Nothing to say all night.
At noon the next day, Simon found the traces left by the Soviet army on the snow. It seems that they should have passed here a day ago. The number of people is estimated to be between 100 and 200. There are carriage ruts on the snow. India, which means that the opponent is likely to be equipped with a heavy machine gun.
The two chased for an afternoon on skis, and finally approached the target before sunset.
The speed of this Soviet army was very slow, and it was very difficult for both men and horses to walk on the half-meter-thick snow. Sometimes soldiers were even required to push the carriages. The bad weather and the constant news of casualties from the front made the soldiers Their morale has become very low. At this time, the original 16-day combat period has long been exceeded. If Zhang Heng remembers correctly, many troops in the Soviet Union have been wiped out by the guerrillas. Very few.
Now every troop sent to the front line is worried. The morale of transnational combat is usually lower than that of the local combat. After a major purge, experienced middle and high-level officers in the Soviet army were either executed or exiled to Siberia to accompany the polar bears.
Many of the young military officers who are rapidly promoted now have just graduated from the military academy. They are impeccable in terms of loyalty, but they only know that they are rigidly implementing the military orders from above. Not very good at appeasing the soldiers under him.
Simon glanced at it and handed the telescope to Zhang Heng.
The troops behind the lens are a typical Soviet infantry company. The number of combatants is about 150, including three infantry platoons and one machine gun platoon. It is equipped with twelve light machine guns, two heavy machine guns, and some look like A grenadier like a shovel, of course, more soldiers are still equipped with the M1891 Mosin Nagant, because stable performance has always been the main weapon of the Soviet Union.
In terms of firepower, this unit is quite strong, especially the two Maxim heavy machine guns on the carriage. The theoretical rate of fire can reach 600 rounds per minute, and they can even shoot down all the planes in the sky.
Because he was worried that the reflection of the lens would reveal the positions of the two, Zhang Heng didn't dare to look too much, and planned to step back and wait until it got dark. In the end, Simon had already started to gather the snow on the ground in front of him, and the girl made a gesture to him, which meant that he should step back.
Zhang Heng had trained with Simon for a week before, and he thought he knew enough about the latter's marksmanship, but when he guessed the girl's plan, even with his usual calm, he couldn't help but gasped.
The distance between the group of Soviet soldiers and them has exceeded 700 meters by visual inspection. What kind of concept is this? Using a machine sight, the sight after 300 meters is bigger than the target itself.
The visual recognition range of ordinary people is 500 meters, 700 meters-this has completely broken common sense. Under such circumstances, Zhang Heng does not know how a sniper can complete the shooting.
However, the first principle on the battlefield is to trust your companions. Although Zhang Heng was stunned when he heard this, he nodded and took the two people's skis and backpacks and quietly retreated a mile away. There was a commotion among the Soviet troops there. Zhang Heng couldn't see the specific situation there, but he could roughly guess the reaction of those Soviet soldiers.
They should get down immediately, and then blindly fight back while looking for the sniper's location, but unfortunately no one would guess that the bullet was fired from more than 700 meters away even if they tried to break their heads.
The exchange of fire lasted for a while, and then the two Maxim heavy machine guns fixed on the carriage also fired, and they were equipped with grenades, which was amazing. However, even the M28 gunshots were covered up in this way, and the group of Soviet soldiers even more. The assailant was nowhere to be found.
This way of fighting has an astonishing blow to morale. Don't look at Simon, who only has one man and one sniper, and the firepower of the opposite Soviet army is a galaxy away. But at the moment, this kind of people who can only be passively beaten but can't find out where the enemy is Under such circumstances, the ferocious firepower of one's own side will only make people more desperate.
Panic began to spread in the ranks... The gunshots gradually stopped after five minutes, but there were still many Soviet soldiers looking around nervously with their rifles in their hands. companion.
Although the Soviet army couldn't find anyone there from the beginning to the end, there were still some random bullets falling on Simon's area, which inevitably made Zhang Heng a little worried, but fortunately he soon saw the girl who had withdrawn from the front line.
Simon was almost the same as before, except that he breathed a little faster, spit out the snow water in his mouth, and gestured a number twelve to Zhang Heng.
The girl knocked out two magazines and 30 bullets in total, and the hit rate is about one-third more. Don't underestimate this result. Considering her shooting range, it is amazing enough. Her main target is the most threatening In the machine gun platoon, more than half of the fourteen people in two squads were killed by her. In addition, she also hit an officer and several grenadiers.
While the Soviet army was still in chaos, the two distanced themselves from the enemy.
So the first battle of Zhang Heng's guerrilla career came to an end. He didn't fire a single shot, and he acted as a spectator the whole time, witnessing his partner's killing spree.
But Simon seemed to have only done a trivial thing, without any excitement on his face, as if he was not the one who calmly shot and harvested the heads in the face of hundreds of times the enemy just now.
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There was still about half an hour before the sky completely darkened. The girl didn't intend to waste it, so she changed places with Zhang Heng and repeated the previous thing.
The Soviet army had almost nothing to do about it. They were indeed far more numerous than the guerrillas in terms of numbers, but if a large-scale search was required, it would not be enough to see more than a hundred people scattered in the woods. Instead, they gave the enemy one by one The opportunity to break through, and the advantage of heavy weapons is also difficult to play after the formation is disrupted. Of course, they are still in the state of delivering food when they get together.
This is actually an unsolvable problem that plagued all Soviet commanders in the Winter War.
Only snipers can deal with snipers.
It is a pity that the Soviet Union at this time did not realize the importance of snipers. It was not until the later period of the war that it paid the price of hundreds of thousands of casualties. It was a painful experience and began to vigorously strengthen the training of snipers. Later, the Great Patriotic War also became Soviet snipers. Active stage, they dealt with the German army in the ruins of the city, biting each other, but this is a later story.