Six hundred and twenty-nine. Sniper vs. Sniper

After slowly entering the city, the assault team realized that they were chasing a Russian division in the rout, and they suffered heavy casualties. The city was littered with killed Russians, both soldiers and civilians. They were all killed in the shelling throughout the night.

Heisenberg came across the ruins of a Russian machine-gun position, where a direct hit from a shell. The two Russian soldiers who were waiting for the Germans to arrive were blown to pieces, the remains of their bodies and sandbags were scattered everywhere, and their foxhole was now an open crater.

Shots were heard in the distance, and immediately after, shots rang out from other directions. It must have been some Russian soldiers who were covering other units in retreat. Commando squads cautiously walked through the city.

Heisenberg saw several frightened women hiding in a large house with broken windows. Heisenberg couldn't keep an eye on them, their heads were wrapped in turbans, and many were crying. They didn't speak to the German soldiers, and it looked like they thought they were going to be shot at any moment.

Similar scenes are everywhere in the streets, with women holding dead men or children; an elderly man wraps his wife's badly injured leg; Two elderly women resuscitate another woman who had lost a foot.

Many houses are now turned into craters. Heisenberg thought that the unfortunate inhabitants were probably asleep when the shells hit the houses. They may be buried underneath, their fate uncertain.

The German soldiers ignored these scenes. As ordered, they marched through the city in a procession, chasing the Russian troops. The truck, which they had used as a means of transport the day before, was now following in a long line.

When close to the center of Lilpock. The commandos heard a fierce exchange of fire. Heisenberg believed that the Russians were putting up stubborn resistance in the center of the city.

The assault team saw many German infantry squads hiding in houses near the city center. Heisenberg walked beside Misha, Edim, and Sergeant Keller. As they approached the houses that the German squad had used as concealment, the commandos saw a pile of corpses lying in the street between the houses. Eight German soldiers fell together. They were all shot several times and were apparently killed.

Keller ordered an infantry to monitor street corners and streets. The soldier complied.

"Machine gun emplacement, sir! Just in front of the street. ”

"How far?" Sergeant Keller asked.

"About two hundred meters."

Keller pointed at Edim and Heisenberg: "Go and kill it!" ”

"Edim, follow me!" Heisenberg said to his friend. He put his rifle in front of him and began to crawl forward. Heisenberg used the pile of corpses as a cover, and slowly approached the pile, lying behind the pile of corpses. He felt that it would be difficult for the enemy to detect him. Because he was wearing a military uniform of the same color as those corpses.

Edim crawled beside him. He carefully placed the rifle on a corpse. Heisenberg had also set up his rifle and was looking at it with a much more effective Zeiss scope. He aimed the reticle at the chin of the Heavy on the left.

"They don't expose too much, can you hit?"

Edim smiled, "I think so." Heisenberg, listen to my orders three, two, one! ”

They both pulled the trigger at the same time. Heisenberg's bullet was slightly higher, a few centimeters higher than where he was aiming, and it hit the heavy in the face. He forgot that this time the shot was closer. He looked at the Russian soldier's eyes wide open. Then it fell. Out of his sight.

"Keep watching!" Heisenberg whispered, and then he saw another Russian soldier get up and reach for the machine gun. Heisenberg shot him in the face. The Russian soldier's nose disappeared, and he retracted his head. Edim also fired.

"I killed the loader!" He said excitedly.

Heisenberg could fully feel Edim's adrenaline rushing, and so did himself. He searched the streets for enemies.

Edim continued to monitor the streets, and Heisenberg turned around and gestured to Sergeant Keller that the enemy's machine-gun crew had been eliminated by them.

Keller nodded. Tell the rest of the class to rush forward. They dragged the fallen German soldiers off the streets, and Sergeant Keller broke off half of the badges around their necks. Stuff it into your own pocket. "Poor fellow!" He muttered.

Keller asked Heisenberg if he could give him his scope. Heisenberg handed over his rifle.

Keller peered through his scope to look at the streets of the downtown area. He moved his rifle and watched what was happening in front of him. "They were hiding in those concrete buildings. But the sheltered houses of the commandos were made of dirt and a few brick walls, and they couldn't stop the bullets at all, it was like hiding behind a blanket. ”

"Then what should I do, Sergeant?" Just then, an officer came to Keller's side. He was a captain with several infantry squads. Heisenberg estimated that about eight squads of soldiers followed him. The captain asked Keller how it was.

"The enemy is hiding in concrete buildings in the center of the city. My men are using these houses as cover to fire at them. We just took out a machine-gun position in front of the street. He pointed to the Russian machine-gun position.

"Well done, Sergeant! Do you think your men can cover our charge? ”

"No problem, sir!" Keller replied very directly.

"Good. As long as the Russian soldiers probe, you will shoot and suppress them! ”

"Yes, sir!" Keller exclaimed.

Heisenberg felt as if he was a little worried.

Sergeant Keller turned to Misha, Edim and Heisenberg: "Let the Russians see, how the German soldiers fought!" ”

"We'll do our best, sir!" Edim said, bringing his heels together and saluting. Edim then turned to Heisenberg: "You go first, Mr. High Magnification Scope." ”

As he spoke, he laughed.

Heisenberg walked forward between the two houses. The fallen soldier had been removed at the moment, so he leaned against the wall as a concealment, and looked around through the scope on his rifle. Soon, he spotted a Russian soldier. The guy was hiding in a big house. Shoot out through the window. He hid behind a brick wall, very well concealed, revealing only the barrel of his rifle and the small half of his head. Heisenberg pulled the trigger. The Russian soldier either fell or left. He's gone anyway. Using the same tactic, Heisenberg moved the reticle of the scope and crossed the building, keeping the corner of the house between himself and the rest of the building. He could hear the sound of automatic weapons and rifles coming from the building he was aiming at and from several nearby houses.

As many bullets hit the building's façade, he saw white smoke and scattered pieces of broken brick. The glass on all the windows has long since been broken. A mortar shell exploded on the roof.

Heisenberg's reticle fell on a Russian soldier operating a machine gun, and just as he was about to shoot, a bullet hit the opponent's chest. He fell.

Another Russian soldier stepped forward to take the machine gun, and Heisenberg shot him in the forehead. Then he fired a shot at the barrel of that machine gun. Destroy it completely. The bullet landed three centimeters above the reticle, which allowed him to shoot each bullet with precision.

He moved the reticle again, but there was no obvious target in sight. So he motioned for the assault team to rush forward. Sergeant Keller followed the captain, who was followed by about two hundred soldiers. They move very fast. Rush to the building. Spread out against the wall in front of the door. The captain motioned for an infantry squad to rush in. There was an exchange of fire inside the building, and Heisenberg heard it, and a grenade was thrown into it.

After the grenade exploded, all the infantry poured into the building. Heisenberg and several other snipers monitored several windows, but did not see Russian soldiers aiming outside. A few minutes later, with several gunshots and grenade explosions, Sergeant Keller came out of the house. He gathered his snipers.

"There are only about twenty Russian soldiers in this building," he said, pointing to the front, "it seems." The Russians were hiding in large buildings in the city center. The commandos are now using this building as a cover. ”

They walked into the building and climbed to the second floor. Heisenberg looked for a window here. Be prepared to shoot at any building. The other snipers in Heisenberg's squad did the same.

Heisenberg cautiously leaned out again and looked at the buildings in the distance with the reticle of the scope, and soon found the target he was looking for. One of the enemy snipers is aiming at the building where Heisenberg is located. He had a smaller scope mounted on his rifle, and just as Heisenberg was aiming at him, the Russian sniper fired a shot.

Heisenberg imagined that one of his comrades had been killed. He could not allow the other side to continue shooting. So, he gently pulled the trigger. The bullet passed through the opponent's left cheek, and he fell.

This process was repeated over and over again throughout the day. Heisenberg and several other snipers opened fire on any enemy that appeared in the building's windows, and the assault team stormed the building to clear the house of resistance. Heisenberg had several times removed bullets from the magazines of the fallen German soldiers, and he was worried that he would run out of bullets.

Sergeant Keller noticed Heisenberg's excellent marksmanship: "Heisenberg, you are a great fighter. I've never seen a sniper with your skills. I'm glad to serve with you. ”

"Thank you, Sergeant!" Heisenberg had never heard such praise.

During the day's battle, Heisenberg was in danger. A bullet fired by a Russian sniper nearly hit him in the head, and Heisenberg's steel helmet was raised and slammed into his cheek with great force, leaving a dark purple whip mark on his face. Heisenberg lay on the ground for a long time, until he was convinced that the Russian snipers thought he had been killed, and then he slowly crawled to another window and leaned in to search for traces.

After a few minutes of panic, Heisenberg spotted the enemy sniper. He was looking through the scope on his rifle at the building he was in, searching for a target. Heisenberg shot him in the forehead.

At dusk, a large number of Russian soldiers surrounded in the center of the city raised their hands and surrendered.

They were disarmed and escorted south by several hundred German infantrymen. (To be continued......)