Red Moscow

Seeing that Sokov only praised Vasily a few words, Sidolin sent him and Zina back to rest, so he asked inexplicably: "Comrade Brigadier, I don't understand. If Vasily has achieved such a great result today, even if he can't Give him a medal, but at least give him a rank?"

"My Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov asked rhetorically with a smile, "what rank do you think we should confer on him? Lieutenant, corporal, sergeant or higher?"

Without waiting for Sidolin to answer, Sokov asked himself and answered: "Although Vasily killed a colonel and a major today, it was his first mission, and he was granted his rank rashly. It will cause dissatisfaction among other fighters in the sniper team of the guard company."

For Sokov's statement, Sidolin agrees very much in his heart. The soldiers in the sniper team of the guard company can achieve more or less results every time they go out to perform missions. There are officers above the rank, but the number of enemies they killed is also quite a lot. There have never been any rewards for them. If a recruit who has joined for less than 24 hours is awarded an honor and promoted to a military rank, it will definitely make them resist.

Thinking of this, Sidolin nodded and said: "Comrade Brigadier, you are right. I think I will let the matter of conferring military ranks be put aside for now, but we eliminated two German military officers, but one Great victory, I recommend reporting it to Commander Chuikov immediately."

Before Sokov could express his opinion, Belkin rushed to say: "The chief of staff is right. The German commanders are different from our commanders. Our headquarters are usually only three or four hundred meters away from the front, while their regiments The high-level headquarters is at least five or six kilometers away from the front. It is not easy for us to kill a colonel. Vasily's victory today is a remarkable victory, and I also agree to report to the group army headquarters immediately."

Sokov picked up the microphone and let the communications soldier connect to the army headquarters. When he heard Krylov's voice coming from the receiver, he immediately said: "Hello, Comrade Chief of Staff. I am Lieutenant Colonel Sokov. I have an important report to you."

When Krylov heard the call from Sokov, he couldn't help but thumped in his heart, thinking to himself: "Could it be that something happened at Mamayev Post?" But he still tried to ask in a normal tone: "Hello, Comrade Sokov, is there something wrong with you?"

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Sokov heard the panic in Krylov's tone, knowing that he had misunderstood his purpose of calling, and quickly explained, "I'm not calling you because something happened to us here. Things, but there are huge results, and I want to report to you."

"Huge victory?!" Hearing what Sokov said, Krylov quickly winked at Chuikov who was sitting opposite, and the latter immediately leaned over and put his ear close to the receiver, wanting to hear it immediately. What Sokov said was good news. "Tell me, Lieutenant Colonel Sokov, if you have any good news to tell us."

"The sniper team we sent today achieved great results in the dormitory area of ​​the railway staff." Sokov said into the microphone: "They killed 19 officers and soldiers of the German army successively, including the commander of the 21st Grenadier Regiment Lun Colonel Gerke, and his battalion commander, Major Haydn."

"This is really a remarkable victory." After listening to Sokov's report, Krylov became emotional: "German officers are afraid of death, and every time they set up their headquarters far away from the front line, So that it is very difficult for us to eliminate the high-level German commanders. What are the names of the soldiers who went to serve as sniper, I will give them credit!"

"One is Corporal Zina, she is the leader of the sniper team of the guard company." Sokov said: "The other is a new soldier named Vasily, who just arrived in Stalingrad last night. He is from the Urals. The hunters of the two German military officers, he personally killed the two officers."

"It's really amazing." Krylov said in surprise: "It's really amazing that a soldier who has just joined the army can achieve such a battle result for the first time when he goes on a combat mission."

Gurov, the military commissar who had just returned from the grass-roots company, was worrying about how fierce the morale was getting low. He suddenly heard that a new soldier who had just entered the city for less than a day had killed 19 soldiers with another sniper. A German officer and soldier, including two school officers, couldn't help but shine: "It's great, this is simply great. Comrade Commander, I think the results obtained by Vasily should be carried out vigorously within the scope of the entire army. Propaganda to boost the morale of our troops."

"This is a good idea." Although the 62nd Army has a lot of designations, most of the troops have basically lost their combat effectiveness due to heavy casualties. Chuikov is also worried about the low morale of the troops. Hearing Gurov's words at this moment Proposed, quickly nodded and echoed: "Comrade Military Commissioner, you are right, we should carry out propaganda within the entire group army, and use this to boost the morale of our army."

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Just when Sokov reported the results of Vasily's battles to the army headquarters, Zina took Vasily back to the residence of the sniper team on the next floor.

The sniper team originally consisted of six people, except for Zina and Susanna, the rest were male soldiers with rich combat experience. They completed their sniper missions early, returned to their residences one after another, and began to clean and maintain the sniper rifles they used to ensure that the firearms were kept in the best condition at all times.

When Susanna and another male soldier came back from their mission, they saw that there were only three male soldiers sitting in the room, but there was no sign of Zina, so they asked curiously, "Comrades, have you seen Zina?" ?”

"I didn't see it." As soon as she finished speaking, two soldiers shook their heads and answered.

"The company commander assigned a mission to Zina." Another male soldier said with a wry smile, "Let her take a new soldier who has just arrived in the city for less than a day to carry out a combat mission in the staff dormitory area of ​​the station." gone."

"What? The company commander asked Zina to take a recruit to the railway staff dormitory area to perform a mission?" Susanna couldn't help opening her mouth in surprise when she heard the news: "How could the company commander ask Zina to take a new soldier there? As for the execution of the mission, doesn't he know that the fierce fighting there is equivalent to letting the two of them die?"

"Oh," the male soldier said with a sigh, "I hope God blesses that Zina can come back safely!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zina's familiar voice came from the door: "Hello, comrades, I'm back!"

"Zina, you can come back." Seeing Zina appearing at the door, Susanna cheered, rushed to hug her, and said a little excitedly: "I heard that you brought a recruit to the most dangerous place." I went to the place to perform the mission, but I was terrified, thinking that you would never come back."

"How could it be?!" Zina grinned and said, "If I find out that the situation is not good, I will try my best to get back." After finishing speaking, she raised her hand and slapped her hands twice, attracting everyone's attention After that, she continued, "Comrades, please come here, and I will introduce you to a new comrade-in-arms."

Although some of the soldiers in the sniper team had already seen Vasily, they still surrounded him when they heard what Zina said. Seeing that everyone was here, Zina pointed to Vasily standing beside her, and said to everyone: "Comrades, I would like to introduce a man to you. His name is Vasily Zaitsev, and he is from the Urals. Hunter of the mountains."

"Zina," the male soldier who just talked to Susanna looked at Vasily with a silly smile, and asked in a disdainful tone: "He went on a mission with you today, didn't he hold you back?" ?”

"How could it be, Laelke." Zina heard the sarcasm in the male soldier's tone, and quickly said to him: "We killed a total of 19 German officers and soldiers today, including a colonel and a major. They all died at Vasily's gun."

"It seems that he's lucky." Laelke said in a sour tone, "Two school-level officers of the German army actually came under his gun."

"It's not luck, but strength." Zina said to Laelke with a serious expression: "He killed these two officers at a distance of more than 300 meters, and they were all killed by one shot. Changed It's you, Lyrk, can you hit the target?"

Laelke's face turned red immediately, and he thought to himself: "If the distance is 150 meters, I can guarantee a 80% hit rate; if it is 200 meters, I may be able to guarantee a 50% hit rate ; but at a distance of 300 meters, I am afraid it will not be possible.”

"Vassily, you are really amazing." Susanna heard that Vasily had achieved such a good result on the first day of the mission, her eyes lit up, she grabbed Vasily's hand and shook it vigorously He said, "I thought you would hold back Zina, but I didn't expect you to perform so well."

"Susanna, in fact, I thought the same as you when I was on the mission." When Zina said this, she glanced at Vasily quickly, a blush appeared on her face: "I thought he would be my burden, Not only won't the result be achieved, it will probably put me in danger. But when I saw him cleanly kill the German colonel, and then fired a second shot to kill a German lieutenant, I knew I Wrong, and very wrong. He was born to be a good sniper, so good that all of us combined can't match him."

In the entire sniper team, Zina's sniper level is the highest, and no one has ever received such praise from her. Except for Laelke, the other three male soldiers stepped forward one after another and extended their hands to Vasily, expressing their welcome to officially join the sniper team.

"Lelke!" Zina saw that the other male soldiers were making friends with Vasily, while the rude Lark stood aside in a daze, so she quickly called him in a low voice, and with a wink, motioned for him to go over and talk to Vasily. Vasily greeted.

Seeing Zina's wink, Laelke could only bite the bullet and walked to Vasily's side, and said apologetically, "Comrade Vasily, please forgive my impoliteness just now, and I apologize to you."

As soon as Vasily took Laelke's hand, he said reasonably: "Comrade Laelke, if I were in your position, I would have the same scruples about a new recruit. From now on, we will They are comrades-in-arms, and I hope to fight side by side in the next battle."

"Yes, yes." Laelke did not expect Vasily to be so magnanimous. He nodded vigorously and replied, "Comrade Vasily, please rest assured that I will fully cooperate in the next battle." your."