Chapter 251: Railroad Tracks
The German lines quickly crumbled under the onslaught of the T34, but Shulka knew that the battle was not over.
"Rails, blow up the rails!" Shulka commanded loudly.
The following infantry immediately conveyed the order to the tank via the tank's phone, and tank No. 239 found its position, turned an angle, and fired a shell in front with a "boom".
One of the rails was immediately blown into twists and breaks.
However, as Shulka and others had guessed, the Germans built many railroad tracks here, layer by layer...... In fact, there were not three railroad tracks in the German army, but as many as five, and there were even forks between the rails that could be transferred.
This obviously increases the fault tolerance of the rails, for example, if a section of track is blown up, then a turnout converter can be used to avoid this or even several sections of the track.
Then, from the other direction, the sound of the heavy tracks of an armored train was heard, several flares rose into the sky to illuminate the bridgehead battlefield, and the sound of machine guns and artillery soon rang out...... It was a rain of bullets from an armored train.
The situation is not good.
This is not to say that the Germans will be able to turn back from defeat and drive the Soviets back across the river.
In fact, by the time the Soviet lurking troops rushed through the bridgehead, the Germans had no hope of holding Tver.
The weakness of the armored train is that it must rely on the rails, so it has many dead ends and many places that cannot be reached, and the Soviet tanks only need to stay away from the rails to avoid the fire of the armored train.
What's more, the Soviets only need to blow up the railroad tracks, and the armored train will become a turtle in the urn.
Here's the problem...... At this time, Soviet soldiers and tanks densely gathered around the bridgehead defense line: the latent troops rushed forward to charge the German soldiers who had just broken the bridgehead defense line, and the follow-up main forces continued to pour across the bridge, and more than a dozen T34s and thousands of Soviet soldiers were crowded around.
And the armament on the armored train was not only anti-aircraft guns.
It also has 12 7.62mm machine guns, 2 37mm anti-aircraft guns, and four 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns...... Small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and four anti-aircraft machine guns were used for anti-aircraft purposes, but they could also be fired at infantry, and they were even captured by the Soviet army.
It is conceivable that if the armored train is allowed to break into the densely populated bridgehead defense line, the equipment on the armored train will launch a crazy massacre of the Soviet army and then fly away.
Major Michael, who commanded the armored train, thought the same way.
He shouted through the microphone to the carriages: "Everyone be ready for battle, we must teach these Ivan a hard lesson before leaving this ......"
As a result, all types of artillery and machine guns on the armored train were ready for battle, and the sappers who usually took sapper shovels also picked up their rifles and put them on the perforations, just waiting for the side of the armored train to shoot bullets when the side of the armored train was facing the enemy.
In the light of the flares, Shulka discovered that the blen-up tracks were not the tracks on which the armored train was running.
And now it is obviously too late to blow up the orbit, which means that tragedy is about to happen.
At this critical moment, Shulka shouted an order to the tank followers: "Put the tank on the track, on the left!" ”
The tank couldn't help but be stunned after following, but still conveyed the order: "Drive the tank on the track, on the left side, at a distance of twenty meters, move fast!" ”
Shulka thought that Fedosyev would refuse to carry out this order.
The first is that it's dangerous...... Although the armored train cannot penetrate the armor of the tank, the high-speed and high-mass armored train has great kinetic energy, which if it hits the tank, no one will be spared.
Secondly, Fedosyev had many reasons for refusing to carry out the order, such as being too loud to hear, and not responding quickly enough.
Even Fedosyev only needed to give the order a little later, and it was possible that the armored train would have whistled before it.
But this is not the case.
Tank No. 239 immediately began to accelerate, and then with a "rumble" of turn, it rushed onto the left railway.
The observer on the armored train was shocked when he saw this, and immediately reported to the power car through the microphone: "Stop, stop now!" Blockage ...... ahead"
The power car of the armored train is in the middle of the train, so the driver cannot see the road ahead, and must cooperate with the observer in front of the car or in the watchtower in the second car to move forward...... Armoured trains often run over mines, so the first car is often attached to the car to roll mines or crash through obstacles.
At this time, the Germans were fighting on the front line, and this carriage was not added for the sake of lightness.
But of course, even if there is an additional carriage, it will not be able to hit a tank without damage.
The T34 tank weighed 26 tons (1941 model) and was more likely to derail and roll over than pass after the train crashed.
As a result, the armored train slowed down with a screech of brakes, and at this time Major Michael did not even know what was happening.
"What's going on? Why the slowdown? ”
"Major!" Only then did the observer have time to report: "They blocked the tracks with tanks!" ”
Major Michael was stunned for a long time before he scolded: "These crazy people! ”
The train gradually stopped, and in front of tank 239, the watchtower of the observer in the first carriage even faced the barrel of the tank's black hole, so frightened that the observer hurriedly retracted his head and fled backwards, even though he knew that there was no way to escape.
"Major!" The adjutant nervously suggested to Major Michael, "We can go back ......."
"It's too late!" Major Michael sighed and said, "Surrender!" ”
Major Michael is a smart man, and although it is true that the armored train can go back, it is too late at this point...... The railroad tracks in the rear, of course, will also be blocked or blocked by the enemy.
This is the weakness of the armored train, the enemy only needs to blow up the rails with a single explosive pack, and such a large arsenal with heavy armor can only wait for death.
Sure enough, just as Michael was saying this, several explosions were heard on the other side, and then someone reported: "The railroad track in the rear has been blown off, and we have no way to escape!" ”
"Don't shoot!" Major Michael ordered through the microphone: "All personnel are not allowed to shoot...... We are only sappers, and the fight to this moment has completed our mission. Now, we can't change anything, lay down our arms and surrender! ”
The German soldiers were still hesitating, but after several tanks "rumbled" up and aimed their guns at close range at the holes and turrets of the armored trains, they finally accepted Major Michael's "suggestion" to extend a white flag from the turret.
There was soon a cheer outside, and the Soviet soldiers hugged each other excitedly to celebrate the victory in the battle.