Iron looked at the straight railroad track in front of him, German engineer Wilhelm? Herman wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Destroying a section of railroad is a very simple matter that can be easily done with a sufficient amount of explosives.

But building a section of the railway is not an easy task. As a German railway engineer, Wilhelm? Herman has been working straight for 10 hours now.

From the dawn of the day, he got up to work. As a grassroots officer and soldier of the engineering corps, he is responsible for using trucks with hanging walls to place the railroad tracks one by one near the construction railway section.

The sleepers were then carried by prisoners of war and laid on stone foundations, which were then fixed by German engineers.

The next thing that happened was that the prisoners of war carried the rails to the sleepers, which were then connected by German engineering professionals.

Such construction is carried out countless times a day, so William? Herman stood in his car, watching as there were fewer and fewer rails in the back compartment.

He had nothing to complain about, because he was already quite happy as a railway engineer compared to the infantry who fought at the front.

First of all, he is close to the very front of the railway, which means that he is closest to the supply terminal.

This often means that railway engineers can get the freshest and most abundant supplies, and the level of treatment is relatively higher.

Moreover, the railway soldiers themselves belong to a special type of troops, and because of their higher technical content, they are also slightly better treated than ordinary soldiers.

After all, these people need industrial knowledge and relevant training, and they also have to undertake part of the maintenance of weapons and equipment, which is relatively more professional.

In the end, they did not have to go to the front line to face enemy fire, and security became one of their most gratifying advantages.

You don't have to go to the front line to die, the death rate is relatively low, and you can be regarded as serving in the military, so the temptation is not ordinary.

"We've built about 40 kilometers of damaged railways...... Wiping the sweat from his forehead, William looked at his colleague and said.

Compared with the soldiers fighting on the front line, the relationship between the railway engineering troops before was somewhat similar to that of the construction engineering team stationed abroad.

They are more like colleagues than comrades-in-arms. After all, they work together every day, not risk fighting together.

"When the Russians retreated, they were destroying all the time. When they retreated for dozens of kilometers, they were going to blow up a section of the railway to prevent our troops from using the railway line to pursue. The colleague hung the steel cable on a rail and replied.

Their truck is a special construction truck with a lot of wheels and a very long body.

The truck has enough weight to transport many, many rails at a time to repair damaged railways.

The Germans were very adept at developing these special vehicles, and they themselves developed all sorts of vehicles with strange functions during World War II.

Even when Germany was defeated, the engineering vehicles that retreated and destroyed the railways were mechanized - such a painful thing was done, and it is not surprising to study some of the vehicles that lay the railway.

With these engineering vehicles, the speed of laying railways has also been increased accordingly. Coupled with the cooperation of the troops with prisoners of war, the speed of repairing the railway was very fast.

If it was before Li Le's crossing, when the Soviet-German war was launched, the Germans only knew that the Soviet railways were broad-gauge railways.

When the vanguard invaded the Soviet Union, it was discovered that the Soviet railways were still at the level of the First World War: with the exception of the railway between Kharkov and Moscow, most of the railways were built on soft sandy embankments.

And there is a problem with the sleepers themselves, which are softer pine wood, rather than stronger and more suitable for railroad laying.

The standard for the quality of railway rails in Europe, or rather in Germany, was close to fifty kilograms per meter, but in the Soviet Union it was thirty-eight kilograms per meter......

The density of sleepers per kilometer of German railways was exactly 1,600, but when the Soviet Union laid the rails, the number was reduced to 1,440.

And that's not even counting the fact that the Germans used screws and washers to fix the rails, and the Soviets directly used spikes that were driven in one go.

Look at the current anti-Japanese dramas, the caliber of the cannonballs is different, and the cannonballs can be used with two files - don't you think it's very simple?

The reality is that almost nothing of the track system that looks exactly the same is actually the same from construction to use......

The same Soviet railway bridges were also largely worthless and had to be re-reinforced to transport tanks and other heavy equipment.

This is also the reason why the battle for the Highway 4 bridge can be put on the level of a campaign.

That bridge is so important, because without it, the rest of the bridge would be a problem for vehicles to cross.

Of course, not to mention the railway dispatching equipment, because most of the equipment on the Soviet railway lines is basically antiques from the First World War, and electric turnouts are very rare.

In this case, the speed of advance of the German armored forces depended entirely on the speed of operation of the railway division, the logistics department.

In order to ensure the advance of the front-line armored forces, the German railway engineering units were desperately repairing the Soviet Union's damaged or under-sized railway lines.

Only by converting these lines into railroads that could be used in Germany and integrating them into the German railway network would it be possible to support German troops fighting thousands of miles away.

"It's time to take a break!" Looking at the flag waving in the distance, William? Herman had a smile on his face.

The only reason the flag was dangling was because it had hit a blasting site. The railroad was blown up, and there was a big hole in the ground that needed to be filled.

In this case, the prisoner of war camp is required to fill the crater. Other work can only be suspended, so everyone can also take a rare break.

At this time, the railroad soldier William? Herman's favorite thing to do is sit in his truck and watch the various construction vehicles go about in the distance.

He was well aware that a railway had been built east of Minsk, and that the German material transfer station had advanced hundreds of kilometers.

Relying on railway transportation, the German troops on the front line also received more and more supplies, which was the most reliable guarantee of the war.

"Yes! It's time to take a break. His companion also saw the waving flag and said in an excited tone.

They worked until late in the evening every day, and sometimes had to repair equipment overnight, which made them very tired.

Being able to take a short break is also something to celebrate for them. At this time, they can have some coffee or tea and enjoy their leisure time.