Chapter 276 Artillery Position
A round of artillery shells hit the German positions, and the flares were thrown back and forth in the air like fireworks.
From inside the armored train, you can clearly see the German anti-tank guns firing, as well as German machine guns and mortars... This is a very strange feeling. At that moment, Shulka almost thought that these German soldiers were his comrades-in-arms. The Soviet army is its own enemy.
After thinking about it, I felt that this should be the German army's integration of armored trains into its own defense system, which made Shulka in the train have the illusion of cooperating with them in combat.
Then the observer reported: "Our tank is found in front, the distance is 300 meters..."
"Two hundred meters!"
"One hundred meters!"
"Fire!" Shulka ordered loudly.
In an instant, the sound of guns and guns rang out, and the machine guns and artillery on the armored train bombarded the German army indiscriminately.
The 12.7MM anti-aircraft machine gun was aimed at the German army hiding behind the house, and it was a dense rain of bullets. Those German soldiers were already smashed into a sieve before they figured out what was going on.
Then the machine gun turned to cars and armored vehicles... After a "clang clang" sound, the targets caught fire one after another and then exploded.
The small-caliber anti-aircraft guns aimed their muzzles at the rear armor of the German tanks and beat them randomly, and the tanks quickly caught fire.
Needless to say, the 88MM anti-aircraft gun directly penetrated the tank's engine with a "boom" aimed at the tank.
The German tanks used gasoline. As soon as they were pierced through, a raging fire erupted and a violent explosion occurred. The German tank crews hiding inside were still nervously aiming at the Soviet tanks, but in the next second they became A mass of charred corpses.
Many of the German soldiers around did not even react. They waved their hands loudly at the armored train and cursed loudly, but the Soviets used bullets to answer them.
"Keep going!" Shulka ordered: "Until it stops!"
The armored train relies too much on the railway, so it should move as soon as it starts to fight, otherwise it will be easy for the enemy to blow up the railway and be stuck in place unable to move.
The direction of advance is of course the hinterland of the German army, that is, the south, which is why Shulka just asked Major Luca for the firepower deployment along the railway.
At this time, the instructor had successfully obtained the information, and he staggered forward in the moving train and handed the map to Shulka.
Shuerka glanced at the map, and then shouted: "Attention, two kilometers ahead, the enemy artillery position!"
The distance of two kilometers was reached in an instant for an armored train, and it was easily recognizable because the guns were firing happily to the north, and the flames and smoke from the muzzles were very clear in the dark night. It can even be roughly counted that there are more than 50 howitzers distributed in such an open space... This is the formation of an artillery regiment. As mentioned before, the German army in Tver has no shortage of equipment, and in order to be able to defend Tver, they can be said to use these equipment as much as possible.
This is of course correct, because if Tver is breached, then these equipment will fall into the hands of the enemy anyway, and it is useless to keep them.
The armored train slowly stopped beside the artillery position, and then fired a few flares.
The German artillery was unaware of the armored train. They just looked at the armored train strangely. Some people were also angry that the armored train fired flares, because it would undoubtedly bring them great danger.
Shulka saw an artillery major shouting at the armored train. Although he couldn't hear what he was shouting, Shulka could still understand what he meant:
"Hey! Are you crazy? I'm going to court martial you, you idiots!"
But what happened next completely stunned the German major.
The anti-aircraft guns on the armored train are turning towards his artillery positions...
The German major was stunned for a while, feeling that something was wrong, he immediately ran to the barrel truck to grab the phone.
But by now it was too late.
With a "boom", a shell blasted the entire barrel car into the sky, and the German major disappeared at the moment of the explosion.
Immediately afterwards, there was another intensive sound of gunfire.
This time it was even more lively. The German artillery positions were full of artillery shells and cars loaded with artillery shells. The firepower of the armored train quickly detonated them, and then the martyred artillery shells detonated other artillery shells... The artillery positions soon exploded. It's like being carpet bombed.
At this time, the armored train slowly moved to the next station.
In the end, the armored train almost crossed the entire Tver. Along the way, it destroyed an artillery position, two supply convoys, and an engineering unit that was laying mines.
Said it "almost" because it even hit the contact line between the German army and the 32nd Army.
At this time, the armored train dared not move forward, because the officers and soldiers of the 32nd Army would definitely regard it as the armored train of the German army and then fired guns and cannons.
Therefore, after Shulka commanded it to fight indiscriminately in the rear of the German army to help the 32nd Army open the gap, a big white flag was raised on the roof of the car... This is the first time Shulka surrendered, and it was still to himself People surrender!
The soldiers of the 32nd Army also wondered how the German army, which was fighting well, suddenly collapsed in chaos.
What made them even more strange was that they ran into an armored train head-on, and the white flag had already been hoisted before it started firing.
In fact, Shulka hoped that Major Gavrilov would inform the 32nd Army of the armored train so that they would be prepared to avoid accidental injury, but it was only after the war that he learned that Major Gavrilov did not do so.
Major Gavrilov's answer was: "I thought you were just rushing into the enemy's defense line to cooperate with the main force to break through...but you rushed from north to south across the entire enemy-controlled area and hit the other side! Who would have thought that? "
Then Major Gavrilov complained with some regrets and a somewhat reproachful tone: "You should take mine, Shulka! There may not be a second chance like this!"
This is true.
The armored train is actually very fragile. It can only play a role in a specific environment, such as air supremacy, such as a large number of soldiers protecting the railway, and then it can provide limited fire support for the front line.
In short, if it is used for offense, it is basically impossible to move an inch.
Driving it like a Shulka and rampaging through enemy-occupied areas... That is also a coincidence when the enemy thinks that the armored train is "one of their own".
"There is still a chance, Comrade Major!" Shulka comforted Major Gavrilov: "In the future, we will drive it to Berlin!"
Major Gavrilov laughed, thinking that Shulka was joking.
(end of this chapter)
