The 3rd Assault Army also received a report from the City Defense Command about the discovery of a new German heavy tank, and Lin Jun, after receiving the report from Lieutenant General Pulkaev, drew a sketch in pencil on a blank piece of paper, which was not very beautiful. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In just a few minutes, Comrade Lieutenant General was still coordinating with Ba Qiuning on the phone on the issue of backup, and Lin Jun's sketch was almost completed.

"Marshal, I didn't expect you to be able to draw."

Alyosha, who was standing on the side, had been watching the marshal paint, and he was a little fascinated - the big man himself had no art cells, so he would think all paintings were very good.

"It's just a cartoon, nothing." For the praise of the guard, Lin Jun didn't feel how good his level was.

Here Pulkaev hung up the phone to report to the marshal who was sitting, but unexpectedly the marshal picked up a folder on his lap, turned to him and said: "I heard it." ”

A bright sketch, "Tiger heavy tank!" ”

Ignoring the commander's slightly surprised expression, Lin Jun put down the handout folder and said: "The German army has been developing this new type of tank since the beginning of 37, but at the beginning, the 35-ton tank design plan they proposed with a 75mm gun swept our T-34 tank directly into the garbage heap. ”

"I should not have put the T34 at the forefront of the assault forces during the liberation march, and several of our T34s shelled the Germans across the river at the Brest Fortress, and although they did not know the exact performance of the T34, they already knew that 76.2 mm cannons were used on our tanks."

Speaking of this, Lin Jun had a bit of a self-examination flavor -- it was during the liberation march that the German army learned for the first time about the existence of a new medium tank in the Red Army.

"It was because of this that the Germans accelerated the development of their new heavy tank. From the beginning of the German invasion, they found that there was no tank in their armored forces that could match our T-34, and it was only a matter of time before the Tiger appeared. ”

Lin Jun seemed to be talking to himself: "But I didn't expect it to appear now, the speed of the Germans is very fast." However, it should be in very small quantities, and tanks of such performance are not capable of mass production. ”

The Germans were the fastest, and in the face of the overwhelming superiority of Soviet tanks on the Eastern Front, the Tiger tank was hastily finalized and put into production. Impatient to put his secret weapon to work, Hitler put the first ten Tiger tanks into the Lithuanian battlefield: two of them lay down on the march due to mechanical problems, and the eight were reimbursed at the Vilnius railway station.

"Drive back the one that can still move immediately, except for the ammunition on the battlefield that has been completely scrapped, all the other Tiger tanks that can be towed back will be towed back, and find a way to send it to Leningrad immediately! The intact ones were not allowed to take part in the battle, they were needed on the proving ground. ”

Lin Jun didn't let the commander intervene at all, and he gave an order that was not allowed to be discussed.

"Send a few more tractors, and, to test the maximum carrying capacity of the pontoon, which could weigh 55 tons."

Pulkaev had just asked Batyunine to drive back the one that was still movable to prevent it from being recaptured by the Germans, and then he hurriedly said: "Yes, marshal, I will give the order immediately." ”

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At the train station, several Panzer officers tried to start the tank, but the damn German tank never started!

After more than half an hour of tossing, the pilot-lieutenant, after being covered in half a body of blood, finally set the damn engine on fire - the engine "rumbled" and the huge tank finally started.

Crushing over mud walls and crushing over the edge of the ruins, the warriors watched as the steel monster vanished behind the ruins of the building. A few kilometers away, the German observation post had been paying attention to the situation at the railway station, but they didn't even notice the movement of this tiger, all because of the influence of smoke!

As luck would have it, if it weren't for the smoke on the battlefield, the Germans would have probably carried out a cluster of shelling to prevent the tanks from falling into the hands of the Russians when they spotted a group of Russian officers surrounding a Tiger tank.

"Lieutenant, if it weren't for your sacrifice to kill these eight vehicles, once we encounter them first, it is likely to be a one-sided disaster, and it is almost impossible for our 85mm tank guns to destroy it at a distance of 800 meters." The Panzer Major once again thanked Shuklin and others, who, as a tank officer, could understand how much of a threat this German tank really had: in previous confrontations, the T34 could have a technological advantage.

"You're going to test it?" Shuklin asked the major.

"Yes, and as soon as possible, we have to come up with tactics to deal with it, its technical advantage is too obvious."

Shuklin and the artillerymen reorganized their positions, and the shell boxes buried under the empty soil were dug up. The infantrymen were also much less interested in German tanks, and the living were digging damaged bunkers, ready to fight the German offensive again.

A herald hurried to the Tiger tank parked on the street of the railway station, where the panzers were planting a Red Army flag on the tank's turret to avoid accidental fire.

The major also came in an armored car, and the signal soldier shouted to them: "Major, the command of the army group orders to immediately send someone to send this German tank to the north of the river and hand it over to the people who receive it there, and they will wait at the No. 2 pontoon bridge in half an hour." Also, order your department to pull out the heavy tractors and send the new German heavy tanks that can still be towed back to Leningrad by train for testing. The heavy artillery unit of the group army will also bring in four tractors from the north side of the river. ”

Well, there is basically nothing to do with the major, and they have to draw a tractor.

"There are only three that have not been killed, so we will draw out two."

"One Voroshilov fighter estimates that it will be very laborious to tow one, so draw two, you go to the regiment to inform, I will send the tank to the north."

The "Voroshilov Warrior" tractor towed the T34 with ease, and the "Stalin-type" could also tow it, but it was estimated that it was enough for those three German tanks!

The Major's estimate was quite accurate, the Tiger weighed 56 tons, and the Germans often had to tow it themselves with three SDKFZ9 Famo half-track trailers!

At the City Defense Headquarters of the City Hall, Batyunin gave another order to the artillery troops: "When the tractor appears on the south side of the station, the artillery must do a good job of covering, use smoke bombs, and definitely tow a few more vehicles back!" ”

On the Nereis River, the powerful "Voroshilov Warrior" tractor passed through the pontoon bridge, and the drivers saw several people arguing fiercely by the bridge!

They are arguing about whether a tank that is expected to weigh 55 tons and drive onto a steel pontoon bridge with a capacity of 45 tons can pass safely?!

But if it doesn't work, it will be done, it depends on whether the tank crews dare to do it!

The pontoon bridge was developed according to the weight of the "Stalin-type", and it has not yet been tried to pass such a heavy guy!

The Germans also knew that the Tiger was too heavy for most bridges, so it was designed to wade four meters deep, but the Reds would not have had a diving system for it, and the wide bed of the Nereis River was more than four meters deep.

(It's 2,000 today, and it's going berserk tomorrow.) (To be continued.) )