Among the five snipers on the second company's position, one was Sergeant Zina from the division headquarters guard battalion.
During the Battle of Stalingrad, Zina and another female sniper named Susanna jointly killed more than 70 German officers and soldiers. Although their results were not comparable to those of Vasily Zaitsev, they were better than those of Vasily Zaitsev.
Even if it is not enough, it is still a remarkable achievement, and both of them also received a medal each.
She was lying in a crater in front of the trench, aiming her Mosin-Nagant rifle into the distance with a scope. Through the lens of the scope, she could clearly see the German engineers running over. Those engineers were at least five hundred meters away.
On the other hand, although the range of the Mosin-Nagant rifle with a scope can reach 800 meters, she was not sure that it could accurately hit the target at such a long distance, so she could only slowly choose the target to shoot.
After waiting patiently for a while, she found an engineer running behind. He suddenly stopped and bent down to pick something up. She quickly locked the target and pulled the trigger without hesitation. The engineer's body
He leaned back and fell straight on the snow. Because there were German tanks nearby, shelling the Soviet positions, the huge explosions covered up the sound of gunfire, and no one of the advancing engineers noticed him.
His companion was shot and fell down.
After killing the first enemy, Zina quickly aimed at the second target. The engineer had already crossed the burning tank and was running towards the minefield. It was also the target closest to Zina. When he was hit
When the bullet fell, the engineer who was following behind thought he had accidentally tripped and fell. One of his companions even stepped forward to try to help him. When they found out that he was dead, they couldn't help but scream.
How could Zina let him yell like that? She immediately fired another shot at him, causing his shouts to stop abruptly. Seeing their companions fall, the other engineers immediately realized that there were people on the Soviet position.
The snipers, in order not to become the opponent's target, lay down on the spot and crawled towards the minefield.
Due to the obstruction of bomb craters and snowdrifts, once these German engineers lay down, it was difficult for Zina to focus on the target. She retracted her body back into the crater, pulled out her bayonet, and drew three stripes on the butt of the gun, indicating another kill.
Three German soldiers.
The German tanks also discovered 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 Zina's specific location, the impact points were very far away, with only scattered mud.
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 more dangerous situations during the Battle of Stalingrad. She took out the hard black bread from her backpack and cut off a piece of it with a bayonet.
Small pieces were put into her mouth. She had to take some time to eat to replenish the energy consumed by lurking for a long time.
While Zina was eating to replenish her strength, 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 mines. In order to prevent the enemy engineers from raising anti-tank mines,
Regardless of their own safety, the snipers leaned out of the crater, aimed at the engineers in the distance, and pulled the trigger.
The marksmanship of these snipers was not as good as Zina's, and the enemy engineers were now four hundred 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 crews spotted the emerging snipers and immediately focused their artillery fire on them. In an instant, these snipers were submerged in fire and smoke.
Guchakov in the command post saw that the crater where the sniper was hiding was destroyed by German tank fire, and he stamped his feet anxiously. He knew very well that once the sniper was eliminated by the enemy's artillery fire, how many engineers would be able to do so?
Clear mines in a leisurely manner a hundred meters away. When the anti-tank mines in the minefield are cleared, the enemy tanks will rush up again with roar.
Guchakov had no choice but to call Vasily and report to him: "Comrade Battalion Commander, all the snipers I deployed in front of the position have been killed in the German shelling."
"What, all of them were sacrificed?" Vasily was shocked when he heard the bad news, and quickly asked: "What about Zina, is she still alive?"
Although everyone knows that "in war, there are only soldiers and civilians, no distinction between men and women." However, in the 41st Guards Division, female soldiers still have a high status. Knowing that Zina may be in danger, Vasily quickly ordered
Guchakov: "Comrade Captain, send someone to investigate immediately. We must find Zina. We must see her dead or her body."
After Guchakov put down the phone, he immediately ordered the communications soldier to call the platoon leader and told him: "Platoon leader, the battalion commander has an order to immediately send people to find Zina. No matter whether she is dead or alive, we must find her."
Find her."
The platoon leader agreed, then turned around and dispatched to 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 location that was completely destroyed by German artillery fire and said, "It seems to be there."
"Go over and see, which crater is Sergeant Zina in?" When the soldier was about to climb out of the trench, the platoon leader warned him from behind: "Don't stand up, crawl over, otherwise you will become a German soldier."
The target of artillery fire.”
The soldier crawled on his hands and knees to the crater that had been blasted with craters. After searching carefully for a while, he crawled back again and reported to the platoon leader with a grimace: "Comrade platoon leader, the people inside were all blown to pieces and left in pieces."
The severed limbs and arms were buried in the soil, so it was impossible to identify who was Zina."
The German engineers quickly cleared the mines in the minefield. The tanks parked on the edge of the minefield started again and rushed towards the Soviet position. The belated infantry also followed the tanks and headed towards the Soviet position.
The army launched a charge into the position.
Hiding in the crater, Zina heard the sound of track transmission coming from outside the crater. She quickly and cautiously stuck her head out and looked in the direction of the sound. She saw a German Panzer IV short-barreled tank heading towards
He drove towards his hiding place, followed by more than twenty soldiers carrying weapons.
Seeing that the enemy was only two hundred 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 fired all ten bullets from two magazines.
Half of the infantrymen who followed the tank in the attack immediately fell to the ground.
The remaining soldiers did not notice Zina hiding in the crater. They thought that their fallen comrades had been hit by Soviet machine gun bullets on the position, and foolishly fired back at the machine gun fire points of the position.
The platoon leader who was directing the battle in the trench couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw Zina emerging from an unexpected position and quickly knocking down so many enemies. He quickly grabbed a soldier and told the other party: "
You hurry up and report to the company commander that Sergeant Zina is still alive." As he said that, he gave the other party a hard push and said, "Go quickly."
Seeing that the enemy did not notice her, Zina fired two more magazines in one breath. This time, two shots were empty and only eight people were hit. Such a result made her feel very upset. She did not expect that the enemy was getting closer to her.
, the hit rate dropped instead.
When the German tank was less than fifty meters away from Zina, Zina quickly retracted her body into the crater to avoid being discovered by the enemy tank crew. At this moment, a rocket dragged its long tail.
It flew over her head and hit the tank directly, causing a violent explosion.
Seeing that the enemy tanks were destroyed, Zina quickly raised her loaded rifle, aimed at the infantrymen running around, and continuously pulled the trigger, knocking them to the ground one by one like target practice.