedly ordered to send a telegram to Washington overnight.

“…… We have been hit by poison gas on an unprecedented scale, and the damage is currently unknown...... It is advisable to immediately use poison gas for retaliation......"

Soon, a short but informative call back from Washington arrived. "Deeply shocked! All-out rescue and approval of all retaliatory actions. ”

(To be continued)