At the end of 1939, the Soviet Union abrogated the Soviet-Finnish non-aggression pact on the grounds of maintaining the security of the northwest border, and launched a full-front attack on Finland with 20 divisions, 2,000 combat vehicles and more than 1,000 combat aircraft. Taking advantage of the severe cold and powerful terrain of swampy forests to launch a counterattack, it caused a major ** to the Soviet army.
That is, in this war, snipers were valued for the first time, in the face of the powerful Soviet army, the Finns adopted the pyre tactics were very effective, the so-called pyre, is the habit of the Finns to cut wood, they first cut down trees and piled them into a pile, and then dealt with them one by one, they did the same for the Soviet army, using the terrain and climate to divide the Soviet column, form a small encirclement, cut off all communication links between the enemy and other troops, and then concentrate on destroying them, in the early days of the war, the Soviet army often had formed troops, Being eliminated little by little in this way seriously hit the morale of the soldiers, and in this tactic, the decisive role was played by Finnish snipers, led by Seymour cranes, who were mostly professional hunters.
He is very familiar with the geographical environment of the mountains and forests, wearing white camouflage clothes like snow, sledding to and fro in the wilderness freely, quietly, and those who are struggling to advance in the snow and mud The Soviet Red Army has become a live target, Finland three or five snipers can often wipe out all the Soviet troops marching in small columns, and they have nothing to do, and Seymour Haich sniped more than 500 enemy soldiers at a distance of 700 meters in just a few days, forming a great deterrent to Soviet soldiers, according to statisticsDuring World War II, it cost nearly 2 to kill a soldier50,000 rounds of ammunition.
Well, by the time of the Vietnam War, it took almost 200,000 rounds to kill a soldier, and in the same period, a sniper killed a soldier only needed to consume 13 bullets, the legendary Seymour Hahe, used ** is just an ordinary Mosin Nagant rifle, and this rifle does not even have a scope, in the snow, the sniper rifle scope will be reflected by the sun, but will expose itself, Seymour Haher believes that the sniper rifle's own iron crosshair is the best aiming tool given by God, elusive and accurate archery, Seymour Hahe made the Soviet soldiers feel like they were in hell, and he still sniped 540 people, Ranked No. 1 in the world as a World War II sniper.