Among the five snipers on the Second Company's position, one was Sergeant Ji Na from the Division Guard Battalion.
During the Stalingrad defense battle, Jina and another female sniper named Susanna sniped more than 70 German officers and soldiers together. Although their results were not comparable to those of Vasily Zaitsev, they were not as good as those of the top, which was not as good as those of the bottom. This was also a great record. The two of them also won a medal for this.
At this moment, she was lying in a crater in front of the trench and aimed at the distance with the Mosinnagan rifle with a scope. Through the scope, she could clearly see the German engineers running over. The engineers were at least five hundred meters away. Although the Mosinnagan rifle with a scope could reach 800 meters, she was not sure that she accurately hit the target at such a long distance, so she could only slowly choose to shoot the target.
After waiting patiently for a while, she found an engineer running behind suddenly stopped, bent down and picked up something, and quickly locked the target and pulled the trigger without hesitation. The engineer leaned back and fell straight on the snow. Because there were German tanks nearby, they were shelling the Soviet positions, and the huge explosion covered the gunshots. None of the engineers who were advancing noticed that their companions were shot and fell down.
After killing the first enemy, Ji Na quickly aimed at the second target. The engineer had already crossed the fire-burning tank and was running towards the minefield, which was also the closest target to Ji Na. When he was shot and fell down, the engineer behind him thought he had been tripped by accident, and even a companion came forward to try to support him. When he found out that he was dead, he couldn't help but scream.
How could Ji Na make him yell like this? She immediately fired another shot at him, causing his shout to come to an abrupt end. Seeing his companion fall down, the rest of the engineers immediately realized that there were snipers on the Soviet position. In order not to become the target of the opponent, they all lay down on the ground and crawled towards the minefield.
Due to the obstruction of bullet craters and snow piles, it was difficult for these German engineers to concentrate on their targets as soon as they lay down. She retracted her body back into the bullet crater, pulled out the bayonet, drew three bars on the butt stock, which meant that three more German soldiers were killed.
The German tanks also found that there were snipers in the Soviet army, so two tanks turned their guns and bombarded them in the direction where Ji Na was hiding. Since the enemy did not know Ji Na's specific location, the bounce point was very far away, and only scattered soil and snow powder fell into the crater where Ji Na was hiding.
Ji Na was not afraid of the shelling of the German tanks. After all, she had encountered a more sinister situation in the defense of Stalingrad. She took out a hard black bread from her backpack, cut a small piece with a bayonet, and put it in her mouth. She wanted to hurry up and eat to supplement the physical strength consumed by long-term lurking.
While eating to replenish his energy, the snipers hiding in several other craters saw that the enemy engineers had climbed into the minefield and were lying on the ground to clear the mines. In order to prevent the enemy engineers from lifting the anti-tank lightning out, the snipers ignored their safety and leaned out of the crater, aimed at the engineers in the distance and pulled the trigger.
These snipers' gunshots are not as good as Ji Na, and the enemy's engineers are now four hundred meters away. As a result, bullets either flew over the enemy's engineers' heads or hit the open space next to them, and no one hit the target.
The German tank soldiers discovered these snipers and immediately concentrated artillery fire to bombard them. In an instant, the snipers were submerged in flames and smoke.
Guchakov, in the command post, saw the crater where the sniper was hiding, and was destroyed by the German tank artillery fire, and he was so anxious that he stomped his feet. He knew very well that once the sniper was destroyed by the enemy's artillery fire, the engineers could calmly clear mines from hundreds of meters away. When the anti-tank lights in the minefield were lighted, the enemy's tanks should rush up again.
Guchakov, forced to call Vasily and reported to him: "Comrade Battalion Commander, all the snipers I deployed in front of the position have been sacrificed in the German artillery attack."
"What, all of them were sacrificed?" Vasily was shocked when he heard this bad news and asked quickly: "Where is Ji Na, is she still alive?"
Although everyone knows that "in war, there are only soldiers and civilians, and there is no difference between men and women." But in the 41st Division of the Guards, female soldiers are still very strong. When they learned that Ji Na might have a danger, Vasily quickly ordered Guchakov: "Captain, send someone to inspect immediately. You must find Ji Na, and you must see someone alive and die if you die."
After Guchakov put down the phone, he immediately ordered the communications soldier to call a platoon leader and told him: "The first platoon leader, the battalion commander has an order, and immediately send someone to find Ji Na. No matter whether she is dead or alive, she must find her."
A row leader agreed and turned around and sent a command post.
He returned to the trenches, called a warrior, and asked, "Do you know where Sergeant Jina's lurking point is?"
After hearing this, the soldier pointed to the position that was blown up by the German artillery fire and said, "It seems to be there."
"You go and see where Sergeant Jina is in?" When the soldier was about to climb out of the trench, a platoon leader reminded him from behind: "Don't stand up, crawl over, otherwise he will become the target of German artillery fire."
The soldier crawled to the bumpy crater with his hands and feet, searched carefully for a while, and then climbed back again, reporting to the platoon leader with a bitter face: "Comrade platoon leader, everyone inside was blown up, and his broken limbs and arms were buried in the soil. It is impossible to identify which one was Ji Na."
The German engineers quickly cleared the mines in the minefield, and the tanks parked at the edge of the minefield started to launch a new force and rushed towards the Soviet position. The late infantry also followed the tanks and rushed towards the Soviet position.
Hiding in the crater, Ji Na heard the sound of track transmission from outside the crater, and quickly poked her head carefully and looked in the direction where the sound came. She saw a German No. 4 short-tube tank heading towards her hiding position, following more than twenty soldiers holding weapons.
Seeing that the enemy was only two hundred meters away from her, Ji Na immediately set up her gun, aimed at the infantry attacking the tank, and pulled the trigger frantically. In less than a minute, she fired ten bullets from two magazines. Half of the infantry attacking the tank immediately fell to the ground.
The remaining soldiers did not find Ji Na hiding in the crater. She thought that her fallen companion was hit by the Soviet machine gun bullets on the position, and she foolishly fought back at the machine gun fire point on the position.
A platoon leader who was commanding the battle in the trench was overjoyed to see Ji Na appearing from an unexpected position and quickly knocking down so many enemies. He quickly grabbed a soldier and ordered the other party: "Go and report to the company commander quickly, and just say that Sergeant Ji Na is still alive." As he said that, he pushed the other party hard, "Go quickly."
Seeing that the enemy did not notice her, Ji Na finished two magazines in one breath. This time she shot two shots and only hit eight people. Such a result made her very upset. She didn't expect that the closer the enemy was to her, the hit rate would decrease.
When the German tank was less than fifty meters away from Ji Na, Ji Na quickly retracted her body into the crater again so as not to be discovered by the enemy's tank hands. At this moment, a rocket dragged its long tail and flew over her head, hitting directly on the tank, and a violent explosion sound came.
Chapter completed!