Shells smashed into German positions, and flares were thrown around the air like fireworks.

From the armored train, you can clearly see the German anti-tank guns firing, as well as German machine guns and mortars...... It was a very strange feeling, and at that moment Shulka almost thought that these German troops were his comrades-in-arms, and the Soviet troops opposite him were his enemies.

Later, I thought that this should be the German army integrating the armored train into its own defense system, which made Shulka in the train have the illusion of cooperating with them.

Then the observer reported: "Our tank was found in front of you, at a distance of three hundred meters......"

"Two hundred meters!"

"One hundred meters!"

"Fire!" Shulka ordered loudly.

Suddenly, the sound of gunfire began, and the machine guns and artillery on the armored train fired indiscriminately at the Germans.

THE 12.7MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN WAS AIMED AT THE GERMANS HIDING BEHIND THE HOUSES, AND THE GERMANS WERE BEATEN INTO A SIEVE BEFORE THEY COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON.

Then the machine guns turned to cars and armored vehicles...... After a "clang" sound, one after the other ignited and exploded.

Small-caliber anti-aircraft guns aimed their muzzles at the rear armor of the German tanks, and the tanks soon caught fire.

NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN WAS AIMED AT THE TANK WITH A "BOOM" THAT DIRECTLY PIERCED THE TANK'S ENGINE.

The German tank used gasoline, and as soon as it was penetrated, a raging fire broke out and exploded violently, and the German tank crew hiding inside was still nervously aiming at the Soviet tank just now, and the next second it had turned into a charred corpse.

Many of the German soldiers around them did not even react, waving loudly at the armored train and cursing loudly, but the Soviets answered them with a bullet.

"Keep going!" Shulka ordered: "Until it can't be turned on!" ”

The armored train is too dependent on the railway, so it should be moved as soon as the fight starts, otherwise it is easy for the enemy to blow up the railway and get stuck in place.

The direction of advance is, of course, the hinterland of the German army, that is, the south, which is why Shulka just asked Major Luka for the deployment of firepower along the railway.

By this time, the instructor had successfully obtained the information, and he staggered forward in the moving train to hand over the map to Shulka.

Shulka glanced at the map, and then shouted: "Attention, two kilometers ahead, enemy artillery positions!" ”

The distance of two kilometers was an instant for the armored train, and it was easy to identify, because the guns were firing in the north, and the flames and smoke from the muzzles were so clear in the dark night that Shulka could even count from the periscope that there were more than fifty howitzers scattered in such an open space...... This is the establishment of an artillery regiment, as mentioned before, the German army in Tver is not short of equipment, and in order to be able to hold Tver, they can be said to use this equipment as much as possible.

This is certainly correct, because if Tver is breached, then the equipment will fall into the hands of the enemy anyway, and it is useless to keep it.

The armored train slowly stopped next to the artillery position, and then fired several flares.

The German artillerymen were unwary of the armored train, they just looked at it strangely, and some were angry that the armored train fired flares, because it would undoubtedly pose a great danger to them.

Shulka saw an artillery major shouting at the armored train, and 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 fools! ”

But what happened next made the German major completely confused.

The anti-aircraft guns on the armored train were turning towards his artillery positions......

The German major was stunned for a moment, sensed that something was wrong, and immediately ran to the barrel car to grab the phone.

But it was too late.

With a "boom", a shell blew up the entire barrel car into the sky, and at the moment of the explosion, the German major disappeared.

This was followed by a dense burst of gunfire.

This time it was even more lively, the German artillery positions were full of shells and cars loaded with shells, which were quickly detonated by the fire of armored trains, and then the detonated shells detonated other shells...... The artillery positions were soon carpet-bombed.

At this time, the armored train slowly moved to the next station.

In the end, the armoured train crossed almost the whole of Tver, destroying a total of artillery positions, two supply convoys, and an engineering unit that was laying mines along the way.

It is said "almost" because it even hit the line of contact between the Germans and the 32nd Army.

At this time, the armored train did not dare to move forward, because the officers and men of the 32nd Army would definitely think of it as the armored train of the German army, and then the guns and artillery.

Therefore, Shulka commanded it to help the 32nd Army open a gap in the rear of the German army, and then raised a large white flag on the roof of the car...... This is Shulka's first surrender, and it is a surrender to his own people!

The soldiers of the 32nd Army also wondered how the Germans, who were fighting well, could suddenly collapse in a chaotic manner.

What made them even more strange was that they ran head-on into an armored train, which had already hung a white flag before it even started.

In fact, Shulka hoped that Major Gavrilov would inform the 32nd Army about the armored train so that they could prepare to avoid accidental injury, but it was only after the war that it was learned that Major Gavrilov did not do so.

Major Gavrilov's reply was: "I thought that at most you were just rushing into the enemy's line of defense and cooperating with the main forces to break through...... But you rushed from north to south, crossing the entire enemy-controlled zone, and hit the other side! Who would have thought? ”

Then Major Gavrilov complained, not without regret and in a somewhat reproachful tone: "You should have taken mine, Shulka!" There may not be a second chance like this! ”

Indeed it is.

The armored train is actually very fragile, it can only play a role in certain circumstances, such as air supremacy, such as a large number of soldiers to protect the railway, and then it can provide limited fire support to the front line.

In short, if it is used offensively, it is basically difficult to move an inch.

Drive it like Shulka on a rampage through enemy-occupied territory...... It was also a coincidence that it was only possible when the enemy thought that the armored train was "his own people".

"There's still a chance, Comrade Major!" Shulka comforted Major Gavrilov: "In the future, we will drive it to Berlin!" ”

Major Gavrilov burst out laughing, thinking it was Shulka joking.