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Among the five snipers on the Second Company's position, one was Sergeant Zina from the Division Guard Battalion.

During the Battle of Stalingrad, Zina and another female sniper named Susanna jointly killed more than 70 German officers and soldiers. Insufficient is more than sufficient, which is considered a remarkable record, and the two of them each received a medal for this.

She was sprawled in a bomb crater in front of the trench, aiming a Mosin Nagant rifle with a scope in the distance. Through the lens of the scope, you can clearly see the German engineers running over. Those engineers were at least 500 meters away. Although the Mosin Nagant rifle with a scope can shoot up to 800 meters, she was not sure that she could hit the target accurately at such a long distance, so she could only choose to shoot the target slowly. .

After waiting patiently for a while, she found an engineer running behind who suddenly stopped, bent over to pick up something, quickly locked on the target, and pulled the trigger without hesitation. The engineer leaned back and fell straight on the snow. Because there were German tanks nearby, shelling towards the Soviet positions, the huge explosion covered up the gunshots, and none of the advancing engineers noticed that their comrades had been shot and fell down.

After killing the first enemy, Zina quickly aimed at the second target. The engineer had passed the burning tank and was running towards the minefield, the closest target to Zina. When he was shot and fell down, the engineers who followed him thought he had accidentally tripped over, and even a companion stepped forward to try to help him. When he found that he was dead, he couldn't help but yelled.

How could Zina let him yell like this, and immediately shot him again, stopping his yelling abruptly. Seeing their comrades fall, the rest of the engineers immediately realized that there were snipers in the Soviet position. In order not to become the target of the opponent, they all fell down on the spot and crawled towards the minefield.

Due to the cover of the bomb crater and snowdrifts, once these German engineers lay down, it was difficult for Zina to focus on the target again. She retracted her body back into the bomb crater, pulled out the bayonet, and drew three lines on the butt of the gun, which represented another kill. Three German soldiers.

The German tanks also found that the Soviet army had snipers, so two tanks turned their guns and fired in the direction where Zina was hiding. Since the enemy did not know the exact location of Zina, the impact points were far away, and only sporadic dirt and snow powder fell into the crater where Zina was hiding.

Zina was not afraid of the shelling by German tanks at all. After all, she had encountered a more dangerous situation in the Stalingrad defense battle. She took out a hard black bread from her backpack, cut off a small piece with a bayonet, and put it in her mouth. She needs to hurry up and eat to replenish the physical strength consumed by the long-term lurking.

While Zina was eating to replenish her strength, the snipers hiding in several other bomb 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's engineers from pulling out the anti-tank mines, the snipers, regardless of their own safety, leaned out of the crater, aimed at the engineers in the distance and pulled the trigger.

The marksmanship of these snipers is not as good as that of Zina. In addition, the enemy engineers are now 400 meters away. As a result, the bullets either passed over the heads of the enemy engineers or hit the open space next to them. No one was hit. Target.

The German tank soldiers found these emerging snipers and immediately concentrated artillery fire on them. In an instant, the snipers were drowned in flames and smoke.

Guchakov in the command post stomped his feet anxiously when he saw the crater where the snipers were hiding and was destroyed by German tank fire. He knew very well that once the snipers were wiped out by the enemy's artillery fire, the engineers would be able to calmly clear the mines hundreds of meters away. When the anti-tank mines in the minefield light up, the enemy tanks should roar up again.

In desperation, Guchakov called Vasily and reported to him: "Comrade Battalion Commander, the snipers I deployed in front of the position have all died in the German shelling."

"What, all sacrificed?" Hearing the bad news, Vasily couldn't help being taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "What about Zina, is she still alive?"

Although everyone knows that "in war, there are only soldiers and civilians, and there is no distinction between men and women." But in the 41st Guards Division, female soldiers still have a very high status. Knowing that Zina might be in danger, Vasily quickly ordered Guchakov: "Comrade Captain, send someone to investigate immediately, and we must find Zina." , live to see people and die to see corpses."

After Guchakov put down the phone, he immediately ordered the communication soldier to call the platoon leader, and told him: "The platoon leader, the battalion commander has an order, and immediately send someone to look for Zina. Find her."

A platoon leader agreed, then turned around and dispatched the command post.

He returned to the trench, called a soldier, and asked, "Do you know where Sergeant Zina's lurking point is?"

After hearing this, the soldier pointed to the place that was completely bombed by the German artillery fire, and said, "It seems to be there."

"Go over and see, which bomb crater is Sergeant Zina in?" When the soldier was about to climb out of the trench, a platoon leader told him from behind: "Don't stand up, crawl over, or you will become a German soldier." The target of the artillery fire."

The soldiers crawled to the side of the bomb crater that had been bombed with hands and feet. After searching carefully for a while, they crawled back again and reported to a platoon leader with a bitter face: "Comrade platoon leader, everyone inside has been blown to pieces, and the cripples are still alive." The severed arm was still buried in the soil, and it was impossible to identify who was Zina."

The German engineers quickly cleared the minefields, and the tanks parked on the edge of the minefield started up again and rushed towards the Soviet positions. And the infantry, who came late, also followed the tank and rushed towards the Soviet position.

Hiding in the crater, Zina heard the sound of the track transmission coming from outside the crater, so she poked her head out cautiously and looked in the direction of the sound. I saw a German No. 4 short-barreled tank driving towards his hiding place, followed by more than 20 soldiers with weapons.

Seeing that the enemy was only 200 meters away from her, Zina immediately set up her gun, aimed at the infantry following the tank attack, and frantically pulled the trigger. In less than a minute, she had fired ten rounds from two magazines. Half of the infantry who followed the attacking tank fell to the ground.

The remaining soldiers did not find Zina who was hiding in the crater, and thought that their fallen comrades had been hit by bullets from the Soviet machine guns on the ground, and foolishly returned fire at the machine gun fire points on the ground.

The platoon leader, who was directing the battle in the trench, couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that Zina appeared from an unexpected position and quickly knocked down so many enemies. He quickly grabbed a soldier and told him, "Hurry up and report to the company commander, and say that Sergeant Zina is still alive." As he spoke, he gave him a firm push, "Hurry up."

Seeing that the enemy didn't notice her, Zina fired two more clips in one go. This time, two shots missed and only eight people were hit. Such a result made her feel very annoyed. She didn't expect that the closer the enemy was to her, the lower her hit rate would be.

When the German tank was less than 50 meters away from Zina, Zina quickly retracted her body into the crater again to avoid being discovered by the enemy tankers. At this moment, a rocket flew over her head with a long tail and hit the tank directly, causing a violent explosion.

Seeing that the enemy's tank was destroyed, Zina quickly raised her loaded rifle, aimed at the infantry running around, and pulled the trigger continuously, knocking them down one by one like a target.