Under the recommendation of the political commissar, after Vasily officially joined the Soviet sniper team, there were two deputies (a man and a woman) to cooperate with him. During the first encounter with the German major, both deputies were shot dead by the enemy, and only Vasily survived.
I forgot how the male deputy died. Anyway, he was beaten to death because of his own negligence before entering the abandoned building where the German major was lurking.
What I want to say now is how the female deputy Lyudmila died.
At that time, Lyudmila entered the abandoned building with Vasily. Vasily relied on a cigarette butt on the ground that was higher than the indoor temperature and judged that the enemy had lurked here before and had not gone far now. In other words, he was still hiding in this building. somewhere in the building.
So Vasily decisively instructed Lyudmila to hide in the shooting blind spot nearby, stand still, and conduct psychological warfare with the opponent by waiting for time. At this time, Vasily was very self-aware. He estimated that within such a small range, he and Lyudmila together would not be the opponent of the enemy, so he adopted a conservative strategy. He survived to save his life.
At this time, a terrible interference factor appeared: the German aircraft flew straight over and bombed the abandoned building.
So now, Vasily and the others are facing a double dilemma: if they don't move, they are likely to die in the bombing, because the big target of the bombing is this building.
When he moved, he was out of the best hiding spot and could be shot in the head by enemies lurking nearby at any time.
In other words, the parties need to choose between "probable death" and "certain death". And this choice, intuitively speaking, makes little sense. Because such a choice is almost equal to no choice.
Unless a person, like Vasily, has an absolutely calm heart, in that desperate situation, he can still distinguish the slightest chance of survival between the two.
The bombing is only aimed at this building, and the accuracy of the bombing will not be able to point to a certain person in the building.
In order to avoid the bombing, it was a sure thing to leave the safe hiding spot and be killed by the enemy's sharpshooter - the other party could not miss it at all.
Therefore, the only way to survive is to stay put and bet that you can live until the bombing is over.
But Lyudmila couldn't do that calm. The circling sound of the bomber above her head brought her the most direct fear of death, which made it impossible for her to rationally measure the importance. Ignoring Vasily's dissuasion, she got up hastily and tried to escape the building.
Sure enough, it was exposed before going too far.
And Vasily, after testing each other with the enemy for a long enough time, the two masters reached a tacit understanding in their hearts: I can't act rashly, or you will take the lead if I become aggressive, but I have been here for too long, I'm hungry, thirsty, and cold, but I don't want to say, I have to catch up with another wave of bombing, what should I do if I'm actually killed? So after a stalemate, the two left. Kind of like the principles of game theory.
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