World War II brought endless blood and pain around the world, and corpses were strewn around the ground and starved. Taking the European battlefield as an example, the countries have a small land area and are close to each other, and Germany, with the blessing of mechanized troops, loves to use blitzkrieg and conquers Denmark in only 1 day, which can be described as "invincible".
Just as the so-called arrogant army must be defeated, this "constant victorious general" encountered its strongest and most important opponent, the Soviet Union, in the "Battle of Stalingrad" in 1942. Since then, the Soviet Union has been successful all the way to Berlin and rewrite the world pattern. The Success of the Soviet Union was inextricably linked to its formidable warriors.
The Soviet Union had a sniper powerhouse, Vasily Zaitsev. His glory can still be talked about by future generations today, such as the male protagonist in the American film "Soldiers In the City" that reflected the Soviet Union's self-defense war, and the sniper character in South Korea's "Battlefield Game"... They are all based on the famous Soviet Vasili, and the legend created by Vasily makes the number countless.
Experience makes a difference
Vasily was born in 1915 to an ordinary farming family, and mountain and hunting occupied his childhood. Living in the mountains, he has been with his family since childhood, from initially learning experiential techniques to successfully hunting prey.
Vasily grew not only in age, but also in a lifelong use of technical methods.
Vasily had learned how to approach his prey silently, how to catch his prey with the fewest bullets, and how to maintain the integrity of his prey when he caught it. These experiences and techniques helped him become a good hunter and laid a solid foundation and position for his sniper career.
In 1930, at the age of 15, Vasily studied fitters and passed an accounting course, according to secular standards, he should enter a factory, become an accountant, and finally live an ordinary and stable life.
But nothing is constant. In 1937, at the age of 22, Vasily joined the Soviet Navy as a soldier in the Pacific Fleet.
Because Vasily had accounting knowledge, his superiors decided to place him in the Military Academy and make him an accountant in the Finance Department of the Pacific Fleet. Up to this point, Vasily's army had no guns or snipers to accompany him, only accounting knowledge and financial experience. But the turning point soon took the form of war in 1939.
Sincerely for the sake of the country
In 1939, World War II broke out in Europe. In 1941, Germany officially launched a war against the Soviet Union under the Barbarossa Plan. As a result, more than 2.4 million Red Army soldiers were captured by the Germans, and more than million died of cold, hunger, disease, and so on.
The harsh reality led more and more Soviets to fight, and Vasily applied to be transferred from the navy to the army. After entering the Army, Vasily became a member of the 1047th Infantry Regiment of the 284th Tomsk Rifle, and his brilliant marksmanship technique was discovered by his superiors, gradually becoming a frightening and deadly sniper.
During the 1942 Battle of Stalingrad, between 10 November and 17 December, Vasily killed 225 German and other Axis soldiers and officers. But Vasily's classic legend doesn't stop there.
Vasily's most famous opponent was Kosnin, the German "king of snipers." Kosnin was also born into a family of hunters, inheriting the precision marksmanship of his predecessors, but more brutal.
After Kosnin arrived at the battlefield of Stalingrad, he snipeed and killed 6 female Soviet Red Army soldiers in one fell swoop, causing grief and shock in the Soviet Union, but also attracting the attention of Vasily, and was bound to avenge his comrades. Thus, the contest between the two sniper kings officially began.
Kosnin has always practiced acting alone, which can improve concealment and interference, and is known in Germany as the "Lonely Death". Vasily has always used a sniper + observer two-player team model, with the assistance of the observer, to improve the hit rate. The duel between the two lasted for four days.
Forge a classic legend
On the first day of the showdown, both sides are constantly tempting and shifting. Kosnin continued to snipe the Soviet Red Army between duels, and according to the wounded Red Army, he had no idea where the bullets came from and was suddenly shot.
Vasily, on the other hand, chose to abandon the sniper killing of enemy soldiers and instead seriously searched for Kosnin's location. Vasily constantly thought, hypothesized and responded, but to no avail, the cruelty and anxiety of the battle invisibly increased his pressure, so he chose to change his strategy.
The next day of the showdown, Vasily decided to preemptively lure the snake out of the hole. Vasily and his observers first stood still, carefully observing the surrounding terrain and ruins, comparing the wounds of wounded comrades to face; then, based on the wounds and battlefields, they made hypothetical thinking and found that the bullet originated from the front.
And there was only one piece of abandoned giant board left in the ruins ahead, which was undoubtedly the best choice if used for concealment; finally, after verification, the observer used a wooden stick to push Vasili's glove out of the hiding place, and almost at the same time the glove was snipeed, and the two were even more happy in shock, which showed that Kosnin was under this abandoned giant board.
But the two still did not dare to move, and the sniper of the gloves meant that the position had been exposed this time, and they did not return to the position carefully until it was dark under the cover of night. At the same time, Kosnin fang also has a helmet moving slowly, and Vasily knows that this is also the other side's temptation, if you snipe at this moment, then it will be more than worth the loss.
On the third day of the showdown, the two sides reached a stalemate and saw who could hold their breath more. When Vasily was looking for an opportunity, a Soviet instructor entered the trenches and arrogantly tried to direct Vasily's actions, and even stood up, and was immediately sniped by Kosnin, but Vasily could not take rescue, otherwise he would be exposed and killed immediately.
Until the medical team took the instructor away, Kosnin did not reload the gun, because he knew that the bait would do nothing but use more bullets, after all, Vasily was his only real opponent.
On the fourth day of the decisive battle, the time and place are favorable and the people are indispensable. There was a sunny day that was very unfavorable to snipers, because the sunlight would shine on the sniper scope to form a reflection, which was very easy to expose the position.
After the clear morning, the weather changed in two stages, the Sun was still shining on the German positions, and the clouds began to appear in the Soviet positions. After a long wait, finally the Steel Plate of the German camp refracted a faint light, which meant that Kosnin was exposed.
Still, Vasily remained vigilant, working with observers to lure the enemy. The observer drew Kosnin's attention with his helmet, and Vasily aimed at the reflector point at the same time the helmet was raised and immediately fired, accompanied by a gunshot of the reflector spurting out a trail of blood.
After the sniper, the two still waited for a long time, until after nightfall, he quietly came to the reflection point to confirm his identity. It was finally confirmed that the body was officially German "sniper king" Kosnin. Thus, the contest between the two kings was won by Vasily's rigor and low profile!
brief summary:
After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union won the victory. Vasily also made great achievements in the entire Soviet self-defense war, he sniped more than 400 German soldiers, and served as the principal of the Soviet Sniper Training School, training a large number of excellent professional snipers, providing strong support for the Soviet Union and the victory of World War II.
In the face of the enemy, Vasily has an extraordinary composure and perseverance, and his wise and talented life deserves to be a strong man to remember in our hearts!