Shulka's plan was quickly implemented.

The guerrillas carrying out this plan were commanded by a sergeant named Eliza.

Unlike other guerrillas, Eliza was a female guerrilla who was originally a communications soldier.

The reason why Eliza was chosen to infiltrate the vicinity of Tula was because during this period of guerrilla warfare, it was discovered that women were easier to hide behind enemy lines and more advantageous to operations.

This is normal.

Most of the young men joined the army, so the Germans were immediately vigilant when they saw young men in the rear, and they searched several times for everything.

And women, who were everywhere in the rear, were also more likely to be accosted by German soldiers to get information.

Therefore, the main task of Eliza's detachment was actually to obtain information behind enemy lines.

However, it was precisely because their main task was to obtain information and have a lot of useful information in their hands, so the plan went surprisingly smoothly......

Eliza first contacted a train driver and persuaded him to act with the guerrillas.

Of course, they promised the train driver to quit before the final link...... Before that, the train driver had to teach at least one guerrilla how to drive a train.

Secondly, a scrap car was prepared in advance through the train driver's line, and then all the prepared explosives were loaded into this scrap car.

In the end, he stole a locomotive under the leadership of the train driver, and then picked up the old car filled with explosives and drove to the railway bridge.

All of this went smoothly, and Majors Shulka and Zakhakavich were in front of the radio almost the entire time listening to the news coming from the headquarters.

Originally, this was unnecessary, but Zhukov thought that Shulka might be able to help if something went wrong, so he assigned a staff officer to send the news to the headquarters of the 4th Tank Brigade in due course.

As the explosives wagons were picked up at the railway station and driven towards the railway bridge, Majors Shulka and Zahakavich cheered.

It seems that this is half the battle.

And the Germans at this time, although they knew that the partisans had stolen a locomotive, did not know what to do by stealing a locomotive!

"What's the point of stealing a locomotive?" Captain Louis of the German Einsatzgruppen in charge of the security of May Day Town asked curiously, "Do you want to drive it somewhere else?" And where can they hide it? Tomorrow we just need to follow the railway to get it back! ”

The adjutant replied: "Maybe these guerrillas are just trying to sabotage, drive it away and blow it up!" ”

"No, you fool!" Captain Louis replied, "They wouldn't do it for this, if they just wanted to blow it up, they could do it at the train station, and they didn't need to drive it away!" ”

Indeed, it would be redundant to drive the train away and blow it up.

However, this alerted Captain Louis, who hurried to the map and asked, "What did you just say......?" In which direction did they drive away after stealing the train? ”

"North!"

"In the direction of Tula?"

"Yes!"

"God!" Captain Louis couldn't help but exclaim: "Railway bridge, they are going to blow up the railway bridge!" ”

Without thinking, Captain Louis immediately ordered the signal corps: "Contact the railway bridge command immediately!" ”

The logistics and transportation were all handled by the Einsatzgruppen, so Captain Louis quickly contacted Second Lieutenant Rumorein, who was in charge of the safety of the railway bridge.

"The guerrillas stole the locomotive from us!" Captain Louis yelled on the phone, almost hysterically: "Stop it, it may be heading in your direction, I think their purpose is to blow up the railway bridge!" ”

Ensign Rumorin was at first a little confused, not knowing what Captain Louis meant, but before he could put down the phone, he saw a locomotive coming in this direction with a "rumbling" sound and black smoke.

At that moment, Second Lieutenant Rumorin understood the meaning of the call, so he immediately ordered his subordinates: "Stop the train!" The enemy is taking control of it......"

But to the annoyance of Second Lieutenant Rumorin, his subordinates' first reaction was to block the middle of the railway and shoot at the train...... This obviously can't stop it.

"Blow up the rails!" Second Lieutenant Rumorim ordered loudly.

When the German soldiers heard this, they immediately took out their grenades, but the grenades were not enough to blow up the rails, and the explosives bag was not with them, and for a while the Germans were at a loss and in a mess.

This is one of the reasons why Shulka chose to blow up the railway bridge with a train, because it is very stealthy and it is not so easy to stop it...... If it weren't for Captain Louis's cleverness, the Germans would not react until the locomotive rushed onto the railway bridge and blew it up.

But things didn't go so well.

At this moment, a "No. 3" tank rushed onto the railway with a "rumbling" and blocked it in the middle.

It was a tank belonging to the 3rd Panzer Division, which broke down and was left on the south bank of the Upa River, just repaired and ready to return to the team...... If this were not the case, it might not have worked, because German tanks were easily frozen in the cold nights.

Then there was a loud, piercing crunch, and the locomotive and the "No. 3" tank collided violently.

The tank "No. 3" was knocked to the side, the body of the tank was originally transverse and turned into a longitudinal one, the entire side of the collision was deformed and dented, and the track was also broken.

The train continued by inertia, but at the moment of collision with the tank, it broke off the track and fell to the side, unable to move.

"Surround them!" With a wave of his hand, Second Lieutenant Rumorin led his men to surround the locomotive.

But it soon became clear to Second Lieutenant Rumolin that this was wrong.

Hearing a loud "boom", Second Lieutenant Rumolin and his men, as well as the "No. 3" tank, were blown into the sky in flames.

Shulka and the others were still waiting in front of the phone, waiting......

Time passed minute by minute, and it seemed that the time that should have passed the time when it should have succeeded.

This made Shulka feel a little bad.

Sure enough, Zhukov's depressed voice came from the other end of the phone: "The plan failed!" A 'number three' tank knocked the train off the tracks, and we couldn't blow up the railway bridge! ”

Shulka and Major Zakhakavich couldn't help but be stunned.

This can be said to be Shulka's first failure, the first plan hatched by him but did not succeed.

Although this failure seems to be excusable, because "it is up to man to make things happen", there is no problem with the plan itself, the problem is a lack of luck.

But failure is failure, and there is no reason to talk about it.

And the consequence of this defeat was that it was almost impossible to blow up the railway bridge, because the Germans would strengthen the defense of the railway bridge, including the locomotive.

As a result, the problem of the 4th tank brigade remained unresolved.