Zhang Heng has been lying on the vast and endless snow field for half an hour. He held the m28 in his hand and put the gun butt on his right shoulder. His fingers were a little red and swollen from the cold. I wonder if I can finish today's training.
This is the seventy-ninth day since he came to this world, and the mission deadline has long passed. However, because of the extra 24 hours, the time he stayed in the ice and snow has been extended to one hundred and forty days. It's just over halfway, but the good news is that the end of this war is not far away.
From the perspective of later generations, the Soviet-Finnish Winter War can be roughly divided into two time periods according to the process. The first stage began on November 30, 1939. The Soviet army launched a fierce attack on Finland in four directions. As a result, the operation was as fierce as a tiger. Except for achieving the predetermined goal at the northern end of the front, it ended in disastrous defeat in other areas, and was forced to stop the offensive and continue to increase troops from home.
At this time, Finland basically stunned the Soviet Union, especially in the main duel of the Karelian Isthmus. The defense of the army was false, and after paying a heavy price, it only captured the 20-60 km deep security zone of the Finnish army.
But in January, the situation began to take a turn for the worse. The Soviet army established the Northwest Front Army on the Karelian Isthmus and appointed Timoshenko as the commander. The division, with 6 tank brigades, launched a fierce attack on the Mannerheim line of defense. At this time, the Finnish side was short of troops, lacked heavy weapons, and the problem of excessive consumption of ammunition was also exposed one after another.
Recently, there have been more and more urgent reports from the frontline, but they have nothing to do with Zhang Heng for the time being. During this period of time, he has experienced more than 20 battles, large and small, and he is walking on the verge of death almost every day. It is no longer like the first battle. It was so easy at the time, even with his prudence, he failed several times. The most dangerous time was a grenade fell in front of his eyes, but I don't know if the lucky rabbit feet on his waist played a role. There was no explosion, and Zhang Heng escaped unharmed.
This is indeed the most dangerous round of games he has ever experienced. There are many uncontrollable factors on the battlefield, and even if he makes all the right choices, he may still be killed by accident.
However, the huge pressure also made him unleash unprecedented potential. Zhang Heng's skiing and shooting skills improved rapidly, especially the latter, which took less than a month to upgrade to lv1. In another month, he will be able to reach lv2.
Now his sniper hit distance has been increased to 200 meters. At this distance, he can basically guarantee a hit rate of more than 80%, but his main improvement is not the range.
Simon has been helping Zhang Heng improve his overall quality and battlefield sense as a sniper, which is why his performance is getting better and better.
What the two are doing now is observation training. Simon has caught five ferrets with a trap. This is a small animal that is slender and looks like a mouse. The girl marks them and releases them. Zhang Heng needs to kill three of them to complete the training.
This kind of little thing is covered with pure white fur, it is very difficult to distinguish in the snow, and it is very alert. After half an hour, Zhang Heng only found and shot one, and the other four went to nowhere at all. , Zhang Heng even suspected that they had already run out of this area.
After another ten minutes, Zhang Heng finally found half of a small head exposed in a snow ditch. However, the distance between the two sides was a bit far at the moment, and Zhang Heng did not intend to wait any longer, for fear that this little thing would appear again in the next moment. Running out of sight, he squeezed the trigger, but the stiff finger obviously affected the accuracy of the shot.
The shot missed the target, and the ferret disappeared into the snow ditch after being frightened.
Zhang Heng shook his head, put away the rifle in his hand, and gave up this training.
He saw Simon sitting in front of the campfire on the other side in a daze.
The guerrillas have also been on vacation for the past week, and the fighting in other areas has basically ended. It will wait for the Karelian Isthmus to be divided into winners and losers, or more precisely, to see if Finland can last until international aid arrives.
Britain and France promised to send an expeditionary force to Finland to fight. However, Sweden and Norway clearly rejected the request of the Allied forces to transit, while Germany made it clear that it had no intention of participating in the Soviet-Finnish war or mediation. Finland was concerned about whether the reinforcements could arrive in time. And whether it can withstand the Soviet attack after arriving has begun to be pessimistic.
At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been negotiating with the Soviet Union to seek the possibility of a truce, but the harsh conditions proposed by the Soviet Union are difficult to accept.
It is now February, and the more time goes by, the more unfavorable the situation will become as the weather gets warmer.
Zhang Heng can quickly let go of these things and no longer think about them because he does not belong to either side of the war. But for Simon, her country is about to lose, and even faces the danger of subjugation. I am afraid that there is another feeling in her heart. up.
Zhang Hengneng could feel that the latter's mood was obviously a little depressed recently, but he couldn't do much, and his personal power had little impact on a war. Even if he had the same strength as Simon, he still couldn't change the final situation. the result of.
So he could only find another way to make the girl feel better.
Snapped! A snowball hit Simon's back, and the girl's face showed a look of doubt, but when she turned around, she was hit by two snowballs on her left arm, so she immediately bent down to make ammunition.
The precise counterattack from the top sniper landed on Zhang Heng's chest, but at this time Zhang Heng's two consecutive shots also arrived. Simon dodged the front one but was hit by the back one on the neck. She couldn't help shivering, but it also aroused her competitiveness.
The snowball was flying and spinning in the air, and you were coming and going. At least for a short moment, Simon temporarily forgot the trauma and pain that the war had brought her.
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It was already night when the two returned to the camp. Zhang Heng boiled water by himself and took a hot bath. When he put on his clothes and walked outside the woodshed where he lived, he unexpectedly saw the female doctor Maggie there.
"You came back very late."
Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows, "Is there something wrong?"
"The war in the Karelian Isthmus is unfavorable. The Soviet army has broken through the first line of defense. It is reported that those guys above are ready to agree to the Soviet Union's request. The war is coming to an end. Aki wants to chat with you. I don't know if you have Not available."