There is something to do today, and there are only two watches.

It's almost the New Year, and during this time, if you have to send festivals and receive relatives, it may be more eventful, and there will be three changes for the time being. Continue to watch five more after stabilization......

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The 4th Tank Brigade rested in the barracks for only two hours before heading to the front.

Both Shulka and Kalashnikov took part in the pre-war conference...... Shulka was brought by Major Gavrilov, and it has become a common practice, as Major Gavrilov said: "This guy always gives some good advice, always has some solution to the problem, and not bringing him to the meeting is an absolute loss for us!" ”

As for Kalashnikov, he attended the meeting as a technical unit.

Shulka couldn't say anything at the meeting, though, because the meeting was simple...... An unidentified German armoured unit penetrated Kling and moved south along the railway.

Although Kling was still more than 100 kilometers from Moscow, this force had already broken through a newly created line of defense.

"The military situation is urgent!" "And interspersed along the railway, which is free of any roadblocks and mines......," Katukov said This makes the enemy interspersed with speed, and if you don't stop them, the latter will be unimaginable! ”

The railway can be said to be the artery of Moscow's defense, and it can also be said to be the weak point of Moscow.

As mentioned before, the highway can be closed with mines, roadblocks, etc., but the railway has to continue to supply large quantities of personnel and supplies to the front line, so the Soviet army has not dared to block it.

If there was any blockade, it was sabotage and mine blockade in those few kilometers in the face of German troops.

However, the German armored forces always had the idea of fighting the railway...... This was normal, because the roads were muddy and the advance was slow, and the Germans, of course, had their eyes on the railways.

Just like this time, the German armored units once again bypassed the blockade zone and went onto the railway.

It is conceivable that if they are not stopped, the enemy force will drive straight under Moscow, or outflank the last line of defense.

So there is no room for discussion at all, and there is no strategy for the art of war, just a tank-to-tank battle.

"But how shall we march?" Major Gavrilov asked: "We don't have cars, the pace of the infantry can't keep up with the tanks!" ”

"Train!" Katukov replied: "The infantry is advancing by train!" ”

"Why don't tanks take the train?" Major Gavrilov asked again.

"It's too dangerous to do that!" Katukov said: "We only have so many tanks, and once they are bombed by the enemy, we will be all done!" ”

Shulka had to admit that what Katukov said was right, these tanks were the only equipment that the Soviet army could hold back the German army, and the Soviet army could not afford to lose them.

But the infantry is different, and if you lose this group of infantry, there will be another group of infantry, and the infantry will have to catch up with the tanks, so you have to do this.

"Let's go!"

At the sound of the order, the tanks of the 4th Tank Brigade "rumbled" along the street in the direction of the railway, while the infantry once again rushed to the railway station to catch the train.

This time it was heading north, so Shulka thought it was Dhopner's 4th Panzer Group...... This panzer group was originally part of Army Group North to attack Leningrad, and since the Germans concentrated their main objectives on Moscow, it was moved south to attack along the Smolensk-Moscow road.

Unlike the previous train rides, this time everyone was terrified. For it was clear that the Germans would be keeping an eye on the railway line to see if there were reinforcements coming north to contain their interspersed troops, especially since it was still daytime.

As expected, less than half an hour before the train, there was a faint sound of a motor in the sky.

"Airplanes, planes of the Germans!"

The fighters in the carriage immediately panicked.

If it was before, it was not a big deal to encounter an airplane, at most it was to lie on the ground and hide, and it was rare for the plane to target soldiers...... The Germans also wanted their bullets and aerial bombs to be used on more valuable targets rather than strafing soldiers.

The problem is that now the fighters are crammed into the train, there are hundreds of people in one carriage, and there is no space for dispersion.

Anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns soon rang out...... EACH TRAIN HAD TWO FLATBED CARS, EACH ARMED WITH TWO TWIN 25MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS AND TWO TESHKA 12.7MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUNS.

These anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns can play a certain deterrent role against enemy aircraft.

The problem was that the train could only follow the railway line, and the German pilots did not need to guess at all, but only guessed the course of the train according to the railway movement and accurately fired the dive.

With a shrill whistling, a fighter swooped down from the side of the train.

Through the glass of the window, Shulka could even vaguely see the German pilot in the cockpit.

"Get down!" Shulka shouted.

Then there was a "clanging" sound, and two rows of dense bullets poured out from under the wings and into the carriage...... The iron sheet of the carriage was easily torn apart like paper paste, the glass on the windows was completely shattered and scattered, and several soldiers who were hit were instantly carried up by the inertia of the bullets and fell to the other side.

Soon there was another "boom", and a bomb exploded next to the train, and the shock wave caused the train to shake a little.

Shulka felt like it was going to derail, but the train eventually returned to the tracks and continued on its way.

German fighters and bombers continued to strafe and bomb, but perhaps because of poor visibility, they failed to inflict a devastating blow on the train, and one plane was hit by an anti-aircraft machine gun and sent black smoke.

Eventually, the German plane circled for a while and then disappeared into the sky.

The train continued for another ten minutes before it slowly stopped.

"Get out of the car!"

The soldiers couldn't wait to jump off the train, and the feeling of being bombed by enemy planes in the carriage was really uncomfortable.

After getting off the bus, he changed to walk and continued his march north.

As he passed the locomotive, Shulka saw a train driver in a peaked cap and overalls waving to the troops, an old man, with a dark face, standing next to the locomotive, seemingly holding a bottle of wine......

"Goodbye, boys!" The train driver said, "I can only get you here!" Teach the aggressors a hard lesson! ”

Later, Shulka learned that it was only a German reconnaissance plane that had bombed the train just now, and that a large number of bombers would soon arrive.

This is also the reason why the train stopped and left the fighters on foot...... And they seem to have known from the beginning that there would be such an outcome.

Shulka didn't know if the heroic train driver had managed to get the train back to Moscow safely, all he knew was that at least dozens of planes flew through the air in the direction the train left while the troops were moving along the railroad......

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